What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian

[Daryk]

Dune Messiah is pretty slow, but if that's what you're looking for...

[ActionButler]

That’s what I’ve heard, which is a major concern for me since I am the slowest reader in all of human history.

[NightSarge]

Now reanding Warrior: En Garde

[Euphonium]

Finally getting around to reading the first edition of Shrapnel

[ISD]

On Prince of Havoc now, the previous one ("Shadows of War") was almost as much of a slog as I remembered.
I think I'll read something else than BT for a couple of books after I'm done rereading the TotC set

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

Ooh, Twilight of the Clans definitely felt like it was being dragged out by book five or six.

[Prospernia]

I'm reading the Decline and Fall of the Roman-Empire; no, not the one by Edward Gibbon, that every history-professor dreams about having a copy of, this one is by James W. Ermatinger.  In the opening chapter, he quotes from the movie, Gladiator; I don't know how to feel about that.

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

Sounds iffy for a history book unless the author was specifically drawing a contrast between Hollywood and the actual Roman Empire.

[PsihoKekec]

Or if it is a book version of Unbiased History of Rome.

[GRUD]

Or if it is a book version of Unbiased History of Rome.

Welease Wodewick!


(I saw it in a documentary, Honest!  )

[GRUD]

Almost halfway through Maia here at home, and recently started Watership Down at work, both by Richard Adams.

[Prospernia]

I only hope so.  It just feels, um, cheap to use Gladiator. Could have been worse; could have used Starz's Spartacus.

[Ruger]

Patricia Briggs’s newest Mercy Thompson series novel,  Winter Lost.

Ruger

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

I'm reading it too.  I'm hoping that in a novel or two we'll see Zee finally decide to throw down on Count Chocula.

[Ruger]

I'm reading it too.  I'm hoping that in a novel or two we'll see Zee finally decide to throw down on Count Chocula.

Oh yeah.

After this, I have a lot to catch up on. I’ve got Without Question  for BattleTech (which is most likely to be next), but also the new Spelljammer novel, Memory’s Wake, Kim Harrison’s Three Kinds of Lucky, and several Conan (both old ones and the newest hardcovers that completed my collection of having at least one version of every printed Conan story of which I’m aware), and a couple of the old Red Sonja novels I acquired to complete that sextant of novels.

Ruger

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

The fact that I had to go to work was the only thing that stopped me from reading Without Question in a single sitting.

[ISD]

I decided to take a break from CBT (non-stop from Thunder Rift to Falcon Rising) and started on A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge. Barely started so no thoughts on it yet.

The funny thing is that it was published in 1999 and noticing that I thought it's a very new thing. Except that it's been 25 years and that made me feel slightly old for a brief moment

[Lorcan Nagle]

I read it a few years ago and loved it.

[Grognard]

Just finished up "The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (1847)" by Francis Parkman Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail:_Sketches_of_Prairie_and_Rocky-Mountain_Life
He wrote what he experienced during his exploration: the descriptive written detail is amazing and the casual racism (of various tribes of Indians, settlers, soldiers, Mormons, Frenchmen, Mexicans ... pretty much EVERYONE) is breathtaking.
 
--- in modern literature---
I'm re-reading the Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor.
Really is excellent.

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

So I finished Winter Lost and... honestly I felt like this novel was something of a let down.  Mercy (and consequently the reader) never really get enough info to figure out what's actually happening until the very end and it really felt like Mercy really didn't do that much.  This was more of an interlude than an actual story.