I said "less mindbinding", I didn't say, "not mindbending at all".  I mean, this is still Tim Powers.  I probably should have said, "less mindbending than other Tim Powers that I've read".  But the 4 dimensional imagery in 3 Days to Never and several of the setpieces in The Stress of Her Regard I found to be absolutely mindblowing.

 

So probably should have put more stress on "excellent" -- still far superior than so many other things I read.  As much as I enjoy Jim Butcher and this new one (Far Time Incident), they seem almost juvenile in comparison.  (Just so everyone understands...typical armchair critic -- I'd probably write something yet even more juvenile.  That said, I prefer to read things above my pay grade.)

Last Call is probably my favorite of his books, all things considered, but it's a hard list to rank, because I like all of them so much.  

Anyone check out Inferno by Dan Brown yet?

 

I may pick it up as I need a new easy reading book.  

Enjoying Insurgent, the follow-up to Divergent.  Saw a movie was coming out and figured I'd give them a read.  Third one due this fall.  Distopian YA novels are easy, mindless fun.

6 Days and counting until:

 

Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems by Richard Ferber.

Sorry Ric. Perhaps this is one of those books where you should flip to the back to find out the ending.

Perhaps... and the situation isn't too bad, yet.

Edited June 23, 201313 yr by blessingx

tau zero

I just finished Blood Meridian. Probably the most intense thing I have ever read. It literally took acts fortitude to get through it at times. Utterly amazing.

 

I heard the NYTimes polled authors as to what is the most important American work of fiction in the last 30 years and Blood Meridian tied for second. That seems fitting.

 

Judge Holden can never die.

Finished Gaiman's new one. It was short but really really good.

Now:

in the middle of Eon, by Greg Bear

 

its neat.

I have started just yesterday, to read a Greek writer M. Karagatsis - O kitrinos fakelos (the yellow envelope).

 

I absolutely adore this writer.

I just read Divergent and Insurgent because I daughter was reading them. Better than the hunger games, reasonably entertaining. Not perfect stories but pretty good for YA fiction.

Finished Proven Guilty (his best yet), started White Night.  Still working on Dark Monk.

 

Also, portions of various LDAP references.

Zealot by Reza Aslan. Unlike a certain Fox News host...

Now that I am finished with the Wire, I am reading The Corner:  A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood

 

Machine of Death

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23368326

 

If anyone is looking for a great short story, you could do a lot worse than the below Saunders online. 

 

• The Semplica-Girl Diaries * - New Yorker, October 2012
• Tenth of December * – New Yorker, October 2011
• The Red Bow  – Esquire, April 2009
• Puppy * – New Yorker, May 2007
• CommComm – New Yorker, August 2005
• Bohemians – New Yorker, January 2004
• Adams – New Yorker, August 2004
• Jon – New Yorker, January 2003
• Sea Oak – Barcelona Review, 2000
• A Lack of Order in the Floating Object Room – Northwest Review, 1986

Edited August 5, 201313 yr by blessingx

Java geekery

 

Not currently reading (I already read this), but thought others might be interested -- one of my favourite graphic novel writers does a book -- it's about a detective with a drug problem who happens to deal with the supernatural.  He might have the drug problem because he can't deal with dealing with the supernatural:

 

link

 

And it's, "name your price".