14th July 2005, 7:41 AM
I just finished Shadow Puppets, the third book in the Bean-spinoff-of-Ender series. I started it months ago and got busy, so I finally finished it. I need to go get the 4th and final book "Shadow of the Giant", but it's only in hardback and I hate buying hardback books.
I want to go finish the actual Ender series as well, since I've only read Ender's Game. The others sound like they head off into some wacky lala-land philisophical stuff, but I want to see for myself.
I also just finished Nine Princes of Amber by Roger Zelazny. I'll start on the next soon. It was good, but not on the WoT or Ender's Game level of great. Hopefully the series will pick up.
And of course there is Knife of Dreams, Book 11 of the fabulous Wheel of Time coming out in October. I think this one will finally be the book we've been waiting for since Lord of Chaos. Yes, I've said that for the past 5 books, but I'm sticking to it. It should be very, very exciting. The full prologue comes out on eBook form on the 22nd, and I'll be buying that right away. Tor was nice enough to sneak part of the prologue (so we're talking about the first part of the first part of the book...) into the paperback version of A New Spring, and I read it at Borders. I was shocked to see what happened in just those few pages, and the implications are huge. If the rest of the book even comes close, it should be fantastic. Now I know RJ has a tendency to put some exciting stuff in the prologue and then ignore it for the entire rest of the book, but I don't think that will happen this time.
On the non-fiction side, I'm looking forward to reading Barbarian Way by Erwin McManus and maybe some more Tozer or CS Lewis. Which leads me back to reading more fiction, since the Narnia movie is coming out soon...
I want to go finish the actual Ender series as well, since I've only read Ender's Game. The others sound like they head off into some wacky lala-land philisophical stuff, but I want to see for myself.
I also just finished Nine Princes of Amber by Roger Zelazny. I'll start on the next soon. It was good, but not on the WoT or Ender's Game level of great. Hopefully the series will pick up.
And of course there is Knife of Dreams, Book 11 of the fabulous Wheel of Time coming out in October. I think this one will finally be the book we've been waiting for since Lord of Chaos. Yes, I've said that for the past 5 books, but I'm sticking to it. It should be very, very exciting. The full prologue comes out on eBook form on the 22nd, and I'll be buying that right away. Tor was nice enough to sneak part of the prologue (so we're talking about the first part of the first part of the book...) into the paperback version of A New Spring, and I read it at Borders. I was shocked to see what happened in just those few pages, and the implications are huge. If the rest of the book even comes close, it should be fantastic. Now I know RJ has a tendency to put some exciting stuff in the prologue and then ignore it for the entire rest of the book, but I don't think that will happen this time.
On the non-fiction side, I'm looking forward to reading Barbarian Way by Erwin McManus and maybe some more Tozer or CS Lewis. Which leads me back to reading more fiction, since the Narnia movie is coming out soon...