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November Book List
Dec. 7th, 2009 03:08 pmNov 1st: William Dietz - When Duty Calls: The 8th Legion of the Damned book. The Confederacy/Ramathian War continues. The President and his staff attempt to form stronger ties with the Clone Hegemony or, since they begin undergoing their own political revolution, their government's succesors. At the same time the Ramathians seize control of Earth...
Nov 2nd: Charles Stross - The Family Trade: I liked the first book in this series, enough so that I bought the next three. The lead, an investigative journalist, who gets fired for bringing a story more closely tied to her bosses then she thought. I was intrigued even more when she discovers 1. that she can travel between two different worlds and 2. that she's a lost member of a large family with that talent. But later books, as Stross adds THREE different "evil" governments fighting the Clan. And a renegade branch of said Clan. AND all kinds of in-Clan violent politics. Just too much. Any one of those would have worked fine as the major conflict. But thats five. Plus teases of yet something else in the fourth book. Seriously man, just pick like two. Anyway, while I've thought about maybe borrowing a copy of the 5th book I'm no longer invested enough to rush out for it...
Nov 3rd: Daniel Abraham, Gardner Dozois & George R.R. Martin - Hunter's Run: This is one of those "liked the concept more than the execution" things. Its a well done piece of scifi. And the concept: a group of aliens clones a human to help them catch the original is interesting. But the book just failed to impress me...
Nov 4th: E.E. Knight - Fall With Honor: A return to Valentine and the Vampire Earth. A major military push by Free humanity is derailed by a surprise attack and a very odd way of using psychic mind-games...
Nov 6th: Stross - The Hidden Family: See above
Nov 8th: Stross - The Clan Corporate: Natch
Nov 9th: Glen Cook - The Tyranny of the Night: This is the first of Cook's big fantasy epics that really managed to hook me in. Not that it couldn't use a fucking map so I could better figure out where all these places were in relation to each other...
Nov 10th & 11th: Stross - The Atrocity Archive & The Jennifer Morgue: Think MI-5 meets Call of Cthulu meets The IT Crowd...
Nov 12th: Joeseph Selby - Black Magic & BBQ: Friend![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bccreations' novel that he's shopping around. Which I hope someone picks up since I want to see more of his secret faux-Gods and the Speech. Plus the cat. Always more of the cat...
Also:
Bastard.
Nov 13th: Andrew Vachss - Hard Candy: Burke is hired by his first "girlfriend" to retrieve her daughter from a charismatic cult leader...
Nov 14th: Stross - The Merchant's War: As above
Nov 16th: Kate Elliot - Spirit Gate: I like the giant-eagle riding Reeves concept best I think. Roving cops/social workers. Plus the series has so many bad guys I want to see die. The Qin horsemen are pretty cool also...
Nov 17th: James Elroy - The Black Dahlia: Its a pity that the movie version of this is supposed to be pretty crap. 'Cause this was some excellent L.A. centered noir...
Kelly Armstrong - Dime Store Magic: Despite disliking Bitten I decided to give Armstrong another go after mostly enjoying a short story follow-up to this novel in one of those urban fantasy collections. Probably Blood Lite. But something about her writing just rubs me the wrong way. Didn't finish, tossed into the trade box...
Nov 18th: Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Fury: Sharpe ends up in a besieged Spanish city after a simple bridge destroying mission goes partly wrong. Also at the battle where the real-world first French Eagle was captured...
Lois McMaster Bujold - A Civil Campaign: This is probably my favorite of the Vorkosogian books. Especially the dinner. Oh the disastrous dinner party...
Nov 19th: Vachss - False Allegations: Burke ends up working for a lawyer who specializes in disproving child abuse allegations. Though even given Burke's level of paranoia and how opposite their views would be, the convoluted way the lawyer goes about hiring Burke seems excessive...
Nov 21st: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch: Mostly centered around evolution. I should really check out Stewart and Cohen's solo books...
Nov 22nd: David Cook - Soldiers of Ice: A Forgotten Realms D&D novel. With gnolls. Because gnolls are cool...
Nov 24th: Vachss - Safe House: Burke is brought in to help a network meant to help stalked/abused women. Partly because to make sure a prison friend of his doesn't go down for a murder...
Cornwell - Sharpe's Devil: The final Sharpe's book. Sharpe and Harper agree to travel to South America at the behest of the wife of a friend from the Spainish campaign. And along the way their ship stops off and they get to meet Napolean...
Nov 25th: Jim Butcher - First Lord's Fury: And the end of the Codex Alera. First Lord Octavius and his family make a desperate and final stand against the Vord...
Nov 26th: Vachss - Born Bad: A collection of short fiction by Vachss. Including a series of scifi ones. His "Underground" setting reminds of Logan's Run more than anything else. Or maybe a serious version of Paranoia...
Nov 29th: Elliot - Shadow Gate: The origin of the enemy plaguing the Hundred comes out as the southern lands of the Hundred and the immigrated Qin work to rebuild and prepare for the coming battles...
Total Books: 25
Nov 2nd: Charles Stross - The Family Trade: I liked the first book in this series, enough so that I bought the next three. The lead, an investigative journalist, who gets fired for bringing a story more closely tied to her bosses then she thought. I was intrigued even more when she discovers 1. that she can travel between two different worlds and 2. that she's a lost member of a large family with that talent. But later books, as Stross adds THREE different "evil" governments fighting the Clan. And a renegade branch of said Clan. AND all kinds of in-Clan violent politics. Just too much. Any one of those would have worked fine as the major conflict. But thats five. Plus teases of yet something else in the fourth book. Seriously man, just pick like two. Anyway, while I've thought about maybe borrowing a copy of the 5th book I'm no longer invested enough to rush out for it...
Nov 3rd: Daniel Abraham, Gardner Dozois & George R.R. Martin - Hunter's Run: This is one of those "liked the concept more than the execution" things. Its a well done piece of scifi. And the concept: a group of aliens clones a human to help them catch the original is interesting. But the book just failed to impress me...
Nov 4th: E.E. Knight - Fall With Honor: A return to Valentine and the Vampire Earth. A major military push by Free humanity is derailed by a surprise attack and a very odd way of using psychic mind-games...
Nov 6th: Stross - The Hidden Family: See above
Nov 8th: Stross - The Clan Corporate: Natch
Nov 9th: Glen Cook - The Tyranny of the Night: This is the first of Cook's big fantasy epics that really managed to hook me in. Not that it couldn't use a fucking map so I could better figure out where all these places were in relation to each other...
Nov 10th & 11th: Stross - The Atrocity Archive & The Jennifer Morgue: Think MI-5 meets Call of Cthulu meets The IT Crowd...
Nov 12th: Joeseph Selby - Black Magic & BBQ: Friend
bccreations' novel that he's shopping around. Which I hope someone picks up since I want to see more of his secret faux-Gods and the Speech. Plus the cat. Always more of the cat...Also:
Bastard.
Nov 13th: Andrew Vachss - Hard Candy: Burke is hired by his first "girlfriend" to retrieve her daughter from a charismatic cult leader...
Nov 14th: Stross - The Merchant's War: As above
Nov 16th: Kate Elliot - Spirit Gate: I like the giant-eagle riding Reeves concept best I think. Roving cops/social workers. Plus the series has so many bad guys I want to see die. The Qin horsemen are pretty cool also...
Nov 17th: James Elroy - The Black Dahlia: Its a pity that the movie version of this is supposed to be pretty crap. 'Cause this was some excellent L.A. centered noir...
Kelly Armstrong - Dime Store Magic: Despite disliking Bitten I decided to give Armstrong another go after mostly enjoying a short story follow-up to this novel in one of those urban fantasy collections. Probably Blood Lite. But something about her writing just rubs me the wrong way. Didn't finish, tossed into the trade box...
Nov 18th: Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Fury: Sharpe ends up in a besieged Spanish city after a simple bridge destroying mission goes partly wrong. Also at the battle where the real-world first French Eagle was captured...
Lois McMaster Bujold - A Civil Campaign: This is probably my favorite of the Vorkosogian books. Especially the dinner. Oh the disastrous dinner party...
Nov 19th: Vachss - False Allegations: Burke ends up working for a lawyer who specializes in disproving child abuse allegations. Though even given Burke's level of paranoia and how opposite their views would be, the convoluted way the lawyer goes about hiring Burke seems excessive...
Nov 21st: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch: Mostly centered around evolution. I should really check out Stewart and Cohen's solo books...
Nov 22nd: David Cook - Soldiers of Ice: A Forgotten Realms D&D novel. With gnolls. Because gnolls are cool...
Nov 24th: Vachss - Safe House: Burke is brought in to help a network meant to help stalked/abused women. Partly because to make sure a prison friend of his doesn't go down for a murder...
Cornwell - Sharpe's Devil: The final Sharpe's book. Sharpe and Harper agree to travel to South America at the behest of the wife of a friend from the Spainish campaign. And along the way their ship stops off and they get to meet Napolean...
Nov 25th: Jim Butcher - First Lord's Fury: And the end of the Codex Alera. First Lord Octavius and his family make a desperate and final stand against the Vord...
Nov 26th: Vachss - Born Bad: A collection of short fiction by Vachss. Including a series of scifi ones. His "Underground" setting reminds of Logan's Run more than anything else. Or maybe a serious version of Paranoia...
Nov 29th: Elliot - Shadow Gate: The origin of the enemy plaguing the Hundred comes out as the southern lands of the Hundred and the immigrated Qin work to rebuild and prepare for the coming battles...
Total Books: 25
