My reading for Christmas...and yours???

The Terror by Dan Simmons.

The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub.

The Crow Road by Iain Banks.

Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds.

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ChrisC
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xGCU ChrisC
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>The Terror by Dan Simmons.

On my long term list to read.

>The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub.

Quite enjoyed this one.

>The Crow Road by Iain Banks.

Any good? )

>Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds.

On my long term list to read.
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My own reading list at Christmas:

"The Steep Approach to Garbadale" by Iain Banks - 1st read, just
finished

"The Reality Dysfunction" by Peter F Hamilton - 1st re-read

The rest of PFH's Night's Dawn will follow idc.

Happy holidays, ab-imbibers, whereever you are!
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Loz writes:

>>The Crow Road by Iain Banks.
>
> Any good? )

A bit of a family edition of Trainspotting, I would say. Not bad and
surely very homely, but Complicity was much better, for me at least. The
Crow Road needs three quarters of the book to get to something you're
really keen on and even then it's just interesting. Well, surely worth a
read, especially when you're a Scot or interested in family problems.
Which we all are, I'm sure. Still.


Jochem

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Loz wrote:

> "The Steep Approach to Garbadale" by Iain Banks - 1st read, just
> finished

Did you find it was a bit...well, Crow Road Lite?

Jim
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>Loz wrote:
>
>> "The Steep Approach to Garbadale" by Iain Banks - 1st read, just
>> finished
>
>Did you find it was a bit...well, Crow Road Lite?
>
>Jim

Very much so. Crow Road meets Walking on Glass meets The Business.
Pretty well crafted, and more enjoyable for me than either The Biz or
Dead Air, but short on "Oh, wow!" moments.
The final surprise was, er, unsurprising. Even so, it represents a
partial return to form (to me, at least).


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xGCU Jochem Huhmann
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>Loz writes:
>
>>>The Crow Road by Iain Banks.
>>
>> Any good? )
>
>A bit of a family edition of Trainspotting, I would say. Not bad and
>surely very homely, but Complicity was much better, for me at least. The
>Crow Road needs three quarters of the book to get to something you're
>really keen on and even then it's just interesting. Well, surely worth a
>read, especially when you're a Scot or interested in family problems.
>Which we all are, I'm sure. Still.
>
>
> Jochem

Sorry, I was rather joking - I'm quite familiar with almost all of
Banks' work. )
I prefer The Crow Road to Complicity. In fact, it's one of my
favourite mainstream IB novels (behind The Bridge and The Wasp
Factory).
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