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Right, this is mostly for myself - since I read a lot, so this is pretty much a look back on what I read in 2006 and comments about it, so I can look at it and use it to remember. Not even everything I read, just what stands out, so to speak.
Matsuri Akino: Pet Shop of Horrors. And some scanlations of the sequel. Good stuff. Though I do hope that Leon will catch up with D at some point in the sequel.
Anthology: Shadows over Baker Street. The Neil Gaiman story is pretty good, the rest is just average. Cthulhu and Sherlock Holmes doesn't really mix that well, when all is said and done.
Dan Brown: Angels and Demons. Read Da Vinci Code the year before. Read to see why everybody are appearantly so crazy about them. Still don't see it. Truth be told, they annoy me. Note to self: Do not re-read. Waste of time.
Mike Carey: Lucifer. Some of them, anyway. I like this Lucifer, if not every aspect of the comic.
Stephen Cole: The monsters inside & Justin Richards: The clockwise man. Not really that good, but I like Doctor Who, and, well, they were available at the library. Would rather have read the ones with Captain Jack...
Gideon Defoe: The pirates! in an adventure with scientists: Silly. Less amusing than it could have been, though.
Glen Duncan: I, Lucifer: So sue me, but I like stories taking the bad guys side - whether they tell him as really evil or just misunderstood.
Steven Erikson: The bonehunters: Malazan series back on track, though I still miss Anomander Rake. On the other hand, they can say that Ian Cameron Esslemont: Night of knives, is fully a part of the story all they want, I didn't like it. My favourite part of the Malazan books tend to be the huge number of people running around and the complexity. This had neither.
Philip Jose Farmer: The dark design, The magic labyrinth & The gods of Riverworld: Read the two first in the series a long time ago, then fell victim to the strange habit of Danish publishers to stop translating and publishing series in the middle of everything. Alas, each book got progressively worse. Still, there were good moments.
C.S. Forester: The captain from Connecticut: Take Hornblower. Make him American, born into a Puritan family. Make him fall in love and marry the pretty French girl with unseemly haste (partly so as not to keep having to mangle her last name). May I introduce: Captain Peabody.
Bjørn's saga: Love triangle in old Iceland. Pretty good. I really need to read the more common sagas, though.
The Eddas. Both of them. Good. I knew that. I wonder if I'll ever get started on that Loke-story of mine.
Christopher Golden: Spike & Dru - pretty maids all in a row. I like the character of Spike, and besides, how could I resist a story partly set in Denmark, even with a brief, very brief, visit to Elsinore? Not the best story, really, though I suspect whoever plotted out Btvs season 7 had read it. + Golden would probably have been wise to let the manuscript be read by a Dane at some point, since there are some things - well, for instance, he starts of with Dannebrog flying outside Rosenborg Castle at night, while vampires are attempting to steal the crown jewels. Now that's just embarrasing. And stealing a boat in Elsinore harbour might sound simple, but that bit confused me with my local knowledge, especially since we sort of a have a whole pair of harbours hereabouts. Though I liked Gorm the Old as vampire...
Graham Greene: Lord Rochester's monkey. Had seen The Libertine, went to learn more. Good book. I really need to reread the poetry at some point, don't I?
Thorkild Hansen: Slavernes skibe & Slavernes øer. Two last books in the slave trilogy. Depressing, but interesting. + lots of bits of information about the Danish West-Indies.
Diana Wynne Jones: Deep secret. Pretty fun. I like DWJ, mostly, though my favourites are her Chrestomanci novels. Read Conrad's fate, too, but was slightly disappointed. Oh well, can't win them all. Also, The tough guide to fantasyland. Would probably have been more fun, if I hadn't read Dark lord of Derkholm.
Hideyuki Kikuchi: Vampire hunter D. Good, very good. Nice world - well, not nice, but you know. Besides, this writer can write fights well. Even filtered through a translation. That's a surprisingly rare talent. Need to read the sequels.
Elizabeth Kostova: The historian. Dracula as bibliophile. All right, I suppose.
Annika Lidne: CoMa. What? I was supposed not to read the Swedish cyberpunk? Sorry, did anyway. Pretty cliché.
Virginia West Lunsford: Piracy and privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands. You know, I've always wondered why the Netherlands don't get more attention piratewise. Seriously, one of the great sea-going nations. They deserve more attention.
Peter Madsen: Balladen om Balder. Sorry, but I grew up with the Valhalla comics. Got somewhat excited about there being a new one.
Michael Moorcock: The history of the Runestaff. I really like Moorcock's fantasy. Shame that the Danish libraries doesn't have more of it.
Niels E. Nielsen: Skyggekrigen. No longer new story about Islamic terrorists occupying Denmark. Not really that good, but sounded semi-relevant in relation the Muhammed mess (which the Queen commented on in her speach - which is kind of impressive, sort of).
Naomi Novik: His Majesty's dragon & Throne of jade. Still good, still bouncing, still can't wait to read the third. Takes the good stuff from O'Brian and mixes with the good stuff from McCaffrey's Pern (an old and as of late often disappointed love of mine).
Patrick O'Brian: Clarissa Oakes and the rest of the series. Including the final unfinished one. Still wondering about the cabbage-selling werewolf in that one. Remember to reread the whole series one day.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte: Various Captain Alatriste-novels. Looking forward to see the movie, whenever that might be. Will maybe hope for a special premiere thing with Viggo Mortensen - after all, the man is a Dane. It's been known to happen.
Tamora Pierce: Trickster's choice & Trickster's queen. Always a good read, Tamora Pierce.
Lars Qvortrup: Det hyperkomplekse samfund and two sequels. Don't mind me if I begin talking about polycentric society and hypercomplexity and stuff like that. Interesting.
Niels-Ole Rasmussen: Kongen af Ragnarok. Think Day after tomorrow set in Denmark, sort of. With the Danish royals right in front. Except of course they are never mentioned by name, really, only title. Amusing, if not that good.
Jørn Uz Ruby: Kaperkongen. Novel about privateer during the Napoleonic age. The thing is, there are quite a few Danish novels about the age of sail, but mostly they are so old that all I can find about them are title and author in the library system. Which makes it hard to be picking that particular book for my next read. Anyway...
Dan Turèll: Mord i mørket. God, but the man can write. Need to read the rest, and his poetry, and his other stuff. And I should have been a taxi driver...
David Weber: Flag in exile. So I like Honour Harrington. So what? Nice, relaxing, not-quite-braindead entertainment. It has its place.
Bill Willingham: Fables. Up to Homelands. I like Bigby. And several others. Am impatiently waiting for the libraries to catch up...
+ a lot of other stuff, including quite a lot of comics and a small pile of books about canons in general and the culture canon in particular. Actually interesting.
Anthology: Shadows over Baker Street. The Neil Gaiman story is pretty good, the rest is just average. Cthulhu and Sherlock Holmes doesn't really mix that well, when all is said and done.
Dan Brown: Angels and Demons. Read Da Vinci Code the year before. Read to see why everybody are appearantly so crazy about them. Still don't see it. Truth be told, they annoy me. Note to self: Do not re-read. Waste of time.
Mike Carey: Lucifer. Some of them, anyway. I like this Lucifer, if not every aspect of the comic.
Stephen Cole: The monsters inside & Justin Richards: The clockwise man. Not really that good, but I like Doctor Who, and, well, they were available at the library. Would rather have read the ones with Captain Jack...
Gideon Defoe: The pirates! in an adventure with scientists: Silly. Less amusing than it could have been, though.
Glen Duncan: I, Lucifer: So sue me, but I like stories taking the bad guys side - whether they tell him as really evil or just misunderstood.
Steven Erikson: The bonehunters: Malazan series back on track, though I still miss Anomander Rake. On the other hand, they can say that Ian Cameron Esslemont: Night of knives, is fully a part of the story all they want, I didn't like it. My favourite part of the Malazan books tend to be the huge number of people running around and the complexity. This had neither.
Philip Jose Farmer: The dark design, The magic labyrinth & The gods of Riverworld: Read the two first in the series a long time ago, then fell victim to the strange habit of Danish publishers to stop translating and publishing series in the middle of everything. Alas, each book got progressively worse. Still, there were good moments.
C.S. Forester: The captain from Connecticut: Take Hornblower. Make him American, born into a Puritan family. Make him fall in love and marry the pretty French girl with unseemly haste (partly so as not to keep having to mangle her last name). May I introduce: Captain Peabody.
Bjørn's saga: Love triangle in old Iceland. Pretty good. I really need to read the more common sagas, though.
The Eddas. Both of them. Good. I knew that. I wonder if I'll ever get started on that Loke-story of mine.
Christopher Golden: Spike & Dru - pretty maids all in a row. I like the character of Spike, and besides, how could I resist a story partly set in Denmark, even with a brief, very brief, visit to Elsinore? Not the best story, really, though I suspect whoever plotted out Btvs season 7 had read it. + Golden would probably have been wise to let the manuscript be read by a Dane at some point, since there are some things - well, for instance, he starts of with Dannebrog flying outside Rosenborg Castle at night, while vampires are attempting to steal the crown jewels. Now that's just embarrasing. And stealing a boat in Elsinore harbour might sound simple, but that bit confused me with my local knowledge, especially since we sort of a have a whole pair of harbours hereabouts. Though I liked Gorm the Old as vampire...
Graham Greene: Lord Rochester's monkey. Had seen The Libertine, went to learn more. Good book. I really need to reread the poetry at some point, don't I?
Thorkild Hansen: Slavernes skibe & Slavernes øer. Two last books in the slave trilogy. Depressing, but interesting. + lots of bits of information about the Danish West-Indies.
Diana Wynne Jones: Deep secret. Pretty fun. I like DWJ, mostly, though my favourites are her Chrestomanci novels. Read Conrad's fate, too, but was slightly disappointed. Oh well, can't win them all. Also, The tough guide to fantasyland. Would probably have been more fun, if I hadn't read Dark lord of Derkholm.
Hideyuki Kikuchi: Vampire hunter D. Good, very good. Nice world - well, not nice, but you know. Besides, this writer can write fights well. Even filtered through a translation. That's a surprisingly rare talent. Need to read the sequels.
Elizabeth Kostova: The historian. Dracula as bibliophile. All right, I suppose.
Annika Lidne: CoMa. What? I was supposed not to read the Swedish cyberpunk? Sorry, did anyway. Pretty cliché.
Virginia West Lunsford: Piracy and privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands. You know, I've always wondered why the Netherlands don't get more attention piratewise. Seriously, one of the great sea-going nations. They deserve more attention.
Peter Madsen: Balladen om Balder. Sorry, but I grew up with the Valhalla comics. Got somewhat excited about there being a new one.
Michael Moorcock: The history of the Runestaff. I really like Moorcock's fantasy. Shame that the Danish libraries doesn't have more of it.
Niels E. Nielsen: Skyggekrigen. No longer new story about Islamic terrorists occupying Denmark. Not really that good, but sounded semi-relevant in relation the Muhammed mess (which the Queen commented on in her speach - which is kind of impressive, sort of).
Naomi Novik: His Majesty's dragon & Throne of jade. Still good, still bouncing, still can't wait to read the third. Takes the good stuff from O'Brian and mixes with the good stuff from McCaffrey's Pern (an old and as of late often disappointed love of mine).
Patrick O'Brian: Clarissa Oakes and the rest of the series. Including the final unfinished one. Still wondering about the cabbage-selling werewolf in that one. Remember to reread the whole series one day.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte: Various Captain Alatriste-novels. Looking forward to see the movie, whenever that might be. Will maybe hope for a special premiere thing with Viggo Mortensen - after all, the man is a Dane. It's been known to happen.
Tamora Pierce: Trickster's choice & Trickster's queen. Always a good read, Tamora Pierce.
Lars Qvortrup: Det hyperkomplekse samfund and two sequels. Don't mind me if I begin talking about polycentric society and hypercomplexity and stuff like that. Interesting.
Niels-Ole Rasmussen: Kongen af Ragnarok. Think Day after tomorrow set in Denmark, sort of. With the Danish royals right in front. Except of course they are never mentioned by name, really, only title. Amusing, if not that good.
Jørn Uz Ruby: Kaperkongen. Novel about privateer during the Napoleonic age. The thing is, there are quite a few Danish novels about the age of sail, but mostly they are so old that all I can find about them are title and author in the library system. Which makes it hard to be picking that particular book for my next read. Anyway...
Dan Turèll: Mord i mørket. God, but the man can write. Need to read the rest, and his poetry, and his other stuff. And I should have been a taxi driver...
David Weber: Flag in exile. So I like Honour Harrington. So what? Nice, relaxing, not-quite-braindead entertainment. It has its place.
Bill Willingham: Fables. Up to Homelands. I like Bigby. And several others. Am impatiently waiting for the libraries to catch up...
+ a lot of other stuff, including quite a lot of comics and a small pile of books about canons in general and the culture canon in particular. Actually interesting.
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