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What upcoming books are you excited about?

The Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translations of The Double and The Gambler by Dostoevsky in trade paperback and their translation of War and Peace which is to appear in 2007. The mass market of George R.R. Martin's A Feast For Crows would be good alongside A Dance of Dragons in hardcover so I know it's to arrive eventually in mass. There are several books I'm waiting to see arrive in hardcover clearance but that's not really the spirit of this thread.
 
i can't wait for ruby, francesca has another one coming out in the fall too called psyche in a dress (at least we hope, it's been pushed back a few times)
 
Lisey's Story by Stephen King on October 24, 2006!

Reviews from Amazon.com:

"Lisey's Story is a wondrous novel of marriage, a love story steeped in strength and tenderness, and cast with the most vivid, touching and believable characters in recent literature. I came to adore Lisey Landon and her sisters, I ached for Scott and all he'd been through, and when I finally reached the bittersweet and heartfelt conclusion, my first thought was that I wanted to start over again from the beginning, for it felt as if I were saying good-bye to old friends. This is Stephen King at his finest and most generous, a dazzling novel that you'll thank yourself for reading long after the final page is turned."

-- Nicholas Sparks, author of The Notebook


"In Lisey's Story, Stephen King makes bold, brilliant use of his satanic storytelling gift, his angelic ear for language, and above all his incomparable ability to find the epic in the ordinary, to present us with the bloody and fabulous tale of an ordinary marriage. In his hands the long, passionate union of Scott and Lisey Landon--of any long-lived marriage, by implication--becomes a fantastic kingdom, with its own geography and language, its dark and stirring chronicle of heroes and monsters, its tragedies, griefs and glories. King has been getting me to look at the world with terror and wonder since I was fifteen years old, and I have never been more persuaded than by this book of his greatness."

-- Michael Chabon, author of The Final Solution: A Story of Detection and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
 
I would very much like to read Wendy Alec's Chronicles of Brothers Book 2: Messiah. It doesn't come out until October, I think, so that gives me plenty of time to wait for it. I don't like starting a series while the installments are still being released because I tend to get caught up in other reads and forget things about the series by the time that I get the next book for it.
 
Saramago's new novel: Seeing. A kind-of sequel to Blindness, with the same characters in the same city. I ordered it the other day.

From Amazon.com:
From Publishers Weekly
In Nobel Prize–winner Saramogo's best known novel, Blindness, an unnamed capital city experiences a devastating (although transient) epidemic of blindness that mysteriously spares one woman, an eye doctor's wife, who helps a blinded group survive until their sight returns. His new novel, set in the same capital city four years later, depicts a legal "revolution," when 83% of its citizens cast blank ballots in a national election. The president declares a state of siege, but even though soldiers cordon off the city, nothing affects the city's maddening cheerfulness. The president receives an anonymous letter revealing the case of the eye doctor's wife (she and the group she helped had kept her support secret), and the minister in charge of internal security sends undercover policemen to investigate her connection to the "blank" revolution. The allegorical blindness/sight framework is weak and obvious, and Saramago's capital city sometimes reminds one of Dr. Seuss's Whoville. Yet it works: as the novel establishes its figures (the pompous president, tremulous ministers and pantomime detectives), it acquires the momentum of a bedroom (here, cabinet) farce, baldly sending up EU politicos and major media editorialists.
 
I'm really looking forward to harry potter 7 and ark angel by anthony horowitz, it's a continuation of the alex rider series.
 
I forgot Poppy Z. Brite's coming out with a new book. It's going to be called Soul Kitchen, no? Anyway I'm alternately nervous and excited about the fourteenth Anita Blake novel, Danse Macabre. Addictive as the series is, the gratuitous sex has really ruined the quality of the books, which wasn't great to start with.
 
rnmichelle said:
Saramago's new novel: Seeing. A kind-of sequel to Blindness, with the same characters in the same city. I ordered it the other day.

From Amazon.com:
From Publishers Weekly
In Nobel Prize–winner Saramogo's best known novel, Blindness, an unnamed capital city experiences a devastating (although transient) epidemic of blindness that mysteriously spares one woman, an eye doctor's wife, who helps a blinded group survive until their sight returns. His new novel, set in the same capital city four years later, depicts a legal "revolution," when 83% of its citizens cast blank ballots in a national election. The president declares a state of siege, but even though soldiers cordon off the city, nothing affects the city's maddening cheerfulness. The president receives an anonymous letter revealing the case of the eye doctor's wife (she and the group she helped had kept her support secret), and the minister in charge of internal security sends undercover policemen to investigate her connection to the "blank" revolution. The allegorical blindness/sight framework is weak and obvious, and Saramago's capital city sometimes reminds one of Dr. Seuss's Whoville. Yet it works: as the novel establishes its figures (the pompous president, tremulous ministers and pantomime detectives), it acquires the momentum of a bedroom (here, cabinet) farce, baldly sending up EU politicos and major media editorialists.
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Cooo yes! :) cant wait, its out on the 4th may....mmm a week before my Birthday, will have to drop some hints ;)
 
Seeing is out here in Canada already. I've leafed through it and to me it looks like a tacky add-on to the success of Blindness.
 
Anamnesis said:
I forgot Poppy Z. Brite's coming out with a new book. It's going to be called Soul Kitchen, no?
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Yes it is. I've got to get my hands on a copy of Prime first though.
 
Anamnesis said:
I forgot Poppy Z. Brite's coming out with a new book. It's going to be called Soul Kitchen, no? Anyway I'm alternately nervous and excited about the fourteenth Anita Blake novel, Danse Macabre. Addictive as the series is, the gratuitous sex has really ruined the quality of the books, which wasn't great to start with.
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I thought the gratuitious sex was the best part...
 
I recently read about his most recent book about to release titled 11/22/63. It's a Sci-Fi novel involving time travel and and an attempt to stop the assassination of JFK.
 
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