August - What are you reading?

[Wombat]

Wombat, have you read Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Underworld series? I can do without some of the gore in Bitten, which kept me away from Stolen, but the others have been fairly entertaining and if you have liked Harrison, you might enjoy Armstrong. I just finished the latest, No Humans Involved, a few weeks ago.
/ali

Hmmm, is she the one who wrote Dime Store Magic? I read that one, which had some very good points, but ultimately didn't keep me going. It got a bit repetitive for my tastes.

I dunno ... I picked up the Harry Dresden books, which I loved until about book 5, after which they tapered off dramatically for me. I liked the first two Kim Harrison books a lot as well. Laurel K. Hamilton doesn't do it for me, nor did Elrod's (am I remembering his name right?) vampire-gangster books. I love the broad concept inherent in all these series, but I get disappointed in specific execution. It's hard to put my finger on just what I am looking for that way.

[later]
And since so many people have been asking about the Susan Cooper Dark is Rising upcoming film, I felt I should give a link to a trailer -- personally, I liked the books a lot, but I am not overly hopeful for the film.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/theseekerthedarkisrising/

 

[The_Gut]

Hmmm, is she the one who wrote Dime Store Magic? I read that one, which had some very good points, but ultimately didn't keep me going. It got a bit repetitive for my tastes.

I dunno ... I picked up the Harry Dresden books, which I loved until about book 5, after which they tapered off dramatically for me. I liked the first two Kim Harrison books a lot as well. Laurel K. Hamilton doesn't do it for me, nor did Elrod's (am I remembering his name right?) vampire-gangster books. I love the broad concept inherent in all these series, but I get disappointed in specific execution. It's hard to put my finger on just what I am looking for that way.

Bitten, Stolen, etc are better than Dime Store Magic - I like the character better.

Laurel K. Hamilton's Anita Blake books - well, the first three or four are totally different, and much, much better than this later soft core porn/monster schlock she's writing now days. If you can get your hands on the first in the series especially, read it.

I just picked up the RPG Zorcerer of Zo, and I'm about to run some adventures in it. So I'm brushing up on my fairy tales. I just finished The Phantom Tollbooth and The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. Alice in Wonderland and the Looking Glass wars are next, followed by Wizard of Oz and Wicked. After that, I'll finish out Narnia. Then we will see what times will bring.

 

[papastebu]

Deathly Hallows Unfortunately, I wanted to read this so badly that it lasted me only a few hours.
I just started re-reading Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, because I'm hoping I'll see the last book in that one soon. Not because I want it to be over, but I want to know how it all turns out.
I am also re-reading Thom Hartman's Complete Guide to ADHD, because my son has just started 3rd grade--where did all the time go?--and it has already sent a whole host of school-related problems home with him.
Also hoping to see soon the third book of Jim Butcher's Calderon (series)? Trilogy? in paperback.

 

[Tolen Mar]

Went to the library today, having finished "The Elegant Universe."

Now I have "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead." I'd heard of the movie, did not know it existed in print form, (at least, until it was mentioned here, thanks again ENworld!) and was lucky enough to find that the library had not one but two copies.

Alas, it is a short read, and so I picked up John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" for later. If you haven't read it, its about John Perry, sevnty five years old. He joins the army, where they give him a new younger body to fight over colonial rights on far off worlds. Survive a two year hitch, and you get your own claim to stake out somewhere.

Of course, along the way he learns how hard the fight really is and learns what humanity really means out in the fringe.

Should be interesting.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Beyond my weekly comic pulls, I'm still plugging away at A Brief History of Time.

Now sure what I'll read after that.

 

[Krug]

The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean.

 

[Tetsubo]

The Cheating of America: How Tax Avoidance and Evasion by the Super Rich Are Costing the Country Billions--and What You Can Do About It by Charles Lewis (2002)

 

[Sublime_Art]

currently reading Neuromancer (man, it deserves all the props!), Snake Agent by Liz Williams, (book one in the Detective Chen series), Hellblazer: Original Sins, and "China: Its History and Culture-Fourth Edition".

Basically, I love to read and have limited social skills.

 

[Mark Chance]

Just finished Crichton's Rising Sun. It wasn't much better than the movie. Certainly not the best novel I've read by him. Just started Thomas Perry's Vanishing Act. It starts with a bang and has an interesting premise. Also have Brian Jacques's Mariel of Redwall. This is the fourth book of the series, and I greatly enjoyed the previous three.

I've put Herodotus on the back-burner for the time. I'll get back to him eventually. I really don't care for this particular translation. Maybe I need to save up and get a different edition.

I've also got some reading to do for some adult religious education classes at my parish, but none it actually involved going through a whole book.

 

[Banshee16]

The Children of Hurin.

Banshee