[October] What are you reading?

[delericho]

New month, time for a new thread.

I'm just finishing up the "Career Compendium" for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. It's a tough read, but I think it will add something to my game, so that's good.

Have just started "Azincourt" by Bernard Cornwell. It's very good so far - one of his best, I'd say.

After that, I'm going to read the last few Bond novels.

 

[drothgery]

Continuing my Wheel of Time re-read, about halfway through Lord of Chaos (book 6) at this point. I'll need to speed things up if I want to be done before The Gathering Storm comes out at the end of the month.

 

[Wombat]

Just about to start my annual October reading program: The October Country by Ray Bradbury and wide selections of Poe and Lovecraft.

Happy Almost Hallowe'en, folks

 

[Mercutio01]

Finished the White Rose and Perdido Street Station (excellent book!) and continuing with Red Mars and the last two John Carter books.

 

[catsclaw227]

I am reading the War of the Burning Sky adventure path modules (for my 4e VTT game) and The Golden Age by John C. Wright.

 

[Jack7]

and the last two John Carter books.

I like me some John Carter. Wish more people wrote that kinda stuff nowadays.

I'm re-reading the Great Books of the Western World, this time in order. So I'm reading the Iliad now.

I'm also listening to an unabridged version of Crossing the Threshold of Hope, by John Paul II. He's my favorite modern Pope (I like Benedict too, but John Paul appeals to me) but he is also, I am finding out, quite an excellent theologian, as well as a formidable historian of philosophy and religion.

I'm also reading, Land of the Silver Apples (cause I wanna write a children's book and so I'm reading to see what the market likes nowadays), Proven Guilty by Butcher, and Thin Air, a really interesting Spenser novel by Parker. But that I'm listening to on CD.

I also today picked up All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder. I got halfway through the second episode and Miller screwed Batman up so completely that the whole book was a steaming pile of crap. Still, Lee's artwork was so fantastic, and the inking and coloring so good, that I looked at the whole book. I just didn't bother reading Miller's storyline. It was like reading a badly done play by a ten year old trying too hard to have his characters talk and act tough and coming off as a six year old hack as a result. Pretty pathetic writing. I expected better from Miller.

 

[Crothian]

Finished Eugenie Grandet for my Modern Lit class. Next up Life on the Mississippi and some Spencer books and books off the Modern Libraries top 100 of 20th centrury.

 

[megamania]

I am thourghly enjoying Paul Crilley's Night of the Long Shadows for Eberron.

 

[Mean Eyed Cat]

Glen Cook's Black Company series have been re-released and condensed into bigger books. I just finished Chronicles of the Black Company and now I'm reading The Books of the South. I'd forgotten how good these books were

 

[EricNoah]

Back from the bookstore with Jack McDevitt's Deepsix and Eric Brown's Kethani. We'll see how they go.