February : What are you reading?

[Krug]

Read The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler and The Devil's Company by David Liss. Am now reading The Hypnotist, by Lars Kepler. Whatever you do, do not start it before you have to go to work. Or school. Or eat anything that requires two hands. It's nonstop cliffhanger. I'm in awe.

Hmm I don't know. The whole middle portion with the extended flashback was a little too much.

 

[Nellisir]

Hmm I don't know. The whole middle portion with the extended flashback was a little too much.

Posted this before I got there. Overall it was a really good book, but something about the end (everything post-flashback) just didn't click quite right.

 

[Unholy Frog]

Just finished The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Great light read. I'm also nearly through Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: the One and the Many by Erik Hornung.[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT]

 

[EricNoah]

Just finished reading The Orphanmaster http://www.amazon.com/Orphanmaster-Jean-Zimmerman/dp/0670023647

Now reading Alif the Unseen http://www.amazon.com/Alif-Unseen-G...id=1360606606&sr=1-1&keywords=alif+the+unseen

Just finished listening to 1356 (Bernard Cornwell) http://www.amazon.com/1356-Novel-Be...s&ie=UTF8&qid=1360606635&sr=1-1&keywords=1356

In the middle of listening to Insurgent http://www.amazon.com/Insurgent-Ver...tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1360606660&sr=1-1

 

[Nellisir]

Just finished reading The Orphanmaster http://www.amazon.com/Orphanmaster-Jean-Zimmerman/dp/0670023647

Now reading Alif the Unseen http://www.amazon.com/Alif-Unseen-G...id=1360606606&sr=1-1&keywords=alif+the+unseen

The Orphanmaster looks good; let us know what you think of Alif. I haven't heard much, but I keep seeing it.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I re-read Zelazny's amazing Lord of Light, and the first of the Merle Corey Amber books. I just finished a re-read of Saberhagen's excellent Complete Book of Swords and am partway through the first Book of Lost Swords: Woundhealer's Story. Good memories.

Farslayer howls across the world,
For thy heart, for thy heart who hast wronged me!

It makes me want to put the Twelve Swords into my games >.>

 

[dogoftheunderworld]

I've never been much of a reader, but I'm trying "new" things For the next forty days, I'm giving up computer games and am taking up some reading in the mean time. I'm going to start with Harry Potter. Yes that's right. The rest of the family has read them, except my youngest who recently turned 10. So we're going to start with book one, together. We'll see if I last longer than she does

 

[Umbran]

Just finished reading Niel Gaiman's Neverwhere.

Going to start either Scalzi's Old Man's War or re-read Niven's Ringworld Engineers.

 

[Nellisir]

Harry Potter is Good Stuff.

 

[Nellisir]

Just finished reading Niel Gaiman's Neverwhere.
Going to start either Scalzi's Old Man's War or re-read Niven's Ringworld Engineers.

I've read...no, wait, that was American Gods. Well, I've read Neverwhere too. I really like Gaiman's stuff, but for some reason it doesn't stick with me. I've read American Gods three times now, and I still barely remember it. And I've forgotten everything about Neverwhere except the back cover copy.

I'm watching SGU, which Scalzi was a creative consultant on, and they flashed a copy of Old Man's War in the last episode I watched. I found it derivative of The Forever War, but your mileage may vary. I might take another go at it if I can find the right box.

Is Engineers the sequel or the sequel's sequel? I read the former but not the latter. Will have to see about getting them used somewhere.