[April] What are you reading?

[GoodKingJayIII]

Almost done with The Waste Lands by Steven King. Wizard and the Glass is up next.

I'm continuing to chip away at Quicksilver (I'm almost to the spot where I abandoned it the first time I attempted it a couple of years ago).

I feel you on that one. That's a heavy book to get into. Honestly, haven't finished it myself.

 

[jhallum]

Just started on The Virtues of War by Steven Pressfield (liked Gates of Fire a lot), and this one is a good read.

I have Shadowmarch and Shadowplay by Tad Williams on the back burner, and just got Book 9 of Dresden Files in from the library, can't wait to start reading!

 

[Hand of Evil]

Anything by Jim Butcher (Dresden Files).

 

[S. Baldrick]

Last night, I finished off David Gemmell's final novel "Troy: Shield of Thunder." Now, I am reading Jim Butcher's latest Dresden book: "White Night."

 

[Son_of_Thunder]

Steven Erikson BABY!

I'm reading House of Chains by Steven Erikson. Not very far into it but I have a love, hate relationship with the Malazan books and right now it's love.

 

[Croesus]

Brother Cadfael Mysteries, lately.

I just checked out A Morbid Taste for Bones from the library. If the books are anything like the DVD's with Derek Jacoby, I'll have to get them all.

Meanwhile, I'm working through Susan Wise Bauer's The History of the Ancient World. It's almost 800 pages long, but extremely readable. The author takes history seriously, but she's not afraid to point out the absurd bits too. Highly recommended.

 

[Mycanid]

Am checking out "Unseen Warfare" by Theophanes the Recluse at the moment....

 

[Krug]

Ghostwalker - Not bad, but didn't exactly set me on fire. I rarely read D&D fiction anymore, but made an exception for this.

The Best American Essays 2001 - Lots of good stuff in this one, particularly 'The Maria Problem' about a Sing-a-long Sound of Music written by New Yorker columnist Anthony Lane, and a profile of one of those late night informercial guys by Malcolm Gladwell that was never condescending.

 

[CarlZog]

Finished "A Princess of Mars" and now onto "The Gods of Mars." It's the Barnes & Noble edition, which combines the first three books of the ERB Mars Series.

I read that over the winter. I found an annoying number of what looked like OCR errors in that edition, but for $10 it was still a deal, and it was a LOT of fun to revisit those adventures.

Just finished Stainless Steel Visions, a collection of Harry Harrision's short stories. Lots of good stuff (only one SSR story, but I suppose it made marketing sense to name the anthology for his most famous character).


Carl

 

[Eridanis]

Recently finished The Shield and the Sword, a brief history of the Knights Hospitaller. (A nice overview, by the way, and some good gems to yoink for my D&D campaign.) I'm quickly burning through Realms of the Elves anthology; none of the stories have been fantastic, but none have been outright bad.

What's next? I just picked up Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel in bargain hardcover, and as much as I'd like to read it, I don't look forward to hauling it around on the train. I may raid my paperback stacks downstairs and see what jumps out at me.