[April] What are you reading?

[Crothian]

I read through I am Number Four early today and it was okay but nothing that impressed me. I read about half of the Ghost Birgades while waiting for class to start this evening. It is a very good science fiction book the sequal to the equally good Old Man's War.

 

[jimmifett]

I've been re-reading Atlas Shrugged, got some Eberron books to finish up. It's been a couple years, so it's time to go re-enjoy the whole Dune series. A new SW book should be dropping soon, and I dying for the next Ender book.

 

[DireWereTeddy]

...the next Ender book.

There's going to be another? Now I'll have to go back and see if I've missed any others. I am so out of the loop and I don't read nearly as much as I used to.

As for my reading this month, mostly Cisco textbooks. Finals are coming up. For personal enjoyment, I've been meaning to read The Sworn by Gail Martin. I've loved her other books and I'm sure that this one will be just as good.

 

[jimmifett]

There's going to be another? Now I'll have to go back and see if I've missed any others. I am so out of the loop and I don't read nearly as much as I used to.

Shadows in Flight. Ties up the loose ends and merges the ender's game series back together with Bean's Shadow parallel series.

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After reading the shadow series, I immediately thought "wait... didn't Jane bring all relatavistic ships to thier destinations at the end of Children of the Mind...? That means Julian and the children... and the new Peter... and the Descolada aliens... mwuahahahahaha!"

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[TanisFrey]

Finished Death of the Dragon. Moving on to a piece of literature that is the foundation of Western literature, The Iliad by Homer.

I have this title on my Kindle, it's a part of a collection that has a lot in it. I am going to read this one at a time because this collection has several different translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey and the Aeneid, plus Oedipus, Jason and the Argonauts dozens of other Greek and Roman plays and stories. I plan to read one translation of the Iliad then go read something else and returned to the next translation of the Iliad.

There are sections in this that are at the academic discussions. I hope these discussions do not get to bog down into linguistics because, I am more interested in the story than in the academic debates.

 

[Banshee16]

Reading Pathfinder Tales: Winter Witch. It is much better than Prince of Wolves. I will be following that I will be starting The Name of the Wind since I've been recommended to read it by so many different people.

Name of the Wind was excellent!

Banshee

 

[Banshee16]

Just started At the Gates of Darkness by Raymond Feist.

Banshee

 

[Keith Robinson]

I'm reading Lord of the Rings. Yay! It's my fourth or fifth time, I reckon, but the last time was in 2002, so 9 years is long enough. It's amazing to think that since then all the movies have come out. Now I keep visualizing the characters as they were portrayed in the films!

 

[Krug]

Finished the 12th Felix and Gotrek book, Zombieslayer. Some interesting ideas about battling undead and their tactics, though the ending was anticlimatic. Also there were interesting suppporting characters.

Also completed Emma Donoghue's Room. I only read the first 20 pages and wasn't quite pulled into it, but when I got back into it was sucked in. The middle portion

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where Jack escapes[/]spoiler] was tense. His comprehension of words was still a bit hard to accept at certain times; he knew words like paparazzi (at 5!) and could read a newspaper, only because Donoghue needed to shove through some plot bits. But otherwise an excellent read.

 

[Mallus]

Right now it's Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse.

Up next, maybe James's What Maise Knew or Murakami's (Ryu, not Haruki) Popular Hits of the Showa Era.

Then maybe I'll grit my teeth, re-familiarize myself with the Malazan Book of the Fallen, and finally read the last 3 books...