[Aug] What Are You Reading?

[Wormwood]

Remedial Fantasy this month:

I'm finishing Fritz Leiber's Swords Against Death

On deck: Swords in the Mist and my brand-spankin' new copy of Howard's The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Finished Lucifer's Hammer, it started out slow and boring and kept getting better little by little, until by the end it was extremely engrossing and was put out that it ended when it did. It has nearly everything you can imagine an apocalypse novel would have. Comets, meteors, endless storms, thousands of feet high tsunami waves all over the planet, every fault line on the planet giving off The Big One earthquake, (sounds like Tool's song, "aenima"!) thermonuclear war, imminent ice age...

Am now into Witchhunter, a Warhammer novel. Very very good.

 

[Lefferts]

Just finished book 2 and started book 3 of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files.

Just finished book 6 - currently one of my favorite series.

I also just reread Turtledove's original Videssos series. I like it more than his newer stuff.

 

[BadMojo]

Just started the third book of Steven Brust's "Viscount of Adrilankha" series, "Sethra Lavode". Just finished "The Lord of Castle Black" by the same author.

 

[John Crichton]

Finishing up Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and then on to the next book...

 

[orbitalfreak]

Currently reading the entirety of Raymond E. Feist's novels set in Midkemia. I fell in love with Magician: Apprentice many years ago, and read the rest of the books in that series, Magician: Master, Silverthorn, and A Darkness at Sethanon (all together, "The Riftwar Saga"). I just finished the "Krondor" trilogy and "Prince of the Blood," and am now on "The King's Buccaneer."

 

[Starman]

Rereading Endymion and The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons, because they rock!

 

[Jdvn1]

Shadow of the Hegemon! I really liked the Ender's books too, so now on to the Bean books.

Although now that I work at Borders, I'll be getting s'more books.

 

[Dougal DeKree]

On saturday I started "A Hymn Before Battle", the first book of John Ringo's Invasion series. On monday i went to get the second part "Gust Front", today i will start the third part "When the devil dances".

This is military science fiction at it's best, surprising you very often with clever and unexpected turns of the story. If you are not against huge battles with millions of dangerous aliens as enemies, i recommend reading it.

Dougal

 

[MonsterMash]

Currently Collapse by Jared Diamond, The Rational Unified Process Made Easy by Krutchen and Kroll and Mongoose Pocket Modern Handbook, with some pdfs to review as well. Also got this months National Geographic to read.

Finally finished The Confusion by Neal Stephenson.