[August] What are you reading?

[DMScott]

I picked up S.M. Stirling's Dies the Fire yesterday, and am about halfway through - it's a pretty quick read. Good gaming fodder, like a lot of Stirling's work.

I also have Mark Budz' Clade on the go, and for non-fiction Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival.

 

[Ibram]

Just finished up "The Burning Shore" by Robert Earl... which is full of great imagry about the exploration of a jungle.

Right now I'm eagerly awaiting "Brilliance Under the Moon" by Leam Hearn. its the last in the "Tales of the Otori" series, and if its anything like the first it should be a wonderfull book.

 

[mojo1701]

The Lives of Dax. Right now, I'm on Torias.

Pretty good, it's got a few hints here and there about certain parts of Trek history

Spoiler

A young Leonard McCoy (still at the academy, even before he wanted to be a doctor) met Emony Dax (the gymnast) and had a date with her

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[Andrew D. Gable]

In a very retro mood, I am now reading The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells.

 

[Gomez]

I am also in a retro mood. I am reading Triplanetary by E.E. Doc Smith and Hiero's Journey by Sterling E. Lanier. This is about the fourth or fifth times for me to read them each!

 

[Pants]

I am putting down Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon in favor of Steve Erikson's Deadhouse Gates.

So far I've read 10 pages and I prefer the writing style in Garden's of the Moon.

 

[Krug]

Finished Riders of the Dead which was quite good but had a very rushed ending. So much build up and the final battle ends in a whimper. Lots of nice cultural bits though, and Abnett's descriptions of battles are always vivid.

 

[Pielorinho]

In a very retro mood, I am now reading The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells.

I'll out-retro you with my The Three Musketeers. I've never read it before, and in a perverse twist, I'm reading it due to the interest sparked by reading Brust's The Phoenix Guards.

It's great!
Daniel

 

[nikolai]

I'll out-retro you with my The Three Musketeers. I've never read it before... It's great!

When you've finished why not try The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte. It's very closely plotted around The Three Musketeers. And it happens to be the EnWorld Book Club's next selection.

Puting Book Club promotion to one side... I'm currently trying to force my way into Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. Has anyone else found the first three-or-so-hundred pages very slow? By all accounts the book is brilliant, and I appreciate what he's trying to do, but it seems to to be taking a while for the plot to build up momentum.

 

[Olive]

I am putting down Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon in favor of Steve Erikson's Deadhouse Gates.

So far I've read 10 pages and I prefer the writing style in Garden's of the Moon.

I've never read Erikson, but Cryptonomicon is well worth stickign with.