[Dec] What are you reading?

[Jedidiah]

Well I was half way through The Brothers Karamozov by Dostoevsky when Christmas came. Got Tad Williams Shadowmarch so I started that. Also got The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch so that's next. Then I'll go back and finish the brothers.

Since it's the end of the year, here are a few of the best books I read this year (sorry for you history haters but I didn't read a lot of fiction this year other than Moby Dick (my all time favorite) and Tad Williams' The War of the Flowers (nice to read a one volume fantasy book!):

An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson (history of the US army in North Africa during WWII)
One Vast Winter Count:The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark by Colin Calloway
Monster of God by David Quamman (psychology of living with man eaters)
The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
A History of Britain (Vols I, II, and III) by Simon Schama (my favorite history writer - if you haven't read his bio of Rembrandt called Rembrandt's Eyes then shame on you).
Art: A New History by Paul Johnson (good primer for non arty farties)
Theology in America by E. Brooks Holifield (only for those interested in the subject)

Whew! That's alot of pages - I have been a very busy boy this year.

For those reading anything by Raymond Feist - I am very sorry. For those reading the Thomas Covenant books by Stephen R Donaldson - I am very, very sorry. The only way I know to counteract the unbelievably poor prose written by those authors (and I use that term in its loosest sense) is to read something really good. Go out and get The Three Musketeers by Dumas or if you want something contemporary get any set of short stories by Harlan Ellison.

 

[ThaDium]

I tend to read eclectic stuff.

Things that have passed my eyes recently:

The Keep by F. Paul Wilson. Horror. WWII Germans meet a vampire

The Russell Rules by Bill Russell. Autobio (basketball) /Leadership/Motivational.

In The Pit With Piper by Rowdy Roddy Piper. Autobio (pro wrestling)

Take Back The Right (I forget who wrote it) Politics with a conservative bent.

The Middle Mind (Again, I forget the author) Politics with a liberal bent.

Also, a good number of graphic novels and trades. Mostly super hero stuff, but Bone is on deck.

ThaDium

 

[Welverin]

After finishing In Northern Twilight I think I shall move onto Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grill, unless I decide to go with Brokedown Palace instead.

Also, a good number of graphic novels and trades. Mostly super hero stuff, but Bone is on deck.

Well it's time to take it off deck and move it up to the plate!

On a related note I finally found and ordered a 1st print of Bone #7, the last one I needed, hurray for me!

 

[dravot]

I'm currently reading Shadow of Saganami, the latest book by David Weber (and a Christmas present). It's set in the Honor Harrington universe, and she makes a cameo in it, but the story involves other people this time. It's typical Weber, which is to say enjoyable, but so far nothing truly groundbreaking, but I like it.

 

[Krug]

The Black Company by Glen Cook.

 

[Crothian]

The Black Company by Glen Cook.

ditto, I finally got around to picking up the first three books and will be reading them

 

[haiiro]

Chugging away on Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, which is excellent -- dense, surprising, and very enjoyable. It'll probably occupy me well into January.

 

[Pants]

Putting down Crypto again and starting R. Scott Bakker's The Darkness that Comes Before.