[Dec] What are you reading?

[Storm Raven]

Uncharted Stars by Andre Norton, sequel to The Zero Stone. Just plain, old fashioned space opera.

 

[tetsujin28]

I was reading Paul Veyne's Did the Greeks Believe in their Myths?: An essay on the constitutive imagination, but became rather bored and unimpressed with it. So far I'm not impressed with the works of French classicists (I'll put Robert Turcan on the list as boring and pedantic, as well).

It may be just that French doesn't translate as well into English as German does. I've found German works (e.g. those of Burkert) to be far more intellectually exciting, even when I disagree with them.

So, Redfield's Nature and Culture in the Iliad: The Tragedy of Hector was up next. Quite involving, and very useful.

 

[WayneLigon]

Earlier today I finished The Oath of SwordsBY: David Weber.

GodStalk By: P.C. Hodgell

The RuneLord Series By: David Farland

Oath of Swords is one of my favorite books, along with the sequal The War God's Own. (Read both of them here )

I need to re-read Godstalk, since I just bought the two sequals from SFBC.

I read the first RuneLord book and loved it; need to get the others.

 

[CCamfield]

I was reading Paul Veyne's Did the Greeks Believe in their Myths?: An essay on the constitutive imagination, but became rather bored and unimpressed with it. So far I'm not impressed with the works of French classicists (I'll put Robert Turcan on the list as boring and pedantic, as well).

You're not alone - I couldn't finish it either.

 

[frankthedm]

wolves of the calla by Steve-O

 

[Crothian]

I just finished Skyripper by David Drake. An okay book but it would make a better d20 miodern game. Next up is Dr Jeckel and Mr Hyde.

 

[RenoOfTheTurks]

Let's see, I finished Dan Simmons' Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion recently. That is one amazing story. I'm now reading The Dragon Path, which is a collection of the short fiction of Kenneth Morris. He's a little-known fantasist from the early 20th. I like his command of the language. Something like Lord Dunsany, but the stories seem to be a bit deeper than Dunsany's.

Two things I've given up on recently are Neuromancer and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I barely began the latter, not giving it enough of a chance, given its status, before becoming distracted. But Neuromancer, God, how dated and boring; I didn't care about the protagonist and Gibson's descriptions were simply not engaging or intriguing. I read more than half and then just threw it down. I have The Difference Engine on the shelf, I hope that's better. Otherwise I'll just stick to Neal Stephenson, thank you Mr. Gibson.

 

[johnsemlak]

I'm just finishing a re-read of Return of the King so the stuff is fresh when I see the film. Of course, I have over a month to wait until it gets here in Russia

after that I'll proabbably turn to George RR Martin's series.

 

[tetsujin28]

You're not alone - I couldn't finish it either.

One of my professors said it wasn't very good in French, either.

 

[tetsujin28]

Two things I've given up on recently are Neuromancer and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I barely began the latter, not giving it enough of a chance, given its status, before becoming distracted. But Neuromancer, God, how dated and boring; I didn't care about the protagonist and Gibson's descriptions were simply not engaging or intriguing. I read more than half and then just threw it down. I have The Difference Engine on the shelf, I hope that's better. Otherwise I'll just stick to Neal Stephenson, thank you Mr. Gibson.

Neuromancer was always over-hyped hooey. Three Kingdoms, though, is full of rock-em sock-em robots in comparison.