(December) What are you reading?

[Captain Tagon]

Working my way through David Weber's Honorverse series.

 

[lrsach01]

Finish Salvatore's Promise of the Witch King and Jordan's Knife of Dreams and am now enjoying Martin's Feast for Crows.

 

[danbuter]

Finished "Last Citadel". It was a very good book, and I recommend it to anyone remotely interested in WW2.

Now starting "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon.

 

[Jdvn1]

Just finished Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Opal Incident, I have to admit the Artemis Fowl books are a guilty pleasure. Fairies with high-tech, a boy criminal genius who can't relate to other kids, and a martial-arts mountain of a man for a butler. These books are awesome.

Those books sell like nobody's business, too. Crazy how many of those I see go through my store.

I recently finished Shadow of the Giant, so I've finished both companion series of Ender's Game! Phew! That took a while, but it ended with a number of unanswered question. :\

Ah well. I think I'm not going to continue the two other series I've started (I may consider restarting Pullman, but likely not). I'm starting Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte. You like mystery books? Try this guy out. Lesser-known name in the states, but he's really big in Spain. He writes slightly more intellectual mysteries, according to a blurb on the back.

Anyway, I'm excited about this kick I'm on.

 

[MonsterMash]

Programming Perl by Wall, Christiansen and Orwant.

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson - gives me some ideas for a 1-2 player campaign.

 

[Brakkart]

Just finished a trio of Forgotten Realms novels (I go through 1 a week, reading them on my breaks in work), which are Whisper of Waves (5/5), Master of Chains (2/5), and Queen of the Depths (5/5). Skint at the moment, so no money for new books, guess I'll just have to re-read something on my shelf.

Still I know I'm getting Thud! by Terry Pratchett for Xmas, so I'll be reading that next week.

 

[Wombat]

I took a long train trip this weekend.

On the way down I read Kim Harrison's Every Which Way But Dead -- very fun, in a Harry Dresden kinda way. Certainly not "serious" reading at all, but quite amusing.

On the way back I had been handed an early Xmas gift -- Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys. Read it all on the eight-hour trip. I am now shoppin' me for a green fedora with a feather in the band.

 

[Storminator]

I've been reading First Man, Neil Armstrong's bio. It's very interesting in an odd way. Armstrong reads as a kind of boring guy that did a lot of amazing things, and the technical detail is pretty good. So it's a mix.

PS

 

[DarrenGMiller]

I have just finished Ken Hite's excellent Nightmares of Mine guide to horror gaming and am now reading A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchmann. It is a great read thus far.

DM

 

[Jay Tomio]

As I'm making my way through Tobias Buckell's forthcoming Crystal Rain, I just received another book that on my 2006 most wanted list, Daniel Abraham's A Shadow in Summer, the first book in The Long Price Quartet - really been looking forward to this seies.

GRRM had great thing to say about it from the blurbage:

"he tells their stories in an elegant style that reminded me by turns of Gene Wolfe, Jack Vance, and M. John Harrison"

-GRRM

He invoked MJH and Wolfe! Huge expectations.