[December] What are you reading?

[Jack7]

Ghost Story, by Jim Butcher, is FINALLY in at the library, so I'll be picking that up to begin reading as soon as I complete REAMDE by Neal Stephenson.

I really like Butcher but haven't had time to read him in awhile, so thanks for the heads up.

I'm reading the Snowman a pretty good Norwegian crime novel.

That seems awfully familiar for some reason. Does it involve a Dick who is involved in a case during a period when the sun never sets?



Books on CD:
Fire in the East (Warrior of Rome) - really looking forward to this.

Children's Books:

none this time

Comics/Graphic Novels:

The Mon-el Series (Superman)
Streets of Gotham (Hush Money)
Batman: Two-Face and Scarecrow
Spiderman: Vengeance of Venom

eBooks or Internet Library:

none this time

Fiction:

The Temporal Void - I'm trying to force myself back into reading Science-Fiction
Now and Then - Robert Parker (Spenser)

Lectures:

still going through my MBA Lectures

Non-Fiction:

Cracking the Millionaire Code - I highly recommend this book. It's by Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen

Literature:

re-reading the Gospel of Matthew
Hart Crane (poems)


Youth Books:

Still reading the Bartimaeus Trilogy

 

[Crothian]

That seems awfully familiar for some reason. Does it involve a Dick who is involved in a case during a period when the sun never sets?

No, that might be Insomnia a movie that had a novel written from it. Snowman is about a possible serial killer that kills on the first snow of each year. It started well but was not great by the time it ended.

I just finished Sookie Stackhouse Companion. A good read for fans of the series.

 

[Jack7]

No, that might be Insomnia a movie that had a novel written from it.

Insomia, that's it! Really liked that film and that case.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Lives of the Predators, The Red Hourglass by Gordon Grice. It's a collection of essays about mantids, black widows, rattlesnakes and other predators. Great book on predator behavior, the strength of toxins, etc... I already picked up his next book based on how much I'm enjoying this one. Up to the tarantula!

 

[coyote6]

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, finally.

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[Shade]

I just finished book 6 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Bonehunters. WOW. Best in the series since Book 3. Now on to Reaper's Gale.

 

[Starman]

Finished A Fire Upon the Deep which was excellent despite a sort of rough start. Now I'm reading A Clockwork Orange. I've seen the movie a few times, but haven't read the book before.

 

[Jhaelen]

Now I'm reading A Clockwork Orange. I've seen the movie a few times, but haven't read the book before.

That was a difficult read for me, but well worth it nonetheless.

I'm currently reading the '4e Draconomicon: Chromatic Dragons' which somehow isn't as interesting as the one about the Metallic Dragons. Lowlights so far: 16 pages of valuables to put into hoards and ridiculous encounter groups: a level 16 dracolich and four level 1 white wyrmlings? wth?!

 

[Richards]

I'm reading A Clockwork Orange. I've seen the movie a few times, but haven't read the book before.

You might want to check the last chapter in the book and ensure you've got a printing with all of the chapters in it. The book was written with three main parts, each with seven chapters, but the original US edition left off Part Three, Chapter Seven - and that's the version of the book that Anthony Burgess based his movie on. There's another chapter that happens after the events of the movie that puts a whole different spin on the story.

Johnathan

 

[fanboy2000]

I'm reading a few books at once:

Primary: Great Expectations
I read the book high school and loved it. I've never read it since, but I still tell people It's my favorite book. Recently, I decided to see if that's still true.

Secondary: The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
This books is an out of copyright english translation of a series of french fairy tales. Since the stories are short, I can drop in and out as I want.

Tertiary: Jeanne D'Arc, Her Life and Death
After participating in an edition war thread (honestly, I tried not to) where, of all things, Joan of Arc came up, I decided to learn a little bit more about her. This is an old book written in the late 19th century, so I'm hoping there's been been no major scholarship invalidating major aspects of this book.

Odds and Ends
I bought Football for Dummies recently, I'm not reading that cover-to-cover, but rather skipping through it. I know very little about football. Also, I've put Gods of Mars on the back burner while I finish Great Expectations, but so far it's pretty good.

Finished: Flatland
Flatland's a great book about culture and our own biases. It has a reputation for being a math book, but it's not about math. Mind you, it's pretty heavy handed and there really aren't any fully developed characters aside from the narrator. It seems to belong to a class of fiction that no longer exists.