[Feb] What are you reading now?

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Stupid punks. Gabe of PA mention that he got a lot of email from people who like the series, which makes me wonder if it's just a bunch of whiny people who must have everything their way. Makes me wonder if the sales are significantly different.

I really do think it is a bunch of whiny people who didn't like that there was a taste or realism for once. Seems that if you go to any big Star Wars board nowadays, you'll only find arguments over why the Prequels suck, and why the NJO sucks. I'm really ashamed to be a SW fan with the "purists" that can't understand that people are going to die.
Ah well, I'm not going to start ranting. Just better go pick up Remnant today.

 

[Krug]

Well just finished The Golden Compass. Quite extraordinary with wonders on every chapter. I can understand why it's considered more for adults.

Now to look for The Subtle Knife...

 

[jdavis]

the fourth geroge r. r. martin book in the song of ice and fire series... liking it a lot.

"fourth"?

 

[Claude Raines]

So many comments...but then if I cannot say anything nice...

???
I take it that my reading list for February doesn't agree with you. To be honest, I don't understand your comment, or more precisely, why you would have to censor yourself.

 

[Sixchan]

Well just finished The Golden Compass. Quite extraordinary with wonders on every chapter. I can understand why it's considered more for adults.

Now to look for The Subtle Knife...

I've only ever seen the trilogy in the 'Teens' section of bookstores, and I was of the opinion that that was probably the minimum age suitable. To understand the themes, though...that takes and above-average teenager (well, a young one anyway).


I've just started on Stupid White Men now, and I'm really wishing i'd read it earlier.

 

[Welverin]

Star Wars: The Truce at Bakura, by Kathy Tyers

What do you think of it? I found the first three quarters painfully boring and it's the only SW novel I actually dislike.

 

[VorpalBunny]

Just finished Nameless Cults and just started on The Conan Chronicles, Vol. 1 (Gollancz Pub). You just gotta love REH...

 

[Krug]

I've only ever seen the trilogy in the 'Teens' section of bookstores, and I was of the opinion that that was probably the minimum age suitable. To understand the themes, though...that takes and above-average teenager (well, a young one anyway).

I agree with that. I've heard that the theology comes heavier in the latter books. And panserbjorn? Mega cool.

 

[Mistwell]

???
I take it that my reading list for February doesn't agree with you. To be honest, I don't understand your comment, or more precisely, why you would have to censor yourself.

OH, see, now it makes sense. In your original post, you said:

I'm also reading
Darwin's Origin of the Species
The World Atlas of Wine, 5th edition
A Child Called It
The Treason of Isengard (History of Middle Earth book 7)
And the complete collected works of E.A. Poe.

I inferred that "also reading" meant that you were reading it all at the same time...that you were trying to reading Darwin and Poe, for example, at the same exact time. I just thought you were bragging in a manner that was silly, since you couldn't possibly absorb everything in all those books all at the same time

...however not that I understand you are planning to read those in a month, consecutively rather than concurrently, it makes perfect sense. Sorry if I sounded snide in my reply.

 

[Gizzard]

I finished Mieville's King Rat, then Steven Fatsis' Word Freak and now Umberto Eco's Baudolino.

King Rat is really amazing. The world isnt as dense as Perdido Street Station, but still there are the flights of imagination and the imagery which mean Mieville to me. Of course, if the Golden Compass isn't suitable for kids, then neither is China Mieville. ;-)

Word Freak is fun; its the chronicle of a man spending a year trying to get to the top level of Scrabble competetion. I played tournament chess for a while, so that environment seemed all too familiar to me. If you have an idealized vision of the romance of competing in "intellectual games", this book will shatter it for you. I read Searching for Bobby Fischer a decade ago and Word Freak is a new rendition of the same themes - a bit harder edged as seen directly through the eyes of the competitors.

Baudolino I just started and have no opinion yet.