[Feb] What are you reading now?

[theburningman]

Reading In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien, about a Vietnamese soldier who took part in a massacre and tried to ignore the emotional fallout from it, began a career as a politician when he returned, and just lost a bid for a U.S. Senate seat when the story of the massacre leaked out. It's a non-linear story that tries to keep the read guessing. I'm guessing that he has gone insane and killed his wife, and then suppressed the memory.

Also occasionally dipping into Will You Always Love Me?, a book of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. Not exactly falling in love with it.

Next up: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.

 

[CCamfield]

I just finished reading The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf. Excellent and readable history, very interesting stuff. The amount of backstabbing and power politics was incredible.

Now I'm focussing on actually reading on the most recent D&D sourcebook I bought, to whit, Atlas' Touched by the Gods.

 

[Sixchan]

Ok finished Knife and was a bit dissapointed. Yet another trilogy that falls victim to the 'middle book syndrome'. I know the irony in the way it finishes, but seems far too dramatic. Will pick up Spyglass tomorrow.

Hmm. I read the Knife first, and thought it was a pretty good book. Then I read The Northern Lights (that's what the first book was called here) as a prequesl to the Knife.

Working from the middle give a better impression overall, it seems.

 

[Welverin]

Welverin:

I'm on chapter 9 right now. It is ... decent. I don't know how the book ends up, but if you like combat, this book has little to offer you. 9 chapters so far, and VERY little combat.

Despite evidence to the contrary, I can actually like things with out combat or other forms of action (not that you implied that), but this book I found terminally boring.

I'm reading it becuase I have devoted myself to reading all the Star Wars books (starting AFTER the movies, so Truce @ Bakura is the first) in chronological order. I don't know why I want to, but I just do

So what brought this on? Have you read any of them before?

If you end up liking Timothy Zahn's SW books, and I bet you will, I suggest you try some of his other novels as well. I can vouch for The Icarus Hunt and The Conquerors Saga, so far.

 

[Apok]

Finishing up Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series, after that I start on Hobb's Farseer books.

Still haven't found Cook's Dreams of Steel yet, but I'm still hopefull.

 

[Valanthe the Sleepless]

I am finishing up the last of Return of the King, followed by the appendicies. Then probably I'll start on Mossflower the 2nd book of the Redwall series by Brian Jaques. Or, maybe A Game of Thrones by GRRM.

I haven't decided which one yet.

 

[Capellan]

Just finished The White Company this morning. I might read Pratchett's The Last Hero over the weekend. It's been sitting on my shelf for a couple of weeks, now.

 

[Sen Udo-Mal]

I am about a thrid of the way into Storm of Iron which is one of the newer WH40K novels. Pretty good but a good part of the book is written from the side of Choas and well they are kind of evil and all...

Just finished the 7th book in the Starfist series, I think it was called Kingdom's Wraith or something like that. Pretty good military SciFi (god all my reading seems to blur together, I can't remember the name of a book I finished 3 days ago)

 

[myrdden]

I am currently reading On the Shoulders of Giants which reproduces the original text of some of the greatest works in astronomy and physics.

It's a lot harder to read than I expected. They sure were wordy back in the 1600s. I think this one will take a while to get through.

Myrdden

 

[Azure Trance]

The Neutronium Alchemist, Part 1: Consolidation, by Peter F. Hamilton. It is the third is a series, despite the title. The first two were under the Reality Dysfunction title (Emergence adnd Expansion). Great series of hard sci-fi books with an interesting "fantasy" twist (if you can call it that).

You like it? I liked it. Was the first series that got me really interested into books again from Reality Disfunction to The Naked God. Something about scifi-tech ... like immensely heavy man portable Gauss Rifles which fire at amazing speeds cutting a swath of Lalonde's jungle down for an entire kilometer.