[Feb05] What are you reading?

[ragboy]

I'll start it...

Fiction: Callisto (still) and Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard.. going to pick up the Eberron thing tonight.
Gaming: Sharn: City of Towers... and a couple of the Dungeon Crawl Classics from Goodman Games.
Non-Fic: The Noh Theatre
Comics: The Samurai, Conan, various DH Star Wars titles.
Cereal Box: Boo Berries.

edit: Forgot gaming junk...doh!

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

For fiction, I'm still plowing through my re-read of Prachett's Nightwatch. Next, I think I'll go through some older Star Wars books that I haven't read in a while. Probably the X-Wing series.

Only other thing I'm readin that isn't gaming books are a couple of the old Star Wars Tales of the Jedi comics. Finally dug them out of my piles of old junk and forgot how much I loved them.

 

[Desdichado]

Not sure yet. Just got my very own copy of Eberron so I don't have to bum off anyone else in the group anymore. Still reading that. Picked up some non-fiction on Mars, and the NASA Atlas of the Solar System.

I'd like to pick up the Eberron novel and read it this month, but we'll see.

 

[ShadowDenizen]

Finished the "Last Rune" series. (Bit of a let-down, too...) :\
Am currently on Book 3 (and am flying through) the "Dark Tower" series.

Next up?
Dr Norrell & Jonathan Strange
the single-volume "Bone" collection. (Whoo-Hoo!!)
A re-read of the "Black Company" series.

 

[Wombat]

Well, I am currently ensconced (actually, nearly completed) in The Fortune of War, Vol. 6 in the Aubrey/Mataurin series by Patrick O'Brian. As I said before, these things are like salted nuts to me! The Surgeon's Mate will undoubtably be started at some point this evening... I stared re-reading the series (this will be third time through for me) around the middle of January and it has just kept going.

After that, I am really tempted to read the Smiley (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, etc.) books again.

Hmmm, no new books on the horizons; just re-reads from days gone well past.

 

[Elemental]

Blood Rites, of the Dresden Files series. Having being burnt by the Anita Blake books, which tread similar ground, I wasn't too keen on looking at this series, but I'm very glad I did, even if I did unintentionally jump in at book 6. The world and characters are well-developed and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, the mystery is intriguing without being too obtuse, and the action scenes are excellent (especially the one that's

Spoiler

ended by a frozen chicken falling out of an aircraft onto a vampire.

)

Comics:

The third Red Star TPB. A massive naval battle unfolds between two city-sized flying fortresses while the forces gather on both sides in the spirit world. The preachiness remains slightly irritating from time to time, but when it works, it reinforces the epic nature of the story. And damn, but the art is gorgeous.

Battle Angel Alita: Angel of Death. She's searching through the desert to find her surrogate father, under cover of a guard for a nuclear supply train. And then a group of cyber-bandits show up and things go pear-shaped, in a typically ultraviolent way. Great fun, and it's fun to see Alita getting medieval in a fight against a group who are nowhere near her equal.

Rereading Snow Crash, and really starting to get some of the foreshadowing and deeper mythology of the book.

 

[Ruined]

Well, I'm putting the finishing touches on Tad Williams Otherland: River of Blue Flame. So this month I'll be starting book three of the series, Mountain of Black Glass. Also, I recently acquired Into the Darkness by Harry Turtledove. I'm presuming if he's gotten this many books out, the man has some kind of talent. The wars + magic look more interesting to me than some of his other alternative historical fiction, so I'll cross my fingers and read on.

 

[MetalBard]

Well, reading the FR sourcebook Serpent Kingdoms at the moment. Can't decide whether to read the second book in the Lankhmar series or read Green Angel Tower finishing off that Tad Williams trilogy... hmm... and there's always grad school reading... sigh.

 

[Bobitron]

Fiction: The Last Templar by Michael Jecks. Not too impressed so far, but I am sticking with it. I love a good medieval mystery.

Non-fiction: The American West by Dee Brown in preperation for a Sidewinder: Recoiled game.

Comics: Just finished a couple of issues of Preacher. Great fun.

 

[Bobitron]

Also, I recently acquired Into the Darkness by Harry Turtledove. I'm presuming if he's gotten this many books out, the man has some kind of talent.

I've read some of his historical fiction, and I wasn't blown away. It's odd, he seems to jump between long and boring (Ruled Britannia) and books that appear to be written for 12 year olds (Gunpowder Empire).