Jan 08 - What are you reading?

[BadMojo]

Reading China Mieville's "The Scar". For whatever reason, it seems to be going a lot quicker than Perdido Street Station, where the first third of the book really seemed to be taking its time.

 

[Starman]

I'm slowly starting The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker. I would be going much more quickly if I didn't also have a ton of homework keeping me busy. I'm only 70 pages in, but it is fantastic.

 

[Mallus]

I'm reading:

M. John Harrison's Nova Swing (almost done).

Karl Shroeder's Queen of Candesce (almost done).

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (just started).

 

[Tolen Mar]

I tried to read 'No country...' I didn't get very far. Wasn't my cup of tea I think.

Based on suggestions here, I looked at the library for a chris moore book and actually found one 'Practical demonkeeping.' That was a fun book, I'll definitely look for more of his works.

Right now I'm down to 'Film Directing Fundamentals' by Nicholas Proferes. Obviously its about directing with a focus on evaluating a screenplay and working with camera angles. I'm not enjoying it much, but I am learning a few things. Now if only our producer hadn't gone AWOL...

 

[Mistwell]

I just started reading Book One of that series, Gardens of the Moon. So far, it's really good. His descriptions and characters are very well thought out.

In my opinion, the second half of that book is much better than the first (though all of it has details that may become relevant in later books, even though they seem minor at the time sometimes), and that book is the weakest of the ones I have read so far. That doesn't mean I think it is a bad book, just letting you know where I think it places in the series so far. Glad you like it!

 

[Bloodcookie]

Just finished Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. It was... ok. It's my perception that, depending on the reader's prior knowledge and interests, this book will either be impenetrable or tedious. For me, it was mostly the latter :\ I'll grant that it had occasional moments of grin-worthy dry humor, though

I think I've decided to start Elijah Anderson's Code of the Streets (nonfiction sociology, my professional field) and Richard Lee Byers's The Rite (book 2 of "The Year of Rogue Dragons" Forgotten Realms trilogy; just some fun fantasy ).

 

[megamania]

1/2 way thru Jim Waggoner's Thieves of Blood. I like it. It is very easy reading and moves along. Reads like a DnD game in many ways also. Looking forward to his third book due in Feb '08.

 

[Tolen Mar]

Hm...looks like I have a lot of reading now.

My brother works for a roofing company, and they recently did a job for their boss, who also owns a bookstore. In order to get the other half of the store ready to rent out, part of the job involved crating out boxes of books.

So my brother snags a pile of Stephen King books for me (he remembers how much King I read when I was younger):

Rose Madder, Hearts in Atlantis, Bag of Bones, Desperation and the Regulators.

Which one to start with...its a dilemma.

Of course, the job is over, and naturally I asked about the other boxes (I'd have loved to have gone through them all!). Aside for the books he snagged for me, all of them went to the recycling center!

Oh the humanity!

He knows now to let me know the next time something like this comes up. (At least he better, or I'll string him up by his ears.)

 

[S. Baldrick]

"Elak of Atlantis" by Henry Kuttner.

 

[Grymar]

The Alchemist - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alchemist_(book)

next up is

The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray