July - what are you reading?

[Cevalic]

Midnight Tides by Erikson. I read a couple reviews that said book 5 wasnt that good, but Ive enjoyed it so far and Im halfway through.

Plan on reading Children of Hurin after it.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

"reading" the audio books of the Lord of the Rings. It's kind of refreshing to listen at the pace the reader goes compared to my torrid reading pace. I had forgotten just how much of FOTR was changed for the movie. Frodo's age, the vast differences in amount of time passed, etc.

 

[Tolen Mar]

Well, in preparation for a new online game it looks like I'll be running, I'm re-reading all of my 2E books, and the Dark Sun Campaign setting.

I've never read or run DS, and now I think I might be hooked. I'm actually looking forward to this one.

 

[WayneLigon]

I finished Dies the Fire (excellent book and I must read the others; you can at least read the first one without thinking you're missing anything). Now I'm back to reading The Judas Contract, the second book of the Commonwealth duology.

The Commonwealth is fascinating. People have basically conquered death; instead of putting money into social security, they put money into an account that eventually pays for their memory store being transferred to a quick-grown clone body (basically, you come out at about 16 or so). There are a handfull of 400-year-old people around. They don't like dying, but knowing you'll be back takes the sting out of the process. You get some spectacular suicides in a few places because, well, they're just giving up the body early. 18 months later, they'll be awake and around again.

Transit is also very cool. Trains are the big thing again. Space travel is almost a niche science to them; they have wormhole technology that enables transport among all the planets. Zero-width wormholes transmit power and data from remote stations.

 

[Chaldfont]

And Slaad

Once your done with Singularity Sky you have to read Iron Sunrise I'm not sure it's quite as good as the first but it really fills out the universe.

Picked it up and I'm now about half-way through. It's great fun. I've been really grooving on modern sci-fi lately: Iain M. Banks, Richard Morgan, and Charles Stross.

Makes me want to play some updated Traveller.

 

[Mycanid]

Ah ha! I have been mightily enjoying 1001 Arabian Nights ... about 190 pages into the book (which version is about 650 pages long).

Haven't read them in this format before ... only extractions (Aladdin and such like). I am enjoying it!

 

[The Thayan Menace]

Literacy is Overrated

I'm finishing up Integral Spirituality by Ken Wilber, and I am also rereading The Book of the Damned by Tanith Lee.

-Samir Asad / Thayan Menace​

 

[Welverin]

I just started Night Train to Rigel by Timothy Zahn, after finishing The Road to Dune.

I think I'll also work on The Book of Lost Tales Part 1 by JRRT.

 

[Mark Chance]

Recently finished the first three of Brian Jacques's Redwall books. Still pacing my way through Herodotus. Working on Judith Tarr's The Hound and the Falcon and Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous.

 

[The_lurkeR]

Just started reading Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell also. (Hardcover was on sale for $7 at Barnes & Noble.)