[July] What are you reading?

[Korgan26]

Band of brothers by Stephen Ambrose

 

[Pielorinho]

A Song for Arbonne

D'oh! Thanks for the correction.

Re: The Black Company -- You can skip the first 4 books (The Black Company, Shadows Linger, The White Rose, and The Silver Spike and probably not miss too much, but I'm not sure about jumping in with Bleak Seasons or She is the Darkness. If I recall, they're pretty closely tied together. If you can't get the initial trilogy (Silver Spike can be skipped), try for Shadow Games and Dreams of Steel first -- they lead into the later books.

And many thanks for this; I'll keep it in mind next time I'm at the library.

Just finished Absolute Friends, by the way. I'm typing this from under my bed, and have been hiding here ever since finishing the book.

Daniel

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Wading my way through The Great New England Sea Serpent by J.P. O'Neill. About all the sightings of sea monsters off Massachusetts and Maine and such (the Gloucester sea serpent of 1817, ferrinstance).

 

[Khayman]

Non-fiction: Murder on the Plains (an old chapbook on crime in Western Canada); and Developmental Juvenile Osteology by Schuer and Black --- a right ripper that is.

Fiction: Imajica by Clive Barker; and Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges.

By the way, it's nice to see people reading Guy Gavriel Kay --- I wasn't sure if he was read much outside Canada.

 

[NiTessine]

After reading four books in two days on my Copenhagen vacation (it rained a lot), I'm now wading through The Mammoth Book of Future Cops. Then I've got the last two books of Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders to tackle. After that, there's the Birthright novel Greatheart and Dissolution, the first part of the War of the Spider Queen.

 

[haiiro]

I'm nearly done with The Descent, by Jeff Long -- and it's really good. Riveting, actually. I'd never heard of him or the book, which is always kind of fun.

The premise can be summed up quickly in two words: Hell exists. Not quite in the Biblical form, but right under our feet and very real -- The Descent is about what humanity does about it.

If you're at loose ends, go read this book!

(Edit: finished it last night, and it's good all the way through.)

 

[AuroraGyps]

Currently rereading A Game of Thrones (GRRM), and going to hit the next two next (Clash of Kings and Storm of Swords).

Same thing I'm reading. I managed to pick up the 2nd & 3rd books 1/2 price while my mother was up. I love this series and it kills me that I have to wait for the next 3 books to come out (well, the forth comes out soon, but I still hate waiting).
As for what's next, I have no idea, but I certainly have enough to choose from. I must have gotten about 100 books while visiting with my mom. We hit 2 book sales, one discount book place,a flea market, and I checked out what's she's gotten for me while I visited back home. Plus, I joined her helping out her library with a sale...she get's gets 1st pick at stuff while putting stuff out. I've said it before and I'll say it again... my mom rocks. She even remembered that G.R.R. Martin edited the Wild Cards series when I asked her if she knew what else he's done.

 

[JoeGKushner]

I finally started reading my hardcover copy of Legends that I bought many moons ago! Only took a few years to break down and start reading it!

I wonder if all of these little stories will make it into other sources though. For example, Robert Jordan turned his story into a full novel.

 

[MonsterMash]

Recently - King of Elflands Daughter by Lord Dunsay, Call of the Wild by Jack London and non fiction Year 1000 by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger. Rules: PHB, DMG (3.5)

 

[Enchantress]

Helsing isn't too bad. There seem to be a lot of rules establishing what vampires can or can't do though.

Unlike LXG, in which it seems like vampires have no limits.