[June] What are you reading?

[Angel Tarragon]

Not reading a novel currently. I started reading my Stargate RPG book from cover to cover a couple of days ago.

 

[DaveStebbins]

As usual, everything is audiobooks. I have a hardcopy book on my nightstand, which I am about 25% done with, and I've been working on it for several months now. I think I'm even two months behind in reading my subscription to Dungeon magazine. Audiobooks is all I seem to be able to fit in these days.

While I workout, I am finishing up the abridged version (they don't make an unabridged CD audiobook version) of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel. It's proving to be pretty tedious, but that's probably because I've heard pretty much everything in it in bits and pieces over the years. Still, I would recommend it if you haven't already read it or heard all about it.

Went to visit my daughter this weekend, so I had plenty of drive time for two more audiobooks. The first was The Christmas Train by David Baldacci, which I thouroughly enjoyed. I am also almost done with In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson, a log of his journeys in Australia. I've enjoyed his research, wit and wry observations in previous books and he doesn't disappoint here either.

Not sure what's next, but I have lots of choices, since I visited the main county library for books on CD before visiting my daughter.

-Dave

 

[jcfiala]

Is that the Martin Fowler book? I probably need to seek it out and have a read sometime.

Yes, it is. It's a nice book, physically - hard covers and a ribbon sewn into the binding for a bookmark. It's a good book, but it helps if you're familiar with Java, as all the examples are in it. (Not a big problem for me, although I work mostly in C#.)

 

[Shag]

I read about 4 books a month so I'll have to reply again in about 2 weeks.

Right now I'm reading "Robot Dreams" a collection of Asimov short stories and Judgement of Caesar by Steven Saylor, man I wish it was thicker! Saylor, Scarrow write faster! Need more good Roman books.

 

[ShadowDenizen]

Currently slogging through the Magic "Kamigawa" trilogy. (Don't normally read "Magic" novels, buit figured I'd give this one a try.

Next up is "Light Before Day" by Christopher Rice. (Since I liked his debut novel "A Density of SOuls.")

Then I may try the "Left Behind" series. Depsite the propganda inherent in the series, which I don't really care for, I've heard that they're still a decently entertaining series.

 

[Storm Raven]

Right now I'm reading The Urth of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe. As part of my current effort to read every novel she published in her lifetime, I'm also in the middle of Voorloper, by Andre Norton.

 

[danbuter]

I'm reading "The Honor of the Queen" by David Weber. Pretty damn good book, if you like military scifi.

 

[Mark]

The Destruction of Jerusalem by Josephus

 

[Gentlegamer]

Finished "The Clocks of Iraz," now onto "The Unbeheaded King," both by L. Sprague de Camp.

 

[ragboy]

I'm almost finished with Avenger by Frederick Forsyth and will start War of the Worlds. I want to know how the story was before Hollywood butchered it.

Ooo! I really like Forsyth. His protagonists are usually not supermen, but just very good at what they do. Have you read The Deceiver? It's basically a collection of spy vignettes strung together as recounted at the main character's 'hearing.' He's a old school British spy that did things the old school way and with the end of the Cold War, is ripe for retirement. That movie Spy Game reminded me a lot of this book. I found bits and pieces of his other books that were extremely interesting, but this has been the only one that I liked all the way through.