[June] What are you reading?

[Assenpfeffer]

Right now I'm doing Alan H. Guth's The Inflationary Universe, which is a little heavy, but absolutely facinating. I love reading stuff about particle physics and cosmology, as long as it's not too technical - this is more so than, say, Hawking's A Brief History of Time (which I've read more than once - it's very out of date with current thinking.) I'm managing to get a lot of it down, though - Guth has come closer than anybody else I've read to making me understand what symmetry breaking means.

I loved the KSB Mars books, BTW... I know a lot of folks who found them tough going, but I tore through them like a madman.

 

[buzzard]

My current reading lark is the Destroyer series. For those who have seen Remo Williams-The Adventure Begins, these books are the basis for that movie.

They are mindless entertainment. Pure and simple. in fact they read rather like a comic book (though an adult one mind you). They are also extremely funny. The fact that I can pick them up at the used book store for a buck a piece is also a plus. Reading these has me thinking of running a Spycraft campagn actually.

buzzard

 

[KChagga]

I loved Remo Williams the Adventure Begins! Who wrote the Destroyer series? I wouldn't mind looking at a couple of those.

 

[KChagga]

crummy double post

 

[Jamdin]

I just finished Conan The Buccaneer by De Camp & Carter. It is far from the best Conan book that I have read. Having the barbarian speak pirate-talk just seems wrong.

 

[buzzard]

I loved Remo Williams the Adventure Begins! Who wrote the Destroyer series? I wouldn't mind looking at a couple of those.

The authors are Richard Sapir and Warren Murphy. I guess they're up to 130 or so books now.

If you are looking for them in a used book store I would reccomend seeking out the Mac Bolen section (there are a whole bunch of these types of books).

buzzard

 

[WayneLigon]

... The Onion Girl, the 'origin' of Jilly Coppercorn. It's OK, but I'm looking for something different and I might change at any time.

Yes, I'm replying to my own post

OK, it's gotten a lot better and I'm not even a third of the way through it. Big major plot twist, unless I was too stupid to pick up on it before, which changes a great deal. Very interesting spirit world and descriptions of other 'worlds within worlds' of Faerie (aka many other names). Nice switching between the realms of Faerie and the 'real world' of Newford, LA, and places between.

 

[Mark]

Yes, I'm replying to my own post

 

[Pants]

Just finished Condemnation by Rich Baker. Pretty damn good book, I really found myself liking Baker's prose.

Now I'm going to finish my reread of RotK and then I'll be reading aSoIaF in preparation for A Feast for Crows.

 

[DanMcS]

I just read _Mindhunter_ and _The Cases that Haunt Us_, both by John Douglas, former criminal profiler for the FBI. My brother recommended them to me. About serial killers and that sort. I would find myself reading wide-eyed until two in the morning, even though I knew I had work the next day, and then checking out my apartment to make sure the door was locked and all the windows secure. Read these, and probably anything else by him, but do it on a sunny saturday afternoon.

Next I'll probably rip into Atlas Shrugged, which my brother picked up for me at a book sale for a quarter. Being out of school is so great, I finally have a chance to indulge my reading bug. I've read more books in the last month than in the previous year, probably. All three of George Martin's Fire and Ice books, a history book about the 16th century, a couple of Harry Turtledove and Tom Clancy books I had lying around. Life is good.