[May] What are you reading?

[delericho]

I finished David Gemmell's "Troy: Shield of Thunder" yesterday. It was a good read, but it was a strange feeling knowing that there's only one more book to come, ever.

I'm due to start on Robin Hobb's "Shaman's Crossing" next. I haven't read anything by her before now, so it will be interesting to see how that goes.

I'm also reading "Expedition to the Demonweb Pits" in my 'spare' time.

 

[Mycanid]

Oddly enough, Perelandra was my least favorite of the books. I still enjoyed it I just thought the other two were far superior as fiction.

I can agree with that. Hard to read Perelandra "for relaxation" as much as the other two. :\

Though Perelandra is probably the strongest of the three (or second just behind That Hideous Strength) as far as the points he is trying to make.

Got that right!

 

[jonathan swift]

Oh, and currently I'm reading LE Modesitt's Towers of Sunset and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, and liking both a ton. Though just like the other Modesitt I've read, it takes a little getting into. You sludge through the first forty or so pages and then suddenly you're three hundred pages in and wondering where your night went.

 

[jonesy]

Just finished John Scalzis Old Mans War. Old people of Earth join the colonial military and go out to fight aliens and conquer worlds. It's sort of like a mix of Forever War and Altered Carbon. Very cool.

Also The Adventures of Luther Arkwright. The best comic ever. And that's including stuff like the Watchmen. Talbot is a frickin genius.

Coraline is actually a children's book but I'd probably wait until the child is 8 or 10 before giving it to them.

Oh I don't know. I've found that the younger the person reading it is, the less it scares them. The more experienced readers seem to draw all kinds of horror fantasies of their own into it.

Next I'll be reading the Sandman series. Everyone always says how good it is, but I've never actually got around to checking it out.

 

[replicant2]

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It's like watching trainwreck.

Heh. I just finished reading this about a month ago. It's a great book, but trainwreck is right-- it's amazing to consider the sheer gall Hitler and his cronies had. The Nazis (or at least the ones in the greatest positions of power) believed that they could essentially take on the entire free world and win.

 

[Crothian]

I just finished Summer Knight (book 4 of the Dreden Files)

And I'm in the middle of Historian by Elizabeth Kostova and it is one of the best novels I've read in quite a while.

 

[Mark Chance]

Still reading The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives by Plutarch. Recently started The Histories by Herodotus. That should occupy my time well enough for a bit.

 

[Tolen Mar]

Well, I just finished 'Of Fire and Night', so now I'm in between. I'm considering no fewer than four books right now:

Dead Beat, by Jim Butcher. Still trying to catch up with my wife, she's read them all and is 'bout to bust at the seams with spoilers.

Peshawar Lancers by S.M. Stirling. I was actually considering the 'dies the fire' series, but this is more of a stand alone book, so I can try out his style. I didn't make it very far in the last book of his I tried to read (the Domination).

Then I'm also considering 'The Enemy Papers' by Barry Longyear. Its a collection of all of his notes for the drac bible, plus Enemy Mine, and two follow-ups. I've read it before and loved it every bit as much as the movie.

And finally, there's Starship Troopers by Heinlein. Read it a few times, still love it and I'm getting a certain hankering again.

Don't know yet which I'll read, but those are on deck. Opinions?

Of course, right now my 9 year old son and I are reading 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.' I never get tired of that one, and was absolutely thrilled that he decided he wanted to read it too.

 

[papastebu]

I've recently been re-reading Robert Don Hughes' Pelmen series. I sure hope he finishes the second trilogy soon--it's only been since 1992 that I've been waiting for book 3--so I can.
I also just finished--again--Master of the Five Magics, by Lyndon Hardy.
A good book by Robert J. Sawyer is Fossil Hunter and its companions. About dinosaurs transplanted to one of the moons of Jupiter(?) and evolved into intelligent beings. Cool.
I just recently finished Academ's Fury by Jim Butcher. I liked it better than the Dresden Files books.

 

[Tetsubo]

The Moral Rules by Bernard Gert