[May] What are you reading?

[Agamon]

Just finished the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson. LOVED that.

I was about to post that I've just started that. While I prefer more personal autobiographies, this has been fascinating. And seeing as it's Steve Jobs, it needed to be a biography. To think Jobs originally asked Isaacson to not put anything in there that made him look bad...wouldn't have been much book there, lol (I joke, I joke).

 

[Krug]

Finished Age of Legends. Some pretty good Warhammer stories in there, though Chaos seems to win a lot.

Started on Jo Nesbo's The Snowman. Reads much faster than Stieg Larsson and quite gripping.

Done with The Snowman. A bit too many fake-outs, and it was kind of obvious who the final potential victim would be. Still, was quite an engaging read.

Started on Ship Breaker by Pablo Bacigalupi and about 15% done. What an amazing job of world-building. Makes other dystopian novels look silly by comparison.

 

[Nellisir]

Dashiell Hammett, "The Big Knockover". The FotTCL Book Sale had nothing for Raymond Chandler this time around. I was not happy. The Continental Op. is a pretty good second place, though.

 

[Jhaelen]

After finishing 'Black Hills' by Dan Simmons (and being surprised to find the protagonist and much of his story is based on a real person!), I moved on to read Robert J. Sawyer's 'WWW: Watch', the second installment in his trilogy about an emergent AI on the internet.

Actually I'm almost finished reading it after two days; it's very hard to put down. Good thing I already bought the third installment

 

[Posr]

Just started reading the worst barbarian series ever, simply for the sake of nostalgia. BRAK THE BARBARIAN here I come!

 

[Artur Hawkwing]

In preparation for the relaunch of PernMUSH, I started rereading, for the umpteenth time, the Dragonriders of Pern books by the late Anne McCaffrey. Just finished Dragonflight this past weekend. Should have Dragonquest and The White Dragon finished by the end of the month. Trying to decide if I want to continue on with the Dragonrider focused books after, or track down Dragonsong, Dragonsinger and Dragon Drums and read those, which is logical order...I forgot how darn slick Masterharper Robinton was

After that, I'll probably go on another Rex Stout binge and get another half-dozen Nero Wolfe novels.

 

[Stumblewyk]

Spent a couple of weeks poring over The Brinewall Legacy while I was laid up, post-back-operation in preparation for a game I just started running.

Finally finished Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel in the past week, and I've moved on to Ghost Story by Jim Butcher. Next up is Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton.

 

[Agamon]

Just started War of the Worldveiws: Science vs Spirituality by Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow, a series of essays debating the differing veiwpoints.

 

[Chairman7w]

I was about to post that I've just started that. While I prefer more personal autobiographies, this has been fascinating. And seeing as it's Steve Jobs, it needed to be a biography. To think Jobs originally asked Isaacson to not put anything in there that made him look bad...wouldn't have been much book there, lol (I joke, I joke).

(Not too much of a joke!)

Since reading the Steve Jobs biography, I've stumbled across another wonderful book called "Insanely Simple: The Secret to Apple's Success" and I enjoyed that even more than the Job's bio. It's awesome for anybody that runs a business. Great, great, great, great, stuff.

Hit it with the simple stick!

 

[Krug]

The Mongoliad. Not bad so far, though

Spoiler

the notion of the Western side assembling a secret squad team of a dozen warriors to assassinate the Khan seems highly improbable.