[May] What are you reading?

[drnuncheon]

If anyone has any suggestion on books in a similar style, please let me know. Looking for modern, with supernatural being either common place or well known. Like Anita Blake or the Dresden Files.

Well, it's not quite the same, but you might try the 'Blood' books by Tanya Huff - I don't recall the order, but they're Blood Price, Blood Pact, Blood Trail, and two others. A vampire teams up with a PI to fight supernatural crime.

J

 

[Tetsubo]

Life Itself. A book dealing with the structure of the living cell.

 

[Krug]

Guns Germs and Steel. Might just start on Michael Connelly's latest though.

 

[shady]

Just started reading "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown.

I read this on a long plane ride (London to San Francisco). I also bought and watched "Dreamcatcher" on DVD. I got off the plane thinking, "I've just read a really crap book and watched a really really crap film, and actually quite enjoyed both".

But I still can't work out why Damien Lewis in Dreamcatcher adopts an upper class English accent when he's possessed by the alien brain.

 

[Crothian]

I started Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin, its a mystery and my parents really enjoy his books.

 

[shady]

Anyhow -

Dark Light - Ken MacCleod

Decided to have a go at White Wolf (don't tend to read RPG novels normally, in fact if I get through these it will be a first) - Gehenna and whatever the first Demon: the Fallen one is (bought it today)

Reading Terry Pratchett "Sourcery" to my daughter (she loves Pratchett, she likes Conan also, which is great, since I get to reread them).

 

[theburningman]

Haven't read The DaVinci Code yet because it's still in hardcover, so I picked up a paperback from an endcap at the local bookstore, one those "If you liked ____ then try ____." The book was The Footprints of God by Greg Iles, who has become my favorite writer of thrillers. Finished it in two nights, and I haven't done that in a while.

Also just finished Watership Down by Richard Adams and Bag of Bones by Stephen King.

Now I'm trying out The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian.

 

[Pielorinho]

Yay vacation! I just got back from the beach, where I read more in one week than I'd read in the previous three months, including:

Oscar and Lucinda, an actual real live litrachur book.
The Physiognomy, about which I can only say, Gah!
In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson's very funny travel essays on Australia
Half of A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson's very funny (and obnoxiously anti-Southern) travel essays on the Appalachian Trail.
Ombria in Shadow, Patricia McKillip's lyrical fantasy novel and co-winner of the World Fantasy Award.

Time for me to get back to the library.
Daniel

 

[barsoomcore]

Sethra Lavode Sethra Lavode Sethra Lavode...

I'm reading Sethra Lavode. Actually, I read it last night.

I love Steven Brust. I love him more now. He's my favouritest of all writers.

Sethra Lavode. It's good. It's yummy. It's good for you, too. Puts hair on your chest, straw in your mattress and clean livin' on your face. Take two, they're small. Exceed recommended dosage. Don't call your doctor, cause he's reading it, too!

Nine out of seven doctors recommend Sethra Lavode.

Okay, can we get back to the weird sex? What book does that start in? I'll skip the earlier ones.

 

[Halivar]

I've been wanting to pick up the first two books of The Baroque Cycle, Quicksilver and The Confusion, but they are $30 a pop and really long. That's normally not a prob, I've got patience (I've read the Dune series book to book six times... how's that for patience), but I've never read historical fiction before. It's a lot of money and a lot of time just to find out if I like the genre. If you like The Baroque Cycle, what other sorts of series do you like?

In the meantime, I'm curling up with The Wheel of Time for my third go 'round. Oooh... Rand, Mat, and Perrin have just met Moiraine at Bel Tine. Can't wait to find out what happens next!