[Nov] What are you reading?

[CCamfield]

I just finished re-reading The Hero and the Crown (Robin McKinley) and I'm now reading 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Everyday Life In Imperial China by Michael Loewe.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I'm now reading 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez,

One of the most beautiful books I've ever read. OMG, I actually finished the last page and went right back to the beginning and started it again. It's been a long time since I read it, I might just have to do that one again.

I'm currently reading Destroy: The Definitive History of Punk Rock by Alvin Gibbs (bass player for the UK Subs and Iggy pop) and The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Just finished the Lone Drow (popcorn book), and will read the Two Blades shortly.

After that, I'm really hoping to get to A Conspiracy of Paper and the Coffee Trader as I've heard good things about them and they look at me very accusingly from my bookshelf.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

Just finished Good Omens by Neil Gaimon and Terry Pratchett last night, great read. Prior to that was Dark Tower Book 7 and Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar. Next book will probably be 1421: The Year China Discovered the World.

 

[Bronath]

Magician: Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist (author's preferred edition)

 

[Dakkareth]

The last books I read were Dan Simmon's Endymion books and then Ilium (not related to each other). That was a few weeks ago, but I'm mentioning it anyway, because the books the books were so damn good, especially Endymion as sequels to the Hyperion Cantos.

Right now I'm in a really busy phase and if I start a book now, everything else takes a hit . I'll read Steven Erikson's House of Chains once more, once i have a little more time. Highly recommended, if you can get it from an UK publisher (not yet released in the US).

 

[CCamfield]

The last books I read were Dan Simmon's Endymion books and then Ilium (not related to each other). That was a few weeks ago, but I'm mentioning it anyway, because the books the books were so damn good, especially Endymion as sequels to the Hyperion Cantos.

Right now I'm in a really busy phase and if I start a book now, everything else takes a hit . I'll read Steven Erikson's House of Chains once more, once i have a little more time. Highly recommended, if you can get it from an UK publisher (not yet released in the US).

Should still be cheaper to get it from Canada. www.amazon.ca for instance

Enthusiastic thumbs up to Ilium and Erikson's books.

 

[Chimera]

I used to read like a freaking vacuum cleaner in high gear.

Then came several years where I just couldn't manage to read anything.

Two weeks ago, I started a 3rd shift Security Guard job, midnight to 8am. When I'm in the Command Post, I have almost nothing to do from midnight to about 4:45am. (Shifts come in at 5, 5:30, 6 and 7am) Then a few spots of nothing until I'm off duty.

So, much to my delight, I've been reading again.

Last week I read;

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Talon of the Silver Hawk (Feist)

most of Ki in daily life
and about 50 pages of The Mahabharata
chunks of The I Ching

I had this stack of books sitting on the stereo for months and was feeling guilty about not reading them. Now they're almost gone and it looks like I need to hit the book stores for a fresh stack.

 

[Pants]

Finished Memories of Ice two nights ago. (Damn good book, BTW.)
I just started House of Chains.

 

[haiiro]

Probably getting started on Clive Barker's The Thief of Always soon.

I remember that as being a pretty good book.

For me, it's Alastair Reynolds' Redemption Ark (almost done), followed by Terry Pratchett's Going Postal. RA is excellent hard SF, and I imagine GP will be as enjoyable as Pratchett's other books.