November '08: What Are You Reading?

[delericho]

Since no-one else has started the thread yet:

I finished the "Pathfinder Campaign Setting" yesterday (excellent book, btw). This now leaves me 'caught up' on RPG books, as I finished "Castle Whiterock" in October (also an excellent product). The only RPG book on my 'to read' list is "Pathfinder #14", although #15 is due any day now, and I'm planning on picking up "King of the Trollhaunt Warrens" in the near future.

However, I'm now going to focus on my novel reading: currently reading "The Pale Horseman" by Bernard Cornwell (part two of his 'Alfred' series). After that is "Twenty Years After" by Dumas, and then "Lankhmar" by Fritz Leiber (it's a Gollancz collection containing several of the books - not sure if it's all the stories or not).

I'm flying to France tomorrow, so should make good progress on these, I think.

 

[Holy Bovine]

Name of the Wind (by Patrick Rothfuss). Just started it yesterday and it is a thick one!

 

[EricNoah]

Audiobook: finished up Gentlemen of the Road, started Snow Crash. I'd read Snow Crash a long time ago and barely remember it; it's turning out to be a very entertaining audiobook choice.

Book book: still plugging away at a sci fi short story anthology and then will move on to The Lies of Locke Lamora.

 

[megamania]

Just finished Patterson's "Step on a Crack." Surprised its not a movie yet.

Just started Joseph Wambaugh's "Hollywood Crows". So far so good. Classic Wambaugh style.

 

[Andre]

Just finished Tried by War by James McPherson. Another solid book on the American Civil War by McPherson. Surprisingly, I didn't find much new in this book as compared with T. Harry Williams' Lincoln and His Generals, which was published over fifty years ago.

I've almost finished Angler by Barton Gellman, a book on the vice-presidency of Dick Cheney. A remarkably even-handed account in which the author neither lionizes nor demonizes his subject. Highly, highly recommended.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I've been slogging through The Malazan Book of the Fallen series. I skipped Midnight Tides over because I just couldn't get in to it . . . all new characters, no story continuity, whole new continent . . . and jumped to the next (The Bonehunters) which returned the story to familiar lands and characters. After finishing The Bonehunters last month, I'm giving Midnight Tides a second try because the book following The Bonehunters, Reaper's Gale, returns to the plot begun in Midnight Tides.

I like sweeping epics, really do, but the Malazan Book of the Fallen feels like it is getting out of control.

I have checked out the late Jane Jacobs' final book Dark Age Ahead, published in 2004. She is a rare individual who overturned orthodoxy in the field of city planning for all time with her now classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, then she did it a second time with an equal impact on the field of economics with her book The Economy of Cities. I read that her Dark Age Ahead predicted much of the current economic troubles well before they happened. Dark Age Ahead is next after my Malazan books.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan.

 

[ToddSchumacher]

I just finished the Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson on my Kindle. Pretty cool stories.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

A friend of mine asked me to givwe a novel of his a read through before sending it off to propective publishers.

As soon ias I'm done with that I'm going to start on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which I've never even read before.

 

[Kurashu]

Just finished the first of The Chronicles of the Necromancer, and for whatever reason I'm going to read the second one. At least I know the main storyline ends in this book so I won't feel committed to the next two. =/