September - What are you Reading?

[Steve Jung]

I've been reading Explorers House: National Geographic and the World It Made by Robert Poole. It's the story of how the National Geographic Society was created and also the family behind it.

 

[Tetsubo]

I started that one a couple months ago, but stopped fairly quickly - it just didn't grab me. Don't know if I just wasn't in the mood, or something about the book itself. Let me know what you think of it - I may give it another try.

Just finished Ruins of Empire (history of post-WW2 Asia) and Justinian's Flea (bubonic plague in the Sixth Century). The first was good, the second outstanding.

Now reading Pipe Dreams (the fall of Enron) - entertaining, in a gossip-column kind of way.

I didn't do much better. I made it to the half way point when I gave up. The authors writing style is just too darn dull. And where ten words would do, he uses thirty... I'm sure that there is an interesting book out there dealing with the Permian extinction event... just not one written by this guy...

I started -The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living- by the Dalai Lama today...

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I'm rereading Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver, The Confusion and System of the World. Its neat to see, on rereading this and having now read Cryptonomicon, which is related, how Stephenson weaves everything in. Lots of hints dropped early in the series that come to fruition later in the books.

 

[Black Omega]

Currently reading The Fires of Fu Manchu, which is an interesting take on the pulp character. I'm enjoying it.

 

[EricNoah]

I read Richard K. Morgan's "TH1RT3EN" this week. It's not set in the same "universe" as his Kovacs novels, but his protagonist felt just like Kovacs. Entertaining but with the same flaws as his other novels (the sex is too graphic for my taste).

At work I read a young adult graphic novel called "American Born Chinese." A very thought-provoking and entertaining read.

 

[The Thayan Menace]

Crimson Reckoning

I'm reading Kalashnikov's biography.

-Samir​

 

[Aus_Snow]

Three Hearts and Three Lions, some RPG books, and some non-fiction. Next: War of the Gods, and more of the same.

 

[megamania]

Valiant Trade paper backs mainly Harbinger. I'm looking to use Peter Stanchek as a character in a DnD project I'm hoping to do here....

 

[jonesy]

Selfish Gene by Dawkins.

Brilliant stuff.

 

[D20Dazza]

Making Money the new Pratchett, Feast for Crows by George RR Martin and Diary of a Rock'n'Roll Star by Ian Hunter

Cheers

Daz