[September] What Are You Reading?

[Heretic Apostate]

I just received At Dawn We Slept and Miracle at Midway in the mail today. So that's what I'll probably spend this month reading. Miracle at Midway is an old favorite of mine, and I dug a tattered copy out of storage after watching the movie about the battle of Midway. (The naval battles of WW2, especially in the Pacific, are a favorite of mine...)

 

[Richards]

I'm currently reading a collection of short science fiction stories by Connie Willis entitled Impossible Things. Yesterday, I finished up a Star Trek: Voyager book (in the "Section 31" line) called Shadow. The day before that, I finished another Star Trek book, The Lives of Dax, a short story collection with a story of each of Dax's hosts.

Gotta love business trips -- nothing to do but read during breaks and at the hotel at night.

Johnathan

 

[Aaron L]

Just finished the Foundation Trilogy.
Started the Belgariad again.
Started Dune again.
Just finished the old Elric series, need to pick up the new ones.
Been reading the Infinity Gauntlet graphic novel over and over again . Going to pick up the X-tinction Agenda soon.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Just read Four Winds book Three, Wind of Justice. Wasn't bad. Sets up a pretty interesting stoyr line.

 

[Holy Bovine]

Best pirate novel I've ever read is On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers. If you can find it (it is sadly out of print), by all means PICK IT UP!
It shows up occasionally in used book shops, but if you look for it online, it's usually pretty expensive. Try your library as well.

Thanks for the advice. I will keep an eye out for it (we have several excellent used bookshops here so there is hope to find it).

The missus and I also picked up a book about the 100 years war and the RAF in WWI. Just short histories with a nice overview of what happened - enough to get us started on more in depth reading.

 

[Gizzard]

I finished The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay over my vacation. I picked it up because people were talking about Chabon's other books and because this one won the Pulitzer Prize. He's an excellent writer, very vivid prose and the ability to shift style gears when called for (or was it just my imagination that the wartime chapters were much more Catch 22 absurdist surrealism than any other part of the book?) Anyway, it traces the lives of two young men who form produce comic books during the golden age of pulps. It's an interesting time and an interesting book.

In other book news, I went to the Hugo awards as part of my vacation. Hominids by Robert Sawyer won the best novel. Personally, I can't stand Sawyers work (and I thought it was ironic that GRR Martin - who got jacked out of a well deserved Hugo last year by Harry Potter #4 - presented this years equally mistaken award) but a significant number of voters liked the book so it's obviously some people's cup of tea even if it's not mine.

I also finished the Robert Silverberg Best of Science Fiction... anthology on the plane. As always some hits and some misses. I believe this is the last year this anthology is going to be published - it only lasted two years going head-to-head with the more established Hartwell and Dozios anthologies.

 

[blindrage]

I'm reading the new Clancy Hardback. It's okay. Not as good as I hoped but it's okay.

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

I've decided to go back and reread The Great War series by Harry Turtledove. I literally just dug the book out today and haven't even gotten started back on it yet. Hopefully later tonight at work I will have some time.

 

[Pants]

I'm reading through the first Dragonlance books right now. I must say, I'm really enjoying them

 

[Green Knight]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Vol. 1

I used to be the biggest Sherlock Holmes fan when I was little. Read those stories voraciously. I've since bought those Complete Novels and Stories books.

Anyway, not reading anything, right now, though I've got a shelf full of R.A. Salvatore books which've been staring at me for a while. I've had them for a couple months, but haven't actually read any of them, yet (I read some of the other books I got with them, but not them). I've got The Cleric Quintet, The Icewind Dale Trilogy, The Dark Elf Trilogy, The Legacy of the Drow, The Silent Blade, The Spine of the World, The Crystal Shard, The Sea of Swords, and The Thousand Orcs.

I'll probably start reading The Cleric Quintet or The Icewind Dale Trilogy one of these days. Yep. I'll get to them any minute. Any minute now...