What are you reading? (April 2005)

[merztrumpet]

What did you think of Foucault's Pendulum? I head it was a tough book to get through. Any truth to these rumors?

Very much worth your time. One of my favorites. Recommended.

 

[Bloodstone Press]

What did you think of Foucault's Pendulum? I head it was a tough book to get through. Any truth to these rumors?

I heard that a lot too before I read it. It didn't seem so bad to me, but that's partly because I've already been studying a lot of that stuff on my own (secret societies, occultism, templar knights, etc).

As a work of literature, it is highly recommended. I think it is one of the best books I've ever read. It reads quickly, and is quite entertaining.

 

[mmadsen]

I've heard good things about Poul Anderson and his work. Has anyone read his stuff? Can you recommend a title?

I can highly recommend his The Broken Sword -- at least if you enjoy tragic Norse sagas. I also recommend his Three Hearts and Three Lions -- the source of D&D's regenerating troll, (first-edition) paladin with protection from evil 10', etc.

 

[Samnell]

I just finished David Fromkins A Peace to End All Peace about the fate of the Middle East after WWI. Now I'm alternatively delighted and bored by Barbara Tuchman's The Zimmerman Telegram. She and I seem to have the same habit of sliding sly one-liners into our academic writing.

Need to read The Rite from the FR Rage of Dragons trilogy at some point too. I've had it for months. Then maybe an Eberron book.

 

[Captain Tagon]

I'm currently silmu-reading a bunch of different books just because I easily get bored with genres. I dunno. I'm weird like that. But, what I'm working through now...

Black Company - Glen Cook
The first Starfist book
Blood of the Isle - Loren Coleman
Starman - Sara Douglass


I'm also still trying to wade through the first Howard Conan collection that recently came out, the Soloman Kane series, some Lovecraft short stories, and the Dying Earth series. But with those I start like falling asleep and/or getting really bored after like three pages.

 

[MonsterMash]

Now reading Terry Pratchett's Lords and Ladies

 

[JoeGKushner]

Just finished Raymond Feist's The Exile's Return, book three in the Conclave of Shadows Trilogy. Very disappointing ending in that it's a complete set up for the next series and very light reading but at the same time, it was a quick read and we get to see a villain redeemed into a heroic character.

 

[Kanegrundar]

I just finished Witch Hunter (now I really want to start up a WHFB game). Now I'm reading Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. It's OK, so far. It's an extremely quick read so far.

Kane

 

[Captain Tagon]

I just finished Witch Hunter (now I really want to start up a WHFB game). Now I'm reading Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. It's OK, so far. It's an extremely quick read so far.

Kane

Man, I loved Witch Hunter. Way too much maybe, but I loved it.

 

[Kanegrundar]

Man, I loved Witch Hunter. Way too much maybe, but I loved it.

IMO, it was the perfect Warhammer novel. Dark, dreary, and dismal even through the end. I picked up the collected Eisenhorn triolgy because of that. I figured that if Warhammer had such a good book about my favorite class of character (witch hunters) that they could do the same for the Inquisition in WH40K.

Kane