What are you reading? [June]

[Elf Witch]

I just finished the latest Jim Butcher Harry Dresdan book. I can't wait for the next one. I have started Angels and Demons.

I am also reading a lot of greek myths for a game I am getting ready to run.

Non fiction I am reading several books on Seahorses because I am getting ready to get a tank of dwarf seahorses going.

 

[Tetsubo]

Up From Conservatism: Why The Right Is Wrong For America, by Michael Lind

 

[Mark Chance]

Thanks for the recommendations. Religious history is a passion of mine and I'm always looking for good books on the subject. I'll have to check them out. Thanks.

Not a problem. History is both my avocation and vocation.

Enjoy. This is one of the best novels I've ever read.

I am enjoying it immensely. It's long been on my "must read" list.

 

[Storm Raven]

I just finished L'Engle's Many Waters, I'll be reading her A Swiftly Tilting Planet next, then Varley's The Golden Globe, Sawyer's Hominids, Delany's Triton, and Lippman's The Public Philosophy (in that order).

That should get me through the next week. I'll see what I'm in the mood for next then.

 

[WayneLigon]

Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton. And I still have not read The Naked God, which I think I'll start after this.

So far it's very interesting. Like in his Night's Dawn series, we're introduced to characters and situations that seem unconnected at first to the whatever the main plot will be. But it's so entertaining, you don't care. The Commonwealth is very unlike his Confederation: there is no space-travel per se. Permanently-open wormhole portals connect the worlds and people just take a high-speed train to the planet they want. Spaceships are almost anachonistic. They know how to make them, even build FTL ships, but there's no reason to do so.

 

[Wombat]

I'm reading The Once and Future King by T.H. White.

Amazing timing -- I just finished a re-read on that myself

Now I am re-reading Dune.

This seems to be my summer for Big Book Re-Reads...

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

I've almost finished "Tale of the Comet" by Roalnd Green.

I've had it for years, but never bothered rading it.

It's based off the Module of the Same name that came out towards the 'End Times' of TSR.

In fact, it's supposed to be the first in a new series (ads for Thief in the Tomb of Horrors & Knorrman Steel, Charonti Bone appear in the front). Thief was supposed to coincide with the Tomb of Horror's Box Set & Knorrman Steel with the Knorrman/Charonti RPG Setting that came out.

Alas, TSR ran out of GP before these works could come to print.

But, Tale of the Comet is pretty good. About the best of all I read of the massive flods coming out right before TSR went belly up & the flow turned into a trickle.

In essence, Aliens crash on a standard D&D world. No clue what magic is, natives have no clue what Tech is. The enemy computer (a la Borg) unites them in a fight against a common foe.

Better than I expected.

I'm also rading the B&N Complete Sherlock Holmes Voume I.

 

[RichCsigs]

Currently reading The Complete Peanuts '57 - '58. After that, I'll be reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson on my brother's recomendation.

 

[DaveStebbins]

Well, I went to get my daughter last weekend and took her home this weekend, so I had over 40 hours in the car to listen to books on CD. I listened to Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman, Going Postal by Terry Pratchett and Shopgirl by Steve Martin. I enjoyed them all, though Pratchett has long been a favorite and neither Gaiman nor Martin disappointed.

Currently about halfway through Beyond the Blonde by Kathleen Flynn-Hui, which I am also enjoying.

-Dave

 

[Jdvn1]

Captain Alatriste, before the movie comes out this year.

... And, finished with a flourish.