What Are You Reading? (March 2005)

[Aris Dragonborn]

Chainfire, by Terry Goodkind.
Frankenstein, by Dean Koontz.
Teeth of the Tiger, by Tom Clancy.
Fellowship of the Ring, by Tolkien.
The Bear and the Dragon, by Tom Clancy.

Finished City of Towers, by Keith Baker, and hopefully Marked for Death, by Matt Forbeck, will be here Monday. Also finished Odd Thomas, by Dean Koontz.

And yes, I really am reading five books at once (though I should probably wait on Teeth of the Tiger, because it takes place after The Bear and the Dragon)

 

[Rabelais]

Ancient Greece

The Illiad, Homer
The Histories, Herodotus
History of the Peloponesian War, Thyudices

oh, and North America: The historical geography of a changing continent.

Reading for pleasure? Feh.

 

[LizardWizard]

As usual, I read three or four books at once...
Namely:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
(these are for the Foreign Literature course at the Moscow State University)
The Castle of Iron by L Sprague de Camp
The Gates of Noon by Michael Scott Rohan
(these are for entertainment purposes )

 

[Macbeth]

"Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell."

How is that? I've read the first couple of chapters, and it just didn't draw me in as much as I'd like. Maybe I'm just too used to the short, abrut prose of some of my favorite authors...

which brings us to what I'm reading. I'm hoping to finish Bret Easton Ellis' "The Rules of Attraction" before Che Guerva's "Global Justice" arrives from Amazon. Never read Che before, but I've been wanting something political to read, and the movie "The Motercycle Diaries" peaked my interests.

After that, I find something to fill my reading until May when Chuck Palahniuk's new book, "Ghosts" come out. I've devoured every other book Palahniuk wrote (and he's probably my favorite author), so I can't wait for his new book.

 

[Jdvn1]

Recently finished Orson Scott Card's Xenocide, and now to read the last of the 'Ender Quartet'.

Xenocide started off as a really slow book, but the last third of the book was amazingly awesome. Probably has something to do with the fact that he wrote the second half of the book separately. I'm really looking for to Children of the Mind.

 

[Macbeth]

I read all of the Ender books except Children of the Mind. Got a little tired towards the middle of Xenocide, and even though it picked up near the end, I still wasn't too motivated to read Children of the Mind. I may have to get around to that someday.

 

[Jdvn1]

Yeah, I was very disappointed with the first half of Xenocide. I put it down for about a month and then decided to go back to it so I could finish the series. Starting the second half fresh, it was easy to get excited in the last parts of the book. Have you seen the beginning of Children of the Mind. Starts off with some of the end of Xenocide. Pretty interesting.

 

[demiurge1138]

I hate to disappoint you all... but Children of the Mind is really not very good at all. No, really. There's some good ideas, and an interesting secondary character, but the plot isn't captivating at all. You'd be better served by reading the Ender's Shadow series.

Demiurge out.

 

[ddvmor]

Predator's Gold by Phillip Reeve. It's a sequel to Mortal Engines. It's a kids book, but it's got some nice, relatively original concepts in it. Just begging for a movie.

 

[Viking Bastard]

You'd be better served by reading the Ender's Shadow series.

...aaaand on the topic of Orson Scott Card, I just finished reading his Ultimate Iron Man #1.

Pretty good. Of his work I've only read the first Ender book (Ender's Game?) and it
didn't really catch my fancy. But I quite liked UIM, even though he seems to recycle
his Ender material a bit (I've heard that he has a tendancy to do that, is that true?).