Books you're currently reading??? - Page 42

DanaC · 12-31-2006, 07:29 AM

I loved Last Kingdom and Pale Horseman. I haven't read the third yet, but I will acquire myself a copy asap!

wolf · 01-02-2007, 12:19 AM

Finished book 2 of the crappy romance series, taking a break from it (it was raining and book three is in the car) and am reading Eragon.

Griff · 01-02-2007, 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by wolf

...am reading Eragon.

As is lil' Pete.

wolf · 01-02-2007, 10:36 AM

At about 1/3 through, I'm not sure if I'll continue with the series or not.

King · 01-05-2007, 04:41 PM

Freakonomics. I've just started it, but I don't get a whole lot of time to read, so I'll be a while with it.

bluecuracao · 01-05-2007, 06:01 PM

I've just finished reading, "Don't Get Too Comfortable," a collection of writings by David Rakoff. He's described as 'skewering' by critics, but I thought his commentaries on the excesses of the '1st world' U.S. were really just smart-assed funny and very thoughtful. Maybe if I had a different mindset, I'd have been more shocked by his opinions, I don't know. I'm glad I don't know.

monster · 01-05-2007, 11:43 PM

Currently reading?

Hmmm

The Weight of Nothing -Steven Gillis
See Delphi and Die -Lindsey Davis
Mister Posterior and the Genius Child -Emily Jenkins

Eclectic, no?

and a whole heap of new stuff that is as yet unpublished. Some of it it very good, though.

DanaC · 01-06-2007, 03:51 AM

Great titles; especially the last one.
At a slight tangent, a book I am not currently reading, but which I read last year and which had a title that really stuck in my mind: Ludmilla's Broken English, by D.B.C. Pierre.

Ibby · 01-08-2007, 09:52 PM

Just finished Cannery Row, then Gibran's The Prophet, now re-reading Brave New World.

lumberjim · 01-08-2007, 10:25 PM

A Game of Thrones. George R R Martin

an author so cool, he has two middle initials

wolf · 01-09-2007, 01:39 AM

I liked some of his standalone books (like Tuf Voyaging), but never got into the unendingly long series he's written.

I am now trudging my way through the last of the 3 crappy romance novels. As expected, the good guy vampire is falling in love with the queen.

I hope I didn't ruin it for anyone.

On second thought, I hope I just saved you from any possible curiosity that would lead to purchasing these books.

The on-deck circle contains the first book of a series about the only wizard listed in the Chicago YellowPages.

Aliantha · 01-09-2007, 03:34 AM

I'm reading the final chronicles of thomas covenant by Stephen Donaldson.

Urbane Guerrilla · 01-09-2007, 03:44 AM

Game of Thrones is unrelentingly grim, and I'm not sure I see the point of the unrelenting grimness going on for a couple thousand pages. I'm having great trouble finding any character in those multitudinous pages that I actually like, except perhaps the two or three very young characters not corrupted yet by this praetorian power struggle.

I've been reading from this quadrilogy (or is it longer?) every now and again as a way of sampling current F&SF work and taking a break from reading nonfiction.

I am presently engrossed in Whittaker Chambers' Cold Friday. It's dated nowadays, but he was a vivid writer. He seems to have concluded big-C Communism happens in societies in which religion has faded. I haven't found any explicit statement of this in Cold Friday, but the implication behind a lot of his writing about Communism is that it was a kind of religion. Other writers have stated that -- perhaps they'd read Chambers and drew this same conclusion from his work.

Urbane Guerrilla · 01-09-2007, 03:51 AM

Bernard Cornwell fans [I've only read some of his Sharpe's Rifles novels] would probably enjoy Patrick O'Brian, too. I'm reading all the Aubrey-Maturin novels I can get hold of in order of publication, which is roughly their order in the time they're set in -- the Napoleonic era.

But watch out -- these novels will give you the dangerous and unjustified impression you could go out and conn, fight, and trim the sails of a circa-1800 ship of the line with a week's hands-on experience, such is their vividness of time and place!

DanaC · 01-09-2007, 04:09 AM

Ooooh Ali, Runes of the Earth? What a corker. I can't wait for the rest of the series to come out! Did you know this last set is a set of four, not three?

01-02-2007, 12:19 AM	#617
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Finished book 2 of the crappy romance series, taking a break from it (it was raining and book three is in the car) and am reading Eragon. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

01-02-2007, 10:36 AM	#619
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	At about 1/3 through, I'm not sure if I'll continue with the series or not. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

01-05-2007, 04:41 PM	#620
King Conquistador Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Everywhere Posts: 259	Freakonomics. I've just started it, but I don't get a whole lot of time to read, so I'll be a while with it. __________________ "I've shot you, Jeff. With a bullet made of Scottish finance regulations."

01-05-2007, 11:43 PM	#622
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Currently reading? Hmmm The Weight of Nothing -Steven Gillis See Delphi and Die -Lindsey Davis Mister Posterior and the Genius Child -Emily Jenkins Eclectic, no? and a whole heap of new stuff that is as yet unpublished. Some of it it very good, though. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-08-2007, 09:52 PM	#624
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	Just finished Cannery Row, then Gibran's The Prophet, now re-reading Brave New World. __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

12-31-2006, 07:29 AM	#616
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	I loved Last Kingdom and Pale Horseman. I haven't read the third yet, but I will acquire myself a copy asap!

01-05-2007, 06:01 PM	#621
bluecuracao in a mood, not cupcake Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 3,034	I've just finished reading, "Don't Get Too Comfortable," a collection of writings by David Rakoff. He's described as 'skewering' by critics, but I thought his commentaries on the excesses of the '1st world' U.S. were really just smart-assed funny and very thoughtful. Maybe if I had a different mindset, I'd have been more shocked by his opinions, I don't know. I'm glad I don't know.

01-06-2007, 03:51 AM	#623
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Great titles; especially the last one. At a slight tangent, a book I am not currently reading, but which I read last year and which had a title that really stuck in my mind: Ludmilla's Broken English, by D.B.C. Pierre.

01-08-2007, 10:25 PM	#625
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	A Game of Thrones. George R R Martin an author so cool, he has two middle initials __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

01-09-2007, 01:39 AM	#626
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I liked some of his standalone books (like Tuf Voyaging), but never got into the unendingly long series he's written. I am now trudging my way through the last of the 3 crappy romance novels. As expected, the good guy vampire is falling in love with the queen. I hope I didn't ruin it for anyone. On second thought, I hope I just saved you from any possible curiosity that would lead to purchasing these books. The on-deck circle contains the first book of a series about the only wizard listed in the Chicago YellowPages. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

01-09-2007, 03:34 AM	#627
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I'm reading the final chronicles of thomas covenant by Stephen Donaldson. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

01-09-2007, 03:44 AM	#628
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Game of Thrones is unrelentingly grim, and I'm not sure I see the point of the unrelenting grimness going on for a couple thousand pages. I'm having great trouble finding any character in those multitudinous pages that I actually like, except perhaps the two or three very young characters not corrupted yet by this praetorian power struggle. I've been reading from this quadrilogy (or is it longer?) every now and again as a way of sampling current F&SF work and taking a break from reading nonfiction. I am presently engrossed in Whittaker Chambers' Cold Friday. It's dated nowadays, but he was a vivid writer. He seems to have concluded big-C Communism happens in societies in which religion has faded. I haven't found any explicit statement of this in Cold Friday, but the implication behind a lot of his writing about Communism is that it was a kind of religion. Other writers have stated that -- perhaps they'd read Chambers and drew this same conclusion from his work. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course. Last edited by Urbane Guerrilla; 01-09-2007 at 03:53 AM.

01-09-2007, 03:51 AM	#629
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Bernard Cornwell fans [I've only read some of his Sharpe's Rifles novels] would probably enjoy Patrick O'Brian, too. I'm reading all the Aubrey-Maturin novels I can get hold of in order of publication, which is roughly their order in the time they're set in -- the Napoleonic era. But watch out -- these novels will give you the dangerous and unjustified impression you could go out and conn, fight, and trim the sails of a circa-1800 ship of the line with a week's hands-on experience, such is their vividness of time and place! __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

01-09-2007, 04:09 AM	#630
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Ooooh Ali, Runes of the Earth? What a corker. I can't wait for the rest of the series to come out! Did you know this last set is a set of four, not three?

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