What have you been reading?

[YAOMTC]

Recently went to the library for the first time in a while, and picked up The House of the Scorpion on a friend's recommendation. It's about this clone boy, Matt, who is hated by all but a few on the estate on which he lives -- which is owned one of those few, the man he was cloned from, El Patron. According to the back of the book, he is lord over the country in which they live. (I don't think that's been touched on in the story yet, but I'm only a few chapters in, so.) It's a pretty great book! I'd recommend it, even though it's a "young adult novel". Hey, I'm an adult. I'm young. Whatever.

What have you been reading lately?

Doesn't have to be a novel. Or even fiction. Or even on paper. Just so long as it's at least mostly text and could possibly be put in a book form.

 

[Hylian]

I just finished reading the following

Xenocide
Children of the Mind



also does reading Halforums count?

 

[YAOMTC]

Those are part of the Ender's Game series, aren't they? I've read Ender's Game (which was great) and Ender's Shadow (which was also pretty good).

also does reading Halforums count?

and could possibly be put in a book form.

Good luck putting Halforums in a book.

 

[Soliloquy]

I've been checking out collections of Neil Gaiman's short stories. Some of them are awesome. Others... let's just say that I don't find stories about sex to be nearly as interesting as he seems to.

 

[Silver Jelly]

These are the two last things I've been reading. Today I'd need to go and get a new book.

 

[Dusty668]

While waiting for

to finish being published, I am reading the first book in the series:

A very good story so far.

 

[Rob King]

I've been leafing through some of the more recent issues of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Asimov's, National Geographic, Mcleans' Magazine, and Newfoundland Quarterly.

I've also been stuck on one chapter of this one book for a month. I sometimes feel like I don't read enough, but then when I sit back and take a survey of my life, I read a hell of a lot. I just don't always read novels.

 

[Kitty Sinatra]

John Steinbeck

This dude has hooked me, and I'm looking to read anything of his I can get my hands on. I'm about done Cup of Gold, which is about pirates. yarrrr!

 

[Wyrminarrd]

I´m a bit more then a third of the way through "The Way of Shadows" by Brent Weeks. This is the first book in the Night Angel trilogy and so far it has been great. The book is about a young street child who gets accepted as an apprentice by the most famous "assassin" in his city (though the right term is wetboy". The action is good, the story great and I can easily recommend it.

The last book that I finished was "Rides a dread legion" by Raymond E. Feist. A good book and if you've read all of his previous books set in Midkemia then reading this one is a no brainer If you haven't read them then go get "Magician: Apprentice" right away

 

[Cajungal]

Haven't been able to go back to the library lately, but the last thing I read was a bunch of Victorian suspense and horror. Carmilla, "Sir Edmund Orme," "The Mark of the Beast", etc I enjoyed it. I still have the books

 

[Morphine]

I'm reading "Diary of a libertine" by my beloved Rubem Fonseca (brilliant brazilian writer that I've always loved)
And on queue I have "Rendezvous with Rama" by Arthur C. Clarke, I borrowed it from my best friend, I can't wait to get to it.

 

[Wahad]

Recently finished Game of Thrones and Clash of Kings, the first two books in the Song of Ice and Fire series. Excellent books, just wish I could find the third book around here somewhere.

 

[Oddbot]

Been reading through Daniel Abraham's The Long Price Quartet

On the second book right now, A Betrayal in Winter, and I have to say this is one great series. If you're looking for a more character-driven less cliche-ridden fantasy series, I'd highly recommend these books.

 

[Covar]

I've had The Yankee Years by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci checked out for over a month now. I hopefully get time to read it once school lets out.

 

[ElJuski]

I'm taking a pre-adolescent lit class for my last semester. So, uh, Harriet the Spy and Coraline.

 

[GasBandit]

I'm re-reading Stranger in a Strange Land , but this time I'm reading the "full" previously unreleased version (the original published version that I read 15-20 years ago or so was edited down, it seems, excising about 60,000 words of content too objectionable for 1961, when it was first published). I'm reading it to the little woman out loud, as I do with most books I read. I wasn't sure if it'd be her cup of tea because it's a very "wordy" book (Harshaw in particular sometimes fills entire pages where he's the only one talking) and because of some of the topics in it, but we're about halfway through it and so far so good. After that, I'm probably going to start reading her the first book in the Drizzt series (Homeland, I think it is called).

 

[Espy]

Ethics textbooks. Yay.

 

[Dusty668]

I'm re-reading Stranger in a Strange Land , but this time I'm reading the "full" previously unreleased version (the original published version that I read 15-20 years ago or so was edited down, it seems, excising about 60,000 words of content too objectionable for 1961, when it was first published). I'm reading it to the little woman out loud, as I do with most books I read. I wasn't sure if it'd be her cup of tea because it's a very "wordy" book (Harshaw in particular sometimes fills entire pages where he's the only one talking) and because of some of the topics in it, but we're about halfway through it and so far so good. After that, I'm probably going to start reading her the first book in the Drizzt series (Homeland, I think it is called).

If the version I read was edited to be tamer... Hooooooley cats. I need to read this too.

 

[filmfanatic]

I'm right now reading The Confidence Man by Herman Melville on my Kindle. It's quite good and is generally considered to be his subtlest work, as it follows a collection of events on a Mississippi riverboat, all linked by a con man challenging people's beliefs.

 

[Hailey Knight]

Re-reading The Sandman, like every spring.

 

[Hylian]

oh yeah I also just got done reading

The Engineer: Konstrukt

 

[Seraphyn]

I'm slowly going through Robin Cook's works. Currently reading Acceptable Risk, sadly it's the translated Dutch version since I loaned it from a friend.

 

[redapples]

Currently rereading a bunch of stuff thats been in storage for a while.
I done William Gibson's Bridge Trilogy (Virtual Light, Idoru and All Tomorrow's Parties), Jeff Noon's Vurt and Pollen. Now on some Iain M Banks; Feersum Endjinn, followed by The Player of Games. Think Against a Dark Background is next. Though the thought of reading The Sandman every Spring has a certain appeal.

 

[TNM]

For pleasure:

For pain:

 

[Seraphyn]

Ugh CCNA is such a drag, well actually nearly all IT certification is an annoyance

 

[TNM]

Aye, CCNA wasn't too bad, but reading about RF signals and formulas puts me in a coma.

 

[ThatNickGuy]

Do comics count? I guess there was a thread for that. Anyway, I'm gonna try reading more books for fun this summer, but some comics:

-Daredevil: Noir - You know, for a gimmicky premise (Marvel heroes in 30s/40s noir), it's pretty good.
-Bone Vol. 8-9 - Sadly, I never got around to picking these up despite having the first 7 volumes. I kept forgetting which one was next I need to get (since it's all packed up back home). And man, do I ever regret not getting them sooner! Such an epic finale, especially the final book. Maybe Cajun can enlighten me on the spin-off books, like Rose.

 

[Sparhawk]

Here's what I'm reading...

and

 

[Rob King]

I fucking loved Foundation. The rest of the Foundation series sort of declined for me, but Foundation was probably one of the greatest books I've read.

 

[Sparhawk]

I've just re-read all the Robot shorts that he wrote (love that they've been collected into two good anthologies Robot Dreams and Robot Visions) and I'm picking stuff out now that I didn't notice (or even possibly understand at all, it was 30 years ago when I read them) when I first read them by finding them in different anthologies. Amazing how much that he tied the whole thing together.

 

[Hylian]

Just finished the following book

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*edit*

I just finished the following book as well

 

[Soliloquy]

Are they any good?

 

[Hylian]

I rather enjoyed First Meetings. It has 3 short stories in it plus the original Ender's Game. As far as the 3 short stories they are nice and fairly enjoyable. They help expand upon several events and show how certain events transpired later on. Also it is nice to have the original Ender's Game (the 1977 short story version) just so you can see how many underlying principles stayed the same and how many things did change between it turning from a short story into a actual novel.



I must say I did not enjoy A War of Gifts as much as I enjoyed First Meetings. Now I am not saying it is a horrid book but it isn't exactly a great book either. It does give us a slightly better view of the day to day of life at Battle School which is very nice but it also feels just kinda forced I guess. I mean it is still a fun read and I would still recommend it but it just feels like something is out of place.

 

[Gryfter]

I am re-reading David Brin's Uplift books. Started with Sundiver and I am on Infinity's Shore now. Some of my favorite Sci-fi.

 

[Kitty Sinatra]

Today, I started reading Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. This'll be about the 5th time I've read it, and I still enjoy it immensely. Totally my favorite book.