What are you reading?

Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by Snowlilly, Aug 21, 2012.

  1. locutus101

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    Asimov's The Ugly Little Boy
     
  2. Tora Ziyal

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    About half of a book of short stories about Sheriff Walt Longmire, by Craig Johnson. I've enjoyed most of the Longmire novels, but the stories were too boring to finish.

    Listened to the first volume of Heroes of Olympus, by Rick Riordan. Good book, but I didn't like the narrator, so after the second volume -- which will be good to listen to on a long drive in a couple weeks -- I'm going to switch to reading them.
     
  3. locutus101

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    Asimov's The Rest Of The Robots
     
  4. C. Cole-Chakotay

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    I have one more book in the Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot. I have really enjoyed reading them.
     
  5. Velocity

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    Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs
     
  6. locutus101

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    Asimov's Nightfall (The novel not the short story).
     
  7. Velocity

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    Home for a Spell by Madelyn Alt
     
  8. Skellington

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    Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke. It's been a while since I've read such a page-turner.

    Before that, Behind The Myths by John Pickard. It's a long book, with extensive quoting of other historical works (over 800 annotations) and presents the case that the origins of the three Abrahamic religions had less to do with theological robustness than with political, social and - in the case of Christianity and Islam at least - economic factors.
     
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  9. Tora Ziyal

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    Jonathan Kellerman's Motive. Pretty good.
     
  10. locutus101

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    Asimov's Opus 200
     
  11. Disco

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    Takedown. Ok and more enjoyable than The Light Fantastic
     
  12. Velocity

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    Stranger Than Fiction: Agatha Christie's True Crime Inspirations by Mike Holgate
     
  13. locutus101

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    Asimov's The Positronic Man
     
  14. BlueMetroid

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    The Giver Quartet. I read The Giver as a child, but until recently I had no idea it had not just one, but THREE sequels. They're great reads!
     
  15. Kirby

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    Through the Eye of the Tiger - autobiography by Jim Peterik from the bands Survivor and The Ides of March.

    Zero Hour by Clive Cussler
     
  16. locutus101

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    Asimov's "The Best Of Isaac Asimov"
     
  17. kirk55555

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    Princess of Wands by John Ringo.
     
  18. locutus101

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    Jack Vance's "Servants of the Wankh"
     
  19. Agony_Boothb

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    Un Lun Dun by China Mieville.

    I fell in love with his works via Railsea and Embassytown. Over the last few weeks I've been exclusively reading Mieville. Once I've finished all of his current novels I'll move on to my out of control to read pile.
     
  20. Tim Walker

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    Began to read Tim Travel and Warp Drives (copyright 2012) by Allen Everette and Thomas Roman.

    I got lost right away, the physics is beyond me. What I did glean was: 1. FTL looks very problematic. 2. Time travel (into the past) looks even more problematic.

    The technology required would seem to be that of a super civilization, technology far beyond that of the early 21st century.