i finished up Under the Dome by stephen king. getting back to the TNG books that i had been re-reading in chronological order. Now on season 3 TNG books with "A Rock and a Hard Place"
So what are you reading now (Part 4)?
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I picked up my first ever issue of Shonen Jump while out shopping today. Over the past few months I've become a huge fan of Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece on Hulu, and I was curious to see what the mangas are like. This will most likely be bathroom reading while I'm working on the novels I've been reading.
I have one big problem with SJ though, I've never read manga before and I'm not sure how to read it. I see it's right to left, but what about going up and down page to page, or even in the panels?
I have one big problem with SJ though, I've never read manga before and I'm not sure how to read it. I see it's right to left, but what about going up and down page to page, or even in the panels?
Right to left, top to bottom. Same within the panels -- the speech balloons on the right come first. Basically it's a mirror image -- the front cover is where the back cover would be in an English-language book, with the spine on the reader's right.
Cool, thanks.
Currently reading 'How to be an existentialist: or How to get real, get a grip and stop making excuses' by Greg Cox. Quite an interesting if mind-fragging read for someone who hasn't read too many philosophy books 
Next up is 'Over a torrent sea' and then 'synthesis'. I can't wait Star trek: Titan has been pretty awesome so far, especially 'Orion's Hounds'
Next up is 'Over a torrent sea' and then 'synthesis'. I can't wait Star trek: Titan has been pretty awesome so far, especially 'Orion's Hounds'
Er, I think you mean Gary Cox.
I admit I did a double-take when I read this post. "When did I write a book on existentialism?"
That is the question.
"I think that I am thinking. Philosophy is hard."
Reading The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton, which draws out the beliefs, values, and history of Rome by analyzing plays, speeches, and the like. I've read The Greek Way and enjoyed it, and reading Caesar and Christ last week prompted me to track this down.
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Just finished 'A Time to Hate'. Although this second book did drag a little (particularly the two Rikers storyline, which came to a complete fizzle at the end), overall it was good- looking forward to the next one!
Currently reading "Once Burned" by Peter David (1998) and I read the biographies at the end of "The Captain's Table" (omnibus) already. Barely started this novel but it is not too long a read. For current nonfiction I am hoping to finish reading "Homo Ludens" by Johan Huizinga in the Beacon Press translation. For a reading group I am discussing and have read "The Grasshopper" by Bernard Suits. Games & Play as element of Trek universe?
Classic fanfic. Kraith Vulcans are weird. Very alien. I like Ssarsun - Trek needs more telepathic bipedal humanoid frogs.
I finally managed to get a hold of the two Georges by the eminent alternative history writer Harry Turtledove and Richard Dreyfuss. One of the better 'what if the American revolution had failed' books.
Also rereading my Enterprise relaunch collection, namely Kobayashi Maru and the Romulan war: beneath the Raptors wing. Plus the wonderful Q & A.
Also rereading my Enterprise relaunch collection, namely Kobayashi Maru and the Romulan war: beneath the Raptors wing. Plus the wonderful Q & A.
One of Turtledove's more interesting books, mostly for the difference way in which technology evolved.
I picked up Distant Shores last night to read before going to bed, and..well, now I'm only 90 pages shy of finishing it.
I've been reading Lisey's Story by Stephen King. It's very weird, but I like it. I still have NO idea what the book is about!
I'm reading The Tindalos Cycle, edited by Robert M. Price. Price edited a series of Cycle books for Chaosium a few years back, each one looking at some concept, entity, or place from HP Lovecraft's fiction, usually including a relevant Lovecraft story, some stories that probably influenced Lovecraft, and stories (some older, some new) by other writers building on Lovecraft's work. You might get some really obscure old pulp story, some more recent small press story, and something new by an unfamiliar name, and there was a good chance that some of it might be of historical interest but otherwise of no particular merit. This is pretty much in line with those books, but it's from a different publisher.
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