So what are you reading now?

[Steve Roby]

Finished the Sonic Youth fiction book mentioned a few posts back (overall, a decent read) and then read True Patriot Love: Four Generations in Search of Canada, a new book by Michael Ignatieff. Ignatieff's had relatives who've played important roles in Canadian life and politics over the generations, and given that he's likely to be our next prime minister, I figured it'd be worth checking out. It's a long way from being a manifesto, partly because he started writing it before he became active in politics, but it's an interesting (and quick) read nonetheless. Up next: maybe Lucius Shepard.

 

[KRAD]

Since my last post I've read Mere Anarchy, which was very hard to put down so I read through it pretty fast, and started another book by Theodor Fontane, Irrungen Wirrungen, which I finished today while waiting over two hours to register for my final exam in Ancient History.

Mere Anarchy is a great book. I really like the different stories I've read in the book so far.I'm glad that Mike Barr and Howard weinstein an& Margaret Wander Bonnano have written new Tos stories for this series.I also like the stories from the the other writers too.

*quiet beam of editorial pride*

 

[JAG]

You should be proud. Mere Anarchy was a hell of a series.

 

[Count Zero]

You should be proud. Mere Anarchy was a hell of a series.

Indeed.

 

[JD]

I got my copy of Open Secrets from Amazon today, and since it has a recap in the beginning I'm gonna just put RTW away for now and jump right in.
Edit: So this means right now I am reading:
Dresden Files: Storm Front
ST Voyager: Full Circle
ST Vanguard: Open Secrets
Star Trek: The Complete Comic Collection (I've been moving through SF and FC fairly slowly because I've been spending most of my free time reading the comics in here.)

 

[DimesDan]

Full Circle still ain't out in my local book shop so after reading my last Chris Brookmyre, I'm now reading Not the End of the World.

 

[JAG]

I just finished SW Outcast, and am beginning NF Treason.

 

[Graywand2]

I'm reading the Terok Nor series again. I'd read Destiny, but I'm poor so I have to wait for it to come to the library near here.

 

[Blackster]

I just finished The Sundered, now moving onto Serpents Among the Ruins - very much enjoying The Lost Era.

 

[David R. George III]

^ Glad to hear it!

 

[My2tailwaggers]

Hello! I just finished Full Circle which I thought was awesome! What a great book!!! Just started the new New Frontier: Treason last night! Looks good!

 

[Basill]

I just bought Open Secrets and have been waiting anxiously to read it (any sequel) since I finished reading Reap The Whirlwind. The Vanguard series is my favorite Star Trek in years!

 

[BrotherBenny]

I just bought Open Secrets and have been waiting anxiously to read it (any sequel) since I finished reading Reap The Whirlwind. The Vanguard series is my favorite Star Trek in years!

I finished Open Secrets this morning. You're in for a treat.

 

[Baerbel Haddrell]

I have finished "Treason" and am now back to "Full Circle". Before "Treason" arrived I read about half of the book. So far I enjoy it and I am looking forward to continue the book tomorrow.

 

[kimc]

I tried this in another forum and it sank like a lead balloon.
So what are you reading now?

Ummm, this.

I can't believe it took 540 posts for someone to post this!

I recently finished "White Tiger" which was an awesome book. I'm now about halfway through "The Reader".

 

[BrotherBenny]

Just Finished:
- Open Secrets
- Treason

Currently Reading:
- Mere Anarchy
- The Secret of Excalibur

Open Secrets was absolutely amazing from first page to last. I can't wait for Precipice. As for Treason, I think that once again it's losing the edge it once had. It's good, but it seems to be twisting further and further from the main universe, much like the Shitnerverse. I'm hoping it doesn't, since I like this series, but I'm having trouble liking it as much as I did.

I love Mere Anarchy, but I never get to read more than a few pages before something else comes along to distract me.

 

[Count Zero]

I've started Moby Dick by Herman Melville. I've given up on this once before and it really is a slow read, so far.

 

[Steve Roby]

Just read George Pelecanos's 2006 novel Drama City. Good as always, but feeling a bit formulaic, and other themes besides the interplay between masculinity and morality might be worth a shot. Yes, race and class figure in there too, but they always do, and they're always played out through the masculinity/morality thing. It's also very much a Washington DC story, complete with the obligatory references to go-go and the Blackbyrds' "Rock Creek Park," but so are all of his other books.

Just started Treason, and, well, it's a Peter David book, all right. Too early to tell if it's one of the good ones.

 

[KRAD]

I've started Moby Dick by Herman Melville. I've given up on this once before and it really is a slow read, so far.

I wouldn't bother. The notion that this is the Great American Novel is one of the great pieces of bullshit of our time. Moby-Dick is further proof that as a novelist, Melville was a great short-story writer.

Just read George Pelecanos's 2006 novel Drama City. Good as always, but feeling a bit formulaic, and other themes besides the interplay between masculinity and morality might be worth a shot. Yes, race and class figure in there too, but they always do, and they're always played out through the masculinity/morality thing.

Yeah, but that's what Pelecanos does, he does it better than anyone, and it's refreshing to read an author whose books are entirely about the lower classes.

 

[new_mercury]

Actually had a lull in Star Trek again recently. Not read a ST book this year actually. currently reading an ancient history book called THE CLASSICAL WORLD by ROBIN LANE FOX.

Plan to get back into Star Trek books again soon though with the new Vanguard coming out. in fact when i've finished my venture into ancient greece and rome may read the third book again to prepare myself.