So what are you reading? Part VI

[S. Gomez]

The last couple days had me searching for a book to read--or more precisely a book I felt like reading. Finally settled on A Separate Peace by John Knowles, which until now I've never heard of but is apparently something of a minor classic.

 

[JD]

Oh yeah, I got the "Richard Castle" books on the same library trip. I reviewed them on my blog:

http://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/review-the-richard-castle-novels/

Thanks, that was interesting. I agree with pretty much everything you said. Of course I can only base that on Heat Wave, having just started Naked Heat.

You may already know, but the graphic novel Deadly Storm, seen in a recent episode, will be available come September (as well as the next novel, Heat Rises). So I'm really looking forward to that.

Deadly Storm: http://www.amazon.com/Castle-Richar...=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1307487419&sr=1-4

I was wondering if they were going to do that when I saw it on the show. Do you know if was actually written by Brian Bendis?

 

[Admiral_Young]

Just started reading book seven in Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet Seriesauntless. After this I will be moving on to Albert Brooks 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America.

 

[James Cole]

Just finished Night of the Wolves from the Terok Nor trilogy. It took me two days to read Day of the Vipers but two weeks to finish this one. I wish the book would have taken a broader "big picture" view of things instead of different character moments, and it skips over the beginning of the actual Occupation without even an opening summary describing what happened after Vipers. I'd say not a total loss, just very disappointing.

 

[Christopher]

I was wondering if they were going to do that when I saw it on the show. Do you know if was actually written by Brian Bendis?

That's what it says on Amazon, so I see no reason to doubt it. Unlike the novels, this one isn't claiming to be by Castle himself.

 

[sulfur]

I was wondering if they were going to do that when I saw it on the show. Do you know if was actually written by Brian Bendis?

That's what it says on Amazon, so I see no reason to doubt it. Unlike the novels, this one isn't claiming to be by Castle himself.

But it is "based on the novels by Richard Castle"

The Marvel press release also indicated that Brian Bendis was writing it.

 

[Scout101]

Needed something quick, so re-read Imzadi. Then picked back up in my re-read of the S.M. Stirling Emberverse series. Just starting in on The Protector's War...

 

[AdmiralSteven]

I'm currently reading Children of the Storm, and loving it.

Needed something quick, so re-read Imzadi. Then picked back up in my re-read of the S.M. Stirling Emberverse series. Just starting in on The Protector's War...

Is this the series that takes place after the Nantucket Series? I bought his Island in the Sea of Time on the advice from my brother and haven't picked it up yet.

 

[Scout101]

not *after* exactly. More accurately, it's the mirror image of that series, dealing with the same event. In the Nantucket books, that group (and the island) are moved backwards in time, leaving them with everything they had, but the world was different. Dies the Fire, and the rest of that series, deal with the world Nantucket left behind. A few things changed in that world, though, so it goes pretty badly for most of the population. In the Nantucket series, they're the only ones with advanced tech, and are ahead of the curve. In the other series, pretty much all the tech just fails, and they're on their own...

can read either series first, really doesn't matter which. I found Dies the Fire randomly at a book store, read that one, then went back and read the Nantucket series before going back to the later series.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I just finished The Omnivore's Dilemma. It made for an interesting week of reading, given that I tended to read it at mealtimes. Still getting thoughts together on it.

I am hoping to find Synthesis, but it's slid under my bed somewhere.

 

[AdmiralSteven]

not *after* exactly. More accurately, it's the mirror image of that series, dealing with the same event. In the Nantucket books, that group (and the island) are moved backwards in time, leaving them with everything they had, but the world was different. Dies the Fire, and the rest of that series, deal with the world Nantucket left behind. A few things changed in that world, though, so it goes pretty badly for most of the population. In the Nantucket series, they're the only ones with advanced tech, and are ahead of the curve. In the other series, pretty much all the tech just fails, and they're on their own...

can read either series first, really doesn't matter which. I found Dies the Fire randomly at a book store, read that one, then went back and read the Nantucket series before going back to the later series.

Cool, thanks for explaining it to me. It sounds like a series I'd like to sink my teeth into at some point.

 

[Scout101]

I've certainly enjoyed it. Wouldn't mind another peek into what's going on in the Nantucket series, and with the newer series, seems like we're creeping closer and closer to getting the explanation for WTF happened to cause all this (and why) in the first place...

 

[Sakrysta]

That reminds me that I picked up Dies the Fire randomly at Goodwill a while back and haven't gotten around to reading it yet. You've piqued my interest.

*reminds self that she has a Trek goal for this year's reading and shouldn't allow herself to get sidetracked*

 

[Scout101]

Glad I've got more converts on that series

You'll pick up more nuggets if you start with the other series "island in the sea of time", but can start with "dies the fire" just as easy I suppose...

 

[indianatrekker26]

continuing with my massive chronological read through of all the TNG/DS9/VOY books. Just starting TNG season 5, with the novelization of "Unfication"

 

[Endgame]

Reading additional books about Nazi history. Specifically a scary eugenics book "Racial Hygiene" by Robert N. Proctor (1988) which is a prelude to "The Nazi War on Cancer" by the same author. Also a bit about eugenics, I am about to read "The Wrath of Khan" novel by McIntyre. Saw the movie but neglected to read the book which I am now correcting.

 

[JD]

I decided that I was close enough to the end of Rough Beasts that I wanted to start my next book, Dead Witch Walking, the first book in Kim Harrison's The Hollows/Rachel Morgan series. I've fallen in love with the whole True Blood/Dresden Files type Urban Fantasy genre, and this is a series I've been wanting to start for a while. I'm only a few pages into it, and I'm already loving her first person style. It's got that right kind of sassyness I like in my female first person narrators.

 

[timothy]

I just picked up stephen kings american vampire graphic from dc comics you may want to try it.

 

[ICW]

What's going on guys? I just finished Reap the Whirlwind and I LOVED it. Couldn't put the book down!

I'm now going to read the Lost Era novel Catalyst of Sorrows

 

[Sakrysta]

Glad I've got more converts on that series

You'll pick up more nuggets if you start with the other series "island in the sea of time", but can start with "dies the fire" just as easy I suppose...

I sat down with it in Borders tonight and read the first chapter, then came home and ordered it online. I'm hooked! I kept telling myself as I was reading that I needed to just quit because I was already sold on buying the book, but I just didn't want to put it down.