What are you reading?

[Australis]

A Mighty Fortress by David Weber. Next on my plate is Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks.

That's a good one. Australis will agree.

Hey! What?! Hey! Who?! Where?!

Oh. Yes. Absolutely. Can't get enough of the Culture.





Right now, can't stop reading a webcomic called Girl Genius: Adventure, Romance, MAD SCIENCE! And I normally hate reading stuff on the net. If you like steampunk (and who doesn't?!) this is good stuff, especially if you persevere long enough - when plot twists come along, they do astound.

 

[Amaris]

Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan. This is my first read of this book.

 

[Eleanor_zhDarjel]

Does the football tabble count?

 

[bluedana]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. Hilariously sick, in a literary mash-up kind of way.

 

[Kelthaz]

A Storm of Swords by George Martin. I'm enjoying the book, but I can't help but feel that the series has been dropping in quality with each book.

 

[Itisnotlogical]

I'm not reading anything right now, but I'm fixing to get Changes, the latest book in the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. I hope my library has it; I don't feel like going through the motions of reservation.

 

[Starbreaker]

Blockade Billy (novella) by Stephen King

 

[MHT1138]

I am now reading the Graphic novel of Pride and Prejudice. Its a pretty good adaptation. the adaptor, Nancy Butler, kept much of Austen's dialogue.

 

[RoJoHen]

I just got a Nook in the mail the other day, and while I'm not reading anything yet, I keep downloading books!

 

[MHT1138]

I just got a Nook in the mail the other day, and while I'm not reading anything yet, I keep downloading books!

Does the Nook come with any classics preloaded on it?

 

[RJDiogenes]

I just got a Nook in the mail the other day, and while I'm not reading anything yet, I keep downloading books!

I've heard that Rick Hutchins has an awesome new anthology out for the Nook.

 

[Holdfast]

Carl Jung - Psychological Types

Not the first time I've read it, but I've put a bit more thought into it this time round. I've blogged about some of the key themes (at least to me) recently, so won't go over the same ground again here. Link's in my sig, if you're interested.

I usually get through few books while on holiday in Mauritius; I also read Simon Baker's Ancient Rome (a whistle-stop tour through a few of the major Emperors' reigns, and a good informal follow-up to Rubicon by Tom Holland which I read while here last year, and which described the fall of the Roman Republic), and I'm also quickly re-reading the first three of Asimov's Foundation novels and the Odyssey's also on my "to read before I fly home" list.

Finished all the above (well I've got a few chapters of the Odyssey left but I'm only reading that in the evenings) but I found a copy of Tony Parsons' Man & Boy lying around the house which I blasted through yesterday & today while sitting in the sun.

Quite a touching book in a few places, if ultimately not the kind of novel I usually enjoy. But that's the good thing about holiday reading; without the distractions of home you end up putting the effort in to read stuff you wouldn't necessarily do so normally.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

I just got a Nook in the mail the other day, and while I'm not reading anything yet, I keep downloading books!

I've heard that Rick Hutchins has an awesome new anthology out for the Nook.

I see what you did there.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Finished all the above (well I've got a few chapters of the Odyssey left but I'm only reading that in the evenings) but I found a copy of Tony Parsons' Man & Boy lying around the house which I blasted through yesterday & today while sitting in the sun.

Holdfast, I've got to go out and shovel a bunch of snow. Would you please stop talking about the beach and sun!

 

[WillsBabe]

I have just started reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

Stock up on anti-depressants.

I didn't find it at all depressing. I think I was too caught up on the immaculate prose.

 

[Jack Bauer]

This thread!

 

[RJDiogenes]

I just got a Nook in the mail the other day, and while I'm not reading anything yet, I keep downloading books!

I've heard that Rick Hutchins has an awesome new anthology out for the Nook.

I see what you did there.

I have just started reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

Stock up on anti-depressants.

I didn't find it at all depressing. I think I was too caught up on the immaculate prose.

I barely made it through the book alive.

 

[Holdfast]

Finished all the above (well I've got a few chapters of the Odyssey left but I'm only reading that in the evenings) but I found a copy of Tony Parsons' Man & Boy lying around the house which I blasted through yesterday & today while sitting in the sun.

Holdfast, I've got to go out and shovel a bunch of snow. Would you please stop talking about the beach and sun!

OK, OK, I won't comment on atmospheric conditions, but I read about 80% of The Glass Palace today. Not my copy, just one lying around the house I'm staying in, so won't get finish it as I fly home tomorrow, but I skipped forward to the ending instead.

It's OK. The cover blurb described it as "Doctor Zhivago for the Far East", which is actually pretty accurate. It's potboiler sweeping romantic historical fiction with delusions of intellectual grandeur. Fine to burn through on a lazy day though.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I have finished reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I found it less depressing than the movie maybe because the movie is so much like the book that I knew what was going to happen.

Next up will be Room by Emma Donoghue. The blurb reads

"Jack is five. He lives in a single, locked room with his Ma".

 

[Sephiroth]

starting to read Storm front, by Jim Butcher