What are you reading?

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

  1. HIjol

    HIjol Vice Admiral Admiral

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    I know this is a little old, but I had to write! When I was not reading "Hardy Boys" books, I was reading "Nancy Drew"...I loved it when she solved cases with her "chums"! :bolian:
     
  2. Owain Taggart

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    Interestingly, some of the early Hardy Boys is set in my area of Canada, which tracks as most of the early ones were written by a Canadian ghostwriter.
     
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  3. Timewalker

    Timewalker Cat-lovin', Star Trekkin' Time Lady Premium Member

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    I ended up getting rid of my Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books. I kept my Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators, though, along with the Brains Benton and Trixie Belden series.

    My recent reading material has been a Highlander fanzine and copious amounts of Merlin fanfic. The Harry Potter story I'm following (Wind Up All the Clocks) just had Chapter 85 posted Tuesday.
     
  4. Fantasy Lover

    Fantasy Lover Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    The chalice of the gods by Rick Riordian. Man, I missed the OG trio.
     
  5. Tango

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    "Count Zero" by William Gibson
     
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  6. Holly Gennaro-Gruber

    Holly Gennaro-Gruber Commodore Rear Admiral

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    Opposable Thumbs, To the Temple of Tranquility and Step on It, Surely You Can't Be Serious, and Bad Motherfucker.
     
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  7. Holly Gennaro-Gruber

    Holly Gennaro-Gruber Commodore Rear Admiral

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    Also Nathan Hale's inexplicably-hilarious graphic novel Donner Dinner Party. It stayed true to the gruesome history and still successfully milked the ''what can go wrong next'' humor to incredible levels. It's part of a historical series.
     
  8. JD

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    A couple days ago I decided to take a break from The Fellowship of the Ring when I hit the end of Book One, and I started reading The Amazing Spider-Man: Origin of The Species which has long credits that I don't feel like going through here.
     
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  9. Miss Chicken

    Miss Chicken Little three legged cat with attitude Admiral

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    I am currently listening to Venus by Ben Bova, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

    Tomorrow, over on Booktube, Non-fiction November begins. I have several books lined up to read/listen to during the month.
     
  10. Owain Taggart

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    This was one of Bova's books where I felt had a lot of mustache twirling. Much prefer his first two Mars books.
     
  11. Miss Chicken

    Miss Chicken Little three legged cat with attitude Admiral

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    Yes, I agree. I am just up to the part where he has met the big baddy (if we exclude his father as a baddy). I have read the first Mars book and I will reading the second one soon. I also have Mercury, Uranus, Neptune and Titan on my list of possibilities.
     
  12. Owain Taggart

    Owain Taggart Vice Admiral Admiral

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    I quite liked the first two Mars books, but felt the third one wasn't necessary. Bova at one point started to insert more and more politics and religious opinions into his books as part of an interconnected backstory, and you really feel that in the 3rd one. At one point, I just stopped reading them because I felt they were less interesting as compared to his earlier stories.

    Another thing about Venus is that I felt it was little more than a setting that didn't really influence the story much.
     
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  13. Kai "the Elf on the Shelf"

    Kai "the Elf on the Shelf" Admiral Admiral

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    I've just finished H.P. Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, which is as close to high fantasy as Lovecraft got.

    Now, early on, there's a phrase that I couldn't help it, I found quite familiar. Lovecraft's writing uses very long sentences that really could have been several sentences, but I'll just quote the important bit:

    "... Carter resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, ..."

    For the record, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath was first published in 1943 and was regularly included in reprints of Lovecraft's works afterwards.
     
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  14. Holly Gennaro-Gruber

    Holly Gennaro-Gruber Commodore Rear Admiral

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    15 different chapters from 15 different non-fiction books....or as I call it, my daily simulated issue of PLAYBOY.
     
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  15. JD

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    I just finished reading the collected edition of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The Ilyrian Enigma, written by Kirsten Beyer and Mike Johson, with art by Megan Levens. This was one of the first tie-ins for Strange New Worlds, and I thought they did a really good job on it. Now I'm going back to Fellowship of the Ring after my comic book break.
     
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  16. Yule Cat

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    Sounds worth checking out.