What book are you currently reading?
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Slow read?! I read most of it in one day. I found it a page turner.
I'm currently reading "Carte Blanche" by Jeff Deaver. Its the newest James Bond novel. I'm about 40 pages into it. Deaver is the third author to update Bond, following Gardner and Benson (I'm not counting Amis and Faulks because their book took place in Fleming's Bond's era and were continuations of the original novel series).
I'm liking it very much so far. Deaver's Bond is very much in the mold of Fleming's creation. I hope he writes more of them. I would say more, but there's the risk of SPOILERS.
I'm also reading "The Bible of Unspeakable Truths, " by Greg Gutfeld and "The Hidden Reality" by Brian Greene.
It took me the better part of a year.
I stopped reading LotF about 3/4 through. I could see where it was headed. Actually, of the books I read, Traviss' were the ones I liked most.
I'm looking forward to Timothy Zahn's new SW novel, which Amazon should be delivering next month (along with the new George RR Martin book)
I just finished reading "Containment" by Christian Cantrell. If any of you enjoy scifi novels (which I'm sure you do), you NEED to read this one. It is a completely awesome and unique book. The author hasn't published much, he put out a handful of short stories last year and that's about it. I think he will definitely be a name in scifi in the future though. He has a great command of scientific and technological detail, making the inventions of the future that he writes about seem absolutely plausible and inevitable. He balances this with a true understanding of human emotions and relationships. I've come out of the book feeling like the world he created was completely real, which is always a sign of a good book to me.
This book is about a young man named Arik who has spent his entire life living in a colony on Venus. The story starts shortly after he awakens from an accident with no memory of what happened to him, and throughout the book he uncovers the truths of the situation. I don't want to go into much more detail because there are several twists and turns along the way.
Give this book a shot, it is a quick read and you won't regret it.
Also, only 99 cents for the Kindle version!
This book is about a young man named Arik who has spent his entire life living in a colony on Venus. The story starts shortly after he awakens from an accident with no memory of what happened to him, and throughout the book he uncovers the truths of the situation. I don't want to go into much more detail because there are several twists and turns along the way.
Give this book a shot, it is a quick read and you won't regret it.
Also, only 99 cents for the Kindle version!
Yevetha
Commodore
I wonder if the alien invaders are Vagaari in that one...
It is a page turner, but each page takes forever to get through. I read fairly slowly to get all of the details and not miss anything (a nice way of saying I'm a slow reader) but still, AGoT reads much much slower than most books.
Just finished Dragonfly Falling and started Vanguard: Declassified. Once that's finished it will be back to the Shadows of the Apt series with Blood of the Mantis.
Finished Changes, now on to Side Jobs. My Dresden-Athon is almost over, at least until Ghost Story.
I am halfway though The Circus Fire by Stewart O'Nan. If is about when a circus big-top caught on fire at Hartford back in 1944. I am finding it a very emotional read. I am quite interested in how different people reacted during the fire. A 13 year old boy stayed calm and clearheaded enough to save many people, whereas some panicking men trampled women and children. Another man saved child after child before being critically injured himself (I am not yet sure if he actually survived - I doubt it).
And the circus band kept playing in an effort to calm the fleeing people.
And the circus band kept playing in an effort to calm the fleeing people.
Fan of both of those. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a book that I think anyone interested in understanding history (though I think he carries geographic determinism a little too far); Team of Rivals had a lot of impact on my undergraduate thesis.
I've been reading a few of the short stories in The Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin (guess who the author is); I've generally not been a big ban of literary short stories, and while some of these are okay, I'm still not that sold on the genre.
Currently taking a break from heavy reading to catch up on Rick Riordan's latest YA adventure novel, The Throne of Fire.
So his stuff's pretty good? I'm a big mythology fan and I've been thinking about checking those books out, despite their YA nature.
I'm a big fan of the Percy Jackson quintology (The Lightning Thief through The Last Olympian); his two new series (one of which is a sequel series) are both off to good starts. Like the best YA books, they can be read by adults with no problems. I'd call Riordan the best of the post-Rowling wave of YA fantasy writers (there a lot of superficial similarities with Rowling's work, but a lot of that is just standard tropes that Rowling has come to be seen to own, and he keeps things feeling fresh).
As somebody who loved Greek mythology, Riordan's use of it is a big attraction too, because he's done a lot of research and manages to incorporate a lot of lesser-known details really well (stuff that the movie version completely lost, like making Hades a supervillain, whereas Riordan was one of the comparatively few modern authors to understand that he's not).
Yeah, the Kane trilogy (Throne of Fire is Part II) is about Egyptian mythology. I don't have nearly the same knowledge of that as I do of Greek, so I find it a bit less interesting, but it's still good.
Superheroes: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films, a pretty interesting overview/analysis of how comics have evolved over the years.
