So, what are you reading right now?

[Teh Ty]

At the moment, this.

Spoiler

Inspired by the point Obama made about how gamers should switch off the consoles and pick up a book.

What are you reading? If it is something not so common, give a little description, and your opinion on it.

I'm reading 'Game of Thrones' at the moment.
I'm also poking fun with my copy of 'Three Men in a Boat', picking a chapter randomly and reading it when I feel I need to have a good laugh and relax.

The last book of the Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest.

Probably one of the best series of books I've ever read. It's a damn shame that it's the author's first, and last series. The poor man died before he even saw his books on shelves.

One of the best and orignial heroines in modern literature.

Samus Aran should have had the personality of Lisbeth Salander, not that thing in Other M.

I am reading Children of the Mind (the forth book in the Ender Quartet) for the 5th time since I was 11ish

The Gears of War novels. I'm thoroughly absorbed.

"A Feast for Crows" and goddamn, it's boring me to tears. I don't care about any of those water dudes at all. I'm almost at the half of the book. But I most finish it, "A Dance with Dragons" awaits me.

I am reading Children of the Mind (the forth book in the Ender Quartet) for the 5th time since I was 11ish

I'm reading Xenocide now.

I'm also reading The Forever War, The Prince, and The Truth. Obama hasn't got anything on me.

This topic.

I myself am not interested in books usually so I tend to avoid reading them. Though I do enjoy most books I get assigned at my school.

The Gears of War novels. I'm thoroughly absorbed.

What do they talk about?

"I leant out from behind a wall and fired. I went back behind the wall. I reloaded, and then celebrated like I won an olympic gold medal because I put the magazine in quicker than usual. I leant out again and fired. Leant out and fired. Leant..."

I ran down the muddy brown road, I could hear some brown horror scream as it chased me from behind, so close it's footsteps slapped the dirty earth only metres behind me. My huge grey gun and grey armour were weighing me down, I knew I could not outrun the foul beast, so I took cover behind a small chest-high brown wall. I leant out from behind the wall and fired. The muzzle flash bringing a sudden flash of violent red into the otherwise brown and grey landscape, only for a second, and then it was gone. I leant out again and fired. Leant out and fired. Leant...

Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson.

Very heavy, very involved historical fiction. Definitely have to be in a reading mood to take everything in, and its only book one of three "The Baroque Cycle"

I just started reading Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon. It is about a writer stuck in a rut with a severe case of Writer's Block and how it consumes him.

I 'm going to start reading Petronius' Satyricon since I missed Felini's version at the cinema

hehe Full Pipe, your avatar brought me memories.

Right now I've just about finished "Rubicon - The Triumphy and Tradgedy of the Roman Republic."

After watching the HBO/BBC miniseries "Rome" and playing a couple of Roman themed city builders, I decided it might be worth learning some actuall Roman history.
For anyone wanting to learn a bit about Rome, particularly about Roman culture and the rise (and fall) of Caeser, this is a really good book. It's very easy to pick up and read and little to no prior knowledge is required. The author (Tom Holland) constructs an easy to follow narrative that touches on history, culture and the personalities and excentrisities of some of the major figures like Caeser, Pompey and Sulla. It's a book I'd recomend to anyone with even the slightest interest in history.

The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing Science Fiction

Up next on my read list is the Xeelee Omnibus

I'm re-reading the mortal engines quartet & Fever Crumb as they are together excellent novels. The quick background is after a nuclear war changes the landscape for good(the US is a giant crater), a couple thousand year's pass when the city of london decide's to get some tracks and eat other cities leading to every city doing the same, now add some fanatical hippies who don't like traction cities as they have turned most of europe, northern africa & south america into the somme, that's the first three books, the forth complicates it.Without going into spoiler's if steampunk & action is your thing order these books.

Currently working my way through Pillars of the Earth [http://www.ken-follett.com/bibliography/the_pillars_of_the_earth.html] by Ken Follett. It's set in the 12th century, it's kinda cool.

I read his newest book Fall of Giants without realizing it's the first of three books, so I have to wait for the next one to come out. D:

Currently reading
Clash of Kings - after watching game of thrones i went out and bought the entire series
and
Do Androids Dream of electric Sheep - its been on my to read list for some time.

Both of these books are excellent, would definitely recommend to any sci-fi or fantasy fan.

I'm reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I'm about 45% of the way through reading it... and considering that it's 35,000+ pages on my Kindle, that's saying something.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Not quite as good as the show, but intoxicating nonetheless.

I've just read the Mass effect novels, and before that I read all the books in ender ?serie?

And currently I do not have anything to read =(

Any suggestions?

I'm reading the Call of Cthulu and other weird stories by H.P Lovecraft a disturbing and brilliant collection of short stories by the true master of horror. read the Picture in the House and not get shivers down your spine

Inspired by the point Obama made about how gamers should switch off the consoles and pick up a book.

What are you reading? If it is something not so common, give a little description, and your opinion on it.

just finished the last Vladimir Tod book, I know its kind of childish but its nice to read a teenage coming of age story that's able to take itself not totally serious all the time. (also it was pretty adept at poking fun at Twilight). Also finished Romeo and Juliet for school, enjoyed it a hell of a lot more than I ever thought I would as a kid. Now I just found that my Library has the entire first run of Ultimate Spider-man, about on book 14

I'm currently reading Children of Dune. I should have finished it by now but procrastination is a *****.

Im currently reading Dune and some of the Mass Effect books

I am reading three books right now, "The Wise Man's Fear" by Patrick Rothfuss which is the followup to "The Name of the Wind". George RR Martin recommended this author when years ago fans were hounding him about A Dance of Dragons. The books follow the exploits of a magic user/fighter who is now retired and works in an Inn. The best thing about the books is character development.
I am also reading Colin Wilson's "The Space Vampires" a pretty bad film adaption of this was made in the early 80s, a movie called Lifeforce. Mr Wilson cannot help heavy handing his immense crime/serial killer/speculative history knowledge into the fiction he writes but his ideas can be pretty darn cool and his prediction of future tech can be innovative.

Third is Cliver Barker's Galilee. Clive Barker is an amazing author sort of in the Hiyo Miyazaki way IE amazing feats of imagination. I recommend any and everything he has written. too bad his video game ideas are not nearly as good as his books.

But, seriously, I finished up Great Gatsby to see why people liked it so much, and I thought it was great. I wouldn;t say it was the best book ever, like some people call it, but I still liked it. In the manga side, I'm reading Blue Exorcist, which my friend lent me. And there's also Yokai doctor, which I'm going to start looking for more volumes, seeing how I only have one volume. I also have Romance of the Three Kingdoms on my shelf that i've been meaning to read, but the names are confusing and it's really long. ;-;

 

[SenorNemo]

Right now I'm reading Shogun. It's great, but I've been reading it mostly at bedtime, which means keeping track of all the characters is...err...interesting at times. Still, it's really long, but it's paced well, and entertaining. After that, I'll probably be reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

 

[Void Droid]

I've been quite busy this week, in the last 7 days I've read The Sad Tale Of the Brothers Grossbart and the Enterprise Of Death by Jesse Bullington (fantastic books) and just finished The Colour Of Magic by Terry Pratchett (in a 6 hour drive to Serbia and back no less) and will begin his The Light Fantastic some time today after I finish off collecting Dust Shards for my platinum in inFamous.

I enjoy reading a lot and can always fit in a book or two and a good few hours of gaming easily.

 

[Kris015]

My science schoolbook.. Have exam in like 4 hours.

Also, Ghosts of Ascalon.

 

[Lilitu]

I am reading 5 books right now. My "main book" is "Badlands"/"Play Dead" by Richard Montanari.

»A teenage runaway?s body is found in the basement of a rancid tenement building in the desolate, dangerous North Philly district dubbed the Badlands. The inexplicable cause of death: drowning. Months later, this dormant homicide case stirs back to life. A confession to the bizarre murder sends Philadelphia police detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano rushing to make an arrest. But what they find will chill these hardened veterans to the bone. As the body count grows, a terrifying design literally takes shape. Pieces of a gruesome puzzle are being set into place by a madman using the city as his game board. His playthings are the innocent, and his opponents?and pawns?are Byrne and Balzano, who must, before time runs out, decipher the truth about a shadowy house of horrors and its elusive master.«

I haven't read so much because I started that book yesterday but I expect to like it because I liked all of Montanari's books I have read so far

 

[CounterReproductive]

[snip]
Edit: Incidentally, my forum title is from the Ship "Me, I'm Counting" from Surface Detail. All of the ships have wonderfully esoteric names, and it's the only one small enough to fit into the custom forum title. My favourite ship names were "Sense Amid Madness, Wit Amidst Folly" and "The Usual But Etymologically Unsatisfactory". I'd love to go into detail about the plot, but if i did, i'd end up making a wall of text. I'll just say that being able to store someone's personality ("Soul" if you like) in a neural lace to either live out eternity in the Virtual (think of it like living on forever in the internet) or being 'reborn' in a new, cloned, blank body (that you can change to have any features you wished prior to rebirth) is fascinating. Even more fascinating when the many race and cultures go to war over the idea on whether or not the Virtual should have 'virtual hells' to scare people into good behaviour, much like religion does today. And even more curious are those who choose not to install a neural lace in order to save their personality upon death. But i digress. Go read it! Go now!

Istarted the Iain M Banks series with Consider Phlebas... Surface detail is an easier read in some respects. Kudos on the names, all my eve online ships are named after the ships in the culture.

 

[Phisi]

My post

On a more relevant note; Romeo and Juliet for School.

 

[WolfThomas]

Planetary by Warren Ellis, except that's a comics so...er look over there!

 

[pigmypython]

The Puppet Masters...I like my sci-fi!

 

[Hamish Durie]

wheel of time....again

 

[Vern]

I'm currently reading The Turner Diaries. Which I'm pretty sure is not what Obama had in mind when he made that statement. I've always wanted to read it as it seems to be an important piece of American history. It was an inspiration to Timothy McVeigh, and was at least a contributing factor to the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history.

 

[TheEvilCheese]

I'm re-reading the mortal engines quartet & Fever Crumb as they are together excellent novels. The quick background is after a nuclear war changes the landscape for good(the US is a giant crater), a couple thousand year's pass when the city of london decide's to get some tracks and eat other cities leading to every city doing the same, now add some fanatical hippies who don't like traction cities as they have turned most of europe, northern africa & south america into the somme, that's the first three books, the forth complicates it.Without going into spoiler's if steampunk & action is your thing order these books.

YES. I need to read these again.
Like right now.

...actually. I never read fever crumb, after how the quartet ended I was content and had no real desire to get it, is it as good as the others?

 

[pwned123456]

I'm reading "Night Watch" by Terry Pratchett. Please don't kill me, because it's the first City Watch tale I've read. Other than it I've only read the Rincewind books.

quote wiat how many city watch books are there i liked the first and the second was good but there are more!

There are eight City Watch Novels with one short story.
In order they go: "Guards! Guards!" "Theatre of Cruelty" "Men At Arms" "Feet of Clay" "Jingo" "The Fifth Elephant" "Night Watch" "Thud!" and "Where's My Cow?"

ok i think i have the order mixed up majorly i have red men at arms and feet of clay

 

[KaosuHamoni]

Nothing. I literally just finished The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger. T'was awesome.

I'm about to make a start on A Clockwork Orange for the first time... Wish me luck! =P

 

[Mareon]

Les Miserables.

 

[Knife-28]

I am rereading the Animorphs series, the extended univeres books included.

 

[Redingold]

I'm reading Fallout: Equestria [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/04/story-fallout-equestria.html#more], and the biography of Niels Bohr.

 

[Coop83]

What are you reading? If it is something not so common, give a little description, and your opinion on it.

Well, at the moment, I'm reading this thread. It's inspirational, because it makes me want to pick up the book next to me, but I've got to go to work. *sigh*

Anyway, I've just finished Shogun, by James Clavell - very deep, well thought out cultural novel, set around the 17th Century and true events about a Dutch crew and their English pilot who are gradually accepted into Japanese society by the locals, as they learn their customs and gradually grow further apart from all that they used to hold dear. I've understood it so much better now, but that might be because I first read it as a 15-16 year old in High School. Now I've had a chance to see a lot more of the wider world and I can understand some of the more obscure references.

Today, I picked up my copy of Troy : Fall Of Kings, by David and Stella Gemmell. The great heroic fantasy author's last text, finished after his untimely death by his widow, tells the story of the battle of Troy and the surrounding politics. Based on true events, interspersed with legend and myth, along with characters of his own creation, I have already read the first two books and finally get a chance to finish off the saga, as the copy arrived during my run through Shogun.

Gemmell has been an inspiration for a long time and seeing his works bring the epics to life will only increase my respect for this highly talented author. From reading the first two books, I've wanted to study the history of ancient Greece and you never know, with the way the first 10 pages have gone, I might just have to do some proper research now.

 

[Mister Swift]

Your forum post, of course.

I'm gonna go ahead and assume that joke's already been made.