So, what are you reading right now?

[Feste the Jester]

I'm rereading the Harry Potter series before the last film comes out. I'm currently on the Prisoner of Azkaban. After that, I think I'll try my hand at reading the first part of the Mark Twain Autobiography (My favorite author).

 

[Ranyore]

Re-reading ...again.. C.S.Friedman's Black Sun Rising. One of her older books and I know it can't stand up to the Magisters books so far, but blast if it isn't enjoyable.

If anyone hasn't heard of it fantasy/sci-fi combo where the natural energy currents on the world respond to consciousness. Humans having many levels it doesn't discriminate. See something scary? Think something scary? You just manifested Scary that ate you and is now living there.
Religion and varying levels of belief having literal power on top of any faith and the kind of plot turns you'd expect from Celia.

 

[Kolby Jack]

Not really a political guy, myself, but my mom has a copy of G. W. Bush's book Decision Points, which sounds pretty interesting after what I've seen about it on wikipedia and the like. And since I'm in-between bases right now and won't have much to do until I get settled in my new home, I may borrow it.

 

[NeoShinGundam]

I'm almost done with the last book in the Star Wars: Republic Commando series "Order 66." Karen Traviss is my new favorite author, and I HIGHLY recommend the books to anyone who's seen ANY of the Star Wars films. Yes, If you've seen all 6 then you know how the Clone Wars end, but the story of Omega Squad is one of the BEST series I've ever seen

Like, Firefly or later Babylon 5 good.

 

[Brainpalm]

I'm reading "The Machine of Death", "John Dies At The End" (for like the 7th time) and "Going Postal"

-snip-

Someone else who knows John Dies At The End!!! Legend.

It is a truly great novel, everyone should read it.

 

[thecatsme0w]

I just finished Widdershins by Charles de Lint. It's the sequel to The Onion Girl and they both should be read because his handling of myth and magic in an urban setting is masterful. I'm actually going to be getting a pair of crows tattooed on me (for Maida and Zia, the Crow Girls). I seem to have a bird theme going.

I really want to re-read Dies The Fire by S.M. Stirling. Really gripping alternate history/apocalyptic fiction. First in a series of so far 7 (and he averages a book a year, consistently, unlike some OTHER series authors I can think of). He's one of two authors I'm willing to buy in hardcover as soon as it comes out.

 

[Zoe Castillo]

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[mikev7.0]

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...

To Teabag or not to Teabag, that is the question.
Whether tis nobler in the gaming mind to suffer the lucksack headshots of some campers outrageous fortune,
Or to simply wade into the fray and lo, have my buttocks handed to me thusly for headgear....

JUST KIDDING. War novels can actually be great stuff. I used to enjoy the Battletech books a great deal, yet something tells me Gears of War isn't really going to compare to the adventures of Jamie Wolf and the Comstar gang. I mean turning a product overhaul (from 3025 inner sphere and comstar tech to 3050 and the clans) into a plot point was brilliant.

I'm currently reading About Time by Paul Davies, a highly educational book about quantum physics and it's effect on absolute time. Riveting and important stuff, which is what I usually think about books from this Scientific discipline. (Also finishing up todays paper)

 

[Quextamon]

I'm reading Anna Lee Waldo's Sacajawea. I also just finished the most resent book in the Tunnles series.

 

[mikev7.0]

The last thing I read was Ender's Game, but that was a while ago. Good book though.

I'm currently trying to decide which of the few books that I have but that I haven't read yet to start on. The choice is:

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Dune by Frank Herbert
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Robots And Empire by Isaac Asimov
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks

Any suggestions on where to start, oh Escapist?

Oh that's an easy one. Foundation. Even if all you get from it (and I highly doubt this) is learning about Psychohistory.

Enjoy!

 

[Jinjiro]

I've just finished reading The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett - good book, I recommend it.

I'm about to read Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

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...

You know, Gears of War 2 actually had very colorful and varied environments. I'm not saying the games are great or anything, but they are, at the very least, creative, ESPECIALLY the environments. In fact, this comment always bugs me. In every game that's been accused of being a brown shooter (Gears of War, Modern Warfare, Killzone) I've seen plenty of variation and color in the environments. If you're going to criticize these games, there's plenty things they actually did wrong. You don't have to make up flaws.

Besides, the environments in Half Life 2 were WAY more generic then any of the games listed above. YEAH I FUCKING SAID IT.

OT: Storm of Swords, book 3 of George RR Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" series. In preparation for book 5. (OUT THIS JULY!!!!! FUCK YES!!!!!)

 

[Merkavar]

"So, what are you reading right now?

Inspired by the point Obama made about how gamers should switch...." is what im reading now

but in all seriousness im not reading any books atm. considering reading game of throne books. last book i read was blood of elves. the latest english translated witcher book.

 

[dark_mist34]

Age of zues

 

[standokan]

De helaasheid der dingen by Dmitri Verhulst, yeah, I didn't feel like transalating.

 

[Pegghead]

I'm reading a book called Duma Key.

It's pretty good, but I'm eager to finish it so I can move onto the other Steven King books at the library I got it from.

 

[Matt-the-twat]

East of Eden by John Steinbeck.

 

[Reaper195]

The final Dark Tower book. Fuck I love this series.

 

[Aurgelmir]

A Storm of Swords. The Third book in "A Song of Ice and Fire"

(Thats Game of Thrones to you TV people )

 

[mangus]

Against All Things Ending, By Stephen R. Donaldson. Book 3 of 4 of the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.