So, what are you reading right now?

[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.

 

[William Ossiss]

im waiting for the next dresden file book. it comes out the 26th...

...of July

CRAP!!!
really?
damn you wikipedia!!!
though, the synopsis of ghost story (which i read on jim butcher's website) is rather...

dumb.

but, really... it's all i have right now. at least till i get more drizzt or find another series i absolutely adore...

anyone have any suggestions?

 

[lettucethesallad]

The Game of Thrones books and Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. I've read Murakami about a thousand times, but it's one of those books I can come back to again and again. Good stuff.

 

[Furbyz]

Under the Dome by Stephen King.

It's very good and not quite as Stephen King cliched as some of his other stuff. Also, I keep noticing mistakes whoever his editor is missed: accidental paragraph change in mid-sentence, a comma splice, etc. Two or three mistakes in 1000 pages isn't so bad though.

It's about a force field randomly isolating a small, rural town that I'll give you three guesses on where that town is and the last two don't count. Then the struggles and eventual toll of that isolation upon the townspeople's psyche. And of course, the people that were in power before the dome came down try and assert even more authority over the community, all but turning the society into a police state.

I highly recommend it.