What are you nerds reading? :D

[Timpossible]

Finished ASOIAF - A Dance with Dragons last week. A bit dry here and there but still fuckin' awesome!

After that I read "Er ist wieder da" (He's back again") A story about Adolf Hitler waking up on a Field in Berlin of the year 2012. Somehow he get's his own TV-Show. Everyone think he's just an actor and stuff.
It has some satirical content. But most things in there are just things you heard a thousand times: Yeah. german Television is shit. Yeah. People can be manipulalted. It's just so german. It has no real balls. Just those faux "Oh look I write Hitler as a human beeing and not as monster. How daring" Balls.

 

[Zakarath]

Rereading Words of Radiance, book 2 of the Stormlight Archives. This series is shaping up to be a sweet epic. I want more!

Eagerly awaiting The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Pat Rothfuss's Auri novel.

Glad to see people reading Snow Crash and the Codex Alera, loved those books.

 

[snappydog]

I'm currently reading 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. I'm loving it, but I would have a very hard time attempting to provide a short summary of what exactly it's about.

I'm making another attempt to read The Silmarillion. I succeeded once around ten years ago (after a few failed attempts because I just lost track of everything), so I'm ripe for this attempt.

So far, it's looking good. I'm up to the part where Feanor is introduced, and I've managed to retain the events that have happened so far.

I'm reading the Silmarillion.

I'll probably read Grendel afterwards.

I would recommend the Tolkien Professor's podcast, free on iTunes, if you want a bit of a hand engaging with the text. There's a full 'Silmarillion Seminar' podcast in which the professor and some of his students chat about each chapter, and it's really rather fascinating. Definitely helped me to get past the harder parts.

 

[rosac]

awesome, but I don't think Pratchett really hit his stride until much later. I'd recommend giving him another shot and reading Night Watch. Really. It's the book that turned Pratchett into one of my favourite authors, rather than just one I kinda pass the time with.

This is actually my favourite book, it's 10 years old, battered to hell, and I still read it frequently! (twice a year or more!)

 

[Reaper195]

Christ, I haven't touched a book in a couple of months now. I used to read all the goddamn time, but work has been kind of screwing me over recently. Last book I read was The Strain, by Guillermo del Torro and Chuck Hogan in preparation for the TV series. Books pretty good. TV series, while a bit different from the books, mainly suffers from average writing. Interesting colour schemes though.

 

[LadyTiamat]

A Dance with Dragons by George R R Martin

Not the most obsure book but im enjoying getting to read about my fav charaters (Tyrion and Dany!) again. Yet after that i have no idea as I have too many books( i but them faster than I read them) to choose from. Might read another Don DeLilio book or philip k dick....

 

[Vigormortis]

I'm working my way through the collected works of Isaac Asimov, Phillip K. Dick, Vernor Vinge, and Michael Crichton.

It's, um....a lot of books. Heh. But I managed to nab them all for a really good deal from a family friend. She was clearing out an old book collection of her recently passed uncle.

At this particular moment I'm knee-deep in the second book of Asimov's Foundation series.

 

[Guffe]

I think the last 5 books or so I've read are autobiographies.

At the moment it's the Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovich. Before that it was Liverpool players Kenny Dalglish, Craig Bellamy, Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher. Before that I read the book by Snooker players Jimmy White and Ronnie O'Sullivan. Then there was some Gladiator book before that and A Song of Ice and Fire series at the start of the year.

This year has been pretty busy, I think I read like 2 or 3 books in 2013 while this year has seen already over 10.
I usually read one chapter before I go to bed, it helps me sleep.

I also enjoy the stuff from the Warhammer universe, only read 2 or 3 so far, all 3 were good and then I like myself a thriller or some detective stuff.

 

[Angelowl]

Just purchased the unedited version of The Two Towers as well as Bram Stoker's Dracula (sceptical against the latter). Got Njal's Saga, a book on the history of the Balcans (spelling?) and some of Nietches works laying around.

Was fairly surpised by Machiavelli's The Prince. Now I want Achtung Panzer! and something by Voltaire.

 

[Vault101]

At this particular moment I'm knee-deep in the second book of Asimov's Foundation series.

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I was gonna read "The Caves of steel" but robots taking human jobs is feeling a liyylr to real right now

oh and 1o9 released their monthy book lists too...0_0...

I keep telling myself I'll finish the poisonwood bible and then read Cloud Atlas

 

[Johnny Impact]

Physics of the Impossible, by Michio Kaku. A nerd book if ever there was one. It's a breakdown of science fiction staples - ray guns, force fields, time travel - with explanations of how they might or might not conceivably be achieved in real life.

Before that it was the first Grimnoir book. Magic entered the world in the mid 1800s. Now it's the 1930s and society is getting used to the fact that 1% of people have powers. For example, the main character is a Heavy, able to control gravity in his vicinity, Torches light or snuff fires, Cogs are super-inventors, and so on. You have period stuff like old-school mobsters and the Kaiser, steampunk elements like war zeppelins, then a bit of the occult like zombies and demons thrown in. Fast, fun read. Will definitely finish the series.

 

[DANEgerous]

Doctor Sleep. I just read The Shining again and want to build a "King universe" knowledge as his son (Pen name Joe Hill) has already linked to his father's universe. So that is awesome as was NOS4A2 his kids first big hit that I got from one of them free E-Book offers.

 

[EHKOS]

I've been on a Robert B. Parker kick as off late. Finishing off Spenser novels at quite the rate. I've read them before, but I've forgotten most of them besides Thin Air and another I can't remember the title of.

The Spenser novels are one of a few series of books written by the recently late Robert B. Parker. They are about a private eye with a smart mouth, and occasionally one or more of his friends who he's picked up along his career. Hawk being the main one. He's involved with Susan Silverman, whom he's loved for many years, but both have decided against marriage. They still work out together without living together, but share a dog named Pearl.

The writing is simplistic and easy to read, but don't let it fool you. Robert can convey a lot of detail easily, and the conversations are great in a quick-witted sort of way. Not to mention there are plenty of references I don't get, either due to age or because they often involve poetry of legends passed.

There are over forty, but the first five don't represent the series well at all.

 

[Vault101]

Physics of the Impossible, by Michio Kaku. A nerd book if ever there was one. It's a breakdown of science fiction staples - ray guns, force fields, time travel - with explanations of how they might or might not conceivably be achieved in real life..

didn't that guy have a discovery chanel show? and the conclusion was a light saber wuld basically have to be a kind of plasma sword?

Doctor Sleep. I just read The Shining again and want to build a "King universe" knowledge as his son (Pen name Joe Hill) has already linked to his father's universe. So that is awesome as was NOS4A2 his kids first big hit that I got from one of them free E-Book offers.

when I first read hill I thought he was a poor mans Stephen king....(I didn't know)

haven't read much of his stuff but I'm not sure I like his prose style...maybe too sparse. I DO however really like the comic he did Locke & Key

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I am currently on the mistborn trilogy. I'm on the second book now and, well, I bloody loves it I do!
It has a brilliant concept and re imagining of 'magic' that keeps a fine balance between fantasy and Sci Fi and adds to a detailed world. I can't recommend this series enough!

I'm heading on to the night angel trilogy after.

 

[AceTrilby]

I have a list of novels I have to read for my course at university, and there have been some interesting ones so far.

Currently I'm reading William Kennedy's 'Legs', about the 1930s gangster Jack Diamond. I'm loving it so far, it's equal parts tragic and horrifying.

I would also recommend Hans Fallada's 'Alone In Berlin' (known in the US as 'Every Man Dies Alone'), one of the first German anti-Nazi books published after World War 2, following the story of a middle-aged man who drops postcards around Berlin as a way of opposing the Nazi regime. It was only just translated in 2009, but it's probably now my favourite book ever.

 

[timeformime]

Very cool to see a book thread, you are right that they don't get discussed enough.

The original Bond books are all free for Kindle Unlimited right now, so I decided to take a crack at them - I'm right in the middle of Ian Fleming's From Russia With Love. It's much better overall than Casino Royale, which is what I started with, and it isn't the typical Bond formula. The first third just follows Bond's Russian nemesis (I'm guessing), a Soviet executioner who just loves killing people, which is kind of a departure from the typical arc of Bond minding his own business --> problem over there with some crazy evil genius --> Bond saves the day and seduces a few ladies on the way. FRWL has a great setup, and makes me want to know what's about to go down.

After this, I'm going to see the movie, and then I'm going to get through more of a massive Ray Bradbury omnibus that's sitting on my shelf only about a third of the way read.

Also, to you guys who read War and Peace, I finished it a few months ago also, and wow, definitely worth reading. It kind of struck me while reading it that, because it follows different characters and switches points of view every 5-20 pages, it's basically paced like a period cable show in book form - if HBO did it right, it would be a hell of a show.

 

[Caostotale]

Out of many Brunner novels from my recent used-book windfall, I decided to start with this story, the first in his 'Zarathustra Trilogy'. I'd be lying if I claimed that the cover art didn't bias my choice.

 

[MrFalconfly]

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (finally got around to give it a look), and I just finished A Brief history of Time by Stephen Hawking (great read, but can get a bit abstract when he touches on the subject of "Imaginary Time")

 

[Hoplon]

Not reading anything right now after spending the first three months of this year only being able to read, got through 100 or so books.