What is The Escapist reading?

[189-snakes]

I'm currently in the middle of "ZigZag" which covers the exploits of World War 2 double agent Eddie Chapman.

 

[tlozoot]

Persuation by Jane Austen. Against my will though.

Also I Shall Wear Midnight by Pratchett.

 

[BenzSmoke]

'Conan the Barbarian' by Robert E. Howard and 'The First Men in the Moon' by H.G. Wells.

 

[cannot_aim]

The Evolutionary Void by Peter F Hamilton

and a bunch of boring textbooks

 

[Chicaine]

Currently reading High Society by Ben Elton and Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Not long finished To kill a mockingbird

In my to read pile is lord of the flies, the picture of dorian grey and treasure island among other mediocre shit

 

[zHellas]

Re-reading "John Dies at the End".

 

[Windsaver]

The Lost Years of Merlin series by T.A. Baron

But yeah...

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

I'm currently reading Shooter by Jack Coughlin. Really nice sniper autobiography, I love it.

 

[Fire Daemon]

I'm reading The Count of Monte Cristo at the moment but I actually started reading it about a year ago and then stopped, I just started to pick it up again. Before that I read A Song Of Ice and Fire and loved it. If any of you want a good fantasy series pick up Book 1 of ASoIF, Game of Thrones.

 

[silver wolf009]

I just finised getting beaten by Tolkien again and im going back to the Bartimaus Trillogy to put that beast down once and for all.

 

[Goldeneye103X2]

Two books actually:

The count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
and The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson

I should only be reading one at a time, but they're both so good.

 

[Engarde]

The Passage, by Justin Cronin. Its bigness makes me feel comfortable with myself.

Me too
It's about to get interesting too, but I left it at my apartment

Heh, I am nearly done it now. Quite a good book.

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

Books

May I recommend The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde? A wonderful re-working of Jane Eyre.

You may Mr. Root, but I'm afraid I've already beaten you to it - I've read the majority of that series, and I agree, its wonderful.

Its good to see someone else who's read that book, though. No-one I know has.

 

[CroutonsOfDeath]

"The Graveyard book" by Neil Gaiman is on my plate; it's a bit jarring to switch to his novels for younger audiences but being the Gaiman cocksucker that I am I have to read it. I just barely started it though because I'm also getting all Classical and reading the complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; all the original short stories/novellas by Conan Doyle, none of the non Doyle-ian follow ups.

 

[Antendo]

The third book in the Juoppohullun päiväkirja-series "Raskausarpia" by Juha vuorinen, and after this the third Mass Effect book "Retribution" by Drew Karpyshyn, and after that, "Mogworld" by you-know-who.

And after that I don't think I'll be reading any "real books" in a while, just manga.

 

[GonzoGamer]

I myself am reading The Horus Heresy series. I'm currently on Flight of the Eisenstein.

How is that? I'm a fan of 40K (and have been since Rogue Trader days) but I've heard mixed reactions about the novelizations of the most intriguing portion of space marine history.

Welcome to the club. I've played since the first release of 2nd edition.

The novels are, in all, pretty damn good. Black Library has its best writers tackling what is, to GW, a very sensitive era. But to us who grew up wondering what the flip happened in those days, it's a godsend. That, and the little things, like seeing established characters (mostly chaotic ones) in the days when the Emperor walked among them. For example, its quite funny to see Kharn, of the betrayer fame, as the voice of reason in the World Eaters legion.

A couple of books feel a bit flat. "Battle for the Abyss" is a collection of clichés, and "Descent of Angels" doesn't even take place during the Heresy except in its final stages. But brilliant books like the first trilogy, "Flight of the Eisenstein", "Legion", or "Tales of Heresy" more than make up for it.

A funny sidenote: my very favourite story from the Heresy features almost no violence. The superb short story "The Last Church" from the "Tales of Heresy" compilation is one of the best pieces of fiction to ever come out of the Black Library, featuring a theological debate between the Emperor and a priest over a nice glass of wine.

Now if you'll excuse me, I've actually got a game tomorrow, and I gotta go pack up my army.

I'll check out the first trilogy then.
My tabletop nemesis has been more interested in playing Borderlands with me lately (not necessarily a bad thing) than pitting his Chaos Marines against my Orks but I still check out the new stuff and even pick up a $9 copy of white dwarf now and then; now that they made the battle reports cool again - though they still need to use more customized armies in them again. I'm surprised I haven't read those books. Now that I think of it, I can see a lot of that 40k universe in my friend's book.

 

[Iwata]

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My favourites were Fulgrim and Nemesis, it made me happy that my guess of what a Vanus assassin did was bang on and I like the slower stories generally.

Nemesis is sitting in my night table, waiting for me to pick it up. But alas, I've got a tournament this coming Saturday, and my time is being used in putting together my Valkyrie Assault Carrier for my Stormtroopers to jump out of.

 

[Iwata]

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My favourites were Fulgrim and Nemesis, it made me happy that my guess of what a Vanus assassin did was bang on and I like the slower stories generally.

Nemesis is sitting in my night table, waiting for me to pick it up. But alas, I've got a tournament this coming Saturday, and my time is being used in putting together my Valkyrie Assault Carrier for my Stormtroopers to jump out of.

Yeah...as soon as I get back to uni I've got two wave serpents to put together. I hate vehicles, so fiddly.

I won't spoil it but it's an interesting background book, not so good on story but detailed enough to be good fluff.

Eh, all I know is that Constantin Valdor's in it, and his presence makes anything doubly awesome.

 

[Ascarus]

I am currently reading The Girl Who Played With Fire, book 2 in the so called Millennium series by Steig Larson.

I don't think these books are nearly as good as people were leading me to believe.

 

[Something Amyss]

I just started re-reading "The Wizard of Oz."

SDon't know if I'll stick with it or go on to something new.