Whatcha Reeeading?

[SirDeadly]

Just finished "Rangers Apprentice: Halt's Peril", very good book.

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

I recently read an extract of 1984 and i want the whole book... but other than that working my way through the dawn of war blood ravens omnibus.

 

[dwitefry]

I've decided to post on this because I'm actually reading right now, I'm typing while reading (and listening to a Yahtzee review), the book is It by Stephen King, which is way better than the film and goes into the kind of excessive detail I want and would put into a story in a fictional town, so it seemed to me I was, if you will, fated to post here

MeX

 

[likalaruku]

I have tried to read adult literature, but I can't stand it. Why must romance & sex be in everything? I prefur books aimed at preteens or stuff that was written in the 1800s. Right now I'm feeling nostolgic & am rereading "CLUE", a series of short stories about people who hate eachother & try to find hilarious ways to kill eachother or steal eachother's stuff. Before that I read "A Series of Unfortunate Events," about a nutty actor who chases three orphans around the world so he can kill them & get their inheritance money. Before that I read "The Wizard of Oz". Aside from that, I'm reading a manga series called "Slayers" & Batman comic books.

 

[DoctorNick]

Well, I finished reading Qataban and Sheba a little while ago.

On to Unintended Consequences [http://www.amazon.com/Unintended-Consequences-John-Ross/dp/1888118040/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261363332&sr=8-1] by John Ross.

Because apparently I'm in a race to see how many FBI watch-lists I can get on!

 

[Gilhelmi]

I been reading the Works of Jules Verne. It is difficult mainly because of the 19the century English.

 

[Aerodyamic]

I just finished the Libba Bray book 'Going Bovine'. Surreal, but definitely an awesome read.

 

[Gilhelmi]

I just finished reading Farenheit 451, and finished writing a 1600 word essay on it for English. Pretty good book, I must say.

I loved that book. I am really hoping it gets made into a modern movie. My favorite part was at the end where they turn around to go back into the bombed city to try and rebuild.

 

[SnipErlite]

Trying to start and complete the Golden Compass series over break.

Series is actually His Dark Materials.

And it should be called Northern Lights really

/Pedantic

=]

 

[KingGolem]

I'm spending the winter vacation at my dad's house to try and get something productive done with my time off, mainly to learn programming with the C# programming language. But aside from the C# manual I'm reading from, I'm also reading:

The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories, by H. P. Lovecraft - It's a collection of some of H.P. Lovecraft's stories. I'm reading "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" right now.

Deathlands: A Pilgrimage to Hell, by Jack Adrian - This book is the first in an unimaginably long (86 books, apparently) series set in nuclear post-apocalypse land. It's kinda neat. It's all the good old apocalypse cliches you love before they even became cliches.

Aside from those two, I have a big stack of books with me that I haven't yet started on. I'm terrified of the idea of running out before my time here is up. Amongst the reading pile are:

Ars Magica by Judith Tarr
Mass Effect: Ascension by Drew Karpyshyn
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka (never underestimate the power of a dead artist, he can sell books that aren't even finished)
The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
Wizards by various artists (a collection of short stories by several fantasy authors, which I found at Books-A-Million on sale for $2)

As you can probably tell, I like short stories.

 

[Jedoro]

The Alphabet of Manliness

Certainly entertaining, got it for my brother but I thought I'd read it first.

 

[PunchClockVillain]

The Alphabet of Manliness

Certainly entertaining, got it for my brother but I thought I'd read it first.

That book is all kinds of awesome.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

Blue Beard by Kurt Vonnegut

 

[Cherry Cola]

This thread. <--- smartass answer

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Fatherland.
It's a book about the Nazis winning WWII and they are currently in a cold war with the U.S.A.
It's set in the 60's.

That sounds interesting. I assume in the book the USA never got involved in WW2 if its a "cold" war

 

[duckfi8]

Kill Bin Laden, Lone Survivor, Day by Day Amrageddon

 

[Dahni]

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (for my english class)
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
The Pub Landlord's Book of British Common Sense by Al Murray.

fuck knows how i keep up with the ideas/storyline of each.

 

[Crystal Cuckoo]

Catch-22 for school, right now. It's actually quite good, even though it is a bit of a mindfuck with all the different perspectives of the same event and all.

Then Hiroshima, Frankenstein and Waiting for Godot, also for school.

But for leisure, I'm reading Crocodile Tears by Anthony Horowitz, and then the new book by Matthew Reilly (which I think is called the 5 Ancient Warriors).

Yeah, I have a fair bit of reading to do these holidays.

 

[brass munkey]

Candide by Voltaire

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Fatherland.
It's a book about the Nazis winning WWII and they are currently in a cold war with the U.S.A.
It's set in the 60's.

That sounds interesting. I assume in the book the USA never got involved in WW2 if its a "cold" war

The world of the novel.

Throughout the novel, Harris gradually explains the historical development of the society. According to the novel's version of history, the German armies on the Eastern Front are stopped at the gates of Moscow at the end of 1941, as in our history. Defeated in battle but not demoralised, they launch a second major offensive into the Caucasus in 1942, cutting the flow of oil to the Red Army. The first point of divergence is that this second offensive is far more successful. With its armies immobilised for want of fuel, Joseph Stalin is forced to flee to the east, and a rump Soviet government surrenders in 1943.

The second major point of divergence is that around the same time, German intelligence (in a way never explained) learns the British have cracked the Enigma code, which is leading to the sinking of their submarines. They withdraw their submarines from the Atlantic temporarily and send false intelligence to lure the British fleet to destruction. The U-Boat campaign against the United Kingdom resumes, starving Britain into accepting a humiliating armistice in 1944. Winston Churchill, King George VI and other prominent British officials are forced into exile in Canada. Edward VIII regains the throne at the helm of a pro-German puppet government.

Germany tests its first atom bomb in 1946, and fires a "V-3" missile that explodes above New York City, to demonstrate Germany's ability to attack the continental United States with long-range missiles. Following this demonstration of power, the United States signs a peace treaty with Germany. This results in the Third Reich being one of the two superpowers of the world, along with the US, which defeated Japan, reflecting the actual history of the war, though a year later than in actual history.

Having achieved victory in Europe, Germany annexes Eastern Europe and most of the western Soviet Union into the Greater German Reich. Following the signing of the Treaty of Rome, Western Europe and Scandinavia are corralled into a pro-German trading bloc, the European Community. The surviving areas of the Soviet Union, still led by Stalin, become engaged in an endless guerrilla war with German forces in the Ural Mountains. Mounting casualties (at least 100,000 since 1960 stated in the novel and that the bodies have to be shipped back to Germany in the dead of night), have sapped the German military despite Hitler's earlier statement (quoted in the novel) about a perpetual war to keep the German people on their toes, like in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. By 1964, the United States and the Greater German Reich are caught in a Cold War and an arms race to develop more sophisticated nuclear weapons and space technology.

The novel takes place from April 14 ? 20, 1964, as Germany prepares for Hitler's 75th birthday celebrations. A visit by the President of the United States, Joseph P. Kennedy, is planned as part of a gradual détente between the United States and the Greater German Reich. The Nazi hierarchy are hinted at being desperate for peace because the German economy has been staggering since the end of the war and the cost of fighting the war against the Russians has led to a situation whereby German citizens are encouraged to make even larger contributions than before to "Winter Relief". The Holocaust has been explained away to the satisfaction of many as merely the relocation of most of the Jewish population to the East into areas where communication and travel are still very poor, explaining why it is impossible for most of their relatives in the West to contact them. Despite this, many Germans are aware ? or suspect ? the government has eliminated the Jews.

That sounds interesting. Any particular political slant other than "Nazis are bad" or is that where it stops?