What are you reading?

[MrWizard]

I know Dungeons and Dragons ensnared a lot of introverts, over the years, and if you weren't interested in complexity, you'd be playing another MMO, so I infer that many here are readers. With this background in place, what are you reading?

I've started The Thirty Years War by C. V. Wedgwood because I was interested in a lot of things I was reading references to in The Federalist. My last one for fun was The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.

just finished wil. mckinley biography...started b. harrisions..those to finish off the presidents from 1800s... after that it is the 1900s... t roosevelt to obama and my amer history lesson will end for a bit

[camels]

I am reading Frederik Pohl's gateway series

[Lord-Vega]

Just finished Clive Cussler's "The Wrecker" Now I have to scour the bookshelves for something.

I've been wanting to re-read the Shattered Chain sub-series of M.Z. Bradley's Darkover series.

Cheers,
bt

[Solanin]

I just finished "House of Many Ways" the sequel to "Howl's Moving Castle" by Diana Wynn Jones.
Going to start the "Dealing with Dragons" series or "The Enchanted Forest", whichever you call it, whenever the ups man brings me the first book! I have the other three..just missing the one.

Also I want to find some Dungeons and Dragons material to read, any suggestions?

[cheever77]

Just finished Clive Cussler's "The Wrecker" Now I have to scour the bookshelves for something.

I've been wanting to re-read the Shattered Chain sub-series of M.Z. Bradley's Darkover series.

Cheers,
bt

If you like Cussler. Can I suggest you have a look at Matthew Riley. Have just finished reading his books for the second time. Totally enjoyable..

[Illiain]

Rereading Steven Brust's Jhereg series. I like to read the entire series when a new book is about to come out, so I can catch all the little Easter eggs he drops everywhere.

[Lord-Vega]

If you like Cussler. Can I suggest you have a look at Matthew Riley. Have just finished reading his books for the second time. Totally enjoyable..

Thanks, I'll check him out. Another Cussler-like author is Jack DuBrul. He and Cussler have co-authored some stuff, and his Mercer series reads just like Cussler.

Cheers,
bt

[Grimdiegn]

Hans Christian Andersen, The Complete Fairly Tales

[hityawithastick]

Switching between The Silmarillion and Areas of My Expertise, and boy, is it jarring to swap from one to the other.

[Barthax]

The Warlord of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs

[Schmoe]

Good reads, but they are not for the feint of heart. They are soooo rough to get through. Basically imagine how fast you might read a normal page in a book. Now multiply that by 10. That's about the fastest pace I ever managed while reading any of his books. I kept having to read the same paragraph like 3-4 times to make certain i knew what was happening.

By the third time you read the series, that's not so much of a problem.

[Wrendd]

I am currently reading... nothing. And not by choice. I brought my Kindle with me to Afghanistan, but about a week after I got here the screen broke. Looks like the top 2/3 of the screen are flooded with ink and it is getting worse. All the data (120 books or so) seems to be intact and I backed it all up on my computer, but untill I can get another I am SOL.

When my Kindle is working (grumble, grumble, moan) I was reading "A Mighty Fortress" by David Weber, book 4 of the Safehlod series. It is one of my current favorite series and I reccomend it to anyone that enjoys sci-fi/fantasy.

I have also enjoyed the Phillip Mercer books, but it has been a while since I read any of them. If you like Cussler and DuBrul you might want to try out James Rollins as well, his Sigma Force novels are above average and a good way to pass the time.

Anyone here a Preston&Child fan? I am thinking of picking up the newest Penderghast book, but before I order it and pay for the shipping and wait for it to be delivered to Bagram I want to know if it is worth the trouble.

[Saaluta]

Currently reading Knot Gneiss, latest book in the Piers Anthony Xanth series. Waiting for 3/1/11 when The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss comes out. Seems that most of what I do now is wait for books to come out, lol....

Saal

[Wrendd]

If you like Cussler. Can I suggest you have a look at Matthew Riley. Have just finished reading his books for the second time. Totally enjoyable..

Matthew Riley is decent, but sometimes he manages to over-load my willing suspension of disbelief. His storys are definately fast paced, and would probably make a good action movie, but sometimes reading the super-human exploits of Scarecrow and Jack Whatshisname get to be a little much for me. Which is odd, because several of the books I enjoy tend to be more fantastic than Rileys, maybe there is just something about his writing style that does not sit well with me.

[Mithran]

Switching between The Silmarillion and Areas of My Expertise, and boy, is it jarring to swap from one to the other.

Incidentally, if you're able to make it through The Silmarillion, you should also try The Children of Hurin. Much lighter than The Silmarillion and the story outline is in there, but I found it to be an excellent book. Tolkien manages to make his dragons real, somehow.

[hityawithastick]

Incidentally, if you're able to make it through The Silmarillion, you should also try The Children of Hurin. Much lighter than The Silmarillion and the story outline is in there, but I found it to be an excellent book. Tolkien manages to make his dragons real, somehow.

O, is that a separate book? I always thought the Children of Hurin was inside the Silmarillion. D: If it's a separate one, I'll have to read it--I thought I'd read all of his stuff.

[Blank_Zero]

Atheist Manifesto.

Fun read, if a bit long winded.

[DMCain]

Recently finished reading Caverns of Socrates by Dennis L McKiernan, then moved on the the Honor Harrington books by David Weber and finished those last week. Now I have started re-reading the Wheel of Time series for the 6th or 7th (maybe 8th?) time.

I can plow through a good sized book in a couple, three days so I wind up re-reading a lot of stuff I already have while waiting for another book/series to catch my eye.

[Blazer]

Recent reads include:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Dante's Inferno
The Real History of the American Revolution
Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker series
The Millennium Trilogy

[Mithran]

O, is that a separate book? I always thought the Children of Hurin was inside the Silmarillion. D: If it's a separate one, I'll have to read it--I thought I'd read all of his stuff.

The basic story (though a bit different) is in there, just as LOTR is, but it's a separate write-up of the story in novel form. I found it to be really outstanding.