Books: What are you currently reading?

[NecroBlade]

Originally Posted by ej

New from "Outtaourass Press"?

It's actually a very good series that compares themes in many different movies, TV shows, etc. to philosophical ideas, including Seinfled: A Book About Everything and Nothing; The Simpsons: The D'oh! of Homer; The Matrix: Welcome to the Desert of the Real; Buffy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale; Lord of the Rings: One Book to Rule Them All; Baseball: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box; The Sopranos: I Kill Therefore I Am; Woody Allen: You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong?; Harry Potter: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts; Mel Gibson's Passion: The Cross, the Questions, the Controversy; More Matrix: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded; and the one I'm currently reading.

More volumes in the works include Superheroes, The Atkins Diet, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Hip-Hop. No, I did not make any of the above up.

[Ryougabot]

Before I read Wolves, I actually read every Gray Death book. The origins are great, the further adventures are OK, but the final book was just to depressing for words. It seemed more like a sad attempt to end the CBT era. I found many instances of that toward the end.

Originally Posted by Aldin

Excellent choice I'm particularly fond of the series of books on the foundation of the Grey Death Legion.

~Aldin, who can't quite keep up with the new Dark Ages stuff

[ej]

Originally Posted by NecroBlade

It's actually a very good series that compares themes in many different movies, TV shows, etc. to philosophical ideas, including Seinfled: A Book About Everything and Nothing; The Simpsons: The D'oh! of Homer; The Matrix: Welcome to the Desert of the Real; Buffy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale; Lord of the Rings: One Book to Rule Them All; Baseball: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box; The Sopranos: I Kill Therefore I Am; Woody Allen: You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong?; Harry Potter: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts; Mel Gibson's Passion: The Cross, the Questions, the Controversy; More Matrix: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded; and the one I'm currently reading.

More volumes in the works include Superheroes, The Atkins Diet, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Hip-Hop. No, I did not make any of the above up.

Man... Outtaourass Press has quite the collection going.

[Mindfreak]

Originally Posted by NecroBlade

It's actually a very good series that compares themes in many different movies, TV shows, etc. to philosophical ideas, including Seinfled: A Book About Everything and Nothing; The Simpsons: The D'oh! of Homer; The Matrix: Welcome to the Desert of the Real; Buffy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale; Lord of the Rings: One Book to Rule Them All; Baseball: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box; The Sopranos: I Kill Therefore I Am; Woody Allen: You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong?; Harry Potter: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts; Mel Gibson's Passion: The Cross, the Questions, the Controversy; More Matrix: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded; and the one I'm currently reading.

More volumes in the works include Superheroes, The Atkins Diet, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Hip-Hop. No, I did not make any of the above up.

Where did you get those? What seection are they in?
I'm Reading Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows.

[Maska]

Emerald Eyes
The Long Run
Last Dancer


all by Daniel Keys Moran .... and for literally like the 30th time.

[royaldoy]

2nd book in the Shadowmarch series by Tad Williams. Slow going but enjoyable none-the-less.

[Aldin]

Originally Posted by Ryougabot

Before I read Wolves, I actually read every Gray Death book. The origins are great, the further adventures are OK, but the final book was just to depressing for words. It seemed more like a sad attempt to end the CBT era. I found many instances of that toward the end.

Bah! I just wrote and then deleted a massively fanboy post. Suffice to say I basically agree with you, though I rather enjoyed the clan story arc and the tale of Victor Ian Steiner-Davion.

~Aldin, who usually designs mechs for firepower rather than agility

[DingoDarkly]

Originally Posted by SgtDrill

The Seige of Eternity by Frederick Pohl, The Return of Nathan Brazil by Jack Chalker, and Live from New York by Tom Shales.

I usually have 3 or 4 books going at once... whichever one happens to be closest when I'm in the mood to read, I grab it and go.

You must be talented - i don't think i'd be able to manage more than one at a time - I would just get so muddled up with storylines etc.

[Doc_Savage]

I just finished "Learning the World" by Ken MacLeod, currently my favorite SF writer. This was another great read.

[NecroBlade]

Originally Posted by Mindfreak

Where did you get those?

I got it as a gift, so I don't know what to tell you. Amazon might have them, or there's more info on their site, opencourbooks.com (not outtaourasspress.com).

[oni]

I'm in the middle of reading 3 books, Daywatch by Sergei Lukyanenko, Corum: The Coming of Chaos by Michael Moorcock, and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami.

[Grishnakh]

I just finished reading "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara. It's a novel about the events of the battle of Gettysburg and it won a Pulitzer Prize. I highly recommend it. The Ted Turner movie "Gettysburg" was based on this book. (Just be warned that while it gets 90% of the actual battle right it is not completely historically correct. That doesn't make it a bad book, just don't walk away from it thinking you've read a historical account of the battle.) Even General Norman Schwarzkopf says that this is "the best and most realistic historical novel about war I have ever read." And who's to doubt "Stormin Normin"?

(And yes, believe it or not, Grishnakh can read.)