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Books: What are you currently reading?

johnny139

johnny139

Never CoN a CoN man
Well, the people around here like to read, and we have a music thread, so... why not! What are all you people currently reading?

I just started To Kill Rasputin by Andrew Cook. It's very interesting, and gives a second look into Rasputin's final days. After that'll I'm going to give a long overdue look at American Gods.
 
Iron Council by China Mieville. I usually like older books - 1930's and older - though. The book is pretty good but doesn't have as interesting a feel as Perdido Street Station did. Perdido Street Station really lost the cool at the end and turned into a run-of-the-mill action story though. Most books with a really interesting premise seem to do that (Snow Crash comes quickly to mind here). I'll see if this one does too or if the themes of industry, civilization, and freedom actually go anywhere.
 
Decided to take a break from Fantasy and Sci-Fi for awhile, I'm reading the Alex Cross novels by James Patterson. I just finished Along Came a Spider and started Kiss the Girls last night.
 
I'm reading 30-year-old or older copies of Asimov, Analog and other sci-fi magazines I bought at an old bookstore years ago.
 
ej said:
I'm reading 30-year-old or older copies of Asimov, Analog and other sci-fi magazines I bought at an old bookstore years ago.
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I dig Asimov, particularly the Robot stories and novels.
 
I just finished A Seperate Peace for school next week. I started Children of Hurin this afternoon and am about half-way through.
 
Johnny, with Ag, be prepared for a long immersing journey. I finished Feast for Crows and plan to read Outbound Flight next. I recently re-read The Nine Books of History and about half of Tristan in the non fantasy sci-fi arena. I'm also reading Meg Gardiner books.
 
Yay! BookClub! :cheer:

I've read Neverness and only have 200 pages left of the sequel, The Broken God. The Broken God is the first in a trilogy and is written by a British Author, David Zindell, so you guys in the States probably haven't heard of him or the books. They are full of Philosophy and Science and Mathmatics, good storyline but sometimes hard to understand. I'm really enjoying it though and can't wait to read the next installment.
 
So I went to Borders last night and bought myself a book, Armegeddon's Children - Genesis by Terry Brooks, only to realize I had already bought it in hard back about 6 months ago and had read it (The hardback didnt have the title "Genesis" so I thought it was a different book until I started reading it and was thinking, Wow, this is really familiar. I flip back to the last chapter, wow, the exact same cliff hanger...) Man is that embarrassing.
 
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke.

An admirably readable fantasy tome about English magic circa the Napoleonic Wars. In a lot of ways the niftiest thing about it is that I have absolutely no idea where it is going - I'm just along for the ride. Recommended on a library newsletter to which I subscribe, I've been very pleased.

~Aldin, who also strongly recommends His Majesty's Dragon for Napoleonic era fantasy
 
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. :)
 
Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine
 
I am reading Wolves at the border - Robert N Charrette - Classic Battletech - I love that era. I guess after you grow up you never lose sight of your past. I squeeze that in around Engineering Economy - I guess that even after you graduate, you never quit schooling
 
I am reading The History of the Ancient World

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And Dragons of the Highlord Skies
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Ryougabot said:
I am reading Wolves at the border - Robert N Charrette - Classic Battletech - I love that era.
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Excellent choice :up: 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 said:
NecroBlade said:
Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine
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:rofl:

New from "Outtaourass Press"?
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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.
 
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