Books: What are you currently reading?

[Ryougabot]

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

 

[ej]

Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine

New from "Outtaourass Press"?

 

[Kepler]

I am reading The History of the Ancient World

And Dragons of the Highlord Skies

 

[Aldin]

I am reading Wolves at the border - Robert N Charrette - Classic Battletech - I love that era.

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

 

[NecroBlade]

Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine

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.

I am reading Wolves at the border - Robert N Charrette - Classic Battletech - I love that era.

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]

Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine

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.

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

 

[Mindfreak]

Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine

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.

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]

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]

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]

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.)

 

[DingoDarkly]

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.

Is the Daywatch book based on/adapted to the film of the same name?

 

[oni]

Yes, Daywatch was the basis of the movie. But the first book, Nightwatch contains the seeds for both movies. The Daywatch book has very little to do with the movie. I'm looking forward to both the third movie and book, Twillightwatch.

 

[Fallen Templar]

Finished Children of Hurin. Starting a Clockwork Orange

 

[dragonfire]

Well, I am at this moment reading this website, does that count?