Whatcha readin' right now?

[Jintor]

This is a pro-book thread.

Mortal Engines series

I know it says "Children's Award" on the front, but trust me, this is a quartet of Steampunk books you really really have to read. Incredibly awesome.

 

[Darkside55]

Just finished up book two of The Looking Glass Wars, "Seeing Redd." It's a reimagining of Alice in Wonderland, supposing that Wonderland is part of another world and has it's own intrigues. Very cool books.

Tonight, starting up on book seven of The Legend of Drizzt, "The Legacy," continuing the story of the chaotic good drow ranger.

 

[Raziaar]

Pre-Algebra Deymystified. ;(

 

[Sheepo]

The Stand

 

[Dan]

An African in Greenland

 

[Polaris]

How to speek lika nigga yo'...

Seriously, I'm reading The Golden Avatar, I get that book from some quasi-dharmic-new-age-hindu-Hare Krishna guys in tea-house. It's quite interesting.

Munro, we need book section!

 

[Kaptain H]

Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod. Folge 01. Ein Wegweiser durch den Irrgarten der deutschen Sprache.

It's a great read.

 

[sinkoman]

Jesus shit, I haven't finished a book in so long.

My mom used to make me read two books per month from 8 years old till my Sophomore year in high school. I've truly just gotten downright sick of books.

I've had a time trying to find something that interests me these days anyway. Vonnegut was the last writer to catch my attention, and i've pretty much read all of his novels (aside from a few).

Last book I started was something about a journalist who followed the Hell's Angels to figure out what they were all about. Was written terribly, and I stopped half way through.

Sorta off topic, do you folks think it's worth any time to re-read books that I thought were marvelous? I keep crossing the thought of re-reading Blackhawk Down, The Hobbit, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, and Foundation's End (I think that's it, the one where they discover Gaia), but keep thinking it'd be a waste of my time to do so.

 

[Darkside55]

If you enjoyed the book, why not read it again? Obviously you're not going to dislike it.

I go back and read certain books all the time, or at the very least specific parts of books that I've re-read several times.

 

[Raziaar]

Sorta off topic, do you folks think it's worth any time to re-read books that I thought were marvelous? I keep crossing the thought of re-reading Blackhawk Down, The Hobbit, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, and Foundation's End (I think that's it, the one where they discover Gaia), but keep thinking it'd be a waste of my time to do so.

It depends on the book I guess, really. Same logic can be applied that I apply to old cartoon shows I used to watch. I'd feel so nostalgic that I'd watch some old shows I used to love, and I'd be sitting there with my jaw slack and saying to myself, "I used to like this shit?"

 

[sinkoman]

It depends on the book I guess, really. Same logic can be applied that I apply to old cartoon shows I used to watch. I'd feel so nostalgic that I'd watch some old shows I used to love, and I'd be sitting there with my jaw slack and saying to myself, "I used to like this shit?"

Really?

When I rewatch something of a time passed, I generally just get this amazingly awesome feeling of "those were the good times", and life just feels great.

 

[Darkside55]

I kinda want to know what old cartoons Raz is talking about, but this isn't the thread for that.

 

[99.vikram]

Wow, a nice civil way to prevent derailment.

I tried to read Mein Kampf for a while, but I just don't dig it. It's mostly generic pro-racism propaganda. And I'll be starting House Atriedes some time soon.

 

[Druckles]

Mortal Engines series

Now they were awesome. You've made me want to read them again.

Only book I'm really reading atm is C++ in 24 Hours.
It's taken me several weeks

 

[Narvi]

Making Money.

 

[Operational]

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

 

[Darkside55]

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

I just wiki'd that, and I think I'll take a look at it next time I'm at the bookstore.

I'll also have to look up Mortal Engines, because it sounds interesting, although I'm not a big fan of steampunk.

 

[Asknoone]

I just finished reading Watchmen which was all kinds of awesome.

I'm now reading a college text on Psychology. Which is not quite so awesome.

 

[Jintor]

I just wiki'd that, and I think I'll take a look at it next time I'm at the bookstore.

I'll also have to look up Mortal Engines, because it sounds interesting, although I'm not a big fan of steampunk.

It's a really good series. I first picked it up when I was... 14? And I had no idea what was going on, so I read the first book and forgot about it. Now that I'm 16, I have a much better idea of what's going on, plus I understand half of what he's doing, getting all the extra references etc. It's a damn good series, and it's really well written, too.

You don't really need to be a fan of Steampunk, I wasn't really until I picked up the book (and I don't think I really am now).

Anyway, I just finished the last book and let me tell you the ending is really well done.

 

[Skaadi]

Reading Tolkien's "Children of Hurin", oddly enough, I'm enjoying it more than Lord of the Rings.

 

[Sliver]

Reading 1984

Planning on reading Children of Hurin and the Golden compass

 

[Eejit]

Dan Simmons, Olympos.
Excellent series of books.

 

[dfc05]

Just finished Snow Crash, would be reading All Tomorrow's Parties if it weren't for all these final exams.

 

[Vigilante]

Finished The Golden Compass a few days ago...the movie isn't very faithful to the book. I've just started the second book in the trilogy.

 

[repiV]

Dan Simmons, Olympos.
Excellent series of books.

I've got Hyperion, but I haven't read it yet.

Just finished Hidden Empire by Kevin J. Anderson, first in the Saga of Seven Suns series. I think it's a great book, but it's drawn a lot of criticism mainly for the way it's written - a cast of about two dozen different characters, each chapter is told from a different viewpoint and lasts between three and five pages. So it can lack depth on an individual basis, but it uses all the different viewpoints to build up the epic story. I guess it's an acquired taste.
Currently reading Woken Furies by Richard Morgan. Second sequel to Altered Carbon, which is a book that must be read.

 

[Krynn72]

Maya Killer Tips.

 

[Seppo]

halflife2.net forums

I'm replying to this topic. what did you think I was reading?

 

[Druckles]

Finished The Golden Compass a few days ago...the movie isn't very faithful to the book. I've just started the second book in the trilogy.

It's called The Northen Lights. And how can you expect a film to assrape such an awesome book to be "faithful"? Its own redeeming factor is the fact that it's supposed to be based on the book.

 

[mchammer75040]

Im in the middle of 3 books at the moment ( I have a tendency to do that):
Travels with charley by john steinbeck
On the road by jack kerouac
Generation of swine the gonzo papers vol 2 by hunter s thompson (****in hilarious)

 

[knut]

Making Money.

Any good? I quite enjoyed Going Postal but I've heard it's more of the same. No bad thing, I guess, but it worries me Pratchett is starting to dwindle in creativity at the moment. Or so I've heard.

At the moment I'm reading the second installment of the Warhammer 40k Gaunts Ghosts collection. Installment as in the second 'section' of books as a while ago they decided to split them all up into different areas. Reading Honour Guard to be specific. It's pretty good, and I know for a fact it will get amazing later as they always do, it's just I don't have much motivation to get really stuck into it at just yet.

 

[<RJMC>]

how to become a susscesfull pornstar in 72 hours










ok 1984

 

[Narvi]

Any good? I quite enjoyed Going Postal but I've heard it's more of the same. No bad thing, I guess, but it worries me Pratchett is starting to dwindle in creativity at the moment. Or so I've heard.

At the moment I'm reading the second installment of the Warhammer 40k Gaunts Ghosts collection. Installment as in the second 'section' of books as a while ago they decided to split them all up into different areas. Reading Honour Guard to be specific. It's pretty good, and I know for a fact it will get amazing later as they always do, it's just I don't have much motivation to get really stuck into it at just yet.

It's pretty much a direct sequel. Sure, it picks up a year after Going Postal, but if you read it right after Going Postal you'll feel like you're reading more chapters from the same book. It's rather slow near the start, though, and the villains aren't exactly as awesome as Gilt was, and the situation never seems are desperate as it did in Going Postal, but it's still got a nice conclusion as well as another setup for the next book. Moist's place in the world seems to have become Vetinari's instrument for massive social and economic change, and that is awesome.

It's not quite as good as Going Postal, but it's definitely value for your money. More of the same, but it's a good same.

Mind you, I'm worried for the future of the series since Pratchett has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's.

 

[Phobie]

I'm usually reading something by Bukowski.

Oh such love I have for him.

 

[staticprimer]

Chechnya: Life in a War-Torn Society by Valery Tishkov

No, it's not for any class I have.

 

[Solaris]

If this is a man - Primo Levi

 

[Reginald]

This is a pro-book thread.

Mortal Engines series

I know it says "Children's Award" on the front, but trust me, this is a quartet of Steampunk books you really really have to read. Incredibly awesome.

Ossum. Just about to read them again in anticipation of the films.

Just finished up book two of The Looking Glass Wars, "Seeing Redd." It's a reimagining of Alice in Wonderland, supposing that Wonderland is part of another world and has it's own intrigues. Very cool books.

Plan on reading these soon.

I just finished reading Watchmen which was all kinds of awesome.

Ossum.



I'm currently re-reading all the works of Neil Gaiman that I own after Stardust and Beowulf rekindled my obsession. Seriously, American Gods is one of the best books written this century and I would recommend it to absolutely ANYONE. Hear me?

 

[Vegeta897]

Lovely Complex Vol.2

 

[Druckles]

Wait... there's movies of Mortal Engines??

 

[Reginald]

They're a-making them. Mortal Engines and Predator's Gold comprising the first one and Infernal Devices and A Darkling Plain comprising the second. Not even in production yet sadly. Commissioned though.

 

[Cavalry]

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
and for school
Of Mice and Men