What are you reading?

[moog]

and before some of you go STOP TROLLIN i am actually reading it right now and it is very enjoyable

 

[candle]

That was one of my favorite books as a little kid.

 

[Mundane]

I never liked Thoreau. Something about his writing is a soporific to me.

And because of this fine fact I have since stopped. He tends to drone on in complicated language that doesn't get his point across until you've read like twenty pages.

Right now I am waiting for a friend to finish The Art of Hapiness by the Dalai Lama so that I may read it.

 

[dadevvtsvre]

The cat in the hat, dr suess

Moog, have you read Green Eggs and Ham? I read that thing twenty times a day bacy when I was a kid. Awesome book.

Actually, thinking about kid's books, there used to be this book at my doctor's office. It was about pickles or something. It went "Pickle this and pickle that, pickle you and pickle hat" except it sounded cooler. I think that was my favourite kid's book ever.

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler

Found it on the bus abandoned or left behind, so I picked it up

 

[___]

Little Brother, Cory Doctorow

It's a manual on cryptographic theory, information security, and the politics of privacy wrapped into a great near-future, slightly cyberpunky, dystopian thriller that a teenager could digest but an adult could enjoy. It's Orwell-lite for the children of the early 21st century. Doctorow is one of the few people who really gets information technology and the ways that its transforming society.

Oh yeah, it's also free and legal to read in PDF format because Doctorow is also way, way ahead of the curve in understanding how infotech is affecting traditional ideas of intellectual property and how to capitalize on the emerging paradigm.

 

[e]

Isn't that a children's book? Just saying. I haven't read any Doctorow's, but from the heroes are a courageous band of teenagers? It's a bit off putting.

 

[Glitchfinder]

Recently Finished:

By Tad Williams:
The Dragonbone Chair
The Stone of Farewell
To Green Angel Tower part I
To Green Angel Tower part II

By Raymond E. Feist:
Magician: Apprentice
Magician: Master
Silverthorn
A Darkness at Sethanon
Krondor: The Betrayal
Krondor: The Assassins
Krondor: Tear of the Gods

By Jim Butcher: (The Dresden Files)
Storm Front
Fool Moon
Grave Peril
Summer Knight
Death Masks
Bloor Rites
Dead Beat
Proven Guilty
White Night
Small Favor

By Jim Butcher: (Codex Alera)
Furies of Calderon
Academ's Fury
Cursor's Fury

Currently Reading:

Pawn of Prophecy, by David Eddings

Next up:

By David Eddings: (The Belgariad)
Queen of Sorcery
Magician't Gambit
Castle of Wizardry
Enchanter's Endgame

By David Eddings: (The Mallorean)
Guardians of the West
King of the Murgos
Demon Lord of Karanda
Sorceress of Darshiva
The Seeress of Kell

By Michael Crichton:
Jurassic Park
The Lost World

By Jim Butcher: (Codex Alera)
Captain's Fury
Princep's Fury

And whatever I get for Christmas.

As you can see, I like to read. I actually have many, many more books than this, but this is just what I've ready recently and plan to read soon in the future. (Recently is in the last month and a half, or thereabouts)

 

[e]

God, David Eddings...I read those things when I was 12, and although I'm glad I did (I mean, it is for teenagers, so whatever), I can't pick up another one of his books nowadays. The characters are all the same in everyone of his books; same couples relationship, same female/male stereotype, etc. Everybody ends up paired with a significant other. It is the modern fairy tale.

 

[Glitchfinder]

God, David Eddings...I read those things when I was 12, and although I'm glad I did (I mean, it is for teenagers, so whatever), I can't pick up another one of his books nowadays. The characters are all the same in everyone of his books; same couples relationship, same female/male stereotype, etc. Everybody ends up paired with a significant other. It is the modern fairy tale.

Lol, I agree. I just read it becasue it breaks more than a few stereotypes in the background. I mean, magic that backfires and destroys an entire city in an earthquake? A little kid literally becoming a new god? An insane god that gets killed to make room for the new god? You rarely see that kind of thing in any book. I would recommend the ones by Tad Williams. They're really interesting. And, honestly, I read for story, not for much else. If I wanted to, I could go from Lord of the Rings to Goosebumps without missing a beat. Also, try the dresden files. They are really intriguing. The plots in those are rather well done, and they have some hilarious dialogue. (Even though they are serious books, Dresden's defense against evil seems to be good comebacks. You'll laugh so hard when you read some of them.)

Oh, and you forgot the Angarak Kings, most of the sorcerors, and a couple other main characters who really end up with nobody. And, you've got to remember the end to the Mallorean. They actually make you question who is the good guy and who is the bad guy, even if only for a couple of pages.

 

[mdavis901]

God Emporer of Dune
by Frank Herbert

(my second time reading so I can be extremely accurate for my project)
I've read the whole saga once through, and House Atreides.  I still feel I should read the one about the Butlerian Jihad.

 

[e]

Yeah, Dune was an experience...I got hooked to this while traveling this summer and I literally sold my jacket for the next book.

And then I finished it, and realized that it wasn't that good. But it's freaking addictive.

 

[skirtboy]

The Butlerian Jihad trilogy ("The butlarian jihad, the machine crusade, and The Battle of Corrin) drastically change the series IMO. I thought they were good, but reading them made the originals a lot less fun.

 

[mdavis901]

The first three of the original saga were excellent, but the other three were uninteresting.

 

[moog]

tenjo tenge

 

[ya200]

Reading
The dark tower books by stephen king(on book 4)

Read
Within the past two months reread the inheritance books (eragon,eldest and purchased Brisingr)

Want to read
the fourth book of inheritance (although i have a long wait for that)


Also im quite dissapointed that paolini did not finish it up in book three.

 

[RedWitch]

Reading non-fiction book 'Bess of Hardwick' at the moment - its a plough because the author is a complete toff so you have to wade through her language - its quite scary actually I can almost hear her annoying RP voice reciting the book...determined to finish it though!

Last fiction book I read was 'Mort' by Terry Pratchett...not my favourite but hes always good for a laugh. Nice to see justice being done in that Mr Pratchett is getting a Knighthood this year woop!

Used to be really into David Eddings as an early teen but going back to them now I'm quite disappointed so haven't read any of his in a while and not even bothered with his newest stuff.

 

[Samhatake]

Just finished reading Chosen by Ted Dekker.
It's the first of the four boooks of the "Lost Books Series"
taht intertwines with two other series making it alltogether
"The Circle"...
The next book is Infidel, I'mma try to get that one then the third
and the last one called Chaos. Then the Showdown series
and finally the grahpic novels Black, Red and White.
It's going to take awhile but I'm gonna try to get "The Circle"
series done

 

[Surmuck]

I went to the dollar store the other day, and found this THICK hardbound book for a DOLLAR and had to pick it up, so I think I'm going to start that soon. It's like 800 pages, and called Mr. Norrell so if anyone knows why it would be at the dollar store let me know because I don't get it at all.
I mean, it looks decent. A little complicated, but intriguing too so I guess I'll see how it works out.

:cheers:

 

[Grathea]

Oh, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel? It's a pretty good book.
Very English, and the plot is pretty epic (I mean, it's 800 or so pages for a REASON), but it's a good read.