Books and the reading thereof.

[roscowgo]

Ok nerds. fess up. What you reading?


I'm starting to scrape the bottom of the list of my e-library.

Latest have been
have space suit, will travel
space cadet
tunnel in the sky
dune
Belgariad
Mote in the eye of god


Methinks its time to ransack the local library again. hrmmmmm

[asiantay]

A History of Ancient Egypt - Nicolas Grimal
Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City - Gwendolyn Leick
The Epic of Gilgamesh - Maureen Kovacs
You Just Don't Understand - Deborah Tannen
The Ancient Near East - William Dunstan
Taking Sides - Alison Alexander
Chemistry at UCLA: Chemical Principles, the Quest for Insight - Peter Atkins & Loretta Jones

[Ninja Geoff]

Dan Brown - all books
Neal Stephenson - Everything but the baroque cycle. Cryptonomicon is still one of my all time favs.
30 some od books based off starwars, all taking place after the original trilogy (including the 5-6 gap filler, name escapes me)
Every redwall book pre 2004
every wheel of time novel, at least once
MOST of Terry Goodkinds books
A lot of dragon lance novels
a few Forgotten Realms books
The Green Rider + 2nd book

this is mearly the things i can remember off the top of my head. My book collection is up over 100 books, easily. Currently taking a break from reading, i've run out of things that i want to read, for now. I have a goodkind book that i havnt finished somewhere, i may pick that up sometime soon.

[camthepyro]

Forever Odd, at the moment
And I just finised reading John Dies at the End 2

[dr_bar]

Mote in the eye of god

I'll assume you mean the Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven with Jerry Pournelle. , the sequel (The Gripping Hand) wasn't as good but still worth a read.

Some of my latest books not in any particular order:

• The Davinci Code - Dan Brown
• Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
  
  
• Hunters of Dune - Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
  
  Preceded by a re-read of;
  
  
• Dune
• Dune Messiah
• Children of Dune
• God Emperor of Dune
• Heritics of Dune
• Chapterhouse: Dune, all by Frank Herbert.
  
  Also recently read;
  
  
• Dune: House Atreides
• Dune: House Harkonnen
• Dune: House Corrino
• Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
• Dune: The Machine Crusade
• Dune: The Battle of Corrin, all by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
  
  As well as;
  
  
• Gardens of the Moon
• Deadhouse Gates
• Memories of Ice
• House of Chains
• Midnight Tides
• The Bonehunters, all in the "Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen" series by Steven Erikson

[sv-wolf]

I've got all these currently on the go. Never been good at just doing one thing at a time.


Haruki Murakami: Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- [Murakami has got to be the most gobsmackingly amazing writer I've ever read.]
John Pilger: The New Rulers of the World
- [Grim Stuff]
William Buck: Ramayana
- [A very loose retelling of the original - but great writing - I dip into this all the time]
Stephen Mitchell (Trans.): Gilgamesh
- [Snap! Asiantay]
Robert Reed: The Well of Stars
- [good gutsy space opera]
Nick Sanders: Journey Beyond Reason (fastest man around the world)
- [on an R1. Sanders is a complete nutcase and works hard to convince you of that fact]
An Atlas of English Dialects
- [A 'Wow! that's amazing, I would never have imagined that!' kind of book.]
Haruki Murakami: A Wild Sheep Chase
- [Ditto above]
Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
- [fourth time round - I love this book]
Haynes Motorcycle Basics Techbook.
- [What can I say!]

Mote in the eye of god

I'll assume you mean the Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven with Jerry Pournelle. , the sequel (The Gripping Hand) wasn't as good but still worth a read.

Mote is a great book. Didn't know there was a sequel. Thanks for the tip, Doc.

[Shiv]

Recently, as in the last 6 months or so:

A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Clash of Swords
A Feast for Crows
And when he publishes it, A Dance with Dragons

All by George RR Martin.


Also read Legacies by Margarett Weis and found out I didn't like that story line. I did however like the Darksword Trilogy.

Also read The Magic of Recluse and thought it sucked.

[mgdavis]

Ah, a fellow Heinlein fan. I'm just finishing Farnum's Freehold myself. The next one up is DaVinci Code, saw the movie and had to read the book. I love Job: A Comedy of Justice, I also enjoy Stranger in a Strange Land. I've been trying to find Citizen of the Galaxy to reread, I haven't read it since 7th grade or so and would love to read it again.

[dr_bar]

Ah, a fellow Heinlein fan.

I read "Have Spacesuit Will Travel" when I was in first grade, been stuck on the genre ever since. I've read all of Heinlein and one of my favs is "Time Enough For Love" Quite the history novel...

[sv-wolf]

Ah, a fellow Heinlein fan.

+1

Looks like we've got enough Heinlen nuts here for a new site!!!

I read Stranger in a Strange Land and Farnham's Freehold when I was sixteen and just kept on reading. The last Heinlen I read was about six years ago when I got hold of an old copy of Starship Troopers. Great stuff!