What Are You Reading?

[Head Mutant]

Since the music thread had one of these huge long chains, why not do it for books?

What books are you currently reading?

As for me:
* A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
* D&D 3.5 Ruleset
* The Drawing of Three by Stephen King
* Messy Spirituality by Mike Yaconelli (subtitle: "God's Annoying Love For Imperfect People"... I just love that)

[DarthToad]

I just finished High Fedelity. It still rocks even if you've seen the movie.

[Genetic Mishap]

I'm reading this message board.
More indirectly, I just started on China Meiville's The Scar, and yesterday I bought and finished a Foxtrot collection ("Your Momma Thinks Square Roots are Vegetables").

[HeyCreepy]

I am currently reading Salem's Lot by Steven King. I haven't seen the movie, but I heard it was pretty campy.

[Kitsune]

Ugh, Salem's Lot...

I HATE THAT BOOK. I own most of King's novels, and for some reason Salem's Lot seemed like one of the worst stories he's written. The short stories that revolve around Jerusalem's Lot are good - the novel isn't.

Anyway.

Currently finishing up Dolores Claiborne [King]. Afterwards I'm going to read an omnibus of four Philip K. Dick novels, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep included. Yah. And maybe I'll finish up The Hobbit too.

[Uber]

Well, this weekend was the 20% off sale at the local Half Price Books (hurray for used books). Purchased some replacements for loaners that people have borrowed and lost/sold over time, including: Sphere, Debt of Honor, Patriot Games, Sum of All Fears. Currently juggling three books: The Andromeda Strain, The Odessa File and The Picture of Dorian Grey.

[DarthToad]

Just remembered, once my dad's finished with it I'll probably read Lies and the Lying Liers Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look of the Right by Al Franken.

[Der Germ]

I'm in the middle of a few books. School books aside, I'm reading the Celestine Prophecy, Detour, and... another one... with words.

I'm dead from the neck up, sorry. haha.

[PoolMan]

I am cutting a... very... slow... path... through Dune. I love it, but there's just no way to speedread through that thing.

[Landatauron]

Still Life With Crows by Preston and Child
1984 by George Orwell

And I am still trying to get through The Hobbit. But for the life of me I can't seem to read more than 10 pages at a time. Maybe it's cause those 10 pages were Tolkien describing a rock. Damn Tolkien is long winded.

[Hucklebubba]

Of Men and of Angels by Brock and Bodie Thoene. Second book in the Galway Chronicles. It's the nicest little series you've never heard of!

Just got finished with a bunch of Max Brand westerns I picked up in a little tourist trap town in Colorado.

[Head Mutant]

Heh... if he thinks The Hobbit is long-winded, just wait...

[dajaymann]

I actually think I'll be getting the Lord of the Rings Trilogy (all in one convienient paper-bound edition!) this weekend from my wife. You see, she's getting a baby shower and I think she's giving it to me as some sort of daddy shower gift. Or something. The bottom line is I wanted to read it before Return of the King came out (I've been all about LOTR since the Two Towers came out on DVD). And I'll probably be reading a bit of that while I'm in the hospital with the birth of my first-born. Which is about a month away. Wow.

-Jay-

[PoolMan]

Wow, if you want to read the LotR trilogy before the movie release of Return of the King, you had better hurry. I've been known to take upwards of a year to get all the way through.

Of course, I'm a slow-reading mouth-breather.

[Lexiness]

Hey Pooly, I'm glad you're giving "Dune" a fair shot. Once you get a little more used to the style, I'm sure you'll pick up speed. Nevertheless, it deserves to be carefully read; there are just so many subtleties.

Myself, I just finished up the third book in the original Dune series: "Children of Dune" (yay, I got all the way through this time!). I have since started on the newly released "The Machine Crusade" the second book in the Legends of Dune prequels (which are set far back in the timeline prior to that of the Prelude to Dune trilogy, comprised of House Atreides, House Harkonnen, and House Corrino). Confused yet? You can always visit www.dunenovels.com

Otherwise, on the strangely good advice of a travelling Irish project accountant* I picked up a Terry Pratchett book, "The Science of Discworld II : The Globe" to be more specific. Apparently Pratchett had collaborators for this one, in the form of Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen, to provide more of the science behind the sci-fi. Reading it, I have been bitten by the need to include footnotes in everything I write, at the moment, so forgive me. I'm really enjoying it so far though, and I'm only about 25 pages in at the moment! It's managed to be funnier than "Element 79" (a Fred Hoyle book, mainly short stories) while still incorporating lots of serious science. Highly recommendable.

I'm curious to hear what you think of "The Scar", GM... Have you read the previous book, "Perdido Street Station"? I was blown away by it.

Lexi

-Beware the elves...

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* The recommendation was not strange because he was Irish, but more because accountants don't strike me as the type to be into science fiction; but that's the pitfall of stereotyping, I suppose. Good call, anyway!