Books Whats everyone reading atm?

[Ch3tan]

I think the latest ericksson book is out now isn't it? I'll pick it up when i go on holiday I think (next week!)

M

It's out in August according to amazon.

 

[TdC]

A Memory of Light split into three books!

Brandon Sanderson: Splitting AMOL

 

[Wazzerphuk]

About 3/4 of the way through The Trial now.

It's fupping good. Pretty ahead of it's time (thematically as opposed to stylistically). No wonder there's so much fuss about Kafka and so many authors expanding upon his ideas.

 

[Cozak]

Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A Salvatore
Homeland
Exile
& Sojourn
The Dark Elf Trilogy: "Homeland", "Exile", "Sojourn" Forgotten Realms: R.A. Salvatore: Amazon.co.uk: Books

I have read the Hunters Blades trilogy by him as well and couple other random books he wrote about Forgotten Realms. Main character is a dark elf called Drizzt Do'Urden from couple of the Baldurs Gates games as well. Mint books, highly recommend them good deep plots you can get into easily, the world it is based in is amazing as well the details are great and he describes the most amazing fight scenes quite technical the way he writes about the fight scenes but gives a good mental image of whats going on.

 

[Wij]

About 3/4 of the way through The Trial now.

It's fupping good. Pretty ahead of it's time (thematically as opposed to stylistically). No wonder there's so much fuss about Kafka and so many authors expanding upon his ideas.

I bluff my way on Kafka from the essay in Robert Silverberg's Dying Inside

 

[DaGaffer]

I bluff my way on Kafka from the essay in Robert Silverberg's Dying Inside

LOL. I bluff my way through most of the classics and a good deal of history thanks to Science Fiction. Space Lizards did invade in 1942 right?

 

[Uara]

LOL. I bluff my way through most of the classics and a good deal of history thanks to Science Fiction. Space Lizards did invade in 1942 right?

Hahahah that the Harry Turtledove series? I read those a couple of years ago (hmmm maybe 4/5 i cant remember) really enjoyed them. Actually just read the first in the re-telling of the first world war in which the CSA became a proper country and invades the USA. Really good read!

 

[mycenae]

I love the Drizzt Do'urden books, they are awesome....have you seen the graphic novels?

 

[Helme]

Drizzt landed with perfect balance. He started attacking the orc with perfect balance. He sliced the arm off the orc with perfect balance.

They are good timefillers though!

Personally I'm re-reading A Song of Ice and Fire series(by George R.R Martin), because apparently the 5th book is coming out this summer.

 

[Cozak]

I love the Drizzt Do'urden books, they are awesome....have you seen the graphic novels?

Never seen the graphic novels, I was actually heading into town to go to Borders today to get the Hellsing graphic novels so I will have to check that out as well

 

[Cozak]

They are good timefillers though!

Personally I'm re-reading A Song of Ice and Fire series(by George R.R Martin), because apparently the 5th book is coming out this summer.

Haha Well Drizzt definitely does have good balance xD

 

[Lethul]

I'm finishing up Gomorra, interesting read but not in the "fun" way

 

[Ch3tan]

(Yes, holy cow, I made a thread about books, try not to fall over!)

Brent Weeks | Author of the Night Angel Trilogy

Anyone else read these yet?

I got the trilogy at Christmas and I'm just starting to re-read it again. Have to say, it has the makings of a classic - really good story.

Its similar sort of setting to LotR, but its much darker and grittier... overall I'd say its a far better story - I'd really recommend it!

Just started getting into this based on Dukats recommendation, half way into the first book and I am hooked. Do not know what it is, but you really get a feel for the characters and care what happens to them very shortly after being introduced to them. Nice fast pace to the first book.

 

[Ch3tan]

Dust of Dreams (Malazan Book of the Fallen): Amazon.co.uk: Steven Erikson: Books

wooooooooooooo \o/ It's in the post on the way to me, cannot wait to find out what happens

 

[nath]

That's quite possibly the gayest cover I've seen short of "The Gerbil and You: The Finer Art of Anal Gerbil Insertion".

 

[inactionman]

Should have that tomorrow. Can't wait as there's not many books left in the series!

 

[Bahumat]

Pretty much everything by Jeffrey Deaver.

 

[Sparx]

I'm just about to finish His Dark Materials, great trilogy

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Been reading all sorts recently, Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths, Akutgawa - Roshomon & 17 Other Stories, Camus - The Outsider and John Christopher's The Death of Grass have been the recent ones.

Need to place an amazon order, got nothing to read after I've finished Akutagawa.

 

[chipper]

just finished reading the first 2 books in the darth bane trilogy (star wars) they arent epic but they were a good read wondering what star wars books to pick up next

 

[Cyradix]

just finished reading the first 2 books in the darth bane trilogy (star wars) they arent epic but they were a good read wondering what star wars books to pick up next

If you like the Star Wars books have a look over here : List of Star Wars books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Try the New Jedi Order. The storyline is spread over 20 books

 

[sayward]

Just read about 4 David Baldacci's on holiday.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

'Hacking' by Dr. Tim Jordan.

 

[TdC]

last book I read of you don't count Solaris documentation was Stephenson's Cryptonomicon that Will was kind enough to lend me.

 

[tierk]

X - autobiography of, yes you guessed it, Malcolm X as as told to Alex Haley.

Just finished Conn Iggulden - Lords of the Bow but i cant find the rest of the series here in Qatar - picked the book up in Duty Free somewhere, for the life of me i cant remember which country.

I have just started Mike Dash - The First Familly, Terror, Extortion and the Birth of the American Mafia. About halfway through this one, also a good read.

Moby Dick is still in the bathroom, read it whenever i am in there, but it is hard work at times.

 

[yaruar]

I've been on a bit of a reading trip recently.

Just finished China Miéville's Perdido Street Station and The Scar and have just started Iron Council.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Went on a small spree and ordered:

"Brave New World" - Aldous Huxley

"Notes from Underground and the Double (Penguin Classics)" - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"The Thirty-nine Steps (Penguin Popular Classics)" - John Buchan

"Selected Tales (Penguin Popular Classics)" - Edgar Allan Poe

"Aesop's Fables (Penguin Popular Classics)" - Aesop

"The Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)" - Franz Kafka

"The Plague (Penguin Modern Classics)" - Albert Camus

"1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four" - George Orwell

"Murphy" - Samuel Beckett

"The Idiot (Wordsworth Classics)" - F.M. Dostoevsky

Should keep me busy for a while!

 

[ECA]

Not reading much atm, next antipated release is :

The Gathering Storm: Amazon.co.uk: Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson: Books

 

[old.Tohtori]

I'd really love a new gaiman book

 

[Shagrat]

I've been on a bit of a reading trip recently.

Just finished China Miéville's Perdido Street Station and The Scar and have just started Iron Council.

I absolutely loved Perdido Street Station. Such an amazingly visualised steampunk type world.

His other books are pretty good, but I dont think any of them have come close to Perdido, his latest one The City and The City is weird beyond belief, about 2 cities that overlap each other where the citizensfrom one city have to not see anything in the other city or they "Breach" and get taken away. Some poor detective has to then investigate a murder that crosses over into the other city.

He has an amazing imagination for the bizarre and strange.