Books Whats everyone reading atm?

[Rulke]

I'm (re)reading the Exile saga by Julian May. At the end of Non-born king atm.

I remember reading that ages ago, the only thing I can still recall was that some of the woman had teeth in their vag's. Not the kind of thing you're likely to forget...

 

[TdC]

funny you remembered that bit dude, it's like 2 pages in four books

 

[DaGaffer]

Empire: What Ruling The World Did To The British. Jeremy Paxman. Its alright so far, but I'm halfway through and it hasn't really told be much that I didn't know already, and typically its focused on what the Empire did to the middle and upper classes, not the great unwashed.

 

[Shagrat]

I'm reading Songs of the Dying earth atm, a collection of short stories written by authors as a tribute to Jack Vance. Has entries by people like George RR Martin, and Neil Gaiman and is a really good read, all the stories are in a very similar style to Vance, but with each authors own twist.

really enjoying it atm, some good stuff.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Songs-Dying...7490/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323722013&sr=8-1

 

[Cadiva]

I've got A Dance With Dragons to finish, only got about 100 pages or so left of that. I also have Snuff by Pratchett to start reading, have to pick between Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies and Cecelia Ahearn's The gift for my book club and still have about half a dozen other books on the go on my Kindle.

 

[mycenae]

The Book of Deacon trilogy by Joseph Lallo. The first was free on the kindle and the other two only cost £1.99, and they are REALLY good. A bit LOTR meets necromancy!

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Just finished Kobo Abe's The Box Man.

Probably the only book I've read that I've really struggled to get my head around. It's not surprising; it's incredibly complex and surreal. This is about the best description of it I could find:

I will admit I'm perplexed by this book. There's a lot going on at the same time as there's very little action, and a dense cloud of unarticulated identities. The questions of identity and perception, originating from and reflecting back upon the self as well as piercing one from an outside source, are the central concerns of the story, and in problematizing common conceptions of these ideas, the narrative itself becomes problematic, approaching meta-narrative and introducing other tangential elements like the questions of authorial identity and intent, and the duality of our own voyeuristic tendencies - watching because we are desperate to be watched ourselves, or else because we're incapable of it.

Linking a lot of these themes is a muted acknowledgment that Japanese society (or perhaps any form of Western-style culture) underlies the tensions at work in the novel. Lurking somewhere just below the horizon, or perhaps looming above and out of sight of the observation window, is the world at large from which the box man has excommunicated himself. This particular aspect is addressed more thoroughly in The Ark Sakura (where one might recognize a re-imagined box man, fake box man, doctor, and nurse), but even here it is significant that the box man withdraws into his corrugated shell, where everything essential in life is literally within arm's reach, where one is responsible to no one but him or her self, and where typical social desires can be sublimated into the dualism of misanthropy and self-loathing.

Essentially, it's about a man who chooses to live in a box. Supposedly.

 

[TdC]

I'm rereading the WOT series. Just finished book 7. Also, I'm supposed to be reading a book about UML and design patterns but I've not actually touched it yet :-/

 

[Cyradix]

Keeping my inner nerd happy and dropped the 8 books of the "Fate of the Jedi" series on my Kindle

Just finished "The First Law" series by Joe Abercrombie

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Blade-I...=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331908469&sr=1-2

 

[DaGaffer]

Just finished "Blue Remembered Earth" - Alistair Reynolds. Was OK, but definitely felt like what it was, the opening episode of a series (Poseidon's Children). Better than Terminal World, not in the same league as the Revelation Space series (so far).

 

[DaGaffer]

Essentially, it's about a man who chooses to live in a box. Supposedly.

Was it this guy?

 

[Lamp]

Teeth of the Tiger - Tom Clancy

 

[Helme]

'En liten bok om ondska' - Ann Heberlein, basically a book about evil. A doctorate in ethics trying to define what it really is. Really interesting reading actually.

 

[Cerb]

Keith Richards auto-biography. It's good but there is some weird slang in there some times. I don't know whether it's just because he speaks weirdly or because the ghost writer just doesn't get some British expressions.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

Keeping my inner nerd happy and dropped the 8 books of the "Fate of the Jedi" series on my Kindle

Just finished "The First Law" series by Joe Abercrombie

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Blade-I...=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331908469&sr=1-2

Less reading, more logging in to heal

That said, I'm currently on "Last Argument of Kings". Loving it

 

[Bahumat]

Amazon emailed me saying the new Game of Thrones book 5 part two was out for kindle so i bought it...then i found out it's just the fifth book split into two books....I later received an email asking if I would like to refund my purchase...yes please!

 

[Lamp]

Just read Mr Messy Loved it

 

[Uncle Sick]

Sword Song - Bernard Cornwell. Again...

 

[Agell]

First book of the Kingkiller series by Phillip Rothfuss "The name of the wind". Quite a good read, only problem may be that first book 2007, second 2011, third....?

 

[Calaen]

First book of the Kingkiller series by Phillip Rothfuss "The name of the wind". Quite a good read, only problem may be that first book 2007, second 2011, third....?

The only problem with reading the first one? is the massive let down on the second tbh I really hope he gets back to form for the third one!

 

[Agell]

The only problem with reading the first one? is the massive let down on the second tbh I really hope he gets back to form for the third one!

I will carry one reading the first then I have the new Alastair Reynolds book to read. Once my head is fucked by that the 2nd book might as well be "Mr Messy"!

 

[Calaen]

I will carry one reading the first then I have the new Alastair Reynolds book to read. Once my head is fucked by that the 2nd book might as well be "Mr Messy"!

tbh it's an ok read, I just feel he could have done alot better, there is far too much filler in it!

 

[Levin]

"Ofredsår" - a Swedish book by Peter Englund, giving a very detailed description of life in Europe during the 16-hundreds. It especially examines the 30 years war; what caused it and what it caused in turn.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Currently reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

I haven't seen Blade Runner yet so this is all new to me. It's a fantastic book, it really is. Approaching 2/3rds through.

Is all Dick this good? (hrhr)

 

[Gwadien]

anyone read War and Peace?

 

[Wazzerphuk]

It's one of the few major pieces of Russian Literature from that period that I haven't got round to yet.

 

[Shagrat]

Currently reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

I haven't seen Blade Runner yet so this is all new to me. It's a fantastic book, it really is. Approaching 2/3rds through.

Is all Dick this good? (hrhr)

yeah he does write some good stuff.

i'd recommend from memory, er:

the man in the high castle
a scanner darkly
and definitely ubik, which is a right headscrew.

and loads of his short stories are good, and have been turned into sci fi like "we can remember it for you wholesale" which became total recall etc.

 

[Ormorof]

I am reading Stormcaller, first book in the Twillight Rein series, i discovered it on my bookshelf and have no idea how it got there (or who it actually belongs to!)

if it was a movie i would describe it as a "popcorn muncher" not particularly gripping, but quite entertaining

 

[Chilly]

The Mall
interesting

 

[Lamp]

Dead or Alive - Tom Clancy