Books Whats everyone reading atm?

[Shagrat]

I've just picked up the final Wheel of Time novel, A Memory of Light.


So that's 909 pages of hair braid pulling and dress straightening to get through

 

[leggy]

Neil Stephenson - Snow Crash

 

[Lamp]

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64773.Coalescent

Its easy reading, but I'm struggling to like it. Good toilet & going-to-bed material.
My first Baxter book.

Looking for some immense grand space opera scifi monster, like Peter Hamilton

 

[DaGaffer]

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64773.Coalescent

Its easy reading, but I'm struggling to like it. Good toilet & going-to-bed material.
My first Baxter book.

Looking for some immense grand space opera scifi monster, like Peter Hamilton

Probably not the best of his to choose as a first read. Its part of a trilogy that...isn't, exactly. I like Baxter but he's not what you'd call an optimist.

 

[Hawkwind]

Comedy - The man who forgot his wife. Bloody funny, was chuckling away on a flight back from LA for hours reading it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Man-Who-Forgot-Wife/dp/0552771635

 

[Zede]

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64773.Coalescent

Its easy reading, but I'm struggling to like it. Good toilet & going-to-bed material.
My first Baxter book.

Looking for some immense grand space opera scifi monster, like Peter Hamilton

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100365.The_Mote_in_God_s_Eye

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21611.The_Forever_War - Peter Hamilton's inspiration, he's said so himself.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1126719.House_of_Suns

all good stand alone books involving lots of space ships, it's the law in space opera !

 

[Killswitch]

Just started read the First Law series by Joe Abercrombie and it's not bad. Unfortunately I came straight from a Neal Stephenson double (Cryptonomicon -> Snow Crash) and to be honest everyone else's writing is pants compared to his...

Maybe not pants then, but there's something about Stephenson's turn of phrase that makes me really enjoy his books. Robert Rankin has a similar effect.

 

[Lazarus]

Just started read the First Law series by Joe Abercrombie and it's not bad. Unfortunately I came straight from a Neal Stephenson double (Cryptonomicon -> Snow Crash) and to be honest everyone else's writing is pants compared to his...

Maybe not pants then, but there's something about Stephenson's turn of phrase that makes me really enjoy his books. Robert Rankin has a similar effect.

Almost finished the 3rd book. Read the first book a few years ago and never got round to continuing. had it on the kindle and thought "why not". finished the second book last week and nearly completed the third. Actually enjoying it

 

[leggy]

Richard Morgan - Broken Angels ... meh.

Should have stopped at Altered Carbon (the 2nd time).

 

[rynnor]

Das Capital - Karl Marx - heard about it before and fragments from it but thought I should read a book that helped to shape a century.

 

[Deebs]

C.R.O.W. and liking it. Not a patch on Hicks and the "In Her Name" series mind.

 

[wolfeeh]

Raymond E Feist's Empire trilogy. again. possibly fifteenth time?

 

[wolfeeh]

and also; Confessions of a Police Constable, which is sort of a compilation of Gizmodo's column by Matt Delito with extra material added in. Worth £2.99, think I'd have felt robbed if i'd paid more. v. good reading if you've never read the column though.

 

[CorNokZ]

Comedy - The man who forgot his wife. Bloody funny, was chuckling away on a flight back from LA for hours reading it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Man-Who-Forgot-Wife/dp/0552771635

thought it was gonna be the reversed Notebool

 

[Fafnir]

About to start the latest massive books about Thomas Covenant...

 

[TdC]

how are those Fafnir? I've never read one and I'm thinking I could get in to some new books over the summer

 

[dysfunction]

I read them many many many many many many [/police academy] years ago.

From what I remember they were quite good. Some of it dragged a bit but was still good.

 

[Fafnir]

Yeah the first 6? where great, some a bit long, but altogether great, Thomas Covenant is a real reluctant hero who makes his misstakes. Have yet not started to the first of the new ones.

 

[TdC]

hmm sounds decent. perhaps I shall get the first one...

 

[Lamp]

Just finished reading Garden of Beasts by Jeffery Deaver

Action/adventure set in 1936 Nazi Germany. An absolute addictive page-turner. Easy to read, impossible to put down. Highly recommended

 

[Billargh]

Think it's about as close as we'll get to a biography on Chris Morris, very interesting read thus far!

 

[Bigmac]

I still haven't finished book 1 of Game of Thrones. About half way through it.

 

[DaGaffer]

Just finished On The Steel Breeze, the new Alistair Reynolds. Really good, a return to form after a couple of indifferent books.

Just about to start the new Max Hastings about WWI.

 

[Kryten]

Just started Inferno. Always rather liked these.

 

[Lakih]

how are those Fafnir? I've never read one and I'm thinking I could get in to some new books over the summer

I started reading the first Tomas Covernant book but stopped. It is the only book (fiction) to my recollection that I've not read all the way through. I came about half way and then couldn't take it anymore. I have heard a lot of positive things about those books but it just wasn't for me.

Currently reading Trudy Canvan's second trilogy - Traitor spy. Good enough and easy to flip through pages. Nothing really spectacular, but she does raises questions about sexuality, class boundaries and acceptance.

The 3rd Demon Cycle book by Peter V Brett came out yesterday and Scott Lynch released his 3rd Thieves book earlier this month. These are books i really looking forward to get my hands on.

 

[DaGaffer]

Well fuck me, just downloaded Republic of Thieves. Its real.

 

[fettoken]

Trying The Dice Man at the moment, goin at it really slow. Subway, a few pages a day.

 

[Scouse]

 

[babs]

Just finished this

and about halfway through this

which is excellent so far.

I hope people have read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline? As a geek of a certain age - which most of us are - it's a wet dream of a book.

 

[Scouse]

I hope people have read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline? As a geek of a certain age - which most of us are - it's a wet dream of a book.

Great book that. Read it a couple of years ago. Brill