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BOOK THREAD: What Are You Reading Right Now?

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No time to read books right now 🙁 Only thing I'm reading is the latest issues of the Economist and the daily papers.

Last thing I read:
The Prize by Daniel Yergin. Awesome book about the history of the oil industry.
 
I am reading 'Angels & Demons' by Dan Brown. Halfway thru and can't wait to get my hands on 'The Da vinci Code'.
 
Interplanetary travel: For Dummies.
Time-Travel: For Dummies.
Teleportation: For Dummies.
Mind-Reading: For Dummies.

and Winnie the Pooh.
 
Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Finished reading H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, and am now most of the way through Firestar, by Michael Flynn. An excellent hard SF book about the near future, and the steps mankind may have to take to establish a permanent presence in space. It is the first of a series, the others in the series are:

Rogue Star

Lodestar

Falling Stars

I initially picked up Firestar and Lodestar at Gulliver's Books when I went nuts at their 50% off used books sale for Labour Day, and realized after I got home that they were first and third in a series and not stand-alone novels. I went back over the weekend and bought a couple of dozen more books, and managed to get the second one in the series as well. I will probably get the fourth off of Half.Com, and hopefully it will arrive by the time I finish the third book. 🙂
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Finished Firestar last week, and am now starting on Rogue Star. Quite good so far, except for a blatant "Let's have the characters explain the technology in layman's terms so people that don't understand such things can grasp what is happening, under the guise of said characters having an argument."
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Finished Rogue Star the other day, and started on Lodestar, which is the weakest volume of the four book series according to reviews I have read. Seems decent so far, although the characters that were the primary focus of the first two books seem to be spending less time in the spotlight in this installment.
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Finished reading Lodestar this morning. It was not as bad as the reviews on Amazon.Com made it out to be, I suspect that people were just displeased with it due to the focus shift from the first two books. The first two were a balance of the people and the technology, this book focused mainly on the people, in building up for the finale in Falling Stars, would be my guess. I am extrapolating from available datas, as I have not yet purchased nor read it, I need to see if anyone on Half.Com has it available.

So, while I am away from that series for the moment, I am reading Cold Fire, the third book in The Circle Opens quartet, by Tamora Pierce. Genre is fantasy, but you will not find ancient prophecy and world shattering battles between the Gawds in her books, they lean towards a more practical use of magic in the world she has created. Entertaining stuff, not too heavy, good for younger readers that need something to read after Harry Potter (I am currently compiling a list of books along those lines, as a reference for others). This is actually the third book of a second quartet starring the same characters.

The first quartet is Circle of Magic, with the books Sandry's Book, Tris' Book, Daja's Book, and Briar's Book.

The second quartet is, as I said above, The Circle Opens, and consists of Magic Steps, Street Magic, Cold Fire, and Shatterglass.
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Finished reading Cold Fire, and have started on Tamora Pierce's The Song of the Lioness Quartet. The first one, Alanna: The First Adventure is pretty good so far. 🙂
 
Currently reading:

DUNE: "The Butlerian Jihad"

On my list:
DUNE: "The machine cruisade"

By Brian Herbert and Kevin J anderson

The writing style is definetly different from Frank Herbert.... but I'm enjoying it nevertheless...
 
I'm reading The Ten Thousand by Michael Curtis Ford. Excellent book that tells the true story of an ancient Greek army's march through Persia.

I just finished reading "Monster" by Jonathan Kellerman before that. Pretty good as well. I hadn't read any of Kellerman's stuff before but I'll be checking some of his other books out.
 
Originally posted by: Aquaman
Anyone reading the wheel of time series by roberrt jordan? Any good?

Cheers,
Aquaman
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I read the first seven, I heard the last couple are mostly filler, but I intend to read them anyway. As a friend said, "If a tree falls in the forest, Robert Jordan will write about it." 😀
 
Originally posted by: Excelsior
Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Originally posted by: Excelsior
Looking for Alaska by Peter Jenkins. Great book.
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You can call and tell him I found it, I've been stuck here most of my life. 🙁
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😀 So you'd like to leave? Ill switch with you, at least for a bit.
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I left once, but I got dragged back. Alaska is like a black hole, damn near impossible to escape. 🙁

Perhaps the Hotel California is a better analogy. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
 
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