What are you reading?

[seemingly random]

Just finished "The Husband" by Dean Koontz. Great beginning but, unusually for Koontz, got strange towards the end - like he lost interest or was trying to make it into a screenplay for a movie.

Starting "A Red Death" by Walter Mosley.

 

[mundane]

Woken Furies by Richard Morgan (again). Next up is Darwinia.

 

[grrl]

Originally posted by: HomerSapien
Obama's book

Doesn't he have two already?

 

[DangerAardvark]

Originally posted by: DefDC
Robert Schimmel's "Cancer on $5 a day". Funny, scary, and sad all in one...

Christ, has that guy talked about anything besides cancer for the past 8 years? He's the Jeff Foxworthy of terminal illnesses.

 

[DefDC]

Heh... no doubt. He's still one of the of funniest standups... Ever.

Finished the book last night. Good read. Highly recommended.

 

[Delita]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
I've been re-reading the Dark Towers series every Spring or so for about 6 years now. On book 3 again.

Ka is a wheel

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
Podkayne of Mars - R.A. Heinlein

Is that similar to the John Carter of Mars books?

I don't think it's related, since John Carter was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Podkayne of Mars is one of Heinlein's children's books. This one says it's meant for junior and senior high students and up, although Heinlein doesn't pull any punches in the vocabulary and concept department for his target audience. There's one part that's several pages long that describes how a space ship uses rotation and thrust coupled with parallel slanted decks to simulate gravity in one direction that I think would fly right over many adults heads.

I didn't mean related but of the same type of story. Earth man goes to Mars, gains special powers due to the gravity on Mars, meets aliens, saves alien princess, falls in love, etc.

 

[Vic]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

 

[Mr Pickles]

Just finished. I reccommend it.

 

[rpanic]

Originally posted by: pontifex
I just finished Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger and started to read Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and MeccaPersonal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Mecca by Robert Burton but it's kind of boring right now. I'll eventually get through it but I started A Life of My Choice by Wilfred Thesiger for now.

Burton is a really interesting person I am always on the look out for his first editions; Philip Pullman also used him in his Riverworld series.

 

[rpanic]

Picking up the new Dresden Files book Small Favor that?s coming out today, they are a fun series to get into.

 

[Electric Amish]

I'm on the final book of the New Jedi Order: Star Wars series.

Also working on the final book in the Hand of Thrawn Star Wars series.

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
I've been re-reading the Dark Towers series every Spring or so for about 6 years now. On book 3 again.

How much more do you get out of it the sixth time through? I've read a number of books twice and a select few a third time, but it's always been 5+ years between readings.

 

[Casawi]

The economist when I am taking a dump. A book call "What if we win" or something like that about the war. I am having a hard time reading that cause I think this guy is out of his mind. I need to double check his references, he is coming up with same crazy numbers.
I just pick up the book from borders this weekend, I thought I would read about the bright side and stay positive; but he seems to be full of it so far.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: rpanic

Originally posted by: pontifex
I just finished Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger and started to read Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and MeccaPersonal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Mecca by Robert Burton but it's kind of boring right now. I'll eventually get through it but I started A Life of My Choice by Wilfred Thesiger for now.

Burton is a really interesting person I am always on the look out for his first editions; Philip Pullman also used him in his Riverworld series.

I guess i shouldn't say it's boring, but it's not what I was expecting, at least so far.
I had just read Thesiger's Arabian Sands which tells of his travels across the desert with his bedu companions and I was hoping for more of that.

Maybe it comes in later, but so far its all taking place in towns and cities.

 

[TallBill]

13 Cent Killers, it's a story of Marine snipers in Vietnam. Just a quick read with good stories. So many true stories out there that I'm staying away from fiction for a bit.

 

[Harabec]

I read Rama II a week ago. Some day I'll find 3 and 4 and read them, as well as Clarke's original Rama sometime.
Childhood's End as well.

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: Harabec
I read Rama II a week ago. Some day I'll find 3 and 4 and read them, as well as Clarke's original Rama sometime.
Childhood's End as well.

My personal opinion is that the 3rd and 4th Rama books are not worth the read.

 

[ElFenix]

Day of Battle

i think i liked An Army at Dawn better

 

[DefDC]

Originally posted by: Kyteland

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
I've been re-reading the Dark Towers series every Spring or so for about 6 years now. On book 3 again.

How much more do you get out of it the sixth time through? I've read a number of books twice and a select few a third time, but it's always been 5+ years between readings.

I used to read SK's "It" every year for about 10 years... Took quite a break lately tho. I think I've ready through the Dark Tower series at least 5 times or so... Part 2 and 3 are some of the best fiction I've ever read... It's always a joy to read...

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: Kyteland

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
I've been re-reading the Dark Towers series every Spring or so for about 6 years now. On book 3 again.

How much more do you get out of it the sixth time through? I've read a number of books twice and a select few a third time, but it's always been 5+ years between readings.

The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th books are some of the best stories I've read. The range of emotions makes it worthwhile each time.

 

[xanis]

I just finished Fear in Loathing in Las Vegas last week. Two of my friends just read Atlas Shrugged and said it was really good so I think I'll pick that up next.

 

[HomerSapien]

grrl:

He might. The one i am reading is the "Audacity of Hope". So far, I have read chapter one. I have fallen asleep 3 times in doing so. lol

 

[GeeFizzleDizzle]

Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.

 

[Eeezee]

ATOT

Actually I'm reading Good Omens (the spiritual successor to A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).

After that I have to decide between Ender's Game or The Physics of Superheroes. It's going to be a tough choice.