What book(s) are you reading right now?

[Druidx]

Buick 8 by Stephen King

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

+1 :thumbsup:

Really like that series

 

[IronWing]

I finally finished Lawrence in Arabia. I got sidetracked re-reading Glen Cook's Instrumentalities of the Night series and Ursula LeGuin's A Wizard of Earthsea.

Lawrence in Arabia is good reading for a picture of what was happening in the wider world around Lawrence. The author tells the history by following Lawrence plus three other people, a German spy, an American spy, and a Zionist settler through WWI. The German and American spies are small potatos but they do get front row seats in events.

Now I'm reading Ursula LeGuin's Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea.

 

[JManInPhoenix]

The Horror in the Musuem - HP Lovecraft

 

[pontifex]

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

Not sure why I never read it before now.

 

[jessieqwert]

Duty - Robert Gates

 

[HardcoreRobot]

Spinward Fringe: Broadcast 3/4. Forget the rest of the title.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Ehh, reading the 2nd book in Hyperion Cantos. Just finished the 1st one a week or so ago. I ordered part 3 & 4 on amazon since the 1st was so fvcking awesome. I'd never read anything by Dan Simmons before this.

 

[Pheran]

Ehh, reading the 2nd book in Hyperion Cantos. Just finished the 1st one a week or so ago. I ordered part 3 & 4 on amazon since the 1st was so fvcking awesome. I'd never read anything by Dan Simmons before this.

Simmons is awesome. One part of the Hyperion books (

Spoiler

the electrified plants

) is still up there in the top 5 most horrifying things I've ever read. Besides Hyperion, I also really liked Carrion Comfort and Summer of Night.

 

[Thebobo]

The Hobbit - actually listening to it while commuting. read it eons ago..

 

[IronWing]

A Path to Coldness of Heart, The Last Chronicle of the Dread Empire - Glen Cook

 

[tynopik]

Ehh, reading the 2nd book in Hyperion Cantos. Just finished the 1st one a week or so ago. I ordered part 3 & 4 on amazon since the 1st was so fvcking awesome. I'd never read anything by Dan Simmons before this.

The buildup was so amazing that any conclusion would be a let-down.

And it was

And the succeeding books in the series, meh

 

[Arcadio]

Farenheit 451, followed by The Fault in Our Stars.

 

[JamesV]

Old Man's War by John Scalzi

I love finding good sci-fi writers I haven't heard of before, and this guy is great. About an old (75?) guy that joins the 'space' army to fight Earth's enemies. They only accept old people, and everyone believes they somehow make them young again to fight, but the force is completely separate from Earth... once you join, you can never go back, and instead are allowed to settle another planet once your term is up. So no recruits are ever sure exactly what will happen. Good read.

 

[Away]

Innocence by Dean Koontz.

 

[Pheran]

A Path to Coldness of Heart, The Last Chronicle of the Dread Empire - Glen Cook

I've only read Cook's Black Company books (which are amazing), I should check out some of his other stuff.

Old Man's War by John Scalzi

I love finding good sci-fi writers I haven't heard of before, and this guy is great. About an old (75?) guy that joins the 'space' army to fight Earth's enemies. They only accept old people, and everyone believes they somehow make them young again to fight, but the force is completely separate from Earth... once you join, you can never go back, and instead are allowed to settle another planet once your term is up. So no recruits are ever sure exactly what will happen. Good read.

Yes, Scalzi is good, I've read 2 or 3 of the books in this series. They remind me a bit of Starship Troopers or Haldeman's Forever War.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Old Man's War by John Scalzi

I love finding good sci-fi writers I haven't heard of before, and this guy is great. About an old (75?) guy that joins the 'space' army to fight Earth's enemies. They only accept old people, and everyone believes they somehow make them young again to fight, but the force is completely separate from Earth... once you join, you can never go back, and instead are allowed to settle another planet once your term is up. So no recruits are ever sure exactly what will happen. Good read.

Scalzi also has a newer book called Redshirts which is pretty good. Less action and more humor then Old Mans War, but the same type of humor.

 

[Pheran]

Innocence by Dean Koontz.

I like Koontz but his stories do tend to get repetitive/formulaic after you read a number of them, especially the romance elements. Some of my favorites are Watchers, Lightning and another title I can't recall that was about a cyber plague.

 

[Oyeve]

Doctor Sleep - Stephen King. Meh so far, about 125 pages in.

 

[surfsatwerk]

Ex-Heroes by Peter Clines

http://www.amazon.com/Ex-Heroes-A-No...words=ex+heros

 

[SMOGZINN]

Ex-Heroes by Peter Clines

http://www.amazon.com/Ex-Heroes-A-No...words=ex+heros

Read this recently, it is very pulp. I enjoyed the corniness of it but the author really needs to work on his writting style. There was simply to much 'He went here and did this'.

 

[surfsatwerk]

Read this recently, it is very pulp. I enjoyed the corniness of it but the author really needs to work on his writting style. There was simply to much 'He went here and did this'.

No arguement here.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Lines of Departure by Marko Kloos. Not a bad read, but nothing special.

 

[Geosurface]

The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men

and I just pre-ordered A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History a very interesting looking book by the New York Times science writer, Nicholas Wade. Due out May 6th.

Here's the Amazon book description for it:

"Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story

Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the idea has been banished from polite academic conversation. Arguing that race is more than just a social construct can get a scholar run out of town, or at least off campus, on a rail. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory.

Inconveniently, as Nicholas Wade argues in A Troublesome Inheritance, the consensus view cannot be right. And in fact, we know that populations have changed in the past few thousand years—to be lactose tolerant, for example, and to survive at high altitudes. Race is not a bright-line distinction; by definition it means that the more human populations are kept apart, the more they evolve their own distinct traits under the selective pressure known as Darwinian evolution. For many thousands of years, most human populations stayed where they were and grew distinct, not just in outward appearance but in deeper senses as well.

Wade, the longtime journalist covering genetic advances for The New York Times, draws widely on the work of scientists who have made crucial breakthroughs in establishing the reality of recent human evolution. The most provocative claims in this book involve the genetic basis of human social habits. What we might call middle-class social traits—thrift, docility, nonviolence—have been slowly but surely inculcated genetically within agrarian societies, Wade argues. These “values” obviously had a strong cultural component, but Wade points to evidence that agrarian societies evolved away from hunter-gatherer societies in some crucial respects. Also controversial are his findings regarding the genetic basis of traits we associate with intelligence, such as literacy and numeracy, in certain ethnic populations, including the Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews.

Wade believes deeply in the fundamental equality of all human peoples. He also believes that science is best served by pursuing the truth without fear, and if his mission to arrive at a coherent summa of what the new genetic science does and does not tell us about race and human history leads straight into a minefield, then so be it. This will not be the last word on the subject, but it will begin a powerful and overdue conversation."

 

[SMOGZINN]

The (sort of) Dark Mage (Waldo Rabbit) by Nelson Chereta

This was on sale for $0.99 in the Kindle Store a few weeks ago, so I thought I would try it. This book is a fun read. It is very pulp, and like Ex-Hero's the author needs to work on his technical skills. Also a warning, the book has no end, it just stops to be picked up in the next book, which is not out yet. Since the book is self published there is no telling when the next book will come out.