What book are you currently reading?

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WYATT

Saturday, October 6, 2007 8:44 PM

The magician of Lublin.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

GORRAMGROUPIE

Saturday, October 6, 2007 9:03 PM

Books, plural for me.
The Science Fiction Century, by David Hartwell
(anthology of lesser known sci-fi short stories.)
BTW, I was looking at the cover art and the spaceship blasting out of a dish kinda looks like a firefly.I'll get a scan and show everyone.

Santorini, by Alister Maclean

Horizon Storms, by Kevin J. Anderson

PLus a couple more I can't remember where I put them, much less what they were.

Oh, and The Fellowship etc, for about the 100th time.

RIVERFLAN

Saturday, October 6, 2007 9:30 PM

Bookseses for me:

Shadow of the Hedgemon- Orson Scott Card
Snow-Walker- Cathrine Fisher
Day of the Scareb- Cathrine Fisher
The Book of the River- Ian Watson

And probably more later.

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THESOMNAMBULIST

Saturday, October 6, 2007 11:36 PM

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx.

Inspired by a recent trip I did to Nova Scotia, Canada.

www.cirqus.com

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Monday, October 8, 2007 5:49 AM

Bourne Betrayal, Lustbader?
Simple Genius, David Baldacci.
Once a Hero, Elizabeth Moon (again).

BORNTOFLY

Monday, October 8, 2007 6:52 AM

I haven't bought any new books that aren't uni books for a while, so I've had to go over the old stuff...

I Am Legend-Richard Matheson

Nochnoi Dozor-Sergei Lukyanenko

Strawberry Hills Forever-Vanessa Berry

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Forsaken initiate.

DARKFLY

Monday, October 8, 2007 7:05 AM

The Serenity Companion

The Firefly Companion

The Marvel Civil War Comic Series

Transformers Script [Script for 2007 Movie]

& The Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Script [Script]

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NCBROWNCOAT

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 12:28 AM

Finding Serenity and The Killer Angels (finally!)

http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/

YINYANG

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 12:43 AM

Grave Peril - Jim Butcher

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AERIN

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 1:14 AM

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

I never had to read it in high school, so it never occurred to me to do so until I saw the movie version on PBS. It's one of the few classics I've read that I really like.

DERANGEDMILK

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 1:54 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Aerin:
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

I never had to read it in high school, so it never occurred to me to do so until I saw the movie version on PBS. It's one of the few classics I've read that I really like.

Do you like the work of the other Bronte sisters? I'm not a huge fan (barely made my way to the end of Wuthering Heights) but I thought Jane Eyre was alright.

I just finished Ender's Game and now I'm reading Folk of the Fringe, also by Orson Scott Card, for my U.S. Religion class. Ender's Game was for fun though, and man was it fun!
-e

"Storms getting worse."
"We'll pass through it soon enough."

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REGINAROADIE

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 2:22 AM

Right now, I'm listening to the audiobook for DON QUIXOTE. Even though it kind of runs on a bit (I'm on disc 9 of a 35 disc audiobook), I'm really getting into it. I can see why it's considered one of the great tomes of literature.

And on my docket of books to read, I have HAUNTED by Chuck Palahniuk, FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS by Ernest Hemingway, THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA by Phillip Roth, IN COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote and the entire DARK TOWER series by Stephen King. And I'm flirting with getting the audiobook for Stephen Colbert's book I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!), even though the last thing I need is another book to read. I don't have that much space left on my iPod. Although, I wouldn't mind listening to NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN by Cormac McCarthy (my new fave author) and I AM LEGEND by Dick Matheson, in prep for the movies coming out.

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JOSSISAGOD

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 2:29 AM

I'm currently reading, Star Wars Legacy of The Force: Inferno.

Fe'nos Tol
JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

Self appointed Forsaken! Been on the list for a while now!
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"Look at me, I'm STUPID!" The Doctor.

RICKKER

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 2:30 AM

Right now on the third book of George RR Martin's
song of ice and fire series. A Storm of Swords. Some friends in my D&D group got me onto it. Definetly one of the best fantacy series ever.

ZEROKIRYU

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 2:36 AM

Trinity Blood: Reborn On The Mars Vol.1 - Sunao Yoshida

Full Metal Panic! Vol.1 - Shouji Gatou

The Interruption Of Everything - Terry McMillan

Addicted - Zane (For the 10th time)

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FINN MAC CUMHAL

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 2:57 AM

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Heather.

Dr. Heather is an Oxford educated Historian of European Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, which makes him an expert on the question of fall of the Western Roman Empire. I’m half way through his book and so far he makes a very convincing case for the Fall of Rome due to external influences.

Also, I have the new Terry Brook's book on order.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

TPAGE

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 4:06 AM

May I make a suggestion? If anyone is having trouble finding time to read try DailyLit.com

It is amazing just how many books you can at once if they are all delivered in small doses... I highly recommend this site.

Admittedly, it can be a strain on the eyes since it is on the computer, however you can print it out if you want.

Almost all of the classics are free and most others are $5 but I find it much easier than lugging a book around or listening to an audiobook (I don't concentrate as well).

Check it out!

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PLATONIST

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 4:20 AM

For my own pleasure:

"Serenity Found" more essays on the Firefly Verse
highly recommended if you enjoyed, "Finding Serenity"

K:The Art Of Love by Hong Ying

With my students:

"The Last Mimzy" by Henry Kuttner

EMBERS

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 5:12 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by yinyang:
Grave Peril - Jim Butcher

I just love Jim Butcher's Dresden series....

but I'm currently reading:
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
(as well as a LOT of comic books)

SHADESIREN

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 5:46 AM

Currently indulging the most recent Dresden File, White Night. SUCH a Dresden fangirl at this point. I've never had a crush on a character from a book before. It's wierd.

Also reading 100 Malicious Little Mysteries. It's a pretty cool older book by Asimov and a whole buncha other people. One of those two so-so stories to one really good story to one kinda stupid story kinda books.

Lastly I have a book with a Dresden Short story in it to read as soon as I finish White Night (Which should be sometime tomorrow morning, I expect :P).

Song of Ice and Fire (and all of Martin's other books - the ones HE wrote himself, not the Wild Card ones) are abdo-freakin'-lutely AWESOME. Technically, I kinda had a crush on Royd Eris from Nightflyers, but then, Michael Praed played him in the (bad) movie version, so I can't count that as an actual crush on Royd himself lol.

Loved I am Legend, my mom was a big Charleton Heston fan, so I grew up watching Omega Man, I'm eager to see if they get the story more like the book in this incarnation, the book is really cool.

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EMBERS

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 5:51 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Shadesiren:

Lastly I have a book with a Dresden Short story in it to read as soon as I finish White Night (Which should be sometime tomorrow morning, I expect :P).

wait, what?
can I have the title?
(I don't want to miss out on any Dresden goodness!)

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 6:54 AM

just bought a new copy of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein.

also Get Fuzzy, a cartoon collection by Darby Conley.

and Dark Ladies, by Fritz Leiber.

MRBEN

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 9:52 AM

Currently:

The Bancroft Strategy by Robert Ludlum (I'm a huge Ludlum fan)

Earthcore by Scott Sigler (having listened to his podcasts, I bought this and Ancestor, as I love his work - http://scottsigler.podshow.com or you can get his books from http://www.podiobooks.com )

and listening to Jack Palms II: This is Life by Seth Harwood. http://www.sethharwood.com

mrben

"Carpe Aptenodytes"
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BLUESTREAK

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 2:07 AM

Dune - Frank Herbert.

And I've started my own Sci-Fi novel! I've never written a book, or even a chapter for that matter, but I've got such a story inside, I have to put it on paper.

Basically, its a story about good and evil, and how both sides always believe they're the good. I couldn't think of a better inspiration for the main character than Captain Tightpants. Of course it takes place in space, and I plan on throwing in Firefly salutes.

I'm always open to suggestions, and I may post some chapters once I can get a good flow going.

BORNTOFLY

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 2:58 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Shadesiren:
Loved I am Legend, my mom was a big Charleton Heston fan, so I grew up watching Omega Man, I'm eager to see if they get the story more like the book in this incarnation, the book is really cool.

From what I've heard and read, they've taken quite a few liberties...I was so hoping for a more canonical adaptation seeing as they at least kept the title, but it's not to be.

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WYTCHCROFT

Saturday, October 13, 2007 1:01 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by derangedmilk:

Do you like the work of the other Bronte sisters? I'm not a huge fan (barely made my way to the end of Wuthering Heights) but I thought Jane Eyre was alright.

-gulps- um, well, each to their own -

but for me - wow -
wuthering heights... well, damn, i love it.
it's just this sheer force of will power and elementalism. oh - it might just be my favourite book... if i didn't love 'charlotte sometimes' so much.

and Ann Bronte's Tennant of WildFell Hall is a great read - soooooooo ahead of it's time in the depiction of alcholism and domestic violence, patterned relationships etc etc

and passionate too!

w.heights is not romantic like jayne eyre - i can understand that (and the dialect) being a little alienating.

my fave parts of jayne eyre are the school scenes.

BORIS

Saturday, October 13, 2007 1:36 AM

various dry and boring texts on children's language disorders...thought I would like Speech Pathology, but I really hate it! Also reading the head and neck parts of Gray's Anatomy for students. It's really interesting and the only thing that's keeping me from slitting my throat in this course! will begin my annual journey through the Lord of the Rings et al. as soon as exams are over. (I read them and then sequester myself on New years eve, and watch all three extended movies back to back).

ERGASTER

Saturday, October 13, 2007 2:08 AM

Just finishing:

Echo Burning by Lee Child. Will immediately start

Without Fail by Lee Child.

Stumbled on the Jack Reacher series completely by accident because I confused Lincoln Child with Lee Child, and boy am I glad I did. Great stuff!

TRAVELER

Saturday, October 13, 2007 2:14 AM

Im reading an Ellen Hart murder mystery.
One of my adictions.

If you had asked me at any other time I would be reading about military history. But you caught reading pulp fiction this week.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Saturday, October 13, 2007 2:38 AM

I got Terry Brooks new book, today. Actually, it’s the first book of his new Trilogy: Genesis of Shannara: Armageddon's Children. This one is supposedly about how it all started. Yeah, I know there’s already been a “how it all started” series, but this one goes even further back – I think to when Magic was created, the faeryfolk and the Ellcries, etc. Brooks had long hinted in several of his books that the story actually took place in a far future time following some sort of nuclear cataclysm. I’m guessing this story takes place somewhere between the holocaust and the forbidding.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

WACKYNEPHEW

Saturday, October 13, 2007 3:38 AM

State of Denial: Bush at War by Bob Woodward,
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss

Has George R R Martin gotten around to writing the next Song of Ice and Fire book, A Dance of Dragons? I'm going to have to read the previous four again to get back up to speed.

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"The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep." Woody Allen

AMITON

Saturday, October 13, 2007 3:56 AM

Quote:
NewOldBrownCoat wrote:
Monday, October 08, 2007 20:54
just bought a new copy of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein.

I just finished that book. It drove me freaking crazy, and (for me) it was a long, hard read. I wanted to just give up on it almost every time I picked it up. In the end it was a decent story, but I didn't hold it in nearly the esteem that 98% of the science fiction fans seem to.

Then again, I always was weird...

Amiton.

WHIMSICALNBRAINPAN

Saturday, October 13, 2007 6:34 AM

Just finished a Harlan Ellison compilation (loved Deathbird) and am slowly working my way through How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead by Ariel Gore.

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle." http://whimsicalnbrainpan.blogspot.com/

COZEN

Saturday, October 13, 2007 9:48 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by WackyNephew:
Has George R R Martin gotten around to writing the next Song of Ice and Fire book, A Dance of Dragons?

http://www.georgerrmartin.com/if-update.html

In short: he's still writing it.

GORRAMGROUPIE

Saturday, October 13, 2007 4:10 PM

Quote:
I got Terry Brooks new book, today. Actually, it’s the first book of his new Trilogy: Genesis of Shannara: Armageddon's Children. This one is supposedly about how it all started.

This novel bridges the Running with a demon trilogy and the prehistory of Shannara. It's really creepy and somewhat depressing. Humanity is pretty much wiped out, and there are hordes of once-men being led by demons systematically destroying the remains of humanity. Very interesting read, especially if you read the demon books. Some of the same characters and locations, and the elves show up too. Takes place after 2067(?). I think it's 2170 or close to that.

CRUITHNE3753

Saturday, October 13, 2007 4:25 PM

The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction. Best story so far is one by Stephen Baxtter, set in an alternative world where a colossal nazi nuclear-powered flying behemoth flies a mission to cross a Pacific Ocean where by some freak of geometry is rather wider than it's supposed to be.

CAPTAINCOUPI

Saturday, October 13, 2007 11:45 PM

Terry Pratchett - Making Money: Just finished.

The Pirates Own Book: Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers: Just about to begin.

Contemplating if I want to read Moby Dick or Neuromancer again.

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DEEPGIRL187

Sunday, October 14, 2007 1:59 AM

I'm reading three, actually (one for school and two that I randomly started).

Notes From Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fascinating story so far. It's definitely a hard read, but the narrator has some interesting (and frankly, quite true) insights on society in general.

The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende
I saw the movie for this when I was a kid, and have been in love ever since. The book is even more amazing.

Storm Front, by Jim Butcher
As some of you well know, I am a Dresden junkie (is there a twelve-step program, I wonder? ). So I see no problem in reading all of the books again. And again.

ETA: And I see I'm not the only Dresden junkie on the thread. Nice to be in good company.

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WACKYNEPHEW

Sunday, October 14, 2007 2:39 AM

I really enjoyed The Dresden Files on TV, but I've never read the source material. Where should I start?

Also. Has anyone read any Guy Gavriel Kay books?

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TPAGE

Sunday, October 14, 2007 3:09 AM

I've read Guy Gavriel Kay: Fionavar Tapestry and Sarantine Mosaic. I liked them.

As for the original question: just finished (literally a minute ago, no pun intended) A Study in Scarlet (first Sherlock Holmes) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, also finished The Tao of Pooh. Currently reading A Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Walden by Thoreau.

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DEEPGIRL187

Sunday, October 14, 2007 1:16 PM

The first Dresden book is Storm Front, WackyNephew.

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"This is my timey-wimey detector. It goes ding when there's stuff. Also, it can boil an egg at 30 paces, whether you want it to or not, actually, so I've learned to stay away from hens. It's not pretty when they blow."

JOSEPHUS

Sunday, October 14, 2007 4:48 PM

JOSEPHUS

Sunday, October 14, 2007 4:49 PM

"The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester
One of the greatest Sci-Fi books ever written according to most of Bester's peers of Sci-Fi writers. Bester won the first Hugo Award.

I read "The Stars..." at least once a year.

Josephus

Only when love and need are one
And the work is play for mortal stakes
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and the future's sake.

CHAPTERANDVERSE

Sunday, October 14, 2007 8:35 PM

A biography of Eleanor of Acquitaine

The World to Come by Dara Horn

and

Rereading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell

All recommended

ORPHEUS

Monday, October 15, 2007 6:30 PM

For class: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami

For myself: Questioning the Millenium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown, Stephen Jay Gould.

I do kinda love the subtitle of that second one.

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FREDGIBLET

Monday, October 15, 2007 6:33 PM

Farnhams Freehold
Robert Heinlein

STARTROOP

Monday, October 15, 2007 6:43 PM

1634, The Baltic War
NonRecursive Causal Models (Hey I am in Grad School!)

EXOTICK

Monday, October 15, 2007 8:23 PM

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

MAL4PREZ

Monday, October 15, 2007 8:27 PM

Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
by Elizabeth Wurtzel

An odd one for me, since I usually prefer fiction to social commentary. Interesting stuff, even though I disagree with a lot of it.

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hmm-burble-blah, blah-blah-blah, take a left

CHINDI

Monday, October 15, 2007 9:18 PM

Reading two at the moment

"All But My Life" (WWII survivor bio)Gerda Weissmann Klein Heavy going.

"Pillars of the Earth" Ken Follett's non thriller/historical novel. Pretty good so far...just started.

Just finished third of the Bartimaeous Trilogy.. still moves me every time... a "kids" book- but I love it.

Chindi

LITTLEALBATROSS29

Monday, October 15, 2007 9:26 PM

Stranger In A Strange Land ... Robert Heinlein

I might re-read the Gunslinger books by Stephen King when I'm done ..but I despise the last book..so I might not.

Bryce
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Way I remember it , albatross was a ship's good luck..'til some idiot killed it.

QUIETUDE

Monday, October 15, 2007 10:55 PM

Troy - Fall of Kings: by the late great David Gemmell.

I hope one day they make a movie about his book 'Legend'. It would kick '300''s butt. Don't know who they would get to play Druss though.

FINEHAT

Monday, October 15, 2007 11:37 PM

47 by Walter Mosley

I've read all of the Easy Rawlins mysteries, but this is his first for young adults.

If your hand touches metal I swear by my pretty floral bonnet, I will end you.

RIVERFLAN

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 1:51 AM

Since my last post:

Quote:

Shadow of the Hedgemon- Orson Scott Card
Snow-Walker- Cathrine Fisher
Day of the Scareb- Cathrine Fisher
The Book of the River- Ian Watson

I finished all except The Book of the River; I think I'll drop that one.

Now reading:

Bedlam Bards- Mercedes Lackey
1984- George Watson
The Black Gryphon- Mercedes Lackey
Triplet- Timthy Zahn
And
The Catword Portal- Shirley Roussean Murphey

Does anyone know if the 14th book of Guardians of Ga'Hoole is out yet? I've been waiting forever for it, but I have no idea if it's still in progress or what.

just because.

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BSCPANTHERFAN

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 3:10 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by embers:
Quote:
Originally posted by Shadesiren:

Lastly I have a book with a Dresden Short story in it to read as soon as I finish White Night (Which should be sometime tomorrow morning, I expect :P).

wait, what?
can I have the title?
(I don't want to miss out on any Dresden goodness!)

I believe Shadesiren is referring to Many Bloody Returns , an anthology of stories combining birthdays and vampires. There is a Dresden story in it. I just finished reading the book , and heartily recommend it. The dedication page reads "This is dedicated to Joss Whedon, who may never read it, and his enthusiastic fans known as the Buffybuds, who will."

So who is he?
He's my husband.
Well who in the damn galaxy ain't!

CHAPTERANDVERSE

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 5:58 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Chindi:
Reading two at the moment

"All But My Life" (WWII survivor bio)Gerda Weissmann Klein Heavy going.

"Pillars of the Earth" Ken Follett's non thriller/historical novel. Pretty good so far...just started.

Just finished third of the Bartimaeous Trilogy.. still moves me every time... a "kids" book- but I love it.

Chindi

The Bartimaeous Trilogy is wonderful!! Fantastic humor and, as you say, incredibly moving.

LADYSERENITY

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:01 PM

I just finished Memoirs of a Geisha By Arthur Golden

I also finished Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ( I love re-reading this book!)

Now I am reading Dragonflight by Anne Mcaffrey (rereading again)

and Sunshine by Robin McKinley ( I love her books, with this one she totally changed the aspect of the vampire! Fabulous!)

I like Mercedes Lackey also but haven't read any of her Valdemar books I am not sure which ine I should start with. I love her elemental masters books as well as the tales from the 500 Kingdoms.

Once you've been in Serenity you never leave. You find a way to live in it.

ARCLIGHT

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 8:23 PM

The Gift of Fear - Gavin de Becker
America Alone - Mark Steyn
Founding Brothers - Joseph Ellis
Lone Survivor - Marcus Luttrel
His Dark Materials trilogy - Phillip Pullman

SINGATE

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:12 AM

I've been re-reading a lot of my favorites this year. Right now I'm on The Lord of the Rings. I've picked up on many more differences between the book vs. the movies that I missed the last time around.

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:11 AM

Just finished Atonement by Ian McEwan. Trying to start on Henry James's What Maisie Knew. Twas gorram boring (or at least, the pace is so slow... I haven't given it a chance yet...) so I picked up Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors. Then I have to post my note-to-self, which will remind me of the Stephen King Dark Tower trilogy I haven't started on yet.

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I don't know what I'm saying. I never know what I'm saying.... -River Tam, Serenity (2005)

CALHOUN

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:09 AM

TV Week

SAVAGEDIANA

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:13 AM

The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak. Good stuff. :)

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Me, I'm a thief.

WYTCHCROFT

Friday, October 19, 2007 12:22 AM

The Night Buffalo - Guillermo Arriaga

The fifth head of cerberus - gene wolfe

THEQUICKBROWNFOX

Friday, October 19, 2007 12:57 AM

The Virginian by Owen Wister. 100 years old, and still shiny!

From one thing, learn ten thousand things.

ALLIETHORN7

Friday, October 19, 2007 1:26 AM

City of the Dead- Brian Keene
The book says that some folk are calling him the new Stephen King. That's bull, for two reasons:
1, while he is a damnedly good writer, all he did was make zombies smarter and able to use guns, including rifles. I personally think that the whole getting ripped apart limb from limb by hordes of zombie midgets much more terrifying then being shot at.

and, 2, Isn't Stephen King the new Stephen King? Did he suddenly stop being himself? 'Cause, I seemed to fail to get the memo.

-Danny

and every time I play with passion I start breaking strings,
and my voice cracks when I sing from my heart
guess that's the price I've got to pay to know that I'm alive
this melody is tearing me apart

THRICE RULES!!!!!!!!!
My Master went to the Moon in a Rocket of Flamin' Cheese!
I LIKE CHEESE!!!
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RIVERFLAN

Friday, October 19, 2007 2:34 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by ladyserenity:

I like Mercedes Lackey also but haven't read any of her Valdemar books I am not sure which ine I should start with. I love her elemental masters books as well as the tales from the 500 Kingdoms.

You need to start with her Mage Wars trilogy:
The Black Gryphon
The White Gryphon
The Silver Gryphon

Then go to the Last Herald-Mage trilogy:
Magic's Pawn
Magic's Promise
Magic's Price

After that I don't remember off e top of my head; but, she does have a website; I don't remember what it is either but just search Google and I think her web page is the first to come up.

And, some more good books by Ann McCaffrey are
The Rowan
Damia
Damia's Children
Especially if you lean more towards sci-fi, as these are set in the future and center around psi powers.

Have many good reads!

Oh, and I am now reading just The Fire in the Forge, as I have finished all my other books.

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My favorite quotes:

TWITCH

Friday, October 19, 2007 4:39 AM

This is gonna sound pretentious, but really it's not. Just good bookage. I'm reading Beowulf. The translation by Seamus Heaney is really good.

Prior to that was Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.

-- Twitch

KATO

Friday, October 19, 2007 5:33 AM

I'm currently reading book I of C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy titled Out of the Silent Planet. So far I'm about half way through it and finding it very enjoyable. It is deep in theology and philsophoy. I am blow away by C.S. Lewis' description of space travel, (for he wrote these books before man even went into space). His descriptions are almost perfect, as if he knew all along what it would be like. Plus his descriptions are far more intresting and enticing than how NASA today would describe space travel. The mere description of the sun is breath taking to read, making me want to see it for my self.

Burn the land, boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me...

"Submit therefore to God, resist the devil and he shall flee from you" -James 4:7

WACKYNEPHEW

Friday, October 19, 2007 6:16 AM

Just started on Storm Front by Jim Butcher thanks to some enthusiastic recommendations from several Browncoats.

Special thanks to deepgirl187 for pointing me in the right direction.

Vote for Firefly at http://richlabonte.net/tvvote/index.html

"The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep." Woody Allen

MAGDALENA

Friday, October 19, 2007 8:16 AM

recently read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip Dick which I enjoyed a lot - it's up for grabs in the Browncoat flying library if anyone's interested (thank you FlyVote!!)

I just finished reading "Shakespeare" by Bill Bryson last night, it was really refreshing and had his typical wry humour! On the recommendation of Naughtman I bought Bill Bryson' book on the English language today, "Mother Tongue" - I already know I'm going to enjoy it!

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VCDHUNTER

Friday, October 19, 2007 12:04 PM

The God Delusion by Prof. Richard Dawkins.

Awesome stuff from a great man.

GORRAMGROUPIE

Sunday, October 21, 2007 2:57 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kato:
I'm currently reading book I of C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy titled Out of the Silent Planet. So far I'm about half way through it and finding it very enjoyable. It is deep in theology and philsophoy. I am blow away by C.S. Lewis' description of space travel, (for he wrote these books before man even went into space). His descriptions are almost perfect, as if he knew all along what it would be like. Plus his descriptions are far more intresting and enticing than how NASA today would describe space travel. The mere description of the sun is breath taking to read, making me want to see it for my self.

Burn the land, boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me...

"Submit therefore to God, resist the devil and he shall flee from you" -James 4:7

I read those books and they are some of my all time favorites. I'm trying to find my own personal copies!

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, March 11, 2022 7:41 AM

Need to read stuff a little more shocking

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, March 11, 2022 8:13 AM

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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
Bourne Betrayal, Lustbader?
Simple Genius, David Baldacci.
Once a Hero, Elizabeth Moon (again).

hmm.
This thread just got. BUmped, and now 14 years later I just finished another Baldacci. End Game, which is part of a much better series than that Camel Club.

BRENDA

Friday, March 11, 2022 9:43 AM

Doctor Who