What Are You Reading Part 30 [Dec]
 

Just finished Richard Morgan's "Altered Carbon".

Just started Alastair Reynolds' "Revelation Space".

We should call this thread "what are you reading besides The Dark Tower books":)


Anyway, about half way through The Lone Samurai: The Life Of Miyamoto Musashi. I HIGHLY recommend this book, I'm obsessed w/ the Samurai culture (although Musashi was never actually a samurai) & this is the very first American translated biography ever written about Miyamoto. "Musashi" is my all-time favorite book & this gives great insight into the greatest swordsman that ever lived & truly one of the most fascinating people of all-time.

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Currently on page one-sixty-something of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I hope to finish the remaining 900+ pages sometime this month but it's been real slow going for me so far, although I think I'm starting to get into the grove of things.

Finished The First Man In Rome by, Colleen McCullough . Awesome book. If you like historical fiction, pick it up. I highly recommend it. I just ordered the rest of the series.

Now reading From The Borderlands , a dark fiction, horror anthology. Some pretty damn good stories so far.

Good to hear! I picked this up about a month ago and haven't been able to get to it yet. I hope to soon. :up:

Just Finished: The Call of the Wild, By Jack London
Up Next: White Fang, by Jack London

Finally finished Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix, and now I'm on George Washington.

Now that school is out for awhile I can finally enjoy some reading for fun.

All i have at the moment is Gifted Trust by John Paul Allen, but I hope to pick up Kiss me, Judas by Will Christopher Baer.

just started:

The Codex - Douglas Preston

Just Finished: Stuka Pilot
Now Reading:Confederates in the Attic

Just finished: Benjamin Franklin; An American Life, by Walter Isaacson.
Now Reading: Metropolis, by Thea Von Harbou

I'm finishing up Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - this one took a long time to get me involved...the jury is still out on how I feel about the overall book. I should be finished with the next couple of days and will weigh in on this then.

Next up: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke based upon the recommendation of a member here. I'm really looking forward to starting this one.

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card & Batman: Long Halloween

Just wanted to drop in and say thanks to the folks in Book Talk. Back in October I stopped in just to see what was being read and picked up a few Stephen Hunter books.

October: Bob Swagger Series
Point Of Impact
Black Light
Time to Hunt

November: I wanted to move to the Earl Swagger Series but Half Price Books only had two other Hunter books.
Dirty White Boys
Master Sniper

Also read - Halo: The Fall Of Reach

I am off to see if anything new has come into HPB.

Thanks again for pointing me to a fine writer.

what did you think of Altered carbon? I got about 1/4 of a way into it but i just could not get into it

reading Speaks The Nightbird right now

I've been skipping through David Hagberg's books, I'm on White House right now.

Just finished Hornet Flight by Ken Follett.

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

great stuff!

Just started Darker by Simon Clark. I really like the other books by him I've read so far. I'm not liking this one too much right now. I'm about 120 pages in.

Just finshed A Clergyman's Daughter, by George Orwell. Very, Very good book, with kind of a depressing ending. If you have only read 1984, and/or Animal you are missing out on some great books by him, Such as Keep the Aspirdata Flying, Burmese Days, and Down and Out in Paris and London, which a true account of him living in poverty in both cities.

I love his books, he does a great job of getting you to experience the characters. His books are loaded with social commentary about poverty in of the lower and middle classes in industial england. He also has a particular fondness for railing on the idiocy of London's middle class, for their arrogance and stuborness, for living above their means trying to portray this image of what society thinks they should be like. Great Stuff.

I love Ender's Game, but the following books in the Ender's Series are even better. But they are different from the original, much more deeper, and philosphical and very engaging. I highly Recommend them.

I've been picking up his books lately, but haven't started on them yet. Have you read Homage to Catelonia yet? I've read that his experience in the Spanish Civil War made him re-evaluate his socialist ideology to some degree.

I just finished Brian Keenes The Rising (thanks to those from this board who suggested it, but grr! at the ending) and Five Seasons of Angel.

Just starting Dan Brown's Deception Point.

Finished Joe Gores' excellent early-70s PI novel Interface last night (sadly out of print).

Might try the new Crichton, State of Fear.

I've got so much in the TBR pile at the moment, it's a little daunting.

I haven't read that one yet, but I have Read Road to Wiggan Pier, which is a book that was commishened by the Left Book Club, which was a socialist group. It is book made of 2 parts, the first chronicals the year he spent amoung cole miners in northern England, and the second part he describes and clarifies his feelings about socialism. It was so contraversial that the editor published a rebuttal in the book.

It came out a year before Homage to Catelolina, so if you are really curious about the evolution of his socialist idiology, then you might want to read that and Down and Out in Paris and London (which was his first book) beforehand.

I plan on reading Coming up for Air next, which I belive is the only one of his fiction books that I have left to read. Then I'll probably read Homage to Catelonia after that.

Cool MrBob, thanks! I've read a few of his essays in the Everyman's Library edition and he certainly is one eloquent, thought-provoking mofo. I see will have to read Down and Out in Paris and London first. What I find interesting is the progression of an artist, so I usually will take things is chronological order. Thanks for the tip. :up:

Finished Michael Connelly's The Black Echo. Going to stick with the Harry Bosch series and read The Black Ice next.

FICTION
Just finished South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami and The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald.
Just started Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie.
Next up: Love in the Time of Cholera by Garcia Marquez and War Trash by Ha Jin.

NON-FIC.
The Fatal Shore: the Epic of Australia's Founding
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

Just finished this. Was nagged into reading it by my good lady and really enjoyed it.

Just Finished:   White Fang, by Jack London
Up Next:   To Build A Fire, by Jack London

Glad to have helped.

Just Finished:   To Build A Fire, by Jack London
Up Next:   A Christmas Story, by Jean Shepherd

Queer eye for the Straight Guy: The Fab 5's Guide to Looking Better, Cooking Better, Dressing Better, Behaving Better, and Living Better.

Now reading: State of Fear - Michael Crichton

I normally don't buy Crichton's books in hardcover as they almost always disappoint me, but this looked intriguiging. So far it's pretty good, but I'll have to reserve judgement until I've finally finished the book.

The Last Precient by Patricia Cornwell
Still reading it ,since this is my first novel, I am having hard time getting into the Kay Scarpetta storyline.This novel was a gift so I can't complain!

Just finished up Book 2 of the Dark Tower series. Haven't really decided what to read next, as I won't get Volumes 3 and 4 until Christmas.

Reading The Prison , by , R.Patrick Gates.

Next up The Grass Crown , second in the Rome series by Colleen McCullogh

Just finished: The Silmarillion (incredible)

Just started: His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (great already)

Finished Comming up for Air by George Orwell. Great book, that is about a middle class guy that reflects back on growing up in his old home town that he hasn't visted in 20yrs. He decides to go back to find that the town has changed more than he could imagine.