Thread: What are you reading?

Originally Posted by LucidiTEA

<---- Nerd

Not at all! I've wanted to read We Are Anonymous, and I like Star Wars books! I recently read Revan (because I was such a fan of KotOR I and II).

Finished Mockingjay, it was quite good but did make me shed a tear or two... >.>

Now I'm on to this...

Slaughterhouse-Five was quite good. On to the next book!

Fucking amazing.

So i finished the Lady Penitent trilogy, so now it's time for the War of the Spider Queen books. Which is a series consisting of 6 books and the story tells the happenings leading to the story of the Lady Penitent books

Starting with this one that i just got today:

Ah, so these are the four books you got? Unless I'm mistaken.

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

Ah, so these are the four books you got? Unless I'm mistaken.

The War of the Spider Queen series consists of 6 books. The one i posted above is the first of the six. But i got the second one too

I'll get the others when these 2 are finished.


Edit: Oh now i understand what you meant by the 4 books. No, i bought the first and second book of the War of the Spider Queen series and got 3 extra free books because of the special offer. These 3 free books are not related to my bought books at all. They are just random books.
One is about world war 2, the other is about love, the third one is about nature... lol.

No wonder they were free. Such excitement to be found in them.

Currently have two audiobooks going, Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars and the sixth Dresden Files book, Blood Rites. I wasn't all that impressed w/ DF #5, Death Masks, but it was still fun. The new characters it introduced seemed cartoonish, and it seemed like Butcher was going out of his way to drop pop culture references.

Red Mars is based on the premise that you'd have to be at least a little crazy to sign up for a one-way Mars mission, and at least a bit of a genius to be accepted, and follows the social, political and psychological consequences for the first 100 colonists and the world they found. There's a decent amount of hard science thrown in, too.

Originally Posted by Taosaur

Currently have two audiobooks going, Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars and the sixth Dresden Files book, Blood Rites. I wasn't all that impressed w/ DF #5, Death Masks, but it was still fun. The new characters it introduced seemed cartoonish, and it seemed like Butcher was going out of his way to drop pop culture references.

Red Mars is based on the premise that you'd have to be at least a little crazy to sign up for a one-way Mars mission, and at least a bit of a genius to be accepted, and follows the social, political and psychological consequences for the first 100 colonists and the world they found. There's a decent amount of hard science thrown in, too.

Have you read the Foundation books (Isaac Asimov)? Seems like you might like them. Or, Echo Round His Bones (Thomas Disch)...

Finished Push, on to



I've only read one Christopher Moore book, but it was hilarious. I'm excited for this one.

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

Have you read the Foundation books (Isaac Asimov)? Seems like you might like them. Or, Echo Round His Bones (Thomas Disch)...

Yes to Foundation, no to Disch. I read Foundation straight through just a couple years ago, and it was cool but I felt like the Dune books covered a lot of the same ground and did it better (up through God Emperor, anyway). I'm getting a little genre'd out, honestly, but I don't have much literary/general/historical stuff on my reading list.

Just finished all audio books of Stephen King's The Dark Tower

Reading a swedish book about the worlds most secretive and dangerous countries, it's called "Greetings From the Axis of Evil".

Here are some books I've read or started recently








I also just recently finished this one after forgetting about it for like a year

Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice and East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Both. Simultaneously. >

Just started The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore.

At the moment:

Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en

Some I finished recently:

Long Earth - Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
A Dance with Dragons - GRRM

^ Murakami's style is excellent.... such a mellow tone played with a jazzy beat.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.

Easy Riders, Raging bulls.

It details the massive change in the Hollywood studio system that took place in the late 60's through the mid seventies, and is a fascinating read. I didn't realize the old Hollywood studio system had existed essentially unchanged from the very beginning of silent cinema, and still consisted of the septa-and octa-generians who had started it so many decades ago. These guys were totally conservative and old-school and completely out of touch with what America had become in the 60's, with hippies, vietnam protests, rock music etc. And as that system collapsed under its own weight they became desparate and let a couple of young hippies direct movies (Dennis Hopper with Easy Rider most notably) that the old-school studio execs totally didn't understand and hated, but became a breath of fresh air that re-invigorated the dying Hollywood, eventually allowing Lucas and Spielberg to do their thing. For a period of about 5 years Hollywood was actually making powerful, relevant movies (after finally ditching the Rock Hudson / Doris Day productions) that drew inspiration from the European auteurs like Bergman and Godard etc - but then they also found a new marketing strategy and ushered in the Blockbuster, which again killed imagination and relevance and turned movies into big business that has grown steadily bigger ever since.

Fascinating stuff - the old studio system was like Mad Men - a bunch of conservative elderly Jews chomping cigars and drinking hard liquor all day, cursing each other out like sailors while making movies in which husband and wife never sleep in the same bed - then the New Hollywood was a bunch of hippies in tie dye and ripped denim smoking dope all day and doing acid and speed.

Some of the interviews on which the book is based were collected into a documentary film of the same name:

Finished Dissolution yesterday, now time to continue with this

Consilience
by E. O. Wilson

Right now I'm reading Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, God Is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism by David A. Cooper, and The Gnostic Bible, which is a collection of Gnostic texts from various religions translated into English with provided commentaries.