So what's everybody reading lately?

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-08-10 02:13am

I'm currently reading my way through the manga version of Akira...(I've come to the part where Kaneda and one of his friends ride around on stolen motorcycles in a deserted subway system)

As for other works - I'm considering reading "The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward" by H.P. Lovecraft yet again. I've read it 2 or 3 times as of this date and couldn't make heads or tails of it.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-08-10 05:15am

Catch 22 but slowly, because I'm finiding it hard work (sorry Zaia) and becasue I'm getting distracted with personal issue and/or falligng asleep.

Fitting it between Titus Groan and Gormenghast because I think it's good too split up long reads

master_yoda · Post by **master_yoda** » 2003-08-10 05:29am

At the moment I'm reading Donnie Brasco (A hell of a lot better than the movie, in my opinion).

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-08-10 06:21am

Stephen Kings The Dark Tower: Wizard & Glass

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-08-10 06:43am

Currently, I am 2 chapters into Simon Schama - Landscape and Memory.
For those who dont know, Simon Schama is currently a TV historian, but before he did that he did this book - it's about how the landscape and environment influences many facets of life, urban myth and history - currently I'm reading about the influence of the European Bison upon the Polish and Lithuanian cultures. It's pretty interesting, if a little hard going.

After that, I've picked up the Krakatau Eruption book by Simon Winchester to read. Then Bill Bryson's latest.

Mark S · Post by **Mark S** » 2003-08-10 10:12am

Lt. Dan wrote:The Iliad. Damn have to finish more than 200 pages in less then 5 days.

Don't you love how every dog and his brother gets at least a couple lines about who he is, who his father is, who his grandfather was...

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-08-10 02:32pm

The Time Machine, by H.G.Wells.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-08-10 03:02pm

Moved on to Sten 6: Return of the Emperor. Considering reading the Amtrak Wars too.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-08-10 03:10pm

Currently The Armageddon Inheritance again. Heirs of Empire afterwards.

Lucius Licinius Lucullus · Post by **Lucius Licinius Lucullus** » 2003-08-10 04:43pm

Im trying to read through Clausewitz "About War", it´s my fourth atempt, I hope I can suceed this time.

Spare · Post by **Spare** » 2003-08-10 05:41pm

Umberto Eco - 'The name of the Rose'. I dunno if that's a correct translation of the title to English. Great book by the way, a criminal case placed in the 13th century.

Mark S · Post by **Mark S** » 2003-08-10 06:54pm

Tolya wrote:Umberto Eco - 'The name of the Rose'. I dunno if that's a correct translation of the title to English. Great book by the way, a criminal case placed in the 13th century.

I think I've seen a movie based on that book. It had Sean Connery in it.

Alex Moon · Post by **Alex Moon** » 2003-08-10 09:26pm

I've just finished Live From Golgatha and am starting The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-08-11 03:34am

I recently read The Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy. The good thing about vacations is that there are times when there's not much else to do, and you read 200 pages a day.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-08-13 11:04pm

I'm slogging through 'Cold Sassy Tree', and am halfway through with 'The Three Musketeers'

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-08-13 11:08pm

innerbrat wrote:Catch 22 but slowly, because I'm finiding it hard work (sorry Zaia) and becasue I'm getting distracted with personal issue and/or falligng asleep.

No prob. It's an excellent book (as I've obviously mentioned once or twice before *grin*), but you do have to be in the right mindset for it. And personal problems do have a tendency to creep up during reading, I've found... So no worries, my lovely. Maybe you should try reading it some other time?

As for me, I'm reading The Princess Bride by William Goldman for about the six thousandth time. And I'm reading some essays by E.B. White, but that's sort of an ongoing thing.

KingGlamis · Post by **KingGlamis** » 2003-08-13 11:19pm

Saucer, by Stephen Coonts. Just finished it. Pretty damn good. Only took me two days to read it. That should tell you how much I was into it. Not the best book I have read, but still very good.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2003-08-13 11:30pm

Recently finished the third book of 'A Song of Fire and Ice' series. It was called 'A Storm of Swords'. Good series, long but good.

Have a copy of 'Shatterpoint' but not liking it much and don't know if I will finish it.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-08-14 09:29am

I'm currently reading "The Dunwich Horror" by H.P. Lovecraft for a specific reason: I'm making a biography of Wilbur Whateley.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2003-08-16 09:49pm

Shatterpoint

***Maybe a SPOILER but it doesn't really give anything away.***

"The other rose and unlooped his stun baton. "Sure, smart guy. Let's have the bag. Inspection. Come on."

Mace went still. Pro-bi mist condensed to rivulets and trickled down his bare skin. "I can read your mind," he said darkly. "You only have three ideas, and all of them are wrong."

"Huh?"

Mace flipped up a thumb. "You think being armed and ruthless means you can do whatever you want." He folded his thumb and flipped up his forefinger. "You think nobody will stand up to you when they're naked." He folded that one again and flipped up the next. "And you think you're going to look inside my bag."

***END SPOILER or the reasonable facimile there of***

Speaker for the Dead

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-08-16 09:51pm

I've been re-reading hte Thrawn Trilogy. I don't own any of the other SW novels I've read, interstingly, because I'd either gotten them from the library or borrowed them from a friend. So during the day of the blackout I read HttE, and started on DFR. I got to about 130 before I stopped for the day. I suppose I might as well finish them even with the power back.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-08-16 09:52pm

Just began Stephen King's first book to The Dark Tower series, The Gunslinger.

~ver

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2003-08-16 10:24pm

The Dynamic English by English Grandmaster Tony Kosten who resides in France. It's about the Ye olde English Opening 1. c4 anf the Reti Opening named in honor of hypermodern Gramdmaster Richard Reti who sadly died at age 40 of tubrclosuis.

Also, I finished Starting Out: The King's Indian by English Grandmaster Joe Gallagher. About the tactical 1... Nf6 as black and a little as white. Though I look back for cheess line theorems that I've created and review.

J · Post by J » 2003-08-16 10:30pm

verilon wrote:Just began Stephen King's first book to The Dark Tower series, The Gunslinger.

~ver

Hey! I remember those books! Spoiler warning:

Some parts of the books may cause bad mental images, but then you're a BotM guy so it shouldn't be an issue

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-08-16 10:32pm

jmac wrote:
verilon wrote:Just began Stephen King's first book to The Dark Tower series, The Gunslinger.

~ver
Hey! I remember those books! Spoiler warning:

Some parts of the books may cause bad mental images, but then you're a BotM guy so it shouldn't be an issue

Well, this is the newly revised version of it, so I am looking forward to reading it. And apparently the entire series is about 4500 pages, en totale. And people on their deathbeds and on death row have asked Mr. King before how the series turned out. o O;;

~ver