What are you reading right now?

[Steve]

Finished Subtle Knife but I think I'll wait until tomorrow to read Amber Spyglass.

[phred]

I just checked out a couple Known Space books from the library Fleet of Worlds and Juggler of Worlds.

Fleet was a good read. Juggler is looking ok so far as well.

[wautd]

Unseen Academicals (latest Discworld novel, somewhat dissapointing so far)
Stijn & de sterren (astronomy explained for laymen. Stijn Meuris has his own unique way in doing it).

[Stofsk]

Harry Potter

Unfortunately

[RedImperator]

Cryptonomicon, followed shortly by Iron Council and Use of Weapons.

[Eleventh Century Remnant]

The third Gaunt's Ghosts omnibus, in bits in between the rather more serious "Three Victories and a Defeat; the Rise and Fall of the First British Empire" by Brendan Simms.

[weemadando]

Cryptonomicon, followed shortly by Iron Council and Use of Weapons.

China Mieville's Iron Council? If so - fuck yes. Good job sir. Not quite as good as Perdido St Station or The Scar, but still better than most other extant fantasy.

[RedImperator]

Cryptonomicon, followed shortly by Iron Council and Use of Weapons.

China Mieville's Iron Council? If so - fuck yes. Good job sir. Not quite as good as Perdido St Station or The Scar, but still better than most other extant fantasy.

The very same. I have no interest--zero, none, null--in Tolkien ripoff style sword and sorcery fantasy (for that matter, I have no interest in Tolkien himself), but I've fallen in love with Meiville. I'm glad he doesn't write in my genre, or I'd probably just lay in bed all day feeling like a hack.

[weemadando]

I read the first Mouse Guard book last night after buying it for my wife's birthday last year (as it sounded interesting and she loved Fables and other similar ones) and it was really great. Wonderful art, a good deal of whimsy in it's concept and a well written. To their credit as well, the fonts are fantastic. Anyone with even a passing interest in [historical, if whimsical] fantasy should read this.

[Stofsk]

I read the first Mouse Guard book last night after buying it for my wife's birthday last year (as it sounded interesting and she loved Fables and other similar ones) and it was really great. Wonderful art, a good deal of whimsy in it's concept and a well written. To their credit as well, the fonts are fantastic. Anyone with even a passing interest in [historical, if whimsical] fantasy should read this.

It matters not what you fight, but what you fight for

[Guardsman Bass]

I think I might read some more non-fiction. I've got Empire of the Word to finish, and Richard Dawkins' Greatest Show on Earth is sitting there, drawing me in for a re-read.

I sort of finished the Helliconia Trilogy by Brian Aldiss. I say "sort of" because I was mostly skimming the last book. It was really disappointing - Helliconia Spring was excellent, but Helliconia Summer was extremely meh (it had a strange, often incoherent chronological order that was confusing as hell), and Aldiss got insanely preachy in some of my formerly favorite parts in the last book.

Cryptonomicon, followed shortly by Iron Council and Use of Weapons.

China Mieville's Iron Council? If so - fuck yes. Good job sir. Not quite as good as Perdido St Station or The Scar, but still better than most other extant fantasy.

It's not bad. I was meh about most of the middle of it, but the ending is fantastic.

I like a lot of Mieville's stuff - I loved Perdido Street Station - but I'm not really fond of the whole "New Weird" genre in fantasy that Mieville is part of.

[Darth Nostril]

Unseen Academicals (latest Discworld novel, somewhat dissapointing so far)

Slight understatement there, it's absolute crap.
But then I'm not a football fan so a book devoted to the shite sport bores me senseless.


Finally got my arse in gear and rejoined my local library, checked out Death Star (already finished), Alastair Reynolds Century Rain, Peter Hamilton The Dreaming Void & The Temporal Void and Markus Heitz The Dwarves.

[The Big I]

Just finished reading Exodus (Hellgate, London, Book 1) by Mel Odom, much better than I expected will be getting the next 2 books. Yes it is based on the game Hellgate London, and is set 15 years before the game with the hellgates opening and the immediate aftermath.

[The_Saint]

Just finished reading Exodus (Hellgate, London, Book 1) by Mel Odom, much better than I expected will be getting the next 2 books. Yes it is based on the game Hellgate London, and is set 15 years before the game with the hellgates opening and the immediate aftermath.

Damn you .. I've been looking out for these and can't find them, where'd you find yours?

Thinking on game novels I just found my Alpha Centauri novels whilst putting in a new book case (giving me another 5 meters of shelving which disturbingly won't be enough) so I'll have to give those a re-read, having not read them in ...oh about 8-9 years

[weemadando]

SMAC novels? Fuck yes. I wasn't even aware that these existed.

[Guardsman Bass]

SMAC novels? Fuck yes. I wasn't even aware that these existed.

They're only okay in quality, though, with the middle book being the best. The first book is a rip-off of the Trojan War in a number of ways, and the last book is a downer.

[Teleros]

Just bought Chapter's Due, Unseen Academicals, and Storm from the Shadows, now that it's out in softback. Reading SftS first, enjoying it so long as I wear Mary Sue shades .

[JME2]

I'm currently working my way through the Harry Potter books again. Up now is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

I'm into the last 1/3 of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It's always fun rereading the series and being able to identify the clues Rowling planted in advance for her myth arc.

I'm currently a 1/3 of the way through Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. This is always the difficult point of rereading the series, both because of the length and because I hate Dolores "Toadface" Umbridge with a passion.

[weemadando]

Currently on Battle of Kursk: Operation Citadel. Not far enough in to really determine what it's like.

However, Mark Kurlansky's The Big Oyster which I just finished was fucking brilliant. A history of NYC (yeah, yeah - it's New York), but through the lens of the oyster industry. Like most of his books, it's a fascinating history with the complete downer ending of "we just killed it all".

[Gandalf]

I'm reading The Hunt for Red October.

I like that everyone essentially discusses the plot, and the characters are subsequently dispatched to discuss the plot with other people.

[weemadando]

But wait! What about the reservist A-10s showing those damn Rooskies who's boss with a super-sneaky attack?

[The Big I]

Just finished reading Exodus (Hellgate, London, Book 1) by Mel Odom, much better than I expected will be getting the next 2 books. Yes it is based on the game Hellgate London, and is set 15 years before the game with the hellgates opening and the immediate aftermath.

Damn you .. I've been looking out for these and can't find them, where'd you find yours?

Thinking on game novels I just found my Alpha Centauri novels whilst putting in a new book case (giving me another 5 meters of shelving which disturbingly won't be enough) so I'll have to give those a re-read, having not read them in ...oh about 8-9 years

Where else Amazon ordered them end of march this year, for a book based a computer game its pretty good, wasn't expecting it to be.

[Broomstick]

Genome by Matt Ridley. Quite topical when published, still a good read, but the subsequent science has rendered some of it obsolete.

[Twigler]

Persian Fire by Tom Holland. I picked it up based on a thread in the History forum and it is indeed a great book.

[Terralthra]

Just finished Consider Phlebas, after starting in on the Culture novels with The Player of Games. Considering Excession.