So what's everybody reading lately?

Mark S · Post by **Mark S** » 2003-07-26 09:59am

Personally I've just dug into Don Quixote. I like how an author from the sixteenth century discribes whores as 'ladies of easy virtue.'

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-07-26 12:14pm

T2: The Future War is my current read, then I'll finally finish The Blind Watchmaker and start on Doug Adams' last book. May start writing again between them.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2003-07-26 01:53pm

I'm reading som e books and such on improving fiction humor, and Fast Food Nation, which I admit I haven't read before.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-07-26 02:19pm

presently Tolkien (Silmerillion), Arkham House (Return to Innsmouth), Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix, Walter S. Miller (St. Liebowitz and the Wild Horse Woman), & Steve Pressman (Tides of War)

Alex Moon · Post by **Alex Moon** » 2003-07-26 02:22pm

Watership Down, Hirohito: Rise and Fall of Modern Japan, and The Aenid

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-07-26 02:39pm

I'm (very casually) reading 'The Honor of the Queen' on Baen's Free Library, and I just finished 'Imperial Earth'. I'm also reading 'Guns, Germs, and Steel', which is a very good read, even though it's nonfiction.

I'm thinking of reading 'Slaughterhouse Five' next, as there's a convienent collection of Kurt Vonnegut works on the bookshelf. If I can ever find it in a damn bookstore, 'Soldiers Live' is on my must-read list.

I also have to read 'Cold Sassy Tree' for school. Urrrrg.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2003-07-26 02:41pm

Right now The Count Of Monte Cristo, Just finished LOTR, again.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-07-26 04:18pm

Just finished Heir to the Empire again and am casting around for my next selection (since my brother in law still has DFR and TLC).

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2003-07-26 09:22pm

Just recently read Inversions (Iain M. Banks) again...
Presently working thorugh either Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman) (again) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (William Gibson)

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-07-26 09:33pm

American Gods...Have a copy SIGNED by him...and now getting to it.

Oi....need new reading habits.

Also just finished The Stand

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-07-26 09:37pm

Ah, Watership Down, I loved the film and that got me on the book... which I got all of 200 pages into and forgot about, must try again.

Singular Quartet: Ever seen the Neverwhere mini-series by the BBC? I saw it on VHS at my uni's sci-fi club, I hear it's a good adaption of the book.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-07-26 09:53pm

I've also been finishing around for a copy of 'Gormenghast'

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2003-07-27 12:03am

Ghost Rider wrote: American Gods...Have a copy SIGNED by him...and now getting to it.

I got my copy signed by hinm at a convention where the term "Neil" became a verb that means "To block traffic" due to the lines that went from one side to the other, then out the door and down the hall of the convention hall he was at.

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2003-07-27 10:24am

With my Honorverse CD, Ashes of Victory.

EDIT: Now War of Honor. Holy shit, 60 chapters each twice as long as the previous book's were!

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-07-27 05:44pm

Mostly comics and manga right now. I just finished volume 11 of Love Hina, volume 16 of Ah, Megami-sama, volume 11 of Dragon Ball Z, books 1-4 of Bone, and am currently reading volume 11 of Dragon Ball and book five of Bone.

After that I should start this shoujo-ai manga I bought called Between the Sheets, as well as read the Battle Royale novel again...

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-07-27 06:07pm

Fleets of World War II

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-07-27 09:54pm

Nothing at the current time, although I recently blazed my way through several library books including PREY by Micheal Crichton and a bunch of spy-thriller types.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-07-27 10:06pm

Just finished Order of the Phoenix, have just started Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. American Empire: Victorious Opposition comes out in 3 days.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-07-28 01:01am

Right! I did finish Order of the Phoenix, too! Right...

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-07-28 01:06am

I've been reading lots of Java code lately.

public class Braindead
{

int LevelOfTooMuchCoding;
String name = new String();

public void Braindead(int l, String n)
{
this.LevelOfTooMuchCoding = l;
this.name = n;
}

public int HowMuchBraindeadage(int TimeSpentInFrontOfComputer)
{
return (this.LevelOfTooMuchCoding * TimeSpentInFrontOfComputer);
}
}

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-07-28 09:56am

Six Days of War and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-07-28 11:09am

Behold a Pale Horse - A book on secret societies
Scarred Soul - A book on self-injury

~ver

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2003-07-28 11:31am

Shinova wrote:I've been reading lots of Java code lately.

public class Braindead
{

int LevelOfTooMuchCoding;
String name = new String();

public void Braindead(int l, String n)
{
this.LevelOfTooMuchCoding = l;
this.name = n;
}

public int HowMuchBraindeadage(int TimeSpentInFrontOfComputer)
{
return (this.LevelOfTooMuchCoding * TimeSpentInFrontOfComputer);
}
}

First off, proper way of doing this would be to use a code tag.
Second, you don't have a default constructer.
Third, those variable are way to long for my tastes, but to each their own...

Jason von Evil · Post by **Jason von Evil** » 2003-07-28 11:46am

I guess comics don't count, do they? I can't seem to get into normal books. Every interesting looking regular book I pick up I lose interest in.

LOTR is included with this.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-07-28 11:53am

Aya wrote:I guess comics don't count, do they?

Don't see why not

.

Seriously I read more comics(more because of influx) then books...and no one is going to tell me that Sandman, Watchmen, Maus aren't considered great works.

I just put down books because my comic book list is usually too long.