What are you reading right now?

[Guardsman Bass]

Neuropath by R. Scot Bakker

That was an interesting book, although I think Bakker weakened much of the execution by his constant info-dumping.

I've finished George R.R. Martin's Fevre Dream. It's a pretty good vampire book, although I think it slows down too much near the end.

I'm reading Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Discipline right now. It's pretty engrossing and interesting to read, particularly the parts on urbanization and nuclear power. It's on library loan, but I think I'll probably buy a copy of it for myself for future re-reading.

[Dave]

I've picked up Transhuman: What humanity becomes next, a collection of, uh, short Transhumanist sci-fi stories. It's alright.

Also just finished reading The NanoTech Network, via the link in Comrade Stas's signature. Now that was mind-blowing.

[The Spartan]

Well I just finished The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, since I hadn't yet gotten to that. I also thumbed through The Dangerous Book for Boys to see if I wanted to keep it in my library (I do). Next on the list is Neuromancer.

I'm pleased with myself; I'm finally making a dent in my "To Be Read" shelf. I've only two feet left now instead of three. Though I'm sure I'll add to that soon enough.

[JME2]

Finally on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which is good because I'm nearly burned out from the series again (this is why I only reread the books once a year).

[Terralthra]

I'm reading Simon R. Green's Deathstalker. It's the first in a series. It seems decent, so far. The protagonist is enough of a slacker and overbred foppish aristocrat that his fighting skills and luck don't make him seem like an author-insert.

[loomer]

A.J. Jacob's The Year of Living Biblically, which seems to be a lot of fun though I only just started it. Basically, a secularist decided to live life according to the bible for a year.

According to the whole bible, not the modernized way of doing it.

[Phantasee]

On Surgeon's Mate. At this rate I'll be done the series before august.

I should probably reread some of my old sociology texts, the Marx and the Foucault.

[weemadando]

Just read the two trades that compose Loveless. Not a bad diversion, but it's a little shambolic with the storytelling at times.

[Phantasee]

Errr... On The Ionian Mission, now. I didn't even realize I was so close to the end. Surgeon's Mate (I finally get the title) gets wrapped up quick and neat.

[Raesene]

Errr... On The Ionian Mission, now. I didn't even realize I was so close to the end. Surgeon's Mate (I finally get the title) gets wrapped up quick and neat.

You'll get me to reread the Aubrey-Maturin books once more...

I've started Christopher Clark's 'Prussia'. Well written and readable. I like the mix of the big picture and the litte guys' perspective.

[The Grim Squeaker]

Finished Neuropath. Interesting ideas, but weak in terms of style and prose. Kraken was pretty damn good.

Now going on "god emperor of Didcot" (Space captain Smith) and "Wages of Destruction"

[Dartzap]

I've just started on this amazing trash fiction series called Pax Britannia. Very much in the same vein as Space Captain Smith. Queen Victoria on a Golden-Throne-Alike, rain that turns people into insects, Robo-Peelers, and a hero called Ulysses Quicksilver! and a British Empire that semi-encompass the globe and has moon colonies, vampires and werewolves and, uh...Rasputin?

Wacky, wacky books.

[[R_H]]

I started and finished Millenium I today, started Millenium II as soon as I was finished the first.

[Dalton]

Has anyone else read Raymond E. Feist's "Conclave of Shadows" series? Is it worth it to continue on to the "Darkwar" books, or is it going to be just a bunch more vignettes about gold, food, wine and whores?

[Kaiser Caesar]

I will be starting a new batch of books today!

For school:

A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind And The Renaissance: Portrait Of An Age By William Manchester

and

Theatre Of The Oppressed By Augusto Boal

For Pleasure:

The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy By Peter H. Wilson

and

The Best Of Robert E. Howard: Volume 1: Crimson Shadows

[[R_H]]

I finished The Girl Who Played with Fire yesterday, it was alright, but I think Salander's abilities were overdone (disbelief was extremely difficult to suspend) compared to the first one. Larsson's spiel about "hunting ammunition" (soft/hollow point) was downright silly.

[wautd]

Finally finished unseen academicals (quite a bore at the end).

Started on the Eisenhorn trilogy (40K)

[Karza]

Started Artificial Minds. Obtaining this book was quite a nuisance, neither my university library nor the public library had a copy, and the first online bookstore I ordered it from dithered about for 3 weeks before informing me it was out of print and wouldn't be available until the end of august. Finally got a used copy from Amazon.

[Broomstick]

The Dresden Files - currently on book 2, Fool Moon. Yep,it's a re-read.

[RazorOutlaw]

A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind And The Renaissance: Portrait Of An Age By William Manchester

I picked up this book a few months ago because it seemed like it would be a good read. Due to other commitments I haven't had a chance to start it. Have you started to read it and found it to be good?

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As for myself I've been reading "Introduction to Ethics" by Jacques P. Thiroux book and "Conceptual Physics: Media Update" by Paul G. Hewitt (and everybody else that contributed). I know it's not for pleasure, and might seem strange to mention in a thread mostly about pleasure reading, but I am reading them more than anything else lately.

I'm reading very slowly:

"Blood of Elves" by Andrzej Sapkowski

"The Logic of Real Arguments" by Alec Fisher

"Learning to Think Things Through" by Gerald Nosich

Letting myself read something like "Blood of Elves" is such a break from the more technical stuff. On the other hand thank God I've let myself get back in to more reading because I really needed to get back in to the habit.

[Vendetta]

Currently reading The Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey, it's the fifth book in his Felix Castor series. The books are fun, well written, noir styled, and just* different enough to seperate themselves from any of the other "John Constantine with the serial numbers filed off" urban magic fantasies. (For a start, there's no "magic", Castor is an exorcist, so the only thing that resembles magic is dealing with ghosts, zombies, werethings, and demons, no flashy spells or other nonsense)

*(The difference between Felix Castor and his obvious inspiration is wafer thin, born in Liverpool, moved to London, has a preturnatural talent for fucking up the lives of all around him. Though at least Carey knows his subject, having been born in Liverpool and moved to London, and having been the second longest running Hellblazer author and all).

[SapphireFox]

Currently on a 40k kick reading "Titanicus" by Dan Abnett and some Ciaphas Cain enjoyment in the form of "The Traitor's Hand".

Nothing quite like Uber mechs and sarcastic humor to fill an afternoon.

[Soontir C'boath]

Right now, I am going through the Android's Dream by Scalzi. Recommended to be funny but there are only a few parts that I liked. Only still reading it just to know what happens next.

Also a WH40K Ghost novel called Armour of Contempt. I read in a previous thread that "Traitor General" (two books before) was where Abnett was getting 'bored', but so far it seems he's progressing the characters and the crusade well enough.

[The Yosemite Bear]

currently going through my david drake reading kick, I'm on Lt. Leary and the lighnings right now, however I have a tomb kings army book, and three DH books for GMing (along with re-reading the Car Wars rules, for Woden's day night fun and games)

[Phantasee]

I'm on The Reverse of the Medal. The poor Surprise is going to be sold out of the service

This is actually the first book I've read that I hadn't read before, in the series. Either it or one of the earlier books was always missing from the library when I tried to read the series before. They were usually overdue by a few months, and of course EPL had only the one complete set out of all the libraries scattered across the city.