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RedImperator wrote:Finished Tom Sawyer, moving on to To Kill a Mockingbird, which I'm also greatly enjoying in the early going. I think I'm going to do a little project here--I'm going to read through the "classics" without the pressure of having to write a report or take a test about them later.

What's on your list? I've been working through Pride and Prejudice, and I've read some of the speculative fiction classics like Dracula and War of the Worlds.

I honestly can't remember much from Tom Sawyer, although I remember reading and enjoying Huck Finn.

I have the Bromillaed Trilogy on order from Amazon it's a couple weeks before it arrives.

Still Trying to get through "The Crippled God".
Skimming/re-reading "The Fountainhead", and "Memories of Ice".

I'm re-reading The Judging Eye by R. Scott Bakker (after re-reading previous books over the last few months) in anticipation of his next Eärwa book coming out in April.

I'm also reading The Blade Itself for the first time.

About to start Jay-Z's Decoded, if it doesn't keep me interested or proves a short read I'll probably get started on Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain. No idea what it's about, haven't even seen the physical book yet, but the title made me want to read it.

Currently on the fourth Percy Jackson novel, "The Battle of the Labyrinth". Loving the series.

Just finished False Gods. While Horus Rising gave a decent although somewhat long introduction, False Gods was the book that got the ball rolling. Every page you turned, it was getting uglier and uglier. Although I have read 40k already and knew what was to come, it is still gut-wrenching and morose to read.

I've got a couple of books in the hamper, including the first of Robin Hobb's Soldier's Son series, Brandon Sanderson's Warbreaker, and the first book in K.J. Parker's Engineer Trilogy. I'm reading Warbreaker now.

On the fiction front, I'm currently reading Blood Meridian and The Road, both by Cormac McCarthy. In nonfiction, I'm reading Mark Bowden's Guests of the Ayatollah.

I've gotten round to reading Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton.

Big Orange wrote:I've gotten round to reading Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton.

It's an interesting book, even with an extra-concentrated dose of Ian Malcolm stupidity.

I finished Warbreaker, which was excellent - probably the best Sanderson-verse book that I've read (meaning that it doesn't include the Wheel of Time books that he's written).

I'm divided between Robin Hobb or K.J. Parker. I'll probably go with Hobb first.

Big Orange wrote:I've gotten round to reading Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton.

Prepare to be bummed that Muldoon's awesomeness didn't translate to screen.

I'm reading "The Stainless Steel Rat For President" by Harry Harrison. Brilliant.

Elves in Anglo-Saxon England. It looks pretty interesting far, since it explores the A-S's use of the aelfe to express forms of sexuality, lingering paganism, and gender constructs. Maybe the argument is that elves were a bunch of scary effeminate homosexuals.

"The command of the air" by Douhet. A piece of shit air theory treatise which gets it all wrong...
In terms of fiction, I'm reading the last of the 'Gunslinger' series by Steven King... and It's awesome, if massively depressing.

I tried Robin Hobb, getting about 70 pages into it before putting it down. I also tried Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis, and ended up putting it down by page 67 or the like. I usually try to give books 60-70 pages to catch my interest before putting them down.

I suppose K.J. Parker's up next. I'll also see if I can finish Pride and Prejudice on my Kindle, and the Kindle sample for Never Knew Another by J.M. McDermott has caught my interest as well.

Guardman Boss wrote:I tried Robin Hobb, getting about 70 pages into it before putting it down.

Which series? The Soldier Son series? If so, I don't really blame you. Easily one of her worst. Then again, I haven't read any of her books in years. It's possible I wouldn't enjoy the Farseer Trilogy if I read it again today.

SilverWingedSeraph wrote:

Guardman Boss wrote:I tried Robin Hobb, getting about 70 pages into it before putting it down.

Which series? The Soldier Son series? If so, I don't really blame you. Easily one of her worst. Then again, I haven't read any of her books in years. It's possible I wouldn't enjoy the Farseer Trilogy if I read it again today.

Yeah, it was the first book of the Soldier's Son series. It's not so much that it was bad, as it was that it didn't catch my interest at all, and wasn't particularly good.

Currently reading Malcom Gladwell's Outliers, quite interesting.

Half-assed reading How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy. It's entertaining, but being a history book, I can put it down without worrying about missing plot or whatever.

I just bought House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski and am enjoying it, though it is hard to follow the copious footnotes. I think that's the intent of them, though.

I need to get back to the Enforcer omnibus by Matt Ferrer; it's a 40k omnibus about a female Arbites officer and it is really good, but I just set it down about 4 months ago and forgot to pick it back up due to life being hectic. I'm thinking of maybe reading that concurrently with House of Leaves.

Why is House in blue?

Phantasee wrote:Why is House in blue?

Because every instance of the word is blue in the book and I like doing it for the book. It is also minimally difficult for me to do, so I do it.

I read an excerpt from J.M. McDermott's Never Knew Another, and was blown away. I bought the e-book and plowed right through. Amazing - the guy does an excellent job of conveying how even small things like damaged clothes can be a devastating catastrophe for someone desperate to stay secret and safe. There were parts where I came close to tears.

Unfortunately, I've tried the first book of K.J. Parker's Engineer Trilogy, am at about page 67, and I can't really be arsed to go on. It's not drawing my interest at all.

I honestly don't know what to read next. Maybe I'll finish Pride and Prejudice.

Guardsman Bass wrote:
I honestly don't know what to read next. Maybe I'll finish Pride and Prejudice.

Declare by Tim Powers is the answer.

Just got Waffenschmiede DDR delivered today. So the lunch breaks for the rest of the week are covered now.