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I finally got a new copy of Raptor Red for my birthday after losing my original copy (with a kid-appealing hologram cover) back in 1997 or so. I'm just so happy to have it back. It's like Tarzan of the Apes. No matter how many times I read it, I still enjoy the hell out of it.

I'm also reading a few Manga series. Currently, the only big ones are Mahou Sensei Negima and Claymore.

The Last Wish is really entertaining to read. I'm about halfway through it.

EDIT: Finished it. Good stuff.

I'm now on to reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, a book that I've heard great things about.

my meds are arriving!!!!

I just finished The Boer War by Thomas Pankenham and Means Without End by Giorgio Agamben and found them both to be quite interesting and stimulating. I'd definitely recommend anyone who has the chance should read them.

Up now is Judith Butler's Frames of War, and I am, as always, astounded that such a brilliant person is such a god awful writer.

The Yosemite Bear wrote:my meds are arriving!!!!

Will they help you post in the right thread?

arrrgh wrong thread, oh well the same set of packages included some 2000ad Graphic Novels. I got some Nicholai Dante, and some Slain'e (just discovered that GW is publishing 2000ad comics GN and novelizations)

Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human by Michael Chorost.

Basically, guy who's been hard of hearing all his life goes completely deaf, gets cochlear implant. Some of it is funny (describing what sex sounds like to him, in between the headpiece and and processor falling off, rolling around the floor, getting mixed up with clothing and/or bed sheets, and so on) and some of it sad (after he goes completely deaf he gets auditory hallucinations, phamtom hearing somewhat like an amputee feels a phantom limb) but interesting to me in that it not only talks about the advantages of the technology but also the limitations and drawbacks as well as some history behind the implants. Not to mention the weirdness of shopping for a new ear and getting a bodypart periodically upgraded as the technology advances.

Currently I'm re-reading Lord of the Rings plus a chapter or two of Watchmen before bed every night.

Jerry Pournelle's "Falkenberg's Legion".

Nathan Lowell's Trader Tales, then South Coast.

Print-wise, I'm working my way through Kate Mosse's Labyrinth. It takes a while to get going, but now I can't put it down.

Audio-wise, I'm working my way through the Harry Potter books again in anticipation of the final film. I'm midway through POA.

Recut Madness: Favorite Movies Retold for Your Partisan Pleasure, by James Finn Garner.

Regardless of your political persuasion, the ending chapter of "The Wizard of Dubya" is a kick in the gut, just like the end of the Train of Life.

I'm about 280 pages in Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, and it's great so far.

You're into the good stuff then. That book is one of the few to make me break my own rules and recommend it with the proviso of "you have to get past the first hundred pages".

Which makes me both sad and angry with myself.

Resident Evil City of the Dead by S.D Perry.

A little bit different to what I usually read.

Korgeta wrote:Resident Evil City of the Dead by S.D Perry.

A little bit different to what I usually read.

Not a bad choice at all. Perry's novelizations of the games are entertaining and good.

I'm about halfway through Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World. He's good about explaining the value of scientific thought and debunking common myths, but the book as a whole feels disjointed, not a smooth logical flow.

After that, well, I picked up Asimov's extended Foundation series for less than $30 USD, so I'm looking forward to (re)reading that. (Yay used book stores!)

Count Zero, by William Gibson, and The Birth of Biopolitics by Michel Foucault. Foucault is a little hard to read, which I suspect may be partly because of the translation, but mostly because I have awful academic reading habits.

Argosh wrote:Jerry Pournelle's "Falkenberg's Legion".

How is it?

Kingmaker wrote: The Birth of Biopolitics by Michel Foucault. Foucault is a little hard to read, which I suspect may be partly because of the translation, but mostly because I have awful academic reading habits.

If you mean his lecture series it gets pretty good. Foucault was a pretty good lecturer and it certainly isn't like some of his drier texts (like Archaeology of Knowledge). If you haven't already you should read Discipline and Punish, and if you want a really fun Foucault read read his debate with Noam Chomsky where he curbstomps Chomsky to the ground and then tap dance all over his prone body.

Two books I've read today are the Ravenor Omnibus by Dan Abnett and In the Name of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy.

I finished Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell today. Awesome book, although Part III was a bit slow-moving. I'm now reading Blood of Elves, by the guy who wrote The Last Wish and invented the Witcherverse.

Phantasee wrote:How is it?

It's good, though I'm reading it slowly so ...
Interesting premise, US & SU teaming up and all that.

How would you compare it with Drake's Slammers novels?

I finished Blood of Elves. It was a major let-down after The Last Wish.

I'm starting Servant of the Underworld. It was described to me as "Aztec Urban Fantasy", so I'll see how good it is. I'm usually not a fan of Urban Fantasy.

Honestly, this is all just time-filling until July 12. A few weeks after that, and I'll be back on my normal reading schedule.

EDIT: Well, I was planning to start Servant of the Underworld, but I've been side-tracked by American Gods. It was available as an e-book from my library system, and I've been reading it on my work computer between customers (who are few and far between).