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Right now, I'm into Cicero's Treatise On The Commonwealth and am reading Beowulf to my son for bedtime.

Alien Blood by Joan D. Vinge. I'm on kind of a sci-fi tear right now.

Patrick Degan wrote:Right now, I'm into Cicero's Treatise On The Commonwealth and am reading Beowulf to my son for bedtime.

Unless that's a different Beowulf than the usual one, seems pretty high-brow for a bedtime story. I'm impressed; last thing my dad read to us was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Currently Dmitry Glukhovsky's Metro 2034 in German and George Orwell's 1984 in French.

Next on my list is Le Crime d'etre Roms by Jean Marc Turine.

reading David Drake's Stormy Red Skies (RCN)

Listening to the Pillars of the Earth

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Finished the last of my star wars pile with Allegiance and even tried Hard Contact, Karens madness must come into play latter as I though that one was quite a good read.

However.. now onwards to the Song of Ice and Fire, its been a while since I read the first three and I enjoyed the series immensely so looking forward to working up to the new books.

Making my way through the Game of Thrones series. I am at the what the fuck stage of 'A Storm of Sword'.

Just finished A Dance Without Editors or Closure.

Got One Million Bullets as a gift, but have Baader Meinhof Complex out from the library, so that's first.

Also finished the Sandman series. Quite wonderful stuff.

I've started Kelli Stanley's Nox Dormienda. It's an interesting attempt at Roman noir.

I have Drakes most recent RCN book just staring at me, didn't know books could do that.

Lost Fleet: Deadnaught is my current read, followed by Moon Over Soho, which is part of the Peter Grant series by Ben Aaronovitch. Peter Grant being a Detective Constable Wizard Apprentice in the Metropolitan Police. Its a bit like Dresden Files. Except more funny and interesting.

Also have Bloodforged hanging around somewhere.

Well, since a few days ago I made one last trip to Border's Book Store:

1: Earth The Book by John Stewart.

2: The Art of Exotic Dancing: by croatian playmate Nada Mirat.

3: Skeptic Magazine, Vol 16, No 3

4: July 25 Newsweek

5: a 2009 Almanac

(That & a new Alice & Chains & REM cd cost me only $27.78)

Quite the haul, plus I got a shonen jump magazine on friday, but it looks like they went from 12 issues a year to only 10.

"Incandescene" by Greg Egan. A very unusual setting for a novel, that has a galactic setting, but definitely qualifies for Hard Science Fiction.

A Confederation of Valor by Tanya Huff. One of the best pieces of military sci-fi I've read in quite a while, even if the plot is a little generic.

I just finished The Gated City by Ryan Avent. It's a really short e-book that looks at the role of housing restrictions on city and economic growth. I'm about two-thirds of the way through James MacPherson's This Mighty Scourge (great book about the American Civil War). I'm also about to start Panic in Level 4 by Richard Preston, and Tom Perotta's The Leftovers. I've also got the last two "Hunger Games" Trilogy books staring at me, but I find it hard to start. I've heard they get worse with each book.

I just finished Brass Man and Polity Agent. Cannot wait to get started on Line War. The Polity fighting ancient inhibitor technology that can subsume all their technology, AI's and humans? Oh man, I am hyped, Line War better be nothing less than spectacular.

Working on Dan Brown and trying to find the appeal. It's predictable and preachy pop treasure-hunt type stuff. Robert Langdon should've been played by Nic Cage.

I was disappointed to find out on a Da Vinci Code-debunking site that the book completely alters the dynamic of the scene in Teabing's home, having Teabing and Langdon in agreement with the kooky stuff and bludgeoning poor Sophie with it, while the movie had an awesome exchange where they're debating Teabing's theories with Langdon in disagreement. Tom Hanks and Sir Ian McKellan sell that scene very well, and are the primary reasons to see the movie.

Anyway, to fit the thread, I just finished The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson, and I'm not sure what I'll be reading next. From the library I've got a book on Stalin's government, a book on the history of the KGB via the Mitrokhin Archives, Hitler's Willing Executioners, IBM and the Holocaust, and finally, What Has God Wrought?, an entry in the Oxford History of the United States that covers the time period of the War of 1812 to the Mexican-American War and the prelude to the Civil War.

Though I'm also looking to read Throne of Fire, the second Kane Chronicles novel by Richard Riordan, having read The Red Pyramid a couple weeks ago. I loved the Percy Jackson books and I love the way he writes the Kane siblings' first person narrations.

Just finished the first Gaunt's Ghosts omnibus. Alas, my reading time is about to go way, way down.

Lately I've been getting an early start on my textbooks for the new year, including a class involving fairy tale literature for which I have to read things like Frankenstein, Alice in Wonderland, and Arthurian Legends.

I've finished Ghost STory (Dresden files) and am reading Odyssy

One of my friends cleaned house and gave me a big stack of books. I'm reading the first Black Company book right now; it's okay.

Just finished reading The Trinity Vector by Steve Perry for the third time. Now I'm working on Rules of Survival: The Chronicle of Jani Kilian by Kristine Smith.

Uraniun235 wrote:One of my friends cleaned house and gave me a big stack of books. I'm reading the first Black Company book right now; it's okay.

I remember that one! Boy, working for the villains didn't work out all that well, even when they win.

yeah, but glen cook made a good franchise out of it.