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Posted February 11, 2012
Darwin's Armada by Iain McCalman.
Posted February 11, 2012
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell -- quite long, starts very slowly, but it's beautifully written and it gathers pace. :-)
Posted February 11, 2012
I. Asimov - "Second Foundation"
Don't really like the series but it's a classic.
Posted February 11, 2012
I haven't really been reading much lately but the last book I read and plan to read again is Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky.
Posted February 11, 2012
George Koskimaki: D-day with the screaming eagles,
Brian Greene: The hidden reality (physics written for the masses),
Peter Singer: OneWorld - the ethics of globalization (in a dutch translation Een Wereld),
A book with drawings and prints by M.C. Escher,
Terry Pratchett: The light fantastic.
Athans and others: Realms of War.

Feeling quite proud I'm not reading one dozen books at the same time, but only six at the moment.
Posted February 11, 2012
I'm reading sections of the Gospel of Matthew. I know atheism and agnosticism are pretty popular on here, and no, I don't intend to preach to anyone.

I will say some of what I'm reading is a bit disturbing. Not everything in it is what I expected.
Posted February 11, 2012
Lovecraft.
Posted February 11, 2012
Just finished the Aeneid, the Robert Fagles translation. Hardcopy too. I will never, ever merge onto the digital book world. I can't fathom a book that's not in my hands. Understand the benefit of digital, just want no part of it.

. . .though I will try to sell my book once it's done on the amazon and ibook stores, lol. It's just way too easy to self-publish online than it is to get a book deal.
Posted February 11, 2012
recent fiction- The Dark Tower series, currently on The Drawing of the Three
I've been reading Stephen King since I was about 11 in 1983, read all of his stuff written in the 70's and 80's. For some reason I never bothered with The Dark Tower series till now though. After hearing so many people gush about it, with some people comparing it to the quality of The Stand. I decided to check it out.
The Gunslinger was OK. It gets pretty weird at times. I guess Stephen King started it when he was 19 before he found his voice as a writer, and it kinda shows. It's hard to explain exactly, all I can say is it's just in a way that doesn't have the usual Stephen King flavor to it.
I find The Drawing of the Three much better though.

non fiction:
All the President's Men by Woodward and Bernstein.
I'm on page 100 or so, and to be honest I'm having a hard time connecting everything together, and I don't feel like I understand the whole investigation as much as I hoped. I feel like starting it all over again. It's not that I don't get the main idea of what's going on, but there are so many names being mentioned with" so and so did this" that I'm getting confused on who is who
Post edited February 11, 2012 by CaptainGyro
Posted February 11, 2012
The Soloist by Steve Lopez. I'm reading it for my college English class. It's a really good book.

I'm also reading through the Bible. I've never actually read the whole thing through, I'm ashamed to say, so I finally decided to. I'm using a chronological plan, and I'm currently in Job. I'm taking my time, though. I'm using the plan more as a guideline. I don't want to rush through just so I can say I read the Bible in a year.
Post edited February 11, 2012 by Daedalus1138
Posted February 11, 2012
dr no-ian flemming

re=reading it after a few years, tend to rate it above the movie
Posted February 11, 2012
Wheel of Time book 4 is a painful book to read. I got back to it last week, and I started the book months and months ago...
Posted February 12, 2012
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wodmarach: you'll stop around book 6 (everyone does) but I highly recommend reading the rest of the series it speeds up again with jordans last book and sandersons 2 so far (his 3rd and final is due out march I believe)
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elisstar: I actually enjoyed all of the books, even though there are a couple that move at a glacial pace. I came to the series late, so maybe that's why...if I were reading as they were released (and waiting YEARS until the next), I might have a different opinion on the pacing. Brandon Sanderson is doing a great job of finishing of the series, I think.

As for myself, I'm currently reading Gardens of the Moon, the first book in Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen. I'm working my way through it slowly...there is so much detail. For some lighter reading, I recently finished Jim Butcher's Ghost Story, which was fun. Next, I think I'll start Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing.
The Jordan books get slow, but they do pick up again around the middle of 7. Good to see someone else likes the Malazan books - if you can survive the first one and figure out who's who, the whole series gets better. I'm finishing book 3 (Memories of Ice), and Erikkson can tie a full epic together pretty well. I highly recommend this guy, and Ian Esselmont as well (He helped create the Malazan universe, and writes spot stories within the bigger scenes).
Posted February 12, 2012
The Barsoom series, given the impending movie I figured why not.

The Aurelio Zen series, given the recent TV series (which wasn't a patch on Montalbano).

The collection of short stories commissioned for L.A.Noire (L.A. Noire The Collected Stories), since that's what I'm mostly playing (in Black & White) just now.
Posted February 12, 2012
"A Dream of Armageddon (The Complete Supernatural Tales)" - H.G. Wells
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