Cyberwoman Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 I usually have several books going at once, but at the moment I am concentrating on The Voyage Out (1915) by my favorite author Virgina Woolf. I have decided to read her works in chronological order, so I can experience how her writing style evolves over time. Apart form that, I have several Doctor Who tie-in books on the go, and a few of Christopher Isherwood's stories (Namely Mr Norris Changes Trains, The Berlin Stories and A Single Man) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatile Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 (edited) Reading War and Peace but I am so really lazy that I'm barely through Book Two. I took a break in the middle of Demons to read 1984, then forgot to back to it, did the same with Crime and Punishment... Love me some classical Russian fiction, but it's all so long. I have a long reading list of "If I had the money", as well, starting with Gail Simone. Edited July 17, 2013 by Tatile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Moonshadow Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 Nothing but fan fiction, seeing as how all the top best sellers today are the same. Boy/Girl falls in love with [insert mythical creature here] and four terrible books later, marries said creature and becomes one with their world. Meeeeeh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatile Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 Nothing but fan fiction, seeing as how all the top best sellers today are the same. Boy/Girl falls in love with [insert mythical creature here] and four terrible books later, marries said creature and becomes one with their world. Meeeeeh. Dancing with Pocahontas in Fern Gully? A tale as old as time, but drier than most actual history. Don't read as much fanfiction as I used to or should be, sadly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNahash Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 (edited) Stephen King's Joyland and Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance I plan on finishing them by the end of August and then I'll start Richard Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth. Edited July 17, 2013 by TheNahash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmird Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 Your thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ren_simp Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 (edited) Crossroads of twilight from the wheel of time epic its the tenth book from that series What a epic Also finishing up on the fate of the Jedi series think theres 1 more book to read Edited July 18, 2013 by Ren_simp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SithKoriandr Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 50 Shades Trilogy, Faceless by Debra Webb, not sure if rereading manga counts (for this thread), but currently rereading Kashimashi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurbere Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 Prey, by Michael Crichton. For Star Wars, I'm currently reading the Dark Nest Trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian_Scott Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 The Lightbringer Trilogy by Brent Weeks SWs: I'm reading the Fate of the Jedi series... on the second to last one I think. Also recently picked up that 25,000 bby book. Haven't tapped it yet tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Euphrosyne Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Richard J. Evans - The Third Reich in Power Second part (1933-1939) of a very well-regarded trilogy by one of the better historians of Nazi Germany right now. Evans is in a class with the likes of Ian Kershaw. I will admit that I'm not incredibly interested in the Nazi period or the Second World War - my interests lie in significantly earlier things - but Evans does a good job of aggregating the recent literature in an eminently readable fashion. That said, the readability does come at a price; Evans spent an awful lot of time on anecdotal history and on social/cultural analysis at the expense of talking in-depth about, say, the economy. Considering how provocative his conclusions on that economy were, one would assume he'd spend more time defending them. Oh well. Anyway, that's a minor nitpick. Good book, have learned a lot so far. Wang Zheng - Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories While I am interested in May Fourth China (the strict periodization would probably be 1919-1925 or so, but I prefer to use it as referring to Chinese society from 1919-1937, an acceptable alternative), and gendered history outside the narrow and sterile confines of "late twentieth century white America" is fun and exciting to me, I will confess that I'm reading this book more for research purposes than for anything else. So I've kinda been skipping around. I will say that the interviews, on the whole, were generally very interesting, but what really sold them for me was the author's excellent footnoting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seireeni Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 Atm I'm reading Timothy Zahn's Angelmass. Around 50 pages still left. Usual Zahn quality and another reason why he's my favourite author. I actually like the main characters quite a bit, especially Jereko Kosta is a nice change from Zahn's usual military-background male main characters. And a living, sentient black hole. Seriously? That's so unbelievable, scary and disturbing at the same time. Probably trying to finish R. A. Salvatore's Kharon's Claw after this. His new Forgotten Realms books are just...not that great. That one elf lady is competing with Ashoka Tano of the title "the fictive character I hate the most" and dropped my former favourite character from that spot. But hey, at least Artemis Entreri is back. But even that just isn't the same when he doesn't have those iconic weapons he used to use. Or maybe I should just read more Zahn after Angelmass. I have the original Cobra trilogy waiting in my bookcase... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxdarkscopzxx Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 (edited) Cycles of time by Roger Penrose. Im a science nerd And didnt even finish D day by Antony Beevor Edited July 29, 2013 by xxdarkscopzxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dev Post EricMusco Posted July 29, 2013 Dev Post Share Posted July 29, 2013 (edited) Your thread. Not gonna lie, this made me laugh harder than it probably should. As for the actual question, I started reading "The Name of the Wind" on my way to San Diego. I am probably about 2/3 through it and I am loving it. Really, really good fantasy series so far! -eric Edited July 29, 2013 by EricMusco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilora Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 (edited) Excellent recommendation for anyone in this thread -- just started reading this last night. "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline Its about an MMO simulation game (think Matrix) who's creator dies, and leaves his fortune to the first person to meet a single condition: Find the easter egg I've hidden in OASIS (the MMO simulation game). The creator had an obsession with the 1980's, and describes his first experience with finding an easter egg in a video game, which happened to be Atari's Adventure, and the first easter egg ever found in a video game(though not the first created). Only 50 pages in, and would recommend it to everyone. Edited July 29, 2013 by Kilora Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twickers Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 Currently I'm reading the valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey, in particular the collegium foundation series, but I've been reading the exiles honor series as well, also re-reading the herald mage series. Also been re-reading the dragon jouster series (also by Lackey), if you like a good fantasy book I would suggest this series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octom Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 (edited) ... I started reading "the name of the wind" on my way to san diego.... -eric While DRIVING?!?! Edited July 30, 2013 by Octom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBBP Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 While DRIVING?!?! Everyone does it. I mean, since it is too dangerous to text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmird Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Everyone does it. I mean, since it is too dangerous to text. Eric doesn't read while he drives. Eric drives while he reads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBBP Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Eric doesn't read while he drives. Eric drives while he reads. This is what makes it easy to pass your off-ramp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paokzu Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 The Inferno by Dante Alighieri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatile Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 The Inferno by Dante Alighieri But not the rest of the Divine Fanfiction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turjake Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Currently reading: Terry Pratchett: Men at arms. Before that I finished Drew Karpyshyn's mass effect book: Ascension. Summer is good time to read scifi and fantasy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantom_jeri Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 currently reading Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves.. its so hard to read, that I wouldn't have bothered reading it at all if only it was not that expensive to begin with... X( but I'm still waiting to be impressed since I am yet to reach halfway the book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantom_jeri Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Excellent recommendation for anyone in this thread -- just started reading this last night. "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline Its about an MMO simulation game (think Matrix) who's creator dies, and leaves his fortune to the first person to meet a single condition: Find the easter egg I've hidden in OASIS (the MMO simulation game). The creator had an obsession with the 1980's, and describes his first experience with finding an easter egg in a video game, which happened to be Atari's Adventure, and the first easter egg ever found in a video game(though not the first created). Only 50 pages in, and would recommend it to everyone. I'm a big fan of the book as well, and I remembered fantasizing that SWTOR will have an unannounced mission that will be uncovered by those who tends to love exploration, and that there is an easter egg that would give us some legendary items and/or title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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