What are you reading?

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:00 am

Ileia wrote:
BasharOfTheAges wrote:Anderson wrote a lot of mass market sci-fi geared towards teens (like the Star Wars books Ileia is apparently fawning over) and in that market, anything requiring any thinking skills is very bad.
The only thing I've ever fawned over by him was the "Tales From" anthologies, but he didn't actually write those all himself, he just "edited" what a bunch of other authors did. Most of what he did was the "Young Jedi Knight" books, and yeah, they were geared towards teens. Like, 13 year olds. And for your information, I've never read them. So nya. I keep trying to have them moved to the Young Adult section where I work, but they keep putting the things back in Science Fiction!

Heh, I just brought you up because I had intended to go "aw shucks, I just gave away the entire X-wing series when you had mentioned you were looking to read it." - then I apparently forgot to take the post in that direction.

DriftRoot · Post by **DriftRoot** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:59 am

What I'm reading "right now" changes every couple days because I'm pretty fast at the book stuff, but this morning I pocketed "The Shadow of the Torturer" by Gene Wolfe. I read while walking on my lunch break. Coworkers watch me from inside the building, marveling that that I never trip, never get run over by a car and never crash into a tree.

This book is one of those rare novels I found by accident, devoured and then ran out and bought the next three in the series without bothering to read them first. I only buy books I love and have already read, but it was worth it.

Savia · Post by **Savia** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 4:53 am

I'm just working through a reread of all of China Mieville's back catalogue right now. Perdido Street Station and Un Lun Dun are the best but anything he writes is gold.

OhmGautama · Post by **OhmGautama** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:49 pm

My apologies for "resurrecting" an old thread, but I figured it would be better to post here instead of creating an entirely new thread.

I was reminded recently of Philip K Dick and I remembered the first story I ever read by him. It was a short story called I hope I shall arrive soon. I reread the story and found it as profound and thought provoking as when I read it years ago.

CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:14 pm

Just Read Sultana's Dream. :O

The Origonal Head Hunter · Post by **The Origonal Head Hunter** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:18 pm

Currently:

Rereading the Artemis Fowl series, in preparation for buying the newest one. Is as interesting as it once was.

Am about to start Dostoevsky's The Gambler, which I have read off and on for the past couple years, and will force myself through it all at once this time.

aesling · Post by **aesling** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 2:10 pm

I'm finally reading Watchmen, which is pretty awesome so far. I'm also re-reading Sunshine by Robin McKinley, which is probably my favorite vampire novel ever. In addition, I have a rather large stack of books on my bedside table that I'm working my way through that includes some stuff by Dean Koontz. I need to read more and stop checking more books out of the library until I've finished all the other ones I have to read. >_>

godix · Post by **godix** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 4:21 am

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman just came out a week or two ago. Pretty good story. The cool thing is he did a reading tour in promotion of it where he read one chapter at each stop then put it up on the web. So at the moment you can listen to the entire story for free at his <a href="http://www.mousecircus.com/videotour.aspx">mousecircus website</a>.

Emong · Post by **Emong** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:16 am

The last book I finished was "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov... Good book. Made you understand things better. Tragic

Rightnow I'm reading a collection of essays by Carl Jung. Such an interesting fellow

The Origonal Head Hunter · Post by **The Origonal Head Hunter** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:08 am

Traitor by Matthew Stover, a part of the New Jedi Order series and honestly pretty boring, as well as God Emperor of Dune, and am about to start on the newest Artemis Fowl.