What are you reading?

badmartialarts · Post by **badmartialarts** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:12 pm

I don't know if anyone reads books these days. :O

The last book I've read (which I just finished last night) was
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman. Great send up of the comic book genre, the story is told in alternating chapters by the mad genius Doctor Impossible and the relatively new superheroine cyborg Fatale.

Before that I was reading Mario Acevedo's books (The Nymphos of Rocky Flats, X-Rated Bloodsuckers, The Undead Kama Sutra). I am eagerly awaiting his fourth book, so far the series has been great and I agree with the blurb on the back of one of them, "Anne Rice meets Dave Barry." It's the ongoing story of a vampire private investigator who gets called into the weirdest supernatural cases, that tend to involve military secrets, drugs, aliens, nymphomania outbreaks, the porn industry, Indian mysticism, and more aliens.

Also, if you are a William Gibson fan, Pattern Recognition is a very interesting book set more in our modern day than some far cyberpunk future. I enjoyed it a lot. What would it be like to be allergic to trademarks in our present logos for everything age?

ZephyrStar · Post by **ZephyrStar** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:19 pm

Reading Stephen King's Dark Tower series, currently just finished up 2nd book.

aesling · Post by **aesling** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:20 pm

Reading, wot wot :O

I just finally got around to reading Jim Butcher's latest, Small Favor (part of the Dresden Files series), which is about a professional wizard living in Chicago, and it involves all kinds of badassery.

I also just finally got around to starting Wicked after hearing about it for the longest time. So far it's a really interesting read, and I love the way that Gregory MacGuire sets up the story and develops it and the characters.

Niotex · Post by **Niotex** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:22 pm

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

I shit you not

The Origonal Head Hunter · Post by **The Origonal Head Hunter** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:22 pm

Just finished reading Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Empire, and now have the intense desire to get the rest of the Foundation books.

Next on the list is a toss up between Robert Jordan's Eye of the World, hesitant though I am to start a series as long as the Wheel of Time, and Piers Anthony's Bearing an Hourglass, which should be interesting if On a Pale Horse is any indication of the rest of the series.

aesling · Post by **aesling** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:28 pm

The Origonal Head Hunter wrote:Next on the list is a toss up between Robert Jordan's Eye of the World, hesitant though I am to start a series as long as the Wheel of Time...

To be honest, I really wouldn't recommend it. It's a really long series that degenerates over time (in the last book I read of it, 9 or 10 I think, absolutely nothing happens until the VERY last chapter), and the author died while writing the last book so odds are on it will never be finished. Not to mention I hate pretty much all of the characters with a passion.

The Origonal Head Hunter · Post by **The Origonal Head Hunter** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:30 pm

aesling wrote:
The Origonal Head Hunter wrote:Next on the list is a toss up between Robert Jordan's Eye of the World, hesitant though I am to start a series as long as the Wheel of Time...
To be honest, I really wouldn't recommend it. It's a really long series that degenerates over time (in the last book I read of it, 9 or 10 I think, absolutely nothing happens until the VERY last chapter), and the author died while writing the last book so odds are on it will never be finished. Not to mention I hate pretty much all of the characters with a passion.

Piers Anthony it is.

CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:52 pm

Squee! Reading books is my biggest hobby.

I just finished reading Michael Crichton's entire novel set (except that Jurassic Park bullshit) that I got while I was in St. Louis, and it was ok I guess. Too much medical jargon for my taste, and it all kind of just repeated itself in the long run of things.

Last year I read the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyers, and I found it to be three of my very favorite novels I've ever read, mostly because I fell in love with every character in the novel. Sure, it's really heavy teenage angst ridden and it at times seems amazingly cliche, but I still enjoyed it.

Today I finished my way into more of a "teeny-bopper" book. Bascially its about kids trying to cheat the college-acceptance system, specifically Harvard's. It's called Hacking Harvard by Robin Wasswerman. It was written not too long ago, and has some pretty interesting modern references (WOW addiction, Wii's & other junk). The writing style is kind of juvenile for my taste (no real vocabulary depth and very little syntax), but I still liked it regardless.

Right now I'm kind of in the search for a new novel series to sink my teeth into. Any suggestions would be wonderful.

Org Profile · Post by **LantisEscudo** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:15 pm

I've been a fan of Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar series for a long time, ever since playing the original Betrayal at Krondor game. I just finished the second Darkwar book, Into a Dark Realm, and depending on how long it takes the library to get the third (Mad God's Rage) in, I'll either read that one next, or skip back in the timeline to one I skipped, The King's Buccaneer.

krzT · Post by **krzT** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:43 pm

Fundamentals of Corporate Finance: 8th Edition