The "Post what you're reading" thread

[Serena Laran]

I was going to copy the music title fully, but then I realized that you can't really be reading a book while you post. At least, you shouldn't.

Currently reading:
Intensity by Dean Koontz

[Dasquian Belargic]

Moby Dick by Herman Melville.

Anyone looking for something to read, the previous book thread (found here (http://sw-fans.net/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40051)) has some good recommendations :)

EDIT: Check out what I have to read this year, besides Moby Dick...


AMERICAN MODERNISMS

Cather, W. (1994) My Antonia
Faulkner, W. (2004) As I Lay Dying
Fitzgerald, F.S. (2004) The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F.S. (1997) Tender is the Night
Hemingway, E. (1993) The Essential Hemingway
Hurston, Z.R. (1993) Their Eyes Were Watching God
Moore, M. (1987) The Complete Poems
Williams,W.C. (1990) Selected Poems

FILM NOIR

Raymond Chandler, Farewell My Lovely
Walter Mosely, Devil in a Blue Dress

CREATIVE WRITING

Robert Drewe (ed) The Penguin Book of the City, (Penguin 1998)
Sean O'Brien (ed) The Firebox, (Picador 1998)
Raymond Carver, Will you Be Quiet, Please?, (Harvill 1999)
Roddy Doyle, The Barrytown Trilogy, (Minerva 1993)
Jamaica Kincaid, At the Bottom of the River, (Vintage 1997)
Peter Sansom, Writing Poems, (Bloodaxe 1994)

IDENTITY AND WRITING

Karl Marx - The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics, 2002)
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale (Penguin Popular Classics, 2004)
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria, Or the Wrongs of Woman (Norton edition, 1994)
Franz Fanon - 'The Negro and Psychopathology'
The Life of Olaudah Equiano (Norton, 2001)
Michel Foucault - 'The History of Sexuality'
Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1

THE NOVEL AND NARRATIVE

Dickens, Charles (2003) Little Dorrit, Penguin, London
Lessing, Doris (2002)The Golden Notebook ,Flamingo, London

JOY. :x

[Nathanial K'cansce]

Just finshed Emperor: The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden. Thinking about starting The Rise of Darth Vader or Emperor: The Death of Kings. Not sure which yet.

[Rutabaga]

Cell by Stephen King

[Karl Valten]

At the Mountains of Madness and other Stories- Howard Phillips Lovecraft

My new favorite author.

[Hera]

Of all those ones Dasquian, Ive read Devil in a Blue Dress and Moby Dick. Moby Dick was tough going.

[Park Kraken]

A thread called The "Post what you're reading" thread :lol


Jughead Digest. Latest issue.

[Mandy with an I]

Just finished "Dark Water" by Koji Suzuki. Looking to pick up a book with a title I can't post due to the swear filter ^_^;

[Jaime Tomahawk]

Finally reading the Song of Ice and Fire series. No, GRRM is not a great fantasy writer, I dont call these books fantasy, even if they are set in a sword and magic situation. But hell he's an excellent writer who portrays characters and what they go through brilliantly and that's why I'm staying up lately :)

[Dasquian Belargic]

I'm taking a break from Moby Dick to read The Communist Manifesto.

[Nathanial K'cansce]

Read Rise of Darth Vader and am currently half way through The Death of Kings.

[Tannis V'larr]

Gone on a Terry Pratchett kick lately, starting with the Samuel Vimes books. I've read Guards! Guards! and Night Watch, and I'm now reading Men at Arms with Jingo and The Fifth Elephant on-deck.

I've also been reading the Horatio Hornblower series by C. S. Forrester; last two books read were Hornblower and the Hotspur and Hornblower and the Atropos. Quite simply, the best naval warfare books out there. Fleeters, read these for inspiration. ;)

Incidentally, I'd be interested in any other Pratchett recommendations. I've been enjoying these a lot more than I'd expected. :)

[Lilaena De'Ville]

The Death books are all quite good: I'd start with Mort and go on to Reaper Man, Soul Music, and Hogfather (incidentally I just heard this is going to be a TV movie in the UK, released at Christmastime this year). Then I'd read Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies...

IF you can I'd read them all, really.

[Rutabaga]

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

[Sanis Prent]

US Army Survival Handbook

[Khendon Sevon]

SAS Survival Handbook (on and off reading)

Guards! Guards! with Men at Arms and Feet of Clay coming up afterwards. My friend forced me to borrow them.

I just read The Last Dancer. It's a very, very good novel.

Also "just" read the Great Book of Amber or whatever. It's a collection of the 10 Amber novels.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I'm reading a book called Afton of Margate Castle off and on right before I go to bed. Love my dark ages fiction. ;)

[Sanis Prent]

Originally posted by Khendon Sevon
SAS Survival Handbook (on and off reading)

I bought & read this last year :) have fun with it.

Also, you'll simply love the Pratchett books. Cannot recommend highly enough.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I'm about halfway through The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) by Ernest Hemmingway. We just started our 'American Modernisms' module and have a writer from New York teaching us. He seems really passionate about everything he's teaching, which has in turn made me feel more positive about the texts we're studying. I'm really enjoying the book so far. It's a nice change from The Knight's Tale (from The Canterbury Tales) by Chaucer, which I read this morning.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I'm reading This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti.

[Wyl Staedtler]

Laboratory Manual for Comparative Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology By Phillip E. Cochran, MS, DVM.

What to Expect When You're Expecting, Third Edition by Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg, and Sandee Hathaway.

Fairly boring things, really.

[Dimitri Vojslav]

At the Mountains of Madness and other Stories- Howard Phillips Lovecraft

My new favorite author.

Karl Valten - SWFans.Net Forums.

My new favourite person :p

Lovecraft is the master of modern horror writing. His unique blend of weird horror and science fiction leaves me cold and incredibly creative after reading one of his many short stories. I'm pleased to own the three compilations of his work, published by Penguin's 'modern classics' range. I'm currently reading through "The Thing on the Doorstep' and Other Weird Stories but have just finished 'The Call of Cthulhu' and Other Weird Stories and will be moving on to 'The Dreams in the Witch House' and Other Weird Stories after my current book.

After those (shan't take long, I zip through Lovecraft since I can't put him down - he's a heavy bugger though!) I'll be cracking on with Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, of which I have all 7 books. Simultaneously I'm reading Iain. M. Banks' novels (he publishes his science fiction novels with his middle initial, his fiction novels without it, such as The Wasp Factory).

[Lion El' Jonson]

Michael Crichton - State of Fear (for class)
Al Gore - An Inconvenient Truth (also for class)
Hitoshi Okuda - The All-New Tenchi Muyo! (volume 1) (clearly NOT for class :lol)

[Lilaena De'Ville]

State of Fear is awesome. I highly reccomend it. I want to hear what you think about it, esp. with An Inconvenient Truth juxtaposed beside it. :D

[Lion El' Jonson]

So far, I really love it. I'm definitely getting the picture that nothing in science is black-or-white, despite whatever public face the environmentalists and politicians put forth. Everybody is biased in one way or another, of course, but I sorta get the feeling (so far) that there is no middle ground.

So after a good 240 pages, I'm sold; State of Fear is awesome. An Inconvenient Truth is kinda...boring...but I don't think I can really discount any of the science in there either. Both sides make good points; there are anomalies that cannot be explained by current theories.

I'll just have to hope I can make up my mind by the end of these books. :lol

[Dimitri Vojslav]

Pratchett fans - I recommend Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Its the funniest book I've ever read.

Basically the premise is that 11 years ago a group of Satanic Sisters working at a hospital mix up two families newborn babies - one of which happens to be the antichrist. An Angel and a Demon - God and Satan's respective representatives on Earth, having become good friends over the years and become accustomed to life on Earth with its cosy conveniences, decide to keep an eye on the young antichrist to make sure he never can bring about the End Times.

The whole idea of that grabbed me by the lapels and shouted READ ME, SEYMOUR!!! But once I actually got into it, the story, along with its little nuances and tidbits, kept me laughing well into the wee hours. Just a thought of some of the things in it are enough to make me laugh out loud.

If you're a Pratchett fan and haven't read it, do so now. If you HAVE read it, read it again. :)

[Dasquian Belargic]

bumpity bump bump

I just read the graphic novel Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth. I think the artwork is done by one of the guys involved in the Sandman series. Very stylish and creepy looking, though sadly not very long.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I'm re-reading Jingo by Terry Pratchett.

I just finished reading Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber, and it is fantastic.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I'm back onto Watchmen by Alan Moore now and loving it. I'm a real graphic novel kick at the minute. I guess it's just nice, since I'm coming to the end of my degree, to read something that amounts to more than several hundred pages of tiny black writing :lol

[Dasquian Belargic]

Finished Watchmen - oohhh what fun that was - and now I'm reading On Writing by Stephen King. I just had to share this quote:

"It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster’s shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters."

:lol

[General Dan]

Generation Kill - Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

[Travis North]

El Sombra by Al Ewing - My first read of a book considered dark fiction. I set it down for a bit when it came to a point where this kid ripped out his own eye, and then offered it as a gift. I've since continued reading it, and it's really good.


Drops of Corruption by Jason M. Hardy - Not the most exciting cyberpunk novel produced for Shadowun, but still a good story.


Dead Beat by Jim Butcher - Awesome. I shall say no more.

[Alpha]

The Rise of Solamnia trilogy by Douglas Niles
Twelve Kindgoms book 2 by Fuyumi Ono
Mort by Terry Pratchett

[Stern]

Conan the Cimmerian Robert E. Howard.

[Banner Laverick]

The last book I read was "Dearly Devoted Dexter" - wonderfully sick serial killing :mischief I can't wait for the next book to come out in soft-cover. The last graphic novel I read was "Spider-man: Back in Black" <3

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Dead Beat by Jim Butcher - Awesome. I shall say no more.

I have his new book arriving someday soon. Its being held up to arrive with a book I pre-ordered that doesn't drop until July, unfortunately. :(

Dead Beat was the first of that series that I read - it is so great! Butters and polka and dinosaurs and zombies! :D

[Alpha]

Dead Beat by Jim Butcher - Awesome. I shall say no more.

I have his new book arriving someday soon. Its being held up to arrive with a book I pre-ordered that doesn't drop until July, unfortunately. :(

Dead Beat was the first of that series that I read - it is so great! Butters and polka and dinosaurs and zombies! :D

I literally had the first book in the series thrown into my lap a couple months ago. I tore those books apart. :) Butcher is an amazing author. :)

[Salem Ave]

I just read Dog-Head by Morten Ramsland. It was a kind of surreal look at three generations of a Danish family, which I didn't think I was going to enjoy at first, but it turned out to be pretty entertaining. The bulk of the book revolves around anecdotes about the different members of the family, some of which are funny, others sad, but all creating a picture of a dysfunctional family... which the author seems to suggest is quite normal!

As an aside, I read it for a reading group that I've joined which meets at my city's Literary and Philosophical Society. I had no idea we had such a thing :eek

[Alpha]

Just finished March Upcountry and now working on March to the Sea. Once I finish that, I just got the first Jedi Twilight book.

[Yeart Quenn]

Feast of Souls, by C.S. Friedman and Sword Song, by Bernard Cornwell

[Daiquiri]

Perseus Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan)

I was bored at work (we usually have a lot of time on our hands during the classes!) and was browsing through the schools library when the title caught my eye. I read the back cover and thought at first it sounded youngish but as I said, I was bored. LOVED it!! It was fairly fast paced, humurous and I almost couldnt put it down (had to, I was at work :lol)

The 2nd book is: Perseus Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea Of Monsters. I also read the 3rd one which came out earlier this year but for the life of me, I cant remember the title!

[Kelly Perris]

I read the local newspaper on a daily basis. Outside of that...well, been reading the X-Wing novels lately, and a smattering of religious, parenting, fitness and cookbooks.

And emails. I get a fair amount of those. :lol

[Nya Halcyon]

Labyrinth, by Kate Mosse. And just finished Sepulchre, by the same author.

[Dasquian Belargic]

^ How did you find those? I had the first one bought for me a whilte back and found it difficult to get into... ended up giving up on it pretty quickly.

[Nya Halcyon]

I found it rather light reading. I dunno, I'm only on page three of the actual story of Labyrinth because I promised myself I would not read it before I got my translation job finished, but I basically raced through Sepulchre in three days of sneaking an hour here and there. Apparently Sepulchre ties into Labyrinth by one character, and it's probably going to be quite interesting to read Labyrinth after this.
I don't really know what I think of it yet.... parts of it are very interesting, then there's some where the story is just rambling on and I skimmed ahead to ne next chapter. I kinda like the "two storylines" aspect, but it was moving a little too slow and was a bit too obvious in the end. Some parts did make me want to go around and switch on every light in the house just to make sure there wasn't some weird demon lurking somehwere, but then I scare easily anyway.

The subject of Labyrinth was intriguing me, but then I'm always for books about the Templars and such. But my idea of a good book about that subject is Umberto Eco's The Focault Pendulum, and not something by Dan Brown...

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I'm reading To the Stars by L. Ron Hubbard. My brother reccomended it to me a while ago, and I read about half before getting distracted with a new baby. So I'm picking it up again. Its pretty interesting, and has nothing to do with scientology - this was before that phase of L. Ron's life.

He's a pretty good author. Probably why he could get people to believe his made up sci-fi religion. Also because some people just want things to be true so they'll believe anything.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I am on a real Mark Twain kick at the minute. I just read The Mysterious Stranger and Letters From The Earth, both of which were... not what I was expecting from Twain, since I mostly know him as being a humorist. Turns out they are actually both interesting (and admitedly sometimes amusing) critiques on human-kind and the Bible!

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I'm reading Amber and Iron by Margaret Weis, the second Dragonlance book I've ever read. Its... interesting. I'm not completely sold on this series.

[Wyl Staedtler]

I am on a real Mark Twain kick at the minute. I just read The Mysterious Stranger and Letters From The Earth, both of which were... not what I was expecting from Twain, since I mostly know him as being a humorist. Turns out they are actually both interesting (and admitedly sometimes amusing) critiques on human-kind and the Bible!

Is The Mysterious Stranger the one about Adam and Eve? I just read Twain's 'diary of Adam' novella and it was awesome but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called. ^_^;

[Dasquian Belargic]

^ I'm guessing that could be... Extracts from Adam's Diary? I haven't read that, though.

The Mysterious Stranger was about Satan's nephew, who is also called Satan, and how he 'helps' (read: messes up the lives of) the people of a village in Austria.

[Wyl Staedtler]

Hahahaha, that sounds awesome.

You really should read the Adam one. It's hi-larious.

[Two Dollar Jim]

In the process of reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and cannot put the book down. It's an immersive journey into Pashtun/Afghani culture and a gripping end of innocence epic. Sort of a full circle journey of an Afghan family from a few years before the Soviet invasion, immigration to America, and an eventual return to Kabul around the time of the fall of the Taliban. It's a really enthralling book.

I'm also in the midst of reading The US Marine Corps / US Army Counterinsurgency Field Manual by General Petraeus. It's really dry and procedural stuff, but no less enlightening if you follow current event stuff.

When I don't feel like those, I thumb through Pagan Holiday by Tony Perrottet, which is a humorous poking fun of the tourism industry both modern and ancient in the Mediterranean.

After these, I'm probably going to start reading a lot of Sir Salman Rushdie, since I've been wanting to read some of his work for a while.

[Ilias Nytrau]

Up Till Now: The Autobiography by William Shatner (with David Fisher)

[Wei Wu Wei]

The last book I read all the way through was Sir Fartsalot Hunts the Booger.

It's a kid's book about an old knight who hears of a dreaded monster called the Booger and swears to slay it. The humor was pretty intelligent for being a bunch of jokes about bodily functions.

Still slogging through Beowulf. It's epic, but I keep forgetting it's there.

[Ilias Nytrau]

Beowulf is pretty neat. I read it for the first time in English Lit in the 11th grade. It wasn't until sometime last year that I finally bought a copy for myself. I've got the Seamus Heaney translation with the old english on the left pages, and modern on the right.

[Alexander Bane]

Right now I'm reading the third Dark Elf Trilogy book "Sojourn", by R. A. Salvatore.

[Ilias Nytrau]

Read The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson recently.

Picked up Vlad: The Last Confession by C.C. Humphreys the other day. Really liking it so far.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey

Alternate history.. fantasy kinda thing.

[Peter McCoy]

I'm starting Clive Barker's Weaveworld. I haven't done any committed reading in ages so I think it's time to get back into it. I've got tens of books that I haven't read since I bought them several years ago.

Cool fact: Barker is from Liverpool, like me. :)

[Vittore Montegue]

Currently reading:

Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris

-and-

Antony & Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough

[Morgan Evanar]

Stephanie Plum novels. They're funny.

[Droo]

Moab is my Washpot by Mr. Stephen Fry and The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth.

[Flux]

Currently reading Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller and Republic Command: Triple Zero by Karen Traviss. Next on the list is probably going to be the X-Wing series.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Scarlet by Stephen Lawhead.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Assassin's Apprentice, by Robin Hobb

[Shawn]

I'm currently trying to work my way through Feast of Souls, by C.S. Friedman. I absolutely adored the Coldfire Trilogy, and this hasn't disappointed in the least so far. Trying to split my time between it, Fallout 3, and a ~40 work schedule has proved difficult, however.

[Miranda Tarkin]

Reading Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

[Lilaena De'Ville]

^^ Great book. The sequel... not so much.

[Khendon Sevon]

I'm reading a whole lot right now :x A little bit here, a little bit there.

Web Application Design & Implementation by Steven Gabarro (one of my professors).

3D Math Primer for GRaphics & Game Development by Dunn & Parberry.

Memory as a Programming Concept in C & C++ by Franek.

God's War by Tyerman.

Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review by Cohen.

Pensees and Other Writings, Pascal's, translated by Honor Levi.

...Where has all my fiction gone?

[Morgan Evanar]

Your fiction was eaten by a Grue.

[Khendon Sevon]

Those evil lurkers of the darkness!