Author Topic: What book are you currently reading? Pt II (Read 7843 times)

MoP · « **Reply #25 on:** September 22, 2006, 02:00:38 am »

Cheers - I've heard that from quite a few places now so there must be something going for it.

Star · « **Reply #26 on:** September 22, 2006, 05:15:21 am »

American Gods by Neil Gaimen
Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister by Gregory McGuire
Pyramids by Terry Pratchet

Hunchback · « **Reply #27 on:** September 23, 2006, 01:01:19 am »

Olympus - Dan Simmons

Ebert Von Snappenhausen · « **Reply #28 on:** October 04, 2006, 12:11:33 am »

Terry Pratchett - Feet of Clay

Finished up Night Watch yesterday. :lurk:

The Artist Formerly Known As Genome · « **Reply #29 on:** October 04, 2006, 01:09:52 am »

L.A. Confidential

Damn, it's pulpy to the extreme.

Star · « **Reply #30 on:** October 04, 2006, 06:31:22 am »

Quote from: Genome

L.A. Confidential

Damn, it's pulpy to the extreme.

Watch the movie. Its absolutely fantasticly pulpy as well!

MoP · « **Reply #31 on:** October 04, 2006, 11:21:33 am »

On to the Warrior Prophet by Bakker - having real trouble giving a shit. Aside from Kellhus and Achamian (although less and less at every page) I cannot seem to care one way or the other for any of the characters. Which is a shame, because the writing is good.

The Artist Formerly Known As Genome · « **Reply #32 on:** October 04, 2006, 12:02:24 pm »

Quote from: Star

Quote from: Genome
L.A. Confidential

Damn, it's pulpy to the extreme.
Watch the movie. Its absolutely fantasticly pulpy as well!

Seen it twice. I think I liked it a bit more than the book though. Probably because you don't have to put up with Ellroy's horrible descriptions of things.

Uche Obiora · « **Reply #33 on:** October 29, 2006, 10:36:28 pm »

Neal Asher - The Skinner

The Artist Formerly Known As Genome · « **Reply #34 on:** October 29, 2006, 10:52:49 pm »

Michael Hill - The Public Policy Process

Without a doubt the most annoying book I've read in weeks.

Ebert Von Snappenhausen · « **Reply #35 on:** October 30, 2006, 12:50:06 am »

[Edit] Wrong thread!

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Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett.

Julius · « **Reply #36 on:** October 30, 2006, 12:52:13 am »

Terry Pratchett - Thud!

Awesome.

Ebert Von Snappenhausen · « **Reply #37 on:** October 30, 2006, 12:53:08 am »

Thud! was great!

How far have you gotten?

Julius · « **Reply #38 on:** October 30, 2006, 12:57:46 am »

Halfway. Vimes has just learnt how to play.

Rick · « **Reply #39 on:** October 30, 2006, 08:25:21 am »

alastair reynolds - pushing ice

Rel · « **Reply #40 on:** October 30, 2006, 09:02:37 am »

Still on The Count of Monte Cristo.

Concurrently reading:

The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon K. Penman. Revisionist historical novel on Richard III.

Grunts! by Mary Gentle. Fantasy humour: the fight between good and evil as seen through the eyes of an orcish warband who discover a cache of modern weapons

Katherine Swynford: The History of a Medieval Mistress by Jeanette Lucraft. About John of Gaunt's mistress, whose blood runs through the veins of the British royal family to this day.

MoP · « **Reply #41 on:** October 30, 2006, 09:25:06 am »

I have given up on The Warrior Prophet (for the moment at least) and started in on a reread of Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy.

Deus · « **Reply #42 on:** October 30, 2006, 12:53:54 pm »

Stephen Graham Jones - Demon Theory

A horror slasher in the guise of a moviescript with footnotes all over. The writer definitely had a look at House of Leaves before he wrote it, but it is different enough to not be derivative...

Cthulhu · « **Reply #43 on:** December 07, 2006, 11:59:06 pm »

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago

Julius · « **Reply #44 on:** December 08, 2006, 12:17:23 am »

Robin Hobb - Shaman’s Crossing

Deus · « **Reply #45 on:** December 08, 2006, 12:11:34 am »

Daniel C Dennett and Douglas R Hofstadter - The Mind's I

lost_son · « **Reply #46 on:** December 08, 2006, 10:23:41 am »

Robin Hobb - Forest mage (nearly done)

Uche Obiora · « **Reply #47 on:** December 08, 2006, 04:00:45 pm »

Greg Bear - Darwin's Radio

Rick · « **Reply #48 on:** December 09, 2006, 02:37:13 am »

just finished elizabeth kostova's historian, now onto the well of lost plots by jasper fforde.

Mordeth · « **Reply #49 on:** December 22, 2006, 03:57:29 pm »

from instinct to identity: the development of personality = louis berger

it's good, written 30 years or so ago... he seems to be under the impression that homosexuality is caused by male#s being raised in too female an enviroment and vice versa...any queers here care to comment?