Cingal Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Hello fellow bookers. This is a thread to post whatever book you're reading and talk a bit about it, I suppose. So, without any further delay, I am presently reading: The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff. I was kinda unsure of this one at first. It's typically known more as being a children's book, but, after getting into it, it's pretty mature and rather interesting. I guess a "Children's book" from the 50s is quite a bit different than what you'd expect today. Pretty good, would recommend if you want a Roman adventurey novel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysocyon Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Nice, I was actually thinking of making this thread a while ago. I'm a sci-fi nerd. I'm currently finishing up Destination: Void by Frank Herbert. Really interesting stuff, one of his better books, I think. Then I'm also starting Theta by Sasya Fox that I got for Christmas, a furry sci-fi novel. I've never read any real stories by furries, so I'm not sure if it will be good or bad, but it looks well-written so far at least. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zytan Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Skulduggery Pleasant series, makes for an easy read but with a lot of funny conversations. Not really sure what genre it is, I'd say fantasy but there's no elves :v 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentova Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 A book on how to disassemble and customize the Ruger 10/22 rifle. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naesaki Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 This is the contrast of my current reading material 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catilda Lily Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 (edited) I'm reading The Mists of Avalon again, I think this is the 3rd or 4th time reading through it. I just finished A Handmaid's Tale...it was different. Parts were interesting in it, but then it would suddenly change, so it took me out of the story. Edited December 31, 2015 by Catilda Lily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Nothing, I'm an illiterate yokel :V Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatFanatic Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 We all expected this from me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenrirDarkWolf Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Let me get back to you when I actually read something. I really need to hit up my uni's library for reading pleasure at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginpanther Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 The Pet Loss Companion. 12 months later, still trying to cope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 The Sandman by Neil Gamain. Was a Christmas gift :3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarcastic Coffeecup Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Spice & Wolf book III 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willow Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 gonna try reading The Hobbit again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nordo Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 On December 31, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Chrysocyon said: Then I'm also starting Theta by Sasya Fox that I got for Christmas, a furry sci-fi novel. I've never read any real stories by furries, so I'm not sure if it will be good or bad, but it looks well-written so far at least. I hope you enjoy Theta as much as I did, the author is a good personal friend and former coworker of mine, I can't wait for the sequel to be finished :o) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolow Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 (edited) I Have read over 100 audio books these past two years. 4ish books a month. The book I just finished is Robert Jordan's " New Spring" beginning prequel to the wheel of Time series. This short 12 hour audiobook that is meant to be an introduction to the wheel of Time series for those who have yet to read the large epic adventure. The first book in the wheel of Time series is called " The eye of the world" I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a longer read that actually follow not only the characters but the politics. This is my all time favorite series and I highly recommend it to you guys. Edited January 2, 2016 by Nolow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revates Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Stealing Light-Gary Gibson It's one of my favourite books and will be the 1st book I've read more than once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 these. don't mind my face Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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yell0wf0x Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Still haven't finished this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MalletFace Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 (edited) Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance I am having to reread this series because I enjoy seeing enemies forced to work together and I am getting bored of other things. The Man in the High Castle I am rereading this because I refuse to watch the series until I have. The Feynman Lectures on Physics It is just my powerful passion for everything Feynman speaking, but I can only quote the text to even grasp at explaining why I am reading it again. Quote Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere." I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part - perhaps my stuff was belched from some forgotten star, as one is belching there. Or see them with the greater eye of Palomar, rushing all apart from some common starting point when they were perhaps all together. What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined! Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter as if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent? Edited January 3, 2016 by MalletFace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terminal7 Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Well I just finished "The Lusty Argonian Maid" I will bake my own bread now. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khaki Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 I've just about finished re-reading Starship Troopers and soon I'll be short on reading material again until the public libraries open up after their public holidays which will be good since I need to return "The Moon is Harsh Mistress" and "The Old Man and Sea". I seem to go through books very quickly, I'll have to hunt for some more. On 12/31/2015 at 1:56 AM, Chrysocyon said: Nice, I was actually thinking of making this thread a while ago. I'm a sci-fi nerd. I'm currently finishing up Destination: Void by Frank Herbert. Really interesting stuff, one of his better books, I think. Then I'm also starting Theta by Sasya Fox that I got for Christmas, a furry sci-fi novel. I've never read any real stories by furries, so I'm not sure if it will be good or bad, but it looks well-written so far at least. Do you know any good scifi stories that you would recommend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pignog Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Just finished Dreadnought by Robert K. Massie. Very good look at the big European personalities in the Victorian era. Right now I'm starting The Sound and the Fury for pleasure and Tax is not a Four Letter Word for, well, less pleasure. On 1/2/2016 at 6:48 PM, Endless/Nameless said: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 I'd love to read the Mass Effect books now, but money D: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Just got a review copy of a Tor novella titled Lustlocked. Looks funny as hell and I'm pretty excited to start it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terminal7 Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 I'm reading Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison now I haven't finished Tricks, Democracy is in the Streets & And I Alone Survived. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Lee Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 One of the original Sherlock Holmes books. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes I think, the second or third of the short stories where the last one is the short story where he meets Moriarty and "dies". Which is a pity that his greatest adversary appears in a short story instead of a full length novel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastryOfApathy Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Last thing I read was the FNAF book they made for some reason. I still need to finish it since I'm lazy but it's shockingly not awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrishaCat Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 I started reading The Golden Compass a while back but then put it down and never got back to it. Which is a shame, because what I read of it was fantastic! Its so exciting, and stuff is constantly happening in the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarcastic Coffeecup Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 On 04/01/2016 at 5:42 PM, Khaki said: I've just about finished re-reading Starship Troopers and soon I'll be short on reading material again until the public libraries open up after their public holidays which will be good since I need to return "The Moon is Harsh Mistress" and "The Old Man and Sea". I seem to go through books very quickly, I'll have to hunt for some more. Do you know any good scifi stories that you would recommend? I will totally recommend Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion for you. Big fat books with some of the best sci-fi writing I have ever read. Hands down my fave books, especially the first one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 1 hour ago, Battlechili said: I started reading The Golden Compass a while back but then put it down and never got back to it. Which is a shame, because what I read of it was fantastic! Its so exciting, and stuff is constantly happening in the book. One of my favorite novels. Yes, pick it up again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pignog Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 On 1/4/2016 at 10:42 AM, Khaki said: Do you know any good scifi stories that you would recommend? Have you read the two cyberpunk classics, Neuromancer and Snow Crash? Written in the 80s but each day seems to bring us a bit closer to these books. Haven't read them, but if you like space shit A Fire Upon the Deep and the rest of Vernor VInge's stuff is supposed to be good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuttButt Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 I just started reading a book called Good Omens, and so far I'm loving it. It was recommended by a friend, it basically follows the lives of an angel and a demon who have both grown fond of living on the earth, and no longer want the apocalypse to happen, and so they conspire together to delay it. It's very witty and easy to read, I'd almost describe it as Monty Python but a book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khaki Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 6 hours ago, Pignog said: Have you read the two cyberpunk classics, Neuromancer and Snow Crash? Written in the 80s but each day seems to bring us a bit closer to these books. Haven't read them, but if you like space shit A Fire Upon the Deep and the rest of Vernor VInge's stuff is supposed to be good. On 1/6/2016 at 10:19 AM, Sarcastic Coffeecup said: I will totally recommend Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion for you. Big fat books with some of the best sci-fi writing I have ever read. Hands down my fave books, especially the first one. Neat, I'll give them a look. I personally enjoy military/science fiction stories with concepts that are somewhat more grounded to reality and you can imagine them being able to exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 On 1/4/2016 at 9:42 AM, Khaki said: Do you know any good scifi stories that you would recommend? If you're cool with bleak and Russian, Roadside Picnic is really, really good. 3 hours ago, MuttButt said: I just started reading a book called Good Omens, and so far I'm loving it. It was recommended by a friend, it basically follows the lives of an angel and a demon who have both grown fond of living on the earth, and no longer want the apocalypse to happen, and so they conspire together to delay it. It's very witty and easy to read, I'd almost describe it as Monty Python but a book. Good Omens is so fucking good it hurts. I actually bought my mother a copy of that un for Christmas. She hasn't started it though But talk about a 100% joy from start to finish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khaki Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 8 minutes ago, Conker said: If you're cool with bleak and Russian, Roadside Picnic is really, really good. Well I enjoy Stalker and Metro, so yeah it should be good, I just have to find a copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sutekh_the_Steak Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 (edited) I've been reading Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and another book called Under the Net for a couple of months now. So far in Return of the King all the bits with Sam and Frodo are really good and interesting but all the battle scenes in the first 3rd or so of the book are reeeeeeeeally fucking boring. Under the Net is good too, nice and funny. I also got David Attenborough's autobiography for Christmas so I'm reading that as well and loving it so far. Edited January 8, 2016 by Sutekh_the_Steak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrecker Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 This post *rimshot* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZorroValdez Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 I haven't read any good books in years. I will be taking notes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snagged Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 I've only read history and cultural geography books as of recent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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