BOOK THREAD! PART DEUX

[Kadarin]

Nothing right now. Most recent books I've read have been The Galaxy Primes and Children of the Lens, both by the late great E. E. "Doc" Smith.

 

[Brainonska511]

I read Candide by Voltaire last week along with the rest of Dante's The Inferno. Now I'm up to reading "One Variable Calculus" in preparation for my Wednesday final.

 

[ModerateRepZero]

bump! I was reading "Why We Want You to Be Rich" by Donald J. Trump, Robert T. Kiyosaki, Meredith McIver, Sharon Lechter, recently. Didn't feel like finishing it but I plan on resuming "Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand.

 

[HombrePequeno]

The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman
Financial Crises - Gerard Cuprio
Globalizing Capital - Barry Eichengreen

I hate that I switch reading books all the time but for some reason I can never keep my focus on just one book.

 

[S Freud]

The Secret-I don't know who its by off the top of my head. Its been on the news quite a bit and I thought I would give it a try.
Money

I like to read books that are "educational." A book that will teach me something, I'm not much of a fantasy guy.

 

[slackwarelinux]

The Art of Deception - Kevin Mitnick

 

[nageov3t]

Day by Day Armageddon

great book... probably the scariest book I've read since The Shining. the author himself is actually in the navy and is currently serving in Iraq, which helps bring a pretty unique perspective to it. I can't wait for the sequel.

 

[eplebnista]

Sweet Death, Kind Death by Amanda Cross

 

[FallenHero]

entire enders series. Both the shadows of ender side and the speaker for the dead.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Endymion. 3rd book of Dan Simmon's Hyperion series.

 

[BrownTown]

"The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" - John Manyard Keynes

 

[angminas]

Just finished Have Space Suit, Will Travel by Robert Heinlein. For the 2nd time. Absurd concept but great book. A sure sign of a great writer, though his philosophy has lots of holes in it. And Stranger is trash.

Halfway through Foundation by Isaac Asimov. First attempt. I'm still mad at him for dying.

Also working on Slouching Towards Gomorrah by Robert Bork. A conservative critique of modern American culture. Very well put together so far. It's been quoted many times by my church, so I'm excited.

I re-read the same Dilbert book over and over (It's Obvious You Won't Survive By Your Wits Alone).

Also working on Fifteen (updated version is Twenty) Decisive Battles of the World. It's scholarly and old-fashioned, so it's a tad slow. When there are quotes in the original Greek, you know it's pre-disco.

I keep wanting to re-read Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. The greatest single-volume fantasy epic.

Hmm, and thinking of that makes me want to re-read The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick. Awesome elfpunk.

Blah, I like re-reading more than finding new stuff. I'm bad.

 

[BrownTown]

I am the opposite, I don't think I have ever read a book more than once, there are so many great books out there it seems like a waste to spend your time reading one you have read before. I am the same way with movies too, once I've seen a movie I usually don't want to see it again unless its one of my favorites, just watching normal run of the mill movies they can be good the first time, but once youve seen it before there aint much left to see again.

 

[pontifex]

Lady Gregory's Complete Irish Mythology

There's some pretty interesting stuff in it.

 

[IronWing]

Tyranny of the Night - Glen Cook
Dead in Their Tracks: Crossing America's Desert Borderlands - John Annerino

 

[Luthien]

Rereading The Silmarillian.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Title: Powersat
Author: Ben Bova
Genre: Science Fiction

Comments: When I picked up this book, I did not realize that it was a prequel of sorts for Ben Bova's character Dan Randolph and the Ben Bova series Grand Tour. The series is near-future science fiction, and focuses on mankind's expansion into space and the conflicts and trials that accompany that expansion.

In Powersat, a fledgling company is nearly ready to go online with its orbital solar collector satellite when their space plane is destroyed upon re-entry. It turns out to be sabotage rather than a problem with the design, though that knowledge is late in coming and the company is banned from further manned flight tests.

While Dan Randolph, the owner of the company, fights for the right to continue their flight tests and bring the satellite online, various groups of politicians, oil companies, and Middle Eastern terrorists that want America to remain dependent upon Middle Eastern oil do their best to stall, block, and otherwise interfere with the project on a multitude of levels.

The book might best be described as "Clancy-Lite." It was an enjoyable read, and I plan to read the rest of the series, though I wish the female characters in Powersat were not written in such a weak manner. Maybe I am just too used to females that are every bit as good or better than their male counterparts in their chosen scientific fields. They need to be represented among the A-level characters and not merely as love interests.

Worth a look if you like reading science fiction that is grounded in science.

 

[zebano]

Originally posted by: Uppsala9496
The Tyranny of the Night by Glen Cook.

I'm running out of fantasy books to read (seems I have read them all).

One of the best series I have read recently would be by Steven Erickson (Malazan Book of the Fallen series). A rather heavy read, but well worth it.

That was one of the worst books I have read recently (The Tyranny of the Night). I recently read Casual Rex by Eric Garcia which is truly unbelievable, but good for light reading.

Merecedes Lackey's 'The Obsidian Trilogy' is ok, but hardly spectacular reading. Ever since I started reading a Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, I have found very few novels that are truly must-reads (Malazan Book of the Fallen series is an exception).

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman is as excellent as all of Gaiman's other works. I highly recommend both this book and American Gods by Gaiman and Pratchett.

 

[pontifex]

Just started Wolf of the Steppes Vol. 1 by Harold Lamb

It's a collection of the Khlit the Cossack stories by Harold Lamb, a pulp writer in the early 1900s. From what I read, there are also stories about Khlit's friends and allies as well.

Ever since I really discovered Robert E. Howard, I've discovered lots of other pulp writers from that era that are great too.

 

[zebano]

Originally posted by: Canun
Phantom by Terry Goodkind

Forrest Mage by Robin Hobb

The Combat History of German Heavy Anti-Tank Unit 653 in World War II

I have very strange tastes.

Forest Mage is an odd one. I don't like the Second Son's series nearly as much as her previous three series. It just lacks the surprise and suspense factor for me. Admittedly her books are mostly about character development, but when I anticipate how she will do that, it kills the urge to read.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Uppsala9496
The Tyranny of the Night by Glen Cook.

I'm running out of fantasy books to read (seems I have read them all).

One of the best series I have read recently would be by Steven Erickson (Malazan Book of the Fallen series). A rather heavy read, but well worth it.

If you haven't, go read some old books, like from the 1960s and older
some great stuff there. Some of the sci-fi stuff doesn't hold over very well but a lot suprisingly does.

 

[daveshel]

Until I find You by John Irving

Great book.

 

[TallBill]

Reading Titan, a biography of John D. Rockefeller Sr. Only 40 pages into it, but pretty interesting so far. I don't know much about the man, so I should learn a lot in the 700 pages.

 

[gerwen]

Just started reading A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin, based on recommendations in another thread here. Loving it so far.

 

[desk]

Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon