What book are you reading

[SarcasticDwarf]

Right now working on reading through a thesis on dust control. After that I have 28 sci-fi books lines up.

 

[Gibsons]

In between right now, I think I'm going to start on Churchill's WWII history next. Maybe. I've had the set looming on my bookshelf for some time now.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Decision Points. I need to finish Under the Dome sometime.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

I need to finish Under the Dome sometime.

I started that around 2 months ago and forgot about it. Got distracted by Chuck Palahnuik's Survivor.

Just started reading Dune.

 

[destrekor]

Decision Points. I need to finish Under the Dome sometime.

I started that around 2 months ago and forgot about it. Got distracted by Chuck Palahnuik's Survivor.

Just started reading Dune.

I blazed through Under the Dome in a little over a week. I think it was like 6 shifts or so, and I tried to read as little as possible at home. I don't like reading at home, since I have so many other things I want to do. Plus, probably getting about 5 hours worth of reading done per shift is more than enough imho - I don't want to get through books any faster than I already do.

I can definitely say Under the Dome held my attention quite well, so well in fact I don't know if I could have been distracted by any other book.

I don't want to move onto any other book until I get through all of the Dark Tower series, which will be fairly easy but thankfully the latter books in the series get a bit longer (except for Song of Susannah iirc). Dark Tower clocks in close to 1000 pages trade paperback as well, which will be welcome considering how fast I am able to get through these books now (and my shifts will have less and less work to do as winter draws closer).

The Dune series is definitely next, and I don't think I'll pick up any of the Dune books except for Frank Herbert's - the original series will probably be enough for me, considering there are quite a few books in those.

After that, I have no clue. Might have to pick up World War Z, and then move onto Dostoyevsky perhaps.

 

[warr666]

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[cKGunslinger]

I need to finish Under the Dome sometime.

I may have mentioned this is another thread, but no, no you don't. D:

 

[Nebor]

Decision Points. I need to finish Under the Dome sometime.

I'm also reading Decision Points. I listened to Under the Dome on audiobook, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm waiting for the phrase "cluster mug" to come up in Decision Points.

 

[Kadarin]

I just finished The Evolutionary Void, by Peter F. Hamilton. Loved it, and the whole series.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Re-reading "Necropolis" by Dan Abnett. This book is too damn fun and is pretty well written

I love the Gaunt's Ghosts series.

 

[UglyCasanova]

The Windup Girl

 

[UglyCasanova]

I just finished The Evolutionary Void, by Peter F. Hamilton. Loved it, and the whole series.

I read Pandora's Star but couldn't make it on from there. It had it's good points, but too many 60 page lulls in between.

 

[JujuFish]

The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

It seems to take a long time to get through, but I am really looking forward to the future books. Now if only the author would hurry the F up.

 

[lokiju]

I just finished Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick.

What a weird and screwed up book. I feel in ways like I wasted my time reading it when it was all said and done but the journey of the story was good. It just ended poorly and got stranger and stranger at the end.

http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Bloodmoney-...9785819&sr=8-6

I'm finishing up "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. Written in the '30's and yet so applicable in current times.

I will probably start up the new Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile by J. L. Bourne tonight also.

 

[destrekor]

I may have mentioned this is another thread, but no, no you don't. D:

Didn't like it? Hmm.

His writing was a little out of touch in that one, definitely not his best writing... but I loved the story.

Interestingly, I loved Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger. And that was a story people said you had to push through a little, because the following books in the series were much better. Granted, I also agree The Drawing of the Three and The Wastelands were much better books than The Gunslinger, but it wasn't hard to read it either.

 

[destrekor]

For those of you reading Decision Points, what do you think?

 

[Nebor]

For those of you reading Decision Points, what do you think?

Well, GWB could never do any wrong in my eyes, but I'm sure you don't want to hear a bunch of fawning adoration.... It's GREAT!

 

[cKGunslinger]

Didn't like it? Hmm.

His writing was a little out of touch in that one, definitely not his best writing... but I loved the story.

Interestingly, I loved Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger. And that was a story people said you had to push through a little, because the following books in the series were much better. Granted, I also agree The Drawing of the Three and The Wastelands were much better books than The Gunslinger, but it wasn't hard to read it either.

Meh, the story started out OK - if a little heavy on the "things cut in half by the Dome" - but just never went anywhere. Decent set up, with no pay off. I was especially disappointed in the premonitions in the epileptic girl's dreams, but that never really panned out. And the ending.. gah!

But yeah, I liked DT:Gunslinger (obviously.) Waste Lands was my favorite for a while, but I later trended towards Wizards and Glass. I was initially mad that it didn't advance the plot, but looking back, it was a great stand-alone tale that I've gone back and read frequently. Epic story-telling.

 

[waggy]

Currently I am working through Gates of Fire

http://www.amazon.com/Gates-Fire-Nov...9752260&sr=8-1

Really enjoying this one. Its told from the perspective of a captured Spartan squire telling his story to Xerxes. Starts a tad slow, but overall I am really liking this one.

:thumbsup:

ok that sounds good. sounds like something i would enjoy.

right now i am re-reading the Star wars X-wing rogue squadron series

 

[grrl]

The Guns of August. It's a classic on the origins and first month of the First World War, but the Mass Market edition (below) is full of misspellings.

http://www.amazon.com/Guns-August-Ba...9793276&sr=1-1

About Schmidt - much different from the movie and completely falls apart at the end

The Great Santini - an easy and entertaining read, but Conroy is an uneven writer IMO

 

[Xstatic1]

I think next up is The Road.

nooooooo, don't. book is depressing as hell (pun intended ).

 

[Xstatic1]

Recently finished I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett (latest Discworld book) and Inside Delta Force by Eric L. Haney

^ (bolded) reading that sometime next year.

 

[destrekor]

Meh, the story started out OK - if a little heavy on the "things cut in half by the Dome" - but just never went anywhere. Decent set up, with no pay off. I was especially disappointed in the premonitions in the epileptic girl's dreams, but that never really panned out. And the ending.. gah!

But yeah, I liked DT:Gunslinger (obviously.) Waste Lands was my favorite for a while, but I later trended towards Wizards and Glass. I was initially mad that it didn't advance the plot, but looking back, it was a great stand-alone tale that I've gone back and read frequently. Epic story-telling.

I kind of liked the ending.

It gives a good "what if God is just a childish alien" vibe, and I feel like the premonitions and stuff is kind of similar to the dogs sensing seizures thing. Sometimes Stephen King makes things that way, and they simply are that way. Like the little dog hearing voices.
I knew it was going to end in some otherworldy way, everything about the dome pointed to that (I was afraid the dome wasn't even going to be answered, or would otherwise have been explained away as magic of some nonsensical approach - or some kind of simple "it was god" or "it was a demon/satan himself" type thing).

But in the end, I enjoyed the story more for the characters. Barbie was just too damn cool, and right up my alley as a male character.

It definitely wasn't a Best Ever List novel, but I enjoyed the journey.

 

[slugg]

I'm reading this.