What book(s) are you reading right now?

[IronWing]

The Lemurian Stone - Stephen Hickman

1980s trash fantasy. It's alright.

Finished it. It was more than a bit cliche with the story ending about 100 pages before the book ended (a la LoTR) but it was okay reading.

 

[highland145]

Dresden Skin Game. Good read.


Damn Amazon for tempting me with the kindle version before the paperback came out. Cost me $4 extra. Bastards.

 

[Perknose]

I've got this book on hold at my library:

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
by David Shafer

Three young adults grapple with the usual thirty-something problems--boredom, authenticity, an omnipotent online oligarchy--in David Shafer's darkly comic debut novel.

The Committee, an international cabal of industrialists and media barons, is on the verge of privatizing all information. Dear Diary, an idealistic online Underground, stands in the way of that takeover, using radical politics, classic spycraft, and technology that makes Big Data look like dial-up. Into this secret battle stumbles an unlikely trio: Leila Majnoun, a disillusioned non-profit worker; Leo Crane, an unhinged trustafarian; and Mark Deveraux, a phony self-betterment guru who works for the Committee.

In the spirit of William Gibson and Chuck Palahniuk,Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is both a suspenseful global thriller and an emotionally truthful novel about the struggle to change the world in- and outside your head.

8/27/14 - Just got it from the library. I essscited!

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Just finished Heinlein's Job: A comedy of justice. Just started another of his The number of the beast.

Also reading Judo Unleashed: Essential Throwing & Grappling Techniques for Intermediate to Advanced Martial Artists. Came highly recommended and is a great resource.

 

[gorcorps]

Got myselves a copy of brave new world after i read a passage from it in one of my college text books. My next semester includes Animal Farm by George Orwell, so bought a copy of it too.

Apart from that a friend has Dracula, which i am going to borrow once I am finished with Brave New World.

Animal Farm was required reading for me in HS. Pretty good. Brave New World is a classic and should also be required reading. I read BNW and 1984 back to back and felt pretty depressed afterward... I had to stop reading for a while.

 

[Pheran]

Just finished Heinlein's Job: A comedy of justice. Just started another of his The number of the beast.

Job is great, but fair warning, Number of the Beast is pretty awful. I should reread Job, it's been a long time.

 

[IronWing]

Based on the reviews here I started reading Wool. What a cheerful little book. Sort of like The Book of the Long Sun without all the frivolity.

 

[solsa]

robert kaplan, the coming anarchy.

 

[pontifex]

xxxxxxxxx

 

[pontifex]

Currently - Wool

before that -
On Talking Terms With Dogs: Calming Signals
Barking: The Sound of a Language

These last 2 are fairly short but very interesting and informative, especially if you have a dog.

 

[pyonir]

I liked "Wool". Currently reading "I, Zombie" from same author, Howey. It's different, but I don't much care for the book.

Going to read the Shift Omnibus and Sand series as well.

 

[Pheran]

I liked "Wool". Currently reading "I, Zombie" from same author, Howey. It's different, but I don't much care for the book.

Going to read the Shift Omnibus and Sand series as well.

I, Zombie is not for everyone (in fact Hugh warns as much in the foreword). It has a strong theme that I appreciated but it's quite a dark story.

 

[Drako]

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Probably for the 5th time :biggrin:

 

[Spydermag68]

Babylon 5: Dark Genesis, The birth of the Psi Corps.

This is the first of 3 books in the series. The first 2/3rd of the book is really slow and not very interesting. I picks up pace in the last 1/3rd of the book, but is a chore to get through. The only reason to I am reading it is that a friend of mine really like the second two books. Rise of Bester and the one that deals with his fate after the TV show.

 

[Mai72]

Tim Farris 4 hour work week. I expect to only need to work 4 hours a week after I'm done!

 

[pyonir]

I, Zombie is not for everyone (in fact Hugh warns as much in the foreword). It has a strong theme that I appreciated but it's quite a dark story.

Yeah, I did read the foreword and knew what I was getting going in. I can't quite put my finger on what I dislike, specifically.

I like that it's dark. It reminds me of something Chuck Palahniuk would write and I have enjoyed most of the Palahniuk books I've read.

 

[DainBramaged]

Stephen King's Under The Dome

Good book!

Bill Bryson's "Notes From a Small Island," a travelogue of his adventures touring Great Britain. I like Bryson as an author, but this is probably my least favorite of his books.

I wholeheartedly agree with you.

Current, I'm reading White Knight: The Rise of Spiro Agnew by Jules Witcover, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, and The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Nicholas Thompson.

I am greatly enjoying all three. I love Witcover's style of reporting. What a journalism icon. Any holy crap, the things I've learned about Agnew!!

I am always into just about anything dystopian and just finished The Running Man by King a bit ago. Now I'm reading Handmaiden's Tale, about a society where most women are unable to have children any longer. Therefore, those that can are put in a position of forced, iconic sexual positions. I'm very in awe of it about halfway in.

Last, I'm a history of the cold war buff. I just finished Limited War by Robert Osgood and that book directly led into the book about Kennan and Nitze. What a fascinating, singular relationship these two had, disagreeing about everything yet being friends. As Nitze said, "Why are we friends? Well really, we agree on just about every topic but those with any weight to them."

 

[AMD64Blondie]

Just started in on Robert Littell's Legends.

Quite good.

 

[mcurphy]

A lady at work recently turned me onto John Sandford's Prey series. The first three books were decent. Just started book #4.

 

[nakedfrog]

Neil Gaiman - American Gods

 

[NuclearNed]

Jim Wickwire - Addicted to Danger

It's the biography of famous American mountain climber Jim Wickwire. Its so engrossing I read half of the book last night in a single sitting.

 

[aaksheytalwar]

Perry Marshall's book on FB Ads

 

[clamum]

From a post in this thread, I decided to pick up The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men. I just started Chapter 2 but so far it's great.

I'm also reading Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) (ok so far) and I finished Inside Delta Force by Eric Haney and Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne pretty quickly (both great, especially the former).

 

[pyonir]

Finished the "Shift" Omnibus. I really enjoyed it...more so than "Wool". Maybe because I already had read Wool, so I knew where it was going eventually. It was cool to see the backstory though. I've started the "Sand" Omnibus as well...and really like it so far.

I've tried starting "Don Quixote" but I'm struggling mightily. I can't seem to get into it at all.

 

[02ranger]

Dresden Skin Game. Good read.


Damn Amazon for tempting me with the kindle version before the paperback came out. Cost me $4 extra. Bastards.

I just started reading the Dresden Files books, really good stuff. I'm about to start Small Favor, and I just picked them up a few weeks ago. lol

Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid Chronicles are good as well, if you like Dresden Files.

A lady at work recently turned me onto John Sandford's Prey series. The first three books were decent. Just started book #4.

Another excellent series. I've been reading them for years and they stay strong for a while. The more recent books haven't been quite up to par with the first several, but then again he's on book 15 or 16 now, so I guess that's understandable.

Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series is pretty good too. Similar to Prey, sorta. I haven't been able to get into the Lincoln Lawyer stuff, though.