What are you reading?

[The Reverend]

Im reading Dan Brown's Digital Fortress. Not as good as Angels and Demons, though.
I also finished reading Eragon and Eldest, worth a look if you like Dragons and magic. (If you've seen the film but not read the book(s) then I can tell you that Book > Film)

 

[Fire Daemon]

Bernard Cornwell is good. The Sharpe series is good, so is the television series.

Have you read 'The Winter King'? Or any of the Saxon Novels?

I'm reading it right now as a matter of fact. I just finished with the Holy Grail trilogy.

 

[DEC_42]

I also finished reading Eragon and Eldest, worth a look if you like Dragons and magic. (If you've seen the film but not read the book(s) then I can tell you that Book > Film)

More like Book >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Film. The film was so bad it left me dumbstruck walking out of the theater. I will refrain from lashing out against the movie in order to preserve the thread. Eldest was where my interest plummeted as the series degenerated from a complex building of Eragon and his bond between him and his dragon to a bunch of fantasy babble and dialogue.

A book I'd highly recommend to anyone who likes WWII or an intriguing war story is Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes. Not to be even uttered in the same breath as the song, this book takes you through the latter half of the war (you know, when us yanks joined in) through both the perspective of a good ol' boy from the US, and a staunch Nazi. Now when I say staunch Nazi, I mean he is dedicated through and through to the motherland, not that he blindly despises any other races. Well, he sorta does, but you get my point.

These two boys are teenagers, so the audience for this book is in the 14-18 category, however I think the older audience would appreciate it, as well.

 

[GoddamnitReddas]

I'm nearing the end of Atlas Shrugged. I'm on the 'Concierto of Deliverance' chapter. Before that, I read the Fountainhead. I enjoyed both books very much, but I have to say Fountainhead drew me in more, and I rooted for Roark a lot more than I'm rooting for Dagny or John Galt. (My apologies to the John Galt of this forum.)
After that, I'm not quite sure what I'll read. I don't have anything really lined up. I have a list of books to get, but I randomly pick titles off of that list so I'm not quite sure what's next.

 

[Aeongrave]

I got as far as Anthem and then realized "woah, objectivism is absurd". But I still plan to read Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged one of these days...

 

[Cranius]

The Dune Series.

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

 

[mshcherbatskaya]

I got as far as Anthem and then realized "woah, objectivism is absurd". But I still plan to read Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged one of these days...

Once I realized that, with the speeches removed, The Fountainhead would have made a great bodice-ripper romance, it became much more entertaining.

 

[StraightAces]

The Dune Series.

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

I started reading the Dune series, though i lost focus, it didn't really grab me unfortunately. Anyone know if the televised version was any good?
At the moment i'm reading
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
Aggressor by Andy McNab
and
numerous DC graphic novels featuring the Joker

I'm a bit of an obsessor with the Joker i'm afraid.

 

[agent_capone]

Just picked up Stephen King's The Dark Tower series for the second time - I actually finished it at this time last year. Odd, that.

Seriously though, I think its the greatest series ever written, at least the most complicated, deep and captivating. Highly recommended.

 

[zmbiejesus]

atlas shrugged by ayn rand. AMAZING!!!

 

[ayoama]

Right now I'm finishing "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins, and I've just started Umberto Eco's "Apocalittici e integrati" ("Apocalypse Postponed" seems to be something like an English version, according to Wikipedia and Amazon). I'm in the mood for nonfiction

 

[IronMuck]

I've been on the look out for some other books because i've been having a shortage of enjoyable reading material.

i imagine this is wasted on someone who already has a like for Graphic novels, But Watchmen by Alan Moore is a work of art to my mind (I swear someone who posted earlier has a picture of Rorscach as their display picture). My friend advised Ronin to me, and being the same chap who told me Watchmen was good i'll have to look it up.

In repsonse to the posts i've looked at, i was glad to see mention of 1984, Catch-22 and the Discworld series, having found all to be pleasurable to read for one reason or other.
Not a fan of Tom clancy, i read afew books, but never really got into them.

Things i'm reading, or have recently read(Omitting the poor books) include:
Homer's Oddyssey and Illiad, i found both pretty good but prefered the Illiad; the combat, the poetry and well, the Oddyssey was alittle too long and meandering in comparison.
Mitch Albom's Tuesday with morrie and the five people you meet in heaven; both very moving and quite enlightening while remaining easy to pick up and read.
War of the Worlds, a delight to read... luckily i have seen none of the films so only have H.G. wells's(Grammar?) version as he intended it within my mind.
I am Legend. A fantastic story, only slightly ruined after i foolishly and excitedly rushed to a cinema to see it, only to discover they've taken out all the thought provoking elements and sugar coated the tale to the point where i myself was ashamed that the book had to share it's title with something so far from the authour's own words and thoughts.
Finally, I just read Robin Hobb's Assasins apprentice this morning after being told it was superior to the discworld novels, while not really similar enough to warrant comparison as far as I was concerned, it was one of the best fantasy novels i have read in awhile. I will, with haste, collect the other two books of the trilogy.
Apologies for the long winded ramblings but few people in my area share my enthusiasm for reading, so i was bursting with thoughts during this post.

 

[Asymptote Angel]

Recently worked through Obama's "The Audacity of Hope",

Incidentally, Audacity is just as full of empty words and glittering generalizations as everything else he says. It's excellently written, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't really go much into specifics.

Anyway, if you're looking for decent novels, I recommend the Bartimaeus trilogy. It's an alternate-history type thing in which England (and all the world) is controlled by magicians who wield power granted them by djinni (genies). It isn't the hardest reading you'll ever do, but all three books have excellent plotlines and you'll always be left hankering for more of Bartimaeus's smartassery.

Edit: Oh yeah, Tom Clancy. Patriot Games and Cardinal of the Kremlin are excellent, and if you're looking for something that'll keep you busy for a while, look into Red Storm Rising. Rainbow Six is good too. I can't recommend Red Rabbit, though. I didn't find it nearly as interesting as his other books.

 

[stinkypitz]

Everything Kurt Vonnegut. His books are very addicting.

 

[stompy]

I've been reading 1984, ya know, the one by George Orwell. It's pretty good, and not that long. That, as well as Ayn Rand's books, which take some time to read, are pretty good.
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[DEC_42]

Reading another book now, 'The Promise' by Chaim Potok. It's not so much a psychological thriller as anything else, but it's written masterfully.


Best part is, I get to keep it!

 

[BlazeTheVampire]

Reading another book now, 'The Promise' by Chaim Potok. It's not so much a psychological thriller as anything else, but it's written masterfully.


Best part is, I get to keep it!

I was subjected to "The Chosen" by Potok in Sophomore year and it was by far the most abominable thing I'd ever been forced to read.

I'm currently reading both "The First Law" series by Joe Abercrombie (on book 2) and the "House of the Night" series by P.C and Kristen Cast.

I tend to read large fantasy or sci-fi novels for the most part, but if I want a vampire novel I travel down to the teens section, where one can find a really good vampire story without the smut. Authors of teenage vampire novels are forced to think of new things to make their vampires interesting, whereas adult vampire-novelists tend to turn it all into a romance novel. It's not that I don't like smut, it's that I enjoy new views and good plotlines as well.

 

[PurpleRain]

Omnibus 2 'Dagon' and other macabre tales. H.P Lovecraft.

I wish I could write like that guy.