Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris. It's a Vampire Mystery novel. The vampires act like real vampires, burn when exposed to sun, have actual personalities and don't sparkle.
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2nded this. Angels and Demons is NOT what you'd call a good expository on the subject.Acidwell said:
It's hard to claim "I'm reading" something, since I read at the speed of about 500 pages a day (meaning most novels are a one- or maybe two-day endeavor), but the book series I'm really into right now, and just started my boyfriend reading is the Frank Compton series by Timothy Zahn, a sci-fi writer who's been often called the spiritual successor to Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. It's a hardboiled noir detective story... in space.
The first book is Night Train to Rigel, the second is called The Third Lynx, the third is Odd Girl Out and the fourth (which I haven't read yet, owing to its not being available in paperback yet - my tendency to read in the bathtub necessitates owning books I can hold with one dry hand) is called The Domino Pattern. They're incredible marriages of detective noir and the approachable, readable sci-fi of the past.
If you like sci-fi and have always wanted to see what this "nwar" stuff people were talking about was, or if you like noir and can tolerate imaginative sci-fi, read these books. The link above is to the Google Books site - it's not complete, but the first couple chapters at least will give you a good taste.
Other than that, I just finished Avalon by Stephen Lawhead, who's clearly a religious man and can get a little preachy in his books (though for the most part, he's equitable - he features believers, nonbelievers, and the undecided in an unusually unprejudiced way), but what really drew me in on this book was that about half the scenes take place in Parliament. The way the British government works has always fascinated me, a yank myself, and while you'd think CSPAN-esque proceedings in a book would be dry and boring, but the author manages to make them MORE gripping than the action sequences in the book - bizarre, I know. Now I'm off to do some reading on the specifics of how Parliamentary procedure works.
Catch-22 but only because I have to for English.
Only other book I'd be reading is the Zombie Survival Guide.
Only other book I'd be reading is the Zombie Survival Guide.
Hah, as if you'll find out anything about the Illuminati from that. Although I like Dan Brown, you'd have to be a complete and utter fool to think anything he says about 'secret' organisations is real (the Priory of Sion doesn't exist, for one thing, and Opus Dei isn't quite as radical as he makes out in The Da Vinci Code...). Don't get me wrong, I like him and his books. But they're written as fiction and I treat them as just that: fiction.Captain Schpack said:
Anyway, I'm re-reading the entire Discworld series in order at the moment, I'm just past halfway through Monstous Regiment now. I'm also re-reading the whole Three Worlds Cycle by Ian Irvine, currently about two thirds of the way through 'The Fate Of The Fallen' which is the first book of the third part, the 'Song Of The Tears' trilogy. After I'm done with all that I want to get the latest Torchwood tie-in novels, the latest Halo graphic novels and comics, and I'm planning to re-read the Twilight series and the His Dark Materials trilogy. Maybe the Hungry Cities Chronicles re-read too.
Yeah, I like to re-read a lot of stuff. I also read pretty quickly...
Just finished reading Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, didnt really care for it. Almost done with Lewis Black: Me of Little Faith, and Im probably going to read A Brief History of Time next. And some manga sprinkled in-between. Dunno what to read after christmas though.
Right now I'm going back and forth between the Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus by Dan Abnett (Abnett rocks!) and the Necronomicon: a large collection of H.P. Lovecraft's works.
Re-reading Night Watch. Superb. Book before that was Matter by Mr Banks, which was also great. Are the John Grisham books any good?
I'm reading 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy. Great post-apocalyptic story, but very depressing. I'm gonna get a copy of 'Do androids dream of electric sheep?', the book 'Blade Runner' was based on.
I've finished all of R.A. Salvadores books, so now I'm onto the "War of the Ancients" Warcraft books by Richard Knaak.
Wonderful book series.
Wonderful book series.
Just finished Zodiac soon after reading Snow Crash, both by Neal Stephenson, one of my new favorite authors. I heartily recommend both.
I'm also wanting to re-read the Hitchikers Guide series over winter break.
I'm also wanting to re-read the Hitchikers Guide series over winter break.