What Are You Currently Reading?

[DFA]

What book or books (I've been in the process of reading 6 before at once) are you currenly reading?

I am currenly reading The Truth (With Jokes) By Al Franken as well as glancing at A Book Of Latin Quotations (it's what the book is called how literal can you get?) to augment my essay writing style with fancy Latin quotes.

So what are you reading?

[Kaelus]

Currently reading obscure books about mythology and philosophy. I don't even remember their names due to the extreme obscurity, and too lazy to look it up. Yay!

[Overcast]

Buah going wierd with Anne Rice with Servant of the Bones and The Witching Hour.

[Nique]

Latest book I read for the first time was 'Ender's Shadow', which I enjoyed even more than 'Ender's Game'.

Currently re-reading the so called 'trilogy' of 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', including the short, 'Young Zaphod Plays it Safe'.

Just recently read Micheal Criton's 'Jurassic Park' again, too...

I think I could use some new books.

[ApathyMan]

I am reading The Assassins' Gate By George Packer. It's an excellent text describing the ideological background and moral justification of this latest war in Iraq, as well as how the good idea of the toppling of the Saddam regime got bungled by the Bush administration.

It's a nice, pragmatic stance that I can agree with.
... and by pragmatic, I mean Straussian/Neoconservative...

[Red Fighter 1073]

well, i'm reading Summer of My German Soldier for schoolwork, but i've heard it really isnt a good book.

besides that, i'm reading Ender's Game again. I also liked Ender's Shadow more, but i didnt like how the first few chapters were about Bean NOT being in Battle School. That part is I think the highlights of both of the books. Also, i kinda disliked how in the Shadow book, it had entire chapters devoted to the Nun. Besides that, I enjoyed Bean's viewpoint more than Ender's.

[CallmePrismatic]

I'm reading "Adventure", a series of short stories in the semi-pulp vein centering somewhat around adventure (subcover blurb: The all-genre, all-adventure pulp anthology for the new millenia!!). I have a raging hard-on for short stories (I bought both of McSweeny's short story anthologies) in the pulp-ish region of literature, so I'd highly reccomend any semi-thick book you see in your local bookstore with a bright illustrative cover...although the section titled "Short Story Anthologies" of my Barnes and Noble is usually filled with erotic sex story-anthologies, so it makes finding actual books I can read in public at all sorta a trial.

I'm waiting for my girlfriend to finish "Choke", from the same guy that wrote Fight Club (the book, not the movie).

[Seran]

I am currently reading Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. It's fascinating, but not as good as Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. Actually, it doesn't even compare to Tolkien's works...But it's still a fine book to read.

[Demon with a Glass Hand]

If I were not so damn'd busy I would be finishing up Ender's Game.

As it stands, I am too damn'd busy to finish Ender's Game regardless of how much I may enjoy it.

[Toast]

I just started reading Dune again, and I just finished Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.

I'm also in the process of reading Women who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., but its the sort of book you have to be in a clear frame of mind and not be mentally exhausted if you're going to try and read it. Hence why its taking me so long to finish.

[Fifthfiend]

As it stands, I am too damn'd busy to finish Ender's Game regardless of how much I may enjoy it.

Sacrilege!

Latest book I read for the first time was 'Ender's Shadow', which I enjoyed even more than 'Ender's Game'.

HERESY!

That is all.

[Azisien]

Well, I missed the thread by a few hours, but I JUST finished reading Judas Unchained, so I'm still currently reading it if you pretend this post is like 12 hours earlier.

Which it is.

[Seeker]

I'm reading Dune for the first time and it's for school no less. I'm also reading Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan. Also I've started reading all the unassigned stories in my classes book of short stories.

[Marblehead Johnson]

I'm reading the NPF forums, and so are all of you, you liars.... :)

At the moment, I'm reading "Good Omens".... again. It's hypnotic... it's like a lava lamp...

[FilmMaker2003]

Re-reading Tale of the Thunderbolt by E.E. Knight so that I'll be caught up with the Vampire Earth series so I can read Valentine's Rising.

[Toastburner B]

I'm reading the Lord of the Rings at the moment...it's what happens when I get done reading my library books, and find that I am too lazy to go inside the library and find new books to read.

[Mauve Mage]

I've been reading "Reaper Man" by Terry Pratchett for the fifty-billionth time. I gave it to my sister to see if I could get her to read something other than Star Wars novels, but she said it was boring.

Sometimes I wonder if we're truly related.

[CallmePrismatic]

At the moment, I'm reading "Good Omens".... again. It's hypnotic... it's like a lava lamp...
Did you get the newest hardcover they just released, with the added Pterry/Gaimen interviews? I saw Good Omens on the 'New in Hardcover' section at B&N and had to do a double take. Does it mean we might finally be nearing a Good Omens movie...or am I looking too far into this recent resurgence?

Also, has anyone checked out Stephen King's "Cell" book? I read the inset and it sounds (read?) a lot like "The Stand", except Superflu was replaced with cell phones...so I kind of set it down and walked away. Just wondering if I made a mistake.

[Marblehead Johnson]

You put down a new Stephen King book.

That wasn't a mistake.

[Demon with a Glass Hand]

I also just finished Arthur Golden's gripping novel Memoirs of a Demon with a Glass Hand.

I also reccomend his other, less well known novel Memoirs of a Geisha.

[Trepie]

Hard Times by Charles Dickens.

Cures you God-Forsaken Literature Units.

;_;

[RickZarber]

I've been reading "Reaper Man" by Terry Pratchett for the fifty-billionth time. I gave it to my sister to see if I could get her to read something other than Star Wars novels, but she said it was boring.

Sometimes I wonder if we're truly related.Just out of curiosity, how old is your sister? It's funny you bring it up though, cause my brother accuses me of the same thing. Take for instance this past Thanksgiving, where everyone was discussing The DaVinci Code. When I was asked if I read it, my brother replied, "No, Chris only reads Stars Wars books." Embarassed denials then had to be muttered. But even though that's not true, I have been reading them since like 1995. And even now, I'm re-reading Zahn's Heir to the Empire for the (3rd?) time.

I also just finished Arthur Golden's gripping novel Memoirs of a Demon with a Glass Hand.Huhn, now there's one I just have to find. ;)

[Skit]

I'm nearing the ending of American Gods, by Neil Gaiman. I... I hadn't realized there would be so much graphic sex...

Spoilers:
A guy got swallowed by a woman's vagina, and later, a taxi driver had sex with an ifrit and there was a lot of description regarding the ifrit's penis...

Good god, Mr. Gaiman.

[Mondt]

I'm working on Inkspell by Cornelia Funke and re-reading Ender's Game...

Edit:Sacrilege!

HERESY!
That is all.
I agree. Ender's Game shall own your life.

[Transcend]

The post above this one.

Also, oh-so-many textbooks.

[DFA]

Started reading an old favorite of mine The Phantom Tollbooth good when I was like 8 and good now at almost 18.

[neyo the king]

I'm currently in between two books.

I just read "The Eye of the World" by Robert Jordan.

And I'm going to be reading "The Cleric Quintet" by R. A. Salvador(sp?) in a matter of days.

Yeah, I'm big on the fantasy-adventure genre. Get over it.

[Loyal]

I'm reading Neuromancer, a rather nifty sci-fi book. If you've played Shadowrunner, the book's mechanics kinda resemble it. Basically, a former data thief of the matrix, whose nervous system was crippled after trying to rip off an employer, is fixed up and offered a new job that involves the sharpest AI ever conceived, and that's all I'm saying about it (Because that's all that lies on the back cover).

I recently finished I, Jedi for the 12th time or so. :p

[mammothtank]

Just finished Ravnica, and I'm going to start reading Guildpact as soon as I can find it. I'm going to wait awhile before re-reading Nuklear Age.

[Scowly]

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabakov

[Mauve Mage]

Just out of curiosity, how old is your sister? She's fourteen. Today, in fact, she ran out and picked up her pre-ordered copy of Star Wars Republic Commando: Triple Zero. I haven't seen or heard her since...

In other news, I'm finishing up Laurie King's The Moor, and today I grabbed the hardcover version of Terry Pratchett's Going Postal for only $4.95 at Borders. I'm such a little bargain hunter.

[Satan's Onion]

I've been reading "Reaper Man" by Terry Pratchett for the fifty-billionth time. I gave it to my sister to see if I could get her to read something other than Star Wars novels, but she said it was boring.

Sometimes I wonder if we're truly related.

Are you sure the problem isn't some kind of insanity, or demonic possession? 'Cos I just don't see anyone in complete command of their faculties calling a Terry Pratchett novel "boring". (Going Postal's quite good, by the way, as is Monstrous Regiment, altho' I think my favorite yet is Night Watch. What can I say, Commander Vimes is just that great a character, him and Lord Vetinari.)

At any rate, I recently finished all but the latest (twelfth) in Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events, and delicious, glee-making reading it is to me. I'm also intermittently into (I'll pick up one or the other contingent upon my mood) The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book); James Thurber's The Beast In Me and Other Animals; Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island; and some very early Doonesbury anthologies. Once I get some more of these done, I have some Brian Jacques, a few Doctor Who novels, and something by Brian Greene to try and wrap my brain-meat around.

[Marblehead Johnson]

Dude, after reading some of your posts... is it wrong to love a Series 4000 mechanoid? *robosnuggles*

Anyways, I need a new book to read. My house is devoid of books I haven't read eleventy-billion times, and I'm sick of reading the backs of all my ill-gotten VHS movies.

[Demon with a Glass Hand]

Additionally, thanks to the magic of borrowing stuff off of my brother, I am now reading the second book in the Transmetropolitan series "Lust for Life."

"It's an expensive place, this, in a grove with a view of the Fourth Canal. On a good day, you can see the rusty old bicycles and dead dogs floating on its surface.

My name is Spider Jerusalem, and there's nothing more I like than dead dogs."

You should read it, too.

[pocheros]

Currently reading random parts of The Demon-Haunted World and Ariel. Also Frankenstein, which is okay the first time, but really boring the second time -_-;

[Satan's Onion]

Dude, after reading some of your posts... is it wrong to love a Series 4000 mechanoid? *robosnuggles*

Bashful mode engaged, sir. "Dude" is a bit of a misnomer, if you catch ^_~ (I think that's the right smiley), but meh--it's the intarwebs and it isn't all that obvious in my case. No harm done; I just thought it might be worth pointing out discreetly-like before gender-related hijinks ensued.
Anyways, I need a new book to read. My house is devoid of books I haven't read eleventy-billion times, and I'm sick of reading the backs of all my ill-gotten VHS movies.

I go to the library for my regular fix, personally. I wouldn't be able to see many of my favorite Britcoms otherwise, nor indulge in my favorite authors. (Also on my must-read-soon list, some P.G. Wodehouse--A Gentleman of Leisure. The good thing about Wodehouse is he wrote some ninety-odd books, so it's a long time before you'll ever run out of Wodehouse to read. I'll grantyou, a lot of the plots are rather interchangeable, but they're still pretty well-written, and anyway they're like literary candy; you're only supposed to have one at a time so you don't notice their similarities.)

[Jeneralissimo]

I'm taking 2 history and 2 english courses, so right now it's more like what aren't you reading, but here goes.

Ulysses by James Joyce
The Satanic Verses by Salamn Rushdie

not to be attempted without the direction of a professor you trust

as for my "freetime", I am hoping that I wll be able to get back to Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb over Spring Break. So far, so good.

Mauve Mage, can I be your sister?!? We read a lot of the same stuff! (loves Pratchett and (Laurie) King)

And Skit, yeah, Gaiman has some weird sex stuff going on, but he's not nearly as bad as some other fantasy and/or historical writers, and his writing is some of the best I have ever seen. I don't think it's bad enough to ruin the book.

[Mauve Mage]

Mauve Mage, can I be your sister?!? We read a lot of the same stuff! (loves Pratchett and (Laurie) King) You could, if it wasn't for the fact that mom only wants two kids, and she made me and my current sister promise to stop trying to get rid of each other through shady means.


In other news: Has anyone ever read "The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror" by Christopher Moore? If you haven't... shame on you. Funny, demented, and completely awesome. How could you NOT love a christmas book that involves a fruitbat, marijuana, a delusional B-movie actress, a confused angel, and an army of zombies?? Read it, I say!

[Roy_D_Mylote]

Did you get the newest hardcover they just released, with the added Pterry/Gaimen interviews? I saw Good Omens on the 'New in Hardcover' section at B&N and had to do a double take. Does it mean we might finally be nearing a Good Omens movie...or am I looking too far into this recent resurgence?


As sad as it makes me, there will probably never be a Good Omens movie. Because, you see, the Americans who were making the movie decided to cut out Death and the Four Horsepersons. They also wanted to make Adam pure evil.


I'm nearing the ending of American Gods, by Neil Gaiman. I... I hadn't realized there would be so much graphic sex...


Have you got to the part where the guy has sex with that thing that claws him up? Cause that's when I stopped reading it. I think it was the cat.

[Ketsueki]

(First post ever, whee!)

Let's see, I'm reading "Desperation" By Stephen King. I must say, I liked "The Regulators" more. Anyway, fter that, I have "Faust" be Goethe, a stack of about 10 Stephen King books, and "The Divine Comedy(Purgatory/Paradise)." When I'm done with that huge stack, I'm gonna be waiting for my girlfriend to read the second book from the "Sword of Truth" series. I hope she'll let me read it first, though, since I loved "Wizard's First Rule(I highly recommend this, though there are some scenes that I'm sure will disturb people a little.)."

*looks at list of books*

Gosh, so many books. If anybody wants to recommend any books for me, go ahead.

Edit: Also reading any BattleTech/Mechwarrior novels I can get my hands on. I have three I haven't started on, plus four I've already read.

[Althane]

Sporadically: Garden of Rama

More Constantly: The Akira series.
The Gods Themselves
The War of the Spider Queen

[Roy_D_Mylote]

(First post ever, whee!)

Let's see, I'm reading "Desperation" By Stephen King. I must say, I liked "The Regulators" more. Anyway, fter that, I have "Faust" be Goethe, a stack of about 10 Stephen King books, and "The Divine Comedy(Purgatory/Paradise)." When I'm done with that huge stack, I'm gonna be waiting for my girlfriend to read the second book from the "Sword of Truth" series. I hope she'll let me read it first, though, since I loved "Wizard's First Rule(I highly recommend this, though there are some scenes that I'm sure will disturb people a little.)."

*looks at list of books*

Gosh, so many books. If anybody wants to recommend any books for me, go ahead.

Edit: Also reading any BattleTech/Mechwarrior novels I can get my hands on. I have three I haven't started on, plus four I've already read.


Welcome to the NPF forums, enjoy your stay.

Post 42! Both personally and for this thread! w00t.

[Mariposa Olvidado]

I'm reading Inkheart, pretty good book if you like fantasy...supposedly it's being made into a movie soon too...and I recently finished reading Eldest, the second book of the Inheritance trilogy. Mighty fine books, I personally find them to be some of the best I've ever read, again if you like fantasy, these are one of the best reads around. I'm also starting to read the 7 Narnia books, I have them all in one massive book. I became moderately interested in them after I saw the movie. Hope they're good.

[Chrono_Traveller]

I'm currently in between two books.

I just read "The Eye of the World" by Robert Jordan.


Now, let me just say that it only gets worse from there for the series.

Anyway, I'm right in the middle of "Gardens of the Moon" by Steven Erikson. Its pretty interesting so far, but I'm still a little skeptical.

[Roy_D_Mylote]

I'm reading Inkheart, pretty good book if you like fantasy...supposedly it's being made into a movie soon too...and I recently finished reading Eldest, the second book of the Inheritance trilogy. Mighty fine books, I personally find them to be some of the best I've ever read, again if you like fantasy, these are one of the best reads around. I'm also starting to read the 7 Narnia books, I have them all in one massive book. I became moderately interested in them after I saw the movie. Hope they're good.
The Inheritance books...ug. It's some dumb kid's way to make money by transferring the plot of Star Wars into a fantasy setting.

[DFA]

I'm reading Understanding Comics then Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud.

Curious to know if anyone else read these and what they thought from what I've read of Understanding Comics it's pretty sweet and thought provoking.

[Lockeownzj00]

I'm not as hateful of him as Tycho and Gabe are, but they did kind of help tarnish my image of Scott McCloud.

I've got too many books still backed up from last year. And I've been neglecting them. I watch movies, and think, "shit, so many movies to watch." Then I play games, and I think, "shit, so many games to play." Then I read books, and...yeah. So the end result is I'm too busy jack-of-all-tradesing everything to focus on anything -_-. Fack.

But I've got the Illuminatus Trilogy just sitting there, looking ripe and succulent.

[Lucis]

The Neon Genesis Evangelion manga. I'm reading it as I watch the series on Adult Swim, and making notations on the differences between the two. I may or may not submit my findings to the NGE Wikipedia article, should I find differences left unmentioned.

I'm also overdue for a reading of classic literature - I'm thinking either Sun-Tzu's The Art of War, or maybe War and Peace would be good.

[ArcAngelX]

I'm reading the first book of Vampire Hunter D ATM, it's a good novel and they did it supreme justice =D

[Satan's Onion]

I just got through reading two Doctor Who novels in as many days, and I'm preparing for another binge soon. So if I come back muttering to myself about how the Daleks are keepin' me down, don't mind me--I'll probably be coherent again in a couple of days.

[Osterbaum]

One Flew Over the Cocoos Nest, by Ken Kesey.

And Don Quijote De La Mancha, by Cervantes.

Both in finnish.

[Roy_D_Mylote]

'salem's Lot by the King.

[Major Blood]

The Vanished Man by Jeremy Deaver
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

[Leon-the-Dark-Knight]

I am currently reading "The High Druid of Shannara, Book 2: Taniquil". Brooks is a very good fantasy author, and his "Shannara" series is one of my favorites.

[Shoraru]

Wicked by Gegory Maguire

[Roy_D_Mylote]

Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett

[Gorefiend]

Well, I just read two Frank Herbert books back-to-back, and while one of them is nearly impossible to talk about without either giving away key plot points or making it sound really, REALLY bad (which it isn't) I'll just say now: pick up Hellstrom's Hive. If you like his books and are a little put off by the little text describing it, disregard it. It's damn good.

The other one, the White Plague, is also very good, even if you're not a Herbert fan. It's about a molecular biologist who loses his wife and twins to an IRA bomb. He then goes mad, and makes a plague that kills women, and is immune to antibiotics. He releases it in Ireland, for killing his family, England, for giving the Irish a cause to fight, and Libya, for training and arming the IRA. It spreads from there to the world. The book is three stories: the story of John Roe O'Neill as he makes the plague and travels through Ireland, seeing his own destruction; the story of the Team set up to find a cure for the plague; and the story of world governments coping with the plague, trying to find a cure while perfectly aware of all the possible power positions available to them both during the chaos of the plague and in the event of a cure being found. Damn good reading, though a tad long.

At any rate, PICK EITHER/BOTH OF THESE UP NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Murdersaurus]

House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski.

One of the strangest books i've ever seen.

[Tilion]

Currently reading "The fall of Hyperion", the second book in the hyperion series. Very good SF. Weird, but in a good way :)

Also reading "Feet of clay", I tend to read DW at the same time as other books (or i wouldn't read anything else ;) )

Additionally, thanks to the magic of borrowing stuff off of my brother, I am now reading the second book in the Transmetropolitan series "Lust for Life."

I LOVE Transmetropolitan. Great Science fiction, with lots of social commentary on poverty, politics, people's indifference to everything ... , _deeply_ touching issues with Spider's columns (like the one about the Revivals, or another about death), a great plot on political manipulation... All that mixed with extremely funny (and violent) moments. Just wait until he goes to the religions convention, the "Spider watches TV" issue, just to name two of them that come to my mind

[Electric Monk]

I'm having a second go at "Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson. I read it a couple years ago, but I'm enjoying it much more this time around.

I just finished "The Dream Hunters" by Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano. This is more an illustrated short story than any kind of sequential art, but it is a beautiful story with beautiful illustrations.

[Leon-the-Dark-Knight]

I am curremtly reading "4th of July" by James Patterson. His books are great reads that you can through in just a week if you really like it. I have read all of the Alex Cross books so far, you know, "Along came a spider", and "Kiss the Girls", and his other series are just as fun to read.:cool:

[Nikose Tyris]

Exalted: the sidereals, The bible again, AND "paths of Darkness". three great books.

...Shut up. I like Exalted.

[Mondt]

The Inheritance books...ug. It's some dumb kid's way to make money by transferring the plot of Star Wars into a fantasy setting.Note: There are few good ideas these days. Comparitavely.

Still reading Inkspell. I'm not really in a reading mood lately.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

Started reading Necroscope by Brian Lumley today. I finished reading Necroscope: The Lost years about a week ago...which is like..book nine of fifteen...

Anywho, damn fine world setting Mr. Lumley created. Damn fine. I'm usually not big on book vampires but man...these guys are downright <i>unearthly</i>. Great thing is the vampires don't dominate the stage. Theres a whole bunch of other stuff going on too. Harry Keogh communicating with the dead, paranormal agencies, psychic powers, etc. Lumley has made an amazing mix of science and supernatural with a dash of macabre horror.

[OctoberRaven]

Reading Hagakure.

Interesting read, lots of quotable phrases, and a lot of passages that are a bit...out there.

Recommended for anyone into fuedal Japan/samurai stuff...but those who are probably have it by now.

[LilVikingboy]

"The Highwayman" - R.A. Salvatore

Also, "Antrax" - Terry Brook...I love TB, but I just cant seem to get too far into this for some reason. Whats wrong with me :( Ive devoured everything else of his.

[Art of Hilt]

For some reason, I am reading "Thief of Time" (by Terry Pratchet) for the second time.

It really is an excellent book.

[Leon-the-Dark-Knight]

Just keep reading, it is a little different because they are dealing with advanced technology for the first time. But believe me it is a good book, which leads striaght into Margwar. You also discover more about the Ilse Witch, Bek, and Walker in this one.:cool:

"So what are we going to do today, Brain?" "Same thing we do every night, Pinky, try to take over the world!"

[LilVikingboy]

Oh don't worry, Im addicted. After I read Sword, I was hooked. He inspired me to start writing, as well.

My problem though, is I started, got like 2-3 chapters in, and then couldnt find the time for a while to finish it. So everytime I read I have to start all over, forget what happened in Isle Witch, and get frustrated cause I know Ive read it before but cant remember where I left off. But I love Brooks, so I'll finish it. Besides, if I don't Im going to be seriously behind to catch up to the current book.

[VA_Ninja]

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Both of these I'm reading for school. I rather like them both, as I've yet to read a book that had stories like these (yes, I've led a sheltered reading life). The writing styles are rather good as well.

Reading, but very, very slowly:
The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
Watership Down by Richard Adams

Everytime I picj these books up again, I become interested in it again, then after a few chapters I put it down again. Like eating electrically charged chocolate cake. :/

[Roy_D_Mylote]

The Salmon of Doubt. It has one of my favorite bits Douglas Adams ever wrote in it. That would be the beginning of Chapter 6, with the Stanley and all.

[Thundergod Cid]

Right now, I'm reading "The Dilbert Principle" by Scott Adams. Hilarious book.

[Ferix Stader]

Let's see here.

Deadhouse Gates, Steven Erikson. Very RPG/fantasy grounded, incredibly in-depth. Also highly confusing, but hey.

Anything by Elizabeth Peters: Been on an Egyptian Murder-Mystery binge, I'm afraid.

Beginning Chinese books, Romance of the Three Kingdoms... just returned a book on Chinese poetry styles, can't even tell you what they were called... T'an Fu or something like that. Argh. Brain like a sieve.

[TheSpiritOfVengance]

Night Watch trilogy. The same books that the movies are based off of. I am on Day Watch at the moment.

[King_black_mage]

I just finished reading a book called Up in a Heaval By Piers Anthony.

Never before did I cry when finishing a book, like I did with this one the endoing was beautiful. I am now a huge fan of Piers Anthony and I refuse to return the book to the libarly they are going to have to pry it out of my cold dead hands.

[Vile]

Hippolytus

Haven't gotten very far in it yet.

Also still in the middle of Ada, or Ardor, by Vladimir Nabokov. It is, of course, an insanely good book, with Nabokov's usual flair, and usual odd premise. Nabokov's mastery of the English language pwns us all.

[Blue mage42666]

A Darkling Plain, by Philip Reeve, great book, and a great ending to the Quartet

[Pinball Wizard]

"1984" by George Orwell

I just finished Terry Pratchett's "The Last Hero". And I must say it was very entertaining.

And I was/am supposed to be reading "David Copperfield" for a class but I really can't stand Dickens. So that's why God made sparknotes.

[DarkCORN!]

At the moment I'm reading Demon Diaries No.7.

[Leon-the-Dark-Knight]

Legend by David Gemmel. Similar to Eddings

[Satan's Onion]

Just purchased for a song, and am now in the middle of, Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel by Michael Gerber. Disaffected Harry Potter fans, you might want to look into this one, and the one before it, Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody. Heck, even full-fledged HP fans might like it.

[Rhiya Ravenwing]

Science of Discworld. Go nerdiness me!

[Rezero]

Currently reading The View from the Center of the Universe, a book on cosmology (the origions, ending and in general, history of the universe) and the importance of changing our perception of the universe in order to advance as a species.

[Shishio]

The Dresden Files 01 - Storm Front by Jim Butcher. It's about Harry Dresden, a magus that works as a freelance consultant/investigator on Paranormal matters. It's OK so far.

[Satan's Onion]

Borrowed volume one of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen from the library. Normally, save for reading ElfQuest anthologies, I'm a bit shy of non-manga comics--after all, I know nothing of the intricacies of the Marvel or DC or independent universes, and I'm rather in awe of those who do--but this is damned good.

Oh yeah, and i'm working on Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing: On The Campaign Trail '72. This is also extremely good reading, if you like the work of Hunter S. Thompson--and it is something of an acquired taste.

[Deathosaurus Wrecks]

Re-reading the Ringworld series. currently only a few chapters into Ringworld Engineers. took a break to read X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble, but now with that nerd craving satiated, i can get back on track.

@ Shishio: Storm Front was a pretty interesting book. wasn't captivated by it to read any of the other books in the series though.

[ShadowMaker]

Currently i'm reading River of Black Ice by Tad Williams. Anyone read it before?

[Buddha Fett]

Currently reading "The Inferno". It's a suprisingly good read, being roughly 700 years old.

[Kitana Paladine]

I'm currently reading Owlsight by Mercedes Lackey, for the umpteenth time. I love her books, and I have read many of them to the point where some are nearly falling apart.

I'm also considering re-reading The Mummy or Ramses the Damned by Anne Rice(yes, that is the title on the bok. the main title is The Mummy, but below that it says, "or Ramses the Damned"). Its a very interesting book about Ramses the 2nd, I believe, who found an elixir of immortality and drank it, and how he entombed himself after the death of Cleopatra, and woke up in Edwardian London. Its a very good read, and I recommend it to any fan of Rice's or Egyptian history and such. Its such a uniquely different book from her Vampires series that I picked it up once and didn't want to put it down.

Other than that, I'm waiting for a book to get back from a friend who's borrowing it, and that's the Black Jewel trilogy anthology by Anne Bishop, so I can re-read it again.

[ThreeWingedTurkey]

Im reading The Dark Tower by Stephen King at the moment, brilliant set of books, Ive just got to try to get my copy back to the library in one piece, I just finished reading all the Dresden files, pretty good books.

[Mondt]

Just started Diablo: Moon of the Spider. Looking decent so far. Better than what I was reading before...

[Supreme Edgemaster]

Currently reading the Avatar trilogy. It's a Forgotten realms book about what happened during the time of troubles in Faerun. Currently on book 2: Tantras.

[Seran]

Reading The Tree of Avalon: Dark Child of the Prophecy. Reading Inkheart. Very fascinated in Avalon, but taking less time on Inkheart due to meager interest that advances only slowly.

[Mondt]

Well, I'm still kind of reading Inkspell, but it got boring. Inkheart was good, Inkspell is good for a while and then... :

http://www.mccallie.org/CLatham/Importeddocuments/Miller_Updike/mushroom%20cloud.gif

OK, it wasn't that bad, but when you lose interest at the end of the book, something is wrong.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

The Crystal Caves (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0449911616/002-2908259-7240831?v=glance&n=283155).

The first part of four about Merlin's early days and what led him to be the legend he is. Good shtuff.

[dojindog]

I'm currently reading A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin it's got fantasy in the like just a tad bit here and there though it's mostly pretty realistic and is mostly historically accurate

[Azisien]

I just finished reading The Art of War. Now I am going to start either The Iliad or The DaVinci Code.

Suggestions?

[Nique]

I just finished 'Neverwhere' by Neil Gaiman. Except for it's sense of humour being entirly far too entirly not-unlike Douglas Adams 'Hitchhiker' seiris, I rather enjoyed it.

Essentially, the book proposes a kind of inbetween dimension where people who have been 'forgotten' or slipped in between the cracks of socitey, go. Also there's some odd bits about talking to rats. Very magical feeling without throwing the overused marks of the fantasy genre in your face constantly, so nowhere in my reading did I role my eyes.

All in all, a weird book. I was thinking of reading 'Good Omens' next, since Terry Pratchet had a hand in that one, as well as Neil Gaiman.

[Roy_D_Mylote]

I'm reading the Star Wars novelizations.

They suck ass.

[Muffin Mage]

I just finished reading The Art of War. Now I am going to start either The Iliad or The DaVinci Code.

Suggestions?
Iliad for the win! It gets repetitive, but if you've got the skill to read epic poems, and trust me, it's a skill, the Iliad is great. Just get the Fagles translation. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140275363/sr=8-1/qid=1148265051/ref=sr_1_1/002-9625548-9140837?%5Fencoding=UTF8)

At the moment, I'm finishing up Atlas Shrugged. It's a really great read if you agree with what Ayn Rand has to say. If not, give it a miss.

At the moment, I'm not sure what to read next. I still haven't read the last three hundred pages of Don Quixote, and I haven't even gotten halfway through Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. And then I've got We The Living sitting on my table. Suggest, dammit!

[Althane]

Eh, I've read some Ayn Rand, didn't find the phylosophy appealing, but the stories themselves wern't horribly bad. I'll give it a miss.

Iliad is excellent, pretty much all of the ancient Greek stuff is good to read. The DaVinci Code is bleck. Don't let the whole fuss fool you, it's really a second rate book, just with a controversial theme that somehow got a lot of panties in a bunch.

As for what I'm reading, I just finished Rainbow Six (Tom Clancy), and thinking about moving on to Without Remorse, or some more Discworld novels, probably The Color of Magic, if I can find it.

Then there's the Madeline Le'Engle and the Ursula K. LeGuin books that I'm reading, the Wizard of Earthsea series, plus A Wrinkle In Time.

I'm reading a ton. o.O

[Azisien]

Iliad for the win! It gets repetitive, but if you've got the skill to read epic poems, and trust me, it's a skill, the Iliad is great. Just get the Fagles translation. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140275363/sr=8-1/qid=1148265051/ref=sr_1_1/002-9625548-9140837?%5Fencoding=UTF8)

Robert Fagles is the translator of my copy.

[Muffin Mage]

Good. Go with that, then.