what are you reading?

Mr Neutron · October 24, 2011, 01:26:04 PM

in the past 4 or 5 days Ive read The girl with the dragon tattoo (which was minorly interesting, and silly), and the girl who played with fire (which wasnt very interesting, and very silly) I suppose i'll read the final book in the series next. I expect it will be horrible, and tremendously silly.

Might grab the newest Neal Stephenson as well.

lowdaddy · October 24, 2011, 03:34:03 PM

just finished:

barabbas - par lagerkvist
tremendous read. serious fucking writing.

next up:

the gulag archipelago (volume 1) - alexander solzhenitsyn

peoplething · November 18, 2011, 05:36:16 PM

Just finished 'two towers', whew, that was an exercise in tedium.... until the last 25 pages.

why couldn't Tolkien right the rest of the trilogy at least with a hint of the writing he displayed in the battle with shelob? for all intensive purposes, that writing, the way he depicted the battle/emotion/intensity would stand up to today's fantasy stuff. it's brilliant.

but it was 25 pages out of, what 300 or so? oooph

onward to 'return of the king'

lowdaddy · November 19, 2011, 02:38:27 AM

"intents and purposes"

just trying to help out.

bbottom · November 19, 2011, 08:24:32 PM

Quote from: gritty_fingers on September 24, 2011, 11:46:45 PM
Manhunt - The 12 day chase for Abraham Lincoln's killer by James Swanson

Just finished reading that this morning. I give it a strong recommendation.

I just finished reading Manhunt as well. Great book

I,Galactus · November 22, 2011, 09:48:06 AM

Working on book three of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. 11 to go. $:-\$

mortlock · November 24, 2011, 01:54:51 AM

ive been getting into a bunch of 'wire' magazine back issues that i picked up at a record show..

lowdaddy · November 30, 2011, 12:06:21 AM

europe central - william vollmann

Buena54 · December 05, 2011, 07:26:50 AM

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If you want to understand by pointing out Battle of Great britain or even the United Kingdom's Bomber Command or Winston Churchill's pivotal role in the war, Hastings' studies are the ones to go for. If you want a detailed accounts from the Normandy Invasion, there's his definitive "Overlord." How do the actual Partners finally conquer Germany as well as Japan? "Armageddon: The Fight for Indonesia, 1944-1945" and "Retribution: The actual Fight with regard to Japan, 1944-45" may every give you a comprehensive accounts of how these monumental feats were accomplished.

I,Galactus · December 05, 2011, 03:07:15 PM

Quote from: I,Galactus on November 22, 2011, 09:48:06 AM
Working on book three of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. 11 to go. $:-\$

Finished book 8 last night. Why must someone always be kidnapped?

black aspirin · December 27, 2011, 07:08:42 PM

Finished this a while back:

Now about 3/4ths done with this, which I've been planning on reading for years:

I'm back into books for 2012 after a fairly long hiatus.

RAGER · December 29, 2011, 04:16:49 PM

Just got done with The Book Of Skulls by Robert Silverberg. Enjoyed it very much.

chlorpromazine · December 30, 2011, 08:01:37 PM

I'm on a run of Cormack McCarthy as of late. I just finished Blood Meridian preceded by All The Pretty Horses. I started Suttree last night at work. I should have started reading this guy's books a long time ago.

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RAGER · December 31, 2011, 08:07:14 PM

Just started "The Chronology of Water" by Lidia Yuknavitch. Highly recommended by Chuck Palahniuk

diasdegalvan · January 04, 2012, 05:50:24 PM

A few chapters into The Gendarme by Mark T. Mustian. Liking it so far.

Metal and Beer · January 21, 2012, 09:26:35 PM

"In The Heart of The Sea", it's about a Nantucket whaleship that was battered and sunk by a sperm whale off the coast of Chile in 1820. Twenty crewmen drifted in three small whaleboats for almost three months before being rescued, most of them died and were eaten by the remaining few...

gatorsnot · January 24, 2012, 02:23:49 PM

Quote from: Metal and Beer on January 21, 2012, 09:26:35 PM
"In The Heart of The Sea", it's about a Nantucket whaleship that was battered and sunk by a sperm whale off the coast of Chile in 1820. Twenty crewmen drifted in three small whaleboats for almost three months before being rescued, most of them died and were eaten by the remaining few...

Funny, just finished this book last week. Epic Doom. Also a very cool period piece.

black aspirin · January 25, 2012, 10:32:21 PM

I've actually read it before, but wanted to re-visit it. Pretty brilliant. Almost done.

The Shocker · January 26, 2012, 11:50:53 AM

Quote from: Metal and Beer on January 21, 2012, 09:26:35 PM
"In The Heart of The Sea", it's about a Nantucket whaleship that was battered and sunk by a sperm whale off the coast of Chile in 1820. Twenty crewmen drifted in three small whaleboats for almost three months before being rescued, most of them died and were eaten by the remaining few...

Shifter and I are big fans of this book.

I'm reading Gone To Texas & The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales.

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RAGER · January 26, 2012, 04:11:15 PM

Quote from: Metal and Beer on January 21, 2012, 09:26:35 PM
"In The Heart of The Sea", it's about a Nantucket whaleship that was battered and sunk by a sperm whale off the coast of Chile in 1820. Twenty crewmen drifted in three small whaleboats for almost three months before being rescued, most of them died and were eaten by the remaining few...

Need to pick this up. right now I'm reading "The girl with the dragon tattoo" Kinda reads like a Harlen Coben thing. meh.

Dunedin · January 28, 2012, 04:37:09 AM

Nearly finished The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson ( the guy that did that Men who Stare at Goats thing) it's great, he interviews psychopaths, psychiatrists and CEO's of multinationals who reputedly score high on the psychopath test. Very interesting insight into approx 1 per cent of the population who's thought processes work in a completely alien way to the rest of us.

GodShifter · January 28, 2012, 11:09:10 AM

^^That sounds interesting^^

Dunedin · January 29, 2012, 06:16:39 AM

Finished it last night, I'd recommend picking it up. It's thrown up a couple of other titles; "Without Conscience" and "Snakes in Suits" both by Dr. Robert Hare that go into the phenomenon in greater detail but still in lay mans terms. Hare is the man who developed the test in the title of ronsons book.

Volume · February 01, 2012, 04:53:34 AM

Quote from: I,Galactus on December 05, 2011, 03:07:15 PM
Quote from: I,Galactus on November 22, 2011, 09:48:06 AM
Working on book three of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. 11 to go. $:-\$

Killed book three on Friday. Shit jus' got real.

I read maybe half of the novels in the late 90's early 00's (one few things I've read in Swedish and every novel is split in two so there are over twenty, heh). I actually just read the Mistborn trilogy as well as the latest book by Brandon Sanderson, the guy who helped finish Wheel of Time after Robert Jordan died. Decent fantasy, some fresh ideas. Now I'm reading Stonewielder by Ian Esslemont, it's a spinoff of Steven Erikson's Malazan series, 10 books of epic, gritty world building at 800-1100 pages each.

I,Galactus · February 01, 2012, 08:10:02 AM

I'm in book 5 now. Thus far I've only had to say "who the fuck is this again?" twice now. That cast of characters / list of terms compendium at the back comes in handy.

Tolkien aside, I'm not very well versed in fantasy books at all. I'm getting a little burned out and may have to take a break at some point, but I'm afraid that if I do I'll lose interest completely.