What book are you reading?

[Martok]

Conquerors' Heritage by Timothy Zahn; it's the 2nd book in his Conquerors trilogy.

Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche.

Is this by your own choice, or is it required reading?

[Strike For The South]

Discovering Sociology using the microcase exploit software, a facisinating read if I say so myself.

Down and out in Paris and London by George Orwell.

[Quirinus]

Barrelling through George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. Just finished A Game of Thrones last night, reading A Clash of Kings now. Haven't been turning the pages so intently since I finished Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 series.

[Kralizec]

Just reread Animal Farm by George Orwell, starting on The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks.

[Thermal]

non

other than crappy scottish poems at school made in 1745 by a person who lived to the age of 27

[Decker]

Reading this atm:


It's fairly interesting... My biggest gripe with most Sci-Fi and Fantasy books is names that I have too much trouble pronouncing. China keeps them exotic yet pronounceable I still have yet to make out what exactly the main character is (he has a tail lol) and his girlfriend is some bug thing ... other than that I am really enjoying the book, whough I wish I had a dictionary for what felt like every paragraph haha.

[Hooahguy]

"Holocaust on trial" by Deborah Lipstadt

[Decker]

Okay I finished Perdido Street Station which turned out to be VERY good in my expert opinion. China used a LOT of imagery in the story creating a very believable and fictional world with it's own races, places, languages, ect... (ala Tolkien). It pulled me in and had me continually wanting to read, though I should have gotten sleep instead haha (the first time that that is happened with me and any book). He went very deep into descriptions of the world, the people, and the history to the point where a few I times I wish he expanded more on them only to pull away and get back on the story. Overall I found the story to be very engrossing with an ending that seemed a little too abrupt. Only that thinking back on it, it fit the book perfectly.

I am now currently reading another book of his that takes place in the same world he created:

[Alexanderofmacedon]

"Hitler's Enforcers: Leaders of the German War Machine 1939-1945" by Jason Lucas

[Martok]

Have finally gotten my hands on Cornwell's Arthur trilogy. I just started on The Winter King, so it's too early to really get any impressions just yet.

[shlin28]

"Dreams from My Father" by Barack Obama

Interesting book with interesting insights into the African American mind (and indeed of Africans and their culture), and of course into the man himself. Tad too preachy though, in my opinion. It gets tiring after a while to hear him expound on how African Americans are not doing enough, or that the majority are trying to keep them down. (His reverend's views are also quite objectionable, but thats too political-ish to be discussed here I think)

I'm hope his other book on his policies will be better.

[Maion Maroneios]

Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Serway. Not really because I want it, but I have to pass my exams this upcoming January

Maion

[Legosoldier]

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

[Martok]

I'm close to wrapping up The Archer's Tale by Bernard Cornwell. Will be moving on to the next book (Vagabond) in the series shortly.

[penguinking]

Reading The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan. It is amazing.

[The Fuzz]

Rereading Thundering Zeus by Frank L. Holt because I love it. And also because I just read that stupid psuedo-history book by the dude that said China colonized the world and moon and Mars, and I needed a reminder of what history should be. 11-something or another. Utter shite.

[Kralizec]

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

Enjoy, it was a lot better than any movie adaption I've ever seen.

[TevashSzat]

Pride and Prejudice for school

I've been assigned it for 2 weeks and am still at the end of Chapter 1.....I have no idea how I'll manage to finish the book and write my essay

[Scurvy]

Have finally gotten my hands on Cornwell's Arthur trilogy. I just started on The Winter King, so it's too early to really get any impressions just yet.

Easily my favourite Cornwell series, well worth reading

currently reading 'An Inroduction to Political Philosophy' by J Wolff, but not for fun

[desert]

Any of you ever read that sci-fi novel Nightwatch?

[desert]

Mrmm

[Dutch_guy]

Enjoy, it was a lot better than any movie adaption I've ever seen.

And also a lot more depressing than any movie adaptation, in my opinion at least.

[Warluster]

Yes; the only thing I didn't like about the Frankenstein book was that it was too short.

I am currently reading a few books. Just finished Caeser by Colleen Mccullough; a cross between a novel and history text; not very good at that start but when the Civil War starts; very good. Defintly taught me a lot about Roman history.

The Jeff Shaara Civil War series. Even though I am Australian always liked American Civil War History; now am fascinated. Superb series, taught me about the ACW but also makes you want to read more as its also a novel. Anyone else know some good Civil War books? Want to read a bit more into the Western theatre (Sherman from '63 to '65)

The Jeff Shaara WWII series; though it defintly focuses completely on the Americans (Sometimes very annoying, but he is an American author...) same as the ACW books.

And finnally... the Twilight series. Someone I knew knew someone who had read the book so I borrowed it off someone I knew who knew someone who also had the book (A diffrent person) and read it. Was hooked by it and within three days had read the series. A very popular series it appears (Obviously by the lengths I had to go to to get it) and worth a look (Defintly thought the series went off track a bit in the third one, but it might've been nesscary)

[The Fuzz]

Pride and Prejudice for school

I've been assigned it for 2 weeks and am still at the end of Chapter 1.....I have no idea how I'll manage to finish the book and write my essay

I actually sorta enjoyed that, but it might have been because the girl I was dating at the time loved it...

Just approach it with an open mind and you'll see it's not that bad after all.

[Mooks]

Just got done reading Catch-22. Hilariously funny book. Made me realize I find bureaucracy inefficiency funny.

I am currently reading a few books. Just finished Caeser by Colleen Mccullough; a cross between a novel and history text; not very good at that start but when the Civil War starts; very good. Defintly taught me a lot about Roman history.

A very good book. Recommend it too all.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Catch-22 is indeed a hilarious book. I don't remember many that I was able to laugh out loud.

Now reading "Paths to Russia: From War to Peace"

It's about a German man Helmut Schmidt who is a key figure in Deutsche Bank and his dealings with the Soviet Union around the 1960's onwards. He was a Wehrmacht soldier and he recalls (only briefly) some of the parallels between his life as a quasi-brainwashed soldier and the life as a representative for natural gas pipelines from Russia to the west that have changed the world. Very interesting, and well written.

[Decker]

Just finished reading The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy 1943-1944 by Rick Atkinson. This is the second book in the Liberation Trilogy that he is writing about the American Army during the War in Europe. This was a very well written and fantastically told work on the fighting for both Sicily and Italy, though he never finishes with the war in Italy once D-Day happens which really bumbed me out because I've hardly heard of what happens in Italy after the liberation of Rome. And it seems that he will cover D-Day to VE-Day. But besides this little "missing-link" as I like to call it, I'd say it was a very enjoyable book covering the American Army's "preformance" during the war. It's a good overview that will allow you to do your own research if you wish to delve deeper into anything. But, if you're looking for more details about the UK and Commonwealth, then this isn't the book as it focuses more mainly on the American aspect.

Right now, I just started The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, The Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly. I'm not far into it but I'm finding this to be quite the fascinating read to be square.

[Subedei]

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman. I would like to have more time to read these days, but what can you do...anyways, very good read. I think i mentioned this one before?!?!?

[Wishazu]

I`m currently reading The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil. A very good book, but then again I`m a Transhumanist so I`m probably biased.

Between Christmas and now I have read two other books, The Temporal Void by Peter F. Hamilton, the second in the Void trilogy. This series so far is not his best but is still certainly worth checking out. The other book I just finished, The Cole Protocol by Tobias S. Buckell (I`m a massive Halo Geek) it was pretty good, not nearly as good as the Halo novels by Nylund but not the weakest in the entire series.

the Twilight series. Someone I knew knew someone who had read the book so I borrowed it off someone I knew who knew someone who also had the book (A diffrent person) and read it. Was hooked by it and within three days had read the series. A very popular series it appears (Obviously by the lengths I had to go to to get it) and worth a look (Defintly thought the series went off track a bit in the third one, but it might've been nesscary) Warluster

I too crammed these all in during the week before the movies release in the UK, My girlfriend has been going on and on about them for months, I finally dived in and was hooked. Funnily enough, my favourite book was actually the third Eclipse, it had the most action in it. My least favourite was Breaking Dawn it read a bit more like a soap opera with an anti climatic ending. I would still reccomend the entire series.

[shlin28]

"Ghost" by Robert Harris - Decent read, but went into sharp decline around the halfway point. The ending was extremely rushed. The worst book by Harris by far. Now I got to find "Imperium", the last Harris book I havn't read yet.

A bunch of Horus Heresy books - "Legion", "Battle for the Abyss" and "Mechanicum". L and M were absolutely brilliant, but Battle for the Abyss? Blarghhhhh... I hope the 3 Horus Heresy books out this year will be be of the same quality as Legion and Mechanicum.

"Of Mice and Men" by Steinbeck - Interesting storyline with good descriptions, but too short. This is also for school so that takes the fun out of it as well