What book are you reading?

[Martok]

I began re-reading the Honor Harrington series a couple months ago -- including several books in the larger "Honorverse" that I *hadn't* read til now -- and am finally getting towards the end now.

Am currently reading one of the "new" novels: Shadow of Saganami, which is (surprise!) the first book in the spin-off "Saganami Island" series. Only two more books left after this one: At All Costs (which is the most recent book in the main series) and Storm of Shadows, which is the second book in the Saganami series (just released earlier this year).

I'm not sure what I think about Shadow of Saganami yet, but it's been good enough that I haven't had to "force" myself to read it, so I suppose it can't be too bad.

I really enjoyed Snow Crash, but despite that never got round to reading anything else by him, I might look it up.

I'd certainly recommend it. It's a *very* dense, read, however -- one that you pretty much have to read slowly, just so your brain has time to wrap itself around the concepts the book discusses.

As a "primer", you might want to read Stephenson's Cryptanomicon (sp?) first. In terms of complexity, I found it to be a nice intermediate step between Snow Crash and Anathem, myself.