What book are you reading?

**woad&fangs** · 06-11-2010, 04:43

I just finished The Travels of Marco Polo. I'm not sure what to read next but I'm leaning towards Bram Stoker's Dracula.

**Marshal Murat** · 06-11-2010, 04:46

Reading "Assegai" by Wilbur Smith. Some escapist British empire literature isn't too bad these days. Also working on the biography of Mandela, which is one thick book as you might imagine.

**Ser Clegane** · 06-11-2010, 10:01

The Fall of the West - the Death of the Roman Superpower by Adrian Goldsworthy, Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving is next.

**Martok** · 06-12-2010, 18:17

I'm halfway through By Schism Rent Asunder, the second book in David Weber's Safehold series. I'm definitely enjoying it, almost more so than even his Honor Harrington novels; I haven't plowed through the pages of a book at this frenetic a pace in a while!

**Mouzafphaerre** · 06-15-2010, 02:16

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Lessee...

Herwig Wolfram's History of the Goths is awaiting completion. Miranda Carter's triple biography of George, Nikolai [sic.] and Wilhelm is a leisurely reading. For professional or academic purposes I'm reading On Tyranny: An Interpretation of Xenphon's Hiero by Leo Strauss and re-reading (since I'm working on translating it) W. Sidney Allen's Vox Graeca: The Pronunciation of Classical Greek. Bed times are, as has become habitual for a few years now, accompanied by Tolkien, presently The Return of the Shadow, which is the first volume of the textual history of The Lord of the Rings, as the familiar ones would recognize.

It's great to be able to read again!

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**woad&fangs** · 06-19-2010, 06:58

Finished Bram Stoker's Dracula. Turns out it was 50% vampires and 50% commentary on Victorian gender roles. It was still a good book though.

**Ferret** · 06-24-2010, 13:05

Originally Posted by woad&fangs

Finished Bram Stoker's Dracula. Turns out it was 50% vampires and 50% commentary on Victorian gender roles. It was still a good book though.

Best book I have ever read, only half way through at the moment though.

**Beskar** · 06-19-2010, 08:24

Originally Posted by Marshal Murat

Reading "Assegai" by Wilbur Smith. Some escapist British empire literature isn't too bad these days. Also working on the biography of Mandela, which is one thick book as you might imagine.

I read it, unfortunately, I read so many of Wilbur's books, I knew the ending near the beginning.

Not as bad as Scott Mariani though. I read the back of the cover of his last Ben Hope and I actually could tell you who the main characters were in it and the entire plot and sub-plots (Even the Romance and lost re-union). What made it even worse, I read it and I was correct. Now he went and wrote some Vampire Federation nonsense which I have zero interest in.