What book(s) are you reading now?

Lost Soal · Post by **Lost Soal** » 2006-02-02 07:54am

Well we've had how many, so this seems a natural progression.
What book are you reading and do you know what your next book will be?
I'm currently reading The Babylon 5 Scripts of J. Michael Staczynski - Vol. 3 which I'm enjoying immensly. My next book depends on the date I finish, if Trudi Canavan's Priestess of the White is in Waterstones I'll be buying and reading that, if not it will be Dean Koontz's Frankenstein.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2006-02-02 07:59am

David Drake Lieutenant Leary Commanding.

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2006-02-02 08:48am

Just finished Ken Macleod's Newton's Wake...at the moment, I'm between books. Given how slow we are at work, I'll need to dig up something to read in case that keeps up, gonna try to find my copy of China Meville's Perdido Street Station.

Post by **Edi** » 2006-02-02 09:01am

The Ill-Made Mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton. Next on the list is Stephen Saylor's Roman Blood, then the second part of Dart-Thornton's trilogy.

Edi

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2006-02-02 09:03am

Adolf Galland - The Authorized Biography by David Baker
Parachute Infantry by David Kenyon Webster
Flying Guns of World War II by Anthony G. Williams and Dr. Emmanuel Gustin
Veitsen terällä (On a Knive's Edge) by Matti Koskimaa (about the Battle of Tali-Ihantala in the summer of 1944)

Plus a couple of text books.

Lost Soal · Post by **Lost Soal** » 2006-02-02 10:59am

I suppose if you could count books which I've started, switched to a different one and haven't come back to... then I'm also technically reading Christine and War without Garlands - Operation Barbarossa 1941-42 ~Robert Kershaw

darth korte · Post by **darth korte** » 2006-02-02 11:05am

Warhammer 4000:Dawn of war by G C Goto
then Narnia: All stories by C S Lewis

JediMaster415 · Post by **JediMaster415** » 2006-02-02 11:21am

I'm currently halfway through Med Ship by Murray Leinster.
I don't know what I'm going to read next. I might reread Dune or one of my SW or ST novels. I might just by some new books. I don't want to go back to Deathstalker or Wingman.

Haminal10 · Post by **Haminal10** » 2006-02-02 11:34am

"The Shadow Rising" from WoT. I am also working on "Traitor General" in the Gaunt's Ghost series.

Crazedwraith · Post by **Crazedwraith** » 2006-02-02 11:36am

The Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2006-02-02 11:44am

Rob Grant - Colony.

It's about a colony ship that earth sends out as it's dying. Our hero dies after the first few chapters and is reanimated a few hundred years down the line by the crew's decendents, who are idiots. Sounds a bit like Red Dwarf? Well it is the co-writter of that series.

Thinkmarble · Post by **Thinkmarble** » 2006-02-02 12:03pm

A first course in string theory by Barton Zwiebach
I have read today Going Postal by Pratchett and Singularity by Stross.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2006-02-02 12:09pm

The Extended Phenotype, Richard Dawkins.

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2006-02-02 12:10pm

I have been asking for permission from the mod's since last week to start a weekly thread almost identical to this one

.
Armagedon by Luon Uris.

Ah well (At least Now I can do my weekly version of this thread with a clean spam free conscience):
Currently:
The stone of heaven- the secret history of imperial jade.
Armagedon- "Leon uris"
Re-reading: Crime and Punishment for the 2-3 time- "Dostoyevsky"
Barbarossa- the Russian german conflict- "Alan Clark"

Started them all over the past week,, this does not include books that I've finished (Or started and finished) since the last "On your shelf" thread.
Once I finish with these I'm going to read:
"the Pipwick papers"- C.Dickens.
"Hard times"- Charles Dickens
"Baudolino"- Umberto eco.
"the Needlewatcher"- Richard blaker (The real story that was the source for J.Clavell's Shogun)

Grand Admiral Mango · Post by **Grand Admiral Mango** » 2006-02-02 12:41pm

Currently reading:

The Scramble for Africa - Thomas Pakenham
The Origins of WW2 - AJP Taylor

Just finished:

Neither here nor there - Bill Bryson (for about the 17th time

)

Will read next:

British Government & Constitution - Hilarie Barnett

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2006-02-02 12:46pm

I finished The Historian today. It was very mediocre and anyone who compares it to Dracula in a positive way is a blasphemer. Dracula made sense, because it was written through diaries and journals that the characters wrote on the day it happened. The Historian did not make sense because it was written through improbably huge letters, and most of them were supposedly written by the father during the course of just a few days. That's quite some memory and writing ability there, writing down more than two hundred pages from memory in such a short time.

It also had the hugest anti-climax of all time. "Dracula is the baddest of all vampires, let's kill him with a silver bullet (urgh) in less than half a page worth of text." And the epilogue is a completely random vision of Vlad Dracula at the Snagov monastery (oh really? You smelled an old book and then started hallucinating in the middle of the street

).

That's my little rant. I won't be reading that book again. The book I'll be reading next is Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design, written by those two. I have to read it because Ernest Adams is coming to the university in two weeks! And it's 600 pages long, too

Equinox2003 · Post by **Equinox2003** » 2006-02-02 12:58pm

I'm always reading something. Currently I'm reading football related material as it is Super Bowl week, and football is on my mind.

"You are OK, its just a Bruise" by Rob Huzienga M.D. (Team Dr to the Los Angeles Raiders for a few years) and "The Dark Side if the Game" by Tim Green, an insiders explanation of daily life in the NFL.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2006-02-02 01:02pm

White Haven wrote:Just finished Ken Macleod's Newton's Wake

I just finished that one also. Fairly good read, but every so often something about his style was jarring.

I'm reading through the various Enterprise novels also. Shockwave was horrible, but I think more because of the episode than the author. All the others I've read have been fairly decent so far.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2006-02-02 01:09pm

Now: Rise of Endymion
Next: Watchmen

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2006-02-02 01:27pm

Warhammer 40,000: The Traitor's Hand by Sandy Mitchell.

Next is probably Ravenor.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2006-02-02 01:30pm

Leisure: The first Gaunt's Ghost Omnibus (Currently on Necropolis) which will be followe by the second.
University: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Random: Beyond Life and Death by His Devine Grace A.C. Bhaktivendanta Swami Prabhupada (which i got off some random Hindu (i think) monk guy)

Post by **Kuja** » 2006-02-02 01:52pm

Right now, Emerald Sea by John Ringo, to be followed by Dark Adeptus by Ben Counter

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2006-02-02 03:18pm

I made the fundamental mistake of starting to read 'Tintenherz' by Cornelia Funke.
Don't get me wrong, it appears to be an enormously fun book. Problem being it's not my copy. And the person that has it it reading it, too, which means I either have to wait or buy my own. As that book is currently not available in paperback (except, curiously enough, in the english translation?

) that's a no-go ATM.
Also started on 'Die Ketzerin' by Peter Berling.

Post by **Surlethe** » 2006-02-02 04:21pm

Complex Analysis and Applications, second edition, by William R. Derrick.

I also want to read the sequel to A Game of Thrones, but it hasn't found its way into my hands yet, so ... .

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2006-02-02 04:33pm

Cryptonomicon