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Post by zipp on May 1, 2008 1:30:12 GMT -5
So what's everyone reading these days?
For school I'm reading Paradise Lost (for the second time), Aphra Behn's poetry and her play The Rover, and pretty much all of Dryden's poetry and his play All For Love.
For myself I'm reading Bus Conductor Hines and the Illuminatus! Trilogy, both of which I'm really enjoying.
I'm also trying to get a hold of Snow Crash so I can reread it. I keep giving my copies of it away!
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Post by Beowuuf on May 1, 2008 2:25:39 GMT -5
Sadly I just never get around to reading much anymore, even though I have a backed up shelf of stuff. I'm either trying to get other thigns done like creative writing, or more likely getting interrupted by other thigns so I can't even get the writing done! I currently have Legends 8: The Birthplace in my bag that I am re-reading, otherwise I have a few fiction and non-fiction choices after I finish book 10. Probably a book on human mutation or a book on ethics as non-fiction, or free culture (rights and copyright etc in the modern age) and for fiction I have a few fantasy ones that I can't for the life of me remember, it's been too long ago since I got them now!  OH, and somehting naval I seem to recall.... (guess who is at work trying to compile this list) |
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Post by eviltb on May 1, 2008 3:11:30 GMT -5
Still havnt got down on The Children of Hurin, I know Zipp mentioned it on the old forum. GTA4 now takes up my free evening time *twitch*
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Post by Ghost Bear on May 1, 2008 4:03:34 GMT -5
I just finished Bad Luck And Trouble by Lee Child. I also have the two Starfleet Corps of Engineers short stories books out from the library, but I've only read one of the stories and am having trouble getting into the series.
So I'm rereading some of my Discworld books instead.
-GB
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Post by Agrarvyn on May 1, 2008 4:51:19 GMT -5
I am geeky enough to actively enjoy reading GURPS manuals, for all the physics, sociology, future tech and suchlike that they put in them, so I dip into my collection every so often.
The last book that I finished for the first time was Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, the precursor to The da Vinci Code.
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Post by Simey on May 1, 2008 8:18:28 GMT -5
The last book I finished reading - a fair few weeks back now - was The Vampire Genevieve by Jack Yeovil. His are reputed to be some of the best Warhammer novels, the majority of which are apparently none too wonderful. I'd only read one before and it had its strengths, but it was indeed none too wonderful all told. This one was good, and an inventive way to use a pulp fantasy novel - it gets the mixed-group-of-adventurers-on-a-quest-to-rid-the-world-of-a-great-evil thing over and done with right at the start and then goes off and does something completely different. Pretty nice.
WF's mentions of him - and my increased realisation that horror can be a meaningful genre beyond merely making you jump and pouring in the gore - have got me to get hold of a book of H.P. Lovecraft short stories, Dagon. I've only read one story so far and it was kind of odd - the second one I'm getting into a lot more, but I've not finished it yet.
Catch 22 is sitting on the corner of my bed waiting for me to stay off the internet long enough to read it! I think I'll have to take it to work....
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Post by zipp on May 1, 2008 9:47:04 GMT -5
I am geeky enough to actively enjoy reading GURPS manuals, for all the physics, sociology, future tech and suchlike that they put in them, so I dip into my collection every so often. The last book that I finished for the first time was Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, the precursor to The da Vinci Code. GURPS I can respect, especially as I occasionally pull out the Vampire RPG and read some of the sections of that. But Dan Brown fills me with disgust. And it's NOT some religious thing... I simply think he's a terrible writer. |
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Post by Al on May 1, 2008 9:55:45 GMT -5
I just read The Idea of the Modern State edited by Gregor McLennan et al, as well as The State: Its Nature, Development and Prospects by Gianfranco Poggi. I do not get a chance to do much pleasure reading... |
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Post by Maerin on May 1, 2008 11:12:56 GMT -5
In the middle of re-reading the Honor Harrington series by David Weber.
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Post by Black Cat on May 1, 2008 12:02:05 GMT -5
Started reading War and Peace a few days ago.
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Post by Izziel Darkblade on May 1, 2008 18:14:12 GMT -5
Simey: just keep on reading, my friend (I assume the collection you're mentioning is "The Call of Cthulhu and other weird stories"). "Whisperer in Darkness" is my fav from that lot (if you want, you can read it right away since there's no continuity between 99% of the stories). 
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Post by zipp on May 1, 2008 18:23:56 GMT -5
On further reading I've decided that The Illuminatus! Trilogy is one of the best things ever written. Everyone needs to read this book. It's funny, it's twisted, it's meaningful, it's sarcastic, it pokes fun at both the reader and itself while somehow managing to be believable and shocking... I love it.
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Post by Agrarvyn on May 2, 2008 3:49:48 GMT -5
Well Zipp, I'll read nearly anything if I get bored enough and have enough time |
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Post by Beowuuf on May 2, 2008 4:39:21 GMT -5
I would also recommend, if I haven't before, the two triologies I have read of K.J. Parker - the scavenger and fencer trilogies
Refreshingly different, and indeed cynical, for the fantasy genre
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Post by Samildanach on May 2, 2008 11:31:34 GMT -5
On further reading I've decided that The Illuminatus! Trilogy is one of the best things ever written. Everyone needs to read this book. It's funny, it's twisted, it's meaningful, it's sarcastic, it pokes fun at both the reader and itself while somehow managing to be believable and shocking... I love it. I started reading that a couple of years ago, but dropped it because it made me tired. I originally bought it because the bloke at the book stall said he didn't believe anyone could finish it. |
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OH, and somehting naval I seem to recall.... (guess who is at work trying to compile this list)
