What're you reading these days? - Page 5

ZERO. · 10-23-2006, 09:18 PM

Right now I just finished a book called The Giver.

Im going to read the rest of the book series.

Toast · 10-23-2006, 09:19 PM

Just started the Book of Morgaine by C. J. Cherryh. I'm only a hundred pages into the first book, but it's really good so far.

Kei-Kun · 10-24-2006, 04:22 PM

I finished rereading the Wheel of Time series a few weeks ago (sans Knife of Dreams) and I decided yesterday to burn through the Dune series again (my first rereading of said series). Book one is finished after roughly 28 hours (not of reading, probably only 10 hours of reading) and after I finish the series, a rereading of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow is on the agenda. I've read Ender's Game so many times, I think I've got it memorized >.>

notasfatasmike · 10-25-2006, 05:55 PM

Some nice choices there. the Dune series is my favorite sci-fi series (so long as we pretend the new prequels don't exist...I own most of them, sadly). I've only read Ender's Game and Speaker of the Dead from that series, but I loved both of them.

Gascmark de Leone · 10-25-2006, 11:13 PM

I've been rereading some Micheal Chrichton. This is not for the weak, mind you. His first book, The Andromeda Strain, is almost competely devoid of all action whatsoever until the end, where the lab almost gets destroyed in an atomic detonation, and a guy has to crawl up a tube to get to the reactor to stop it, while being shot by lethal darts. It's interesting, but you've just got to like that sort of thing.

Gascmark de Leone · 10-25-2006, 11:17 PM

Oh, and I have read Ender's Game. It's a pretty damn good book. The sequels really could have used a little less philosophy, though. Only, scratch out a little and make it a lot.

Magus · 10-26-2006, 10:10 PM

I'm reading The Bastard by John Jakes. It's good but it's such a tremendously corny American history fiction novel.

"ZOMG TEH RICH PEOPLE HAVE BEATEN ME OUT OF MY INHERITANCE, I, THE POOR BASTARD OF THE NOBLEMAN. THE POOR ARE DOWNTRODDEN, ABUSED, AND DESTROYED BY THE RICH! WHAT ANSWER COULD THERE POSSIBLY BE--AH, HELLO BEN FRANKLIN! REALLY?! AMERICA?! I'M THERE!"

It's good, but yeah. Little corny but hey, this is John Jakes, who is apparently an American legend, I can give him a chance! Adventure romance is always good anyway, it might as well be all about America's origins, a very romantic time. I'll finish this one and then get into The Rebels (all about The Revolutionary War).

Gascmark de Leone · 10-27-2006, 07:23 PM

The Giver.... I read that in 6th grade. That was a strange little book. There was a series? Tell me more.

Kitana Paladine · 10-27-2006, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by EVILNess

I finally broke down and read the other Herbert Dune books. I am thinking of reading the Machine crusade and the Bertliam (sp?) Jihad, but I may save those for laters.

Oooh, be careful with Butlerian Jihad, Machine Crusade and Battle of Corrin... I haven't finished Machine Crusade(book two of that trilogy) but they made me wanna kill Brian Herbert...The way he finished Butlerian Jihad made me scream, because at that point I had no idea it was a trilogy and didn't have the other books...

Part of me wants to finish Machine Crusade just so I can start Battle of Corrin to find out exactly what a Harkonnen did to get an Atreidies to have him banished for treason.

Back on topic... I'm currently re-reading the Black Jewel trilogy by Anne Bishop. Gods above and below, I need to stop reading those books...

Fifthfiend · 10-27-2006, 09:27 PM

Gascmark - please stop double posting. If you have something to add after you've posted, just edit it in to your last post.

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Just like this!

10-23-2006, 09:18 PM	#41
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10-23-2006, 09:19 PM	#42
Toast Existential Toast Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Georgia Posts: 440	Just started the Book of Morgaine by C. J. Cherryh. I'm only a hundred pages into the first book, but it's really good so far. __________________ “How dare you! How dare you stand there acting like your brand of suffering is worse than anybody else’s. Well, I guess that’s the only way you can justify treating the rest of us like dirt.” ~ Major Margaret Houlihan (Mash) “If we’re going to be damned, let’s be damned for what we really are.” ~ Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

10-24-2006, 04:22 PM	#43
Kei-Kun Insanity is Relative Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: My Mind Posts: 40	I finished rereading the Wheel of Time series a few weeks ago (sans Knife of Dreams) and I decided yesterday to burn through the Dune series again (my first rereading of said series). Book one is finished after roughly 28 hours (not of reading, probably only 10 hours of reading) and after I finish the series, a rereading of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow is on the agenda. I've read Ender's Game so many times, I think I've got it memorized >.> __________________ "Insanity is the only sanity." "IMHO, there is to LITTLE war. I want to see some damn chaos in this game, and by golly I will have it!" ~Me~ .:\|RaiRO Character\|:. Wizzardeh: Moridin (73/42) ~Moridin do be the Desciple of Loki, killing for the Land Pirates! Arrr...~

10-25-2006, 05:55 PM	#44
notasfatasmike Oh, jeez, this guy again? Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Originally from Minnesota, currently residing in Austria Posts: 248	Some nice choices there. the Dune series is my favorite sci-fi series (so long as we pretend the new prequels don't exist...I own most of them, sadly). I've only read Ender's Game and Speaker of the Dead from that series, but I loved both of them. __________________ ...it sure seems as if style has increased in importance lately. I�ve seen a lot of skinny, black-haired and angst-ridden kids. I guess what I want to see is more fat misanthropists on stage, preferably without hair dye. -Kristofer Steen, former guitarist for Refused Game Freaks - The best source for video game reviews, news, and miscellany...written by two guys named Matt. The Sleeper Hit - my one man band.

10-25-2006, 11:13 PM	#45
Gascmark de Leone Intercourse the Penguins! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: The Land of Wuz Posts: 326	I've been rereading some Micheal Chrichton. This is not for the weak, mind you. His first book, The Andromeda Strain, is almost competely devoid of all action whatsoever until the end, where the lab almost gets destroyed in an atomic detonation, and a guy has to crawl up a tube to get to the reactor to stop it, while being shot by lethal darts. It's interesting, but you've just got to like that sort of thing. __________________ At the end of the day there's another day dawning And the sun in the morning is waiting to rise Like the waves crash on the sand Like a storm that'll break any second There's a hunger in the land There's a reckoning still to be reckoned and There's gonna be hell to pay At the end of the day! Les Miserables

10-25-2006, 11:17 PM	#46
Gascmark de Leone Intercourse the Penguins! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: The Land of Wuz Posts: 326	Oh, and I have read Ender's Game. It's a pretty damn good book. The sequels really could have used a little less philosophy, though. Only, scratch out a little and make it a lot. __________________ At the end of the day there's another day dawning And the sun in the morning is waiting to rise Like the waves crash on the sand Like a storm that'll break any second There's a hunger in the land There's a reckoning still to be reckoned and There's gonna be hell to pay At the end of the day! Les Miserables

10-26-2006, 10:10 PM	#47
Magus Archer and Armstrong vs. the World Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 7,164	I'm reading The Bastard by John Jakes. It's good but it's such a tremendously corny American history fiction novel. "ZOMG TEH RICH PEOPLE HAVE BEATEN ME OUT OF MY INHERITANCE, I, THE POOR BASTARD OF THE NOBLEMAN. THE POOR ARE DOWNTRODDEN, ABUSED, AND DESTROYED BY THE RICH! WHAT ANSWER COULD THERE POSSIBLY BE--AH, HELLO BEN FRANKLIN! REALLY?! AMERICA?! I'M THERE!" It's good, but yeah. Little corny but hey, this is John Jakes, who is apparently an American legend, I can give him a chance! Adventure romance is always good anyway, it might as well be all about America's origins, a very romantic time. I'll finish this one and then get into The Rebels (all about The Revolutionary War).

10-27-2006, 07:23 PM	#48
Gascmark de Leone Intercourse the Penguins! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: The Land of Wuz Posts: 326	The Giver.... I read that in 6th grade. That was a strange little book. There was a series? Tell me more. __________________ At the end of the day there's another day dawning And the sun in the morning is waiting to rise Like the waves crash on the sand Like a storm that'll break any second There's a hunger in the land There's a reckoning still to be reckoned and There's gonna be hell to pay At the end of the day! Les Miserables

10-27-2006, 09:27 PM	#50
Fifthfiend for all seasons Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 19,409	Gascmark - please stop double posting. If you have something to add after you've posted, just edit it in to your last post. EDIT: Just like this! __________________ check out my buttspresso