The "what are you reading" thread:

[SpencerH]

Finishing Gods Englishman about Cromwell. It was a little "dry". I have another book, Cromwell by Antonia Fraser, that I'm hoping will be more about the man.

Starting The Jedburghs who were a special forces unit in WW2 that I've never read or heard of before. Wild!

Also re-reading The Briar King.

[embalmer42]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia

If that alone doesn't interest you, I should probably mention it's a lesbian love affair between teenage schoolgirls.

You have to love a good bout of young lesbian porn

[Alinestra Covelia]

Well it happens between females and it's written from a girl's perspective so I think that makes it "erotica" and not "porn".

[Zkribbler]

Paul Revere's Ride -- an excellent history book regarding the events leading up to the Battles of Lexington and Concorde.

[Traianvs]

Chomsky's 'Failed States. The abuse of power and the assault on democracy'

[snoopy369]

Chomsky :shudder:

[Krill]

2010: Space Odyssey 2, just read Rama, tried reading the foundation series, but it's just a bit too boring for me to find interesting.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Krill
... tried reading the foundation series, but it's just a bit too boring for me to find interesting.

QFT

[Alinestra Covelia]

I read the Foundation series, and liked them well enough. Asimov's characterizations run a little thin at times, but I like his plots. He seems to have a talent for making each book arc nicely internally, and he also has a talent for blurring over continuity clashes between books.

I read some Heinlein when I was in high school and I think his strengths are the other way round. His characters are very vibrant and his dialogs are a lot of fun to read. His plots tend to be much simpler than Asimov's.

I read some Philip K. Dick and found him just plain weird.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Foundation

People who dislike Foundation

[Supr49er]

'Salem's Lot Stephen King

I saw it referenced (aling with Fr. Callahan) in The Dark Tower.

[Alinestra Covelia]

I tried to make it through "It" by Stephen King. I failed.

I am amazed that people like his writing. He's pretty bad.

[Zoid]

Indeed. I tried to re-read The Dark Tower a few weeks ago, but I couldn't make it through the first book. It's pretentious drivel of the highest caliber....

I'm currently at the end of Alastair Reynolds latest novel House of Suns and I've also read "Atomic Energy - The Laymans Guide to Nuclear Power" from 1958. It was quite amazing, there was no end to the uses of nuclear power back then

Next up is Judas Unchained by Peter F Hamilton.

[Nostromo]

Stieg Larsson - The Aircastle that Blew Up

[Traianvs]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Chomsky :shudder:

It's a pleasant book to read, albeit a bit cluttered. The arrangement of the chapters is not so well-organized, and his sentences sometimes have too much subordinate clauses.