The "what are you reading" thread:

[Zoid]

Feist is pretty good. I read the Riftwar saga and a few others with great enjoyment. Also the Empire trilogy (with Janny Wurts).

[Zoid]

Just finished "Night's Dawn Saga" by Peter F. Hamilton again! My favorite sci-fi author right now

It's funny, I'm reading "The Reality Dysfunction" now inspired by earlier conversation in this thread.

[b etor]

wally lamb - i know this much is true.
my bestest friend said it was her favorite book. i'm half way through it and it's pretty good but i don't think it's amazing.
and for school i read pride and prejudice. loved it.

[Alinestra Covelia]

I recently read the congressional commission's report on the 9/11 attacks. The first few chapters are extremely gripping and they're written in a very accessible way, recounting the reconstructed movements of the hijackers and the responses of NORAD and the aviation industry.

The rest of the book is pretty technical and the narrative voice isn't so interesting but it's worth picking up the book for the first chapters alone.

[Lord Avalon]

The Darkness, A Vampire Huntress Legend #10, by LA Banks

[Traianvs]

Starting Quintilianus' Institutio Oratoria. It'll surely take me a while, heh.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Thanks to the (excellent) suggestions from several Polytubbies, I bought a copy of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and finally got round to reading it. I finished it in 24 hours - it's one of those books you can't put down.

Very similar in setting to the Fallout games, and a little redolent of A Boy and His Dog and maybe a less-humorous version of Six String Samurai, with all the heartless cruelty from Schindler's List.

A very good book. I did cry - a little bit - at the end.

[SpencerH]

My Early Life: 1874-1904 by Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

History from a unique perspective written with brilliant churchillian wit.

[Traianvs]

oops dead thread

[Dis]

Thanks to the (excellent) suggestions from several Polytubbies, I bought a copy of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and finally got round to reading it. I finished it in 24 hours - it's one of those books you can't put down.

Very similar in setting to the Fallout games, and a little redolent of A Boy and His Dog and maybe a less-humorous version of Six String Samurai, with all the heartless cruelty from Schindler's List.

A very good book. I did cry - a little bit - at the end.

I was thinking about getting this, but some negative comments on the imdb boards (they are making this a movie) put me off on it. I heard he doesn't use commas and quotation marks (when a character speaks). I don't have patience for artsy punctuation. Damn "artists" think they can do anything.

So my question is- is the book fairly readable? Or do you have to force your way through it?

[SpencerH]

oops dead thread

Actually its not, despite that it's over 500 and we have a new thread. I'd close it, since the mods dont seem to know how, but that would reveal my god-like powers.

[Alinestra Covelia]

I was thinking about getting this, but some negative comments on the imdb boards (they are making this a movie) put me off on it. I heard he doesn't use commas and quotation marks (when a character speaks). I don't have patience for artsy punctuation. Damn "artists" think they can do anything.

So my question is- is the book fairly readable? Or do you have to force your way through it?

He is spare with the punctuation, that's true. I didn't find it to be a significant barrier to my reading (I also read No Country For Old Men which is very similar in this sense and loved it). Lynn Truss might whip herself into a self righteous knicker wetting frenzy over it but you should be fine.

[Lorizael]

Actually its not, despite that it's over 500 and we have a new thread. I'd close it, since the mods dont seem to know how, but that would reveal my god-like powers.

Nope. I just don't work weekends.