What are you reading?

[LexusInfernus 908]

I recently finished the first three books in the Shadow Campaign series (The Thousand Names, The Shadow Throne and The Price of Valor). Military fantasy books set in a Napoleonic war setting, that isn't something I've seen done before. 

[Golhbul 134]

I recently finished my favourite book:

Journey to the end of the night by L.F Céline

[Bdub01 201]

Just started the new Dan Brown book Origin.

[airman15 4,112]

I just finished A Night to Remember recently. It's even better when cross-referenced with Dr. Ballard's findings!

Next up, I plan to start reading Flying to Pieces. 

[Odainsaker 2,135]

After the Titanic wreck was found, Walter Lord wrote a follow-up to A Night to Remember titled The Night Lives On, which spends more time on the immediate aftermath and investigations about the sinking while also challenging many of the popular myths that have been attached to the disaster in light of the discovery.

Even the cover art of the 1986 hardcover dust jacket was startling:

[madhatter106 3,905]

On ‎10‎/‎11‎/‎2017 at 3:52 PM, Odainsaker said:

After the Titanic wreck was found, Walter Lord wrote a follow-up to A Night to Remember titled The Night Lives On, which spends more time on the immediate aftermath and investigations about the sinking while also challenging many of the popular myths that have been attached to the disaster in light of the discovery.

Even the cover art of the 1986 hardcover dust jacket was startling:

Both books are great - I reread the first one about the same time the movie came out twenty years back, and it still held up.  I love the analysis Lord does in the second book, where he mathematically calculates how large the damage to the ship would have been.

[madhatter106 3,905]

A while back, I was rewatching a favorite movie of mine (Swoon, about the Leopold and Loeb thrill-kill case), and was reminded of a quotation they recite from Venus In Furs.  So I spent some Amazon points and ordered a copy of it.

For something written in the late 19th century, it's rather frank and straightforward.  I guess one could say it was the original Fifty Shades of Grey...

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

I'm slowly making my way through the Surtur Saga in Thor #337-367.  I heard a lot of people complaining about the new Thor movie being too funny so I went to some source material to check it out.  I think the whiners have never picked up a Simonson era Thor (the Thors most worth reading), and there is nothing serious going on in those.  They are great fun, with over-the-top epic language and art, bombastic writing, it's such a great story, and it reminds me of how great comics used to be.

[Krasner 1,062]

I'm slowly going back to reading, as I have still lots of time for myself for a few weeks, then I'll have to get a shitty interesting job. And as usual I go into several books by the same time xD

Currently, I'm into Discipline and Punish (Foucault), Our Lady of the Flowers (Genet) and The Songs of Maldoror I wanted to read for so long. The fisrt one seriously, during the day, the second one at night and the third one in the bus xD

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Since moving on from ye olde Thors I read Green Lantern's Sinestro Corps War and Blackest Night for the Christmas season.  Nothing says  "'Tis the season" quite like fighting an army of zombie Lanterns to the death.  Now I'm delving once again into the Wildstorm section of my collection.  I have a few issues and then I'll be up to Fire From Heaven.  Not great stuff so far as writing and plotting goes, but they're pretty enough and they still have that special something that made them so cool to 15-year-old me.

[Odainsaker 2,135]

After a trip to Half Price Books I now have Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City by Robert A. M. Stern, David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove.

What SimCity player could pass up cover art like that?

It is a monster:  1072 encyclopedic pages of reference drawings, maps, photos, and analysis of suburbs.  Literally not light reading--complete with its hardcover, I could do weight-lifting and body-toning exercises with its hefty bulk.  Will also work for pressing and preserving flowers, or as a mighty bludgeon to knock out burglars.

Also picked up an art history book, Vienna 1900 Wien by Janina Nentwig.  Mostly photo plates of Viennese art from the Historicist, Art Nouveau, and Secessionist eras, when Vienna was a leading center of modernism.  This is more for the coffee table.

 

[Barbagris 21]

I tend to have more than one book going. Right now, only two.

Re-reading The Three Musketeers by Dumas

Reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

Barbarossa

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

I am going through my old Image Wildstorm comics, reading the whole universe in chronological order.  It's a little weird to read because in those early Image days they played it fast and loose with continuity, but boy are they goofy fun to read!

[Barbagris 21]

Nice to see you still around, Spidey. Been years.

Barbarossa

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Likewise!  I recognized the avatar, but your username has seen an update.

[Somnolence 81]

I don't dedicate as much time as I'd like, to reading.

In the past few months I've been reading "We" by Yevgeniy Zamyatin.

10/10 would recommend to whoever likes Orwellian dystopic books. 

[Toby66 155]

This thread and any translations made for TEVEE programs.

Books, nah, not if i can help it.

I read the necessary stuff and no more, to get into a book that would capture me would require some book title i've not seen yet.

"All secrets revealed!" ??

Nah, i put it on the shelf for a rainy day, not even that one i would jump at.

 

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Well, since we're here again...

 

I've picked up The Eye Of The World, Robert Jordan's first book in his Wheel Of Time series, to re-read for the first time since high school.  It's held up pretty well, and while I did remember him being pretty long winded, remembering and experiencing are two different things.

 

When I'm not reading that, I'm going through my Avengers comics.  I'm up into the mid 90s, and boy are they... interesting.  While the art is pretty good, the stories and dialogue are lacking something that is hard to put my finger on...  Anyway, once The Crossing is over we get the Heroes Reborn nonsense and then Busiek and Perez take over for quite possibly the best run on a team superhero book I've ever read.  Needless to say I'm looking forward to that.

[Barbagris 21]

23 hours ago, NMUSpidey said:

Well, since we're here again...

 

I've picked up The Eye Of The World, Robert Jordan's first book in his Wheel Of Time series, to re-read for the first time since high school.  It's held up pretty well, and while I did remember him being pretty long winded, remembering and experiencing are two different things.

 

When I'm not reading that, I'm going through my Avengers comics.  I'm up into the mid 90s, and boy are they... interesting.  While the art is pretty good, the stories and dialogue are lacking something that is hard to put my finger on...  Anyway, once The Crossing is over we get the Heroes Reborn nonsense and then Busiek and Perez take over for quite possibly the best run on a team superhero book I've ever read.  Needless to say I'm looking forward to that.

I am/was a big fan of Robert Jordan, but he got worse over time, especially when his wife began editing.  It got VERY long winded. Nynaeve chapters started wearing me down. The best books are the first 5. Then it just takes a lot of patience!

Currently, I'm being disappointed in my choices and have found myself going back to Natural Science, Natural Philosophy and Classics.

 

Barbagris

[catty-cb 4,411]

In between books at the moment so am reading an online fan version of Game of Thrones Season Eight

https://www.aliceshipwise.com/

Its actually making a lot more sense than the TV version but some major differences along the way

[Toby66 155]

Books are good though.

More often than not isnt the usual verdict that the book was better than the movie, i think so.

One flew over the cuckoos nest is one of those that i've read but the movie is as good as the book, almost as good as. Just not as detailed and different. But that's rare.

I read it like 35 years ago!

I like to take a little rest in between my readings

[Toby66 155]

Ooooh, i typed it the other way around though didnt i. Meant to say the book is usually better than the movie.

Excuse me.

NO!

It's this time i got it the wrong way....

CYCLONE! Corina...please, i need to remove this blooper now. Please and thank you.

  Edited June 10, 2019 by Toby66  
Oh look, here i can type as well. Groovy.

[simmytu 605]

Been reading General Patton: A Soldier's Life by Stanley P. Hirshson. Honestly, I'm quite facinated on how detailed the book goes on not only the life of Patton but also his family and their history. 

[jmsepe 2,039]

 

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Well, I wasn't able to make it through Wheel of Time, I got up to the Great Hunt and met the Seanchan again and just couldn't make it past them.  Oh well.  I still have fond memories reading it back in high school and college.

 

I am in the thick of the best run of Avengers, though.  I just finished Ultron Unlimited, the definitive Ultron story arc running from Avengers #19 to #22.  It's exquisite, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is tiring of the Marvel movies (like I have long ago).

[Kiwiwriter47 472]

On 10/11/2017 at 4:20 PM, airman15 said:

I just finished A Night to Remember recently. It's even better when cross-referenced with Dr. Ballard's findings!

Next up, I plan to start reading Flying to Pieces. 

Outstanding book. A touch outdated by Ballard's findings, but Lord admits it in his follow- "The Night Lives On."  I have a bunch of his books, all autographed. I never knew that he was very friendly and liked to meet fans of his writing and the Titanic. I never met him before he died, and I would have liked to have told him to his face that he remains one of the four greatest influences on my writing.

[Kiwiwriter47 472]

Just wrapped up "Deathly Deception" about "The Man Who Never Was," which fills in the gaps created by Ewen Montagu's original book, which had to obscure Ultra and Bletchley Park's role in that bizarre and highly successful affair.

Now I'm reading about Bletchley Park. 

[Leo_the_robot 67]

Currently?  I'm re-reading Hacking the Xbox by Andrew "bunnie" Huang.