What are you reading?

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[Easy Bakes 253]

Originally posted by: Barbarossa

Although I have come to really dislike his writing, David Eddings also died this year (actually, this month - June 2, 2009).  Apparently, his wife died last year.

In retrospect, only The Belgariad series was "good", and The Malloreon "tolerable".  Everything else was torture.

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Wow lost a lot of good writers this last year or so.

Vonnegut,

Updike,

Eddigns ( both of them),

Phiplip Jose Farmer,

Robert Asprin,

Micheal Crichton.

Arthur C. Clarke ( last year)

Currently reading

The Fountians of Paradise By Arthur C. Clark

And

Red Mars by Stanley Kim Robinson.

Yes 2  Books at a time, been doing that for about a year or so now.

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I just finished reading The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. Now I'm reading this chick novel (Hey, don't judge me! haha) "Secrets to Happiness."

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Still plowing through Red Mars. almost 600 pages. Blue Mars and Green Mars next, may keep me busy till september or longer.

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finished my lunch time reading book

 Fountains Of Paradice

very well written( Of course  but had a sad ending.

Started Neuromancer by William Gibson

Still  working my way through Red Mars for bed time reading.

[Kryptowhite 9]

The Yankee Years by Joe Torre/Tom Verducci

pretty interesting, i didn't really get into baseball until 2001 so i didn't know much about those yankees teams. And its always good to relive 2004 . Verducci is a good writer in Sports Illustrated though so I expected it to be good.

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[Aro0w 1]

I'm reading Guns, and Steel.

it's by Jared Diamond and he explains how he beleives writing started, or how government was formed through the ages...

He talks about war and why we go to it, he also goes in depth about germs and diseases and how they have affected humanity and will continue to affect us in the future...

[Easy Bakes 253]

Originally posted by: Barbarossa

I am also reading Dune: House Atreides.  I loved the original set by Frank Herbert, and have already read The Butlerian Jihad, The Machine Crusade, and another post-Frank book I can't recall the name of.

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I thought the   Preludes ( the Houses rise and fall) and Legends(  Machine empire) were pretty well done. Hunters of Dune (2006)Sandworms of Dune (2007)   were the most recent  ones. I did hate how it ended though.

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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell by Suzanna Clarke.

For the second time.

Best. Book. Ever.

[astronelson 339]

The Road to Reality: A complete guide to the laws of the universe, by Roger Penrose.

Yes, I read 1000+ page non-fiction books for fun.

[JanYpe 17]

Originally posted by: Aro0w

I'm reading Guns, and Steel.

it's by Jared Diamond and he explains how he beleives writing started, or how government was formed through the ages...

He talks about war and why we go to it, he also goes in depth about germs and diseases and how they have affected humanity and will continue to affect us in the future...quote>

Guns, Germs, and Steel? Definitely an interesting book, even if it does stumble here and there because of the scope of all it describes.

Originally posted by: Barbarossa

Outside Oaks of California and Western Trees, I am also reading Dune: House Atreides.  I loved the original set by Frank Herbert, and have already read The Butlerian Jihad, The Machine Crusade, and another post-Frank book I can't recall the name of.

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I really enjoyed the first Dune, but for some reason I could never get into any of the others.

Following on from a post some pages ago, I finally got a chance to pick up The Name of The Rose again after I'd stopped about halfway through. It's a very good read, even in translation, and the way the events of the story and the period in which it's set are woven together is well done. Bookdepository.co.uk just sent me Robert Bartlett's The Making of Europe; Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950-1350, so I'll be able to keep nosing around in medieval times for a while.

And of course I'm re-reading the Hitchhiker's Guide series for the bazillionth time.

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[SomeRandomAmerican 5]

I'm re-reading Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. Surprisingly simple, yet deep. That book and Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising, a novel about WWIII between the USSR and NATO.

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Random Philip K. Dick short stories

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Dr. Johnson's Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, by Henry Hitchings.

[your_adress_here 11]

I've gone back to reading The Hobbit. I like his earlier writing style than that of LotR (don't get me wrong, I love it too). You can tell it was written when he was younger.

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A Case of Need by Michael Crichton. 

Dune is amazing.  Now if they could only make a similarly amazing movie.  (Not the miniseries from Sci Fi or Lynch's butchering of it.)  I can so see it in my head...

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^^

I think the Scifi Mini series is about the best your going to get.

I dont think there is any one who is willing to do a Peter Jackson LORT type project for it. ( God Was that 6 Years ago already?)

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In a way, we have been watching the live-action version of Dune since the 1970s.

The Middle East is Arrakis.

Oil is the Spice.

Exxon-Mobil and Shell are the Guild.

Wall Street is CHOAM.

Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, deposed former Shah of Iran, is the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV.

Saddam Hussein is the Baron Harkonnen, and his two cruel sons are Feyd-Rautha and Glossu Rabban.

Hmmm, I wonder who we cast as Maud'Dib?  Lawrence of Arabia, George Bush, or maybe even Ayatollah Khomeini?

Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother Gaius Hillary Clinton Mohiam--stick it in the box, Bill, and I don't mean your hand!

In some ways, Herbert was more prescient than his characters.

I must admit, I always rooted for the spookily kooky Tleilaxu, which is why I often reread Herbert's entomological freakfest Hellstrom's Hive, in which he explores a secretive, virulent, and cannibalistic human hive directly mimicking insects and the virtues of their axlotl tanks to their harrowing fullest.  We need only to follow the history of the introduction and spread of the African Killer Bee to the Americas to see how unstoppable such a human society could become.

What the drone said (Hive axiom).  You Outsiders!  It's your children we're after, not you!  We'll get them, too, over your dead bodies.

The inspiration for Herbert's book would come from a funkily packaged 1970's sci-fi documentary

in which a paranoid scientist/narrator ominously warns us that the merciless perfection of insects has ensured that they are the True dominant survivalist species against whom mankind cannot compete.  "I'll tell it to you once..I'll tell it to you simply...I'll tell it to you in terms no one likes to hear:  if any living species is to inherit the Earth, it will not be man."  It will be the Insects, for in the race for survival, in a logic that perhaps no man will ever understand, the true winner is the last to finish the race.

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[WillG_75 19]

 I'm reading Linux for Dummies

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Finished Neuromancer by William Gibson

Starting on Speaker for the Dead by  OS Card.

Still  working my way through Red Mars for bed time reading

[Kryptowhite 9]

reading great expections and nectar in a sieve for summer reading.

Both are incredibly boring, both require a long break every 15 pages to keep me from falling asleep.

[617squad 52]

reading "Life on the Edge" by James Dobson.

the why of it: to understand the meaning of life

[SomeRandomAmerican 5]

I finished Red Storm Rising, big Tom Clancy war novel, and now I'm thinking of doing a CJ based in the middle of a war.

Anyone think that's a good idea?

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Originally posted by: Easy Bakes

Finished Neuromancer by William Gibson

Starting on Speaker for the Dead by  OS Card.

Still  working my way through Red Mars for bed time readingquote>

Excellent trilogy that Mars series is.  I just finished reading the seies for the second time a few months ago.  Let me know what you think of Red Mars when you're done.

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Originally posted by: blade2k5

Originally posted by: Easy Bakes

Finished Neuromancer by William Gibson

Starting on Speaker for the Dead by  OS Card.

Still  working my way through Red Mars for bed time readingquote>

Excellent trilogy that Mars series is.  I just finished reading the seies for the second time a few months ago.  Let me know what you think of Red Mars when you're done. quote>

Will do.

Still  got a couple hundred pages to go. I only read 30-40 pages a night. ( I have only one problem with it so far, I truly dont think anyone could have stowed away on that 1st ship).

[blade2k5 1,523]

Originally posted by: Easy Bakes

Originally posted by: blade2k5

Originally posted by: Easy Bakes

Finished Neuromancer by William Gibson

Starting on Speaker for the Dead by  OS Card.

Still  working my way through Red Mars for bed time readingquote>

Excellent trilogy that Mars series is.  I just finished reading the seies for the second time a few months ago.  Let me know what you think of Red Mars when you're done. quote>

Will do.

Still  got a couple hundred pages to go. I only read 30-40 pages a night. ( I have only one problem with it so far, I truly dont think anyone could have stowed away on that 1st ship).quote>

Well, it's not impossible if that's what your thinking, especially....but I better shut up now so I don't spoil something by accident  I will say though that each book gets better than the one before it