What book are you currently reading?

Fat Freddy wrote:

Started Stephen King's "Duma Key" yesterday. I gave this one a try a couple of years ago and lost interest in it after a short while, but so far this time I'm enjoying it.

About halfway thru this one now, but it will be put to the side temporarily while I read my newest library pickup... B-Movie king Roger Corman's autobiography, "How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost A Dime"

I'm reading "The Bottoms" by Joe R. Lansdale. A gritty depression-era murder mystery.

George R. R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords
I read the first 4 books in germany before (where they were split into 8 books, to milk out more money i guess) and the german translation was horrible, so i bought the first 4 books in a nice pack and re-read them. Takes some time to get through but it's worth it. Also can't wait for season 2 of the show.
Sad thing is, that "project" stops me from reading other books, i have Philip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle and Max Brooks' World War Z lying around

Yet again I'm going through Brent Week's The Night Angel Trilogy. I think this will make my 3rd or 4th reading of the series... lol

YES Stories: Yes in Their Own Words by Tim Morse

ShadowAngel wrote:

George R. R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords
I read the first 4 books in germany before (where they were split into 8 books, to milk out more money i guess) and the german translation was horrible, so i bought the first 4 books in a nice pack and re-read them. Takes some time to get through but it's worth it. Also can't wait for season 2 of the show.
Sad thing is, that "project" stops me from reading other books, i have Philip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle and Max Brooks' World War Z lying around

Just finished this and I'm on the next one, "A feast for crows"

I started reading the first one after the show came on HBO.

James B. wrote:

Just finished this and I'm on the next one, "A feast for crows"

I started reading the first one after the show came on HBO.

I was surprised at how great the show was. When they first announced it, i expected some really bad crap, i never thought they would produce something good...but they did and i was surprised at all the nudity and sex (though i don't understand why they changed Drogo in the sex scenes with Daenerys to such a brutal character, i think it was a nice twist in the books that he was actually friendly to her...and didn't basically rape her like in the show)
Can't wait for Season 2, i hope it gets a bigger budget so they can show more of the war and the battles, especially in season 2 the King's Landing/Blackwater battle.

I started the books years ago, i stumbled upon the first one at a book store, without any knowledge and it was fascinating (even though as i said, the german translation is pretty bad), i like this realistic fantasy, dark, violent, lots of sex and characters that aren't black & white (my favourite fantasy author is David Gemmell)

I usually have several going at once:

City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled The Seas by Roger Crowley

Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell

Armored Thunderbolt: The US Army Sherman In World War II by Steve Zaloga

The Goblin Corps by Ari Marmell

D&D/LOTR story from the perspective of the bad guys. Not misunderstood anit-heroes with hearts of gold, but real BAD GUYS! An Orc, Troll, Bugbear, Kobold, Ogre, Doppleganger, & Gremlin are brought together by a Lich & highjinx ensue.

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, its a cool book, contains the original book, the script for Orson Wells infamous Mercury Theater radio adaption of the play, and a CD of the original broadcast, along short bios on Orson Wells and H. G. Wells

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

Still reading on the Ace Frehley book and added Star Wars Darth Plageuis as well.....

Terry Eagleton - The Idea of Culture

manny wrote:

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, its a cool book, contains the original book, the script for Orson Wells infamous Mercury Theater radio adaption of the play, and a CD of the original broadcast, along short bios on Orson Wells and H. G. Wells

That sounds cool. I used to have the radio play on LP back in my early teenage years.

S.D. wrote:

manny wrote:

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, its a cool book, contains the original book, the script for Orson Wells infamous Mercury Theater radio adaption of the play, and a CD of the original broadcast, along short bios on Orson Wells and H. G. Wells

That sounds cool. I used to have the radio play on LP back in my early teenage years.

When I am finished with it, I will send it your way if you want it

Still in the midst of Stephen King's "Duma Key" and I'm enjoying it, but I keep putting it aside in favor of new finds from the library. This weekend I made two more pickups from there, "Ramones: An American Band" by Jim Bessman and "Poisoned Heart: I Married DeeDee Ramone, A Punk Love Story" by Vera King (DeeDee's wife from 1978-95)."

CRIMSONMASK wrote:

The Goblin Corps by Ari Marmell

D&D/LOTR story from the perspective of the bad guys. Not misunderstood anit-heroes with hearts of gold, but real BAD GUYS! An Orc, Troll, Bugbear, Kobold, Ogre, Doppleganger, & Gremlin are brought together by a Lich & highjinx ensue.

Just got this last week. This is a really fun read!

Witchfinder wrote:

CRIMSONMASK wrote:

The Goblin Corps by Ari Marmell

D&D/LOTR story from the perspective of the bad guys. Not misunderstood anit-heroes with hearts of gold, but real BAD GUYS! An Orc, Troll, Bugbear, Kobold, Ogre, Doppleganger, & Gremlin are brought together by a Lich & highjinx ensue.

Just got this last week. This is a really fun read!

Yes it is! Finished it last night before going into the Iced Earth show. Put me in a great mood for some metal. I wanted to shout(in a "Simpsons" voice) "EEEEEVIIIIIL!"

A bunch of short stories recently by the following authors:

Robert A. Heinlein
Richard Matheson
Robert Bloch
M.R. James
John W. Campbell
H.P. Lovecraft

Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2

Clement of Alexandria is blowing my mind. Way too much knowledge and information about old philosophers than my mind can absorb:

Just started Total Access by Rich Eisen

With all this March Madness hulabaloo I need a football fix

Just finished a nonfiction book called The Lost City of Z, by David Grann, about the explorer Percy Fawcett who vanished in the Amazon while searching for a lost city he believed was deep in the jungle. Makes the Amazon sound like a really scary place (I wouldn't want any bugs laying their eggs under my skin).

Just finished "Ramones: An American Band" by Jim Bessman and have now moved on to "Poisoned Heart: I Married Dee Dee Ramone (The Ramones Years) by Vera Ramone King.

...not sure how long I'm going to stick with this one, cuz this chick writes like a fifteen year old girl with a MySpace blog. Ugh.

Jean Baudrillard - America

John Carter of Mars Volume 1 by Edgar Rice Burroughs