What book are you reading these days?

1632 by Eric Flint.

It's about a small town in present day West Virginia that randomly finds itself transported to Germany in the middle of the Thirty Years War. It's got a bunch of hicks riding around with shotguns in pickup trucks and dirt bikes fighting off mercenary armies armed with pikes and muskets while they try to integrate themselves into their new society.

Then you have a bunch of nobles buying history books and arresting people who would have started revolutions against them and promoting twenty year olds to generals because they would have won some big battles a few decades in the future and stuff like that. It's quite humourous.

Simple Genius by David Baldacci

Just finished John Grisham's - The Innocent Man. Excellent book!

I would have recommended something better as a first book. :p

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I would have recommended something better as a first book. :p

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I have read at least 11 books before this :mad: 5 Harry Potter, 3 Dan Brown and at least 3 Stephen King :D

The Davinci Code.

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I have read at least 11 books before this :mad: 5 Harry Potter, 3 Dan Brown and at least 3 Stephen King :D

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I would have recommended something better as a first book. :p

I have started "The AMber Spyglass" Thats the last book in the Golden Compass series.

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I read by author.

Right now I'm reading Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series, Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series and R.A. Salvatore's The Legend of Drizzt .

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I read by author.

Right now I'm reading Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series, Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series and R.A. Salvatore's The Legend of Drizzt .

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Where are you in the Wheel of Time? If you haven't gotten past book five yet, I'd suggest reading up to book five and then stopping. From book six on, his wife became his editor and didn't edit him and he (quite literally) spends ten pages describing what everyone in the room is wearing when someone enters a room and just drones on and on and the series and the plot advances at a snails pace and he spends more time on the doings of irrelevant side characters and pretty much ignores the main plot entirely.

He finally agreed to wrap the thing up in one final book and then died before he could finish it. It was really annoying.

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he (quite literally) spends ten pages describing what everyone in the room is wearing...

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You think he's exaggerating. But he's not.

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You think he's exaggerating. But he's not.

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Sadly no, it is not an exaggeration.

Also, if there are fifteen Aes Sedai in a room, do we really need an indepth account of the political maneuverings about a situation for each one of them? And no, I don't need a detailed analysis of the exact emotional state conveyed by tilting her head slightly and tugging her braid - a summary would be fine.

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I have started "The AMber Spyglass" Thats the last book in the Golden Compass series.

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Those books start well but, the endings were...

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Sadly no, it is not an exaggeration.

Also, if there are fifteen Aes Sedai in a room, do we really need an indepth account of the political maneuverings about a situation for each one of them? And no, I don't need a detailed analysis of the exact emotional state conveyed by tilting her head slightly and tugging her braid - a summary would be fine.

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Absolutely right. There ought to be more of them, instead, sitting in a wagon as they make their way across the land bickering endlessly about where to go, what to do and accomplish none of it.

This conversation has brought up all the frustration felt when I was originally reading the series. By book 5, so much time had been invested in it that it was felt necessary to finish the damned series. I, unfortunately, did not know about the wife being the editor; that explained a lot. Ploughing on, 6 books of the exact same thing monotonously repeated in a paraphrasing manner.

I was hoping that after his death there wouldn't be the final 12th book. But it will come out, and I will read it and hate it. Compulsion has no rational explanation.

I don't have time to read too much in the way of fiction, although I was given a copy of Slam (Nick Hornby of High Fidelity fame) and it was ok, but not great.

Other than that, I just finished reading Simply VB 2008 3rd edition, which is a beginners book to VB, however I was doing a technical review before it goes to print (book is not yet published). I also picked up a copy of Accelerated VB 2008 when I was out at Microsoft, and it reads very well for intermediate to advanced programmers looking to brush up on terminology, or learn more about the new 2008 features.

So I guess most of my book reading time, is usually reading programming books.

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Where are you in the Wheel of Time?

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I'm on book three of The Wheel of Time, The Dragon Reborn. So far, so good, but it is kinda slow... and by what you guys are saying, it's going to get slower!

Series that I've finished recently (less than 5 months ago), include Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga and Trudy Canavan's the Black Magician trilogy

I read half-way through James Patterson's "The Jester".

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Gripping read.

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I was hoping that after his death there wouldn't be the final 12th book. But it will come out, and I will read it and hate it. Compulsion has no rational explanation.

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This is the problem. The first five books were enough to get you hooked and now there's no way to stop. They're a gripping read and a well-told, epic story. Then there's six books in a row with pretty much zero plot advances. It is somewhat astounding that a guy can write so much and say so little, though.

Maybe someone else will take on the job of rewriting book six with what's in books six to eleven, because there's probably just enough in there to have a nice transition book into the final novel. I mean the sentence "There were people in the room wearing clothes" could knock off about a thousand pages. Also a short paragraph about various people are confused about their feelings towards Rand and, by the way, men can be exasperating at times would take off another thousand pages of redundant script.

*[Forgot her name] tugs at her braid in anger.*

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Those books start well but, the endings were...

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kind of hard to follow. :wave:

"The Kite Runner"

I read and cried whole day...

Still trying to finish that damn Where's Waldo. :(

I have never read a book and cried so much like this. :cry:

Kite Runner was a good book - and very sad...

And next book to read "A thousand Splendid Suns"

Hmmm.. maybe I shouldn't read that on my planned vacation next week... hmmmm....


Prior to "Kite Runner", I was reading "Two Caravans" which was has a bit of a dark story and hints of laughter to it and full of hope.

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I have never read a book and cried so much like this. :cry:

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Were you referring to The Kite Runner or Where's Waldo?

Kite Runner of course. :D

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Kite Runner of course. :D

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Well, it can get really depressing when you know Waldo's somewhere on the page, but you just can't seem to find him.

I have started "The Big Bad Wolf" by James Patterson.

"Shantaram" by Gregory Roberts.

Almost finished with Tommyknockers (Stephen King)
Have Duma Key (also Stephen King) lined up and waiting...

Currently re-reading the entire Sword of Truth series, by Terry Goodkind. Up to Soul of the Fire.

[Comic Book Guy]Best. Series. Ever.[/Comic Book Guy]

Have you tried the Google Earth version of 'Where's Waldo'? And you thought the books were depressing... :D

Finished "The Big Bad Wolf". Now starting on "London Bridges" which is kind of a sequel to it. The second book is not very good. Too many "wolf" impersonators create a lot of confusion.

Done "A thousand splendid suns"

:D

I still recommend Kite Runner.

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I find audio books sleep-inducing... zzz...

I'm reading something called Mars.

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Ben Bova's book or another one?

Currently wading through "Cinematic Serial Killers", the dude who wrote this one seriously hasn't tried to read his own writing :eek:

Vice City Tourist Guide.

Finished Soul of the Fire. Don't have Faith of the Fallen, so I'm now re-reading Pillars of Creation.
I love this series.


I wonder if Terry Pratchett (best author of all time, despite how much I love Goodkinds books) has released anything since Wintersmith?

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Finished Soul of the Fire. Don't have Faith of the Fallen, so I'm now re-reading Pillars of Creation.
I love this series.


I wonder if Terry Pratchett (best author of all time, despite how much I love Goodkinds books) has released anything since Wintersmith?

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He published Making Money in 2007 and Nation (Not a Discworld novel) is due in Sept 2008

The Sharing Knife : Passage by Lois McMasters Bujold:afrog: :afrog: :afrog:

Book three of the series, first two are The Sharing Knife : Beguilement and The Sharing Knife : Legacy

Fourth book is The Sharing Knife : Horizon due in 2009 (waiting is difficult)

Just finished The Player of Games by Iain M Banks.

Now reading:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA240_.jpg, the latest attempt at making money by JRR Tolkien's son.

A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin. Part 4.

Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams

4th book of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn... "Storm"

That took you a while...

I was reading upside down.

This book is really interesting.


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Just finished the last book in the Stephen King series "The Dark Tower" and book 11 in the Robert Jordan series the "Wheel of Time". I was kind of disappointed with the way the "The Dark Tower" came to an end.

Now I am rereading "The Boat of a Million Years" by Poul Anderson

I'm still reading Anne Frank

The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

Has anyone here read Foucault's Pendulum? It's very interesting.

I am reading 1434. It's a story about a Chinese Fleet that traveled to Italy and kick started the renaissance. Interesting read.

Phillip Pullman - His Dark Materials-Northern Lights

Just finished Interview with The Vampire, by Anne Rice

Oh my, that's an old one. I just finished Black Sunday by Thomas Harris. It was so good I read it twice.

Nation by Terry Pratchett

For commuting I am reading A Personal Devil by Roberta Gellis

Just finished re- reading (for the umpteenth time) The Planet of Adventure Series - by Jack Vance - one of the greatest SF Writers ever !

And also - The Honourable Schoolboy - By John Le Carré

Currently reading two
The complete robot collect, Isaac Asimov
Halting State, Charles Stross

I have to say the stories by Isaac Asimov are intralling!

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Currently reading two
The complete robot collect, Isaac Asimov

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I *just* finished reading that book approximately 8 hours ago.

I like the way he manages to take the three laws and create situations that make you really think about how they can fail, succeed and be circumvented. Susan Calvin's stories are quite good too.

If you haven't read the Foundation series, just after the Robot stories would be the right time.