Topic: Resurrection: What are you Reading?

[Fenrhyl Wulfson]

Currently reading everything I can from Albert Jacquard. It’s like brain candy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Jacquard

I am far from done.

Last novel I read was actually The Witcher, a collection of short novels by Andrej Sapowski. Quite good.

[PhillipAEllis]

I've just bought $220 worth of books, so I have a fair bit of reading ahead of me

[DangerMan]

prepare for angst, and lots of sexual frustration. Good series, its just that those two things were kind of the defining trait for them

Now, I know what you are talking about when you say, "angst" but I cannot for the life of me, get where the "sexual frustration" comes from. The Wheel of Time is not erotic fiction. In fact, one can say (and I wouldn't disagree) that the romance of the series is fairly simple - even taking in the Rand situation.

Please avoid spoilers in the following discussion!!! 

[chippermonks]

prepare for angst, and lots of sexual frustration. Good series, its just that those two things were kind of the defining trait for them

Now, I know what you are talking about when you say, "angst" but I cannot for the life of me, get where the "sexual frustration" comes from. The Wheel of Time is not erotic fiction. In fact, one can say (and I wouldn't disagree) that the romance of the series is fairly simple - even taking in the Rand situation.

Please avoid spoilers in the following discussion!!! 

Don't worry no spoilers

The frustration I mention is more of a awkwardness between two characters, which is only present due to the sheer fact that they are opposite genders. It is of course nothing erotic, it just seems at times to be a little superfluous

[arakish]

Went and bought the whole "Thomas Covenant" series and started re-reading from the beginning which I have not read since the books were first published.

rmfr

[providence13]

A third of the way through  Lev Grossman's 2nd Magician book,
"The Magician King".
Nice look at a magic college (not like Hogwarts) and what happens to Hedge Wizards who couldn't pass the entrance exam.

[Cory Magel]

Lately I've been reading Cherie Priest.  Decent stuff.  Not the usual Fantasy or odd Sci-Fi that I normally read (it's Steampunk, so kinda between the two in some ways).

I've read Boneshaker and Dreadnought, working on Ganymede.  I just got a copy of Clementine (was somewhat hard to get my hands on quite a while) so I have not read it and I still need to pick up The Inexplicables.

Boneshaker, October 2009, Tor Books. ISBN 978-0-7653-1841-1.
Clementine, July 2010, Subterranean Press. ISBN 978-1-59606-308-2.
Dreadnought, September 2010, Tor Books. ISBN 978-0-7653-2578-5.
Ganymede, September 2011, Tor Books. ISBN 978-0-7653-2946-2.
The Inexplicables, November 2012, Tor Books. ISBN 9780765329479.

[Old Man]

Just finished Glen Cook's last book in the Dread Empire series - A Path to Coldness of Heart

[mocking bird]

Finished up the second Intrumentalities book recently - getting interesting now but not as good as the first. 

Trying to pick up the Dread Empire books but getting them in order is a bit problematic.  Nook for XMas so that might make things easier.

Going through Erikson's Chained God - interesting but very confusing with the 20 different story lines going on - but the world setting is just cool.

For non-fiction on last of the Shelby Foote Civil War books - Sherman just made it to Savannah on his March to the Sea.  For huge historical books they are actually easy reads - they just need more maps.

[Old Man]

Just finished Glen Cook's last book in the Dread Empire series - A Path to Coldness of Heart

Read the last Jordan book and found that pretty good. Tried the 2nd Turtledove Supervolcano book and punted it. Now trying the Quantum Thief (haven't read any Hard SF in a while) and its interesting stuff.

But best of all (and worst of all) the last Feist Magician book comes out in May or so.... (on the up side, Brust is writing a new Jhereg book ... and supposedly Cook has a new Black Company series in the works)

[Cory Magel]

I love some of Brust's stuff.  If you have not, you should read the Phoenix Guards.  The books that follow it are good too, but it's probably my favorite before all the Vlad books.  Went out of my way to find a 1st Ed Hardback of it and then go get it sighed by him.  To Reign in Hell wasn't bad either.  Interesting twist on the war in heaven.

[markc]

 I just finished Rowena Cory Daniells Outcast Chronicles (OC) and I am going back and reading her first work the Chronicles of King Rolens Kin. The OC are very interesting and have some good stuff in them but there are parts that some might not like. But all in all I think they are a good work (maybe great) of fantasy.
MDC

[Old Man]

I love some of Brust's stuff.  If you have not, you should read the Phoenix Guards.  The books that follow it are good too, but it's probably my favorite before all the Vlad books.  Went out of my way to find a 1st Ed Hardback of it and then go get it sighed by him.  To Reign in Hell wasn't bad either.  Interesting twist on the war in heaven.

I second the recommendation of the Khaavren books. Lots of fun stuff therein.

[jdale]

I also loved the Phoenix Guards and related books. Brust has a great ability to write with different voices. I would also recommend his other books like Brokedown Palace or Agyar, which are very different but still great. Brokedown Palace reads more like a fairy tale; Agyar is in a modern setting and the less said about the details the better (just read it).

[Turbs]

MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN.

find it.
read it.

Then you Win!

[mocking bird]

Finished Chained God - not sure if I liked the ending but I really couldn't come up with a better one I suppose.

Reading Ready Player One - should be required by anyone who remembers the 80's and actually enjoyed some of it.  Imagine if John Hughes wrote The Matrix.

[RandalThor]

Just finished The Human Division by John Scalzi. Set in the Old Man's War universe (and if you have not read that book, or the trilogy it starts, you are really missing out: super fun, with some really great ideas), it is a series of short stories that sort of combine to tell a "big" story, though without a true finish, so I am hoping this means that we can expect more to come.

I want to run a game set in that universe, just not sure what I would use, probably HARP Scifi...

[Fenrhyl Wulfson]

Right now, I am reading Homo Ludens and Les jeux et les hommes – le masque et le vertige, both major works about games, play and their definition, interaction with culture and their various types.

Definitely worth reading, even if you are not involved in the study of these fields.

[Fenrhyl Wulfson]

The French title has been translated in English : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man,_Play_and_Games

[mistrornge]

Went through Hugh Howey's Wool series very quickly.  Hard to put down.
If you have a chance and want to think a bit pick up Grant Morrison's Invisibles series.  The graphic novels are really good.
Picked up Rant and Damned by Chuck Palahniuk.  His books are usually dark but thought provoking.  Also got James Dickey's book Deliverance (yes there is a book).
Charles