What are you reading?

[Digital Twilight]

I've finished Heart of Darkness and have moved onto The Hounds of Baskerville by Arthur Conan Doyle.

[jnk6980]

A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore

[theimage13]

Just blew through this one in three sittings. Came as a recommendation from someone I had hoped to get a date with...never happened. This was a good consolation prize, though. Highly recommended for anyone who's read Douglas Adams' stuff and liked his sense of humor.

[Digital Twilight]

Finished Utopia by Thomas Moore

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...om_search=true

A short but interesting read if you're interested in philosophy and social constructs.

I've moved onto this:



I'm about a third of the way through and I'm really enjoying it. It's my second book from Murakami and I love his writing style.

[Trains]

The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

I'm making slow progress through this one, but it's certainly drawing me in. The writing is eloquent and the setting/world is superbly realised. I understand this made a big impact on modern fantasy, and I can sure see why.

[Digital Twilight]

This came in the post today:



http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Steampun...teampunk+bible

[icecream]

Canada's Forgotten Slaves: 200 Years of Bondage by Marcel Trudel

[onthewall2983]

[bgalbraith]

Really great account of the history of John Romero,John Carmack, the founding of id Software, and the creation of their seminal games, such as Doom and Quake. The book came out a bit over 10 years ago, but is still a great read today. It especially brings back a lot of memories of trying to get DOS games to run on our Compaq 386 by creating special versions of the autoexec.bat and config.sys files.

[jmtd]

I really need to read that sometime. I spent a lot of time and energy modding doom from '96 to about '08 but id never read it.

[miss k bee]

We Need New Names - NoViolet Bulawayo

According to Queeney - Beryl Bainbridge

Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

[nin5in]

The World in Six Songs - Daniel J. Levitin

[aggroculture]

More feminist science fiction.

[jmtd]

Just finished my second read through of ksr's "red mars", about 15 years after my first read through.

[elevenism]

I just finished the Lincoln Lawyer, and it was pretty damn good.

[theburningreptile]

A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones. First time reading this, i'm reading it on the kindle too. Once i read this one i'll get the physical editions. Pretty damn awesome so far.

[bgalbraith]

A discussion of software as a significant cultural entity with specific focus on media production and consumption. Very academic, but interesting so far.

[leo3375]

I just finished these:



Just starting on:

[Trains]

Finished this a week or so ago and now I'm struggling to find something else to capture my attention.

[Digital Twilight]

I'm half way through this and i'm really enjoying it.

[allegro]

I'm half way through this and i'm really enjoying it.

Oh!!! That's one on my "never finished" list - I'm about half through and conked out. I gotta pick that one back up again. I guess

[aggroculture]

That is one of the funniest books I have ever read, laugh out loud funny.
The plot is the least interesting part, but the characters and dialogue are just hilarious. Damn damn shame the author killed himself, partly in response to never finding a publisher. Another notch against the literary establishment that likes to discover great authors posthumously.

[Digital Twilight]

That is one of the funniest books I have ever read, laugh out loud funny.
The plot is the least interesting part, but the characters and dialogue are just hilarious. Damn damn shame the author killed himself, partly in response to never finding a publisher. Another notch against the literary establishment that likes to discover great authors posthumously.

It's a damn shame. To think of all the masterpieces that will never be discovered, never published.

The 'revolt' in the factory had me laughing out so loud I disturbed the entire coffee shop.

[jmtd]

Finished my first re read of Dune (first read about 15 years ago). Better than I remembered, with some great political subtleties, but it drags towards the end. I'm glad he saved the really insane stuff for the sequels.

[leo3375]

[Digital Twilight]

Finished my first re read of Dune (first read about 15 years ago). Better than I remembered, with some great political subtleties, but it drags towards the end. I'm glad he saved the really insane stuff for the sequels.

I loved Dune but I didn't like the sequels. I gave up on the third book in the end.

[theimage13]

Bahahahahaha...I JUST came here to post this! Someone suggested it last week, so I read it over the last few days and finished it yesterday afternoon.

Without spoiling anything: that woman pretty much made me feel like I need to just turn in my man card and go buy a purse. Jesus. There were parts of that book that actually had my anxiety getting to a point that I nearly had a panic attack. Kudos to her on an extraordinary journey.

[Maul]

(The spanish translation).

[leo3375]

This is the first in a trilogy. It's a Norwegian murder mystery (violence and gore ahoy!) but it takes place in the United States, along the North Shore of Lake Superior. This locale is one of my favorite areas in my state.

[jmtd]

I loved Dune but I didn't like the sequels. I gave up on the third book in the end.

Pretty sure that's where I gave up first time around.

Now on Iain m banks - player of games