What are you reading?

[hball55]

Currently listening to “Cyteen” by C.J. Cherryh. It won the Hugo award in 1989. It’s taken about 5 hours before it gets moving; good thing there’s another 32 hours of book left. Now it’s a SciFi murder mystery. I looked ahead to the sequel and found out that the mystery isn’t solved until the next book. Cyteen was published in 1988, and the sequel (Regenesis) was published in 2009. That’s a long time (21 years) to wrap up a murder mystery, but Cyteen is good.

 

[Antares JS]

The last one in the series will be out soon, in 74 days, I have it pre-ordered. It’s called Leviathan Falls.

I have it preordered as well. I'm about halfway through Persepolis Rising now. Getting through it and Tiamat's Wraith by November shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Bravo52]

This was a book my daughter read many years ago and when assessing her old room as a potential model studio () I saw this on the shelf. I don't normally read dystopian teen novels but the cover picture caught my eye and I thought it would be a quick read. "Life as we knew it" isn't a typical post-apocalyptic book. To me it was much more realistic...and a bit scary. Well worth a read. I'm glad my children both read it.

 

[tokind]

Einstein's Fridge

 

[hball55]

Any of you guys(or gals) read the Game of Thrones books? Worth picking them up?

Caveat, I have seen the series, which I enjoyed, but have been told the books are pretty different.

Absolutely worth it! You may get a little depressed when you get to ‘A Feast for Crows,’ as that book has so much death in it.

 

[mo2872]

Absolutely worth it! You may get a little depressed when you get to ‘A Feast for Crows,’ as that book has so much death in it.

Picked up the first book, and I'm about 35 pages in so far. Eddard just found out Robert is coming for a visit, and that Jon Arryn died. So, I'm early yet.

 

[hball55]

Picked up the first book, and I'm about 35 pages in so far. Eddard just found out Robert is coming for a visit, and that Jon Arryn died. So, I'm early yet.

Don’t say anymore, as you’re going to pull me back in and I’ll have to either get the movies out, or the books.

If George R.R. Martin ever gets around to finishing his epic, the Audible book(s) will be without one of my favorite narrators, Roy Dotrice, who died four years ago. His voice will be sorely missed.

 

[DaHabes]

Altered Traits

 

[lakeroadster]

Josey Wales: Two Westerns : Gone to Texas/The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales.

Why the artist drew him holding a teeny tiny toy gun on the cover is a mystery.. Those civil war era Colts were pretty massive.

 

[ewomack]

I went on a reading frenzy and recently finished these 5 books (one is a "young adult" book, but it was all in French, so I think that counts ):

 

[OverTheTop]

Just completed Captive Universe. Good short read.

Still working through my guidance, control and astronavigation textbook. Gets to be a bit of a slog at times. Interesting stuff though.

Have just ordered Command and Control by Schlosser, as recommended upthread.

 

[ewomack]

Have just ordered Command and Control by Schlosser, as recommended upthread.

I second that recommendation - it's a fabulous history of nuclear weapons - by the end you will wonder how we're all still here.

A documentary also exists, but I preferred the book.

 

[mo2872]

228 pages in on Game of Thrones……love it so far, and hoping he finishes the series his way.

 

[boomtube-mk2]

Re-reading Marilyn Chase's The Barbary Plague which is about the nearly ten year battle to stop the spread of Yersinia pestis aka Bubonic Plague in San Francisco.
and beyond during the first decade of the 20th century. It was not pretty and the great 1906 earthquake didn't help matters any.

The sad part is how hard the governments and business leaders of San Francisco, California and even the U.S. fought to keep people from knowing, much less believing, that there even was "Black Death" in San Francisco.

They, the government naysayers, were helped in part with this endeavor due to the fact that for the first few years of the plague it was mostly contained within the borders of Chinatown and the victims were predominantly Chinese and reading about the city's view's on the Chinese back then is pretty hard to fathom, put simply; the more Chinese that died the better.

 

[Antares JS]

Finished Perseopolis Rising last night and started Tiamat's Wrath over lunch today. The first sentence in it was monumentally depressing.

 

[boomtube-mk2]

For those of you who are waiting for the completion or continuation of some series you are reading, take heart, for however long you have been waiting it can't possibly compare to the frustration for those of us that got into David Gerrold's Chtorr War series the first of which was published in 1983 with the fourth in 1993.
That book A Season for Slaughter ended with a "Cliff Hanger" and readers of the series have been waiting 28 years for the next instalment.
At this point most people believe that Gerrold has simply given up on completing the series.

 

[mo2872]

Finished Game of Thrones book 1...........heading to the bookstore to pick up as many of the rest as they have!

 

[Antares JS]

Finished Game of Thrones book 1...........heading to the bookstore to pick up as many of the rest as they have!

Just be sure to mentally prepare yourself for the despair you will experience when you reach the end of A Dance with Dragons and realize there is no more and may never be any more at this rate.

 

[mo2872]

Just be sure to mentally prepare yourself for the despair you will experience when you reach the end of A Dance with Dragons and realize there is no more and may never be any more at this rate.

Yeah, I know.......I started to not buy the first one because of that. But, I can't help but wonder if he doesn't have it done already, and it won't be released until his demise??? , dunno why I wonder that, but it crossed my mind.

 

[jimn]

The General vs the President by Brands

 

[Pappy]

the compleat angler by izaak walton. written around the turn of last century, my copy was printed in 1947. my dad, a book collector, gifted me this years ago, and i figure i owe it to him to read it. tell you what, this izaak walton dude be lovin' fishing... and talking. dang, he's long winded...

 

[jd2cylman]

Finished Equal Rites and started Project Hail Mary. Had to order some stuff, so to boost the total a bit I added Mort and Sourcery.

 

[Antares JS]

Finished Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse 8) and am now semi-patiently waiting for Leviathan Falls to be released in November. I'm unhappy about waiting but it's far from the worst wait I've ever had for a book. *glares at GRRM*

Note that the entirety of The Expanse (9 novels + novella/short story collection) was written after the release of A Dance with Dragons.

 

[dr wogz]

Just finished:

"You cant always get what you want" by Sam Cutler.

Sam was the tour manager for the Rolling Stones 1969 US tour {Let it bleed}. (He played the car horn at the beginning of 'Country Honk!!) He was also 'part of the family' managing the Grateful Dead for the next few years after that.

I've been corrected on the events at the Altamont "free" Music fest (and what lead to Hunter's death) - from his point of view at least..

In tribute, i spent 2 weeks listening the Stone's complete studio albums (No live nor compilations) in chronological order. (I kinda petered out after Dirty Work / Steel wheels.. They were their best in the late 70's in my opinion, then they just churned out albums to feed the money machine..)

'Exile on Main Street' & 'Some Girls' are their best albums, in my opinion..

And, I've also just spent a week listening to the Dead. I used to 'kinda' know them.. Now I have an appreciation of their music!

 

[smstachwick]

Origin by Dan Brown. Author of The Da Vinci Code.

My best friend is working through Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for the first time, it’s great to go on the journey with her.

 

[rdrown]

This post

 

[Pappy]

'Exile on Main Street' & 'Some Girls' are their best albums, in my opinion..

great stuff... for me it's 'let it bleed', 'sticky fingers' and 'beggars banquet'

 

[Pappy]

Origin by Dan Brown.

really like him. recently read one that wasn't a langdon jam, forget the name. maybe it's this one. had nasa in it. good stuff. ran across a new television show based on 'the lost symbol', too. unsure of the network, maybe peacock.

 

[Sooner Boomer]

really like him. recently read one that wasn't a langdon jam, forget the name. maybe it's this one. had nasa in it. good stuff. ran across a new television show based on 'the lost symbol', too. unsure of the network, maybe peacock.

You're probably thinking of "Deception Point". That, and "Digital Fortress" are the only two "non-Langdon" novels.

 

[mo2872]

Started GOT Book 3...........all I can say is that sucker better have the finale set to release soon. Good stuff.