What are you reading?

[cyc]

Did you ever finish reading Rainbox Six? I remember how hard I had to try to make myself finish it. It's rather interesting too how (going by the ways of Clancy now) he hasn't tried to milk the RS as a book series like he has in other forms of media.

[doppelgänger of someone]

I remember his (ex)wife claimed to own half the IP of Clancy's work prior to RS. Finished Rainbow Six and Patriot Games, started reading Red Storm Rising oh about 10 years ago but never finished. Scarred for life already.

Reading Moneyball by Michael Lewis. They claim this book inspired some English football managers to conduct signing in a new way, e.g. Sam Allardyce/Bolton school of signing wayward/over-the-hill players then turning them into world beaters (or, at the very least, beat nancy boys they used to have in Arsenal). Possible application to rugby?

[Fred]

Currently reading 'The Geckos Foot' by Peter Forbes. It is a look into the world of biomimetics where engineers and scientists are drawing from nature to solve a variety of problems. For example studying the Lotus Flower leads to a nanotech surface that self cleans. Quite interestings thus far, about a hundred pages in...

[Ab]

Originally Posted by cyc

Did you ever finish reading Rainbox Six? I remember how hard I had to try to make myself finish it.

Nup. It's never to late to stop reading a bad book, and Rainbox Six is right down there with the Dune prequels.

[chiQ]

I'm reading Witnesses From the Grave: The Stories Bones Tell, by Christopher Joyce and Eric Stover. It's a bit dark, but not as dark as Perfume, which I started rereading recently and just couldn't get into.

[chiquelet]

Originally Posted by doppelgänger of someone

I remember his (ex)wife claimed to own half the IP of Clancy's work prior to RS. Finished Rainbow Six and Patriot Games, started reading Red Storm Rising oh about 10 years ago but never finished. Scarred for life already

Red Storm Rising was a great read imo. It's written completely differently to the Jack Ryan series, it's like reading a different author.

Originally Posted by Ab

Nup. It's never to late to stop reading a bad book, and Rainbox Six is right down there with the Dune prequels.

Good to know, I just won't bother with Rainbow Six then. But the thing with bad books is knowing when to stop. My problem is persisting in the hope that it'll get better, or persisting because the book is a "classic" so really how bad can it be? Well how somebody could even get through One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest to call it a classic is beyond me.

[chiquelet]

Originally Posted by Ab

Clancy went off the deep end when his wife left him. I quite liked everything up to and including "Executive Orders", but "Rainbow Six" and everything since has been trash.

Just did a quick search and discovered that he and his wife split in 1998, and he married his second wife in 1999. The man was clearly heartbroken *snort*

[Waldo]

im reading the last of the harry potter series. and rather enjoying it too ....

[chiQ]

Originally Posted by Waldo

im reading the last of the harry potter series. and rather enjoying it too ....

I thought it was good. I liked the whole series, and found when I reread it after reading the last book a bunch of things were clarified or highlighted. The last book is definitely a clincher.

[blur^]

just finished fall of kings, the finale in david gemmells 'troy'
decent series and a nice alternate take on the trojan war

was good his wife could finish it off after he kicked the bucket

[Wally Simmonds]

Just started reading "The Neutronium Alchemist". Starting a little slower, but that's to be expected from what I've read of the other books.

[creamcheese]

re-reading 'Darkness, Take my Hand' by Dennis Lehane for i think the third time.

just finished 'A Drink Before the War' by the same fella

[chiQ]

Rereading LotR. I'll probably take it slowly and read other stuff while I read this, as my focus is zero at the moment, and it's long. I've also got other stuff I feel I should read, but don't feel hugely enthusiastic about, so it'll be something nice and familiar to go back to between 'duty reads'.

[Luse]

Finished reading "His Dark Materials" trilogy in the weekend, then promptly went and watched The Golden Compass on Q st. Good read, so-so movie. If anything I just enjoyed seeing the characters on screen.

Now the hunt for more books begins. Anyone suggest anything? I usually read stuff like LOTR, WOT (TILL HE DIED GRRR), and also Steven King books. I find myself 3 weeks into the year and I've decimated my xmas Book haul already

[[BT]Monza]

After seeing No Country For Old Men last night at the movies I am def going to track down the book...

[Synergist@]

I just finished No Country for Old Men last night, it's amazing how little the movie departs from the book, a really good conversion IMHO.

Also pick up a copy of "The Road", his latest book, ignore the fact that Oprah's made a big thing about adding it to her book club, it's still a really good read.

[Helious]

Where do most of you do your reading? or find time to read?

I'd like to read more, but I have the concentration level of a 6yr old with ADHD.

Are the majority of folks here reading in/before bed? or do some of you read only on your lunch break?

[[Malks] Pixie]

Read on my lunch break, read on my cigarette breaks, read before bed, read while waiting for the bus, on the bus, read while cooking etc etc... basically whenever I have a few spare moments to kill. I'm never without at least one book in my bag (depending on the size of what I'm reading).

It's a habit I've had since I was really young (thanks mum!) which I never grew out of (thankfully).

Pixie

[LordP]

Generally I read a couple of hours before bed - and sometimes a couple of hours after bed, if it's a good read. When I took the train to work, that was another place to try and read a chapter as well.

Just started reading The Pawn Of Prophecy (book 1 of the Belgariad), and listening to America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction (read by Jon Stewart + Friends)

[blur^]

Originally Posted by LordP

Just started reading The Pawn Of Prophecy (book 1 of the Belgariad)

ah david eddings, one of my favourites

[Ab]

Originally Posted by Helious-

Where do most of you do your reading? or find time to read?

Bus on the way to work, lunchtime on weekdays, and before going to sleep.

[Golden Teapot]

I "read" my audiobooks on the bus to and from Club Med, err work.

Currently on book 3 of the Artemus Fowl pentalogy; quite enjoying it really.

[chiQ]

I'm now also reading Ready by Elizabeth Gregory, and rereading Preacher. Nobody can accuse me of failing to have a diverse library!

[doppelgänger of someone]

always read magazine/fluff while browsing the web (and listening to music, multitask, baby), read heavy stuff before bed

[Waldo]

Originally Posted by chiQ

I thought it was good. I liked the whole series, and found when I reread it after reading the last book a bunch of things were clarified or highlighted. The last book is definitely a clincher.

I know what you mean, I must say she must of had soo many notes on the series all planned out well ahead of the first book being published.

im at a loss what to do with my nights now heh

[chiQ]

Originally Posted by Waldo

I know what you mean, I must say she must of had soo many notes on the series all planned out well ahead of the first book being published.

im at a loss what to do with my nights now heh

Heh, that's easy: read His Dark Materials!

[Draco T Bastard]

Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.

Mildly amusing and very interesting.

[[Malks] Pixie]

With all the elections which seem to be coming up I thought it would be a good time to pick up "Interface" by Neal Stephenson again, and also "Distraction" by Bruce Sterling...

Both are good reads - I prefer Distraction to Interface, but Interface is more "now" - whereas Distraction is where I see us in the next 10 - 20 years.

Pixie

[Rince]

Neuromancer by William Gibson (of course)

a much harder read than I thought - I think he was probably stoned when he wrote it..... I also hope the Wachowski brothers paid their royalties...

[Torka]

Reading Kaczynski's paper about the overthrow of industrial society. Quite different from what you'd expect given the popular image of him as a madman.

Lots of stuff in it to disagree with, of course, but his thoughts are organised and the writing is quite coherent. A murderer but not the gibbering 12 Monkeys-style mental patient the media painted him as.

[Rangoon Attack]

just finished up the Hyperion cantos and have just started reading a short story Dan Simmons did called the Orphans of the Helix, it's set after the The Rise of Endymion

[Asriel]

I just finished iWoz by Steve Wozniak. This guy loves himself far too much. "Boy, I sure am smart". Surely he is, but do we need to hear about it all the fucking time.

Also finished a book by William Gibson, the name of which I cannot recall. Good book though.

[dead goon]

read on the tube going to work, and sometimes at night before bed, or when i get into bed. (thats if im not having sex with multiple women at once, of course. or having a wank)

[dead goon]

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

[LordP]

Just about to start Belgariad 5 - Enchanter's End Game.

Liking the series - short, but a good story, compelling characters, and I'm a sucker for fantasy settings.

I suspect I'll be starting on the Mallorean series afterwards, or perhaps the two 'prequels' (Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress)

[Jenza]

Peter F Hamilton.

Awesome++

[Saladin]

Originally Posted by cryocore

just finished Confessor - Terry Goodkind.

I see they're turning it into a TV series now
http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/01/29/th...s-comes-to-tv/

I look forward to whole episodes dedicated to Richards monologues on the virtues of Goodkind's crackpot philosophy!

[Rince]

Originally Posted by Rince

Neuromancer by William Gibson (of course)

a much harder read than I thought - I think he was probably stoned when he wrote it..... I also hope the Wachowski brothers paid their royalties...

still struggling with this - due back at teh library Friday week, and I've also got a collection of harry harrison short stories to read and go back at the same time.... :/

[Ritalin]

The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger. I'm really enjoying it, but I'm 1/3 of the way through, and I think I've already figured out the twist at the end.

Boo.

[Kryten]

Originally Posted by Rince

still struggling with this - due back at teh library Friday week, and I've also got a collection of harry harrison short stories to read and go back at the same time.... :/

You're welcome to grab my copy if you want a longer borrow.

I'm trying really hard to read First Man in Rome and I do like it - getting time to do it justice (it's 1000 pages) is eluding me. And it's the first of 7!