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[Beerfish]

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

[AtreiyaN7]

The Colony by A.J. Colucci - it's a bit of a silly/pulpy thriller a la Michael Crichton. I actually wouldn't recommend it unless you want a really silly science thriller. It's about genetically-engineered hybrid ants that infest New York (it goes pretty poorly for the humans). Don't really find the characters believable or the ecoterrorism angle for that matter (EDIT: and now that I'm almost to the end, my suspicions about the "ecoterrorists" have been confirmed), but I'm amused by the ants at least.

Modifié par AtreiyaN7, 14 mai 2013 - 12:25 .

[AtreiyaN7]

And I just finished reading Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (good horror novel). Now I'm reading Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey (which involves some sort of plague, werewolves (?), and a U.S./Mexican border town I believe).

[Volus Warlord]

Finally got my hands on this. Will provide a nice contrast for The Abolition of Man.

[ObserverStatus]

The King in Yellow

[inetfree180]

currently reading dan brown's inferno

[mousestalker]

Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight by M E Thomas

I just finished this. I found it quite chilling and sad at the same time. The pseudonymous Ms. Thomas is aware that she is broken, that there is something missing with her and is desperately trying to find something of value in her state of being.

{edit} On a lighter note, there's this quote about this book: "Sociopaths are a nice break from the swarming narcissists that currently dominate the profession."

Modifié par mousestalker, 17 mai 2013 - 07:32 .

[AtreiyaN7]

Saints Astray by Jacqueline Carey (sequel to Santa Olivia - btw, it turns out the protagonist and her brethren are not werewolves; they have some genetic tweaks that may or may not come from the animal kingdom but are basically human).

[AtreiyaN7]

And now that that's done, I"m on to The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton because I liked her other book, The House at Riverton (it was Downton Abbey-esque).

[GodChildInTheMachine]

I just finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I thought it had a pretty good execution of its premise, which could have gone over disastrously. Overall it was very well-written and entertaining, though nothing quite profound.

After that I picked up The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, and it is one of the worst novels I have ever started reading. I am nearing halfway through, but I really don't know if I can make it any further.

[NeonFlux117]

Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad.

More of a novella than a novel, but it's absolutely stunning and oozing with atmosphere. Up the river we go.......

[Fiddles dee dee]

and


It's like porn but literary!

[Naughty Bear]

randumb vanguard wrote...

Prey, by Micheal Crichton.

Same guy who wrote Jurassic Park. It's pretty enjoyable, and it actually has a three page bibliography at the end. Guy takes his science fiction seriously. xD

I need a new sci-fi book, what is Prey about?

[The Valiant Misanthropist]

Atm Macbeth and Moby Dick.

"Is this a dagger which I see before Me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let Me clutch thee!
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation
Proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
Thou marshall’st Me the way that I was going,
And such an instrument I was to use.
Mine eyes are made the fools o’ th’ other senses,
Or else worth all the rest. I see thee still,
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There’s no such thing.
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to Mine eyes. Now o’er the one half-world
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtained sleep. Witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate’s offerings; and withered murder,
Alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl ‘s his watch, thus with his stealthy pace,
With Tarquin’s ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not My steps which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of My whereabout
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives;
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
I go, and it is done. The bell invites Me.
Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven, or to hell."

Modifié par The Valiant Misanthropist, 25 mai 2013 - 06:26 .

[AtreiyaN7]

The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman.

Modifié par AtreiyaN7, 26 mai 2013 - 06:09 .

[Seboist]

Currently reading "30 Bangs: The Shaping Of One Man's Game From Patient Mouse To Rabid Wolf" about one man's struggle in his early days of trying to learn game.



Hopefully I can learn from his mistakes and successes in order to improve my game and increase my notch count.

Modifié par Seboist, 27 mai 2013 - 12:16 .

[Dominus]

Everyone else was Kung Fu Fighting, so I chose Karate: Japanese Empty-Handed Combat. I've also got the Handbook of T'ai Chi Ch'uan Exercises. Gotta work on those abdominals and whatnot.

[Commander Dariush Shepard]

A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin (Yes, jumping on the bandwagon a little late)

[bEVEsthda]

I've recently read:

Child 44

The Secret Speach

Agent 6

All by Tom Rob Smith.

Child 44 is a fantastic and unique thriller/novel. One of the best things I've read in a long time. And it was the reason I read the two sequels. Unfortunately, they are not at all as strong. Personally, I feel the author have made a couple of big mistakes, in how he handles the followups. I can't recommend Secret Speech or Agent 6. I don't even think they're worth reading, by themselves.  But Child 44 is tremendous, make no mistake about that.

[Silfren]

Just finished reading Dan Brown's Inferno, am now working through Howard Zinn's The Politics of History.

[AtreiyaN7]

I'm almost done with The Rise of Ransom City by Felix Gilman. It's the sequel to The Half-Made World but focuses on a different protagonist (an inventor) who, at one or two points, runs into the two main characters from the first book.

[Commander Dariush Shepard]

DominusVita wrote...

Everyone else was Kung Fu Fighting, so I chose Karate: Japanese Empty-Handed Combat. I've also got the Handbook of T'ai Chi Ch'uan Exercises. Gotta work on those abdominals and whatnot.

I used to do Karate, switched over to Kung Fu 

[Dominus]

I'm reading Under the Dome, by Stephen King. Loving it so far, about 1/3 way through.