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Offline Rick James

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What are you reading right now?
Because this forum is one of the last bastions of good grammar on the internet, I presume that at least some of you pick up a book or non-crapful magazine once in a while.

So...tell me. What are you reading right now?

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Re: What are you reading right now?
I just finished City at the End of Time by Greg Bear.  Really quite disappointing.  Especially considering how good some of his previous work has been.

Also recently read House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds.  That was pretty good.  Again, he's done better, but pretty good.  Worth picking up at the library or the used book store.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
Ummm....Let's see:
Anathem - Neal Stephenson --- If you have the time to read it, it's well worth it
Little Brother - Cory Doctorow --- Hey, it's Doctorow, and it's free!
Off Armageddon Reef - David Weber --- So, Weber does still know how to write.
Storm from the Shadows - David Weber --- A bit disappointing, really. Too infodumpy.
Saturn's Children - Charles Stross --- If mankind takes to the stars, this is how we'll do it (probably)
Halting State - Charles Stross --- Realer than you'd think

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Re: What are you reading right now?
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter.
The Brothers Karamazof by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

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Re: What are you reading right now?
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke -- Pretty good but I'm not too far yet
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand -- Economic Philosophy, really deep
Anthem - Ayn Rand -- Anti-Communism, not quite as deep
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque --  Very sad book about WWI
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck --  :(
The Stranger - Albert Camus --  :mad:  I hate this book, but we had to read it for class.

On Basilisk Station - David Weber -- Sci-Fi Space Opera, part one of 11.
March Upcountry - David Weber & John Ringo -- Playboy prince + Hell = Badass
Bolo! - Can't recall right now - Gigantic thinking tanks blow s*** up.
Foreign Legions - David Drake/Various - Romans get kidnapped from Earth for mercenaries.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
March Upcountry - David Drake -- Playboy prince + Hell = Badass
Wasn't that one written by David Weber & John Ringo?
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Re: What are you reading right now?
"Think about nice things not unhappy things.
The future makes happy, if you make it yourself.
No war; think about happy things."   -WouterSmitssm

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Re: What are you reading right now?
The Three Musketeers. (Translated into English of course...)

 

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Re: What are you reading right now?
Temple of the Winds book 4 of 11 Sword of Truth series
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Re: What are you reading right now?
Just finished reading the latest Osprey Aircraft collection book called "Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Aces of the Russian Front".  It was a good read and I love the colour profiles featuring a smattering of different 190 units and their camo schemes.

Also been reading the latest Aeroplane magazine.  I need to find a new novel to read soon...haven't done that for a few months.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
I'm reading the General Discussion posts on HLP.

 

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Re: What are you reading right now?
Today, in my language class, we were assigned to tell the class about what books we're reading right now, and what our favorite book is. Aside from technical handbooks, class readers and skimming assigned literature for paper references, my mind was blank. So I blurted out "Cat in the Hat." Everyone laughed. I'm a 3rd year student at a major west coast research university. FML.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
I'm reading this post and trying to recall what I read when I took a dump last night.

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Re: What are you reading right now?
March Upcountry - David Drake -- Playboy prince + Hell = Badass
Wasn't that one written by David Weber & John Ringo?

Yep. Ringo's stuff was a lot of fun for a while. I think he crossed something of a line for a lot of people with 'Watch on the Rhine'.

 

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Re: What are you reading right now?
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Re: What are you reading right now?
Paperwork.
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Offline Liberator

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Re: What are you reading right now?
When I have a spare moment:

The Day of the Dragon by Richard Knaak, yeah it's warcraft, but Knaak spins it more like a traditional fantasy book.  It introduced us to Rhonin the mage... :ick:

Rise of the Horde by Christie Golden, a much better Warcraft book, detailing the conversion of the Orcs from disparate tribes of shamanistic ancestor worshipers to green skinned army bred for a single purpose.  Golden writes a MUCH better Warcraft book than Knaak.  She's a fan and has a great knowledge of the lore and characters of Warcraft.  She's the author of the upcoming Arthas companion book that a lot of us WoW cretins are frothing over.

Currently, as time allows, I'm rereading Heaven's Reach by David Brin.
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

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Re: What are you reading right now?
Yep. Ringo's stuff was a lot of fun for a while. I think he crossed something of a line for a lot of people with 'Watch on the Rhine'.

IMHO, Ringo can still be fun, as long as he (or his cowriter) keeps his political ranting in check. (See: The Vorpal Blade-Series). But there really is nothing to say about "Watch on the Rhine", except maybe OH JOHN RINGO NO.
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I came from chasing dreams to feel alone
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Re: What are you reading right now?
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke

For the hundredth time I suppose.