[Aardwolf]

I don't think I've read much of anything recently.

I reread Starship Troopers back in March. First time (in memory) that I've ever reread something voluntarily (not for a grade).

[Mongoose]

I've been enjoying Brandon Sanderson lately, especially the Mistborn series.

I'll have to try that out, as I really loved Elantris.  It's one of the very few completely-stand-alone works of fantasy I can think of.

[headdie]

Current:  Backlash - Aaron Allston
Just Finished:  Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
Queue:  Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov

The foundation series is brilliant, its been a few years since I read them and i really ought to re-read them as i was still at school when I first read them (so it was about 10 years ago) and cant remember much of the detail now

on another note nearly finished  Millennium Falcon

[BloodEagle]

I've been enjoying Brandon Sanderson lately, especially the Mistborn series.

I'll have to try that out, as I really loved Elantris.  It's one of the very few completely-stand-alone works of fantasy I can think of.

I liked Elantris as well, and the first novel in the Mistborn series.

The third, not so much.

[watsisname]

Finished recently:
Red Mars / Green Mars / Blue Mars, all by Kim Robinson.  Excellent "realistic" sci-fi series about the colonization/terraformation of Mars that I can't recommend highly enough.

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1006/1006.2799.pdf -->  Yeah, I'm an utter nerd.  But exoplanetary research is awesome.

Currently reading:
Just started Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Robinson.  It's a supposedly realistic portrayal of events brought on by climate change.  First book in a series of three.  It's good so far but I'm barely into it yet.

On the to-read list:
The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz.  I typically enjoy Dean Koontz's (questionable apostrophe usage!?) work, so I look forward to this one.  He does pretty good thriller/mystery/suspense stuff.

The Black Hole War - My Battle With Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics  -->  I dunno.  Got it from some book club promotion thing.  Might read it eventually. :X

Favorite book(s) ever:
The Descent novels (three of them) based off the computer games of the same name.  Written by Peter Telep.  Faaaaantaaastic, even if you never played the games.

[headdie]

Finished recently:
Red Mars / Green Mars / Blue Mars, all by Kim Robinson.  Excellent "realistic" sci-fi series about the colonization/terraformation of Mars that I can't recommend highly enough.

I got about half way through red mars, amazing book, I cant remember why I had to stop reading it though, might have been when I moved out of my parents house and it was dad's book

[Angelus]

To improve my English, i've strted reading Books in English.

Just finished: The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

reading currently: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

next in line:   

The Picture of Dorian Gray  - Oscar Wilde
The great Gatsby                - Scott Fitzgerald
Great Expectations             - Charles Dickens
Les Miserables                    -  Hugo Wild
Crime and Punishment       - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The first batch already arrived, waiting for 2 books which will most likely arrive next week.

[Rand al Thor]

The Black Hole War - My Battle With Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics  -->  I dunno.  Got it from some book club promotion thing.  Might read it eventually. :X

That's good stuff. Nothing cutting edge obviously; it's a pop-science book so as well as the obligatory quantum mechanics crash course it's a general run down of progress made on quantum physics since Hawking decided that information gets lost in black holes up to the holographic principle and some really interesting stuff (that I must look more into) on the similarities between the atomic and subatomic worlds; essentially how the study of (if I remember correctly) rapidly spinning protons might be able to explain properties of quarks.

I'm reading 'Magician' by uh, Feist (yes, that's it) on recommendation from a friend (who has subsequently very much retracted that) and I can safely say it's one of the worst books I've ever started. Clumsy, unnatural dialogue, completely illogical world's (the enemy are a much more advanced (in some ways) civilisation who don't have steel. Or any/very few metals. That's pretty retarded. I wish I was less obsessive such that I could just throw it aside. And this is the edition that he re-edited years later with his accumulated 'skills'.

Not a big fantasy reader, but as anyone in the know would guess, I'm a big fan of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series. I would argue that it grew into it's own world within the space of the first couple of books but it is largely Tolkien-derived, very much so for the first book. And it's LONG. Long written (very detailed) and long worded. 13 books of an average of 6 to 700 pages each. Unfortuantely Jordan's gone and died on us so Brandon Sanderson's been called up to finish them. The 12th was his first with two final books to go but unfortuantely I reckoned it to be a fairly sizable drop in quality so anyone considering starting should go in eyes open.

Fanboy gush over.

After that I'm probably going to read the Robert Harris Cicero/Rome novels and finally finish Time's Arrow by Huw Price.

[Mongoose]

I've gotten bogged down in The Wheel of Time series on two separate occasions now, and each time I've had to start over from the beginning because I haven't remembered most of what came before.  (I'm starting to get royally sick of the first book. ) I found significant parts of what I have read to be exercises in frustration (for instance, the period in the first book when the whole cast splits up drags on for far too long), but I am interested enough in the overall story to want to try it again.  Next time, though, I'm making sure I have them all bought first before I lay into them.

[Rand al Thor]

Hmmp, I thought that part worked very well. Each to his own.

One thing I will say is that some of the Nynaeve and Elayne parts in later books are poor, I have to admit, Sanderson wrote (at least some) of the women much better than Jordan.

Good luck!

[Colonol Dekker]

The Divine comedy always meant to.

Now it's free i've got no excuse..........

[Ghostavo]

Winning Chess Middlegames - Ivan Sokolov

It's a technical book. About chess. 

[Snail]

Winning Chess Middlegames - Ivan Sokolov

It's a technical book. About chess. 

Interesting.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

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[SpardaSon21]

The Malus Codicium, which is known to you feeble mortals as the collected omnibus of the Eisenhorn novels.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

The Malus Codicium, which is known to you feeble mortals as the collected omnibus of the Eisenhorn novels.

What's that?

[NGTM-1R]

The Malus Codicium, which is known to you feeble mortals as the collected omnibus of the Eisenhorn novels.

A resounding Meh, sir.

[General Battuta]

The Malus Codicium, which is known to you feeble mortals as the collected omnibus of the Eisenhorn novels.

A resounding Meh, sir.

MEH

meh

meh

See? It resounded!

[Titan]

Just finished Trojan Oddysey by Clive Cussler. Though it wasn't his last Dirk Pitt book, as far as I'm concerned it is, since in this one Dirk Pitt was old enough that he couldn't do a lot of stuff, so in any later books his character might as well be dead, since he wouldn't be able to signifigantly influence the plot.

Spoiler:

But the ending was great. really tied up the series. Dirk married Loren, everyone settled down, and at the very very end, Cussler appears at Dirk's wedding reception (Yes, the author puts himself in a number of the Dirk Pitt novels) and they both walk off into the metaphorical sunset.

[Mongoose]

I need to get into the Dirk Pitt series.  I've read both of Cussler's Sea Hunters books about his real-life shipwreck-finding escapades, and I found his writing style massively entertaining.  (His description of a potato assault on a French naval frigate is something else. ) I'm sure his fiction is every bit as fun.