[SpardaSon21]

The Fellowship of the Ring.

[StarSlayer]

Because I lack the time and the will currently to devote to something information-dense and of crappy narrative quality (goddamit First Team and Guadalcanal) I'm rereading my X-Wing books.

Always a worthy pursuit.  For myself I'm about half to two thirds through Neptune's Inferno.

[Ravenholme]

"Behind Enemy Lines", Sir Thomas Macpherson's autobiography. Really great read.

[Colonol Dekker]

Honor of the queen.


Still........ almost done, Fearless and Troubadour are on Thunder of gods tail and holding at the maximum missile envelope.


Old half-numb-face had better impress me.

[NGTM-1R]

The Quiet Warrior, Buell's biography of Raymond Spruance.

(Interesting side note: my father apparently knew Buell, who was XO of the first ship my father served on.)

[CommanderDJ]

D&D 4th Edition Player's Handbook  (just joined a group, first gaming session is next week)
The Real Hacker's Handbook by Dr. K.
And I'm currently waiting on Code Complete 2 by Steve McConnell to arrive.

[The E]

The CthulhuTech core book. One of the best RPG backgrounds I have seen so far.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

The Duke Nukem Forever Balls of Steel Limited Edition Guide.

[FireSpawn]

Just finished Garth Nix' 'The Seventh Tower' series, if only because I read the first thee books as a kid and couldn't get the other three. As with all his other works, it was a great read with a fair bit of bloodletting for a kids book, but lost steam towards the end.

It also has one of those open ended 'And so the bad guy was beaten and the good guys finished their quest. But rather than give you the solid close you've just read six ****ing books for, I'm going to leave you with them just starting to deal with a bunch of **** that was going to be in the next book before I decided that this is giving me enough money as it is...' kind of endings.   

[StarSlayer]

Wrapped up Neptune's Inferno and The Sign of the Four currently working through The Hound of the Baskervilles.

[General Battuta]

this thread has really good taste, i need to read some of the military history on here

on a separate note asimov's apparently took all the scene breaks out of my story, what the christ 

[StarSlayer]

this thread has really good taste, i need to read some of the military history on here

on a separate note asimov's apparently took all the scene breaks out of my story, what the christ 

Welcome back Battman,

Spoiler:

is it bad while reading Private Ritter when I got to the parts early in the story describing the backups and combat fatigue I wondered why CDC Command didn't just keep them at the optimal restore point?

[General Battuta]

No it is good because you are smart

I think Baru Cormorant is a much better story with much better prose, I'm a little embarrassed about Ritter. It feels stodgy and thick.

[StarSlayer]

No it is good because you are smart

I think Baru Cormorant is a much better story with much better prose, I'm a little embarrassed about Ritter. It feels stodgy and thick.

I really enjoyed the Traitor Baru, I forwarded it to one of my friends, her comment was:

"I got to listen to the story it is very good.  Except,  good is a rather shallow adjective to use. I need a better quality adjective. And excellent got ruined with Bill and Ted's adventure."

[Mongoose]

Just finished Garth Nix' 'The Seventh Tower' series, if only because I read the first thee books as a kid and couldn't get the other three. As with all his other works, it was a great read with a fair bit of bloodletting for a kids book, but lost steam towards the end.

It also has one of those open ended 'And so the bad guy was beaten and the good guys finished their quest. But rather than give you the solid close you've just read six ****ing books for, I'm going to leave you with them just starting to deal with a bunch of **** that was going to be in the next book before I decided that this is giving me enough money as it is...' kind of endings.   

Hey, I remember reading those, though I can't recall the ending myself.  Did you ever read Sabriel and its sequels?  Good stuff.

I finally picked up one of many books I've had sitting around for ages: the novelization of Douglas Adams's adventure game Starship Titanic, written by Terry Jones.  It's not exactly high literature, but it's fun to see the game in a new light.

[FireSpawn]

Hey, I remember reading those, though I can't recall the ending myself.  Did you ever read Sabriel and its sequels?  Good stuff.

Yeah, that was the first of the Old Kingdom series, and the first Garth Nix book I read many, many, MANY years ago (I lol'd at the bells). They were swiftly followed by the Keys to the Kingdom series, alongside looking for the Seventh Tower books.

Now I'm just waiting for the 8th and final Artemis Fowl to come out, so that I can finally lay to rest the last of my childhood book series.

[Colonol Dekker]

HH 3.

Short Victorious War.
Started it on the way home from work today. Eyeball fixed, Enemy politics highlighted, new command fresh out of lé blocks-broken...

But she's in a wet, figure hugging unitard.





I will resume this tomorrow on the way to work.

[NGTM-1R]

So I have Skulski's The Heavy Cruiser Takao sitting in ebook form on my desk, but frankly I read five pages and went into sensory overload from the fact there's just too much raw information in the damn book. I'm reasonably sure if I do more than nibble on the thing my brain will melt down and run out of my ears.

So instead, inspired by the recent F2P of Star Trek Online, I got the entire New Frontier series of novels in ebook form. They're not really good (even by the standards of licensed books; Stackpole or Loren Coleman would eat this author alive), though they're reasonably Trek, and they're readable enough even if not grand works of literature.

[LordMelvin]

Just finished up some cheap fun pulp stuff, and am now diving into Stephen Baxter's Ark. So far, a more-than-decent continuation of Flood, assuming you can get past the geological issues which formed the premise of the world.

[qazwsx]

Just finished Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five
Pretty damn good.