[AdmiralRalwood]

Finally working on John Dies at the End, which a friend of mine got me for my birthday last year.  It sure is a thing.

I thoroughly enjoyed that book myself.

[The E]

After this segment of Last Week Tonight, I started "Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser.

[watsisname]

BUMPAGE.

Finished the Harry Potter series.  Awesomeness.

Currently reading:
Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich
Applications of Tensor Analysis by McConnel

In the to-do pile:
Music of the Sun - The Story of Helioseismology by John Miles
This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin
San Juan Islands - A Boater's Guidebook by Breeding & Bansmer
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Koma Kulshan - The Story of Mt. Baker by John Miles

[MikeRoz]

I just finished Echopraxia, the sequel to Blindsight.

[headdie]

Just lining up blue mars

[watsisname]

Scratch my last -- current reading is now Echopraxia.

[The E]

Finished Command and Control. It's like all the existential dread of Lovecraft with none of the comforting knowledge that it's fiction; It's seriously amazing that we've gone through the entire time since the end of WW2 without someone, somewhere accidentally detonating a nuke.

Also got through a bunch of Peter Watts' short stories; There's this "Sunflowers" cycle of (so far 2) short stories ("The Island", available on his site, and "Giants", available on Clarkesworld), and "Malak" (available on Watts' site) which blew me away completely.

[Scourge of Ages]

After the "Wingman" debacle, I whipped through "Redshirts" by John Scalzi in two days; it is a far superior book.

So now, reading "The Forge of God" by Greg Bear.

[Edhotmetal]

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Got through the first two chapters so far. Very well written, made me think a little.

[Lorric]

I'm reading One Million Lovely Letters. It's, well, lovely. And inspiring. A real feel good book, though there is plenty of sadness too. Look it up, it's a true thing.

Better yet, have a look at her webpage to see what she does:

http://onemillionlovelyletters.com/about/

Good for restoring faith in humanity.

[Gortef]

Log Horizon light novels. Damn they're great.

Not in Japanese though, can't do that yet.

[The E]

So my copy of the "Upgraded" Anthology by Neil Clarke (of Clarkesworld fame, and featuring a bunch of people from Clarkesworld, including Peter Watts, Elizabeth Bear, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Tobias Buckell and General Battuta) arrived recently. Now working my way through it.

[MP-Ryan]

After finally finishing the Wheel f Time, I've started into Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight archive with "The Way of Kings," which I'm powering through with amazing speed.  It's very good.

[Hobbie]

Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Help.

[Lorric]

Here's a question for anyone who wants to answer. How many of you have been inspired to read a book due to this thread? Or maybe even actively use it as a source of inspiration?

I'm going to drop the video from the homepage of the website I linked.

I feel this thread might not be being used to it's fullest potential. It's nice, but us simply name-dropping titles we've read or are reading doesn't really inspire discussion or at least in my case inspire me to look into the books. Discussion of course could bring spoilers, but if the books were discussed in separate threads, that would solve that problem. Anyway, in future, I personally if I post in this thread intend to try and do more than just drop the title like I've done with One Million Lovely Letters. Otherwise, what purpose does my post serve?

Wouldn't it be nice if a discussion on a title was born from this thread, in which several people were inspired to read one of the books?

Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Help.

It's worth it. :yes:

Though I admit I never read it all. Large chunks.

[Mongoose]

Orrrr everyone could just keep doing what they're doing, and no one person could try to dictate the course of the thread.

[Lorric]

It was just a suggestion. Nothing more.

[headdie]

A discussion of the merits of different works would be a worthy idea but I think needs to be a separate thread, like with "What you are listening to" thread this one works just fine as a list of what ppl are reading atm and where appropriate their thoughts on the book.

[Lorric]

A discussion of the merits of different works would be a worthy idea but I think needs to be a separate thread, like with "What you are listening to" thread this one works just fine as a list of what ppl are reading atm and where appropriate their thoughts on the book.

Yes I agree. The way I was thinking was that such a discussion could potentially be spawned from posts in this thread, but would be a thread of it's own.

[InsaneBaron]

Finally came to the end of my Tom Clancy spree (Burned out on "The Bear and the Dragon" because Nomura started really getting on my nerves). "Executive Orders" makes me wonder why we can't have a real Jack Ryan for president

Coming back to the good ol' Brotherband series; just ordered "Slaves of Soccoro".