What are y'all reading?

FullerH said:
Niven cowrote that with Jerry Pournelle. They also cowrote a great satire called Inferno, a modern take on Dante's Inferno. As an example, the development at any cost people are cursed to build all day and the BANANAs (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything) are cursed to tear it down each night. Great book!
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Great! Another book I have to get now. :) I've been on a crazy book buying spree of late. I looked around my library/computer room and I have about a hundred new (to me) paperbacks I've bought mostly off ebay in the past month. I should be all set to read for quite a while now. :)
 
ADBF, you might also check out another collaboration that they did, The Mote in God's Eye. It is a "First Contact" story and a very, very good one even if the context in which it is set, the Co-Dominium with the USA and the USSR ruling the Earth and its space colonies pretty much unchallenged, is gone.
 
FullerH said:
ADBF, you might also check out another collaboration that they did, The Mote in God's Eye. It is a "First Contact" story and a very, very good one even if the context in which it is set, the Co-Dominium with the USA and the USSR ruling the Earth and its space colonies pretty much unchallenged, is gone.
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Thanks Fuller. I have that one already. I've already read 'Footfall,' which I thought was pretty good, I'm into 'LH' and 'Mote' is next. I've already ordered 'Inferno,' so that one will get read after 'Mote.' :D Fun stuff after all that non-fiction I was reading for awhile and got tired of.
 
Three excellent books I've read recently are:

Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
Winning the Future by Newt Gingrich
John Adams by David McCulloch

You also might put on your reading list "Men in Black" by Mark Levin given the current situation on the Supreme Court.

My wife also got me hooked on the "Left Behind" series recently. I'm up to book eight with three more to go.
 
The Left Behind Series;

Author: Steven Lawhead

Song of Albion Trilogy;
The Paradise War: Book 1
Silver Hand: Book 2
The Endless Knot: Book 3



Author: Trevanian;
The Eiger Sanction
The Loo Sanction
Shibumi;


G2
 
Pulling this thread back to the top one again...

I just started John Jakes' epic trilogy North and South for the third time. Last time I read the series (around 1993), I simply started it over when I got to the last page and read it again. Now that it's out on DVD I figured I'd read it again and sure enough, it has not failed to capture my attention. Kickass series. Highly recommended.

On audio, I've been listening to Edward Hermann narrate Turow's latest novel Ordinary Heroes while driving. Great stuff.
 
Robert Jordan's latest Knife of Dreams. Much better then the previous book in the series (I've got a buddy who collects hardbacks; he lends 'em to me after he's read 'em)

Picked up Verbal Judo yesterday, after hearing a lot about it on these boards. Also picked up Relax Into Stretch by Pavel Tsatsouline. I was going after a differnt stretching book that was mentioned here on the forums, but B& N didn't have it. Instead that had the the book I'd got, which had been recommended to my when I'd asked about flexibility before. The $35 price was a butt-clencher, but I'd just sold my old truck and had some extra cash.

Also replaced my copy of the Necronomicon (no author listed) that I'd left (and lost) at my parents house. I'd looked for it in the New Age section with no luck, so I asked about it. Was told New Age, but that it might be downstairs, behind the registers "because that's a title that walks out of here a lot". So I went downstairs to pay for the 2 books I had and my sons new stuffed kitty he'd found. The cashiers were clueless... they called Customer Support and after a bunch of running around and witing, the CS guy finally found one (he came from upstairs with it, so maybe it was hidden up there)
 
Hehe- Lovecraft's invented volumes live on.... I remember looking at a copy of The Necronomicon years ago, it seemed to be a hodgepodge of stuff culled from various new-age stuff, a "witches grimiore" or two, and a lot of similar stuff.

I'm surprised we haven't seen someone try to do Unasprechlichen Culten or Das Vermis Mysteriouses yet.....

I'm currently chewing my way through the last (he says...) of Steven King's Gunfighter saga at work, and I just replaced my copy of Gibson's Virtual Light.
That's the book that preceeded All Tomorrow's Parties, which I had just re-read as well.
 
I just finished up Stephen King's short story collection "Everything's Eventual." Brilliant writing, he works surprisingly well outside the horror genre, too.
 
The last two books I read.
Freedom: Credos from the road by Sonny Barger. It's the philosophy of the Hell's Angels leader.
Mount up! we're moving out! by Vernon H. Brown. It's a WWII memoir of the 14th Armored Division, 94th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (mechanized). My Uncle was in the 2nd platoon - K.I.A.
 
Dean Koontz
"Odd Thomas" while I was over seas in Switzerland and now I see he has a sequel out called "Forever Odd" that I'll probably pick up as I head again to
Zug. It was an interesting book, quick read as well.
G2
 
Richard K. Morgan's Woken Furies, fast driving science fiction. He is the first writer in the genre to interest me since Neal Stephenson, high praise indeed.
 
I started Lila by Robert Pirsig a few nights ago and can't put it down. It's nearly as good as his first book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

I just picked up a copy of The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang. It's about the wholesale slaughter of the Chinese at the hands of the Japanese early in WW2.

As to fiction... I love R A Salvatore's books and I've been reading Doug Niles' Moonshae trilogy.

I love 20th century American literature like Hemingway and Steinbeck.

I'm running out of room for books. Books and knives are where my money goes.
 
By reccomendations from people on this site im reading:

Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales
 
Not currently reading anything, however I am looking for pretty much any book that has to do with the post-apocolypse. Such as being set 3-400 years after a comet strikes and mankind has regressed to tribal warfare. Or even 30 years after and one mans accout of learning to survive in a world where nothing is given to you. I'm not exactly sure what this sub-genre is called, which is why im asking you guys if you know of any books of this type.

I recomend Clive Cussler, the Dirk Pitt novels are quite entertaining, he's sort of a James Bond of the seas.
 
I've just finished Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (history+math+geeks!) and I'm now halfway through Watch On The Rhine by John Ringo, part of the Aldenata/Posleen series.
 
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