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ShortNCuddlyAm · 05-07-2009, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Jux

Neil Stephenson - Snow Crash. Cyberpunk classic. If you are new to cyberpunk I recommend it. It is quite easy read compared to Gibson's Neuromancer.

I also think it's the better book

Currently reading Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels

lilac_jive · 05-07-2009, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

I also think it's the better book

Currently reading Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels

How are you liking it? I thought it was hilarious

I kept cracking up at the Magic Hoo-hoo.

Dr. Drib · 05-07-2009, 09:04 PM

I'm getting ready to start reading a nice, juicy, (and hopefully, bloody) little collection of short stories called "Dr. Offig's Lessons From The Dark."

It sounds like a great read if - like me - you enjoy stories that reach lovingly out of the dark wells of sleep only to slowly encircle their blighted hands around one's thick and bloated throat...Ack!

Has anyone else read this collection?

Don

Paradoxikon · 05-07-2009, 09:10 PM

Right now, I am reading a book by Ben Wilson
What Price liberty ?
How liberty was won and is being lost.

http://www.whatpriceliberty.co.uk/about/

I am really enjoying this book. I guess it is more for history buff.

Moejoe · 05-07-2009, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Paradoxikon

Right now, I am reading a book by Ben Wilson
What Price liberty ?
How liberty was won and is being lost.

http://www.whatpriceliberty.co.uk/about/

I am really enjoying this book. I guess it is more for history buff.

I downloaded it, but haven't begun reading it yet. My reading list is getting longer than a fifty year habitual criminal's rap sheet

snape · 05-08-2009, 12:25 AM

I'm winding down Terry Darlington's Narrow Dog to Carcassone. Very entertaining. I'm looking forward to the follow-up Narrow Dog to Indian River, which is a few spots down on my TBR list. The dialogue doesn't follow the normal style (i.e., quotations when someone's talking), but you get used to it after a few pages.

Benjamin's Parasite by Jeff Strand is next on the list. Should be bloody and gross and wildly funny. Can't wait... *rubs hands together*

BlackVoid · 05-08-2009, 03:47 AM

Just finished Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson. Mediocre, 3/5.

Started The Broken God by David Zindell (sequel to Neverness).

Dr. Drib · 05-08-2009, 04:56 AM

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Originally Posted by BlackVoid

Just finished Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson. Mediocre, 3/5.

Started The Broken God by David Zindell (sequel to Neverness).

Hmmm. I have one of his novels (can't remember which one), and have yet to read anything by him. What are these two books about, and was the first one better than your rating on the second one?

Don

mickitaz · 05-08-2009, 11:01 AM

I was reading the Dresden Files. Finished Death Masks last week. I was afraid I was going through them too quickly. So I am taking a short break from them and now reading Moby Dick.

I feel like I am going through withdrawal though. I want to keep reading Harry.

lilac_jive · 05-08-2009, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by mickitaz

I was reading the Dresden Files. Finished Death Masks last week. I was afraid I was going through them too quickly. So I am taking a short break from them and now reading Moby Dick.

I feel like I am going through withdrawal though. I want to keep reading Harry.

I'm having the same problem with that series. I'm reading them way too fast! I only have three to go

MickeyC · 05-08-2009, 01:30 PM

Just finished 'Separation of Power' by Vince Flynn. A real page turned especially the closing chapters. I hadn't read any of his books till a few months ago. And now I've set out to eventually read each one, hopefully in order.

ShortNCuddlyAm · 05-08-2009, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by lilac_jive

How are you liking it? I thought it was hilarious

I kept cracking up at the Magic Hoo-hoo.

I'm loving it - it's creasing me up

Phebe · 05-08-2009, 10:03 PM

I was reading First Family by David Baldacci, but didn't like it; Baldacci is losing steam. Grisly, implausible, predictable, boring. I took it off my Kindle --- one click does that! As far as I know it doesn't archive or anything, just zap.

Now I'm reading the Book of Air and Shadows, Michael Gruber --- a lost Shakespeare play, letters and code found inside the binding of old books from a contemporary of Shakespeare who was trying to involve him in Popish plots, a mysterious female bookbinder with a dubious past, a heavy weightlifter lawyer who hates himself for philandering -- I liked how weightlifter didn't know how to fight a group, so he picked up one man and swung him around and hit another man with him. Not bad.

Idoine · 05-08-2009, 10:27 PM

Started another one, in parallel with The Adamas Blueprint :
The Shadow Seer, Book 1 of Ellenessia's Curse, by Fran Jacobs
Like it much, for now, so I asked on Fictionwise for any book from its author...

lilac_jive · 05-09-2009, 11:09 AM

I'm reading "Moon Called" by Patricia Briggs. I read some of her fantasy novels a few years back and enjoyed them, and someone (I think on here) told me to check this series out since I like the Dresden Files so much. So far, so good.

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05-07-2009, 09:04 PM	#1893
Dr. Drib Grand Sorcerer Posts: 45,473 Karma: 60119087 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Peru Device: KINDLE: Oasis 3, Scribe (1st), Matcha; KOBO: Libra 2, Libra Colour	I'm getting ready to start reading a nice, juicy, (and hopefully, bloody) little collection of short stories called "Dr. Offig's Lessons From The Dark." It sounds like a great read if - like me - you enjoy stories that reach lovingly out of the dark wells of sleep only to slowly encircle their blighted hands around one's thick and bloated throat...Ack! Has anyone else read this collection? Don

05-07-2009, 09:10 PM	#1894
Paradoxikon Member Posts: 13 Karma: 200 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Québec Device: PRS-505S, EbookMan (10 years), COMPAQ C-140 (1 Year)	Right now, I am reading a book by Ben Wilson What Price liberty ? How liberty was won and is being lost. http://www.whatpriceliberty.co.uk/about/ I am really enjoying this book. I guess it is more for history buff.

05-08-2009, 12:25 AM	#1896
snape Language Lover Posts: 111 Karma: 71544 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Current: PRS-350, Kindle PW // Previous: PRS-505, Kindle 1, Kindle 2	I'm winding down Terry Darlington's Narrow Dog to Carcassone. Very entertaining. I'm looking forward to the follow-up Narrow Dog to Indian River, which is a few spots down on my TBR list. The dialogue doesn't follow the normal style (i.e., quotations when someone's talking), but you get used to it after a few pages. Benjamin's Parasite by Jeff Strand is next on the list. Should be bloody and gross and wildly funny. Can't wait... rubs hands together

05-08-2009, 03:47 AM	#1897
BlackVoid Evangelist Posts: 415 Karma: 510423 Join Date: Nov 2006 Device: Sony PRS-505	Just finished Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson. Mediocre, 3/5. Started The Broken God by David Zindell (sequel to Neverness).

05-08-2009, 11:01 AM	#1899
mickitaz Connoisseur Posts: 52 Karma: 12 Join Date: May 2008 Location: off somewhere reading Device: Sony prs-505	I was reading the Dresden Files. Finished Death Masks last week. I was afraid I was going through them too quickly. So I am taking a short break from them and now reading Moby Dick. I feel like I am going through withdrawal though. I want to keep reading Harry.

05-08-2009, 01:30 PM	#1901
MickeyC Grand Sorcerer Posts: 16,731 Karma: 12185114 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida Device: iPhone 6 plus, Sony T1, iPad 3	Just finished 'Separation of Power' by Vince Flynn. A real page turned especially the closing chapters. I hadn't read any of his books till a few months ago. And now I've set out to eventually read each one, hopefully in order.

05-08-2009, 10:03 PM	#1903
Phebe Connoisseur Posts: 85 Karma: 124 Join Date: Dec 2006 Device: Sony PRS 500 and Kindle 2 and iPad and iPhone	I was reading First Family by David Baldacci, but didn't like it; Baldacci is losing steam. Grisly, implausible, predictable, boring. I took it off my Kindle --- one click does that! As far as I know it doesn't archive or anything, just zap. Now I'm reading the Book of Air and Shadows, Michael Gruber --- a lost Shakespeare play, letters and code found inside the binding of old books from a contemporary of Shakespeare who was trying to involve him in Popish plots, a mysterious female bookbinder with a dubious past, a heavy weightlifter lawyer who hates himself for philandering -- I liked how weightlifter didn't know how to fight a group, so he picked up one man and swung him around and hit another man with him. Not bad.

05-08-2009, 10:27 PM	#1904
Idoine Which book will be next ? Posts: 661 Karma: 2172 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: France Device: Cybook Gen3 1.5, Sony PRS 600 RC, Samsung Omnia...	Started another one, in parallel with The Adamas Blueprint : The Shadow Seer, Book 1 of Ellenessia's Curse, by Fran Jacobs Like it much, for now, so I asked on Fictionwise for any book from its author...

05-09-2009, 11:09 AM	#1905
lilac_jive Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,870 Karma: 27376 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Device: PRS-505	I'm reading "Moon Called" by Patricia Briggs. I read some of her fantasy novels a few years back and enjoyed them, and someone (I think on here) told me to check this series out since I like the Dresden Files so much. So far, so good.

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