Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[mickitaz]

Originally Posted by lilac_jive

I'll probably get it at the library anyway. I'm getting Small Favor there (when I get to it)

tehe.. now I am even more excited. I just picked up books 1-7 of the Dresden Files. I am a big Weather Warden fan and a friend convinced me this series is a must. Now I just need to finish Kim, and I can start on them.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Brainphart

I've recently finished
"The Man Who Folded Himself" - David Gerrold
"The Lovely Bones" - Alice Sebold
"State of Fear" - Michael Crichton

Working on "City of Bones" - Michael Connelly (#8 in the excellent Harry Bosch saga)

I taught "The Lovely Bones" at Ohio University and the students were very much impressed with the power of the writing.

Don

[pilotbob]

Ug... it happened. The gratuitous sex "scene" in Murder List, 2 chapters of it. I had a feeling when this book was going no where I was duped. I don't know why I've read it this far.

It's not a "bad" book. Just not what I expected or really usually read.

BOb

[Todd A Fonseca]

All,
A couple months ago I read "Vespa" by Dean Lombardo. It was really very good (ending got a little out there, but what a fast paced read).
Well, Dean now has it available on Kindle (a few of you had asked when he would have it available so I thought I'd give you the heads up!). Amazon link.

Here's my previous review:

1940 - Deep within the jungles of the Amazon river basin, a young native boy leads a group of German scientists in search of el monstruo. The boy, being smaller than the rest, moves fast through the dense forest intent on finding the prize and pleasing the strangers who bring food, medicines, and supplies for his people. He soon distances himself from the group and finds what he seeks. Unfortunately, he alone is no match for el monstruo.

Present day - Tom Goodman, an entomologist and expert on the control of invasive species, is contacted by the U.S. government to investigate the mysterious disappearance of several animals in a remote area of southwestern Connecticut known as the Lucius Pond Ordway Perserve - or the "Devil's Den" as the locals call it. What he finds seems impossible but Tom and a team of isolated scientists soon discover what the young native boy learned years before - nature has found a way to bring the impossible to life.

In Vespa, Dean Lombardo has created a highly charged entertaining thriller similar to novels written by Crichton at his best. A cross between Preston and Child's The Relic and the X-files season II episode Firewalker, Lombardo's Vespa is crisp, fast paced and engaging. He seamlessly introduces just the right amount of science and entomology into the novel providing a plausible explanation for el monstruo. About ¾ of the way through, the limits on my suspension of disbelief were stretched, but by this time I was so engaged in the story it didn't matter.

This is a really good book. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. What a spectacular debut novel. I anxiously await Lombardo's next book.

[Sparrow]

Phew! Just finished 'Star Maker' by Olaf Stapledon.

I did not find it an easy read; I had to read the last few chapters aloud to make it to the end (my mind kept drifting off otherwise).
Some interesting notions; but very repetitive and overly-long, with a rather pessimistic tone throughout. Also, it is definitely a product of it's time -1937 and the looming shadow of WWII - so it lacks connection with the modern reader.
I can't allot it a place in my list of SF classics; but I'm glad I read it, if only to satisfy my long-held curiosity.

On to the MRBC book of the month; 'The Surgeon of Crowthorne' for some light relief (hopefully).

[desertgrandma]

I believe its in topaz format. Even tho it lists kb's, not page numbers. It downloads with a "1"

Disappointing. (but I'm gonna read it anyway.)

Originally Posted by Todd A Fonseca

All,
A couple months ago I read "Vespa" by Dean Lombardo. It was really very good (ending got a little out there, but what a fast paced read).
Well, Dean now has it available on Kindle (a few of you had asked when he would have it available so I thought I'd give you the heads up!). Amazon link.

Here's my previous review:

1940 - Deep within the jungles of the Amazon river basin, a young native boy leads a group of German scientists in search of el monstruo. The boy, being smaller than the rest, moves fast through the dense forest intent on finding the prize and pleasing the strangers who bring food, medicines, and supplies for his people. He soon distances himself from the group and finds what he seeks. Unfortunately, he alone is no match for el monstruo.

Present day - Tom Goodman, an entomologist and expert on the control of invasive species, is contacted by the U.S. government to investigate the mysterious disappearance of several animals in a remote area of southwestern Connecticut known as the Lucius Pond Ordway Perserve - or the "Devil's Den" as the locals call it. What he finds seems impossible but Tom and a team of isolated scientists soon discover what the young native boy learned years before - nature has found a way to bring the impossible to life.

In Vespa, Dean Lombardo has created a highly charged entertaining thriller similar to novels written by Crichton at his best. A cross between Preston and Child's The Relic and the X-files season II episode Firewalker, Lombardo's Vespa is crisp, fast paced and engaging. He seamlessly introduces just the right amount of science and entomology into the novel providing a plausible explanation for el monstruo. About ¾ of the way through, the limits on my suspension of disbelief were stretched, but by this time I was so engaged in the story it didn't matter.

This is a really good book. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. What a spectacular debut novel. I anxiously await Lombardo's next book.

[lilac_jive]

I'm reading "The Abduction of Julia" in *gasp* pbook.

[Peadar Ó Guilín]

I have finished Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle and have started Ken Macleod's Learning the World.

[nekokami]

Reading Immanuel Kant's Metaphysics of Morality (formatted by the fabulous Patricia) and Vygotsky's Mind in Society (in paper).

Re-reading Pratchett's Mort in between, for breaks. And Girl Genius online and in PDF.

[lilac_jive]

I'm now reading "Dumb Money," by Daniel Gross, which is exclusively an ebook. It's about the market collapse. So far it is entertaining.

[Fledchen]

Originally Posted by lilac_jive

I'm now reading "Dumb Money," by Daniel Gross, which is exclusively an ebook. It's about the market collapse. So far it is entertaining.

Where can one acquire this ebook?

[lilac_jive]

Originally Posted by Fledchen

Where can one acquire this ebook?

I got mine on Sony, it should be available for the Kindle as well. Not sure if the other etailers have it.

I should warn you, it was kind of pricey for it's size. 194 pages for $10.79

[pilotbob]

Finished reading _Murder List_. This books was neither a myster or thriller which I sort of expected. I guess it was romance. I'm not sure since I don't really read that genre. Not my cup of tea.

Start reading UR by Steven King. I've just gotta started but strange things are happening.

BOb

[Sparrow]

Finished 'The Surgeon of Crowthorne' by Simon Winchester.

About to start 'Touching the Void' by Joe Simpson (pbook).

[Sydney's Mom]

I'm reading a trashy Harlequin romance I got from the library. Kind of like bar nuts - awfully addicting, not very nutritious, something I would never pay $$ for, a real guilty pleasure.

Anyone else have any guilty pleasures?