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

[lilac_jive]

Eventually I'll get to "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." It sounds really good.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by cassidym

Based on your recommendation and especially the one from Katti's Cat, I just started The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo. If you two liked it, I know I will. Will give you a full report when I'm finished.

I just read the sample and reserved "...dragon tattoo" and "....played with fire" at my library.

[WT Sharpe]

I just finished reading Boomerang by Alan Hutchenson (Plumboz).

Boomerang is a farcical romp that begins with the death of J. Edgar Hoover and ends with a high-stakes madcap race against time to recover a seemingly innocuous artifact. Alan has a way of making you truly care about what happens to each of the book’s off-center characters, each of whom is interesting in their own right, and each of whom will stay with you long after reading this book. Like many before me who have read it, I thoroughly enjoyed Boomerang and highly recommend it to all who enjoy a good adventure written in a humorous style.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2010.

A good issue. I enjoyed almost all the stories, although one short story didn't seem to me to be SF at all, but a fairly standard ghost story - "The Woman Who Waited Forever".

Now for Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2010.

[angelad]

Originally Posted by lilac_jive

Eventually I'll get to "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." It sounds really good.

The avatar for that book is all over the place. People must be really liking the book, I might check it out.

[kainne]

Just finished Under The Dome which I really enjoyed. Just started Before They are Hanged.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2010.

Excellent. The "Probability Zero" short short story was especially good - worth the price of the issue just on its own. And the other stores all worked for me too.

Now for the rest of David Feintuch's Seafort Saga. Irritatingly, the fifth and sixth books aren't available as ebooks (& don't seem likely to be coming out any time soon), so I've had to resort to other means. But the last one is available, Children of Hope. I have seen mixed reviews of this book. The first ones were enjoyable, a "Hornblower in Space", although with obvious contrivances to make it so.

Joy Walton has put up an interesting review of the first book (& the series in general).

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

...Now for the rest of David Feintuch's Seafort Saga.

I'm mainly reading about what pdurrant has been reading - but I'm struggling to keep up!!

Do you read 24x7?

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

I'm mainly reading about what pdurrant has been reading - but I'm struggling to keep up!!

Do you read 24x7?

I read quite fast. And I don't watch much telly. I do think I'm currently reading a little more than I usually do - although this is the first time I've kept track.

[Thundergirls]

Just finished Brad Meltzer's "The Book Of Lies."

It has a Dan Brown feel to it, though the world travels are only from Florida to Ohio. Brad is a good writer, with a reputation in the comic book realm, which explains why this book deals with the decades old REAL murder of Mitchell Siegel, father to Jerry Siegel, who created Superman.

Bought it from Fictionwise.com and enjoyed it on my JetBook Lite.

Next up, "Impact" by Douglas Preston.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Now for the rest of David Feintuch's Seafort Saga.

Well, I have to say that they were most enjoyable. Action packed, and they move along fairly fast. I found them hard to put down.

Now for a 'mainstream/sf' - Timeline by Michael Crichton. I wonder if he's got anything interesting to say about time.

[VIC MACKEY]

Wow, I am overwhelmed by all of these recommendations. I will revisit this thread often, I think. So many interesting titles-- speaks to the quality of the members.

Currently, I am reading Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. I cannot praise Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky enough for their transformation of this title. This may be as close to the spirit of the title that the English language allows.

While attending university, I trudged through a very bland and, it seemed, cursory translation from the Russian language. I was interested in the story but the translation simply did not keep me involved as a reader. The current version that I am reading, however, has kept me up at night.

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Having meant to start it a few days ago when I posted it here, I have only just got around to reading The Machine Stops by EM Forster today. Finished that during my morning commute and am now reading The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

[lilac_jive]

I started reading "Murder Takes the Cake" which I got free on amazon for my iPhone. I think it's in the dreaded topaz format, and now I see how bad that is. Yikes!

[MickeyC]

Originally Posted by lilac_jive

I started reading "Murder Takes the Cake" which I got free on amazon for my iPhone. I think it's in the dreaded topaz format, and now I see how bad that is. Yikes!

I've been buying books from Kobo. As soon as you buy a title and download it to your computer, it also downloads to your iPhone. And teh format on the iPhone seems fine.