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

[lene1949]

Originally Posted by thinkpadx

This is great news I just stumbled upon a new historical fiction novel by Ken Follett: Fall of Giants, http://www.ken-follett.com/home/index.html. I will definitely put this on my read list. I loved Pillars of the earth (one of my absolute favourites) and the sequel World Without End. The book is released simultaneously to 16 countries.

I thought this wouldn't be available in Australia, but it was! Bought it straight away, just to make sure.

Thanks for the heads up.

[GraceKrispy]

I really liked Flaming Dove!

I'm about the start that adult choose-your-own-adventure book by our very own Rudy Kerkhoven (Adventures of Whatley Tupper).

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Now onto some classic SF: The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth by Robert Heinlein. This is an omnibus edition of two books of short stories. Fun stuff, I seem to remember, and I think I'll enjoy the re-read.

An collection of excellent SF stories. Highly recommended.

Now for Trouble Magnet by Alan Dean Foster. This is another in the long-running Pip and Flinx series. This is the third from last, and since I've just bought the last one and already have the penultimate one, I'm hoping that the quality has improved from the previous one, which was just a 'filler' novel, and I can read straight through to a good finish...

[kennyc]

My favorite Heinlein is "Time Enough for Love" a loosely coupled collection of short stories and includes the "Notebooks of Lazarus Long" with quotes like:

"Moderation is for Monks"

“An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.”

“No storyteller has ever been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.”

...

[TC Beacham]

I'm reading PROMISED LAND, an early Spenser title by Robert B. Parker - Hawk is introduced in this one and Spenser gets serious about Susan (didn't realize that happened so early on).

[bthrowsnaill]

I'm reading "God Emporer of Dune" by Frank Herbert. There have been some recent posts about the book on these forums; these posts have praised some political insights that are delivered in the character dialogue. Since I last read the book many years ago and my strongest memory of the book is the repeated Duncan Idaho cloning, I figured I'd give it another try.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kennyc

...quotes like:

"Moderation is for Monks"

...

I have no idea why that struck me as funny!

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by woodpile3

One of my favorite books by Jonathan Carroll is on sale at Amazon (Kindle edition). Just $0.99.

From the Teeth of Angels

woodpile3

Welcome to mobileread ....

nice name you've chosen

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I have no idea why that struck me as funny!

That's my favorite from all his "quotes"

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/lazarus_long/

http://www.pithypedia.com/?author=Lazarus+Long

[rlparker]

Finished The Pigtailed Heart. An unnecessarily explicit (imho) prolog, and a kinda slow first chapter or two. But I'm glad I stuck with it, because it turned out to be a pretty good noir story about Los Angeles in the late 1930s a la "Chinatown".

Just started Wet Desert, a Novel by Gary Hansen. Anybody else read it?

[naql]

Finished the Dealers of Lightning the other night. It was a really great book. I knew a little bit about PARC but I never knew they invented so much.

I just started Where the Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet by Matthew Lyon.

[Cyclops]

I'm finding this Gulliver of Mars quite tedious to be honest, I think I've had enough of a Mars that's just like Earth, with english speaking martians, trees, rivers and flowers! And the writing is headache stuff! Just get on with the story already-and its over 600 pages (tho realistically closer to 400)
I need a break, something different, might pick up some classic horror.

[GeoffC]

I finished The Prison Colony - and it was a cracking read ....

Started Haven - but couldn't get past the first 3 chapters, it jumped about a bit and I couldn't focus well enough, but I'll probably try and get back to it another night.

I am my own Grandpa - is interesting, this far - if I can keep tabs on who is related to who and in what order !

(All these courtesy of MR members )

[kennyc]

I tried "Buddha" be Deepak Chopra at lunch yesterday but couldn't get into it so started All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy.... I guess I've put A Fire Upon the Deep on simmer for the moment... or maybe I'm just being ADHD...

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by kennyc

I tried "Buddha" be Deepak Chopra at lunch yesterday but couldn't get into it so started All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy.... I guess I've put A Fire Upon the Deep on simmer for the moment... or maybe I'm just being ADHD...

I got Buddha as a freebie and tried a few pages but was not convinced. I bought Siddharta (sp?) by Hermann Hesse a few months ago, I'd rather read it... some day.

Finished Stone's Fall, a very good read though maybe not as satisfying as it could have been. I seem to remember I felt the same way when I read The Dream of Scipio, which was very good but not as good as An Instance of the Fingerpost.

I borrowed a few books on religion at the library, and started reading a book on the crusades but got sidetracked into reading the Gospel according to Mark, which I managed to finish for a change. Very interesting in that it gives a picture of Jesus as a human being - not necessarily one I would have cared to meet, but definitely human. He keeps getting angry at people, and even at a fig tree