City of Amnesia

Alright, I'm making this because I know such a thread existed on PCF, and I just finished The Silmarillion and want to brag about it.

So yeah, long read.  Started it up again beginning of the summer after having attempted a year or two back, right out of my Sci-Fi kick with Chanur and Vorkosigan.  Last segment made the whole of LotR seem so simple, "So then Gandalf was right and some Hobbits threw it in a volcano.  Also: Radagast."  Could have used more about the Wizards, like who any of them besides Radagast, Gandalf and Sauruman were.

Anywho, yeah.

On Basilisk Station


next is Hamlet, for school u_u

after that is Enders Game, and then The Confusion 1 and maybe 2 if I can manage

Harry Ptter: Deathly Hallows (lol)

I cheated and finished Ender's Game.


Holy crap, awesome book.

Reading Heart of Darkness at the moment.
Peace.

Restarted Cryptonomicon yesterday as my mom returned it to the library last week. I got unbelievably lucky as I got the same copy again and it still had my bookmark in it.

Also going to read Ender's Game (same copy, no bookmark) and Animal Experimentation: Cruelty or Science? for a speech I'm working on.

The last thing I finished from cover to cover was Brave New World, and that was pretty cool.

I finished reading a TPB actually. I finished reading Batman's The Long Halloween. This is Batman at one of his darkest moments, and it makes for an amazing read. There's a lot of nuances and great subtlety.
War.

The Vampire Hunter D Series, i'm up to volume 3!

TPB = ?

And Long Halloween is awesome.

A TPB is a Trade Paperback. When they gather a bunch of Batman comics into one book of the arc they're supposed to portray, that is a TPB or a Graphic Novel. Graphic Novels are usually drawn and written with the large size in mind, so they are designed to look more like one big book, while TPBs look like a bunch of comics spliced together.
War.

Does manga count as books? Cus i've just read the second volume of Rozen Maiden.

I'm sure manga count as books desu.
War.

i just finished with eclipse. by stephanie meyers. i reccomend it. though i'm not sure how guys react to it. start with twilight, then new moon end with eclipse, wait for midnight sun(grr). i cried. i love crying in books.

Finished Life of Pi today at work.

Liked it, was upset that some of the pages that should have been more story were instead "group discussion questions".

Crystal Singer
.hack//rebirth vol.2
uh idk i read to much so i cant remeber all the books.

FURUBA!!!!

Fruits basket. the game is fun too.

(Bringin' it back.  8) )

Finally got around to J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories. I now feel complete!

I read through all of Asimov's Foundation series again. I am in love with this book series. It rates a 100 out of 10 on the awesome scale.
War.

Flowers in the Attic. Made me cry nonstop far a while afterwards.
Go ask Alice. Scared me into staying straight... drugwise

uh
the rowan
damia
negima
pokemon manga (being serious)
dargonology
star wars visual dictionary
um i cant remember the rest.

At the moment, I have no new manga to read, so I started on a book I borrowed from a friend, Covenant With The Vampire: Diaries of the Family Dracul by Jane Kalogridis, and so far, it seems like it'll be an interesting read.

Ahaha! I love people like you.
Fiction Press is one of my best friends... *cough*

Candide and Cryptonomicon.

Inb4baroque cycle

Tales of A thousand and one nights.

Robert Jordan's Lord of Chaos. It's part of the Wheel of Time series.
War.

Foundation is awesome. Except the note the time line ends on is somewhat bizarre. I mean, it's good and all to have a collectivist society portrayed in a positive light for once, but it just came out of left field and crushed what we had been rooting for all along.

I recently read 'I Am America (and so can you!)' by Stephen Colbert... Which was oddly disappointing, mostly because it's basically a repeat of the previous Daily Show book, the 'Guide to Democracy Inaction.' Normally the reflective dynamic between the two shows work, but in this case it just came off as stale. If you haven't read Democracy Inaction and are into the satirical tone of the Daily Show/Colbert Report, then you'll probably enjoy it.

I also read 2010, the second of the space odyssey books. It was largely enjoyable, but suffered from serious 'middle child syndrome.' Lacking the self-contained art of it's predecessor and lacking also a fulfilling ending. The ending was definitely neat, but the story felt incomplete. As well, it kind of threw away some of the implications of the prior work in favor of other territories. I'm unsure if I'll pick up 2030 or whatever jazz is next.

siyuki 5-8
pegasus in flight
WOW manga
a 1929 versioon of ripelys believe it or not
PhD 1-5
Gundam 0079 1,2
Gundam Seed Astray 1,2
MaR 5
pretty much all fantasy.

3 in rapid succession, cause I love procrastinating. More novels for me than usual even though I've got a couple of nonfiction and history related stuff I still have yet to get at:

Blow the House Down- Robert Baer (author is a former CIA sort, and now a commentator, I have a nonfiction one about the agency by him which I'll probably read soon. This is just a very plausible, well done spy novel)

No Country For Old Men-Cormac McCarthy (Theres a movie version of this coming out, apparently getting good early reviews, the Cohen brothers are directing it. I'll be interested to see how its adapted into a film, it dosen't seem like a perfectly adaptable novel)

The Tomb - F. Paul Wilson (Good stuff, fun and engaging thriller novel about a pseudo-underworld private investigator type who winds up getting dragged into dealing with the paranormal...its much better than what I'm sure my description sounds like)

And I've just started Conspiracies, by the same author, and is about the same characters from his other book.

The Island of the Day Before
by Umberto Eco

In during Baroque Cycle.

The Big Sleep, some civil war books, a few other things I may or may not retain much interest in.

Ha, there's more manga listed here than there are books.

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"La Religieuse" by Diderot (ooh là là, en français)
"Snow Country" by Yasunari Kawabata

Both school assignments. Couldn't stop reading either of them... which may mean that I've been book-starved for the past good while. Probably been absorbing too much visual media.

"The Moral Animal" by Robert Wright. Evolutionary psychology fascinates me.


We're about to start "Les Liasons Dangereuses." How sick is that! Anybody seen "Dangerous Liaisons" with Michelle Pfeiffer?
Exactly.

Much of what I have read lately are either school books (which, with few exceptions, I have picked up with extreme distaste) or pleasure reading relating in some way to the stories I write  :).  Here is a small list:

Metapatterns
Gaia Atlas of world peoples
the Cosmic Serpent
Chaos and Harmony

Also, since I've recently taken to geology with a strong passion, I've been reading the publications of a elect group of professors at my school.

Peace  8).

The full rulebook for Magic: the Gathering. It's 144 pages. I'm trying to get back into tournament play again, and I need to know the new Type II legal rules and interpretations.
War.

Just read James Clavell's "The Children's Story" again.

So good, really, really short, but still so good.

Watchmen


I'm still reeling.

A Guide to Programming in Java - by Beth Brown

The same class also uses the following online "book"...

Introduction to Computer Science using Java - by Bradley Kjell
http://chortle.ccsu.edu/java5/cs151java.html

I'm probably half way through the text book and about a third of the way through the web "book". It's the main reason why I've had so little time to post...

Oh JAVA, how I miss you.

So much better than C++, though my bias might be due to being taught one, and just told to go out and program in the other.

So now I'm through all four Ender books (Ender's Game is one of my favorite books, its excellent storytelling, the second one is pretty good, and the other ones I read to satisfy my need for MOAR, they're alright but not great)

Also, 5 books in Baroque Cycle, incredible series.

Now I'm reading Pullmans Dark Materials, and after that the Ender's Shadow books, then I think another Honor or two and then System of the World, the last books of Baroque Cycle.

All of these are highly recommended for anyone with sci-fi, or alternately, historical sci-fi fiction inklings.

I re-read Twilight.... a chick book, doubt any one here has read it...

Damia
To Ride Pegases
Dragon's Fire
RunAwys vol.7
Negima
........
A 1929 version of ripleys
insturtion manual

+anima
Hana Kimi
Meru Puri....
Missing: spirited Away



do people no longer read???? I have to edit my post to add more!!!!!

the cart and the cwidder
the Hollow Kingdom

couldn't put either of them down...

I started reading the first book in the Wheel of Time series, but haven't gotten very far yet.

ARMOUR
The Encylipedia of Fairies (not a joke this is a real book)
How Crystals are made.

"The Wold According to Clarkson" by Jeremy Clarkson....you know the guy from Top Gear.

Oh and hello all again, i know i've been away for a while but it's still a wonder that i have the third most highest number of posts! I see that Majin Vegeta has changed his name again (Just stick anything Vegeta okay...vegeta rules).

Hi galatea, I'm closing in on you...
We're reading pride and prejudice in my english class now... I've read the condensed version...


I was doing inventory on just my manga..... $740 odd dollars. It's sad....

I have the most posts.

You'll never match me.

I win.

FATALITY
War.

lolDM'sthedon

I'm not sure if I noted I read Pullman's Dark materials, but since that I read Frankenstein and now I'm reading He She and It

I'm at a loss as to how vegeta managed to bet so many. You must have been incredibly annoying...

Still on P&P.... it's hard to plow through, but my diction is being boosted about thirty levels...
Unlike with Huck Finn, now, that killed my vocabulary and made me sound racist for a month....

Nimisha's Ship!
JLA New Order.

does that stand for "justice league of america"?

Neal Stephenson -- The System of the World

The only book I've read lately that's lead to exclamations of "Oh, THAT'S who that is! The ear-biting guy! Its the ear biting guy!"*

Among much less comprehensible things.

To anyone with a slight interest in the period (1640s-1710s), historical fiction, historical science fiction, pirates, political intrigue, King Louis XIV, books with impossibly large casts, epic fiction, books with incredible detail, or books by Neal Stephenson, I recommend the Baroque Cycle in its entirety. At something around 3200 pages, its a lot of book, but oh is it ever so worth it in every possible way.

*Oh Mr. White, you're such a card.

I've recently established with my self why diana wynne jones is my favorite author... she makes me wow.

I read Howl's Moving Castle once, it was pretty rad from what I remember, took me all of an afternoon and was a pretty nice read.

Also I finished that book up there ^^ and then I read Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card which was also pretty great.

Reading Dune by Frank Herbert at the moment.

So far so good, still near the beginning though.

This is me loving you know and forever.
does a psychology textbook count? It is a rather fun read...

I just finished the first volume of the Baroque Cycle, Quicksilver (which consists of the books Quicksilver, King of Vagabonds, and Odalisque).

I'm having at el laberinto de la soledad, and starting at the second volume of the BC, The Confusion.


You, I already like you.

Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs (Buddy levy)

StarCraft: Queen of Blades.

is there a trend in reading books in spanish? cuz i win with casa de los espiritus. read it in english first (house of spirits, Isabell Allende, amazing find her) i still have to finish it, though.
Others i have started to re-read...
Howl's Moving castle (4th time, at least, you can tell why i haven't finished)
Harry Potter books 1 and 7. (why i read the begining and end together baffles me)
others i re-read already...
Harry potter 6 (I know i'm a geek, who dares throw the first stone? Plus, I am hyped for the movie)
And lastly, the book i have only just started despite the fact that every girl in america would eat me for only just begining...
Breaking Dawn.
I asume the throng of males here have at least heard of such a ooey-gooey chick flick in the making? Gah! *creeps up on sister to steal book, only to find her clutching it as a mother would an infant, or the said infant an especially sensitizing dangling earring...*


Gosh, i should hope you guys at least read my rants, I find them thoroughly enjoyable.

And?

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The Good Earth.

I loved it.

Finished Pride and Prejudice a few weeks ago.  Finally got my nerve up to read The Lord of the Rings.  It's over 1,000 pages and is very daunting.   :-\

Watchmen.

Yeah, I was pulled in by the trailer before The Dark Knight. I'm one of those. First real comic book or graphic novel that I've ever read.

'Bout the same as liberty's crusade in my estimation. Novelization of the zerg campaign combined with badly written and annoying retcons. Basically: Artanis is the executor, Tassadar is stupid, among other things.

Speed of Darkness is still unchallenged as the premier StarCraft book.

I finished breaking dawn Ah, soooo good. Its a bit depressing how much my family is unappreciative of books...

Good choice...

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

I have never read an Ayn Rand book, and never plan to.

If manga counts (can't remember, and don't feel like looking) recently read volumes 23 and 24 of Berserk, which continues, surprisingly, to get better and better, along with Bakuman, Vinland Saga and the first volume of Bitter Virgin.

I'm nearing the end of the second book in the "Wheel of Time" series, The Great Hunt. I can't quite place what it is I like so much about these novels.

i started reading webcomics, turned on to the terrible habit by some random findings on gocomi.com. PS, gocomi likes to empty your wallet. yes, their title are omfg, but my wallet is rather empty...

I used to read a bunch of webcomics. I'd never pay to simply read them, though.

Finished The Great Hunt at about 7 in the morning yesterday. 'Twas good.

Oh, no, I don't pay, either, I meant that that publisher charges 11 dollars a manga, and I've only bought 7 from them, but it still empties my wallet...

Ah, so they (http://www.rightstuf.com/1-800-338-6827/catalogmgr/xTe-ALOE4vcfGxqmdC/browse/search/5/4/0/0/results/desc/asc/50/1) do. You should wait for a sale on Right Stuf.

hmm, i don't do much online shopping, but even so i don't think i could wait for a sale. *sigh* what a dilema. This is considering i only buy one series from them....


College textbooks are rather exciting....

I guess that's understandable.

Last novel I read was "Full Metal Panic: Into the Blue".

Oedipus and the plays of Sophocles.

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
So good.

Midnight Sun. It isn't finished, though, which depresses me, because stupid people had to leak it on to the internet, violate the authors rights and thus leading to depression for millions of fanpires. It sadens me even more because it is so good, way better than the female version of it, Twilight. Damn it...

Alien Agenda

Getting mah UFO fix.

I'm reading A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud on my own terms because I really enjoy stuff like that.

Why not? I thoroughly enjoyed The Fountainhead, but only because I can relate to Howark Roark. So much.

I hate Nora Roberts books. i guess they're better than the romance novel my mom has about the native american guy, but still, her ladies are too feirce with no real class...

Guess I've just heard a lot about her being a really pretentious writer. Maybe I will, one day.

I think the last real book I read was Welcome to the N.H.K. Another light novel; much better than the manga, in my opinion. Right now, reading The Book of Joby and Watchmen.

She kinda is, I guess. I've never read any of her other books(but I want to read Atlas Shrugged) so I can't really say.

Right now I'm reading The Selling of the President 1968 because I love the 60's and advertising!

Advertising?

Anyway, I'm currently reading Motiba's Tatto's, it's a memoir slash compilation slash research paper novel thing. It's actually really interesting. The author's father worked on the Apollo missions, and he's an Indian immigrant, and she delves into the lives of her father's family in post slash pre-industrial India. Fascinating!

Advertising!

My Fair Lady by Monica Dickens
Why yes, I was born in the wrong era.

Would you care to elaborate?

I just like advertising in general. I'm going into fashion photography, and of course there will be advertising in that.

I don't really know how to go into it, I just like advertising in general. The book I was reading about was selling the President(Nixon) on television. I think it's more of an old-fashioned advertising liking for me though.

Dark Object: The Shag Harbor Incident

Pretty good UFO book if I do say so myself.

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I'm only in the beginning chapters, but it's really good so far.

Communion by Whitley Strieber

J. Crespino's In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution.

Decent enough.

The Greys By Whitley Strieber

I just finished reading the HOST by Stephenie Meyer. It was really good. I recommend it, even to you boys :)

it has nothing at all to do with twilight, it's no where near as annoying as it with all it's tween fans who think they know everything 0_0

Vampire Hunter D "Mysterious Journey to the North Sea: Part 1"

Quite good, especially for the first two-parter of the franchise.

The Day After Roswell

Getting my UFO fix.

Frankenstein is failing my life right now... I'm reading a lot of stuff online, like on fictionpress and fanfiction, though less on the fan sight, as I hate the OOC ness that comes when people are just too lazy to create their own characters...

Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Wood

Just finished it, good stuff.

I'm in the middle of reading Order 66. Nice to get a perspective of things from characters that are not Obi-wan, anakin etc. etc.

I finally finished reading Guns, Germs and Steel.

The rise and fall of civilizations through history. I love this book. If you ever wondered why Western Europe, rather than some other region, went around colonizing/conquering the rest of the world, then this is your book.

It's more scientific and deeply researched than anything else on the subject.

Necro's.

I've been reading an old book called Dragon World. I can't remember who wrote it and the author's name has faded from the cover. Some odd misanthropic researcher gets accused of killing a child because the kid to one of his experiments and got killed by a dragon. So he goes off to clear his name and prevent a war.

Also been reading Tolkien's Lost Tales. A bunch of incomplete tales that take place in Middle Earth. Oddly enough these tales are easier to read then the Simirlion (sorry I can't spell this books title right).

Stephen King's The Dark Tower III: "The Waste Lands"

Good Book there. I miss Blaine the Mono...

Halo: The Flood. I'm reading...shit, I forgot, and due to the hour it is, and the fact that i'm exhausted from the show...I'll...gat back to it later. The book after the flood.

First Strike.

I finished Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol a few days ago. Pretty good, although it follows pretty much the same formula as Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons.

Started reading Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy again. I'm reading "So Long and Thanks For all the fish".

Yay for books.

So i finished reading Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. And all i can say is... WHAT THE FUCK. I don't get the ending is all.
On to read "And another thing..." by Eion Coifler. It's an abridge to Hitch hikers guide.

Ground Zero by F. Paul Wilson

It's hard to objectively critique it since it's part of a series (the "repairman jack" series..they're neat. It's like a private investigator who always winds up getting into some sort of wacky shit with a cthulu style entity)


The formula of "He states on the first page after the title page "everything in this is meticulously researched", then theres a real obvious error about the louvre that most anybody would pick up on, so you just toss it aside as a dime-novel that ripped off holy blood, holy grail"

(I forget the exact error he made..it was something pretty blatant, I mean the things apparently rife with them. It'd be fine if he hadn't gone "I RESEARCHED ALL OF THIS, SO ALL THE HISTORICAL FACTS ARE ACCURATE EVEN THOUGH ITS FICTION". I mean obviously, it's fiction, but you don't claim you have impeccable command of the facts when..you don't. Unless you're doing some kinda meta-horseshit)

(And as for the movie...Audrey Tateau can't act. Nice to look at, but...she should maybe go into modeling or porn cause the 'act' part of 'actress' seems beyond her)

Pretty much. There's parts where they have to sneak into the big Masonic temple in DC because it's a highly guarded facility. But if you go to their website, they say they give free tours. And it's in the middle of the suburbs.

I didn't really like "Drawing of the Three", but I'm glad a co-worker convinced me to keep going.

"The Flood" is the novelization of the game, right? I remember a lot of my friends being upset with the author of that back in high school.

I didn't like "Drawing of the Three" myself, because it was too jumpy. I still have to read "Song of Susanna" and "The Dark Tower". I've been getting the chronological Graphic Novels as they come out.

"The Flood" more or less is the game. You do get to see some events that are from other perspectives, like Keyes' mentality up until he dies and Chief finds him, or Private Jenkins, who is apparently controlled by a weaker parasite, because he somewhat "communicates" with one of the LTs after they capture him. I thought it was a rather good book. I'm on First Strike right now, were so far they could make another Halo game after Halo: Reach. They didn't completely glass the planet...

The Scott Pilgrim books. Yes, they are more awesome than the movie. Infinitely so.

I heard the plot of that described as "the paranoid delusions of a schizophrenic serial killer as he stalks and murders his way through the romantic history of his latest obsession" which completely gels with how wikipedia summarizes it.

I'm pretty glad the expendables just decimated that things box office gross because it looked like hipster nonsense.

Reading Artemis Fowl the Alatanis Complex.

Boy genius goes crazy and has to save the world, again.

I need to start reading the Artemis books again...

but I'll finish the Drizzt books first. I'm on book II, Exile. Currently at the part where Drizzt, Belwar, and Clacker are being controlled by Mind Flayers. *shivers then goes on a D&D tangent*

Friend of mine once played a Mind Flayer. He ate a vampire's brain and gained its health regen ability. The vamp apparently paid no attention to the tentacles latching on one turn at at time and doing 1d4 per tentacle...then it was 4d4IEATYOURBRAIN!

Exile is actually the fifth book. >_>

Recently read "No Sharks in the Med", which is the first story included in The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New Horror.

reading Rangers Apprentice 7, The 3rd book in the Howl's moving castle series (yes, it was a book before it was a movie), Infinite earth crisis, Emma, and Go Go Heaven.

I'm back.
Read more you crazy internet peoples!

Anyway I've gone through about 4 books since last post in this thread.

I read Hatter M graphic novel from the looking glass wars.
In search of Wondla. Wizard of Oz/Alice in Wonderland meets robots and aliens. Sharp shouldn't read this one for all our sakes.
Vampirates book 2. Still reading this.
And I tired to read kickass, but it was way to violent for a comic book in my taste.

Finally got a copy of American Psycho for Christmas, as well as a collection of short stories by Vonnegut, so I've been working my way through those.

I finally read I robot, now to read the other 3 books in the robot saga.

Also read 22 chapters of the Bleach manga last night. Didn't even realize I had read that much until it was 12:30 and I realized I started reading at 10.
Read another 4 chapters today. Either I have no life or I really like bleach.

Next on my list is to finish lord of the rings fellowship.

Last real book was Pathfinder, by Orson Scott Card. Don't think I liked it more than Ender, but he hinted at a sequel in the afterword, and I wouldn't mind reading another story with these characters.

Reading caves of steel by issac asimov. Also hoping to read robots of dawn.

I started a book about Microsoft C#, but didn't do any programming examples yet (I have the limited "learning" version of the Microsoft C# compiler downloaded).

If comic books count, I read all of "Transformers: Defiance" on the flight up to my in-laws for Christmas, and then a little of "Transformers: Alliance" after. I'm trying to "fill in" details not covered in the movies. I think they could have included more "canon" material, without diminishing it's "mainstream" popularity.

It's been a while since I read some Asimov. It was mostly the short stories: The Last Question, The Feeling of Power, The Ugly Little Boy, etc... I enjoyed the films "Bicentennial Man" and "I Robot" (even though Asimov disapproved of the "I Robot" screenplay). I've seen "AI" recently, and found something Asimovesque about the film, even though I didn't totally enjoy it.

Unfortunately, a lot of my private reading has taken a back seat to my reading of C++ books (including cplusplus.com) and technical manuals for the new development projects at work. Hey, it's just like college again! But seriously, I do still enjoy reading for fun...

Tried reading the Scott Pilgrim books. WTF happened? I was reading it and it went from ok I'm following to what am I readin in about 10 minutes.

I'm going to try and finish The Robots of Dawn by Issac Asimov. I love his work, and could I afford it I would buy the Robot detective novels omnibus.

I think I used to visit cplusplus.com. Haven't had much use for it as of late, since I don't do as much programming lately.

I think I actually preferred the Pilgrim comics to the movie (mostly because of Micheal Cera). Most people I've talked to agree that the ending is better in the source material.

Recently finished the Mardock Scramble novels. I've got a couple things waiting on my Nook, but schoolwork keeps me from starting anything new. I've been hoping The Hunger Games would show up for $0.99, but with the film already premiered, I doubt that'll happen now.