Amph What are you reading right now?

HALO: The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund.

 

Today it was the ST: Voyager The Nanotech War by Steve Pziaraks (sp?). Nice reread

Yesterday I started Cloak of Deception by James Luceno.

 

Gore Vidal's Lincoln and Dante's Purgatorio. How's that for variety?

 

What It Takes to Be #1 By Vince Lombardi Jr. - a book about leadership using football coach Vince Lombardi as an example. It was recommended by the professor at this management seminar I went to last year.

 

I just finished Stephen King's Cell on Saturday and moved onto James Luceno's Dark Lord finally.

 

The Runelords by David Farland

 

He's Dave Wolverton. I heard Runelords was very badly written. A pity, I really liked Courtship's no-nonsense style.

 

You guys are all reading stuff I never heard of, any of it really good?

ATM I am reading Return of the Archwizards: The Summoning, by Troy Denning. I just started it but it seems good so far, I was told it was worth the buy so I am hoping I heard right because I bought the whole set plus the anthology.

 

Now that's what I call a leap of faith. I have great difficulty even buying ONE book from an unknown author. I have to admit that I generally just keep going back to the same well because it's a known factor. I never know what might be good by someone else. I mean, when you walk into a huge bookstore how do you choose? Is it the Title? The Genre? The Author, or the Pretty picture on the cover?

 

Right now I'm reading The Fellowship of the Ring. I am bound and determined to NOT skip book 1 of the Fellowship. It's been tough though. The first 250 pages are soooo sloooowww

 

Have faith! Things pick up rather quickly toward the end.

 

Yeah they really do. Once you get passed the three hundred page mark of Fellowship you'll fly threw the rest of the trilogy and then, if your like me, you'll see how incredibly rich the slow first act really is if you ever reread it. I can read the second chapter of Fellowship every day, thats how brilliant I think it is.

 

Reading 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 for school, plus Hamlet because I love it to pieces.

 

Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively by Rebecca McClanahan and Spinneret by Timothy Zahn.

 

About 67 pages in The Stand

 

Its not a huge leap, I have read a lot of the Forgotten Realms stuff already, and Denning isn't horrible so I figured it would be safe.

I feel the same stress in picking books, I usually pick by familiar author names, although sometimes I will take a gamble on others. That is why I love anthology books and short stories, I get a book full of about 10-15 authors and I can get a nice preview of them all. Sometimes I find authors I never heard of before, and they turn out being a pleasant surprise.

 

I just picked up the original comic, V for Vendetta in anticipation for the movie. I want to go into the movie with at least some knowledge of the background story. So far, the comic is pretty good.

 

Now reading Brotherhood of the Wolf by Farlander.

Actually the books are very well written to me. I am really enjoying the style and story.

 

That's just what I do. But it's still so hard to choose new fiction. There's really no way to know who or what you're looking at. I'm hoping to use this Forum as a bit of a suggestion box. A way to see what people think of particular books, and see if it inspires me to give it a try.

 

The Wedding by Gombrovitch (right?)

 

Ooo, I have that!! It's still waiting for me to read it . . .

Are you serious??? He's Wolverton?!?!

I like to, because I get to try something new. I usually stay within fantasy, but I pick stuff up if the cover is pretty or provides and interesting-looking summary. A title is what leads me to pick it up and look at it. Other times I'll buy/borrow a book knowing nothing about it except that I like the author.


Right now I'm reading Good Omens by Gaimon and Pratchet (sp?), The first Dragonlance book, a book about pirates that I can't remember the title of, and I just started The Towers of Sunset by Modsitt, the sequel to The Magic of Recluse.

 

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett They're both pretty damn good. I was rereading Pratchett's Lords and Ladies earlier. Still hilarious.

"Shouldn't you have a horse?"

"I was waylaid by bandits."

"But it says on your card that you're a 'Finest Swordsman'."

"I was outnumbered."

"How many of them were there?"

"Three million."

 

Yeah, it would be nice if I could spell

Someone on these boards said it was funny so I picked it up, but I'm not really impressed. I think Douglas ADams could have done a better job with it. And I read Stardust by Gaimon with a book club, and I really didn't enjoy it. Eventually I'll give Pratchett's Discworld a try, but I don't have very high hopes.

 

I am now reading the Black Stallion series. It is a good book. I still think Star Wars is the best!

 

You know I read those Black Stallion books back when I was 12 because the movies looked interesting (even though to this day I've never seen them). Even then I was casting about for reading material and soon fell upon my first Stephen King experience with The Shining. I literally consumed that book in the span of 3 days.