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What book are you reading right now?  Do share.  :)

Me, I'm currently reading Book 1 of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series, "The Final Empire".  I've only just started!  smiley

 

Forgotten Realms

I'm at Book 3 of the Icewind Dale Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore, It's just a chase, not as enjoyable as the first book.  Wulfgar shares traits with Discworld's Carrot.

Also reading Abarat by Clive Barker.  That book is smaller than the trilogy so I can bring it in my bag.

uhm... ran out.

just read "a wise man's fear" - but if it's book suggestions- 

1. dresden files series -> you could make whole story arcs per book. i took elements from summer knight and death masks - and made the pc warlock (D&D) a story arc  that they still talk about til now.

2. amber series -> for non combat elements

3. legend  by gemell -> it's one of the best book i read. another book, the chronicles of deathwalker, made my magical item creation a little more interesting. 

4. vlad taltos books -> how to run a theives' guild or bo part of one.

5. farseer books -> for an element of intrigue and politics.

6. the warded man -> i took an element of that book and made a part of the geography akin to it. good adventure elements.

any obscure but good book suggestion for me?

I've been looking for the

I've been looking for the first book of that Rothfuss series for a while now.  Meron ba around the metro?  :)

Now switched to reading "The 39 Clues: The Black Book of Buried Secrets".  It's fun to get into the kid stuff every now and then. :)

The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell

Any student of comparative mythology will know that comic books and movies provide the heroes and myths for today's society. From Star Wars to Native American myths, Joseph Campbell discusses them all. In fact, George Lucas invited Campbell to the Skywalker Ranch to watch Star Wars.

I'll be reading Dune Messiah next.

Done with this! Joseph

Done with this! Joseph Campbell is a must-read, I think, for anyone who's read comics and fantasy and sci-fi, and thought, "Hey, they seem to all be telling the same story."

Will write about it. :)

There, I've registered. :P

Right now I'm reading a book of essays I have to write a review for -- the subject matter is not something I generally like reading about, to be honest, but hey, whatever pays the bills -- but for leisure I decided to reread all the Doctor Who novels I've got stashed away. Tonight it's the Eighth Doctor Adventure Alien Bodies by Lawrence Miles. It's extremely clever... and extremely twisted. That way I can finally get around to Interference, Book 1 and Book 2, which are supposedly HOMG WTF BBQ according to fandom. We'll see.

(Also, Eight = yummy nummy pretty. My first Doctor, really. That VOICE!)

The Doctor started it

i was in grade 1 when i got my first "real" book. it was Doctor Who- The Five Doctors. it took me 3 days to read it. 

i kept reading it every year- understanding more and more- until i finally got the whole of it when i was in grade 5.

so i guess my road to fantasy and sci-fi started there.

Hey, I have that!

Found a copy of The Five Doctors in Book Sale Greenhills a few years ago. I'm not a fan of the Target novelizations, though; I'd rather watch the actual episode(s). My copies of the BBC's EDAs and PDAs, though, I found in National Cubao, fourth floor. I haven't been there in a while, though, so I don't know if there are still any to be found.

I count my start into Doctor Who as the time I started looking around for Paul McGann stuff (this was at the height of my Withnail & I* mania) and stumbled onto the BBC webcast of Shada. A couple of years later the series was revived and, well, now we know where we all are :D

My road to SF/F, though, started with my dad's collection of pulp scifi novels and my mom's insane love for LOTR and The Gormenghast Trilogy. Couldn't get past childhood without reading those.

* probably the only feature film and cult classic to star TWO Doctors as the leads. They'd gone on holiday by mistake, see.

I'm reading Alex Archer's Rogue Angel series

Annja Creed is an archaeologist who also moonlights as a host of the hit syndicated show 'Chasing History's Monsters'. Little that she know that a chance encounter with the enigmatic Roux and his charming former protege now on/off foe,Garin Braden would land her as the bearer of the legendary bearer of Joan of Arc's mystical sword. Roux and Garin witnessed the burning of Joan at the stake for heresy and was cursed to roam the Earth agelessly for eternity. Roux sees Annja as his salvation where he failed Joan of Arc. Garin sees Annja as a threat to his erstwhile immortality.

Wielding Joan's sword, Annja Creed roams the globe in search for the world's legendary artifacts and treasures while fighting off those who seek the same objects of interest for their own hidden agendas.

One part Lara Croft, one part Indiana Jones, one part Xena, one part Dana Scully with a sprinkling of Shiva Woosan. Rogue Angel is such a fun read to while away the time.

 

Black Powder War + Game of Thrones reread

I've started on Black Powder War, the third novel in Naomi Novik's Temeraire series (Napoleonic wars + talking dragons = awesome), but I really want to try and squeeze in a reread of George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones before I torrent the premiere episode of the HBO series on Monday. =P

finished books?

This is the current book reading thread?  So should there be a finished book read thread?

Well, I finished The Halfling's Gem from R.A. Salvatore's Ice Wind Dale trilogy.  The first book, Crystal Shard, is the most epic.  The other two don't have the same level of urgency.  The third book could have had the whole invasion of Mithril Hall but it was just an afterword.

Drizzt dark elf is really a popular character?  They have Nubians in Forgotten Realms, right?  I prefer Wulfgar (though Discworld Carrot clone).  Drizzt kissed the unconscious love of Wulfgar!  Slimeball!  I'd probably hate Regis in real life but I like him in fiction as the coward. Plus he helped the panther!  Woo!  

Still in the middle of Abarat.  John Mischief is cool but I can't imagine the multiple heads.  And the setting is like Bones of the Moon by Jonathan something or another.  No, I haven't read the actual Oz novels.

splitting threads?

Well, how about doing a recommended reading thread, a finished book thread and a currently reading thread?

 

Argh! Darn you Clive Barker! Your darn almanak appendix and exerpt fooled me into thinking that Abarat was a complete story! There's a double darned Book 2! I read up to the second to the last page, thinking I still had about 50 pages for Candy and Mischief's adventure to finish when BAM! I get hit with the appendix! G-d darn!!! 

 

On Clive Barker, despite having Scott Bakula, Lord of Illusions sucked. I've always been curious about his Hellraiser series but I've only watched the fourth movie and chunks of 1-3.  The Theif of Always is an awesome book.  It's a kid versus slightly less scary but with terrifying potential pint sized Cenobites.  Makes me wonder about his Marvel Razorline series when there were four titles that are superhero related that he thought up.

I'm Reading...

My at home book is Catching Fire.

My Train / Commuting book is The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents.

My eBook at present is still The Wind-up Girl.

My work-related book is Salesforce.com for Dummies.

 

Yes, I like multi-tasking books, haha.

Multi-tasking books

I do the same thing, Rocky! :D I like to leave books in different parts of the house, so that wherever I am, I have something to read.

Right now I have:

Why Does My Cat Do That? - Bathroom reading, not exactly sci-fi :P

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice - I read this at mealtimes, so it sits on the dining table beside How To Get Dinner On The Table Even If You Can't Cook.

Dune Messiah - My bedside reading, also for commutes

The Scrum Primer - my work-related reading

I read really slow

After FINALLY finishing DUNE, I tackled Christopher Golden's Mythhunters and Clive Barker's Mister B. Gone.

 

Now I am dipping my toes into two new authors (well new for me)

Hideaki Sena's Parasite Eve which was the novel that inspired the videogame.

and

Haruki Murukami's The Elephant Vanishes.

 

Probably finish them by the end of June or so, knowing how slow I read.

 

Done with Dune?

haha. that's like reading book 1-4 (maybe even up to 8 i've forgotten) of Wheel of Time.

Having read Dune first - reading Jordan's series seemed like such a ripoff. 

Middle of a journey

I'm still in the middle of Dark Elf Trilogy Book 3 Sojourn and just have to comment about the incidents in the farm. Darn it, the children didn't have to be slaughtered! :( And Drizzt was framed too. What a nasty way to get my attention in a book :( Works though.

I mirror Drizzt's activities of watching the family in the farm and longing for companionship to be the same as the Frankenstein monster learning to speak English years :)

Green Lantern Sleepers Books 1 and 2 by Christopher Priest

DC Comics and Graphic Audio's presentation of Green Lantern: Sleepers Books One and Two by Christopher Priest.

In Book One, Kyle Rayner is worried that his girlfriend, Jenny Lynn Hayden aka Jade is pregnant.Worse, she has taken an interest in a charming man who might turn out be the one of the most deadliest supervillians Kyle has ever encountered. And as if it's not giving Kyle enough grief, Hal Jordan in the persona of the Spectre is having an epiphany of sorts and seeks Kyle for guidance.And to top it off Jade's father, Alan Scott-the Golden Age Green Lantern, does not exactly approve of Kyle and Jenny's relationship.

Book Two is about Alan Scott - the Golden Age Green Lantern, on how he got his powers and became one of the most powerful superheroes in the Universe. Set in 1940s wartime America, Alan Scott was a brilliant and ambitious structural engineer who is on the fast track to success until tragedy struck and the Green Lantern was born...or was he really the first?Action takes Scott from Gotham City to WWII occupied France to the Sands of Iwo Jima. Plus the appearance of a mysterious man from the past might spell for Scott's salvation or end.

Can't wait for Book Three -featuring Hal Jordan who without his ring or powers is trapped and fighting for his survival - in the AntiMatter universe of Qward.

Get the book in paperback from DC Warner books. Better yet experience a movie in your mind with Graphic Audio.

richelle mead's

richelle mead's
vampire academy - it isn't about vampires... it's more about the dhampirs and the whole strigoi - moroi legend actually finished it when the latest book came out

dark swan series - also written by mead. it's actually awesome. just finished reading the 3rd book

anita blake series
the alchemyst

and uh.. nutrition board review materials. XD

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