Unofficial What are you Reading Thread?

[fomenter]

just finished - the easy way to stop smoking    by allen carr

[BADGE OF HONOR]

I'm reading The Runaway : The Chronicles of a Spy in Medieval Europe during the Reign of Louis XI of France by Thierry Bontoux.  Its research for my own fantasy deconstruction story I've mentioned before.  I only hope he put as much research into espionage as he seems to have of the political situation in France at the time.

Just started Regenesis by CJ Cherryh and it's already fantastic.  I don't understand how nobody's heard of her, she's definitely the best sci fi writer I've ever read.

Sounds like a recommendation to me.  A few of her books seem to be on Demonoid, though I cannot see Regenesis among them.  Either way, I'll certainly check her stuff out

It's a sequel, you have to read at minimum Cyteen and ideally Downbelow Station and Merchanter's Luck to really understand what's going on.

[Cain]

Amazingly, I have downloaded...none of those books at all.

All I've found is:

Forty Thousand in Gehenna
Hestia
Rider at the Gate
The Goblin Mirror
Finity's End
Serpent's Reach
Tripoint
The Sword of Knowlegde - Omnibus

Oh, and the Foreigners series, which I'll download if I like the above.  If I ever get around to reading them.

[BADGE OF HONOR]

Forty Thousand in Gehenna: part of Cyteen universe, very good
Hestia: never heard of it
Rider at the Gate: not part of that universe, but good
The Goblin Mirror: haven't read it, probably bad
Finity's End: part of that universe, good, will help you understand what's happened
Serpent's Reach: can't remember if I've read it
Tripoint: part of Cyteen universe
The Sword of Knowlegde - Omnibus: I think I've read some of it, it's bad

She's not a very good fantasy author, unfortunately.

[BADGE OF HONOR]

Actually when I said Merchanter's Luck I actually meant Finity's End.  I'm not sure how much you'd be able to understand without reading Downbelow Station though.

[Z³]

Fucking trashed God Emperor of Doom.

Just finished:

Hells Angels by Hunter S. Thompson (my favorite of his so far)

&

American Gods by Neil Gaiman (much much better than Neverwhere)

Working up the balls to start on Gravity's Rainbow

[Corvidia]

American Gods by Neil Gaiman (much much better than Neverwhere)

Agreed.

Working up the balls to start on Gravity's Rainbow

GOOOD LUCK! I got halfway through it and I haven't ballsed up enough again to finish it. It's pretty daunting.

Slogging through Twilight again.

[Cain]

Forty Thousand in Gehenna: part of Cyteen universe, very good
Hestia: never heard of it
Rider at the Gate: not part of that universe, but good
The Goblin Mirror: haven't read it, probably bad
Finity's End: part of that universe, good, will help you understand what's happened
Serpent's Reach: can't remember if I've read it
Tripoint: part of Cyteen universe
The Sword of Knowlegde - Omnibus: I think I've read some of it, it's bad

She's not a very good fantasy author, unfortunately.

Yeah, I decided to check her via TVTropes and they said her sci-fi stuff is certainly better.  Apparently she does the whole "aliens who are actually alien, not humans with silly names and special powers" thing quite well.

Looks like I'll be starting with the Cyteen universe stuff then.  Thanks!

Slogging through Twilight again.

Damn, I really need to get on with this as well.  Difficult, when I have books on fascism and political psychology begging to be read.  Argh.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I just started The Emperor of Scent and then Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies arrived! Now I'm so torn.

[Corvidia]

I've dropped it for the time being. There's only so many times I can deal with sparkling vampires before I want to pluck my own eye balls out.


Swapped to The Essential Rumi. I loooove Rumi so it's a fantastic change.

[Pariah]

Cold Mountain

[Cainad (dec.)]

Forty Thousand in Gehenna: part of Cyteen universe, very good
Hestia: never heard of it
Rider at the Gate: not part of that universe, but good
The Goblin Mirror: haven't read it, probably bad
Finity's End: part of that universe, good, will help you understand what's happened
Serpent's Reach: can't remember if I've read it
Tripoint: part of Cyteen universe
The Sword of Knowlegde - Omnibus: I think I've read some of it, it's bad

She's not a very good fantasy author, unfortunately.

Yeah, I decided to check her via TVTropes and they said her sci-fi stuff is certainly better.  Apparently she does the whole "aliens who are actually alien, not humans with silly names and special powers" thing quite well.

Indeed. In the Chanur Saga, one species of alien has a multipart brain and only speaks in seven-part matrix sentences, so even when the words are translated it's still barely intelligible. Another species can't be communicated with at all, but still engages in trade.

[Requia ☣]

Forty Thousand in Gehenna: part of Cyteen universe, very good
Hestia: never heard of it
Rider at the Gate: not part of that universe, but good
The Goblin Mirror: haven't read it, probably bad
Finity's End: part of that universe, good, will help you understand what's happened
Serpent's Reach: can't remember if I've read it
Tripoint: part of Cyteen universe
The Sword of Knowlegde - Omnibus: I think I've read some of it, it's bad

She's not a very good fantasy author, unfortunately.

Started reading Cyteen, (along with The Prince and Learning Perl), its good, if a tiny bit dry (though given my other reading habits right now...).

[Sister_Gothique]

Let's see..since I last posted: Finished the third book in the White Rose series (I actually liked it a lot)....Good Omens (LOVED it)...poked at Dune and am probably going to move onto End Of The Century by Chris Roberson.

[Epimetheus]

I'm reading Stranger in a Strange Land, and also reading Slaughterhouse-Five. I am loving both.