Unofficial What are you Reading Thread?

[Eater of Clowns]

Started A Game of Thrones yesterday.

[Cain]

Started A Game of Thrones yesterday.

Spoiler: Snape kills Robert Baratheon.

[Eater of Clowns]

Started A Game of Thrones yesterday.

Spoiler: Snape kills Robert Baratheon.

[Disco Pickle]

Started The Colour of Magic Saturday.  Almost done. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Started The Colour of Magic Saturday.  Almost done. 

Not a big fan of that series.  More of a Sam Vimes guy, myself.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Started A Game of Thrones yesterday.

Outstanding.  The last 3 books should be out by 2050.

[Cain]

It gets better.  Interesting Times and The Last Continent in particular are amazing.  Sadly, Rincewind eventually gets absorbed into the more general Unseen University stories which, while they make good side characters to a series, do not really have what it takes to pull off a book on their own (see: Unseen Academicals for more, where Vetinari and Mr Nutt are needed to carry the story).

I also have a soft spot for Moist von Lipwig and William de Worde.

[Disco Pickle]

Started The Colour of Magic Saturday.  Almost done. 

Not a big fan of that series.  More of a Sam Vimes guy, myself.

somewhere in a fog of authors over the years Terry Pratchett just didn't get any of my attention.

went and bought the first two in the series to see if I take a liking to them.  got the first one in hardback too, which is nice. 

[Disco Pickle]

Started A Game of Thrones yesterday.

I loved them all but Feast for Crows.  Storm of Swords is the best one so far IMO.

Waiting for that damn HBO series to come out now.

[Triple Zero]

Which reminds me, Lord G: Be prepared to have at least three bookmarks on hand -- one for the current place in the story, one for the footnotes at the end, and one to track the various narratives going on simultaneously.

Might pay off to try and dig up a digital copy of the book, preferably plain text, so you can just ctrl-F and search around then?

I mean, if he already bought the book in hardcopy, that's practically legal, right?

[Xooxe]

I was clearing out loads of old crap and found Discworld books. Guess I'm joining in.

[Cain]

Started A Game of Thrones yesterday.

I loved them all but Feast for Crows.  Storm of Swords is the best one so far IMO.

Waiting for that damn HBO series to come out now.

Same.  According to HBO, it should premiere April 17th

[LMNO]

Which reminds me, Lord G: Be prepared to have at least three bookmarks on hand -- one for the current place in the story, one for the footnotes at the end, and one to track the various narratives going on simultaneously.

Might pay off to try and dig up a digital copy of the book, preferably plain text, so you can just ctrl-F and search around then?

I mean, if he already bought the book in hardcopy, that's practically legal, right?

Oh, gods.  I couldn't even imagine how specific you'd need to be to do a search on a 1000 page postmodernist text.

[Triple Zero]

Oh, okay, I just used the trick for reading a fat fantasy book once, when I read about a character that was described as if he/she had already been introduced, but I completely forgot about. Searching for a fantasy name is much easier of course.

However, personally, with some effort I can usually dig up a part of a particular phrase or something from my memory and use that.

Unrelated to text file searching, when leafing backwards through a book to re-read something, I usually also have a fairly clear idea to where the text appeared on the page spread (left page/right page, top/bottom).

[Cuddlefish]

Just about done with RAW's "Quantum Psychology." It wasn't terrible, but it didn't have any information in it that you couldn't get from Illuminatus!/Schroedinger's Cat with a far more interesting presentation (though, it's a touch more clear in the non-fiction).

I think, though, you have to look at the concept of "quantum psychology" in a metaphorical sense to get anything meaningful out of the book. Because otherwise, you'll get suckered in to the quantum mysticism thing, which is unsafe footing.

This is the first RAW book, outside the above mentioned, that I've read, and, well, it was alright. I have a copy of "Prometheus Rising" that I'm going to tackle soon, so I'll suspend judgement until I've read it.