What are you reading right now?

[Edd]

Rereading Zelazny's Lord of Light. It's one of my favorite books by one of my favorite authors and I'm hoping for some inspiration.

[ET, the Extra Terrestrial]

Just picked up Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. Looks to be another page turner like his other novels, which is annoying because I'll probably finish it by Saturday. Also decided to give the Bourne series a try, so I got the first one. Chances are I'll become addicted, pound through however many of them there are by now in short order, and end up staring at yet another website for a year while I wait for the next sequel. It looks like the (hopefully) final installment of the Wheel of Time will be coming out in January, after they jerked me around for three years while dragging the supposedly last book out into three books. And I've been waiting for the next bloody Fire and Ice book for how long?

When will I stop with these damn never-ending (n+1)ologies? In the bookstore I saw four linked books by my old favorite, Larry Niven, the Fleet of Worlds series about the puppeteer migration. It was not easy to resist buying them, too.

[black bart]

The Life of Pi is, so far, about a young Indian guy who is a practicing Hindu, Muslim and Christian!

[gronank]

I was so excited when I first heard the title of that book. I thought it was a dramatized story about the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle, but alas, I was disapointed.

[Rainswept]

I'm big into Audible now, since I can "read" while i bike to work and back. I wish i was more prompt because I got this: http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B007EZKICY yesterday for $3.95 but I guess that sale is over. So far it's informative if a bit dry, please do not let that awful comic-book looking cover fool you, he's a bright guy, and the book has a forward by Dawkins.

I just finished Cold Days before that, as well as God, No and Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

Looking forward to Memory of Light

[black bart]

I was so excited when I first heard the title of that book. I thought it was a dramatized story about the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle, but alas, I was disapointed.

I thought it was too...now you've ruined it for me!!!!

[Griffin]

Still stuck on p.61 of Casual some thing or other by JK Rawlings - sob.

[Roy Hunter]

1Q84. Good forearm exercise, holding up a tome of that size.

[Rainswept]

http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B003NHEU1M

[Nef Yoo BlackBeard]

Rereading Zelazny's Lord of Light. It's one of my favorite books by one of my favorite authors and I'm hoping for some inspiration.

Oi nu oi lykt ye fer a goode weesun unca hed rrr rrr

[Griffin]

Reached p.150 of the JK Rawlings book........... still no idea what it's about.

[ET, the Extra Terrestrial]

Robert Ludlum, The Prometheus Deception. "His best to date!"

Meh. Moderately entertaining, but contrived and predictable. Not nearly as disappointing as the Clive Cussler book I tried to read a while back, but not nearly as good as I expected. Editing is a lost art, and who knows what kind of knuckleheads (if any) read these things before they get sent to the publisher.

[black bart]

I finished 'The Life of Pi' and very good it was too.

I reckon the author nicked some ideas from 'William Hope Hodgson' who wrote some very early Sci Fi/Horror stuff. In 'The Derelict', a short story which I recommend, Hodgson wrote of a carnivorous ship wreck, whilst in 'Life of Pi' there is a carnivorous island.

[Rainswept]

Just finished the last book of Wheel of Time. Hard to believe it's finally done.

Trying to decide what to check out next, referencing the following for tips: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843 ... tasy-books

There are 3 in the top 15 that i have not read. Brave New world, American Gods, and Nueromancer. I'm leaning towards American Gods.

[Roy Hunter]

There are 3 in the top 15 that i have not read. Brave New world, American Gods, and Nueromancer. I'm leaning towards American Gods.

If you haven't read Neuromancer, you should. Look at the publication date. Then retro-fit the story onto all the sci-fi you've read that was written since then. Quite a few of what you thought were original ideas are actually ripped off from this book. At least, that's what I thought when I read it about 4 years ago.