Chris Moyles - The Difficult Second Book. winrar!

Myth inc., books 1-4 double paper back.

I finished reading Dune not long ago, which is the Lord of the Rings of Sci-Fi. Really cool stuff in there. If only I had a shield belt and a gom jabbar, then none of you filthy carbon organisms would be able to stop me.

I also enjoy taking Pratchett books, grinding them into powder and snorting them up my nose; he's really that good. Other than that, I read a collection of popular webcomics, such as Sinfest, Penny Arcade and VG Cats.

I just started reading George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books. I'm also reading the Horus Heresy series because I'm a 40K geek. I figured I needed something to read between Pratchett novels.

I just finished reading "The Fate of the Fallen" by Ian Irvine.

Anyone who hasn't tried any of his novels and is a fantasy fan should definitely give them a shot.

http://www.ian-irvine.com/

I suggest starting out with his "View from the Mirror" quartet because it adds a lot of backstory to the second series that takes place farther into the future.

Geoffrey42:

Geoffrey42:
@TomBeraha: Save yourself the agony, and stay away from the Wheel of Time. There are lots of books, and I really enjoyed reading them all, but he's opened quite a few plotlines, and last I read, he's a little sickly, and unlikely to finish the series before he dies. I don't know about you, but I can't stand reading spin-off works by offspring or dedicated others based on "notes and research" done by the original author. I fear that my investment in that series is never going to pay off.

As I mentioned before, Robert Jordan wasn't exactly feeling well as of late, and it looks like things didn't get better. My condolences to his family, and I sincerely hope, for the sake of his legacy, and the fulfillment of my investment, whoever is given his notes to finish the 12th book does the series justice.

It looks like the wife of the late Robert Jordan has decided on an author to finish the series. I wish him the best of luck. He's going to need it. Add this to the list of books that I WILL be reading at some point.

In response to the other thread, concerning WWII books worth reading, my three favorite are:

1. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
2. Fires on the Plain - Shohei Oka
3. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Of the three, Gravity's Rainbow is my clear favorite. There is nothing quite like it, except maybe another Thomas Pynchon book. Fires on the Plain is a book by a Japanese writer concerning the Pacific campaign and the atrocities associated with it. Catch-22 is probably the most widely read of the three, and with good reason as it deftly provides an alternately hilarious and tragic depiction of the war.

I always have my nose in a David Gemmell book. any one of his series is an amazing read. and if i ever found myself in need of commanding an army back when guns where unheard of, id kick some arse. But do check out his Troy series, it is a very interesting take on the whole ordeal. hehe but as of right now im reading Lullaly by Chuck Palahniuk (writer of fight club) its a good book but i think he could have done a better job with some parts. but if you check him out and you are into art of any kind read Diary by Chuck. its one that keeps you on edge the whole time and its not big on time consuming with it being only a few hundred pages or so.

I'm now reading the last wish.....concerning Geralt of Rivia cause i liked the game that much...hope they translate more of the books...before this i did read Making money from Terry Pratchett.....after this i'll delve on in my pile of Peter F. Hamilton books

LxDarko:
Right now I'm reading The Fountainhead. I've just started and I'm now in chapter three of part 1 and all I can think is if I didn't read the Escapist would I have ever come upon this book with such an enthused desire to read it to completion?

After The Fountainhead I plan to read through Atlas Shrugged and then Catch-22.

I got most of the way through that book. I would say it's a bunch of crap, but ironically the very fact that it still exists and is known disproves me. I could still rant about it for hours. Quick hint though: raping a woman is not normally an acceptable way to endear her to you.

Anyway, a lot of people brought up the Bourne books, but really almost all of Robert Ludlum's books are good. I recommend The Prometheus Deception. I also strongly recommend Raymond E. Feist's Midkemia series. It started off as a group of four books, and I was sad to finish them because I thought there wouldn't be any more. I was so attached to the characters that I wanted more badly, and I'd never felt like that about a book. Later on, I was going through a bookstore, and found out that more books had been written. Didn't sleep for about a month so I could read them. Then it happened to me again a couple of months ago. I've started visiting his website, so I can get a sleeping pattern back together.

I'm currently reading the Cadfael series, and it's not bad. At least it takes some thought to work it out. I'm also re-reading a lot of Jeffery Archer (Not a penny more, not a penny less; Kane and Abel, etc). Also Eldest (second book in Eragon series), Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice, and I've just picked up a translated copy of the Dead Sea Scrolls I plan to start reading soonish, as soon as I finish some stuff I have to do.

tendo82:
In response to the other thread, concerning WWII books worth reading, my three favorite are:

1. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

Man, I hated Gravity's Rainbow heh. I just didn't have the patience for it I guess. After seeing that some of my favorite authors (Neil Stephenson, Tom Robbins) seem to be influenced by Pynchon and give props to him, I decided I should give him another look and now I'm reading Mason & Dixon. Slow going. O_O

Currently reading (and currently read):

Terry Pratchett's Making Money (love this stuff. Like candy.)
Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody series (on Deeds of the Disturber. This is a series re-read for me, which I do every couple years or so)
James Howe's The Misfits, and Totally Joe (I love YA novels, and will crack one open when I want something quick, but still good)

Comic books/manga:

Buffy Season 8, #9 (I LOVE this series! I'm so glad Whedon did this)
Love Com v. 3 (hilarious romantic comedy manga)
Bleach v. 21 (finally the manga is catching up to the anime so I can stop watching the mind numbing filler crap and just read the good stuff)

Would like to re-read Golden Compass if I have time.

Reading "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger for the 4 or 5th time. Learned about it from watching Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Gig 1. Its abit tough to find a reason to keep reading to begin with; and right through most of the book, because it can be abit boring. But i find it really satisfying at the end, you feel like you really understand Holden.

tendo82:
In response to the other thread, concerning WWII books worth reading, my three favorite are:

1. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
2. Fires on the Plain - Shohei Oka
3. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Adding Slaughterhouse 5. I've never read such a good book about post traumatic stress disorder.

just started reading Blindsight.
Just finished reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, classic read.
Before that I read Clive Barkers new book, Mr B. Gone, what an absolute pile of shite, an utter let down.

For now i'm addicted to Dan Brown... Just finished reading his last book - Digital Fortress... In my future plans there're Warcraft books because i'm realy interested in Warcraft lore...

The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, an interesting story, combined with believable characters and some nice plot twists; a damn good book, and easily one of my favorites.

I just started The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Just finished Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds.
Due to start in the future: Half of A. Reynolds stuff published since Absolution Gap, China Mieville's Un Lun Dun, Clive Barker's second Abarat book, PKD's Do Androids Dream... and indeed most of the books I've ever bought.

Dreamnuker:
For now i'm addicted to Dan Brown... Just finished reading his last book - Digital Fortress... In my future plans there're Warcraft books because i'm realy interested in Warcraft lore...

I once read Digital Fortress out of sheer desperation for something to do. I wish I could sear the memory from my mind. It pretty much sealed it for me that I am never, ever, going to read The DaVinci Code.

The whole Forgotten Realms : Legend of Drizzt series, by R.A. Salvarore is great. There are quite a few of them though, so dont start it unless you are prepared to spent the next few months of your life, and a few hundres dollars on them.

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 edited by Dave Eggers

This year's edition isn't as good as last year's...at least not yet. But there's such a wide assortment of really high-quality stories from the past year, totally worth checking out sometime.

I'm also slowly plowing through my newest edition of Mental Floss magazine

Hemmingway short stories, Chekov short stories, Gogol short stories.

For once I'm actually reading some decent stuff.

I just finished Altered Carbon, which is a VERY good bit of Cyberpunk. A noir set-up with some interesting ideas on the nature of death in it and some major drugs and ass-kicking.

I got about a quarter of a way into Shulz, the autobiography of the Peanuts author before giving it up out of sheer boredom. I can sum it up for you: Depressing.

Now I'm reading The Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac, and after that I'll be reading some Tom Wolfe.

Slash - The autobiography.

It's a good insight into the world of rock and hippy lifestyle, but it's just too long.

The Republic by Plato because I'm a pseudo-intellectual bastard, and Maus.

I am currently reading The Princess Bride by William Goldman. It was a Christmas present, received from a friend. A fitting gift because I had bought them a DVD of the movie adaptation for their birthday, a few months previous.

I haven't read much in the last several years, which is sad since it was an anchor for me for so long. So I've gone back to some of the reading I did in high school, to refresh my memories of some of these things, and to lubricate a re-introduction to reading regularly. But anyway, I read The old man and the sea for the first time while I was traveling to see my family for the holidays. Epic fish story, and a wonderful humanistic novella. I am also reading 1984, Nausea, and some short stories by Hemingway.

For a while now there's nothing I've really got into until I started reading 'Grasshopper,' by Barbara Vine, who is also Ruth Rendell. I've found it very engaging, and very long so I've got something to read for a while. It's been out for around seven years so quite easy to get a hold of too.

I've just started 'The Amber Spyglass' by Philip Pullman.

I don't like it too much, and I want to finish it because I have other books to read...

1984 - George Orwell

It's a good read. I highly reccomend it.

Currently reading The Quest, by Wilbur smith. Highly recommend his Egyptian series (River god, Warlock and the Quest)

I'm putting A People's History on hold for a bit, because I can only get so angry about class warfare for so long before I start getting stabby. So instead, I'm taking a break and reading Shook Over Hell, about PTSD sufferers from the Civil and Vietnam Wars. I'm not too far into it, but it's a smooth read so far, something most historians can't seem to pull off.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six is a good read and I will recomend to anyone that enjoyed the games before even knowing it was based on a Book.

Or you could read Philip Pullman's Northernlights, The subtle knife and Amber Spyglass.