What are you reading?

[Jack Spencer Jr]

What books are you currently reading or have recently read?

I had just finished Prey by Michael Crichton.
I wish I was a better reader because it seems to take me forever to plow through a book.

[Matt Snyder]

I wish I was a better reader because it seems to take me forever to plow through a book.

I have the same problem, and I read all sorts of stuff at once. Takes me forever, but I'm reading:

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Timaeus by Plato
Conan Chronicles Vol. 1: Hour of the Dragon by Robert E. Howard (UK collection available on Amazon UK).

[Matt Machell]

Just finished the chronicles of Prydain, Lloyd Alexander. I've started The Scar, by China Mieville today, and damn good it is too.

-Matt

[Jake Norwood]

RPGs: Over the Edge (thanks to you, Ron, and Ken Hite), and Werewolf:TA. I loved it in high school. I'm not so impressed, now, but I think I might butcher it and play anyway. I love just being a werewolf.

Fiction: I've got 20 pages left in Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets. After that it's either the next Potter book, or maybe Gates of Fire.

Nonfiction: Lots of stuff. Carnage and Culture (a book about the mindset of western-style warfare in history and now--sort of a rebuttal to Guns, Germs, and Steel). Machiavelli's The Prince. Will Wilson's Arte of Defence, a book on Rapier use. Joachim Meyer's Fechtbuch of 1570 (in translation from the German). All very good.

Jake

[Clinton R. Nixon]

RPGs: Underground (early-90s Vietnam-metaphor superhero game), The Burning Wheel, an independent fantasy RPG that I deem 75% of the way to greatness, with 25% of cruft that wouldn't let go.

Nonfiction: Outlaw Cook by John Thorne, an awesome book of essays on the simplicity of cooking. It's very Zen.

Computer books: Accelerated C++.

[Ron Edwards]

Currently, all of Kingsley Amis.

It was quite a surprise to discover that he'd written a Sorcerer novel (The Green Man).

Plus I'm slogging ever-so-slowly (although I do like it) through The Night Land, by William Hope Hodgson.

Best,
Ron

[Anonymous]

I'm reading the 10th book of the Wheel of Time cycle, whatever it's called.

Godawful long and far too lush for my tastes, but i've been reading the series for nearly 12 years, and i have to know how it ends.

[szilard]

Just finished Riddle of the Wren by Charles de Lint. I went to the library looking for stuff they didn't have, but I saw a de Lint novel I haven't read, so I grabbed it. It turns out that it was near-perfect inspiration for my current project, and helped me get over my mechanics-writer's-block.

Stuart

[Maurice Forrester]

I've been slowly making my way through the Library of America's
"Reporting World War II."  Fascinating but I find that the older I get, the slower I read.

I'm also reading Robert B. Parker's latest Spenser novel.  Parker is like an old friend who keeps telling the same story over and over again, but I don't mind because he's an old friend.

[GreatWolf]

Let's see.  I'm flipping between the following:

The Art of War, by Sun Tzu.

Ars Magica, 4th edition.

Who Fears the Devil?, by Manly Wade Wellman.

From Grief to Glory: Spiritual Journeys of Mourning Parents by James W. Bruce III.

And I'm thinking of rereading Book of the New Sun to keep me focused on Alyria.  (What I'm reading tends to rub off on what I'm writing.)

Seth Ben-Ezra
Great Wolf

[taalyn]

Fiction: nothing right now, I just finished a huge fiction kick, and Wheel of Time killed all interest in fiction for a while. I despise that series. Couldn't pay me to read #10. I just don't care what color Nynaeve's dress is.

Nonfiction:
The Essential Gay Mystics ed. Andrew Harvey
The Self-Aware Universe Amit Goswami
The Kalevala tr. F.P. Magoun, "compiled" by Lonnrot
Sailors and Sexual Identity and [The Masculine Marine[/i], both by Steven Zeeland
How to Read Egyptian Mark Collier and Bill Manley

These were the first 6 books in my reading pile, from which I pull at random, or semi random anyway. There's probably 20 books in it, and I generally finish 2 books a week.

Aidan, known on campus as "The Reader"

[Thomas Tamblyn]

Just finished reading:

Kil'n People by David Brin - Loved it despite disliking mosteverything else he's written.
Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon - Nice novel about autistics
Can you keep a secret? by Sophie Kinsella - Fun girly book.

I'm sure I should only put one, but I read these three over the course of four days so it seems appropriate.

Next up I'm looking to re-read the first book of Lankhmar (fantersy masterworks collection)

Hmm - need more books.

[Simon W]

In the middle of Vagabond (sequel to Harlequin about an English archer in the 1300's), by Bernard Cornwall. Excellent stuff.

Also forever reading the first five Amber novels (Roger Zelazny). The second five in the series are less good.

Also started on The Hinge Factor 'How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History', by Erik Durmschmied.

Next on the list A History of Warfare by John Keegan and Duncton Wood (again) by William Horwood.

Gideon
http://www.geocities.com/simonwashbourne/Beyond_Belief.html

[Brian Leybourne]

I just finished reading "The Web 2027" by a bunch of british authors (one was Peter Hamilton of Nights Dawn fame, I don't recall the others).

Pretty good stuff really, worth checking out.

Brian.

[Shreyas Sampat]

Trying to work up the guts to read the Harry Potter series in French.

A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami... hard to describe, postmodernist Japanese fiction deeply rooted in history.

Campbell's Masks of God series, particularly the Oriental one.

A Clockwork Orange.

The Arabian Nights, vol. II, the Zipes adaptation of the Burton translation.  Like Seth, I tend to write like what I'm reading, and Torchbearer's intended to have very distinctive diction, somewhere between Murakami's dry precision and the floweriness of the Arabic style.

Looking for a copy of Sheila Moon's Knee-deep in Thunder.