What are you reading now?

[bullimiami]

I just started 'forward the foundation' which i never read.
after the books get to the library im going to read the 3 dune house books atreides, harkonnen and corrino. I just finished the battle of corrin.

im also reading (ear reading) orxy and crake on audiobook. just started it, good for the commute. seems good so far.

im waiting for the next robert jordan next year, it better be good and not all drawn out like the last few or more in the WOT.


ok. now you guys.

[ralps]

1. I'm rereading "Beginning Operations" by James White

:hi:

[Technowitch]

2. "Maximum Ice" by Kay Kenyon

Intriguing premise... drives me a little crazy that she doesn't capitalize "Earth" when mentioning the planet by name. But otherwise interesting.

Otherwise, I'm working on my own book the rest of the time. Epic fantasy, about 90% done with the manuscript.

[bullimiami]

3. your own. well good luck then.

that is quite an undertaking.

[Technowitch]

5. I and about 800 manuscript pages thank you. :-)

[Tikki]

4. "The Butterfly Kid"...

by Chester Anderson.

[Chovexani]

6. Forgotten Realms stuff

War of the Spider Queen Book 3 (Condemnation? I confuse the titles), and Siege of Darkness (Book 3 of Legacy of the Drow).

I've really been wanting to read the Dune prequels, because I really love Dune but after several tries I just can't get through Heretics of Dune. The way they were going through Duncan gholas like rolls of toilet paper just got silly and I couldn't take it seriously. :silly: Do I need to read the rest of the series in order to get the prequels?

I think it really should have stopped at God-Emperor, myself.

[bullimiami]

7. i stopped at god emperor

way back in the day. im just going to get to heretics and chapterhouse now.

the brian herbert books are good.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

11. House Atredies and Harkonnen are pretty good................

I'd say it gets into Dune-geek only territory after that. Not trying to be exclusive or snooty, but I found the story goes so deep into the minutiae of the original Herbert's story, that some casual reader may get lost or bored.

[phantom power]

8. I'm in the middle of "Years of Rice and Salt", by KS Robinson

I'm also dead in the middle of "The Confusion", by Stephenson.

We just had a baby, and I discovered that it's cutting into my reading time. The Confusion is really, really hard to read five minutes at a time :-)

[BigMcLargehuge]

9. My annual Veterans Day reread of Starship Troopers at the moment

aside from that it's all boring telecom oriented non-fiction.

[ismnotwasm]

10. Rereading

'Lord of the Diamond' series by Jack Lord
Edit: The Four Lords of the Diamond by Jack Chalker. Jeez. Brain fried.

[YankeyMCC]

12. LoL

It always makes me happy to find a fellow Chalker fan. I just finished posting in another thread that these were the first Science Fiction novels I ever read.