I'm reading Richard Bachman's book "Blaze" and a teen fantasy novel called "His Dark Materials - The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman it's a little off from my normal reading which means its taking me forever to get through it. (The series has such a good dark name but the books arent that good for an adult male, its written for pre teens really)

reading this at the moment bronson
good read

I recently had a friend turn me onto James Lee Burke and I'm systematically working through what my local library has. Burke writes mysteries about a reoccurring character who lives in Iberia Louisiana, I'm familiar with the south and Burke's descriptions are so colorful that I feel like I'm back down there again. This guy is great!

How is blaze? Gonna get it when its in PB.

I just finished reading The Partner by John Grisham. I had to read it for school, but i would of read it otherwise, it's a really good book.

I'm probably gunna start reading the Star Wars Force Heretic series (there are three books, Remnant, Refugee, and Reunion) written by Sean Williams and Shane Dix. I started reading the first one and it was pretty good, I just never got around to finishing them.

Regards,
TheYoda

It's good. You can see flashes of Stephen King's later works and some of Richard Bachman's earlier work in it but then again its hard to write almost 40 (?) stories and Books without reverbing something (this book was the last of the Bachman Books written and predates Carrie by 6 months to a year)

Godless: The Church of Liberalism, by Ann Coulter. Yes, sometimes she goes a little too far, but other times she is dead on.

Is this a pure thriller? Or is there some supernatural in it?

started a new book which i have read before(was a great read)
called powder wars
its about a criminal from liverpool(were i live)who brought down the biggest drug cartels ever known in england

It's mainly a thriller. Unless you include a "slow" person being haunted (in his head) by his former partner in crime as supernatural there is none as far as I can tell (only 125 pages in so far, had a busy week).

Well I finished "Blaze" about 1 AM this morning and read the Short Story "Memory" which accompanied it in the book (although completely separate tales). I also started on "Lisey's Story" by Stephen King which promises to be an interesting read (both books were given to me by a friend who had accidentally ordered double copies)

At the moment, I am re-reading Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, along with some of his short stories.
Z

"The Lost King", by Margaret Weiss.

Lol, I read the german version of it and stopped after a few chapters - too complicated and exhausting back then . Currently reading "The human stain" from P.Roth (I believe that was the english title).

Just finished reading The Curse Of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold, and she is in fine form.

My German is not adequate to reading Mann in the original, so I read Lowe-Porter's translation. Mann also wrote a book about writing Faustus which is very interesting.
Z

After being #115 on the library's waiting list for the latest Harry Potter, I finally picked it up on Thursday night and am halfway through it. Just a big kid at heart, I really enjoy these books and movies.

I would have to read it in English, as anything else would be devilish. I think it would be rather hard in terms of vocabularies and stuff and technically I am not a fantasy fan. However, I did buy every DVD of the HP series that has been put on the market.

I just finished S. King's "Lisey's Story". It was a very good book and deserves a great deal of praise. Now i have moved on to Lee Child's "Running Blind" which is from his "Jack Reacher" series.

I'm currently three quarters of the way through Patrick O`Brian's Post Captain.

Being an ex Merchant Navy cat it's right up my street.

Ok I am now reading Daniel Brown's Angels and Demons. So far.. I am glad it is fiction.

i've read angels and demons thought it was better than the da vinci code also read his other two books deception point and digital fortress both were a good read

I have to concur with mz30 in the fact that "Angles and Demons" is (IMHO) better then "The Da Vinci Code". Although all of Mr. Browns books are good i liked Angels and Demons the best.

Anti-matter is scary.

Oh.. is this maybe in the wrong forum? LOL

I read both and I have to say that I too think Angles and Demons was better.

Agreed on Angels and Demons. I actually thought Da Vinci code was a crappy mystery. The background information though was very interesting.

Well i only have one book The Lord of the Rings

i read and reread it over and over again ....

I fourth that, lol. Brown is a good author, and even though the Da Vinci code wasn't his best book, it was (as with most books) better than the movie.

Regards,
TheYoda

Right now I am reading Frankenstein for school, it is so boring.

-Steve

Err... Nothing right now, just couple days ago read Clive Cussler's Shock Wave though. I'm about to start reading his Night Probe! next.

I've been reading quite a few Clive Cussler's books lately, and buying more..

I am now currently reading Denying the Holocaust. The author is bashing those who claim it didn't happen. It's very eye-opening.

By the way, what's with all the Steven King fans? I can't read those kind of books...but to each his/her own.

Clive Cussler is the Dirk Pitt stories?

I'm currently reading Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Lawrence Lessig. ISBN: 0-14-303465-0
and the hard cover version (which I don't know why I bought both on Amazon; I thought they were different)

Free Culture - How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity - by Lawrence Lessig (ISBN: 1-59420-006-8)
Digital Copyright - by Jessica Litman (ISBN-10: 159102420-X ISBN-13: 978-159102420-0)
The Future of Ideas The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World - by Lawrence Lessig (ISBN: 0-375-726444-6)

noticing a pattern here?

Yup that's the one. I've read either 7 or 8 of 'em, don't remember right now.

Finished Diary by Chuck Palahniuk last night, so will be picking another one off my shelf tonight. I'm thinking that it's going to be either Misery by Stephen King, or Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins.

Liseys Storey, wasn't too bad, an enjoyable read. Though I do Have to say the mutilation of her chest.....well I had some problems getting through that part......Ouch!

At the moment I am reading a series that Grinler actually recommended quite a while back. Tad Williams - Memory, Sorrow and Thorn.
I'm up to book three and so far its very "I can't put this down. You want dinner?! Can't you see I'm reading?".

So thanks Grinler for this wonderful story.

I was lost that's why I read Opening to God by Thomas Green. Very enlightening book.

You are very welcome. It is an incredible series.

I just finished Ruins by Scott Smith. I did not think the book was great, but there was something about it that was very disturbing. I definitely had anxiety when reading it.

Well I finished "Running Blind" over the weekend. Good book, crappy ending. Now I have moved on to Sam Bourne's "The Righteous Men" Its a little slow for me but I need to read a slow book ever once and a while.

Oh, and I've quit reading my Linux books for the time being and moved on to "HTML and CSS in 24 hours" (expanding my horizons)

Moving on to more classical works now (as the last book I read,See post above, is hardly worth summarizing). I am now reading "The Tale of Genji" by Lady Murasaki Shikibu. It's toted as being the Worlds first novel.

Working for a Japanese Mega-carrier, I am currently reading "Die Kultur Japans" from Florian Coulmas (free translation: The culture of Japan).

Its from a small German publisher concentrating on specialised books, like law books, social and cultural, economical and the like. High reputation and "heavy food for thoughts", but very interesting.

I'm reading "The Stone Dragon" by Australian author Peter Watts. He's Australia's answer to Wilbur Smith.

I just finished The Descent by Jeff Long and it was excellent.

I enjoyed it so much, in fact, that I may buy the sequel in hard cover. I hate hard covers.

Grinler, I share in your distaste for hardbacks, however I also abhor the small print in many "Mass Market Paperbacks" (those 6"x3" copies that are most prominent), while I usually read in Mass Market Paperbacks I prefer the "Trade Paperbacks" which are the same size as a Hardback. (2 pennies)



While Reading "The tale of Genji" (which I have come to find is no more than a series of short Romance Novella's) I have needed a break So I have read John Skipp's "The Long Last Call" and Stuart Woods' "Fresh Disasters". Both of which were good books and john Skipp introduced me to the world of "Splatterpunks"(a sub-genre of horror) which I must say I am enjoying.

Currently reading Lightning - Dean Koontz

On the night of Laura Shane's birth, a stranger appears from the lightning to prevent her delivery's being botched by an alcoholic physician. Throughout Laura's childhood the stranger reappears at times of danger. He protects rather than threatens, yet menace seems to follow him. Thirty years later another storm flashes and the stranger collapses, shot, at Laura's door. Now Laura protects her erstwhile guardian from mysterious hunters. He reveals that he and the hunters are time travelers. Laura, quick-witted and brave, leads the way to a bloody showdown. The paradox in time travel's tampering with history provides an interesting twist in this gripping thriller by a popular writer.

What a book IceAngels
Lightning is my favourite fiction book of all time,must have read it 10 times

I read it years ago (15 or so) and it was the book that got me hooked on to Dean Koontz. I honestly do not remember the story though.

I would recommend reading it again grinler ,fantastic story.
There were rumours a couple of years back that a movie would be made,no news of that lately.
I would rush to see it if it's ever made.
While on the subject have you read twighlight eyes by Dean Koontz another great read.

a)New Passages, Gail Sheey, ... b)Grimms Fairy Tales, .... c)The Pendragon, Catherine Christian, ..... d)The Marian Conspiracy, Graham Phillips.
Have been through several months of overdoing re-reads of Ian Fleming's "Bond", Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Matthew Reilly et al, so dug up a couple of oldy-but-goody's (b & c) and a couple that have been sitting on my bedside table for a long time, and am now getting round to reading them (a & d).
The pleasure of getting back to Grimms (and they go a LONG way back!)has been surprising ... and I've always been a nutter for King Arthur/Merlin stories - got lotsa versions and one very old, very battered hard copy of Tennyson's Holy Grail and other poems, printed in 1870.
The real joy of books, for me, is variety and I do like the "feel-good-at-the-end" stuff!

Only problem is basically time - do most of my reading at night in bed, and get woken up by the 'thump' of the book as it hits the floor!

I just recently picked up "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Neitsche? (wierd name to spell). Very interesting philosophy.