Let's play a game together!

[Jack Frost]

This is a simple game really. I will post a topic for you all to talk about, then lurk in the shadows and watch how the topic unfolds. Then randomly I will post a new topic to talk about, forcing you all to change gears. Let's see how adaptable you are.

First topic: Something easy
What books are you reading at the moment?

[Wolfman 20]

Right now, I'm just reading a book I've had for years. It's the 'need to know everything' book about dinosaurs. Yes, I'm a dino-whore but who cares?


EDIT: I had to scrounge around to find them, but the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini.

Such books are: Eragon, Eldest and Brisinger. Book 4 has yet to release any sort of information other then the color. We have blue[Eragon], red[Eldest] and gold[Brisinger]. From what I know, book 4 is to be green with a green dragon on the cover.

Oh and Polly, it's true. I know everything about dino's. You name it, I can tell you everything about it.

[Sweet Polly Oliver]

The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco. I dunno, my dad's a philsophy geek and he gave it to me to read. It's really good though, I like the writing style a lot.


Right now, I'm just reading a book I've had for years. It's the 'need to know everything' book about dinosaurs. Yes, I'm a dino-whore but who cares?

The phrase "dino-whore" made me cringe. >>;

[Duffy]

I am currently reading two things:

The Risk Society, by Ulrich Beck, analysing the precarious nature of man in post-modernity and the approach of societies to criminal justice and, oddly enough, the management of risk. It's one of the texts I'm drawing on for my dissertation, and one of many books I'm supposed to read over the summer, but likely won't get anywhere near as much done as I'd planned.

The Night Watch, by Sarah Waters. Second World War character drama book focussing on a small group of friends and their lives unfolding over a decade - she wrote Tipping The Velvet and others, and is a brilliant scene setter and geographical writer, you really feel as if you're in London!

Next to read: will have to be Foundations of Mixed Methods Research and The God of Small Things!

[Jack Frost]

Right now My mother is on the new-berry award committee and I'm buried in hopefuls. Just recently I read a book called "Out of my mind" which is about a young girl with cerebral palsy who turns out to be the next Steven Hawkings. It was really intresting and worth a reread.

[Knave]

I won't list all the authors, cause I don't have all the books with me.

Reading:
The Dome by S. King
Sorcery by Pratchet
Cheating
Needful Things by S. King
The Age of Wonder
Plague Dogs

If you are wondering how I manage to read these, its because I flit around a growing collection on my bed.

[Sweet Polly Oliver]

The Dome by S. King
Sorcery by Pratchet

The Dome's one of my favorite King books, I thought it was really good. Sourcery's great too, not my favorite Discworld book but certainly good (they all are, really).

[Letho]

I'm currently wadding through the Drizzt saga. And I do mean wadding through, as in "wadding through sewage", because I'm not terribly impressed by R. A. Salvatore so far. Drizzt is an interesting enough character, but I'm up to Crystal Shard (fourth book, I think), and he's pretty much the only interesting character. Which blows because in Crystal Shard a whole bunch of other characters are introduced. I find Salvatore's writing style quite unrefined and simplistic, his action rather dull and sometimes unclear, and his attention to detail barely present. But hey, who am I to judge, right? He's making the huge bucks and I can't write a single post nowadays, so take it as you will.

EDIT: King rules. I read Lisey's Story a while ago. Wasn't bad.

[SirArtemis]

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.

Letho, I think you'll like running into Artemis Entreri. My character is a crossbreed of Drizzt and Artemis and me.

[Knave]

I'm currently wadding through the Drizzt saga. And I do mean wadding through, as in "wadding through sewage", because I'm not terribly impressed by R. A. Salvatore so far. Drizzt is an interesting enough character, but I'm up to Crystal Shard (fourth book, I think), and he's pretty much the only interesting character. Which blows because in Crystal Shard a whole bunch of other characters are introduced. I find Salvatore's writing style quite unrefined and simplistic, his action rather dull and sometimes unclear, and his attention to detail barely present. But hey, who am I to judge, right? He's making the huge bucks and I can't write a single post nowadays, so take it as you will.

EDIT: King rules. I read Lisey's Story a while ago. Wasn't bad.

You aren't alone, Salvatore was trapped into writing the books by a contract. They are basicly forced works. Its not too surprising he wouldn't stop though: big bucks, lowered standards > High standards, getting sued. As lifted from the Franchise Zombie trope page, apparently:


•R.A. Salvatore has been said to have wished that he had killed Drizzt Do'Urden off years ago. In fact, he had once withdrawn from the franchise only to have Wizards of the Coast go so far as to solicit a manuscript by another author for a new Drizzt novel Shores of Dusk. The novel even appeared in catalogs for an August 1997 release. Salvatore caved and the solicited novel disappeared. That was ten novels ago.

[Troubled-Crow]

At the moment, I'm reading a load of Chris Ryan books. Again. Blackout, some of the younger Alpha Force ones (for like, 11-13) and Code Red. I'm also just read The Last Gospel, and I'm wanting to read Marks of Cain, but I've decided not to as I've been told the whole book revolves around sexual torture.

[Zook Murnig]

Good Omens by Terry Pratchet and Neil Gaiman. It's a rollicking adventure through modern Britain, following the childhood whimsy of the Antichrist, and the demon and angel who are out to stop him from destroying the world. Featuring Death, War, Famine, and (in the role of Pestilence) Pollution. It's my second read through of the book.

I've also been off and on reading all the books of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. Harry Dresden, wizard, works as a private investigator in the city of Chicago, often helping CPD's Special Investigations unit solve crimes. Other times, he's hunting down vampires before they take him out, investigating succubus-run porn industries, helping out a genetic werewolf, and riding undead dinosaurs to the rescue against necromancers who seek to destroy Chicago in order to absorb the life energy and become gods (http://www.dandossantos.com/gallery/illustrations/full_dresden3.jpg).

[Enigmatic Immortal]

Sons of Liberty: Book about MSG2, novelized. It's easy reading, not thought invoking for details, which was actually good for me after working two jobs.

Nemesis: Horus Heresy Novel. That series is my favorite by far. It's holding onto two of my top three books I loved reading, period: Mechanicum, and Fulgrim.

Dexter By Design: Really just started, but I already like it. The other three were cool save the third book, as that one was rather...out there compared to the rest.

[Amber Eyes]

I'm constantly reading and re-reading anything by Jodi Picoult and Nicholas Sparks...Other than that, anything Sei brings home for me...