What are you reading?

So I've recently started to get back into reading more with a copy of Battle Royale. What books have you picked up lately?

Most reasently, a friend sent me a book called "The Knight" by Gene Wolfe, its first person and so far written very well. I've also gotten the Night Angle Trilogy by Brent Weeks, a few months back.

Night Angel Trilogy is pretty dang great Zyph, I read it a few years ago, very enjoyable series.

Not really reading much right now, I've been off-and-on reading the A Song of Ice and Fire books, but I haven't made much progress lately.

I'm currently reading the last few books in the Honor Harrington series by David Weber:
-Storm From the Shadows, which is the second in one of the two spin-off series.
-A Rising Thunder, which I'll read after finishing the above.
-Shadow of Freedom, which was originally going to be part of A Rising Thunder but is really a continuation of the spin-off I mentioned before.

Here's a link to hopefully help what I'm talking about make sense:
http://honorverse.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Honorverse_material

I can't recommend this series enough, but it would definitely be for older audiences, since younger readers likely wouldn't be able to track everything as well.

cBm: Good to know!

I'm currently reading David Weber's Safehold series. Similarly to his Honor Harrington books which ARC mentioned, I wouldn't recommend for everyone. There's a good bit of profanity in them, along with some sexual scenes. (Which are fairly clean as such things go. There's nothing super explicate in them.)

@ARC, how long is one of those books, on average?

The Not-so-Evil Overlord wrote:I'm currently reading David Weber's Safehold series. Similarly to his Honor Harrington books which ARC mentioned, I wouldn't recommend for everyone. There's a good bit of profanity in them, along with some sexual scenes. (Which are fairly clean as such things go. There's nothing super explicate in them.)

Oh yeah, I've been meaning to pester my dad about that series, too. Not my favorite, but an interesting read.

GyrTaluk wrote:@ARC, how long is one of those books, on average?

The first book is about 450 pages, the more recent ones closer to 900 pages. They get longer as time goes on. The spin-offs are around...600-700, give or take. Given the whole main series, and all the spin-offs related to the main plot, I could read all of it (without any extra responsibilities) in a couple months at least, probably longer because it'd be harder for me to reread something that's already impacted me so much.

Well, currently, I'm reading A Dance With Dragons (GRR Martin) and A Vision of the Future (Timothy Zahn). I plan on also reading Lolita (I don't know the author) at some point too.

Currently getting through the House of Cards trilogy (which is House Of Cards, Play The King, The Final Cut) also looking at a few books on American politics and politics in general.

Over summer I plan on getting through either the "With Malice Toward None" Lincoln biography, Steve Jobs or King Richard III.

In school this year we've done King Lear and we are about to start Wuthering Heights, obviously both of these are part of the Leaving Certificate Higher Level English course.

I finally got around the finishing the chronicles of narnia. For some reason, I hadn't read "The Last Battle" yet.

I'm reading The Silmarillion for the fourth time. So there's that.

I'm reading the third novel of Jack Campbell's spin-off The Lost Stars.

At the mountains of madness, for the first time.

Finally doing what ARC suggested maybe a year ago and reading Sun Tzu's art of war for the 21st century.

What? He wrote a version specifically for the 21st century?

Rox in Sox wrote:What? He wrote a version specifically for the 21st century?

no, it's a different author who provides interpretations.

But why would anyone have to interpret it? I think it's pretty understandable on its own. At least what I read so far.

Rox in Sox wrote:But why would anyone have to interpret it? I think it's pretty understandable on its own. At least what I read so far.

I've read a bit of it. Most if it is either common sense or doesn't really apply to modern warfare.

Ah, yeah, I guess it is a bit outdated when it comes to warfare. I don't know anything about modern warfare.

found a book that Im not sure any of you are going to recognize, it's called "Sims" by F. Paul Wilson. I swear it isnt about the video game. It's a really cool, interesting book.

That kinda rings a bell. What's it about?

Gyrtaluk:

Scientists using genetic hybridization to create a servant race. essentially. And the consequences of it. It actually ends up being really well thought out.

That does sound really interesting. Reminds me of a movie I heard about recently that just focuses on these characters, and then you find out that they're all clones for organ harvesting (Not the book House of the Scorpion, but similar premise, I guesss).

I'm addicted to Chuck Palahniuk books right now. Besides Pygmy, they're just written so inanely and the staggering amount of detail and attention to plot is just awesome. Haunted is a totally great book that might be the best (Fight Club and Invisible Monsters Remix are also up there) because of all the elements it contains. They're all satire in some kind of way, which occasionally gets a bit grating, but all the short stories in Haunted are so different and realistic you can't help but be entertained.