what are you reading?

limb_clock · Post by **limb_clock** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:28 am 0

some random "Electronics for Beginners" book.

Hey, Giles inspired me. let's see how long my concentration lasts THIS time.

betamax · Post by **betamax** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:09 am 0

HP Lovecraft Omnibus 3: The Haunter of the Dark. Cthulhu's adventures in almost waking up to devour the minds of humanity are scuppered by a lone nordic and his trusty stolen steamboat. Fried gold.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:17 am 0

The latest Dalziel and Pascoe book - 'Death of Dalziel'.

juice · Post by **juice** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:56 pm 0

I'm currently re-reading David Weber's Honor Harrington stuff - it's military sci-fi space opera with a heavy amount of influence from classic stuff like Horatio Hornblower. The basic plot involves the rise (and occasional fall) of a top-class officer during a war of attrition between two empires: a small but rich democracy (somewhat akin to the British empire during it's trading heyday) and a vast communist empire, which must continue to expand and absorb resources or collapse after years of raiding the piggy bank to keep the unwashed masses placated.

The guy's clearly done a lot of thinking and research into it all, and part of the appeal is that there's a steady R&D effort throughout the books: new weapons and tactics are introduced (e.g. faster ships, better missiles, stealth tech), along with the various political events which tend to cripple one empire long enough for the other to take advantage for a short while.

Better yet, a large chunk of the series is legally available free of charge as e-texts, as listed on the Wikipedia page.

(the same applies to a large chunk of Baen-published books, and it's worked nicely for them - speaking only for myself, I've splashed out on about 20 books since parsing a large chunk of their free library)

Worth a try - it's free and you can read it in a browser or on your PDA/iPhone/etc...

HippyDave · Post by **HippyDave** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:10 pm 0

Currently re-reading for the first time since the late 80s...

50 pages in, and already as ace as I remember it being...

Worryingly, though, it appears to be out of print, at least in the UK. None of the usual stores appear to have it in stock! Which is a blow to anyone in the UK who hasn't read it yet who fancied giving it a go. e-Bay and/or Amazon marketplace etc it is, then...

I'll be keeping my copy nice and safe...

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:49 pm 0

Finally got round to the Da Vinci Code.

Laugh all you like!

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:10 pm 0

You have our sympathies.

Post by **RiK** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:16 pm 0

Currently reading "Wormwood Forest, a natural history of Chernobyl"

ThetaReactor · Post by **ThetaReactor** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:10 pm 0

Just finished Ubik, by Philip K. Dick. Fun little thing, nice twists, interesting concept. Ending is kind of weak, but that seems to be common among classic sci-fi stuff, though not so much with PKD.

Now reading PIHKAL, by Dr. Alexander Shulgin and his wife, Ann.

shock combo · Post by **shock combo** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:18 pm 0

welcome to the NHK

its about this guy with social problems
it was turned into an anime/manga hence the cover
its a really good read

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:07 am 0

Guys, I know everyone posts in this thread and never actually reads anything posted here, but for those few that do don't forget there is the yakyak book club on LibraryThing.

http://www.librarything.com/groups/yakyakbookclub

LibraryThing is free to join and it allows you to track you library and us to track each others reading. It also provides recommendations and such based on your reading habits and lots of other useful book related features, it is a very awesum web app. You should join up and then join the yakyak group!

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:19 pm 0

I just finished Excession by Iain M. Banks and have moved onto Consider Phelbas.

However if you guys love your spaceship and AI porn Banks style I'd like to recommend Neal Asher's books set in his Polity universe. IMO the spaceship porn is more hardcore (Especially the space battles) and the Polity AIs are much more interesting characters.

A couple of good books to start with are

Prador Moon
and
Gridlinked

fro · Post by **fro** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:04 pm 0

I've just started Great expectations. It's not as good as I'd hoped.

grue · Post by **grue** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:10 pm 0

Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie

This guy is rapidly rises next to my Holy Trinity of writers, Erikson, Martin and Scott Baker. They will be a Holy Quartinity?!

Fuseball · Post by **Fuseball** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:38 pm 0

HippyDave wrote:Currently re-reading for the first time since the late 80s...

50 pages in, and already as ace as I remember it being...

Worryingly, though, it appears to be out of print, at least in the UK. None of the usual stores appear to have it in stock! Which is a blow to anyone in the UK who hasn't read it yet who fancied giving it a go. e-Bay and/or Amazon marketplace etc it is, then...

Great books.

I lost my old editions of this. Managed to get all three from abe-books. Similar setup to the Amazon marketplace but more focussed on bookselling. A lot of independent bookstores are on there.

YakYak

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