what have you read recently?

[lithuvien]

Currently reading books from the Drenai series by David Gemmell

[Mistral]

Ah...rather quick to be posting again here, but I just finished the book most recently purchased. Another ending like this...first Sirius Black in the fifth book (I won't elaborate, for those who haven't read that yet), and now this, with both involved (Again, not elaborating since it's almost certain I'm the first here to finish the book), it's...I certainly await the final book, shall we say?

We need more of a bleak smilie, don't we...

[samarjit]

have any body read herry potter latest book

[Mistral]

have any body read herry potter latest book

First, what I have not read: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Just bought it.

Ah...rather quick to be posting again here, but I just finished the book most recently purchased. Another ending like this...first Sirius Black in the fifth book (I won't elaborate, for those who haven't read that yet), and now this, with both involved (Again, not elaborating since it's almost certain I'm the first here to finish the book), it's...I certainly await the final book, shall we say?

[Gulcasa]

Eh. Just got done reading The Store and The House by Bentley Little.

[Kosmo Yagkoto]

I have been reading Knights of Darkness by Dr. Haha Lung. Its a pretty cool book.

[Dingy]

Harry Potty...YaY! My baby stood first in line at 6.30 am to get it for me Demn, Rowling is trying to strike an adulty chord to every book as he gets older, someone should tell her, growing older doesn't always necessarily mean people you love dying every year. If that were always true, then Potty man better be having sex or sommat in this one.
Exciting nonetheless.

[Toto]

The ending of the newest Harry Potter books didn't engage me, cause she killed all the interesting characters.
I have read recently:
More than Human - Theodore Sturgeon
Non-Stop - Brian Aldiss
Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling.

[samarjit]

now a days iam doing studies on comerce books... they r tooo borimg

[afterburner]

busy reading first 5 harry potter books then will read new one ...

[Vivi]

I am currently reading the new one and WOW. thats all Ill say.

[Winged 2.0]

Yeah same. We are reading it at about the same pace. I just finished chapter 2.

READ THIS BOOK

[darkmagician600]

harry potter 1,2,3,4,5
and 6 is in our country in a mont

and then im gonna read it

[c0y0te]

have any body read herry potter latest book

I'm waiting for my parents to get back from vacation and buy the latest one, I'm a broke college student and I will swipe their whole H.P. collection and re-read the series at leisure..

I'm reading Katherine Kerr's Deverry novels right now, and I'm enjoying them pretty thoroughly. She tends to lean overly far toward "celtic" stuff imho, going to far as to provide a celtic pronounciation guide at the start of each of her books, and some of the locations and things names are just plain illegible.. "yvrodr," "mor i'r ddae," "aver troe matrw," etc, it makes it confusing to get a feel for the story world, since the maps are full of all these unintelligible names of places that just kind of mush together in your head. Nothing really too original about the series, but it's a fun read anyway.

Also, I finished Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle a few weeks, ago, that was a major undertaking even for someone who reads 400 pages in a day easily.. The storyline was so complex, detailed, engrossing, and historically accurate, and the characters were so wild, that it was truly a treat to read. If you want to read these novels, I'd recommend reading Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, first, since it's set in modern day and world war II timeframes, and is a nice introduction to the characters in the baroque cycle (err, well, the descendants of the Baroque Cycle characters, who lived about 400 years or so earlier..) Reading fiction about Isaac Newton being all weird, cutting open dogs while they still live for the sake of "scientific advancement" and stuff was plainly hilarious, it made me want to travel back in time, to a period of real discovery..

PS: Robert Jordan sucks, his novels are nothing but 400 pages of backstory, 2-300 pages of the same characters whining about the same problems, with almost no advancement, and then 400 pages of winding up the book to set up up on a "cliffhanger" for the next godforsaken book in his series.. I remember that one of his 1200 page books in the series had almost literally, NOTHING happen, except that one character got... a hat. No joke, the guy got a stupid hat, and wore it for every following book. It wasn't even a cool hat!

Robert Jordan should be shot!

[c0y0te]

I thought Dragonlance novels and Forgotten Realms novels were the shit, back when I was, umm, 11...

Try reading David Gemmell if you like sword/sorcery novels, his first book, "Legend," is great, and will set you up for a phenomal spree of great reading..

BTW, please don't anyone think that I'm insulting the FR and Dlance novels, they were a blast and certainly made me ramp my reading habit up by several notches.. It's just that they never really matured, and many of the authors/characters got worn out and formulaic.. I remember When I lost my taste for them; R.A.Salvatore my (previously) favorite fantasy author, with his Dark Elf series.. I was reading one novel, and then the next, and I noticed something odd.. The main character's pet (magical panther summoned from astral plane,) had gone from being a "female," to a "neuter" between books, with no explanation except for plain sloppy writing/continuity! :\ Then, I had settled down and gone back to reading him, and I picked up a book of Forgotten Realms short stories (tales of heroes or something, they had a series of heroes, villains, magic, etc, if I remember,) and the SAME character's magickal pet had suddenly become a MALE! Again, no explanation. Then I saw a picture of the author, except it had been done professionally to look all dark and gothic, and he was holding a big claymore, but he really looked like a pudgy loser who needed to get a good haircut.. I could never rekindle the magic with that author, or the entire story world, after that point..