MmM Posted September 29, 2008 What books/graphic novels have you read lately? These are what I've read over the last couple of months: Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Mike Mignola) Hellboy: Wake The Devil (Mike Mignola) The Last Nazi (Stan Pottinger) The Wal-Mart Effect (Charles Fishman) Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula K. Le Guin) The Tombs of Atuan (Ursula K. Le Guin) The Farthest Shore (Ursula K. Le Guin) Tehanu (Ursula K. Le Guin) Tales From Earthsea (Ursula K. Le Guin) The Other Wind (Ursula K. Le Guin) 0 Share this post Link to post
John Smith Posted September 29, 2008 The only thing I've read recently is Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis. Good stuff. 0 Share this post Link to post
sLydE Posted September 29, 2008 I've read: Dune: The Butlerian Jihad Dune: The Machine Crusade Dune: The Battle of Corrin Hunters of Dune Sandworms of Dune Ender's Game Speaker for the Dead Xenocide Children of the Mind Ender's Shadow Shadow of the Hegemon Shadow Puppets Shadow of the Giant Pattern Recognition Spook Country (currently reading) Getting Things Done (currently reading) Sherlock Holmes series (4 novels, 56 short stories) I've been busy reading :) 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted September 29, 2008 A month or two ago, I had a sudden random urge to re-read a bunch of books I first (and last) read back in elementary school. So I did: The Westing Game (Raskin) Maniac Magee (Spinelli) Secret Of Terror Castle (Arthur) Skinnybones (Park) Scared Stiff (Roberts) To get to: A Wrinkle In Time (L'Engle) Trumpet Of The Swan (White) Number The Stars (Lowry) Of course, with school going now, the focus has shifted a bit: Sociology In A Changing World (Kornblum) The St. Martin's Guide To Writing (Axelrod / Cooper) Basic Materials In Music Theory (Harder / Steinke) Intermediate Algebra (Hall / Mercer) (Required BS) ...and various supplemental guides. 0 Share this post Link to post
herooftime1000 Posted September 29, 2008 *sigh* I love comic books so I read lots and lots of Dilbert. Oh, and Flash Tutorial books. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted September 29, 2008 I just finished Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. Started reading The Lone Drow by R.A. Salvatore (*snore*). I was working on finishing The Complete Sherlock Holmes, but after half a year of reading it I was getting tired and wanted a change of pace. I also took a break a while back from it to read the 8 English-translated Slayers novels. I also read a bunch of stuff earlier on in the past year, namely: Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein The Princess Bride, by William Goldman Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick The Philip K. Dick Reader (guess what that is) The New Dinosaurs, by Dougal Dixon I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski - Life, The Big Lebowski, and What Have You That was all late last year/early this year for the most part. I have a lot of stuff on my to-read list: The Lone Drow, by R.A. Salvatore The Two Swords, by R.A. Salvatore Promise of the Witch King, by R.A. Salvatore Road of the Patriarch, by R.A. Salvatore The Annotated Dragonlance Legends, by Margret Weis and Tracy Hickman Le Morte d'Arthur, by Sir Thomas Malory Some Spiderwick books, just because they were co-authored by Tony DiTerlizzi, my favorite artist Then I have a bunch of stuff I want to re-read: Dune, by Frank Herbert Children of Dune, by Frank Herbert Dune Messiah, by Frank Herbert The Hobbit, by Tolkien Lord of the Rings, by Tolkien All of Salvatores Forgotten Realms books (maybe) So...busy schedule. :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted September 29, 2008 Other than things I need to read in the course of my work, and sections of guidebooks (et al.) relevant to places I'm visiting, the two most recent books I have read are: "Wonderful Life" by Stephen Jay Gould "The Last Generation" by Fred Pearce (the American edition has the rather better title "With Speed and Violence") Both can be recommended if the subjects are of interest. 0 Share this post Link to post
purist Posted September 29, 2008 I began re-reading 'The Business' by Iain Rankin but have abandoned it and started on 'Nightmares and Dreamscapes' by Stephen King because I fancied something fresh (to me, at least). 0 Share this post Link to post
Lorenzo Posted September 29, 2008 I'm reading "L'Orlando Furioso" by Ludovico Ariosto. Crazy 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted September 29, 2008 Masters of doom Gentlemen (Swedish book, dunno if it ever was translated) 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted September 29, 2008 kristus said:Gentlemen (Swedish book, dunno if it ever was translated) I don't suppose it has anything to do with images like these, does it? 0 Share this post Link to post
Richo Rosai Posted September 29, 2008 Shout (Beatles biography) A Brief History of Time Doom 3: Worlds on Fire The God Delusion Real Ultimate Power (hey, I needed something to bump me up to free shipping) 0 Share this post Link to post
Zaldron Posted September 29, 2008 Lately I've reread Matheson's "I Am Legend" and Forsyth's "The Day of the Jackal". I'm churning through Clavell's "Shogun" once again at the moment. I haven't actually bought books in a few years..I've been rereading too much. 0 Share this post Link to post
Creaphis Posted September 29, 2008 I never learned how. To answer the pending question, "Dictation." 0 Share this post Link to post
40oz Posted September 29, 2008 Masters of Doom The Official Zombie Survival Guide well... I started reading them, I havent really continued reading them lately. 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted September 29, 2008 Rather recently I've read (not exactly in this order):All the Conan stories (Robert. E. Howard) Ferdydurke (Witold Gombrowicz) Literaturas Germánicas Medievales (J. L. Borges) Lewis Carroll's Alice books Medea (Euripides) Back to the stone age (Edgard Rice Burroughs) Danton's death (Georg Büchner) Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad) A few plays by Bertolt Brecht A bunch of stories by Lord Dunsany 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted September 29, 2008 Lüt said:I don't suppose it has anything to do with images like these, does it? Heh, WTF? 0 Share this post Link to post
Remilia Scarlet Posted September 29, 2008 I've been wanting to re-read through my Love Hina collection lately, but haven't started yet. I also have volume 2 of Ranma 1/2 to finish. But here's what I've read this past year: Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky And best of all: In the Beginning... was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson 0 Share this post Link to post
Creaphis Posted September 30, 2008 kristus said:Heh, WTF? From /b/ Heh. I don't know a thing about Myk's hoity-toity literature. However, I am still on top of current 4chan memes. I'm doing it wrong. 0 Share this post Link to post
Captain Red Posted September 30, 2008 Lets see: My annual rereading of Watchmen Batman year one, Dark Knight Returns and The killing Joke (yes, Dark Knight was a sweet movie). The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z. That about covers it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bank Posted September 30, 2008 I reread One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, I was not offended. 0 Share this post Link to post
VileSlay Posted September 30, 2008 in the past 6 months I've read: Fatal Revenant by Stephan R. Donaldson Beowulf, Seamus Heaney translation The Poetic Edda, Hollander Translation Currently reading: American Gods by Neil Gaiman 0 Share this post Link to post
Dr. Zin Posted September 30, 2008 Currently reading Uncovering Soviet Disasters: Exploring the Limits of Glasnost by James E. Oberg. Interesting read, as it was published in 1989 and thus the Soviets would not admit to any sort of accident that happened within their borders; thus the author tries to investigate purported events through numerous roundabout ways. 0 Share this post Link to post
DeumReaper Posted September 30, 2008 I reread "The Inner Game of Music" by Barry Green this month. For those of you who aren't familar with Timothy Galloway's "The Inner Game of Tennis," it's an self-help book that deals with the mental obstacles of tennis (the physical and technical teachings would be the 'outer game') whether it's about stage fright, being distracted easily, over-analyzing yourself, etc., only the concepts are transferred by a professional bassist to help music majors like me. 0 Share this post Link to post
caco_killer Posted September 30, 2008 I've been reading "The Chris Farley Show," a biography of Chris Farley written by his oldest brother, Tom Farley. 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted September 30, 2008 Creaphis said:Heh. I don't know a thing about Myk's hoity-toity literature.Whaddya mean "hoity-toity"? Euripides is kid's stuff, as Aristophanes pointed out. Aeschylus was DA MAN! Another one I read recently (well, in the last year) was "One Thousand Days with Sirius: The Greenland Sledge Patrol" by Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen. It probably helps to have a little background knowledge about East Greenland and Danes in general, but it should be quite readable for just about anyone with an interest in these things. 0 Share this post Link to post
Darkfyre Posted September 30, 2008 For graphic novels I've just read The Dark Knight Returns, and am re-reading Watchmen. As for books I'm reading a very boring Dark Tower book and have 1984 (a crime I haven't read it yet) next in line. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted September 30, 2008 sLydE said:I've read: Dune: The Butlerian Jihad Dune: The Machine Crusade Dune: The Battle of Corrin Hunters of Dune Sandworms of Dune Ender's Game Speaker for the Dead Xenocide Children of the Mind Ender's Shadow Shadow of the Hegemon Shadow Puppets Shadow of the Giant I love you 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted September 30, 2008 3D Game Alchemy & Dr. Sleep's guide to DoomBuilder. 0 Share this post Link to post