What book are you currently reading?

[Tamara]

just finished "Factoring Humanity" and it has a great depiction of the fourth dimension! the actual writing wasn't the most graceful but the idea was cool. Reading "Neuromancer" by Gibson right now, and it is rather difficult to follow...

[[deleted user]]

I am reading the Animorph books. They may sound strange but they are really good for young readers.

[[deleted user]]

i just started a book called "the supernaturalist" its really good!

[Mawgojzeta]

I am reading Tik-Tok by John Thomas Sladek and am quite enjoying it so far.

[Mir]

*Maria*, was that the one by Colfer? I thought his books were lots of fun!

I just started The Steel Remains. It is good but maybe a bit more squalid than I am in the mood for. Lots of drugs, slavery, abuse, hatred, etc.

[Greyweather]

Miriam wrote: "I just started The Steel Remains. It is good but maybe a bit more squalid than I am in the mood for. Lots of drugs, slavery, abuse, hatred, etc. "

Yep, that sounds like a Richard K. Morgan novel alright.

[Mir]

Somehow I didn't mind as much inThirteen. I think I'm going to find something fluffy to read in alternation.

[Drew]

I'm currently rereading "Dune Messiah," after finishing the original "Dune," and before that "Dune: House Atriedes, House Harkonnen, and House Corrino."

I personally found Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Andersons' prequels well-written, easier to follow than the original novels (esp. the timelines and sequence of events), and very engaging. I really liked the development of Duke Leto and his relationship with Jessica.

But I am no critic, I am an appreciator of others works. I come to praise sci fi authors, not to bury them.

[[deleted user]]

Miriam wrote: "*Maria*, was that the one by Colfer? I thought his books were lots of fun!

I just started The Steel Remains. It is good but maybe a bit more squalid than I am in the mood for. Lots ..."


yes, it is

[Mir]

I returned The Steel Remains and read a Georgette Heyer regency instead. Pretty much antithetical!

Now I'm reading Clovermead In the Shadow of the Bear and Nine Layers of Sky. Only a couple chapters into each but they both seem interesting so far.

[Gino]

Currently I am reading Dhampir by barb & J.C. Hendee only about 50 pages in but so far i'm interested

[Arthur]

A couple of days ago I started A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge

[Marc]

I just finished Jinx by Jane Estep and now I'm starting her book Hot mama, two from a set of superhero paranormal romances.

[Mawgojzeta]

Arthur wrote: "A couple of days ago I started A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge"

OH- love that book. Have you read

A Deepness in the Sky? If not (and you like Fire), then I suggest it as well.

[Arthur]

Mawgojzeta wrote: "Arthur wrote: "A couple of days ago I started A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge"

OH- love that book. Have you read

A Deepness in the Sky? If not (and you like Fire), then I su..."

No, I haven't.
Thanks. I will read it if I like A Fire Upon The Deep :)

[Hugo]

I just Started the Little Brother by Cory Doctorow.

[Sarah]

I started Robin Hobb's Renegade's Magic (the concluding book of the Soldier Son trilogy) about two weeks ago, and though I have only 200 pages left I find it hard to get on with it. It's too... disturbing. I hope to have it finished by the end of the weekend.
I also have some unfinished part of Lady of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, which on occasion I manage to spare some time for. That too, I hope to finish this week.

[Burymeinsmoke]

Crooked Little Vein is great for that Palahniuk/Garth Ennis vibe of ultra-violence and low-brow social commentary; good stuff, man! I've just cracked the spine of Broken Angels by Richard K Morgan, fingers crossed it's half as good as Altered Carbon.

[Bookbrow]

Tayla36 wrote: "I also belong to the SciFi and Fantasy book club here at Goodreads, and we are currently reading Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay.

I am really enjoying it. It's long and complicated wit..."

Excellent Fantasy book that mostly avoids the cliches and pitfalls of the fantasy genre. Slighty slow to get going but really rich thereafter. 4 stars.

[Jeff]

I am reading three books at once:

1) Reflex (Jumper) by Stephen Gould

2) Killerbowl by Gary K. Wolf

3) Doc Savage: The Lost Radio Scripts by Lester Dent

I have a Charles Sheffield novel and a Duane Swierczynski book in the queue.

[Carol]

David Weber - A Short, Victorious War
Adam Carolla - By 50 We will all be Chicks
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Neil Gaiman - Anansi Boys
Hill Harper - The Conversation

[Natalie]

I am currently reading China Miéville's Perdido Street Station. The AI's 'mechanism' for communicating w/humans is so macabre!

Next on my list is Death by Zamboni or John Scalzi's The Last Colony.

Having so many different books to read is making it a good winter for me!

[Stacie]

Clockwork Angel

[Scott]

I started Ender's Game a couple of days ago.

[Marie]

I just started reading . It's my first time reading Alastair Reynolds and I have been wanting to read his books for along time but never got around to it until now. I am only about 40 pages in but I can tell this is gonna be good :)

[Richard]

I just started to read Mech by B. V. Larson.

[Marc]

Nichole wrote: " I loved the neo-Renaissance setting."

You might also try The Spirit Ring.

[Yulande]

Reading the Gormenghast Trilogy . Quite a challenge this, but absolutely fascinating.

[Andi]

I'm reading Shadowland by Alyson Noel which is the third in the series. Shadowland

[Stuart]

I am reading The Way of Shadows byBrent Weeks

[Julie]

I'm reading Rise of the Evening Star. It's the second book in the Fablehaven series. The series is YA, but it's pretty good for something different.

[M]

"The Windup Girl" Paolo Bacigalupi

I'm on page 70 of 350 so far it is quite interesting

[Bill]

Hgomes wrote: "I just Started the Little Brother by Cory Doctorow."

Great book—one of my favorites of this century.

[Stuart]

I am reading Night Train to Lisbonby Pascal Mercier

[Potter]

I'm currently reading A Feast for Crows which I wish I had picked up sooner and The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars. They're hugely enjoyable so far.

[Khosch]

I just started "White Luck Warrior" by R. Scott Bakker. If you haven't tried his Prince of Nothing series it is really excellent. More opaque in many ways than any other fantasy I have read, it is well worth the concentration it takes to get going.

There are two enormous 'books'; the first is a three-volume series (The Prince of Nothing, book one") and the second is (so far) a two-volume series.

[Colette]

I'm reading Spin by Robert Charles Wilson. It's hands down the best SF book I've ever read.

[Kimberly]

I'm reading "Decision at Doona" by Anne McCaffrey. I am liking it a lot. It is very interesting and has some fun characters. I'm almost done and am very excited to see how it ends. I believe their are two more books that follow it and I plan to read them after I'm finished.

[Mirek]

I just started Diaspora by Greg Egan. I love this kind of Hard SF.

[Rainy]

I have just read Demon Possession by Kiersten Fay and Pale Queen's Courtyard by Marcin Wrona. Also trudging through The Wheel of Time series.

[Sandy]

Gave up reading Olive KitteridgeOK. It's a Pulitzer prize winner. Giving upon it makes me what? Smart enough to know that SOMETHING should happen in a book by the time you reach the 25% marker.

Now reading White Oleander.(Oive and White Oleander are selections of my book club.) White Oleander has been out a while and is marvelous.

And most fun of all, I'm reading the draft of the sequel to the sequel of my The Angel & the Brown-eyed Boy The Angel is a sci/fi/fantasy that's been winning contests as Visionary Fiction. The sequel to its sequel won't be out for a while, but it sure is fun to be in at the very ground floor with a book.

[Lisa]

I'm currently reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. It is very good, although the writing style is a bit outdated.

[Kimberly]

I'm reading The Fire Opal by Regina McBride. Fantasy/Historical. It's not bad. The Prologue turned me off a bit, but the relationships and characters in the first chapter turned that around.

[Paul]

I'm currently reading Path into the Unknown - The Best of Soviet Science Fiction.

[Sandy]

I'm reading Lady Grace, which isn't published yet. It's the sequel to my The Angel & the Brown-eyed Boy The Angel is similar to 1984 and Brave New World, occurring in a police state the day before a nuclear meltdown. Red Adept Reviews just gave it 5 stars. The reviewer said, "The story was ultimately a fascinating and gripping tale about survival and the desperate measures that some—on earth and elsewhere—would take to ensure their survival." The Angel is available in print, Kindle, Nook, Sony & iBook formats. ebooks are 99 cents.

[Julie]

I'm reading Gulliver's Travels and Dark Life.

[Jaimey]

Im currently reading through the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher - its good but not great. Currently up to Death Masks

Also halfway through a re-read of LOTR.

[C.R.]

I just started Skinned, not too bad so far, Scott Westerfield recommended it and I enjoyed his books...we will see :)

[Jenn]

Jaimey wrote: "Im currently reading through the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher - its good but not great. Currently up to Death Masks

I agree - I finished the first book and got halfway through the second one. At that point, I got distracted with something more exciting. The Dresden books get such great reviews, I was expecting better.

[Sandy]

Just read AngelFall by Susan Ee. Highly imaginative fantasy where angels are the bad guys. Nonstop action. A thrill ride. I highly recommend it.

Sandy Nathan
The Angel & the Brown-eyed Boy Another book with "angels".