What book is everyone reading at the moment?

[HistoryGal]

Just finished Diana Gabaldon's latest, "An Echo in the Bone." Next up, Harry Turtledove's "Hitler's War."

 

[HawaiiBigSis]

Just finished Diana Gabaldon's latest, "An Echo in the Bone."

I can hardly wait for that to come out in paperback! (I have them all, but in paperback...so I'll wait.)

 

[vIQleS]

Inside Job by Connie Willis...

It's absolutely brilliant. (About a skeptic)

Summary (warning Spoilers):

http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060101

 

[HistoryGal]

Re Diana Gabaldon's latest:

I can hardly wait for that to come out in paperback! (I have them all, but in paperback...so I'll wait.)

It's not that expensive on Amazon - $16 and change. I bought one for myself and one for my mother. She had no idea there was a new one - she was really (pleasantly) surprised.

We've both already finished it.

Things happen.

 

[pakeha]

I'm reading John Mortimer's The Best of Rumpole
Lovely stuff.

 

[rsaavedra]

The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts, by David Lodge.
All Fires the Fire, by Julio Cortazar

 

[Graham2001]

"Westwind" by Ian Rankin, his fourth novel and the only one that does not seem to have been republished...and from what I have read of it so far I know why.

He seems to have been writing well below the quality of his second novel, the first Rebus novel.

 

[sackett]

Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels, Roger Sabin, 1996. This only covers the UK and US. I didn't realize just how many comics originated in Jolly Olde -- the genre itself can be said to start with "Ally Sloper's Half Holiday."

This volume was quite an acquisition: $10US at the corner used-book and -comics store, and virtually mint.

 

[pnerd]

I'm reading Dawkins' "The God Delusion".

 

[HawaiiBigSis]

Re Diana Gabaldon's latest:



It's not that expensive on Amazon - $16 and change. I bought one for myself and one for my mother. She had no idea there was a new one - she was really (pleasantly) surprised.

It isn't an issue of price, so much as an issue of storage space. I keep paperbacks and hard covers separately, and since I've got the others in paperback, I wouldn't want the set to be broken up... And the hardback shelves are likely to explode if I try to add one more book to them. The paperback shelves are already spilling over.

And actually, I got suckered into reading a Terry Goodkind novel, so it'll take me until about paperback release date of Diana Gabaldon to finish...

 

[catsmate]

Next up, Harry Turtledove's "Hitler's War."

Not bad but I feel it suffers from his habit of making everything into a trilogy; it'll be a while until the next one.
However good characters, if a few stereotypes, and a well done departure point.


Personally I've just started "Rough Country", John Sandford's latest book in his Virgil Flowers series. It appears as good as Sandford's other work.

 

[dropzone]

Some text on statistics.

 

[pakeha]

Antigua, Penny, Puce

by Robert Graves.

 

[sackett]

Rimrunners, C. J. Cherryh, whoever that is. The girl friend got it for a buck at the used-book shop down on the corner.

Just finished it, in fact. I suppose there's a lot of back- and side-story that I've never seen, or maybe Cherryh is a bot programmed by the same guy in Bangladesh who takes your service call when your Sears dryer quits working. Ugh.

Now the SF fans here will give me a milling. But I stick by ugh.

 

[Third Eye Open]

Reading The Superorganism by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson, for some reason I feel very drawn to the subject of insect societies.

 

[pakeha]

Emma, by Jane Austin.

 

[kurious_kathy]

Battling Unbelief by John Piper

 

[Akhenaten]

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen Donaldson.

 

[Dogdoctor]

I am reading Bad Atronomy by Phil last book was Collapse by Jared Diamond

 

[arthwollipot]

Rimrunners, C. J. Cherryh, whoever that is. The girl friend got it for a buck at the used-book shop down on the corner.

Just finished it, in fact. I suppose there's a lot of back- and side-story that I've never seen, or maybe Cherryh is a bot programmed by the same guy in Bangladesh who takes your service call when your Sears dryer quits working. Ugh.

Now the SF fans here will give me a milling. But I stick by ugh.

Trust me, Cherryh takes a bit to get used to, but she's worth the trouble. And yes, Rimrunners is part of a consistent universe that has already had many novels published in it. So there's a lot of backstory there.