What are you READING right now?

[JohnC]

Just recently finished reading "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline, yet another book about using a virtual reality world... Was a pretty good read, I liked all the '80s culture references (games/music/movies) used there, especially the ones that I've "missed" in my lifetime. If you're into such stuff (like a global "Massively Multiplayer Online Virtual Reality") and if you still fondly remember all the games (pen & paper/arcades/consoles) you've played in '80s - I highly recommend it. Also, it is directly related to the topic of "escapism" (something which was also recently discussed in TR forums), so if you're also into such topic - you might also find it interesting to read.

[StrangeDay]

"One second after" sounds pretty interesting!

Indeed it is. Highly recommended!

I loved it.

Edit: forgot to add my current reading list.
All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean & Joe Nocera
End This Depression Now by Paul Krugman
Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen) by Steven Erikson
Consider Phlebas (Culture Series) by Iain M. Banks

[JohnC]

Just finished all the books of "Gregor the Overlander" series, by Suzanne Collins. It's supposed to be a children-oriented fantasy novel (the main character is 12 years old), but I really enjoyed reading it - much more enjoyable than the Collins' "Hunger Games" series. Too bad that the last book ended in such disappointing way, basically making you believe that the story will definitely continue in next book... But of course there is no "next book" and last time I've heard Collins was working on totally different book with totally different topic

[bthylafh]

Going through Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series. Enjoyable.

[Hawkwing74]

The last Robert Jordan book is coming out Jan 8th. Brandon Sanderson wrote it with his notes, of course. A long odyssey of this series which started in the 1980's will be coming to an end. I thought overall the Sanderson books were better than the last 4 or 5 that Robert Jordan wrote. He ruthlessly closed plot threads and seemed to capture the spirit of the earlier books. I enjoyed Towers of Midnight quite a bit.

[superjawes]

I've been wanting to read and reread some books I read while in school, so I ended up with a stack of books for Christmas:

To Kill a Mockingbird
1984
Fahrenheit 451
Slaughterhouse Five
Catch-22
Cather in the Rye
An Abundance of Katherines

Already tore through Fahrenheit 451 (again). Probably reading Slaughterhouse Five next.

[JustAnEngineer]

The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Invincible with Kindle for Android running on a Nexus 7.

[Stickem]

Ah! The Lost Fleet - you've made to the (current) end.
How long did that take you? I found that I couldn't put them down, so it was one a day for me.

[monts]

David Weber - Shadow of Freedom. Reading it as an ebook on my ipad.

[greenmystik]

Half way through Star Wars: The New Rebellion. After that its the New Jedi Order.

Reading Star Trek Myriad Universes: Rise Like Lions on ebook.

[JustAnEngineer]

Ah! The Lost Fleet - you've made to the (current) end. How long did that take you? I found that I couldn't put them down, so it was one a day for me.

I read the first one on a plane trip. I read books two through six over a weekend.

[Starfalcon]

The last Robert Jordan book is coming out Jan 8th. Brandon Sanderson wrote it with his notes, of course. A long odyssey of this series which started in the 1980's will be coming to an end. I thought overall the Sanderson books were better than the last 4 or 5 that Robert Jordan wrote. He ruthlessly closed plot threads and seemed to capture the spirit of the earlier books. I enjoyed Towers of Midnight quite a bit.

Yeah, it only took 6 books after you asked him where she was at that signing lol.

[drfish]

Bought and read Legacy of Heorot over the weekend and started on the sequel last night. Picked them up because the guys making this game (Unclaimed World) mentioned the book as inspiration for the game and it looks to be exactly "my kind of thing" - so I had to see where they were starting from. Pretty impressed, good read, wish I had read it when I was younger.

Before that I just finished the 3rd book in the Shift series (prequel to the Wool series) and I'm really looking forward to the conclusion series, Dust.

[jihadjoe]

Einstein in Berlin by Thomas Levenson

[JustAnEngineer]

The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis.

[bthylafh]

Rereading 1632 on my Kindle. I originally read this years ago on the CD that came with the hardback version of the 6th Honor Harrington book, using lynx to render HTML onto a 14" CRT monitor. It wasn't as horrible an experience as you might think - I think I had SVGATextMode[1] crank the monitor's refresh rate up to 85 Hz so I wouldn't get a headache.

It seems a lot more Heinlein juvie-esque wish-fulfillment (probably with less character development at this early stage) than it did, but it's still a fun read.

[1] Gods was this a long time ago[2], well before the Linux console got a framebuffer driver. I wonder if any Linux distros even still include STM anymore.
[2] Right about the time I met my wife, in fact, so in late 2002.

[BluePanda]

Reading this atm...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surely_You're_Joking,_Mr._Feynman!

Quite interesting so far...

[AMD64Blondie]

J.D. Robb, Calculated in Death.

Actually quite a good read.

[Hawkwing74]

I'm reading Confessor by Terry Goodkind. I got it at half price books for 90 cents. What's more interesting than the book so far is the amazon reviews. I don't know how he managed to destroy his series. The first 4 books were actually quite good. But I figure as bad as it is, I can still slog through it. I read all the other ones.

For those who don't know, this fantasy series has veered into Ayn Rand propaganda in the last few volumes. Truly bizarre, but I think he is trying to use his fantasy story to "enlighten us".

[gigafinger]

I just finished The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. This is probably the second best book/series I've read in recent years. His Mistborn series was pretty good, too.

So far, Patrick Rothfuss has blown me away with The Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear.

[Hawkwing74]

I'll have to get that one some time. I liked Mistborn.

[gigafinger]

I'm reading Confessor by Terry Goodkind. I got it at half price books for 90 cents. What's more interesting than the book so far is the amazon reviews. I don't know how he managed to destroy his series. The first 4 books were actually quite good. But I figure as bad as it is, I can still slog through it. I read all the other ones.

For those who don't know, this fantasy series has veered into Ayn Rand propaganda in the last few volumes. Truly bizarre, but I think he is trying to use his fantasy story to "enlighten us".

I totally lost interest in Goodkind after book 5 or so.

I'll have to get that one some time. I liked Mistborn.

Do it. It's some of the best modern Fantasy. I also really enjoyed The Demon Cycle series of books by Peter Brett.

[Mime]

Two Graves by Preston and Child.

[chuckula]

"The Way of Kings" by Brian Sanderson (the same guy who finished the Wheel of Time after Robert Jordan died). I like the complexity of his world, but he does take enough time to explain things so you have a connection with the characters... I would put it above the level of "A Song of Fire and Ice" in complexity, but well below the "Malazan Book of the Fallen" series (where even the author doesn't know WTF is happening half the time).

Edit: Ah, I see gigafinger beat me to the punch. Yeah, I'll echo his praise for the Way of Kings, and the next book in the series is supposedly coming out later this year.