What are you reading?

[Philotomy Jurament]

The Adventure Megapack: 25 Classic Adventure Stories

Includes:

THE BLACK ADDER, by Dorothy Quick
EVERY MAN A KING, by E. Hoffmann Price
SON OF THE WHITE WOLF, by Robert E. Howard
PEARL HUNGER, by Albert Richard Wetjen
A MEAL FOR THE DEVIL, by K. Christopher Barr
JACK GREY, SECOND MATE, by William Hope Hodgson
SAID AFZEL’S ELEPHANT, by Harold Lamb
ADVENTURE’S HEART, by Albert Dorrington
ANOTHER PAWN OF FATE, by F. St. Mars
MYSTERY ON DEAD MAN REEF, by George Armin Shaftel
HAG GOLD, by James Francis Dwyer
MAORI JUSTICE, by Bob Du Soe
JAVELIN OF DEATH, by Captain A.E. Dingle
THE SCREAMING SKULL, by J. Allan Dunn
SIX SHELLS LEFT, by Allan R. Bosworth
GODS OF BASTOL, by H.P. Holt
THE MINDOON MANEATER, by C.M. Cross
THE SPIRIT OF FRANCE, by S. B. H. Hurst
THE BOX OF THE IVORY DRAGON, by James L. Aton
CHECKERED FLAG, by Cliff Farrell
THE FIGHTING FOOL, by Perley Poore Sheehan
GHOST LANTERNS, by Alan B. LeMay
STORIES OF THE LEGION: CHOC, by H. De Vere Stacpoole
THE WHISPERING CORPSE, by Richard B. Sale
THE MONKEY GOD, by Jacland Marmur

[Ghul]

PJ, is that a dead tree book?

[Flambeaux]

Tackling Colleen McCullough's The October Horse again after abandoning a few weeks ago.

Started reading an adaptation of the Arabian Nights tales to my kids at bedtime. Also rereading The Wind in the Willows now we've finished Beatrix Potter's complete works.

[Philotomy Jurament]

PJ, is that a dead tree book?

I'm reading the Kindle version (which was $0.99 through Amazon -- the publisher has a whole series of these "megapack" short story collections). Most of them seem to be available only with epub/mobi. However, there is a dead tree version of this one. It's available, here:
http://www.wildsidebooks.com/The-Advent ... 10335.html

[Flambeaux]

Finished The October Horse. I think the first two and the fifth were the strongest in the series. I'm not sure I'll read Antony & Cleopatra. It's gotten very mixed reviews and want originally one she planned to write.

Laid up with a cold all weekend I read Jim Butcher's first Dresden files book, Storm Front. I thought it was okay but does not deserve some of the "OMG! BESTEST BOOK EVAHR!" that I've heard about it from various friends over the last 13 years. Having read some reviews of the latter books, I don't think I'll read any more of the series. I'm not a fan of hardboiled detective fiction, nor of gritty post-modern urban fantasy. The "Asian fusion" approach doesn't improve the dish.

Having disposed of that I've started Swords Against Death. I've read the first three stories in the collection. I'm still waiting for something interesting or exciting to happen. There's a dry, academic curiosity to see the influence there stories had in the development of D&D...but I'm beginning to wonder if I ever would have taken up the game had my introduction to it been through the original source literature rather than Tolkien, Arthurian romance, Terry Brooks, Piers Anthony, and the Dragonlance novels.

[rastus_burne]

I finished Cloud Atlas (thoroughly recommend it)

Now re-reading Dune.

[TRP]

Delving back into the mystery genre with Burke's Light of The World.

[Badmike]

Finished The October Horse. I think the first two and the fifth were the strongest in the series. I'm not sure I'll read Antony & Cleopatra. It's gotten very mixed reviews and want originally one she planned to write.

Laid up with a cold all weekend I read Jim Butcher's first Dresden files book, Storm Front. I thought it was okay but does not deserve some of the "OMG! BESTEST BOOK EVAHR!" that I've heard about it from various friends over the last 13 years. Having read some reviews of the latter books, I don't think I'll read any more of the series. I'm not a fan of hardboiled detective fiction, nor of gritty post-modern urban fantasy. The "Asian fusion" approach doesn't improve the dish.

Having disposed of that I've started Swords Against Death. I've read the first three stories in the collection. I'm still waiting for something interesting or exciting to happen. There's a dry, academic curiosity to see the influence there stories had in the development of D&D...but I'm beginning to wonder if I ever would have taken up the game had my introduction to it been through the original source literature rather than Tolkien, Arthurian romance, Terry Brooks, Piers Anthony, and the Dragonlance novels.

Personally, I think the next volume (Swords in the Mist) contains the strongest Fafhrd and Mouser tales.

Mike B.

[Clangador]

Just finished reading The Whisperer in Darkness by HPL.

[deathanddrek]

Just finished The War of the Worlds which was way more entertaining than I expected and now I'm a couple of chapters into Robopocalypse which a bit like a found-footage survival horror story but with robots.

[deathanddrek]

Robopocalypse was pretty unoriginal but was paced like an action flick so I ripped though it pretty quickly and rather enjoyed it.

About 100 pages into The Broken Sword. AWESOME.

[grodog]

I'm reading Steven Johnson's Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter. Heather gave it to me for our anniversary; interestingly, it mentions D&D early on, which was unexpected (it was a 3.x PHB quotation, though ). The book is making laying some persuasive ground work for its arguments (I'm only about 1/8 in or so), and I'm looking forward to reading more.

I'm also reading Kent Kelly's Hawk & Moor - The Golden Age of Fantasy Role-Playing Games: Book 1 - The Dragon Rises, which is a history of RPGs but told from the gamer POV rather than the historical/researcher POV. I know Kent from the Acaeum (he's darkseraphim there), and he sent me a copy to check out. His second book in the series is done too, and it apparently delves into Castle Greyhawk and Blackmoor in some detail, though I've not read it yet; it's still free if you want to download it to you Kindle @ http://www.amazon.com/HAWK-MOOR-Fantasy ... 969&sr=1-1 if you're curious).

[deathanddrek]

Finished The Broken Sword (Poul Anderson), starting The Earthsea Quartet (Ursula Level Guin).

[TRP]

One of Colin Wilson's non-fiction books, The Outsider.

[Ghul]

My newest used book score from ebay. I'm eager to read this one!