What are you reading?

[grodog]

Started reading _The Big Time_ (on my Kindle) by Fritz Leiber on the way home today from Lake Geneva.

[PandaKhan]

"The Sarmatians" from Osprey pub. military history books

[Random]

The Road Goes Ever On

It's not exactly literature, but I picked up a pristine first printing of the sheet music today at the used book store and plucked a bit at the tunes (since I own a guitar but not a piano). According to eBay, it was a bargain!

[Geoffrey]

I'm reading all of Thomas Ligotti's stories. Right now I'm reading "The Tsalal", collected in Noctuary.

[Falconer]

The Road Goes Ever On

It's not exactly literature, but I picked up a pristine first printing of the sheet music today at the used book store and plucked a bit at the tunes (since I own a guitar but not a piano). According to eBay, it was a bargain!

Good stuff! There is a new edition, but IMO the older edition is better. I don’t like the changes he made to Errantry. I own both editions. I actually sang this song cycle at my Sophomore Recital. (I was a voice major.) I skipped #2 and #4.

[Random]

Good stuff! There is a new edition, but IMO the older edition is better

Interesting, a quick look at Wikipedia said that a couple of new tunes were tacked on in later editions, but I didn't notice any mention of changing what was already there.

[Wheggi]

Between Pacific Tides: An Account of the Habits and Habitats of Some Five Hundred of the Common, Conspicuous Seashore Invertebrates of the Pacific Coast Between Sitka, Alaska, and Northern Mexico by Ed Ricketts

- Wheggi

[Werral]

Reading Fritz Lieber's "Lankhmar" which I picked up new in the local green-grocer for a pound (he also has a Conan compilation for a £1). I presume this was originally serialized?

I'd never read it before but it's interesting how much of the D&D mileau seems lifted right out of it.

The only downside is that at the moment all the adventures seem to be ending with the Mouser, faced with some impossible to beat foe, diving off and smashing the magical source of it's power.

[grodog]

The only downside is that at the moment all the adventures seem to be ending with the Mouser, faced with some impossible to beat foe, diving off and smashing the magical source of it's power.

Or throwing a dagger into an enemy's left eye

[Matthew]

Finished reading the Anubis Murders today; it was hard to get into at first, but went along at a decent if unconventional pace, and was quite readable in the end, though I thought it could have done without the "romantic" angle. On the whole it was predictable, but workmanlike. I am not sure that I would have enjoyed the setting so much if it was not so clearly derived from some of the ideas Gygax developed for D&D and then took with him afterwards. All told I would give it a solid 5/10. On to the Samarkand Solution!

[blackprinceofmuncie]

Started Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett the other night (part of a 5-novel compilation including Maltese Falcon and Thin Man). This is my first experience with DH and the whole "hard-boiled detective" genre and I'm really liking it so far.

[grodog]

I've been reading the Harry Potter books with Ethan (and actually got a little ahead of him, since he's diverted over to the newest two Magic Tree House books), and Heather swiped my Kindle to read something she bought there, so I may have to pick up the new Moorcock-penned Dr. Who novel Coming of the Terraphiles to see how MM handles the Doctor!

[T. Foster]

Started Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett the other night (part of a 5-novel compilation including Maltese Falcon and Thin Man). This is my first experience with DH and the whole "hard-boiled detective" genre and I'm really liking it so far.

Jallison86 and I both recently read and enjoyed that very same collection (well, technically I've still only read the first 2 of the 5) as mentioned a couple pages back on this thread. I'm currently reading Steinbeck's East of Eden, but just went to a Border's going-out-of-business sale yesterday and picked up a bunch of Bernard Cornwell Sharpe books and C.S. Forester Hornblower books that are both calling my name, so that's likely where I'll be headed next...

[grodog]

I haven't read any Hornblower, but have heard good things about them since college friends recommended them.

[Matthew]

I must have seen every episode of Sharpe going, but never actually read any of the novels; Cornwall did a good job with his Arthurian trilogy, though, I thought.