Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine So what are you READING?

Also, I have still not compeleted Johnthon Strange and Mr Norell yet...

If you've read Mallory successfully, read Steinbeck's (unfinished--he died before completing it) Arthur book (can't remember the exact name). It was my bible in middle school. Also, I suppose it goes without saying but Once and Future King is brilliant.

Sorcerer's Stone. If only we could catalog all the things corporate America thinks the rest of America is too stupid to understand.

If you've read Mallory successfully, read Steinbeck's (unfinished--he died before completing it) Arthur book (can't remember the exact name). It was my bible in middle school. Also, I suppose it goes without saying but Once and Future King is brilliant.

Sorcerer's Stone. If only we could catalog all the things corporate America thinks the rest of America is too stupid to understand.

still going on Swan Song; but i've managed to get my roommate hooked on asimov's foundation books!!!

Deathstalker Return; book 7 in the series by Simon R. Green.

ths is a great pulp read, full of funny dialogue ideas thrown about to see if they stick. It's nominally scifi but throws in horror and a fair amount of comic book sensibilities as well.

On the donside, if you read comics not too many will be new to you, the characters tend to make speeches that reiterate the narrative descriptions of themselves on the previous page and the book gleefully contradicts itself all over the place.

But, hell, it's a fun, engaging read and i wish he'd write them a bit faster.

Just started that old sci-fi classic "Day of the Triffids"

My mother and I have been reading the same books lately - probably because she keeps getting books through the mail from our County Library. Large-print editions which are so much easier on her eyes since her chemo therapy. We just finished 'Smoke Jumper' by Nicholas Evans. He previously wrote The Horse Whisperer. I didn't care for 'horse' at all, but this book was excellent. We laughed, we cried, we cheered, and we both want it made into a movie. Fantastic male-bonding, hidden love story, surprises you don't see coming at all, and totally action packed.

I just finished reading a book called
"The Buried Pyramid" by Jane Linoskold.
Couldn't put it down.

Just restarted reading an old favorite
from College ... Fools Crow by James
Welch. Seems like I'm always going back
and reading that one ....

Caroline, have I mentioned that one to
you? You'd really love it...

btw, i finished Harry Potter and Sorcerer's Stone...i really got into it when he got to Hogwarts. Read in a few sitting. Gotta read the next. But first...Shogun.

Runes of the Earth by Stephen Donaldson - the Last Chronicle of Thomas Covenant.

Great stuff!

Just finished it, B. Excellent stuff.
Read in SFX mag that it's a four parter - I hope that doesn't spoil the end for you.

The only problem that I have with Donaldsons work is that of the second reading.
First time around it is just SOOOOO brilliant. Second time it's just "Get on with it - I know what happens next and I don't want to read 40 pages to get to the next part." But then I'm a much slower reader than most.
Needless to say I haven't tried any of them a third time.

Oops. Forgot to tell you what I'm reading now.

Nothing. Nada. Nix.

Bugger all.

I'm sure I'll pick up something soon.

And we hope there'll be a cure for it!

Stillll reading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson.

Reading a Stephenson book is like reducing a set of encyclopediae into liquid form, and then slowly immersing yourself in it. Sometimes you feel like you can't breathe, but you're guaranteed to learn something new through the process... Quicksilver is awesome - can't wait to read the two sequels!

Re-reading Timeline by Crichton again. Breezed through about 300 pages in the last couple of days. One of the few authors I genuinely enjoy re-reading.

Finally gave up on the Dark Tower series. Maybe I'll try it again at some point in the future but not now.

Crichton does have excellent re-read value. Loved Terminal Man and Andromeda Strain...

Andromeda Strain is a big favorite of mine. Both book and movie. The Great Train Robbery is another one of Crichton's best.

Any fellow Canadians out there who caught CBC's list of "Canada Reads" books? The top 5 came out this morning, but I missed the program.

Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
Rockbound by Frank Parker Day
Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin
No Crystal Stair by Mairuth Sarsfield
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Here's the site and list: http://www.cbc.ca/canadareads/books.html

Thanks for the link, my neighbouring American. You bring this Canuck to shame.

I am reading Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond .

Its a big book, but that reading is fascianting. He examines lots of past societies and modern ones and with enviromental factors and relations with neighboring societies . A great read...

I recently finished Gene Wolfe's "The Knight" and am now reading the second volume "The Wizard." They're well written, but don't grab me as much as I expected having read all the adulatory reviews.

In between, I read Michael Creighton's "The State of Fear." Not a good book - I'm sorry I wasted my time. He spends most of the book proferring his own political agenda and neglects those little things that make a novel readable - like character development. Although I generally enjoy him for a quick non-challenging read, "The State of Fear" didn't do it for me.

I just finished a book titled GLORIANA, OR THE UNFULFILLED QUEEN by Michael Moorcock. It's the first book of his that I've read.

It's a dark fantasy, I guess, though the fantasy is really just around the edges... The title character is patterned after Elizabeth I of England.

It's an erotic book, in a way... with an ending that might piss a lot of folks (particulary women) off... though it's also an inevitable ending, I felt.

The book features a character, called Quire, who is fascinating. He'd be a great prototype for an adversary in comics.

Who'd have thought that ROCKBOUND would win the Canada Reads competition? I think it was resurrected just for the contest. A novel that the residents of the island it was based on described as not representative of their way of life. Haven't read it, though, so I'm just being grumpy.

I've just started, finally, The Life of Pi. Promising!

Also reading The Logogryph, a book about imaginary books. Sort of like Calvino or Borges.

Plodding through The Luminous Ground by Christopher Alexander - the fourth volume in a series "The Nature of Order" on creating living structures - buildings, gardens, ornaments which become alive and express our connectedness to the universe. It may sound wacky, but it's a serious and idea-dense work by a professor of architecture at UC Berkely.

It's a wonderful book. Please do tell us what you think about it. I loved the ending...