How are those Photoshop books? I've been using the Visual Quickstart Guides for Dreamweaver and Photoshop with decent results, but I'm interested in other references.

I looked at a few of the other Photoshop books and found they all cover the necessary bases, but Dummies seems to try hard to keep the lessons from feeling overly academic. While I'm no slouch when studying, I have to say the head patting spoon feeding makes the medicine go down rather easily. :)

Darkwalker on Moonshae by Douglas Niles.

The Ginger Star by Leigh Brackett. Now you people are in control of my reading list too? Sheesh...shakes fisted branch...Merry Readin' Christmas. :D

The Long Emergency - James Howard Kunstler. Not pleasant reading, but fascinating nonetheless.

YAY Christmas!

I'm reading This, this, this, this, this and several others I found under the tree!

SQUEE!

EDIT: LINKYS fixed (thanks Flash)

I'm reading this, this, this, I found under the tree!

Wow Pat you must really be reading Tome of Horrors II! ;)

ARRGH! damn wonky CRTL+C function!

Reality Dysfunction is awesome - hope you get hooked and buy all his enormous books!

Those of you who have posted that you're reading Planet Stories books in this thread are my personal heroes. Bless you.

I just finished:

The Coming of the Terrans, by Leigh Brackett
Tam, Son of the Tiger by Otis Adelbert Kline
The Rebel of Rhada by Robert Cham Gilman (Alfred Coppel)

I just started:

The Traveller in Black, by John Brunner

Sadly, my stack of unread Planet Stories books (Infernal Sorceress, Worlds of Their Own, Dark World, Hounds of Skaith) remains unread while I finish up a deadline...it is driving me crazy!

Just finished last three Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris; now reading Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson. Translating it, in fact.

Just finished Un Lun Dun by China Mieville. Reading Perdido Street Station by him now. Also reading Jack of Shadows (Zelazny)

I previously finsihed the Hungry City Chronicles (4 books) by Philip K Reeves.

Darkwalker on Moonshae by Douglas Niles.

How's it going? Thumbs up or not?

Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff Vandermeer.

S.Baldrick wrote:

Darkwalker on Moonshae by Douglas Niles.

How's it going? Thumbs up or not?

I thought that it was pretty good.

Now I am re-reading Dark Crusade by Karl Edward Wagner.

Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman's "Wierd U.S. vol. II"
"King Rat" by China Mieville
"Get in the Van" by Henry Rollins (for the eighth time)
"From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne
"The Climb" by Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt

Swordsman of Mars, by Otis Adelbert Kline. Finally able to get back to reading again! Shooting for a book a week this year - and I'll track it so I know after failing to do so two years running.

Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman's "Wierd U.S. vol. II"

"King Rat" by China Mieville
"Get in the Van" by Henry Rollins (for the eighth time)
"From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne
"The Climb" by Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt

Nice list. I am about halfway though Mieville's Perdido Street Station myself, although I had to return it to the library for the time being. I'll finish it someday.

I just finished reading Pagan Grace by Ginette Paris, which I'd recommend for its discussion of the sanity and relevancy of a polytheistic, pagan worldview as opposed to a monotheistic, dogmatic one. The chapter on Hermes, which takes up the bulk of the book, is quite good. The author also focuses on Dionysus and Mnemosyne.

I've spent much of the past 36 hours with my nose in the Pathfinder Beta Rulebook. Perhaps you've heard of it?

Nyuk-nyuk.

Darkwalker on Moonshae by Douglas Niles.

Although I've never read this, I remember seeing the cover over a period of time in high school while a friend of mine was reading it. Larry Elmore artwork, I believe. That man is a brilliant artist. The cover is wild and spooky, with a death knight or something equivalent riding close behind a woman, if I am remembering correctly.

Darkwalker on Moonshae by Douglas Niles.

Darkwalker Image

Actually, that image doesn't look quite like an Elmore. Jeff Easley maybe.

It's Keith Parkinson.

Reading "Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem. PI with Tourettes...Re-reading Polly Toynbees "Hard work, life in low pay britain and finishing Benjamin Kunkels "Indecision" But the best was Aleksandar Hemons "Nowhere man"

Just finished The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, now reading The Road by McCarthy.

now reading The Road by McCarthy.

Hide the knives. That book is BLEAK.

Finished Frederik Pohl's "The Man Who Ate the World."
Now I'm reading Cliff's Notes: "Shakespeare's Histories." It's not for a class, I'm just interested, as it's hard for me to understand the 100 yrs. war and that period of English/French history.
Joan of Arc - check
Henry V - check
anybody else?...*crikets*
I'm a Californian, and I think I understand the post-Columbian history of North America pretty well, but U.K. history at times...feels like a telenovela; dynastic infighting that would make great daytime soap-opera.
And yes, I have heard of "The Tudors," but I'm saving Henry VIII for last; I'm hoping if I go chronologically it will make more sense.

Finished Frederik Pohl's "The Man Who Ate the World."

Now I'm reading Cliff's Notes: "Shakespeare's Histories." It's not for a class, I'm just interested, as it's hard for me to understand the 100 yrs. war and that period of English/French history.
Joan of Arc - check
Henry V - check
anybody else?...*crikets*
I'm a Californian, and I think I understand the post-Columbian history of North America pretty well, but U.K. history at times...feels like a telenovela; dynastic infighting that would make great daytime soap-opera.
And yes, I have heard of "The Tudors," but I'm saving Henry VIII for last; I'm hoping if I go chronologically it will make more sense.

be careful. Shakespeare's History plays are wildly inaccurate.

d13 wrote:

now reading The Road by McCarthy.

Hide the knives. That book is BLEAK.

Bleak, yes.

and impossible to put down.

I think I felt much the same way one critic did when they wrote, "its as if you must keep reading in order for the characters to stay alive..."

It is a profoundly moving book.

Now on to The Devil in the White City.

Now on to The Devil in the White City.

Scared the f%+~ out of me.

be careful. Shakespeare's History plays are wildly inaccurate.

Thanks for the warning. However, I also bought a book called Shakespeare's Kings, by John Norwich, which addresses what Shakespeare "got wrong" in his histories, intentionally or otherwise...I am well fortified with no less than three books on the subject, plus copies of the plays. When I get into something, I tend to go overboard.

What did I read on my travels? In addition to finishing The Ginger Star, I reread E.R.B.'s The Princess of Mars, and I listened to Paulo Coehlo's The Alchemist and Patrick O'Brian's The Truelove (=Clarissa Oakes.) Also read most of the The Rough Guide to Barcelona and relevant sections of Penelope Casas' Discovering Spain. Honestly, I am impressed with how well The Princess of Mars holds up from my wide-eyed youth.

Cosmo wrote:

d13 wrote:

now reading The Road by McCarthy.

Hide the knives. That book is BLEAK.

Bleak, yes.

also tragic,
heart-wrenching,
gut-turning,

and impossible to put down.

I think I felt much the same way one critic did when they wrote, "its as if you must keep reading in order for the characters to stay alive..."

It is a profoundly moving book.

Now on to The Devil in the White City.

Good one!

Currently reading:

Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy

The Dark World, by Henry Kuttner. It's quite good.

Two more Planet Stories volume to go after this one, I may beat the next shipment (of which I've already read one, Death in Dehli) :)

The Dark World, by Henry Kuttner. It's quite good.

Two more Planet Stories volume to go after this one, I may beat the next shipment (of which I've already read one, Death in Dehli) :)

Just finished 'The Dark World' myself. Good stuff.

Right now:

- 'Heart of Darkness' by Joseph Conrad
- 'From the Earth to the Moon' by Jules Verne
- 'The Bloody Crown of Conan (and others)' by Robert E. Howard
- 'The Whole Shebang' by Timothy Ferris

~thinks and then gets a fearful look on my face~ Oh CRAP!!! You are moving to Savannah later on this year, Mr. Shiny! I had better hide all my good stuff real quick! ~runs around hiding everything~

~GRINS~

The Jackal of Nar by John Marco.

Swords and Deviltry: Lankhmar book one.

Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman

"Usagi : yojimbo" by Stan Sakai. Like Groo the wanderer but with brains:)

Listening to Doctor Who - The Resurrection Casket.
Reading Evil Ways by Justin Gustainis

Infernal Sorceress, by Gary Gygax.

Just finished Tales of H.P. Lovecraft, ed. by J. Oates (I found a copy, thanks for the recommendation Mr. Shiny). Starting Night of Knives, by Ian C. Esslemont.

I'm about halfway through Blackstaff by Steven Schend, and I just started Mathias Thulmann, Witch Hunter by C.L. Werner. I'm also picking through two new anthologies: On a Raven's Wing and Poe.

I'm reading The Lyonsblood Chronicles: Slave to the Mind, By G.C. Jones and it's fantastic!

Just finished The Hounds of Skaith by Leigh Brackett.

Been on a Doctor Who and spin-off kick. Just finished Torchwood: Another Life and starting on Torchwood: Slow Decay

I am in the middle of The Dark Tower series by Stephen King...again. This time I am reading it to my wife. It's a better series when you can read the whole thing back to back instead of waiting a few years in between books. Currently almost done with Wizard and Glass.

The Three Musketeers by Dumas, and Hard Times by Dickens....yeah the bookstores here in Korea sell classics for about $4.50 USD. Figure good chance to catch up on books that I should have read years ago!

almost done with Wizard and Glass.

ah. . . my favorite in the series.

Currently reading:

Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy

I just started reading this book as well.