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Sovereign Court

Oh yeah, and I'm reading Jazz by Toni Morrison and a big collection of Hemmingway (right now in A Farewell to Arms). Next on the list is Lies your teacher told you, by James Loewen.


Mr. Slaad wrote:
Steerpike7 wrote:


Liberal Fascism - Jonah Goldberg
Is this good? I have seen it in the bookstore a lot.

It's pretty good. Well-research, but approaching things from a decided political angle (i.e. the conservative one). The political book I read before that was by Susan Estridge and was decidedly liberal, but not as well researched as Goldberg's.


The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Pretty simple read, but gets repetitive and the theology makes it one of those books you have to put down rather than a smooth, nonstop story. Still some nice writing.

Silver Crusade

Just started Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin. I'm looking forward to a short breezy read.

Shadow Lodge

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I'm reading The Chronicles of Narnia, I'm about half-way through The Magician’s Nephew. I'll start reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe some time next week.


Intimate Communion by David Deida; about how to build a strong loving relationship.


Finished Becoming Charlemagne by Jeff Spyycek. Didn't realize it was so short, half the book was footnotes and bibliography. Still was pretty well written and not as dry as most history books.

Started The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Hitman about Richard Kulinski, a man who carried out mob hits and claims he killed over 200 people. Nice guy.

Scarab Sages

Currently - Haggopian and Other Stories by Brian Lumley.


Read "Mother said" by Hal Sirowitz, claustrophobic and fun.
Starting "The Lost Fleet : Valiant" by Jack Campbell, space opera running on empty:(


Finished:
"Dreams of my Father" by Barak Obama. I totally recommend this to anyone living in the US at this time. It is a very concise and biting look at race in America and what it means to grow up biracial in the last quarter of the 20th century in the USA.

Reading:
"The Phillip K. Dick Reader" - Got to love that old drug addled paranoid guy. So much Paranoia, so many cigarettes smoked, so many A,B,C,E, & H bombs dropped.

Soon to be read:
"The end of America" by Naomi Wolf
or
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Phillip K. Dick


Mr. Slaad wrote:
Oh yeah, and I'm reading Jazz by Toni Morrison and a big collection of Hemmingway (right now in A Farewell to Arms). Next on the list is Lies your teacher told you, by James Loewen.

Loved "Lies my Teacher Told Me" I recommend it to anyone who is going into teaching as well as many high school students. Check out Lowen's "Lies Across America" when you get finished with that. Oh and on a side note be sure, if you ever email Prof. Lowen, to proofread that email first. I learned the hard way.

Sovereign Court

Steve Martin's "Born Standing Up."
Funny stuff.

Liberty's Edge

For about the millionth time: The Stand.

This time, my wife is also reading it, in Hangul, and we're matching chapter-by-chapter. I'm really looking forward to the discussions; I've finally gotten her away from science texts and medical journals!


Rereading the Swords series from Fritz Leiber. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are perrennial favorites of mine, and Lankhmar is one of the best-realized fantasy cities ever.

Liberty's Edge

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Just finished Almuric and now trying to get through Making Money by Terry Pratchett before Paizo dump more Planet Stories titles on me at the end of the month.


Just finished The Diamond Isle by Stan Nichols. Wasn't as good as the first two books in the trilogy. Also needs to work a little on his romances. Ah well, now I can peruse this thread for more good literature to track down.

Scarab Sages

Mindhunters (J. Douglas, Mark Olshaker)
A Book about FBI Profiling in Serial Killer Cases (J. Douglas is one of the better known FBI Profilers)


Just starting The Rule of Four by two peeps.


Just finished 'Sister Time' by John Ringo and Julie Cochrane
(found the hardback for 5 bucks at a Barnes and Noble in Williamsburg) considering I haven't read 'Cally's War', it wasn't hard to follow. Choppy, though, as is correct for this stage of the series.

Up Next:
'Codespell' by Kelly McCullough The first two of the series have me well hooked. I'm excited about this.

'Paladins II: Knight Moves' by Joel Rosenburg Its by Rosenburg- 'nuff said.

'Hell Hath No Fury' by David Webber and Linda Evans This will probably be the last of these I get to. Book one 'Hell's Gate' was long, not action packed, and well written, if somewhat predictable. Alot of political build-up, but the two sides adapting to each others tactics should be good. Hopefully, this will happen in book 2, not book 3.


Markus Heitz, "Schatten über Ulldart" (Shadows over Ulldart) part one of the "Die Dunkle Zeit" series (The Dark Age). In brackets you can read my on-the-fly translations of the German titles.

Scarab Sages

"Hell House" by Richard Matheson. This is a nice ghost story from the guy who brought us "I am legend".

Grand Lodge

Im reading a variety of things:

CUrrent paizo modules
Current paizo adventure path
Tom Deitz's Tales of David Sullivan series (re-reading actually for third time). One of my favorite authors and he hasn't produced a book in a while and if anyone knows what hes doing lately, that would be great. I would love to see more stuff from him...

Jamie


"The Yiddish Policemen's Union" by Michael Chabon is my commute novel, currently.

Brushing up on Curse of the Crimson Throne to hopefully run it in real life soon. Trying to read through the Ptolus sourcebook, but I keep falling asleep (exhaustion, not boredom).


The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson


A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.


Pookachan wrote:
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

that sounds like an excellent book... I'll have to look for it.

I am currently reading "The Anelects of Confucius" by Confucius, translated by David Lee and Joseph Cambell's "The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology".

Liberty's Edge

Pookachan wrote:
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Read that a few years ago. One of very few books that have actually given me nightmares.

The Exchange

James Keegan wrote:
"The Yiddish Policemen's Union" by Michael Chabon is my commute novel, currently.

That's my commute novel too! I'm keeping it in the back of my car, so I can sneak in a chapter at the car wash or if I get to work early. I'm more than half way through and I'm really enjoying it. I didn't expect to like an alternate-history novel, but Chabon puts a lot of cool little references in that make me smile, like the former president's wife being Marilyn Monroe Kennedy! (Don't worry, that's not a spoiler). I got the book as a graduation gift. I've also read Chabon's "The Final Solution" but I haven't got to "Kavalier and Clay" yet.

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I'm reading "Promises to Keep" by Charles DeLint and the online free version of "My Own Kind of Freedom" by Steven Brust, set in the Firefly 'verse.

Liberty's Edge

Currently reading "The Descent" by Jeff Long and "Solipsist" by Henry Rollins.


Just started The Name of the Wind By Patrick Rothfuss. So far is a very excellent fantasy novel (50 pages in so far)


reading atm

"Going to the Wars" by Max Hastings ( memoirs of an englisch battlefield/crisis journalist )

and

"The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch (re-immersing for athmospheric purposes, as I am GMing the CotCT-AP right now^^ )

for commute/transfer on business apointments

"Treason Harbour" by Patrick O'Brian (book nine of the Aubrey/Maturin cycle, also a re-read of an all-time favourite )

Grand Lodge

I just finished Doctorow's mind-blowing Little Brother . (If you don't like paying for hardcopy, it's download-able for free at Cory's Craphound site.)

It's basically a near-future novel about the Department of Homeland Security going totally nuts and monitoring everything we do, and a group of high school students that fight back against The Man using a variety of technological and sociological techniques.

A scary, eye-opening, "this could happen" piece of near-sci-fi.

Contributor

Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

Some of the things Ariely brings up in this book... stunning. Well, they are stunning if you geek out on why people do things / business / marketing issues...


Friend just dropped this lil' gem on me: A Confederacy of Dunces ... looks like a pretty good read.

Sovereign Court

Midshipman Hornblower and Guns, Germs and Steel.

Dark Archive

My friend just gave me a "catch all" book of stories by H.P. Lovecraft....mmmmm Cthulhu.....


Patrick Curtin wrote:
Just started The Name of the Wind By Patrick Rothfuss. So far is a very excellent fantasy novel (50 pages in so far)

This is a great book all the way through. One of the best Fantasies I've read in the past few years.

Liberty's Edge

The Ginger Star by Leigh Brackett


Going to start The Name of The Wind myself.


Steerpike7 wrote:
Patrick Curtin wrote:
Just started The Name of the Wind By Patrick Rothfuss. So far is a very excellent fantasy novel (50 pages in so far)
This is a great book all the way through. One of the best Fantasies I've read in the past few years.

Yeah I'm almost done now. Absolutely fantastic.

Spoiler:
I'm at the wedding in the country the Chandrian smoked ATM, and I'm rivited

Scarab Sages

Currently reading The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein.


Had a rare day yesterday when all forces were in conjunction and my wife and I got a day off together. Went to our local library's Book Sale/Craft Fair and I picked these beauties up for a paltry Jackson:

Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver
Freda Skinner: Wood Carving
Jimmy Carter: The Hornet's Nest
Richard Erdoes, ed.: American Indian Myths and Legends.
Keith Bowen: Among the Amish
Maurizio Scarpari: Ancient China: Chinese civilization from its origins to the Tang Dynasty
Garden Design Magazine eds.: The Garden Design Book
plus two CD box sets, one of the opera Faust one of Ermione

Man I love used book sales :)

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Mythago Wood - Robert Holdstock.

Got into a chat on the Open Design site about fey and was reminded of this book. Immediately ordered it since I must have read it as a library book way back when.

It's awesome :)


Half the Blood of Brooklyn, by Charlie Huston. Charlie Huston rocks. Don't miss him. Fantasy, realistic fiction, noir, comics. Don't. Miss. Charlie. Huston.

"One of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century." - Stephen King


Currently about 170 pages into "Lines of Most Resistance : The Lords, The Tories and Ireland 1886-1914"

BELIEVE ME, I will be reading fantasy after this. The level of racism just over 100 years ago in the British Parliament is astounding. I will have to read fiction next


Finished two books this weekend.

"Kitchen Confidential" - Anthony Bourdain
"A Cook's Tour" - Anthony Bourdain

Both have convinced me that I never ever ever want to work in a kitchen - that would utterly kill my love of cooking.

Now, owning/running a restaurant is another matter. :)

Sovereign Court

Lilith wrote:


"Kitchen Confidential" - Anthony Bourdain

That was a great book, I read through the whole thing on a flight to California. He's pretty open and honest with the brutal stuff that goes on in the underworld of the kitchens.


Lilith wrote:

Finished two books this weekend.

"Kitchen Confidential" - Anthony Bourdain
"A Cook's Tour" - Anthony Bourdain

Both have convinced me that I never ever ever want to work in a kitchen - that would utterly kill my love of cooking.

Follow those up with Bill Buford's Heat. Will make you want to get back in the kitchen. New season of Bourdain started yesterday as well, yeah!

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