Gettin' my Dresden fix: Ghost Story and Side Jobs by Jim Butcher.
On order: Adventures In The Screen Trade by Bill Goldman (author of Princess Bride)
Is it time for the dance of joy yet?
Currently? The awesome Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx.....mostly because of the awesome album that accompanies it 
We built this city on Rock and Roll!
Hot & Steamy: Tales of Steampunk Romance
Father Xmas - Level 50 Ice/Ice Tanker - Victory
$725 and $1350 parts lists --- My guide to computer components
Tempus unum hominem manet
I'm waiting on Ghost Story (17 people in LA county need to read faster, damn them!), but in the mean time I've started reading the Codex Alera books. Finished the first and I'm waiting on the second book.
Goodbye, I guess.
@Lord_Nightblade in Champions/Star Trek Online
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I rarely read books because I read too many magazines. My current sub list (including ones I never seem to get to and are piling up I tell you what) are Harper's, Science News, New York Review Of Books, High Country News*, Mother Jones, The Week and Lapham's Quarterly. That's right, all those highfalutin' bastions of learning sent to me each month and I'm writing AE arcs like TOO MANY BUNNYGIRLS!, ha ha! please send help
The last book I read though was We Have Always Lived In The Castle, by Shirley Jackson - amazing read (which influenced my last arc When The Words Stop.)
Before that it was The Tanners and The Assistant, both by Robert Walser, a German writer who's output dates from around the 19teens and 20s.
*Get your mind out of the gutter, HCN is not a High Times for non-city-folk, it's a news mag about the American western areas.
I'm finally getting through Invisibles, by Grant Morrison, and its making me really itch to play Mage: the Ascension again. I read the first 3 trades a long time ago, got the rest last year, and only now have been making time to go through it. Its messing with my head, making me see and remember connections to all kinds of stuff, and I love it.
Level 50 at last:
VICTORY HEROES: Stonefall (Grav/Kin/Psy), Earthwave (Earth/Rad/Fire), Nae'bliss (Invul/Fire), Paradox Black Omega (Kat/Reg/Weap)
PROTECTOR VILLAINS: Ba'alat (SS/Will/Soul), Mechalomaniac (Bots/Dark/Soul)
Just finished "The Quickening" Trilogy by Fiona McIntosh
I spend almost $100 at a bookstore that was going out of business and had 40% off everything, so I have a lot to choose from. Get dizzy thinking of the choices...
Last month, I bought and re-read John DeChancie's Starrigger series on Kindle. I already had the paperbacks from when they first came out. I'm also considering re-buying his Castle Perilous series on Kindle, but Amazon charging full price 
for a non-mainstream author (even though he's one of my favored ones) is giving me pause.
In between, I've been reading through David Gerrold's collection of short stories on Kindle (sold individually 
).
I just finished "The Second Ship" (The Rho Agenda series) by Richard Phillips on Kindle last night. I must admit that I had low expectations about it since it looked like a cheapo e-novel, but it turned to be well written. It's a bit slow and doesn't have much action, but it kept me interested. I bought the next book.
Teams are the number one killer of soloists.
Anyone reading Ernest Cline's Ready Player One?
Now that I've finished my re-read of the books 1 through 4 of George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, I've begun reading Dance of Dragons. Once that's read, I've got Jasper Fforde's One of Our Thursdays is Missing and Jim Butcher's Ghost Story to catch up on!
You're not super until you put on The Cape!
Attercap.Net
What am I reading? You mean like right this second? Well, I am reading the forums for this really great MMO called CoH. Specifically, a thread about... huh? Oh... you mean what book(s) am I reading?
Well, at the moment, I am once again re-reading the entire Chronicles of Amber series. All 10 books in one volume.
- Garielle
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What am I reading? You mean like right this second? Well, I am reading the forums for this really great MMO called CoH. Specifically, a thread about... huh? Oh... you mean what book(s) am I reading?
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Comrade Smersh, KGB Special Section 8 50 Inv/Fire, Fire/Rad, BS/WP, SD/SS, AR/EM
Other 50s: Plant/Thorn, Bots/Traps, DB/SR, MA/Regen, Rad/Dark - All on Virtue.
-Don't just rebel, build a better world, comrade!
Book I finished last: - Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade.
Currently reading:
- Magic: The Gathering: Arena
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- The Fellowship of the Ring
- Metro 2033
The M.A.D. Files - Me talking about games, films, games, life, games, internet and games
I'm not good at giving advice, can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?
@Lyrik
BTW,since the last time this thread popped up, I have read the greatest book in the world. Ever. One that should be worshipped through all time...
...because he'll probably still be gigging when we're all gone.
Seriously, any book that starts with the Stones being busted for possession in a backwoods town, but their redneck judge is late - having popped over to the off licence for a quarter of red-eye, and then promptly arrested by his own sheriff for being too drunk to preside?
Is it time for the dance of joy yet?
Re-reading Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler stuff, because they're just awesome.
�Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.� ― John Wayne
�Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!� - George Carlin
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Re-reading Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler stuff, because they're just awesome.
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Comrade Smersh, KGB Special Section 8 50 Inv/Fire, Fire/Rad, BS/WP, SD/SS, AR/EM
Other 50s: Plant/Thorn, Bots/Traps, DB/SR, MA/Regen, Rad/Dark - All on Virtue.
-Don't just rebel, build a better world, comrade!
Recently read Dwarves (english version) by Markus Heitz. It was a very good read. And it's apparently the first book in a trilogy, though it makes a complete enough story on its own to be satisfying.
Currently reading And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer, which is apparently supposed to be part six of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy.
And after that I may finally start in on Dance of Dragons, which has been sitting here taunting me with its presence for a few weeks.
Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
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Gettin' my Dresden fix: Ghost Story and Side Jobs by Jim Butcher.
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I started reading them out of order, based on what my library had available, but now I'm working my way through them chronologically. Pretty enjoyable books.
@Joshua.
Currently rereading my Invincible trades and The League of Extraordinary Gentlement. After that I'll read the latest trade of The Boys I picked up and reread Green Lantern: Secret Origin. If I don't pick up anything else between now and the time it takes me to get through those, I'll probably reread the Harry Potter books.
- CaptainFoamerang
Silverspar on Kelly Hu: A face that could melt paint off the wall *shivers*
Someone play my AE arc! "The Heart of Statesman" ID: 343405
Recently finished:
Legwork: A Weird Crime Casebook
The Course of Superhero Romance
and The Art of Racing in the Rain
Currently reading:
Star Wars: the Old Republic: Deceived
To be followed by:
Star Wars: Choices of One
Craft your inventions in AE!!
Play "Crafter's Cafe" - Arc #487283. A 1 mission, NON-COMBAT AE arc with workable invention tables!
Flashpoint
Batman
Batman & Robin
Red Robin
Batgirl
Batman Inc
Batman beyond
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps
Gotham City Sirens
Birds of Prey
Naruto
Bleach
Bakuman
Also since I don't like reading books I've decided to listen to audio books, which is pretty much the same thing... Right now I'm on chapter 56 of "Thus spoke Zarathustra" and will be done with that by tonight...then i'll move on to other Nietschze and other philosophy audio books i can find which should keep me busy for the next week or so...
Anyone know where i can find a good amount of free audio books?
Reading out of sequence, but I'm reading Eliot Pattison's
Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America
and I just finished the sequel
Eye of the Raven: A Mystery of Colonial America
Both are kind of a blend of Last of the Mohicans, Bravehart, and CSI or Bones from TV. At first I didn't think studious medical forensics had any place in the time and events of the French and Indian War, especially at a time when the Humors were still considered proper science, but I'm pleased to say that the stories are quite immersive. Though both are connected, the second book was written so well, I first thought it was a stand-alone novel, rather than a sequel.
I just finished Richard J. Evans's The Third Reich in Power and have moved on to volume 3 of the trilogy, The Third Reich at War.
We haven't had one of these threads in a while.
Recently read:
Kiln People, David Brin
The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde
Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds
Currently reading: Redemption Ark, Alastair Reynolds
Comrade Smersh, KGB Special Section 8 50 Inv/Fire, Fire/Rad, BS/WP, SD/SS, AR/EM
Other 50s: Plant/Thorn, Bots/Traps, DB/SR, MA/Regen, Rad/Dark - All on Virtue.