What are you reading right now?

[Sciuropterus]

Just finished Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, a fascinating novel about cracking the WW2 German Enigma code. Highly recommended. You will become a smarter person if you read it.

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Well, I am always reading a few things at a time. I have a pile here next to me for when I finish the XMarks posts. On top is the current issue of This Old House. My wife and I both love to renovate old houses (although none of ours are ever as old as the ones the TOH crew tackles) and enjoy the magazine. Then I have some classic SF and some vintage and classic SF. The classic SF is Robert Heinlein's Podkayne of Mars. Why? becuase it is a good story and I am currently reading the original UK paperback which has a cover that would be considered racy (and certainly reveals race! which is integral to the story, but not correct according to the book) today. The VINTAGE SF is a copy of Tom Corbett and the Robot Rocket, by Cary Rockwell with technical assistance by William Ley. Very vintage SF from the 50's. I enjoyed them when I was growing up (my Dad passed them on to me) and they are still well written stories today, if you ignore some of the science that has become outdated.

And Bubba, I am a big fan of McCaffry's. Not the Dragonrider books, never got into those, but her Pegasus series, including the Rowan series, is awesome.

I suppose I should read something more substantial and educational, but by the time the work day is over, the kids are in bed and I have finished up everything else, I just want some mindless entertainment.

[Rob Wright]

Pulled out my old Jack Williamson books after hearing of his death today

The Legion of Space books are so much fun and one one of my prized posessions is a copy ofhis novel Demon Moon autographed by him.

Also reading:

The Dune Encyclopedia
V For Vendetta-Alan Moore & David Loyd
V For Vendetta:From Script to Screen-Wachoski and McTeigue
Love Actually screenplay-Richard Curtis
Wintersmith -Terry Pratchett
The Legion of Space series-Jack Williamson
The End Vol 13 A Series of Unfortunate Events-Lemony Snickett
The Black Douglas': Lordship and Warfare in Medieval Scotland 1300-1455
Grendel:War Child-Matt Wagner


Also writing on a continuing story DARKNESS DESCENDING and draft 2A of my screen play HELLS BELLS.

Rob

[raindog]

Panache wrote....raindog,

Have you seen Herminator's avatar?

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/member.php?u=1376

Aiiieeeeee! Panache!! Chthulu lives!!

Nice selection of books Rob


Jeff.

[Rob Wright]

Aiiieeeeee! Panache!! Chthulu lives!!

Nice selection of books Rob


Jeff.

I want to see Chthulu take on the flying Sphaghetti Monster

Raindog I have a huge library largely put together by scouring the used bookstore to find the older stuff. Somewhere I have a massive box of the old Ace doubles, lots of John brunner and others fun reads. I also enjoy Robert E. Howards work been buying the limited runs of his work published by Wanderstar Press.

Rob

[beerbecue]

The Creation - E.O. Wilson
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
Parasite Rex - Carl Zimmer

[mkmound]

The last few days I've been reading a book which I had known about since college days, but never gotten around to buying . . . The Humanities in Retrospect, by Bill Francis. Bill, who was a university-level art educator, takes 50-year slices from 1100 AD to 1950, and lists artists, scientists and inventors and inventions, historical and political events, musicians, etc. from eight Western European countries in which he had traveled -- England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and one other which escapes me right now. It gives a very quick reference of which major figures were contemporaries of each other, and probably influenced by the ideas of the others.

I was inspired by a tour guide on a recent trip to Italy which I was privileged to take. The guide gave a lot of political, historical, and cultural background and context to the objects we were seeing, and it was exciting to learn the bigger picture, rather than "this artist did this work in 15xx".

[Warlock]

I have a large library of supernateral and horrer fiction. I have a signed first edition of a biography on H.P. Lovecraft. I also have a battered edition of "Lovecraft at last" which is the memoirs of a gentleman that had corresponded with Ech-Pi-El {HPL} as he became known. I believe the author was Willis Conover, Jr. I Love that genre.

[Panache]

I have a large library of supernateral and horrer fiction. I have a signed first edition of a biography on H.P. Lovecraft. I also have a battered edition of "Lovecraft at last" which is the memoirs of a gentleman that had corresponded with Ech-Pi-El {HPL} as he became known. I believe the author was Willis Conover, Jr. I Love that genre.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Cheers

[Kilted_John]

Ya guys are probably gonna laugh, but the most read books I have, are the Volvo 240 service manual binder set... The official "Greenbooks" for those of us who own Volvos. ;-)

Otherwise, it's usually a photography book of some sort... Gonna have to pick up a manual for Mac OS X in the next couple days... Just recently went to a modern OS and am planning to do the switch beginning tomorrow.

-J