What are you reading right now?

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Jerry,

That is cool that you named your daughter from TEFL. And I have been reading Heinlein at least since I was ten, I can't remember when I picked him up. Always been an avid reader and SF is my love. I remmeber reading Tom Corbett Space Cadet and also the Tom Swift series when I was very little, both hand me downs from my natural father and I am trying to collect a ful set today, as mine have been lost over time.

And Bubba, To Sail is also great. I thought Heinlein did a great job of entwining his stories in the later years. not sure he had tha in mind back the 40's when he started writing, but very cool to see how he interrelates the story lines. For anybody who is a Stephen King fan, he did the same thing in some of his later stuff, especially with the Gunslinger series.

[Panache]

... For anybody who is a Stephen King fan, he did the same thing in some of his later stuff, especially with the Gunslinger series.

KCW,

I've read most of the Gunslinger series (haven't got to the last two) and a LOT of Stephen King. I still can't decide if I think all the interelated stuff is very very cool, or very very dumb :confused: Maybe some of it is very cool and the rest is very dumb. Which sums up my very mixed feelings about King's work.

Cheers

[slohairt]

Right now I'm reading Windwalker, a Forgotten Realms novel by Elaine Cunningham. I tend to separate books into two categories: brain food (classic literature, history, and other educational material) and simple entertainment. This book falls into the latter of the two. I read and collect a lot of Fantasy novels particularly Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms.

Is mise le meas,

Seán Liosliath Ó hAirt

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

KCW,

I've read most of the Gunslinger series (haven't got to the last two) and a LOT of Stephen King. I still can't decide if I think all the interelated stuff is very very cool, or very very dumb :confused: Maybe some of it is very cool and the rest is very dumb. Which sums up my very mixed feelings about King's work.

Cheers

To be honest, when I first noticed he was tying things together I immediately wondered it Stephen King was a fan of or had read Heinlein himself and was copying the style. While a lot of Robert's works dovetail nicely (as if he had planned it from the beginning), King's seems more of a forced thing to me, like he decided to do it (possibly to drive more book sales), but had not planned on it. Also, I only noticed it with his more recent stuff, say since he got hit by the car (which also shows up in Gunslinger).

[Wompet]

I've been making my way through Brian Jacque's Redwall novels. It's taking a while, since I'm reading them in order (and therefore have to find the ones I'm missing and read them before reading ones I already have). I've been looking forward to get to the last one - the hero is a kilted squirrel. (If you're not familiar with Redwall, all of the characters are anthropomorphic animals. The birds of prey all talk like Pour1Malt.)

In a similar vein, this weekend I re-read TMNT: Return to New York, TMNT: City at War, and TMNT Vol. 2. If Red Lioness reads this thread, thanks for pointing out on your website that the stories were being published again - now I'm collecting Vol. 4.

[Hamish]

EEEEeeeeeek! How does anybody find time to read books?! I buy them but never get around to reading them. I bought 'The DaVinci Code' and 'Angels and Demons' about a year ago and haven't touched either, then at Heathrow Airport, en route to California a few weeks ago, I picked up 'A Good Year' by Peter Mayle - still in its paper bag!

In my bedside cabinet I have 'The Road Less Travelled' by M. Scott-Peck ....it's been there for at least nine years and I haven't reached the end of Chapter One yet. Bedtime reading does not work for me (obviously!), as I frequently fall asleep before I get around to switching off the light!!!

I also buy a lot of reference books that get dipped into when required, but I seriously do not have time to sit down and read. Now, perhaps if I were to resign from X Marks.....................!

[Jerry]

EEEEeeeeeek! How does anybody find time to read books?! I buy them but never get around to reading them. I bought 'The DaVinci Code' and 'Angels and Demons' about a year ago and haven't touched either, then at Heathrow Airport, en route to California a few weeks ago, I picked up 'A Good Year' by Peter Mayle - still in its paper bag!

In my bedside cabinet I have 'The Road Less Travelled' by M. Scott-Peck ....it's been there for at least nine years and I haven't reached the end of Chapter One yet. Bedtime reading does not work for me (obviously!), as I frequently fall asleep before I get around to switching off the light!!!

I also buy a lot of reference books that get dipped into when required, but I seriously do not have time to sit down and read. Now, perhaps if I were to resign from X Marks.....................!

Resign? don't even hint at that, Ham. We yanks need our resident kilt fashion expert.

[Andrewson]

EEEEeeeeeek! How does anybody find time to read books?! I buy them but never get around to reading them.

I was in exactly that state until about a year ago. I have discovered how to find time.

A year ago my wife was registered blind (ARMD) and could no longer read for herself so I said I'd read to her. We fixed a time each day for the reading session - at breakfast. We get through 20 to 30 pages a day and so we read about two books a month. I am really enjoying reading books that have lain around the house for years as well as some new ones.

Now all I have to do is to fix another time each day to read to myself and I'll really be able to catch up with the backlog But I'm still buying books, so that is doubtful!

[Nick]

A year ago my wife was registered blind (ARMD) and could no longer read for herself so I said I'd read to her. We fixed a time each day for the reading session - at breakfast. We get through 20 to 30 pages a day and so we read about two books a month. I am really enjoying reading books that have lain around the house for years as well as some new ones.

Now all I have to do is to fix another time each day to read to myself and I'll really be able to catch up with the backlog But I'm still buying books, so that is doubtful!

That's great, Andrewson!!

My wife and I also read to each other, and though niether of us are blind, it's a wonderful thing to do together. We're currently reading "Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix" (we've been working our way through all the HP books.) When we're done with all the published books I think we're going to start on Tolkien, starting either with "The Silmarillion" or "The Hobbit".

[arrogcow]

I'm usually reading 3-4 books at a time, but for some reason I'm down to one at the moment.

I'm reading Anne Rice's "Christ The Lort: Out of Egypt". All things considered not one of her better books, but then she is always hit or miss.

I have receintly finished:

Robert Rankins "The Toyminator" (sequal to "Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse")

Jim Walis "God's Politics"

Piers Anthony "Xone of Contention", "The Dastard", and "Swell Foop" (I stopped reading the Xanth books years ago, and for some reason decided to catch up, but they've gotten pretty bad.

Michael Criton "Jurrasic Park II" (a reread, I was really board that day)

and Stephen King "Lisey's Story"

Stephen King note: he has been tying his stories together almost from the begining (Dead Zone references Carrie - at least as the DePalma movie), and if you really want to be technical the Dark Tower now contains almost all of his novels (I think "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" still exists on its own as does "The Colorado Kid"), two of the Bachman books, some of his "wife's" ("Small World" and "Survivor"), and at least one Peter Straub ("Ghost Story")

Finally every Heinlein book mentioned so far has been reread within the last year.

Adam