What are you reading now?

[MoonShine]

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

Book 1 of the First Law Trilogy.

Great stuff. If you like Martin's Song of Ice & Fire you will probably like this.

Simpler (less epically EPIC) but just as gritty.

[Salt Peanuts]

Started reading A Game of Thrones again.

[jinp6301]

genetic programming is pretty great

[Dusty Chalk]

Especially in the field.

Or so I've read, I've never done it myself.

[jinp6301]

It is

Genetic programming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

a very cool method of optimization.

[postjack]

Amazon.com: Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery (9780061723810): Jonathan Strahan, Lou Anders: Gateway

i don't even like short stories, but this collection is converting me. some really quality stuff in here.

[MoonShine]

Amazon.com: Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery (9780061723810): Jonathan Strahan, Lou Anders: Gateway

i don't even like short stories, but this collection is converting me. some really quality stuff in here.

Ordered, thx!

[Dusty Chalk]

Was: Kelley Armstrong, Personal Demon

Is: Kelley Armstrong, Living with the Dead

[aardvark baguette]

Isaac Asimov - The Gods Themselves

[grawk]

Amazon.com: The Angel's Game (9780767931113): Carlos Ruiz Zafon: Books

Just finished it. Great book, decent ending. I REALLY like his writing style.

[HeadphoneAddict]

Chris Moriarty's Spin State

That was an interesting book, I am going to read Spin Control next (sequel) when I'm done with Peter F Hamilton The Evolutionary Void.

[Dusty Chalk]

Jailbait Zombie by Mario Acevedo -- bought this on a lark, it's actually quite entertaining

Sent from mah Droid

[Salt Peanuts]

A Clash of Kings

[Absorbine_Sr]

[Dusty Chalk]

Kelley Armstrong, Frostbitten -- easily my favorite author of this genre. I love the way she can switch 'voice'.

[postjack]

i read Spin Control by Chris Moriarty a while back (i really hope there is another book in the series! forthcoming!), and then re-read Target Tokyo by Gordon Prange. now i'm finally reading some China Mieville. i really hate Steampunk, but i'm gonna try anyway.

looking forward to your impressions. I prefer "The Scar" and his newer noirish offering "The City and the City"

[Dusty Chalk]

(makes a note of it)

[postjack]

i figured that i should start with the book that brought him to fame.

oh you absolutely should. I like PSS but consider CoSaM the true penultimate steampunk "city" book. well CoSaM combined with Shriek.

[Landis]

The Riddle of the Traveling Skull - Harry Stephen Keeler

Nothin' like an overly complicated mystery novel.

[Dusty Chalk]

Kelley Armstrong, Frostbitten -- easily my favorite author of this genre. I love the way she can switch 'voice'.

I'm in -- she had one of her characters say, "Pffft." Twice.

[MoonShine]

[Dusty Chalk]

Finished Frostbitten, read Men Of The Otherworld (which I thought was a short story collection, but was largely the backstory of one of the primary men in the series.

Also read Definitely Dead and All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris -- she's my second favorite of the genre.

Started Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan.

[Dusty Chalk]

It certainly does so far, and I haven't even finished the first chapter.

[Dusty Chalk]

Loved the turrets scene. Very Warner Bros. The rest of the book isn't as Warner Bros., but that was like Fifth Element meets Film Noir. I'm actually picturing Bogey playing the lead -- his face, uncolorized, digitally superimposed on Bruce Willis' head.

[Dusty Chalk]

Okay, this book totally rocks. I mean, it totally rocked before, but it is my new best friend now. One of the characters just said,

"Oh, come on!"

...with 'on' being italicized.