What are you reading now?

[robm321]

About 40 pages in. Easy read, enjoying it so far.

[MoonShine]

Recently Finished:

Started:

[Dusty Chalk]

I was recently recommended Robopocalypse by io9. Any of those particularly bad or particularly good?

[MoonShine]

Robopocalypse and Redshirts are good but not great. I gave them both 3 out of 5 stars on Goodreads.

About 1/4 into Leviathan and it's better than either (so far).

[Dusty Chalk]

That reminds me...joining now...under the name, 'Dusty Chalk'.

[MoonShine]

Almost everybody uses their real name over there. It's weird.

[Dusty Chalk]

Hey, 'Dusty Chalk' is real. It's just not my given name...er...my birth name...or whatever you want to call it. But I am he. For realsies.

Is that you friending me? Sorry, I don't know anyone's real name over here.

[MoonShine]

Yup, that's me.

[en480c4]

Started The White Devil by Justin Evans yesterday. Was doing laundry and hadn't started anything since finishing Blackout. I can't remember anything about it, having bought it ages ago, and just pulled it up on the Kindle. It's kind of fun going into a novel not knowing what's going to happen.

[Dusty Chalk]

Yup, that's me.

You are now my top friend.

[MoonShine]

You are now my top friend.

Always wanted a bottom friend

Check out the groups. Sword and laser is a good one with author interviews and a bi-weekly Youtube show (with Veronica Belmont).

[Voltron]

I am not reading this, but the author was a law school classmate of mine and I thought the title and cover were humorous in the HC context.

[shellylh]

^That was the last book I read before the Hunger Games series. I wouldn't recommend it (not that you were doing that). Just saying. Sorry Jacob.

[Dusty Chalk]

Me: Reamde, Stephenson

This is outstanding. Techno-thriller, with classic Stephenson humour, but not done ridiculously -- more humanly, like Whedon -- the characters have a sense of humour, and that's where it manifests, in their thoughts, words, actions, etc.

[en480c4]

Read Warm Bodies on my flight from Boston to Seattle. Quick, fun read with a little different take on what the post-Zombie-Apocolypse world might hold.

[Dusty Chalk]

You want something really different, read this. (It gets a bit porny in parts, obviously.)

[blessingx]

Wow, Fifty Shades of Gray originated from Twilight fan fiction. How did I not know this before?

Anyway, just sent Free Will by Sam Harris and The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker to the Kindle. Starting the former now.

[aardvark baguette]

UBIK

[MoonShine]

Just finished:

Now reading:

On deck:

[en480c4]

Read In the Shadow of Gotham. Quite good. Early 20th century murder mystery in the Hudson Ricer valley.

Reading Gone Girl now. Really good so far.

I like traveling. I get a lot of alone time to read. Miss Lauren, the pup and the kitties, and really looking forward to gettin home, but lots if reading is never a bad thig.

[NightWoundsTime]

Wow, Fifty Shades of Gray originated from Twilight fan fiction. How did I not know this before?

I didn't either, makes perfect sense.

From Wiki:

James initially wrote fanfiction under the pen name "Snowqueens Icedragon", with her most notable work being a Twilight fanfiction that was eventually developed into Fifty Shades of Grey.

I will LOL for a week.

Edited July 23, 2012 by NightWoundsTime

[grawk]

No Easy Day

[Dusty Chalk]

Finished Reamde and Absolution Gap (his weakest), started Thirteen (Kelley Armstrong). Can't decide whether or not to start Chasm City or Fool Moon.

Can't decide what to do about the new Castle book -- kindle version is only a dollar or two less expensive than the hardback version. Will probably wait for the paperback this time. Curses to the book companies for winning that particular battle.

[en480c4]

Finally getting around to Stephen King's 11/22/63. About a third of the way in and have enjoyed it very much so far.

[n_maher]

Currently finishing up the Newsflesh Trilogy. About halfway through the 3rd book and have no idea where this is going to end up but it's been a lot of fun so far.