fierce_freak Posted December 27, 2007 Report Posted December 27, 2007 fucking sweet! I never thought I'd run into another Stover fan. last I heard, third book should be released this upcoming summer if all goes to plan.
postjack Posted December 27, 2007 Report Posted December 27, 2007 fucking sweet! I never thought I'd run into another Stover fan. last I heard, third book should be released this upcoming summer if all goes to plan. Caine Black Knife is the title IIRC. It just came to me. Such a badass name, there is no way the book won't be amazing. Caine is like, the ultimate badass.
Dusty Chalk Posted December 27, 2007 Report Posted December 27, 2007 Just finished: Ex Machina 3: Fact v. Fiction Just started: Ex Machina 4: March to War (a little light "reading" over the break)
fierce_freak Posted December 27, 2007 Report Posted December 27, 2007 Caine Black Knife is the title IIRC. It just came to me. Such a badass name, there is no way the book won't be amazing. Caine is like, the ultimate badass. Yeah, that's it. I can't wait for it or anything else by Stover. I'd love to see more of Deliann/Kris in it, too.
en480c4 Posted December 28, 2007 Report Posted December 28, 2007 The Terror by Dan Simmons One of my favorite writers, and someone who isn't as well known as he should be. Summer of Night is an all-time favorite book, and he's written any number of other great novels... I don't care for his fantasy stuff, but the the thriller and horror books his written are great. Starred Review. Hugo-winner Simmons (Olympos) brings the horrific trials and tribulations of arctic exploration vividly to life in this beautifully written historical, which injects a note of supernatural horror into the 1840s Franklin expedition and its doomed search for the Northwest Passage. Sir John Franklin, the leader of the expedition and captain of the Erebus, is an aging fool. Francis Crozier, his second in command and captain of the Terror, is a competent sailor, but embittered after years of seeing lesser men with better connections given preferment over him. With their two ships quickly trapped in pack ice, their voyage is a disaster from start to finish. Some men perish from disease, others from the cold, still others from botulism traced to tinned food purchased from the lowest bidder. Madness, mutiny and cannibalism follow. And then there's the monstrous creature from the ice, the thing like a polar bear but many times larger, possessed of a dark and vicious intelligence. This complex tale should find many devoted readers and add significantly to Simmons's already considerable reputation.
tiberian Posted December 28, 2007 Report Posted December 28, 2007 reading this book for a grad school paper.
Dusty Chalk Posted December 28, 2007 Report Posted December 28, 2007 Time Traveler's Wife is next on the agenda.
iceman94 Posted December 29, 2007 Report Posted December 29, 2007 fucking sweet! I never thought I'd run into another Stover fan. last I heard, third book should be released this upcoming summer if all goes to plan. Sweet! I'm another Stover fan, found him through his Star Wars work. I'm glad to hear about the third Caine book, I thought it had gone forgotten. He'll be releasing another Star Wars novel this February, this time working his mindfuck on Luke, in the near-post-ROTJ era. Finally something I can look forward to \
fierce_freak Posted December 29, 2007 Report Posted December 29, 2007 Sweet! I'm another Stover fan, found him through his Star Wars work. I'm glad to hear about the third Caine book, I thought it had gone forgotten. He'll be releasing another Star Wars novel this February, this time working his mindfuck on Luke, in the near-post-ROTJ era. Finally something I can look forward to \ Awesome, iceman I also found him through his Star Wars work, specifically NJO book 13, Traitor (which happens to be my favorite SW book out of the 50 or so I own). I didn't know he had a new SW book coming up, so I'll have to keep an eye out...I haven't read a SW book since Stover's Revenge of the Sith.
Chekhonte Posted December 30, 2007 Report Posted December 30, 2007 The Feeling of What Happens. It's a book by a neurologist on human consciousness. It's really amazing.
didwlgh Posted December 30, 2007 Report Posted December 30, 2007 Administrative Law Casebook by Cass, Diver, and Beermann. Freaking finals right after winterbreak...makes no sense.
pabbi1 Posted December 30, 2007 Report Posted December 30, 2007 "Software Quality Professional", vol 10, Dec 2007, "Lessons from Experience: Managing Software Test Teams" - really great stuff for what I do.
Chekhonte Posted January 1, 2008 Report Posted January 1, 2008 I'm reading the Edith Grossman translation of Don Quixote for the second time.
Chekhonte Posted January 28, 2008 Report Posted January 28, 2008 Air Guitar - David Hickey Although the mean of the name of this book makes sense once you read it - it's still the stupidest name for one of the best books of art criticism I've read.
en480c4 Posted January 28, 2008 Report Posted January 28, 2008 I've been working my way back through the Arkady Renko novels by Martin Cruz Smith the last couple of weeks... Already read: Gorky Park, Polar Star Currently reading: Red Square Next up: Havana Bay, Wolves Eat Dogs, Stalin's Ghost
krrm Posted January 28, 2008 Report Posted January 28, 2008 Kafka on the Shore- Haruki Murakami Do you like it? I was very close to by this book a little while ago.
thrice Posted January 28, 2008 Report Posted January 28, 2008 So far, but I just started it last night, so I'm only a few chapters in. I loved The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles and other books he's written as well.
ph0rk Posted January 28, 2008 Report Posted January 28, 2008 I long for the day when I can read for pleasure without feeling guilty I'm not reading for The Job.
kpeezy Posted January 28, 2008 Report Posted January 28, 2008 Confession - Leo Tolstoy Pretty cool stuff... I'd never heard of it until my professor in Philosophy of Religion mentioned it.. glad I picked it up.
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