What're you reading now?

[Suntiger]

Aw, that sucks. I feel you pain. My washing machine broke down last spring. Hope you will be able to fix it soon.

Nation was awesome. ^_^

[Astarte]

I just finished Cussler's Iceberg. Brought that back to the library and got Raise the Titanic. Written in the year of my birth! Woot!

Having gone back and read the first few, I can definitely see the progression of writing style. It is an interesting thing. Still love Dirk Pitt! (PS. Matthew McCono..however you spell it...does not do justice to Dirk Pitt. He's too much of a girly boy.)

Also reading Treasure Island to the kiddo (not sure if I mentioned that before).

[Suntiger]

Read 'All the way to the Gallows' by David Drake. Funny, and with a fitting title.

Starting on 'For us, the living' by Heinlein now.



Treasure island is a great read for kids and adults alike btw. ^_^

[Isral]

I just finished Cussler's Iceberg. Brought that back to the library and got Raise the Titanic. Written in the year of my birth! Woot!

Having gone back and read the first few, I can definitely see the progression of writing style. It is an interesting thing. Still love Dirk Pitt! (PS. Matthew McCono..however you spell it...does not do justice to Dirk Pitt. He's too much of a girly boy.)

Also reading Treasure Island to the kiddo (not sure if I mentioned that before).

Inca Gold was my favorite of that series, and yes, Hollywood spoiled the duo. They traded all of their fun little quirks for muscles and one liners. Alas, the danger when a book gets put up on a big screen.

[PrezWaffullz]

Reading Snow Crash again.

It's about a samurai mafioso pizza delivery man hacker.

The main antagonist (at least the one who gets all the screen time) is, and I quote, "the baddest motherfucker alive."

The book is awesome.

GO FIND A COPY.

[Alaji]

Inca Gold was my favorite of that series, and yes, Hollywood spoiled the duo. They traded all of their fun little quirks for muscles and one liners. Alas, the danger when a book gets put up on a big screen.

They didn't just do that, they turned Rudy Gunn into a complete and total nerd unable to do anything but cower, if I remember correctly, in Sahara the book, Rudy happens to fire duel automatic shotguns in that boat chase scene! There's no way the movie Gunn could have done that!

Also as to what I'm currently reading I just finished Atlas Shrugged, The Night Angel Trilogy, Eve: The Empyrean Age, The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks, and Assassin's Creed: Renaissance, and yes I was reading all of them at the same time.

[Suntiger]

"For us, the living" by Robert A Heinlein and "Young Miles" by Lois McMaster Bujold.

[Ellavana]

For my next bit o' reading, it's "MI6 Fifty Years of Special Operations" by Stephen Dorril. This was sent me by mistake by Amazon UK in place of something else I had ordered (one season of Babylon 5 if my memory serves me correctly). I emailed Amazon and explained the goof. They were like "Yup, we fucked up". They sent me my DVDs and told me to keep the book in apology for their mistake. Thus far it's an interesting read. Lots of juicy tidbits and helps explain many of the messes the US has found itself in the Cold War (the Brits maneuvered the US into many of them). It makes the MI6 James Bond works for look tame.

[Suntiger]

For my next bit o' reading, it's "MI6 Fifty Years of Special Operations" by Stephen Dorril. This was sent me by mistake by Amazon UK in place of something else I had ordered (one season of Babylon 5 if my memory serves me correctly). I emailed Amazon and explained the goof. They were like "Yup, we fucked up". They sent me my DVDs and told me to keep the book in apology for their mistake. Thus far it's an interesting read. Lots of juicy tidbits and helps explain many of the messes the US has found itself in the Cold War (the Brits maneuvered the US into many of them). It makes the MI6 James Bond works for look tame.

That sounds pretty accurate. James Bond, at least in the films, were never meant to portray realistic spywork. It is to spying as Indiana Jones is to archeology.
And yes, it's tame compared to real spy work too, which tend to be unglamorous, frequently boring (analyzing incomplete bits of data/info to try ad build a picture out of it) and sometimes very deadly.

[wxgirl]

Ahhh vacation meaning I get to read some of the things I have been watching collect dust.

Anthony Bordain's "Kitchen Confidential" I am loving what I read so far and it brings back the memories when I worked at Red Lobster.

Next up is "A Geek's Guide to World Domination" lol looks more like a light chuckle sorta read.