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Currently I'm re-reading ASoIaF, but slowly, looking for all those clues and stuff I missed on the first read.
I'm still at the first few chapters of A Game of Thrones, and can't stop giggling maniacly over the future fate of certain characters, their misconceptions and the plot twists that'll tear them to pieces.

Bad news is I'll have to struggle through Catelyn's chapters again. Bah.
Only good chapter she had was the wedding one.

On my first read I was still trying to organize the "world" and understand who's who(not really helped much by Matrin's huge characters appendix...too many friggin' names and minor characters!).

Chocky, by John Wyndham.

I've read Ender's Game and liked it, but I think I tried reading the one after and got bored. But that was a few years ago, maybe I'll try again sometime.

Same with Hyperion(sp?), I never got to actually reading it, just snipets, not to talk about the others in the series.

I think I heard Bean's books are a fall from Ender's.

orald wrote:I think I heard Bean's books are a fall from Ender's.

Well, you cant win every award in the world with every book you write, so that may be true. But Card has a very unique ability, IMHO, to keep writing in a series and not getting boring or going too far.

My grammar primer, Animal Dreams, piles of Education articles, oh and the latest issue of Playboy.

Rob

Does the Playboy mag have any KJA article?

Bump?

I went to Ireland a while ago, and in Dublin every tour was proclaiming the awesome-ness of James Joyces' Ulysses. I just started reading it and am on Chapter 6: Hades. It's supposedly the best novel of the century, and I've read reviews of various SF/F books proclaiming them as things like " the most revolutionary/best/most ingenious book of the century since Ulysses" *


* On the Omphalos Book Review, talking about Rogue Moon, Algis Brudys
* On this PBS documentary on the Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake

I got my copy of "Eye" by FH, just to realize i'd already read it, but in French so it's double treat!!

Reading Burning Chrome by William Gibson...it's a collection of short stories, and a small one at that, so it shouldn't take long.

After that I think I'm going to re-read the Dune series. The real ones.

"Collapse" by Jared Diamond.

Dark Tower V: Wolves of Calla. - Stephen King.

Re-reading Heretics of Dune.

GEofD for the first time since ninth grade and The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Cranial malfunction(s) is/are likely imminent...

My college text books

Rob

Chung Kuo series by David Wingrove

Up to book 6 out of 8: White Moon, Red Dragon

Been wanting to write a review of this series, but there is just so much to this series I don't know where to begin. A review could be more than one A4 page long.

The House of Suns by Alistair Reynolds, high tech space opera. It's okay and'll fill a hole.

Erewhon by Samuel Butler.

SandChigger wrote:Erewhon by Samuel Butler.

Have you read it before? I've got it "in the pile".

I read that recently. Decent book.

Listening to Dune while I'm working, reading my first copy of Analog during lunchbreak and a book of Norman Spinrad essays at home.

Being a Franchise Parasite for Dummies.

The author is someone named K.J. Anderson.

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. Read a lot of his other stuff, but never got around to this one before, for some reason.

I had been surprised that he won a Hugo for this book, but Snow Crash didn't even get nominated. I'm about halfway in, and I think I understand. This is the better book of the two. Snow Crash is more fun, but this book has more meat.

HBJ

Snow Crash owns. It's completely my type of book.

Freakzilla wrote:

SandChigger wrote:Erewhon by Samuel Butler.

Have you read it before? I've got it "in the pile".

Never cover to cover.