Right now I’m working on a triple bound Star Trek authoured (and I use the term loosely) by William Shatner. The Return is the center of the two, wich I am now on.
Previous to that, Light of Other Days by A.C. Clarke and S. Baxter. The Wizardry Quested by Rick Cook, and 5th Elephant, Truth, and Gaurds, Gaurds By T. Prachett.
Just read Traci Lords autobiography.
i forget the title, but its good.
Underneath it All.
August/September reading material:
Pattern Recognition (Wiliam Gibson) begat Mona Lisa Overdrive (also Gibson) begat Schlachthof fünf (Vonnegut) begat The Davinci Code (Dan Brown) begat The Beach (Garland) and now I’m on Signal to Noise (Eric Nylund). whew.
On a side note, I seemed to have forgotten how much good info I used to get off of the people here…glad to be back.
I just finished reading all four books of King’s Dark Tower series, in preparation for the fifth coming out in November. Good stuff, that.
Currently reading Blindness by Jose Saramago. I’ve read two of Saramago’s books previously, and while he’s not the easiest read in the world, his stories are always worth the extra effort. So far, Blindness is no exception. It’s almost like the first part of The Stand, but without the Armageddon/good vs. evil/religious overtones, and with better characterization and (I’ll probably get flamed for this) better writing in general.
Next up is most likely The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. I have to have that read by the first week of October for a sci-fi book club I recently joined… and it looks like a fun book anyway.
If you get flamed for calling Jose Saramago a better writer than Stephen King, something is seriously wrong. Personal preference, sure, some may like King better, but a better writer in general? No way!
I agree, but The Stand is many people’s favorite King book. To suggest that someone could take a similar concept and do it better might be sacrilege to some… not to me, but hey.
It’s definitely my favorite King book. I meant no disrespect to King; I love most of his books (none of the recent ones, unfortunately) but to put him on the same level as a Nobel Prize winner would be a stretch, I think.
Working on The Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter #5) for the first time.