Thread: What are you reading? What was the last book you enjoyed?

Originally Posted by orpheus

Which ones haven't you read? And I can tell you one's you should.

All of them. :(

Haha! You silly Adgy! :P

Let's play the fantastic four game, so I'll recommend these.

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Terror by Dan Simmons

Books of Blood Volumes 1-3 by Clive Barker

The Shining by Stephen King

Originally Posted by orpheus

Haha! You silly Adgy! :P

Let's play the fantastic four game, so I'll recommend these.

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Terror by Dan Simmons

Books of Blood Volumes 1-3 by Clive Barker

The Shining by Stephen King

Ok, I have actually read The Shining, though.

Revalation Space- Alastair Reynolds

From his Amazon page: "Alastair Reynolds was born in Wales in 1966. He has a Ph.D. in astronomy. From 1991 until 2007, he lived in The Netherlands, where he was employed by The European Space Agency as an astrophysicist. He is now a full-time writer."

Turns out he is a pretty good sci-fi writer and this is his first effort. A hard sci-fi space opera book that I enjoyed.

This is the second book of Paolo Bacigalupi's I've read, the first being Ship Breaker, which was a pretty great novel, actually. The Windup Girl is far more adult in nature (sexual situations) than SB was, but is a thoroughly enjoyable read so far. Based in the same post-apocalyptic/dystopian world as SB.

His writing style is brilliant. Try this one or Ship Breaker. You won't be sorry!

Originally Posted by Kings Provisional

Revalation Space- Alastair Reynolds

From his Amazon page: "Alastair Reynolds was born in Wales in 1966. He has a Ph.D. in astronomy. From 1991 until 2007, he lived in The Netherlands, where he was employed by The European Space Agency as an astrophysicist. He is now a full-time writer."

Turns out he is a pretty good sci-fi writer and this is his first effort. A hard sci-fi space opera book that I enjoyed.

LOVE **** like this, and I'm always looking for GOOD hard scifi. Added to the kindle's wish list! Thanks!

Originally Posted by motalare

Third in a series from author Chris Wooding chronicling the adventures of the crew of the spaceship Ketty Jay. As with the previous books, this is very much in the style of Firefly and is a very good read.

This looks cool! Except for the endorsement of Peter F. Hamilton, that is. His stuff is absolute dreck. Don't believe me? Read his book, The Reality Dysfunction, the first of three in the abysmal Night's Dawn trilogy.

Interstellar zombies??? REALLY?? Bugger off!!

Originally Posted by mitchrock

REading the Dune series. Didn't like it as a teen. The first 60 or so pages of the first book was boring as hell then it starts to pick up.

Liked it as a teen. Tried to re-read it recently and simply fell asleep. Good lord, boring.

Finally getting around to reading The God Delusion. So far, it's awesome.