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

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this was a really good book...I am going to be as gentle about this as possible...I am not a homophobe, but parts of this book were...uncomfortable. The main character was a self-absorbed 'twink' and despite that I read thru this in 2 days. There are finnish mythology passages scattered throughout and all of the chapters are labelled with the name of the person who's p.o.v. is being presented...not what you would call 'standard'. For anyone who has ever brought in a stray broken animal...this book will touch you. Highly reccomended.:target:
 
Just finished the Bridge Trilogy by William Gibson, and have moved on to this:
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Also, my church is doing this "Read the Bible in a year" thing, so Deuteronomy (anything's better than Leviticus...).
 
I've been on a major Orson Scott Card trip.

Reading "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus" right now. This book is killer alternate-history!
 
FlyBoeingJets said:
I've been on a major Orson Scott Card trip.

Reading "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus" right now. This book is killer alternate-history!
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I love Card. Had the pleasure of meeting him and talking to him several times when I worked at Vroman's. Guy would just sit and talk after the signings like he was an old friend...major respect for him.
 
Iron Duke said:
I love Card. Had the pleasure of meeting him and talking to him several times when I worked at Vroman's. Guy would just sit and talk after the signings like he was an old friend...major respect for him.
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Wife bought me my first Orson Scott Card book, Ender's Game a couple months back. I read it in two days. Since then, I've read:

- the rest of the Ender quartet (Speaker For The Dead, Xenocide, and Children Of The Mind)
- Empire (an AWESOME sci-fi/political thriller)
- Maps In A Mirror (his short-story collection)
- Invasive Procedures (co-written by Aaron Johnston, this book was NOT the typical Card quality, IMO).

Card rapidly became one of my absolute favorite writers. His character development is absolutely amazing.
 
i'm borrowing this:

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pretty good so far, although the "feminine extremists" are a little annoying and the main character seems pretty dumb. :D
 
One of several I'm midway through, that I'll probably get to pick up with a little more free time this summer.

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This debut novel from memoirist Chase (The Hurry-up Song) begins with the capture and wounding by a SWAT team of the eponymous, sentient teddy bear in a backwoods cabin; the team thinks it has captured a mad bomber. In jail, Winkie, who no one denies is a teddy bear, must contend with cruel jailers; his stuttering, court-appointed lawyer named Unwin; the 9,678 counts of everything from treason to witchcraft he's charged with; and the intersection of his life with that of the previous possessor of the cabin, an old humanities professor whose bombs never worked. While marking time, Winkie contemplates his past: his ownership by the Chase family, his loneliness when on a shelf , his magical awakening to life one morning?marked by a bowel movement so lovingly described that it recalls Bloom's in Ulysses. The sections devoted to Winkie's trial is a minor masterpiece of ridiculousness, in which the prosecution's move to end the trial after it has presented its side sounds uncomfortably close to what we read in the newspapers. This book is way too odd to be sentimental, and its political sensibility shuttles easily between the cartoonish and the shrewd.
 
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Fun Stuff...Alternative press book filled with short stories all about 'EVIL' fast food. Mixed bag, but still a lot of fun.:pskulc:
 
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