What are you reading?

[Rem-13]

Just discovered I have an Audible account (!?) So I have 6 credits to use up before I cancel this thing. I'm letting my mother use three, so I have three books to grab. This will be a painful and arduous process. One is certainly going to be The Gathering Storm.

[Vad]

The Evolution of God by Robert Wright.

Very interesting indeed.

[Cain]

The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan. It's amazing. Darker than the first WoT book.

[Rem-13]

Speaking of which. 9 chapters into Oncoming Storm. Seems like it has held to the last books promise of keeping up the new pace. Which is slow, but an enjoyable slow, not a describe every thread on egwene's dress slow.

[Kole T. Merr]

I just read The Lightning Thief, the first in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. I can see how some people draw similarities to Harry Potter, because there are a lot, but I'm enjoying all of the Greek mythology thrown in there. From what I've heard, the movie doesn't do the book justice, but I still plan on seeing it at some point.

[Jack]

The guy in front of me was reading that in math class. The little prose I glanced at, it looked like a very juvenile read.

[Kole T. Merr]

Yeah. Children's books are generally juvenile reads. Doesn't mean that they can't be entertaining.

[Jack]

Didn't know it was a childrens book. But yeah, speaking of which, I can't understand how people read childrens books as adults and enjoy them. I find it impossible.

[Kole T. Merr]

By "children's book" I mostly mean like 12-14 year olds. The first couple Harry Potters would fit into that category.

So you seriously can't see someone be entertained by something that is designed to be entertaining?

[Jack]

Just not the very dumbed down prose and shit, you know? Childrens childrens books are fine, like picture books, but shit designed for preteens I can't really get into anymore.

[Alexander Trafford]

Let's be honest Jack, it's not that you can't get into these books in a literary sense, you can't get them into a literal sense. It's a well known fact that black people can't read.

[Super Buu]

Been reading Dune (at long last), and I think Frank Herbert is probably the best professional writer I've read anything of in the past few years. Also apparently all those creative writing teachers who told me you shouldn't switch between character perspectives in narrative mid-chapter didn't read this.

[Mr. Zhu]

Joy Luck Club.. Some weird Chinese based book, quite enjoyable though. I recently just finished Of Mice and Men for like the 1851793th time.

[Cain]

Ehm... The All In One CompTIA A+ Certification Exam Guide.

Anyone who didn't read The Dark Tower series needs to take the noose off their mind-sack.

[Alexander Trafford]

Uh, Catcher in the Rye and Alice in Wonderland.

Just finished The Innocent Man by John Grisham, very interesting.

[Jesper]

Been reading Dune (at long last), and I think Frank Herbert is probably the best professional writer I've read anything of in the past few years. Also apparently all those creative writing teachers who told me you shouldn't switch between character perspectives in narrative mid-chapter didn't read this.

Unfortunately, it only gets worse from here. The first book is by far the best one, at least in my opinion.

[Jonathan Meer]

Divine Providence: The Molinist Account - Thomas P. Flint
----Not my choosing. Class. Analytic and interesting, but I don't agree with it at all.
The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
----From what I've heard, the landmark feminist text. Should be good. Translated, as I unfortunately don't read French.
The Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
----My first introduction to Pratchett. I'm loving it. I feel like this influence would have been great while writing Krillin (who I really wish I could bring back).
Philosophers Without Gods - Louise Antony
----A collection of essays regarding atheism, both from a personal and a philosophical worldview, from twenty different leading philosophers. Good stuff. Not very surprising that I'm apparently the first person in my college to borrow it (library).
The Worlds of Logic - Some guy
----Independent study textbook, on the rudiments of formal logic. Awesome stuff.
White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985 - Allen Ginsberg
----Just for interest's sake.

Should be getting a copy of Wheelock's Latin textbook in the next few weeks. I hope to have at least three (perhaps four) items knocked off this list by then.

[Psyren]

Im reading Tom Clany's Hawx

[Rem-13]

This motherfucker right here. In the past 20 days or so I've burned through 15 animorphs books*, half of the first Baroque Cycle book 'Quicksilver'**, and just finished up The Name of the Wind***

* Still great for some light on the go reading when you only have a few minutes here or there

** oddly written. Reading and making sense of it is kind of like reading a maze with perspective, narrative, and date shifts. Not to mention the odd genre. Still great

*** Surprisingly good for a debut novel from a fresh author. Mistakes were made and a bit of a standard story, but its written with a certain fluidity and brilliance that makes it bearable.

I'm moving onto Starship Troopers, which I've never read for some reason.

edit: Oh and I'm working through a bit of Bram Stoker's Dracula, which came with it.

[Kaden]

I'm a huge fan of Heinlein.

Starship Troopers was a great book.