What are you reading?

[ich1990]

Thanks for sharing this stuff. I've just read a bit, but I'm already challenging the way I think about retirement.

You are quite welcome. I hope you find the subject as enlightening as I did. I know it can be difficult to break into an established blog (and his book is admittedly dense), so I would recommend the following posts as a sort of "high level overview" of his position:

One
Two
Three
Four

The first three underline the philosophy and the fourth is Jacob's personal story. The rest of his posts (and a good portion of his book) are applications and details relating to the above.

I am actually quite psyched about this whole subject, so if you want to talk about it sometime shoot me a PM.

[bigsleepj]

I'm setting in to read Fool's Fate, the last in Robin Hobb's Golden Fool trilogy (itself part of a trilogy of trilogies - noodle that). It's been five years since I last read any of her works but it feels like getting to know an old friend again.

[Banana Lobster]

I'm currently rereading the Enola Holmes book series at the moment. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed these things...

[Xeno]

I just finished "I'll Go Home Then; It's Warm and Has Chairs: The Unpublished Emails" by David Throne, and now I'm working on his first book "The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius".

[ClaecElric4God]

Algebra II
It's about numbers.

[Atria35]

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - this is pretty neat.

[rocklobster]

Starting The Borrowers.

[FllMtl Novelist]

Finally, finally finished Ender's Game. I'm not entirely sure what to say about it. The plot never dragged, but I never had problems putting the book down. Aaaaall the kids talk like adults, and it's acknowledged, but I'm still not sure how to feel about it (is something really added by making the savior younger than twenty?). The last chapter or so was an odd epilogue/ending, though not necessarily a bad one.

I'd had a couple twists spoiled for me, also, which is probably why I'm not completely spazzing about it. It was an interesting read, though. I'm just kinda mixed about it.

[Xeno]

Finally, finally finished Ender's Game. I'm not entirely sure what to say about it. The plot never dragged, but I never had problems putting the book down. Aaaaall the kids talk like adults, and it's acknowledged, but I'm still not sure how to feel about it (is something really added by making the savior younger than twenty?). The last chapter or so was an odd epilogue/ending, though not necessarily a bad one.

I'd had a couple twists spoiled for me, also, which is probably why I'm not completely spazzing about it. It was an interesting read, though. I'm just kinda mixed about it.

Ender's Game is one of my favorite books (and subsequent series) of all time. If you choose to continue reading along though, I recommend reading Xenocide and Children of the Mind immediately back to back since they were originally supposed to be the same book, and Xenocide really has no conclusion (it's also incredibly dull).

[seaglass27]

Xenocide, eh? *evil grin*

I am reading In the Presence of Mine Enemies by Howard and Phyllis Rutledge.

[Atria35]

Finally read Sandman v 1- They had it at my hoetown library. It was pretty neat.

[FllMtl Novelist]

Ender's Game is one of my favorite books (and subsequent series) of all time. If you choose to continue reading along though, I recommend reading Xenocide and Children of the Mind immediately back to back since they were originally supposed to be the same book, and Xenocide really has no conclusion (it's also incredibly dull).

I'm not sure if/when I'll read more, but I'll keep that in mind, thanks.

[Phantom_Sorano]

Just finished the first book of the Abhorsen Trilogy and began the second today and already about 500ish pages in.

[seaglass27]

Finished In the Presence of Mine Enemies and am now reading Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology.

[yukoxholic]

I just finished The Hunger Games trilogy and am now onto yet, another dystopian trilogy: Divergent by Veronica Roth.

[the_wolfs_howl]

I just finished reading Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb, the second book in the Farseer trilogy. Duuuuuuude Hobb is amazing!!!!!! I love her writing, and this is probably the best second-book-of-a-trilogy I've ever read, because it didn't let up the tension and excitement at all. The ending was ever so slightly anti-climactic, but I think that's mainly because everything goes to hell in a handbasket, setting everything up for the exciting conclusion - which I will start tomorrow ^_^

[bigsleepj]

Robin Hobb is truly a gifted author. I'm reading the final book in the second Farseer Trilogy, the Golden Fool trilogy. Nothing beats her in creating likeable but fascinating / complex characters.

[Maokun]

Finally read Sandman v 1- They had it at my hoetown library. It was pretty neat.

I'm glad to know someone else around here is reading this. It's truly a great series and has one of my favourite fictional characters ever.

[Shao Feng-Li]

Currently juggling:

Eugenics and Other Evils by GK Chesterton
Champions of the Force by Keven J Anderson
The Overton Window by Glenn Beck
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Stupid Kindle makes me download too many free books x_X

[Hugo Bernhardt]

besides coursework and The Economist, I've been reading The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwall, the second in his Saxon Stories series about Alfred the Great and his conflict with the Vikings, though the perspecive of a young alderman who is captured by the Vikings and grows up with them, but then moves on to side with Alfred.

They're interesting, and generally follow actual events, but the protaganist is a real wild one who would rather fight than administrate his estate, so the sense of what non-martial daily life would be like in the period is not that well fleshed out, especially not in this book. The first book, The Last Kingdom, had a stretch of years where camp life witht he Vikings was front and center, but this book is just slaughter and accusations and religious conflict, but it's still pretty good.

[SierraLea]

Starting The Borrowers.

Did you know there's a studio ghibli movie coming out that's based on that book? I so want to see it.

To those of you who liked Ender's Game, try Alvin Maker. It's by the same author and just as good.

[Ally-Ann]

Just finished reading Catching Fire, and am now reading Mockingjay. =3

[Hugo Bernhardt]

Did you know there's a studio ghibli movie coming out that's based on that book? I so want to see it.

To those of you who liked Ender's Game, try Alvin Maker. It's by the same author and just as good.

The Ghibli movie just was released on DVD for North America last week. Waiting for it to make Red Box.

I never read beyond Ender's because my officemate says the the following books were lame, so that discouraged me. I'm just remembering that a pair of Mormon missionaries came in to the store I used to work at and kept talking up the author to try to get us interested in Mormonism.

[Raleford]

Champions of the Force by Keven J Anderson

Don't think I've read "Champions", but I've read a few Anderson Star Wars books and remember enjoying them quite a bit, though my favorites are the Timothy Zahn books.


Right now I'm "reading" (I've being doing a lot of audio book lately) "The Pachyderms Lament" by Robert Reginald. It's a part 2 of a series.

[MomentOfInertia]

Don't think I've read "Champions", but I've read a few Anderson Star Wars books and remember enjoying them quite a bit, though my favorites are the Timothy Zahn books.
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'Champions' is the conclusion of his 'Jedi Academy' trilogy.

Nice to see someone else like Zahn's work, have you read any of his non-SW books?

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Been a while, since my last post I've read:


Partials by Dan Wells.
I have to say that this was a great book]could[/I] do this than the probably would, and that given this situation the response of the leadership would be this. Given this mostly believable world, the story set in it is also fairly reasonable, a tale of living and learning, of chasing and being chased, of secrets and lost knowledge.

It is a very good book but, despite the fact that it is marketed as YA it is not something that I recommend to everybody, it is an unhappy world, there is no beating about the bush on this the author hits you with it as soon as you open the book, in fact on my (Fu's) copy he hits you before you even open it for, on the back cover the author has written a quote attributed to the fictional president who presided over the ... fall... the attribution also notes that shortly thereafter he hanged himself.
Not. A. Happy. Book. But, if you don't mind that you should definitely read it.



Servant of A Dark God by John Brown
This was good, interesting world, questions left unanswered, but it was not a cheery tale either.



And I just finished rereading Old Man's war, The Ghost Brigade, and The Last Colony by John Scalzi, good scifi with some interesting tech.

[rocklobster]

Did you know there's a studio ghibli movie coming out that's based on that book? I so want to see it.

That's why I was reading it. I thought it was pretty good.
Now reading the final part of the Kane Chronicles, The Serpent's Shadow

[Raleford]

'Champions' is the conclusion of his 'Jedi Academy' trilogy.

Nice to see someone else like Zahn's work, have you read any of his non-SW books?

Oh wow, you're right, I did read that trilogy, I just for some reason didn't make the connection when I read the title of just that book. How embarrassing

I haven't read any of Zahn's non-SW, what would you recommend? I just did a quick google search, and Dragon and Thief caught my eye.

[MomentOfInertia]

I haven't read that but, The Icarus Hunt was excellent.

I wasn't as fond ofAngelmass.

Odd Girl Out was good, though it's not the start of that series.

The Cobra Trilogy (Cobra,Cobra Strike, Cobra Bargain) is good to, though focused more on the military sci-fi side of things.

I should see if I can con my local library into getting Dragon and Thief.

[Xeno]

Finished God on the Streets of Gotham by Paul Asay the other day, and now I'm reading Love Wins by Rob Bell again.

The Gotham Book.

[the_wolfs_howl]

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, which talks about the factors that go into starting a social epidemic. Not a subject I'm particularly interested in, but the examples were interesting enough to read about.