A Spot O' Reading
 

Well, I just picked up book 6 of the Dark Tower saga by Stephen King, and I was just wondering what everyone else was currently reading. While we are at it, why not reccomend a book you've finished, or just list some favorite series and/or authors.

(And can we PLEASE not flame other's choices, or degenerate into a fight over authors who've sold out or debate the how X genre is better than Y genre...it'll just piss Mash off, and nobody needs that)

Im reading "Game Programming for Teens", by Maneesh Sethi. ...cept I havent really started it yet, been too busy actually just playing games and going to my girlfriends house (*cough* yeah like Im going to do any reading there*cough*) but after meeting this programming guy I was really inspired to actually read it... x_X

Anyway. Thats what Im reading...

I just finished "The Tao of Pooh". I highly suggest it to anyone interested in Taoism or is curious about it. Basically, it explains Taoism through example using Pooh. Great stuff.

I'm also in the middle of The Pearl saga by Eric Van Lustbader. It's an interesting mix of sci-fi and fantasy, so I recomend picking up the first book The Ring of Five Dragons.

Anything else.....oh yeah. I've started hacking my way through The Oxford Book of English Verse. Why? Such a good question.... I think because I found it at a book sale for a buck and said "eh, why the hell not". *shudders* poetry....

I read the Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn a long while ago, it was extremely well done.

Heir to the Empire.
Dark Force Rising.
The Last Command.

I've nearly finished "The Prince" by Nicollo Machiavelli. It's pretty good, if you're into that kind of stuff.

A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson.

Very interesting, to say the least. My brain has overloaded at least five times while reading the first page.

I'm reading a book entitled "Women of Wonder" a book of short stories written by women for my Scifi Lit course. It rocks pretty hard, despite being from 1940s-70s. Old school science fiction is damn good.

Zwei, does that book have Wonder Women on the cover? If so I saw it at Borders and assumed it was an analysis or sumsuch of all the female superheroes...

No, but it does have an illustration of two rather endowed females on the cover.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/01...1.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

The second book isn't required for the course, but I might check it out.

No surprise, I'm reading through LOtR. Now that I've seen all the movies, I'm re-reading through the books. When I first read them, due to not having a job at the time, I had to wait long periods in between them, but I have them all now. Also, since I now have the third one I can use the appendices...







oh my GOD I am such a nerd.....



;)



I am also thinking about getting The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and reading it. I started it during my first semester of college but was just too busy to get very far, ultimately I took it back to the library. >_<

SBCS - if you're going to take on Hitchhiker's again, I say spend the extra money and get the anthology. That way 1 book = less mess. You'll never loose one of the books either. I did that once, in a 13 book series...not pretty.