Books: What have you been reading?

[Malvolio]

Frankenstein: How a Monster Became an Icon edited by Sidney Perkowitz and Eddy Von Mueller

[MajorHoy]

From our local library I borrowed a copy of Up Front by Bill Mauldin (1945), a collection of his WWII cartoons with narration.

[Jackmando7]

I finished the 2 Jurassic Park books along with Rendezvous with Rama. I am debating if I should continue with the Rama series or not, because I haven't heard very good things about the sequels.

[Vegan Daddy]

From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born and longs for the son she gave up for adoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at forty-five she has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now, Dalva begins a journey that will take her back to the bosom of her family, to the half-Sioux lover of her youth, and to a pioneering great-grandfather whose journals recount the bloody annihilation of the Plains Indians. On the way, she discovers a story that stretches from East to West, from the Civil War to Wounded Knee and Vietnam -- and finds the balm to heal her wild and wounded soul.

[The Darknight Detective]

Starting tomorrow, I'll take on the third Isaac Bell novel by Clive Cussler (with Justin Scott): The Spy (2010). The early-20th century-set stories of the Pinkerton-like detective have been a hoot so far.

I finished the 2 Jurassic Park books along with Rendezvous with Rama. I am debating if I should continue with the Rama series or not, because I haven't heard very good things about the sequels.

I enjoyed all three books. I haven't read the other Rama books myself (though, FWIW, I do have a Clarke non-Rama book in my pile to be read within the next couple of months).

[Jackmando7]

Starting tomorrow, I'll take on the third Isaac Bell novel by Clive Cussler (with Justin Scott): The Spy (2010). The early-20th century-set stories of the Pinkerton-like detective have been a hoot so far.



I enjoyed all three books. I haven't read the other Rama books myself (though, FWIW, I do have a Clarke non-Rama book in my pile to be read within the next couple of months).

Yeah, all three were pretty dang good. Which Clarke book? I have only read Rama, Childhood's End, and a few short stories by him.. He seems like a pretty bad ass writer!

[The Darknight Detective]

Yeah, all three were pretty dang good. Which Clarke book? I have only read Rama, Childhood's End, and a few short stories by him.. He seems like a pretty bad ass writer!

The Fountains of Paradise, though I have four other hard-copy novels to plow through first. Of the Clarke books I have read previously, they would be Childhood's End, Rendezvous with Rama, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Tales from the White Hart, Reach for Tomorrow, A Meeting with Medusa, and History Lesson (The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke Book 1) . I'm probably missing a couple, but that's the bulk, at any rate.

[The Darknight Detective]

New Kindle reading: Royal Highness (1909) by Thomas Mann.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Bought a Kindle to replace my eight year old nook after having been notified by Barnes & Noble that I’d no longer be able to upload books as of the end of the month. The first book I read on my new toy was “Vietnam Black” by Brad Harmer-Barnes. With a plot straight from a SyFy Saturday night creature feature, set during the Vietnam war, a squad of American soldiers, sent deep into the Vietnamese forest to find a US informant encounter a gigantic, maneating centipede. Cool stuff!

[The Darknight Detective]

Bought a Kindle to replace my eight year old nook after having been notified by Barnes & Noble that I’d no longer be able to upload books as of the end of the month.

Do you still have the books you bought, WPP? BTW, hope you enjoy your Kindle.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Do you still have the books you bought, WPP? BTW, hope you enjoy your Kindle.

Yes, I still have the old nook and the books I uploaded to it and plan to keep it.

[The Darknight Detective]

Yes, I still have the old nook and the books I uploaded to it and plan to keep it.

That's good. I didn't want you to get cheated out of them for some reason.

[Deathstroke]

I finished reading an advance copy of the new Maddie Day mystery novel Death Over Easy.

[Blastaar]

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - Book 1 of the Inheritance trilogy

[Scott Taylor]

Just started Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Haven't read any of these before.