Books: What have you been reading?

[Deathstroke]

I finished reading the C.J. Box novel Three Weeks To Say Goodbye.

[saul_on_the_road_to_damascus]

I've been reading Game of Thrones for a while, but I'm a really slow reader, and then with school starting back up, I haven't been able to keep up with it.

I'm also reading a thrilling textbook on Constitutional Law and Politics...

I think it took me 2 weeks to read the game of thrones series. But I wasn't working at the time.

[KOSLOX]

Star Wars: A New Dawn, Consider Phlebas, and ASOIF: A Feast for Crows.

[danmar85]

Remember being a young kid in school and getting excited by the scholastic series? I remember wanting to read the Boxcar Children, but never getting a chance to.

[saul_on_the_road_to_damascus]

Remember being a young kid in school and getting excited by the scholastic series? I remember wanting to read the Boxcar Children, but never getting a chance to.

dude the box car children were my best friends. I read all of the original books. stopped reading after Benny Uncovers A Mystery. once the series was relaunched in 1991 it wasn't the same

[danmar85]

dude the box car children were my best friends. I read all of the original books. stopped reading after Benny Uncovers A Mystery. once the series was relaunched in 1991 it wasn't the same

What comes to mind for me is Goosebumps and a few of the early Animorphs lol. Not to get off-topic in a book thread, but the original Goosebumps tv series was great.

[Michael P]

Remember being a young kid in school and getting excited by the scholastic series? I remember wanting to read the Boxcar Children, but never getting a chance to.

I remember those. They were all right, but the Hardy Boys were my real jam.

Goosebumps, I got over in about three months. The formula was very evident, and I eventually found myself just skipping to the end to find out what the obligatory twist was.

[Enigmatic Undead]

Just finished re-reading...

Babel-17
by Samuel R. Delany



Delany makes some interesting commentary on language and how it effects the way people think and act while telling an epic outer space adventure featuring a colorful full cast of characters, espionage and plenty of action. The Earth Alliance is fighting an interstellar war with the Invaders who have developed a communications weapon called Babel-17 that is responsible for multiple deadly attacks against the Alliance. Rydra Wong a starship captain, famous poet and telepath is recruited to decipher what they thought was a code but she discovers is actually a language. When her ship is sabotaged one of her crew is suspected of being an Invader spy. After witnessing an assassination her ship is again sabotaged. Her crew is saved by a privateer whose lieutenant, a man known as The Butcher may be the key to understanding Babel-17.

[GindyPosts]

I bought an old book about Mars the other day.

But I'm saving up for two reading experiences I want to enjoy next month as they come out in the middle of October. They're both wrestling based, and they are The Death of WCW: Tenth Anniversary Edition & Chris Jericho's The Best in the World At What I Have No Idea.

[saul_on_the_road_to_damascus]

I remember those. They were all right, but the Hardy Boys were my real jam.

Goosebumps, I got over in about three months. The formula was very evident, and I eventually found myself just skipping to the end to find out what the obligatory twist was.

I still have the first hundred casefiles

[heretic]

Just picked up the Mageworld novels by Debra Doyle and James MacDonald from a used-book store a while back and they are as amusing as I recall. Yes, they do start off as Star Wars with the serial numbers filed off*, but twists do start creeping in and it remains a nice read. I'm debating starting a tvtropes page on it....

As someone else put it:

(Think not-Leia marries not-Han, not-Leia is assassinated and not-Han gives the not-Millennium Falcon to their daughter to find the assassin as a kickoff point. Their older son was fostered with not-Chewy on not-Kasshykk, and their younger son is training with not-Luke on not-Tatooine.)

[Selena Musić]

I'm still reading 'The Last Wish' by Andrzej Sapkowski. It is a fantasy book. I know that there exists a video game but I have never played it.
And also I'm reading a novel 'The Stranger' from Albert Camus.

[lancerman]

Chalk me up to another person getting on the A Song of Fire and Ice train thus far it's very enjoyable. Dense with characters and content with savvy yet accessible prose.

I think I'm just going to go on a fantasy binge after this and finally get around to Tolkien.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Just started today:

The Wolf by Lorenzo Carcaterra
Organized crime declares war on international terrorism. Bad guys versus badder guys, and it's been plenty intriguing so far.

[Schroedingers Cat]

About a 3rd of the way through Redshirts by John Scalzi

Pretty decent so far. Cant tell yet if it is going to be really good or really silly by the end