Books: What have you been reading?

**MajorHoy** · 02-15-2018, 08:19 AM

Started reading Tales of the Red Panda: The Android Assassins.

**Martini Sigil** · 02-15-2018, 03:56 PM

I just started the Grail Quest series --book 1, the Archer's Tale-- by Bernard Cornwell... I read the entire Saxon Series (AKA The Last Kingdom series) and really liked it... So I'm optimistic about this...

on the Graphic Novel front, Having just finished Locke & Key trade paperback #1... I'm starting Crossed by Garth Ennis

**The Darknight Detective** · 02-16-2018, 01:53 PM

Sometime tomorrow on my Kindle, I'll begin the short story Hunter Quatermain's Story (1887) by H. Rider Haggard and then American Institutions and Their Influence (1851) by Alexis de Tocqueville.

**MajorHoy** · 02-18-2018, 10:38 AM

Started re-reading The Avenger #3: The Sky Walker by "Kenneth Robeson".

First read this book back in the early-to-mid-1970s when I originally bought it, though the image isn't my own personal copy.
(Mine does look like that, though, with the same cover-price: 75¢.
(Those were the days!)

**Enigma** · 02-19-2018, 03:00 PM

I'm really enjoying some good ol' Sherlock. These Macmillan classic pocket HCs are beautiful.

**The Darknight Detective** · 02-19-2018, 03:07 PM

Sometime tomorrow, I'll begin reading Casey Stengel: Baseball's Greatest Character (2017) by Marty Appel.

**Vegan Daddy** · 02-19-2018, 03:33 PM

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

**The Darknight Detective** · 02-19-2018, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by Vegan Daddy

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

I completed the whole series about ten years ago after I spotted it referenced in Stephen King's Danse Macabre. One of the best things I ever read.

**Elmo** · 02-19-2018, 03:55 PM

I need some good sci fi/space pulpy that is considered good literature

good grammar/vocabulary etc

very engrossing

not too long

any suggestions?

**The Darknight Detective** · 02-19-2018, 04:01 PM

Originally Posted by Elmo

I need some good sci fi/space pulpy that is considered good literature

good grammar/vocabulary etc

any suggestions?

Early Bradbury, Heinlein and Asimov for starters.

**Elmo** · 02-19-2018, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by The Darknight Detective

Early Bradbury, Heinlein and Asimov for starters.

I've read all of them haha. I'm looking for something maybe a little more obscure.

But I find that there is always some Asimov or Heinlein I haven't read yet. I found Friday at the library a couple months ago and loved it.

**The Darknight Detective** · 02-19-2018, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by Elmo

I've read all of them haha. I'm looking for something maybe a little more obscure.

But I find that there is always some Asimov or Heinlein I haven't read yet. I found Friday at the library a couple months ago and loved it.

How about L. Sprague de Camp, C.L. Moore, and Doc Smith?

**Elmo** · 02-20-2018, 01:39 AM

Originally Posted by The Darknight Detective

How about L. Sprague de Camp, C.L. Moore, and Doc Smith?

I'll check 'em out, any books in particular you'd recommend?

**The Darknight Detective** · 02-20-2018, 06:23 AM

Originally Posted by Elmo

I'll check 'em out, any books in particular you'd recommend?

I liked both The Best of L. Sprague de Camp and The Best of C.L. Moore quite a lot (I never read a book of Doc Smith, only short stories here and there).

**Deathstroke** · 02-20-2018, 04:48 PM

I finished the Aimee Hix mystery novel "What Doesn't Kill You".

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