What book did you just buy?

[Teger]

Originally Posted by Khorum

I loved The Difference Engine. That's the book that got me hooked on steampunk oh so long ago.

I just finished this and I thought it was 'ok'. I thought the atmosphere of the book was really interesting, but two things really bothered me: one, how they had to include famous people form the period who are now doing whacky new crazy things (Marx, Darwin), and the different sections seemed really obviously written by the two different authors.

[Aedosen]

Bought these today.

Jared Diamond:
-The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
-Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
-Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

And finally: Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson

[Cathan]

Cleric Quintent by R.A. Salvatore, it's ok so far. 5 books in 1 big paperback w/ large print is easy on my eyes. It's not as good as anything with Drizzt so far but I always enjoy Salvatore's work and he doesn't have another book in the Drizzt series out until Oct : /.

[Nehrak]

*just bought the entirety of David Eddings' The Dreamers, as well as Gardens of the Moon and Deadhouse Gates*

I should be busy for a few weeks.

[Xakk]

Just bought:

The Republic
The Aeneid
Candide and La Pucelle
Metamorphoses
A collection of essays by Michel de Montaigne

classics were 50% off at borders.

[Teger]

Snow Crash
Collected works of Arthur Miller

[Dalerone]

Just got

Jhegaala by Steven Brust

Im a huge Vlad Talos fan and I enjoyed it. Next Im still reading A Fire in the North by Bilsborough

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Generation Kill
Riddlemaster
World War Z

[Homercles]

I read "Stealing Light" by Gary Gibson while travelling the skies. Sloppy ending and two dimensional characters made it annoying, with a lot of interesting characters/races brought up but not explored while he tried to play space opera. Interesting premise though.

Evidence of a sloppy rushed ending is this quote from near the end of the book:

Person1 reached out almost lovingly and cradled the surprised man's face in his hands.
'I hope it is Person2. But it may not be.'
He broke Person2's neck with a sudden, swift twist. Person2 didn't even have time to look surprised.

[Rorek]

Just snatched up Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk. Looking forward to this read.

[Thorpe]

Jurassic Park: Michael Crichton: Books

The Lost World: Michael Crichton: Books

[matmanx2]

Just finished "Matter" by Iain Banks which of course is a "Culture" novel. I'd never even heard of him or the Culture series until my wife brought it home for me. Total chance encounter but I ended up liking it pretty well although it took awhile to get off the ground.

Just bought: In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker. Heard alot of good things about "The Company" series of novels and I am currently reading "The Anvil of the World" which is also by Kage Baker but not in "The Company" series. Very much enjoying her writing style so far.

[DoctorSpooge]

Originally Posted by matmanx2

Just finished "Matter" by Iain Banks which of course is a "Culture" novel. I'd never even heard of him or the Culture series until my wife brought it home for me. Total chance encounter but I ended up liking it pretty well although it took awhile to get off the ground.

I just finished The Player of Games, Culture book #2 (in terms of publication date.) It was quite good, and far better than Consider Phlebas, the preceding book. I'm just going by hearsay here -- I've yet to read Matter -- but it's apparently one of the weaker books. Use of Weapons comes out in a couple days (hell, maybe it's already out!) and I'll be picking that up.

[Hal2005]

Two books I'm throwing out there (nice forum btw) which are good summer reading:

Kissinger's 'Does America need a foreign policy' has been pretty interesting in lieu of Obama's recent dialogues in europe.

Bookstabber's 'A demon of our own design', which is the tale of a quant jock / risk manager during the apocalyptic times of 1980.

[Aria]

Just bought the leatherbound Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guides. Comes with the books and one story in one. Really great book.