What novel are you reading at the moment?

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Originally Posted by asimov

Just finished reading a six book series entitled: the first & second chronicles of Thomas Covenant the unbeliever, by Steven Donaldson. This is the 3rd time I've read them over the last 15 years.

The Song of Phaid the Gambler ?? Was that one book of the series?

[Hitchhiker]

I am reading "The Last Explorer" - a biography about Hubert Wilkins - Australian WW1 photographer, pilot, and polar explorer. He was arguably the most accomplished Aussie most people have never heard of.

What a coincidence! I got this book for my birthday and just started to read it, today.

jjjnettie, love the thread and always enjoy reading your contributions to IIS.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Awww, You guys have got me cwying again.
Thanks for your support.

[RAJAH235]

Jeanette. Just going thru my old ones too... Forget most of the titles. Been so long.. good thread... L.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

These are the titles I just got from the Mobile Library that comes to our town. I haven't started any of them yet:

Tidal Rip by Joe Bluff
Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell
The Zero Game by Brad Meltzer
The Eighth Day by John Case
Black Maps by Peter Spiegelman
The Moscow Vector by Robert Ludlum

I hope they are good

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

Great thread ..jjj, I was an avid SF reader, now I tend to SCI FI DVD's.
Reading a book "Raising Boys" by steve Bidouh, I good insight into the Joys and pitfalls of raising boys to be happy well adjusted men in todays world.
Otherwise, Astro mags & Aust Geographic.

[xstream (John)]

Excellent thread Jeanette (it's a pity some can't put their idleness into more constructive past time).

I'm just finishing The Hanged Man (The life and death of Ronald Ryan) By Mike Richard.
An important read on what was probably the deciding event to bring in the abolition of execution in Victoria.

[Mikezoom]

Well I have been reading alot of "Alistar Reynolds". Have never been into space opera before this but can't get enough now. Also have my S&T and AS&T beside my bed.

Mike. B.

[lost_in_space]

I am just finishing the DaVinci Code, been reading it in conjunction with Cracking the DaVinci Code by Simon Cox to get a better handle on some of the more esoteric religious dogma's, and sort out the truth from the fiction that is present in the novel. Both are a great read.

[Harlequin]

Exile's Return by Raymond E. Feist (Book Three of the Conclave of Shadows series).

[Volans]

G'day All,

I'm very much a fantasy person when it comes to novels but I do like fictional crime as well - I have the Sherlock Holmes canon and the complete short stories of Hercule Poirot. Has anyone read the series about the ancient Roman private investigator, Marcus Didius Falco? They're a really great read!

"The Amber Legacy" by Tony Shillitoe is my current fantasy book and for once it is set in an Australian landscape. I'm only up to page 142 and it's ok..nothing scintilating yet.

I noticed that some people were getting into the Thomas Covenant series. I tried...honestly I did, but it was the names that got to me. The one I recall the most was Salt Heart Foam Follower..it was just too silly for me BUT I will say that Donaldson's "Mordant's Need" series (two books only) has been re read several times! - 3 books is called a trilogy, what are 2 books called????

Robin Hobb is an awesome author and David Gemmell is a favourite as well.

Wonderful thread this one I could rabbit on for ages but wont.
Listens for collective sigh of relief

Peter.

[Hammerman]

I'm in the middle of The DaVinci Code right now. Great bit of reading.

Hey Wavelandscott.... excellent choice on the Tom Clancy books! He's one of my all time favorites.

[Roger Davis]

Currently into "Nemesis" by Dr Bill Napier, an astronomer at Armagh Observatory. Good read, includes real formulae and real science. It also takes a poke at Bruce Willis and Deep Impact. Book is along similar lines, but with a scientists viewpoint.

[dsturnbull]

The Praxis by Walter Jon Williams.
Brilliant space opera combined with ENGINES FULL AHEAD, MR. STEVENS style combat.

[barees63]

Recently finished "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova, one of the best books I've read for a long time, part history lesson, part travelogue, part vampire novel (!). I'm currently readng "Homeward Bound" which is one of a series of alternative history novels by Harry Turtledove. I do 90% of my reading on my Palm T5 (and other Palms before that) anyone else reading e-books?

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I've been looking for a cheap Palm to come up on ebay for ages. So much more convenient than lugging around bound books. How many books can you store in yours? What format do you use?txt? I've got heaps of e-books stored on the hard drive, waiting to be read.
I've spent most of this year reading biographies on-:
John Cleese
Graham Chapman
Vivian Leigh
And re-reading my Jane Austen collection.
Emma
Persuasion
Mansfiel Park
Pride and Prejudice

[ving (David)]

gawd gee... I used to read sci/fi and fantasy religously. these days its all articles online and forums. and I, a librarian! the shock of it!!!

I do listen to talking books tho while commuting. white wolf by david gemmel is currently being read to me

[barees63]

Hi jjjnettie,

I get e-books from www.fictionwise.com which has a huge range of books, stories and magazines, everything from the latest best-sellers to literary classics (my treo cell-phone still has The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire vols 1-3 on it - amazing when you think how big those physical books are). I used to read a lot of short stories which were mostly in palm DOC format, these days I mostly read novels which are in encrypted formats (e-reader or mobipocket), the novels can cost nearly the same as the printed book but they are so much more convenient on the palm, my current palm is a T5 which has a fantastic screen for reading and can hold literally hundreds of books, before that I read many books on my Treo 270 cell-phone/palm and before that on a M515 Palm but the screens on those were not as good as newer models. I would recommend a T-series Palm because of the half VGA screen which is very nice and crisp for reading in landscape mode.

[netwolf]

Currently listening to Book6 Lord of Chaos of "The Wheel of Time Series" i have read upto book 10 starting way back when i was still at school stopping about a year back. Author is upto book 11 and i dont belive the story is finished yet.

I have also re-red David Eddings series Countless times.

I always thought i was unusual in wanting to reread books, but it seems i am not alone. I think there is just more of the story that you see perhaps empathise with as you grow up.

I previously rered the Asimov Foundation series, still finishing that off. Have sidetracked to WOT series, as book 11 is out and i wanted to refresh. I am enjoying Audiobooks, its not as fast as reading but enjoyable in its own way.

Regards

[Ziggy Stardust]

Originally Posted by asimov

Just finished reading a six book series entitled: the first & second chronicles of Thomas Covenant the unbeliever, by Steven Donaldson. This is the 3rd time I've read them over the last 15 years.

great minds think alike I see...
I read them also about 15 years back and I am re-readin them, due to the new book out in the series ( and as a old grey bugger, I have forgotten 80% of the story...lol)

I am also reading Art of War, by Sun Su. ( heavy going and is tacking months)

and light reading for fun days, is a book on poor husband's married too woman with horses!!! , next I'll get my wife the sequal which is "wives with husbands that have scopes...lol"

Tony

ps, with all the clowdy days of late.... I READ A LOT!!!! and pray for clear skies ( I'm in South Africa for a month again and it has rained for three weeks straight!!!! )