The Book Thread: What are you reading?

[Medic_wheat]

Looking to read a new steven king book. 


But which one from the 2012 and up?

[Necromancer]

The aforementioned Joyland was enjoyable and a pretty quick read, or try Wind Through the Keyhole if you've read the other Dark Tower books and want a little more.  I'm waiting for 'em on paperback, so I've not yet read Dr. Sleep or Mr. Mercedes and can't recommend 'em one way or the other.

[Medic_wheat]

The aforementioned Joyland was enjoyable and a pretty quick read, or try Wind Through the Keyhole if you've read the other Dark Tower books and want a little more.  I'm waiting for 'em on paperback, so I've not yet read Dr. Sleep or Mr. Mercedes and can't recommend 'em one way or the other.

I just finished Dr. Sleep......


Nully remindes me of the zombie "steam"/Shinning eaters......


He want's my steam!

SKEET SKEET!

[MrFlutterPie]

I just finished Girl Interrupted and am working on The Bell Jar with a side helping of Animal Farm. 

[roflmao]

I finished the Heinlein and Aspirin books and am now reading the second book in the "Bio of a Space Tyrant" series by Piers Anthony.  Pretty good stuff so far and nothing like his Xanth or Incarnations of Immortality books.  Much darker and grittier.

[majors]

Console Wars, getting ready for the movie release. Definitely an easy read...I do have disagreements with some of the "facts", but still a fun read. Brings be back to the early 90's.

PS: Totally no obey mentioned at all. Book focuses on Tom Kalinske's start with Sega and the Genesis vs SNES era.

Finish edit: Okay, so Console Wars mentions NEC twice, but never the PCE/TG-16. Just as an "other" console manufacturer.

[esteban]

There is a book thread (a superior one!), but I'll bite...I'm reading kiddie stories whilst my 10 year old is reading Divergent-Allegiance-Whatever.

A Stranger Came Upon A Shore — Mollie Hunter
(Random book from local library, totally fun, also, the only fiction I've ever read about the Shetland Islands). MY VERDICT: I enjoyed it, so I am recommending it for 10 year old girls.


Nancy Drew — Mystery of the Broken Locket
(Totally fun, and it has MUSIC PIRACY SUBPLOT! Three year old twins suffering child abuse as they are pressured to be circus performers! A haunted lake! A rising pop star whose career is about to go GLOBAL! You can't go wrong.)

Hardy Boys ("Casefiles #43") — Strategic Moves
(The COLD WAR GHOST haunts a Glasnost world in this 1990 reboot. Cliched, but OK thus far.)

Clearly, I am not reading the pinnacles of literature.

[NightWolve]

Yeah, I vote to revive the previous book thread.

[Necromancer]

There is a book thread (a superior one!), but I'll bite...I'm reading kiddie stories whilst my 10 year old is reading Divergent-Allegiance-Whatever.

I started reading through those just a couple days ago.  I'm wishing I hadn't.

[toymachine78]

About to restart the Icewind Dale Trilogy. I have several Drizzt books I need to get to. I need more time. I have a backlog of games, backlog of books....*sigh* .... I need to stop buying shit.

[NightWolve]

https://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=16535.0

Hm, in looking up the old thread, I was reminded it was about books you should read before you die, so I guess this is different enough in logging anything members have been reading. Dunno if esteban was thinking of this thread too, but that's the only one I knew of but I remembered it different.

Well, I saw Divergent very recently, does that count ? I was never much into reading books, it's hard for me to do as I hate it... I listed some of what I have managed to read in nully's linked thread though.

[VenomMacbeth]

Got a couple old books about Edgar Cayce as a gift, so I think I'll have to read through There Is A River one more time...

[PunkicCyborg]

I am not much of a book reader. I have a copy of Neuromancer though that I'd really like to find time to sit down with. I love cyberpunk themes and this is where it all started.

[Medic_wheat]

In 2003-04 I use to work at my home towns library as a book shelfer. Easy job and I honestly spent more time reading then anything. But also shelfing the sci fi and comics section made it hard to resist.

I remmeber reading some sort of ocult book about a guy whoch seemed to be in a. Series almost love craftian inspired.  It was something where he worked for a warlock or some sort of mysticalnmagical powerfull person and him being the hero was nariating his adventures looking for some lost and all powerfull book that the villan was rumored to have.

Long story short he had to keep his real name and real birth year as that knowledge holds great power in an enemies hand. He defets the bad guy finds the book only to learn it was a fake.

It was kind of short but in a compilation of other short stories involving the same guy.

I never have been able to remember much more then that but have been very interested in finding what it was or even the authors name. Any change my rambelings make seanse to someone who may know the author or book I had been reading?

[Galder]

Neuromancer -the author was a prophet