Books - What Are You Reading / What Do You Recommend?

[Circuits]

just finished the first five books of "The Expanse" by James S.A. Correy, "Wacht am Rhein" by John Ringo and started "The Physics of Stargates" by Enrico Rodrigo.

Expanse books are good space opera.

[Brian]

just finished the first five books of "The Expanse" by James S.A. Correy, "Wacht am Rhein" by John Ringo and started "The Physics of Stargates" by Enrico Rodrigo.

Expanse books are good space opera.

I just started book 3, and agree they are very good so far. Was surprised to find that Corey is a pen name for two guys - one of whom is George R.R. Martin's (yes, from Game of Thrones) assistant. They each write a handful of the chapters, which are written from different characters' perspectives.

And dang yes - the martian is extremely good, if you're at all nerdy. Started reading it after dinner one night and finished it before bed it was that good. I also lost an hour or two watching interviews with the author - the story of how he wrote it and got it published was pretty amazing. Adam from Mythbusters did a good interview or two with him.

Guess I got on a space theme this month or something.

[McRib]

I'm re-reading the first two books of The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss. If you like fantasy, this is must-read stuff.

After that's done, I'll be reading The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker.

[blacklabel]

I saw that as well. I'm going to hold off on downloading it though. I need to get some stuff done today and if I buy it now, I'll binge read it.

[buffalobo]

I saw that as well. I'm going to hold off on downloading it though. I need to get some stuff done today and if I buy it now, I'll binge read it.

Disadvantage of having the product at your finger tips. It used to take me 2-3 weeks to actually make it to the store to get a new release. Now I get emails telling me a week ahead of time and offering to let me order it early.

1st world problems.

[Duman]

Just finished "Sandstorm" by James Rollins. It's interesting, some different twists and turns, but really needed more editing. Also it would have helped to be a complete moron about physics, chemistry, and science in general. He got a lot of really basic stuff wrong.

Overall it's an ok read, I'll try the next one in the series.

[Brian]

Read the first two Joe Nobody books not too long ago (the Bishop / Holding their Own series) because my wife had bought the kindle books. But the next books in the series don't seem to ever go on sale. Not sure I'm up for another $80 in ebooks.

Amazon says Forstchen's sequel to One Second After - "One Year After" is coming out in 2 weeks. Somewhere I think I knew he was writing a sequel, but it was a surprise to see the reminder.

[Brian]

Side note, anybody use goodreads.com? I've been getting ads from them forever and had just thought it was a book store. I didn't realize it tracked books you had read and suggested other books you might like. I think I'm going to like it. Not sure if I want to be sharing with friends/family though which is one of the options that people seem to like. Would be nice to see what some of my friends are reading though - I wonder if you have to share to see...

[Irving]

I mentioned that site a few years ago. After painstakingly trying to remember every book I ever read up through college and making a list, I found that site and saw how much easier using that site was. Doh.

[hurley842002]

Not much of a book reader myself, but just finished Misery. Could hardly put the thing down. Now to watch the movie again (which I haven't seen in a long time), as I'm certain there are some significant differences that I recall.