What are you reading right now?

bob. · 04-26-2012, 04:41 AM

i am obviously not up on current events

**Yac** · 04-27-2012, 05:50 AM

I've finished the 1st book, it's great so far. Unfortunately I don't think it has been translated so unless you read Polish, it might be a challenge

The story takes place in a world similar, yet significantly different from ours. North of Europe has never been Christianized and the last 1000 or so years were full of crusades and religious wars, as Scandinavian countries never abandoned their beliefs, if anything they consolidated them under Christian pressure.
Now it's 1940 and one Jeremy Baldwin, a British journalist sent by the London Times to Sudan to write about a religious uprising of muslims against the British that is taking place there. While at it, he discovers traces of a much bigger plot, one that takes him (so far) to some Scandinavian colonies, the UK and Ireland. Book one ends just days before the **** hits the fan, I can't really tell how it will end

Especially since the plot twists really surprised me.
All in all I was expecting something rather silly but pleasant, got a legitimate novel that is both entertaining and often surprising.

Flyingpig437 · 04-30-2012, 10:06 AM

Finished Galactic pot-healer. Just totally lost track of wtf was going on. Something about a gigantic slime creature recruiting a loada specialista to help sort out some **** on a planet he'd approriated from a dead cathedral that he had to fight the ghost of which led the titular pot-healer to a new career path.
Starting to read Motty:40 yrs. in the commentary box now. Before going bak into another P.K.Dick later on in the week.

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 04-30-2012, 09:10 PM

just started this

wanderluster · 04-30-2012, 10:07 PM

Great Expectations which, ironically, has not lived up to my expecations. It's just blah.....Nevertheless, I've got Emma by Jane Austen next in line to read.

Sodacake · 05-01-2012, 06:11 PM

Currently reading We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and The Murder Exchange by Simon Kernick.

Flyingpig437 · 05-02-2012, 12:31 PM

After a couple of dud PKdick novels I've started Our friends from Frolix 8 and its shaping up to be a ****in cracker.

RVCA · 05-03-2012, 12:21 AM

^ I'm reading Scanner Darkly as we speak! I particularly liked this bit, as I'm from Anaheim.

Quote:

In Southern California it didn't make any difference anyhow where you went; there was always the same McDonaldburger place over and over, like a circular strip that turned past you as you pretended to go somewhere. And when finally you got hungry and went to the McDonaldburger place and bought a McDonald's hamburger, it was the one they sold you last time and the time before that and so forth, back to before you were born, and in addition bad people -- liars -- said it was made out of turkey gizzards anyhow.

They had by now, according to their sign, sold the same original burger fifty billion times. He wondered if it was to the same person. Life in Anaheim, California, was a commercial for itself, endlessly replayed. Nothing changed; it just spread out farther and farther in the form of neon ooze. What there was always more of had been congealed into permanence long ago, as if the automatic factory that cranked out these objects had jammed in the on position. How the land became plastic, he thought, remembering the fairy tale "How the Sea Became Salt." Someday, he thought, it'll be mandatory that we all sell the McDonald's hamburger as well as buy it; we'll sell it back and forth to each other forever from our living rooms. That way we won't even have to go outside.

debaserr · 05-03-2012, 12:30 AM

Imagine - Jonah Lehrer

This has been really interesting. For a better description than I can provide: Click

bob. · 05-03-2012, 05:54 PM

i finished The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets nest last night....and i have got to say that as a series these books are great

just due to the responses here and from a couple of friends i have decided to start The Game Of thrones series

04-26-2012, 04:41 AM	#4061 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	i am obviously not up on current events __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

04-30-2012, 10:06 AM	#4063 (permalink)
Flyingpig437 Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 534	Finished Galactic pot-healer. Just totally lost track of wtf was going on. Something about a gigantic slime creature recruiting a loada specialista to help sort out some **** on a planet he'd approriated from a dead cathedral that he had to fight the ghost of which led the titular pot-healer to a new career path. Starting to read Motty:40 yrs. in the commentary box now. Before going bak into another P.K.Dick later on in the week. __________________ Proper music for proper people!!!

05-02-2012, 12:31 PM	#4067 (permalink)
Flyingpig437 Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 534	After a couple of dud PKdick novels I've started Our friends from Frolix 8 and its shaping up to be a ****in cracker. __________________ Proper music for proper people!!!

05-03-2012, 12:30 AM	#4069 (permalink)
debaserr eat the masters Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 5,467	Imagine - Jonah Lehrer This has been really interesting. For a better description than I can provide: Click __________________ Last.FM

05-03-2012, 05:54 PM	#4070 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	i finished The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets nest last night....and i have got to say that as a series these books are great just due to the responses here and from a couple of friends i have decided to start The Game Of thrones series __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

04-27-2012, 05:50 AM	#4062 (permalink)
Yac Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: It's a secret too. Posts: 1,363	I've finished the 1st book, it's great so far. Unfortunately I don't think it has been translated so unless you read Polish, it might be a challenge The story takes place in a world similar, yet significantly different from ours. North of Europe has never been Christianized and the last 1000 or so years were full of crusades and religious wars, as Scandinavian countries never abandoned their beliefs, if anything they consolidated them under Christian pressure. Now it's 1940 and one Jeremy Baldwin, a British journalist sent by the London Times to Sudan to write about a religious uprising of muslims against the British that is taking place there. While at it, he discovers traces of a much bigger plot, one that takes him (so far) to some Scandinavian colonies, the UK and Ireland. Book one ends just days before the **** hits the fan, I can't really tell how it will end Especially since the plot twists really surprised me. All in all I was expecting something rather silly but pleasant, got a legitimate novel that is both entertaining and often surprising.

04-30-2012, 09:10 PM	#4064 (permalink)
~~Sansa Stark~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Eyrie, Vale of Arryn, Westeros Posts: 3,234	just started this

04-30-2012, 10:07 PM	#4065 (permalink)
wanderluster Groupie Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: In the Clouds Posts: 6	Great Expectations which, ironically, has not lived up to my expecations. It's just blah.....Nevertheless, I've got Emma by Jane Austen next in line to read.

05-01-2012, 06:11 PM	#4066 (permalink)
Sodacake Music Addict Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 344	Currently reading We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and The Murder Exchange by Simon Kernick.