What are you reading?

[Ymir's blood]

Just read the first Corum series by Michael Moorcock. (Book one on Monday. Two and three read yesterday.)

Probably back to the Mammoth haunted house book next.

[SharonDee]

I'm rereading Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.

Next up, it's time for reading about the new database we'll be using at work:

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Ymir's blood

Just read the first Corum series by Michael Moorcock. (Book one on Monday. Two and three read yesterday.)

Books were pretty short in those days, weren't they?

[Ymir's blood]

Originally Posted by JoeP

Books were pretty short in those days, weren't they?

Yeah, most fantasy and sci fi books of the time were short. I just realized I've got the last three books, bound into one volume. It's the same size as a shorter modern novel.

Shorter stories are my preference anyway. Little cools my interest in a work more than discovering that it's a trilogy (or more) of doorstoppers.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Ymir's blood

Little cools my interest in a work more than discovering that it's a trilogy (or more) of doorstoppers.

[Wonderbread Leotard]

Getting started rereading James Michener's Caribbean.

Current research reading list:

Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare Theory and Practice by William H. McRaven (re-read)

Adult Sexual Attraction to Early-Stage Adolescents: Phallometry Doesn’t Equal Pathology
Archives of Sexual Behavior
by Thomas Zander

Should Hebephilia be a Mental Disorder? A Reply to Blanchard et al. (2008)
Archives of Sexual Behavior
by Gregory Declue

Manufacturing Mental Disorder by Pathologizing Erotic Age Orientation: A Comment on Blanchard et al. (2008)
Archives of Sexual Behavior
by Philip Tromovitch

Are There “Hebephiles” Among Us? A Response to Blanchard et al. (2008)
Archives of Sexual Behavior
by Joseph Plaud

The Public Policy Implications of “Hebephilia”: A Response to Blanchard et al. (2008)
Archives of Sexual Behavior
by Karen Franklin

[wildernesse]

Finally finished Theodore Rex. New book: When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

I got that for my mom for Christmas! We only recently found out that we both like the show. She's even been to one of the featured diners (before it was featured).

Y'all need to watch that show where the chef has 5 hours to have a gourmet-type dinner ready.

.. Oh! Dinner: Impossible.

[wildernesse]

Laughed yesterday.

Today is: A Handmade Life: In Search for Simplicity by William Coperthwaithe. So far, very enjoyable.

[Watser?]

I started on those comics Farren send me, the Sandman by Neil Gaiman. Now reading the 2nd one: The Dollhouse. Great stuff

[Ymir's blood]

999: Twenty-nine Original Tales of Horror and Suspense

Came out in 1999 and there's a bit of millennial stuff, always amusing 10 years down the line. Needs moar zombies and monsters though.

[Crumb]

[Demimonde]

^ I really enjoyed that one.

I am reading:

[SharonDee]

Originally Posted by pescifish

Oh yeah, for those who hated on the tween popular Twilight series just on principal (or otherwise), I can recommend Stephanie Meyer's latest book. It's a straight science fiction novel, with a decent premise and thought provoking characters.

Thanks for this recommendation, fish-fish. I spent my gift card from B&N on this book and was not disappointed.

Maybe I should try her vampire crap now. I dunno, though. Anne Rice ruined me on vampires forevermore, I fear.

[livius drusus]

Originally Posted by Demimonde

I am reading:

Great book. Mystical cooking prowess is one of my favorite themes, which is why I love this movie despite its sucking in many ways.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Originally Posted by SharonDee

Thanks for this recommendation, fish-fish. I spent my gift card from B&N on this book and was not disappointed.

Maybe I should try her vampire crap now. I dunno, though. Anne Rice ruined me on vampires forevermore, I fear.

It's crap, but addictive crap.

[Shelli]

I just finished reading Cell by Stephen King.

All in all, it sucked. It got better toward the end and promised an orgasmic climax, but then didn't deliver.

And here I thought that Stephen King was different from other guys.

[ceptimus]

I'm reading The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père on my Sony Reader.

I'm also reading some computer books:

[Watser?]

Recently I read:



which was pretteh good, an anthology of post-cyberpunk stories

and the humongous book Farren sent me, this one:



which was pretteh weird and good, an alternate history of the Earth with all of Europe dead after the Plague in the 14th century.

and now I am reading this:



which is the story of a boy who grows up in the US but his parents are Czech immigrants who were somehow involved in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, one of Hitler's top henchmen who was in charge of Bohemia and Moravia (now the Czech Republic) during the war. It is pretty fascinating.

[Ymir's blood]

The Moon Pool by A. Merritt. Written in 1919 and published originally in the pulps. Had to look at the date when it started talking about the War.

[SharonDee]

Originally Posted by SharonDee

Next up, it's time for reading about the new database we'll be using at work:

Still reading this. Ugh. Dull, dull, dull ... How did I ever learn about computers back in the day when I'm this stupid?

[wildernesse]

I'm reading The Wisdom of Birds by Tim Birkhead, which is a history of ornithology. (February is National Bird Feeding month, or so my library has led me to believe.) It's pretty good.

Also, The Gentle Art of Domesticity by Jane Brocket. It is fun to look through.

[ms_ann_thrope]

I just started A Concise History of the Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes, because it recently occurred to me that I don't know anything about the subject beyond a few key dates and names. Not sure why I suddenly decided to begin to correct this knowledge deficit, though...

[Caligulette]

Pipes is a hack. I recommend Trotsky's Revolution Betrayed.

I am reading a delightful 1908 edition of Capital.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Reading the True Blood books.

I like Sookie Stackhouse so much more than Bella Swan.