Whatcha Readin'?

[Ellyria]

Slight derail...

 

I've been blessed with nieces and nephews from tiny to teenager who all love books, and I want to keep building up their collections with the awesome things from our generation's childhood.

 

Anyone remember their favorite Shel Silverstein and/or Dr. Seuss?

 

For the little one, I've got: http://www.amazon.com/Mouse-Cookies-More-Treasury-Give/dp/0061137634/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

 

For her parents: http://www.amazon.com/Go-F-Sleep-Adam-Mansbach/dp/1617750255/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

 

The older one: Dragonlance, Ender's Game, The Stinky Cheese Man - just for fun... :)

[ShadowRaven]

I don't recall any Shel Silverstein from my youth, and I never read much of Dr. Seuss, never cared for the pictures. Berenstain Bears and Richard Scary on the other hand, I loved to death, than as I got somewhat older, and grasped puns a bit better, the tales of Asterix

[Ellyria]

Berenstain Bears!!!

[ShadowRaven]

exactly

[Nocturne]

Mentioning children's books has annoyed me as when I was young I had a fantasy novel that I've been trying to find again but can never remember the title of and searching for it has come up with nothing. It was about a boy who gets cursed and starts turning into gold and goes on an adventure to find a cure. I think he was cursed whilst rescuing a girl from a castle by something like a cockatrice.

The only part I can remember well is that he had a perfect memory, someone asks him what his earliest memory is and he tells them he's not sure, but he can remember darkness, then a bright light and someone smacked him.

[Email2085]

At work whenever downtime allows it I'm normally reading selections of my Discworld collection, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor, or something from Ben Thompson's Badass series. In my car I keep most of my Dresden Files novels. Right now I'm rereading Terry Pratchett's Snuff for the umpteenth time.

[ShadowRaven]

re-reading "Exiles Honor" by Mercedes Lackey,for the umpteenth time

[CaptainPete]

I'm now re-reading In Retrospect by former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. My father, a vet, gave me a copy of the book several years ago and I find relevant things in it every time I read it.

[dwarvenranger]

Just finished The Companions by RA Salvatore. Also just finished re-reading the Elminister's Ecology's series. Next is The Fate of the Dwarves by Markus Heitz and Hope of the Wicked by Ted Flynn.

[Loim]

I was thumbing through my Kindle last night, and I thought I would throw out a couple of titles. For anyone who is a fan of the superhero genre I recommend the following: Confessions of a D-List Supervillain, Ex-Heroes, In Hero Years I'm Dead.

 

I also stumbled across another jewel from a while back. Michael Stackpole's Talion Revenant.

 

Cheers.

[Orlando_the_Technicoloured]

what a lot of great suggestions (and what a lot I have on my many, many bookshelves)

 

I'm thinking of starting a major binge on Melissa Scott books,

 

beginning with The Armour of Light,

 

followed by her collaborations with Lissa A Barnett Point of Dreams, Point of Hopes and Point of Knives (which I've not read yet)

 

Then maybe dip back into my Jo Clayton collection (so many fabulous stories from another author who died too soon)

[wildbill]

I read the entire Dwarves series by Markus Heitz. What a great series. I was sad to see it end, with the subject matter being so perfect and everything.

[Baugi]

I know there's an older thread floating around somewhere, but I had some difficulty finding it, so here we go!

 

What's your current favourite?

 

I'm just starting The Republic of Thieves, the long-awaited third book in Scott Lynch's brilliant Gentlemen Bastards sequence. I enthusiastically recommend these to everyone I know!

[CashWiley]

First three Black Company books, Erikson's Malazan series, Lovecraft.

 

For lighter reading I go to Modesitt. He's a bit hit or miss and quite formulaic, but I like the formula. His current standalone scifi The One-Eyed Man is pretty good and it looks like he's finally getting back to the Recluse saga.

[Pingo]

I just finished "T. Rex and the Crater of Doom" by Walter Alvarez, a galloping and lively account of what killed the dinosaurs and how long it took for them all to die (Spoiler: a ginormous meteor or comet hitting the Yucatan peninsula and maybe a week, maybe a few years, insanely fast in geological time anyhow), and how geologists, paleontologists, and astronomers worked together to piece out the puzzle.

 

I have loved dinosaurs since I was a kid.

 

(... There is a 3-meter layer of sandy fossil-wood-shard rock in Mexico that evidence suggests was laid down in a single day. Yow.)