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I did a thread a couple of months ago about our favorite sci-fi authors. It was popular but had a finite length - I have since discovered Lev.
Now I open the floor.
What are you reading in print (that's not a magazine, newspaper or periodical)? Fiction or Non-fictoin it doesn't matter. If you can @ least give an amazon/barnes&co. etc. or an online ref. (Guttenberg etc.).
"Who Killed Leigh Leigh?" - Kerry Carrington in 1 dunny.
Dr. Futurity By Philip K. Dick beside my bed.
A book of short stories by Azimov in the other dunny - can't remember & the girls are both asleep down that end of the house so I can't check.
I'm also re-reading the Apprentice Adept series by Piers Anthony @ bedtime atm.
For uni I'm going thru -
Linux Programming: A Beginner's Guide & Sams Teach Yourself C for Linux Programming in 21 Days as refreshers.

I'm reading dan brown - the lost symbol at the moment. I don't recommend it. In fact it's quite annoying me - it's not quite bad enough to throw out, yet it's taking time I could have spent reading something really good.

A while back I read Yann Martel's Life of Pi. That was a seriously good book.. fascinating story, lots of depth, and a pretty shocking twist. It left me with plenty to think about, a sure sign of a good book. In fact I think I'll re-read it soon, it's the kind of book where you get more from it the second time through.

Another good one: Ken Follett, Pillars of the Earth.

well who reads these days -_-

The people who make the stuff that keeps the rest of the population enslaved infront of their TVs and game consoles, that's who.

well did "you" make any stuff rather that demos ?

than*

I tend to read Bret Easton Ellis novels and for trashy stuff I pick Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels. Or is that offtopic literature?

panic: not tv or games, I do make software though.

I would like to recommend all books by David Mitchell (for example: Cloud Atlas) and of course Haruki Murakami (for example: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle).

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon is also great :)

Loved it to - a really enjoyable read.

Charles Stross - Halting State

Just finished 1984 (Orwell). Next up is either The Gun Seller (Laurie), a huge brick about financial crises during the history or a book on audio mixing.

Bruce Artwick's Applied Concepts in Microcomputer Graphics

recently finished the complete works of frank herbert.
Hell's Angels, Trainspotting, and Porno are next on my list.

Been reading c++0x standard recently :p
And need to find time to read more cell b/e stuff.

The Arthur C. Clarke 1 was "The Other Side of the Sky" & I forgot "Travelling Tales" by Charles Wooley

Shuffle: did you find herbert's "White plague"? I loved that one.

^ I remember arguing with some chick @ uni about it 'cause she thought it was sexist. The argument ended when I asked her (having heard nothing but a lot of pseudo-feminist drivel) "Have you actually read the book?"
"Umm, no, but .."
"Fuck off you ignorant bint."

"It's about this guy who kills almost all the women in the world, and the ones who are left are kept for research and breeding"... you can kind of see where she got that idea ;)

But yeah, dissing something without seeing for yourself first = retarded. And a quick read of the book would reveal it's the men that get all the bad press, the women are simply victims. I can just imagine what she'd say if she had read it: "See, I told you so, look what happens if the men are in control!" or some crap like that :D

@psonice

I found The Lost Symbol pretty entertaining.

I'm now reading:

John Connolly - White Road.

http://www.johnconnollybooks.com/novels_wr.php

If i wake up early tomorrow, ill head for the library to find a sci-fi book...

Diesel/Gerten - Looking for Europe

Charles Stross is amazing. I recommend Accelerando and later to original from Ray Kurzweil.

Right now, I am reading Daemon by Daniel Suarez. Light but quite entertaining and good to relax from work.

On the topic of Herbert i actually just read the dune 7 books ("hunters of dune" and "sandworms of dune") since i was curious about the "end". Initially sceptical of the whole concept of someone else finishing the books i can't say it was all too crappy eventhough i felt that the books missed some of the creativity that made original 6 books by Frank good.

Mouse Guard: Fall 1152
Mouse Guard: Winter 1152
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard

Mice Templar volume 1: the Prophecy
Mice Templar volume 2.1: Destiny part 1
Mice Templar volume 2.2: Destiny part 2

The Complete Nemesis the Warlock volume 1
The Complete Nemesis the Warlock volume 2

^ The last stuff I read. All awesome. Comic books count, right?

Finished in the last three weeks or so (not counting re-reads):
Halting State, Charles Stross (immediately afterward, recommended to Garg, hee, amused to see him mention it)
Toast, Charles Stross
Engineering Infinity, various authors (hard sf collection)
Crysis: Legion, by Peter Watts

Currently reading:
At the End of the Twentieth Century, John M. Ford
From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain, by Minister Faust

Highly recommended that comes to mind instantaneously:
Blindsight, Peter Watts
Software, Rudy Rucker
Lady of Mazes, Karl Schroeder
Among Others, Jo Walton

Vernor Vinge is kinda dated, but interesting. Haven't managed to finish anything other than Rainbows End.

I do read stuff other than sf/genre also. Can't think of any right now, but lots of history, and random articles.

Then again, I'm out of touch with my own habits enough that I don't think of myself as a Stross fan, although I've devoured six or eight of his books in the past 12 months. He kinda snuck up on me. *wry*