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What are you reading right now?  Is it fantasy/sci fi, or are you reading a different genre?

Non-fiction?

What book is open or bookmarked at your house right now?

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What are you reading right now?  Is it fantasy/sci fi, or are you reading a different genre?

Non-fiction?

What book is open or bookmarked at your house right now?

Re-Reading Freakonomics...Postively brilliant book written by a Economics genius with a very unique way of looking at the world around us.

Just finished Jonathan Latimer's "Solomon's Vineyard" (great crime/noir novel), started Jim Thompson's "Nothing More than Murder", I'm in a bit of a crime/detective phase right now.

Mike B.

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What are you reading right now?  Is it fantasy/sci fi, or are you reading a different genre?

Non-fiction?

What book is open or bookmarked at your house right now?

Right now I am reading Pearl Harbor by William Forstchen and Newt Gingrich. It is a good read as are their other books, specifically a Civil War based trilogy about the Confederates not being stupid and attacking the Union army at Gettysburg and what happens afterward. I would highly recommend them to anyone. I also have open of Eric Flint's 1632 books that I am half-way through.

John

I am always in the process of re-reading The Stand, by Stephen King.

I am reading An Army at Dawn, by Rick Atkinson. (US in North Africa at the start of WWII.)

My at-school reading is Conquest, by Hugh Thomas (Castillians conquer the Aztecs...an epic story with no identifiable good guys.)

The Cornelius Chronicles, by Michael Moorcock is my bedtime reading.  (I would describe this set of books as proto-cyberpunk.  Moorcock's characters seem to be decadent just for the sake of decadence. Halfway through, I have not yet managed to figure out what is going on in the first book, The Final Program...no idea.)

The best poetry book I have read lately is A Night Without Armor, by Jewel (the pop star).

Something by Zelany needs to be on my reading list soon.  Perhaps a re-read of the Amber novels, or Creatures of Darkness and Light.  I thought that Lord of Light was Zelazny's best single book.

Ah...Zelazny...
The very first D&D game I ever played in 1978 was based on his Nine Princes in Amber series. Very cool...it got me hooked on RPG's.
I have always had a fondness for the works of Zelazny and other than the Nine Princes series, my favorite of his works is a toss up between Creatures of Light and Darkness and Lord of Light.

Roadmarks is a stand-alone novel by Zelazny, circa 1978 or 1979, I think. It's just a personal favorite and definitely not one of his better-known works.

FormCritic wrote:I am always in the process of re-reading The Stand, by Stephen King.

I used to try and read The Stand once a year.  Can't do it anymore.  Instead I have been reading his novella The Mist from the Dark Forces anthology once every 18 months.  It is still my favorite work of his.

jasonw1239 wrote:I almost forgot Gordon Dickson. He is best known for his Dorsai series but he has a few other gems.
Some of my favorites are Earthman's Burden (with Poul Anderson) and Time Storm.

Also, some of Joe Haldeman's works The Forever War, All My Sins Remembered and Infinite Dreams comes immediately to mind.
I have not read much of his recent work (last 7 or 8 years).

I didn't even know Haldeman was still active.  

One of Rick Atkinson's best reads is Crusade, about Desert Storm.

jasonw1239 wrote:Joe Haldeman's "recent" works
According to the bibliography list on his Wikipedia entry:

# The Coming (2000)
# Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century (2001) - as editor
# Guardian (2002)
# Camouflage (2004)
# Old Twentieth (2005)
# War Stories (2006) - short story collection
# A Separate War (2006) - short story collection
# The Accidental Time Machine (2007)

Have you read The Accidental Time Machine?  I love time travel stories.

Thanks,
Keith