What are you reading now?

[QualityChimp]

www.bookarmy.com. I've literally just started looking at this, but seems like exactly what you're after.

Thanks Number45, you're number 1!

Got some suggestions from that site, including an author I've seen a few times, but resisting picking up. Saw one of his books for ?3 in Asda and took the plunge.

I appreciate your help, mate.

[Malc]

I picked up Stephen King's The Stand in the end. Looking forward to reading it, but first I have to finish off Masters of Doom which is a book about the history of John Romero and John Carmack and how they formed and ended their relationship at id Software.

[randombs]

Masters of Doom sounds interesting, let us know what it's like! I could've sworn I read about it in an issue of Edge way back when...

[Malc]

Masters of Doom sounds interesting, let us know what it's like! I could've sworn I read about it in an issue of Edge way back when...

I'm only about a quarter of the way through it at the moment, but it is very interesting if you are interested in id Software and how the two John's came up from bad backgrounds to form the company.

It's written in a very story like way, but what's happening really is fact. Which is strange, as I don't know how the author of the book found out all this information, but it seems accurate to what Romero was talking about recently when he was interviewed in Retro Gamer magazine.

[The Glider]

Halfway through Farlander by Col Buchanan & absolutely loving it.

I was quite tempted to buy this one...



...but considering that he'd also written...



...I decided not to.

[prinnysquad]

Carry On, Jeeves!

Problem is, I read every line in my head in the voice of Fry and Laurie. SO every line I read has their intonations and mannerisms. Heh. Good stuff though.

[Ady]

Free Fall by William Golding.

[Number45]

I've recently read Nightfall, by Stephen Leather (Which seems to be destined for franchise-dom) and I've just finished 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, which my daughter bought for me for Fathers Day (And promptly told me that she wants it when I'm done with it!).

Really enjoyed both of them. Nightfall is based around the occult, which I always find intriguing.

Just about to start The Forbidden Temple, by Patrick Woodhead.

[The Glider]

I'm halfway through Up With The Larks by Tessa Hainsworth which is about a lady from London quitting her job & moving to Cornwall & becoming a postie. And I'm also halfway through First Rule by Robert Crais which I'm struggling with at the moment.

[kryss]

Finally done with Genetics for Dummies and looking at reading either Atmosphere, Weather and Climate 8th ed - R. Barry, R. Chorley, or Paleoclimatology - Reconstructing climates of the quaternary - Raymond S. Bradley next just so I can pretend I'm smart.

[Number45]

Just about to start The Forbidden Temple, by Patrick Woodhead.

I seem to have unwittingly stumbled onto Uncharted 2 in book format.

[Eps]

So I've been a fan of Dan Abnett's comic writing for a while, and recently decided to take the plunge and read some of his Warhammer 40k novels. I generally avoid 'franchise fiction', even though in the case of WH40K there are loads of people who are only into the fiction... which should have tipped me off before, to be fair. Anyway, I just finished Titanicus and it was mint. Now I'm cracking into the Gaunt's Ghosts series. I wish I'd read these earlier.

[The Glider]

I seem to have unwittingly stumbled onto Uncharted 2 in book format.

Sounds good & my local library has it in stock. One to add to my list. I've just finished The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon which was quite a good little read.

[Synthesthesia]

Gears of War: Aspho Fields... It's quite good! Bought the second one after reading half of this.

[averybluemonkey]

So I've been a fan of Dan Abnett's comic writing for a while, and recently decided to take the plunge and read some of his Warhammer 40k novels. I generally avoid 'franchise fiction', even though in the case of WH40K there are loads of people who are only into the fiction... which should have tipped me off before, to be fair. Anyway, I just finished Titanicus and it was mint. Now I'm cracking into the Gaunt's Ghosts series. I wish I'd read these earlier.

I absolutely can't recommend his Eisenhorn series enough as well. I loved the Gaunt novels but the Eisenhorn trilogy blew me away. It focuses on the Inquisition exploring the dark recesses of the Imperial homeworlds so has less of the battlefield to it but is no less excellent and is a bit more personal than the Gaunt books.