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Shadow Adams · 2012-08-08 18:49:19

Last month, I was into reading classics. I finished *The Three Musketeers* and then *Black Beauty*.

Currently, I'm reading *Green Mars* by Kim Stanley Robinson. This will start a string of books about traveling to Mars, exploring Mars, colonizing Mars, and terraforming Mars. All this is in honor of the safe touchdown of the Curiosity Rover last Monday. I'm so excited to see what information Curiosity is going to send back for us. Here's another step in the science fiction of today becoming the science of tomorrow. Go science and engineering!

Kenan · 2012-08-09 13:16:20

Among other things I am currently reading Shadowplay (first time)

Seitherin · 2012-08-13 06:47:10

Finished the Agatha Christie and started Invisible by Lorena McCourtney.

Seitherin · 2012-08-14 09:52:53

Finished Invisible and started Matched by Ally Condie.

Kenan · 2012-08-14 10:11:49

Now also reading The Dirty Streets of Heaven

Ad1tu · 2012-08-14 10:40:25

Finished up Game of Thrones, onto Clash of Kings. Definitely enjoying the series so far! I think my favorite characters (in no particular order) are: Jon Snow, Arya Stark, Daenerys Targaryen, Tyrion Lannister, Ned Stark. Definitely subject to change at a moment's notice, the way their own alliances shift!

Seitherin · 2012-08-15 16:51:43

Finished Matched by Ally Condie. Liked it well enough that I'm going to get the other books in the series. About to start The Sun Never Rises in the Big City by Jeremy C. Shipp.

Sahi · 2012-08-17 06:15:35

On to Memories of Ice now (almost two thirds in).

Aan`allein · 2012-08-17 06:28:24

I'm currently reading Ken MacLeod's Intrusion. Nine pages in, I already had to give the book a rest for a couple of hours because I was getting too worked up. It's very much science fiction in the situation is describes, but (as with most good science fiction), the themes and attitudes are very much about the here and now; the complete intrusion of the nanny state into people's private lives, and the ever increasing erosion of privacy. I'm taking this book into very small doses, and so haven't read much, but if it keeps up from this beginning, I think we've found the next 1984. Extremely powerful writing!

Seitherin · 2012-08-17 13:21:52

Finished the Shipp which I didn't care for and started The Colored Lens: Summer 2012. That's a collection of short stories. Liked the first one about putting ghosts to work.

Seitherin · 2012-08-18 08:41:39

Finished The Colored Lens: Summer 2012. Interesting stories. About to start Crossed by Ally Condie. Still working on Leon Uris' Exodus. (That's my 'read for an hour before I go to sleep' book.)

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Kenan · 2012-08-20 13:20:48

Moving up from Shadowplay to Shadowrise. Second book was a lot better than the first... I realise this might be because of the peculiar way the story came about originally. Anyway, at some point it felt like I was being besieged by an army of queer creatures... funderlings, rooftoppers, and all crazy things beyond the shadowline. It took a while to come to terms with all this. Also, the tinwright/elan story doesn't add anything to the story so far, it feels entirely disconnected. But I assume it will become somewhat important soon or late. Still, it's an unexplained thread throughout the book, and that's dragging things down a bit.

MaxHallam · 2012-08-20 13:52:34

I'm just rereading MS&T. Might reread Otherland afterwards.

ylvs · 2012-08-20 14:23:19

Welcome to the boards MaxHallram!

I'd never stop anyone from rerading Otherland but I strongly suggest to read Tad's new novel
The Dirty Streets Of Heaven first.
It'll be out on september 4 th.
Great book, trust me!

MaxHallam · 2012-08-20 14:26:43

Yes, I saw the advert for it.

Looks good, I'll probably have to buy it.

ylvs · 2012-08-20 14:30:41

Typing this prevents me from my first reread.

*runs out to read on*

Sahi · 2012-08-21 11:14:17

I've just started House of Chains, the fourth book of the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Erikson.

Seitherin · 2012-08-23 11:13:38

Finished Crossed by Ally Condie. Didn't like it as much as the first book. Started The Last Stormlord by Glenda Larke. Still working on Exodus by Leon Uris.

Seitherin · 2012-08-24 10:46:53

Finished Exodus late last night. My new 'read before I sleep' book is Tolkien's The Silmarillion.

Rook · 2012-08-27 10:12:04

Went on a book binge this weekend. I blame it on The Hunger Games. My wife was dying to know what happened next after watching the movie. At the same time, though, I got into a series I've always wanted to try all year: Kim Stanley Robinson Mars Trilogy. I'm about 1/4th through Red Mars right now, and I'm loving it. I guess all my years in engineering now have made me more appreciative of the very methodical approach Robinson takes, examining --- step by step --- how a Martian colonization would go. It's very old school sci-fi, but I'm very happy that there's a more modern writer trying out the hard science approach.

Rook · 2012-08-27 10:13:48

Shadow Adams wrote:
Last month, I was into reading classics. I finished *The Three Musketeers* and then *Black Beauty*.

Currently, I'm reading *Green Mars* by Kim Stanley Robinson. This will start a string of books about traveling to Mars, exploring Mars, colonizing Mars, and terraforming Mars. All this is in honor of the safe touchdown of the Curiosity Rover last Monday. I'm so excited to see what information Curiosity is going to send back for us. Here's another step in the science fiction of today becoming the science of tomorrow. Go science and engineering!

Hey, me too! High five!

I thought Red Mars was the beginning of the series, though?

Seitherin · 2012-08-30 08:40:23

Finished The Last Stormlord and started Stormlord Rising.

Seitherin · 2012-09-03 08:23:38

Finished Stormlord Rising and about half done with Stormlord's Exile.

Seitherin · 2012-09-03 18:00:59

Finished Glenda Larke's Stormlord's Exile. The series overall, bleh. Started Jemisin's The Killing Moon.

Kenan · 2012-09-04 12:19:49

I finished The Dirty Streets of Heaven some days ago.
And today I finished Shadowrise and started on Shadowheart. It's getting more and more interesting!

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