What are we reading?

[BanzaiCat]

That belly could be the dad's beer gut.

[JasonPratt]

I'm now just about halfway through The Gathering Storm in The Wheel of Time...and pardon my Klingon, but holy fucking shit!!  :o 

In a loose sort of way this was Moridin's plan the whole time, which seems self-defeating but then (as subsequent books indicate) Moridin really just wants to finally die -- which doesn't make much sense of his behavior in earlier books, and seems rather retconny.  ::)

Consequently when this fails, Moridin effectively gives up for the final two books and just hopelessly marks time.

Fortunately, the real Nae'blis takes over.  >:D

[Martok]

I'm now just about halfway through The Gathering Storm in The Wheel of Time...and pardon my Klingon, but holy fucking shit!!  :o 

In a loose sort of way this was Moridin's plan the whole time, which seems self-defeating but then (as subsequent books indicate) Moridin really just wants to finally die -- which doesn't make much sense of his behavior in earlier books, and seems rather retconny.  ::)

Consequently when this fails, Moridin effectively gives up for the final two books and just hopelessly marks time.

Fortunately, the real Nae'blis takes over.  >:D

Huh?? 

What the frak are you talking about, Jason?  I was referring to Rand's using the True Power, and his subsequent killing of Semirhage and Elza... 

[airboy]

Just finished "The Golden Princess: A Novel of the Change" by S.M. Stirling. 

Good book, but this is setting up another series of novels in this universe with the 3rd generation of people.  Three trilogies, three generations.  Almost nobody from the first trilogy is still alive - and the ones who are are very old and no longer in leadership positions.

[airboy]

Just finished "Hate Mail from Cheerleaders" which is a book of Sports Illustrated columns by their human interest writer.  It was very good.

[vyshka]

Finished Streams of Silver, and The Halfling's Gem. Also finished The Cathedral and the Bazaar. I started reading The Lies of Locke Lamora and The Cryptonomicon.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

http://www.amazon.ca/The-Guns-August-Outbreak-Nonfiction-ebook/dp/B002TXZS8A/ref=zg_bs_928712_28

Such rave reviews.

[GDS_Starfury]

in a 100 years we're going to look like, in a political sense, suck fucking idiots.

[Gusington]

We do already.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

I wish we could download books to our memory while we sleep. I have so much to read I feel guilty reading about Harry Seldon leaving the university when there are serious books to be read.

[MetalDog]

You should never feel guilty about reading Asimov.  He's smarter than any two of us and his works will make you smarter just by knowing about them

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

True dat.

[Gusington]

I will always remember the first Foundation book I read. I think I read it in junior high.

[MetalDog]

I was always a fantasy reader.  Never considered Sci-fi until High School.  They offered a Sci-fi lit and a Mythology class as electives.  I took both of them.  I really enjoyed the sci-fi I read after that.  Asimov, Clarke, Pournelle and Niven.  A lot of classic stuff.

[GDS_Starfury]

I have to admit that Ive never gotten around to the Foundation series.