What are we reading?

[airboy]

The entire Airboy & Skywolf comic run from the 1980s to early 1990s has been collected into 3 large paperback graphic novels.  I've received the first one and ordered the last 2.  Quality on Volume 1 was excellent.

See: http://www.amazon.com/Airboy-Archives-1-Timothy-Truman/dp/1613779003/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1437359270&sr=1-1&keywords=airboy&pebp=1437359270711&perid=1K0784Q8YX27P7C30VPD

[bayonetbrant]

O0

[Ubercat]

Just started Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. It's the first of a trilogy that my best friend liked very much and I've inherited them all from him. I can't figure out yet if the setting is far future earth or an alien planet. It takes place in a large, ancient city and there are many races. So far the non human ones seem to be Earth animal species uplifted to sentience.

[vyshka]

This weekend I read Ernest Cline's new book Armada.

[Bison]

I caught up on about 10 back issues of Detective Comics.  It's really the best of all the Batman series in print.

[airboy]

I have just about finished (audio) "How to Survive a Horror Movie"
http://www.amazon.com/Survive-Horror-Movie-Seth-Grahame-Smith/dp/1594741794/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1437498694&sr=8-1&keywords=how+to+survive+a+horror+movie

My wife watches these movies (I have seen very few).  All of the advice was "dead on."  It is very funny.

For example - the most deadly sin in a horror movie is disbelief.  If you disbelieve that you are in the horror movie you will suffer certain death.
Another example - you are in an evil house.  The room reverses gravity.  How to escape?  Simple - sing the horrid Lionel Richie song "Dancing on the Ceiling" and enthusiastically prance around.  The evil house will throw up - ejecting you from the building and thus you will survive.

But sorry Longblade - the author has contempt for anyone killed by Zombies or animated dolls (think Chucky).  He thinks anyone killed by these monsters is merely pathetic.

[JasonPratt]

Slow moving zombies, maybe. Fast moving zombies (even without Evil Dead powers)...?

[Gusington]

Just started reading The Life of Belisarius by Lord Mahon.

[Windigo]

So what's Bill Gates reading this summer???


http://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Summer-Books-2015

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

So what's Bill Gates reading this summer???


http://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Summer-Books-2015

Meh books. There is way better than that out there.

[Greybriar]

I am currently reading Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein.

[Gusington]

^BB will be proud.

[airboy]

I just finished "The Change: Tales of Downfall and Rebirth (Change Series) a collection of short stories and novellas set in the Dies the Fire world of S.M. Stirling.

This was an unusual collection for me because I like d 75% of the stories in a 500+ page collection.  I read the thing in a week.

SM Stirlings world is a post-apocalyptic world where there is a change in physics where high energy principles (steam engines, electricity, gunpowder) all stop working.  Really well executed idea.  His first book in the series is "Dies the Fire" which is excellent.

[Gusington]

About to start Justinian: The Last Roman Emperor by GP Baker, written 1931. The last book I read was Belisarius - The Last Roman Emperor by Lord Mahon, written in 1829 (!!!) It was not so readable. Hoping 100 years makes a difference.

[mirth]

Falklands: Voyage to War by James Barrington.