What book is on your nightstand? Readers!

[Homercidal]

I usually read Fantasy, but have dipped into Scifi a bit. The most recent Scifi books I've read were the Foundation and Robot series by Asimov. Call me blasphemer, but I did not enjoy them all that much. The first couple were kind of interesting, but after a few, I lost interest.

I just finished Moby Dick and the end was kind of abrupt. It was an interesting read. At the end, the Mellville spends about 1-2 pages on the final events. You get the climax and then it's over. I am used to a little bit of what happened after.

 

[DrunkleJon]

I thoroughly enjoyed Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, the Jim Butcher Dresden books, Got many laughs out of Iron Druid. Have recently been reading the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz.

I have so many. I think I am switching to brewing books for a while. I am a little ways into Yeast currently.

 

[Homercidal]

I thoroughly enjoyed Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, the Jim Butcher Dresden books, Got many laughs out of Iron Druid. Have recently been reading the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz.

I have so many. I think I am switching to brewing books for a while. I am a little ways into Yeast currently.

If you haven't done so yet, I recommend reading either of Randy Mosher's Brewing books, Radical Brewing and Tasting Beer.

I love his writing style and they are very entertaining while also being thought provoking and informative.

 

[Setesh]

I thoroughly enjoyed Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, the Jim Butcher Dresden books, Got many laughs out of Iron Druid. Have recently been reading the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz.

I liked the Odd Thomas books a lot. I have read most of Koontz' books and for such a prolific writer he has quite a few good ones. I highly recommend checking out his Frankenstein books, I enjoyed them the most out of all of his books I think. I also liked the Moonlight Bay Trilogy a lot.

 

[wxman73]

Hey Drizzt,

Years ago, a guy i was in the Air Force who i didnt know all that well handed me a book by RA Salvatore about Drizzt. I read it and loved it. I dont know whic one it was though. Is there a place to go to find out what order to read those books? Btw Drizzt was in a great video game called Baldurs Gate.

As far as my to read list right now:
Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan.

I have recently read Patrick Rothfuss' first two books and I highly recommend them.

Everyone should read Dune at least once. Don't bother going any further on the series or you will tragically disappointed with the quality.

One of my other Favorites is Kardinal in the Kremlin by Tom Clancy. Awesome US vs USSR espionage.


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[Setesh]

Is there a place to go to find out what order to read those books?

Yup!

http://www.amazon.com/Drizzt-Books-in-chronological-order/lm/R2LUO036IY8SGZ

 

[BrewerinBR]

My book shelves are 9 feet high by 15 feet long ...

Contain so much it is not able to list them here is a short list

Stephen King (all hard back versions and paper back)
Winston Churchill Complete Memoirs
Mien Comp
The Genesis of the Pharaohs
Guadalcanal Diaries
New Jerusalem Bible
Dean Koonz (many)
Complete works of Edgar Allen Poe
Complete works of Sir Arther Conan Doyle
Complete works of Shakespeare
Isaac Asimov
Philip José Farmer
Danielle Steel
T-REX and the Crater of Doom
A dinosaur named Sue
Yeast
Hops
Water
IPA's
How to Brew
The Complete Joy of Homebrewing
Brew Like a Monk
The Brew Masters Table
Brewing Classic Style
Gardening for the Homebrewer
Aristotle
Homer
Pythagoras

 

[Billy-Klubb]

you "speeled" Mein Kampf wrong.

 

[passedpawn]

Finished The Fault In Our Stars last night. Read most of it on my trip to/from Vancouver this week. I'd recommend, but check your testosterone at the door. It's a sad teenage tragedy, with lots of interesting intellectual dialog, and from a girl's perspective. If you liked Perks of Being a Wallflower, you'll like this.

Tonight I'm digging into Michael Crighton's Eaters of the Dead. I need to get back on balance now.

 

[Homercidal]

Good Omens.

I love Pratchett's style.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Great book.

 

[pricelessbrewing]

Good omens is great, you know they wrote alternating sections and would change bits of each others work to get them to mesh together better. Some of the funniest parts are from where the two writers meet!

 

[jiggs_casey]

Richard Marcinko, Tom Clancy, Payne Harrison, Stephen King, Michael Jackson, Jimmy Buffet, and a little Hunter S.

 

[hunter_le five]

Hunter S.

I've been making my way through his books lately. I'm on #4 now (by order of publication). Hilarious and fascinating stuff.

 

[Ridire]

I've been making my way through his books lately. I'm on #4 now (by order of publication). Hilarious and fascinating stuff.

Just finished Dune (decent but not great) and came here for ideas. I love the movies with Depp, so maybe I'll try some Hunter S.

 

[passedpawn]

Just finished Dune (decent but not great) and came here for ideas. I love the movies with Depp, so maybe I'll try some Hunter S.

Give The The Gold Coast a try by DeMille. Cheap book, and I can almost guarantee satisfaction The nice thing, if you like it, is there's a LOT more just like it from DeMille.

 

[Ridire]

Give The The Gold Coast a try by DeMille. Cheap book, and I can almost guarantee satisfaction The nice thing, if you like it, is there's a LOT more just like it from DeMille.

I've read it, I loved it. A friend told me I had to read Gold Coast because he claimed the main character was me...only more interesting.

 

[passedpawn]

I've read it, I loved it. A friend told me I had to read Gold Coast because he claimed the main character was me...only more interesting.

DeMille wrote a bunch more. I probably read most of them. Maybe try another. There was one or two I never finished though. Maybe give me a PM if you want advice.

Read any Vince Flynn? It's a little pulpfictiony, but very entertaining. If you haven't tried one of the Mitch Rapp stories, I'd like to suggest giving American Assassin a try. $6, nothing to lose.

 

[Ridire]

DeMille wrote a bunch more. I probably read most of them. Maybe try another. There was one or two I never finished though. Maybe give me a PM if you want advice.

Read any Vince Flynn? It's a little pulpfictiony, but very entertaining. If you haven't tried one of the Mitch Rapp stories, I'd like to suggest giving American Assassin a try. $6, nothing to lose.

Talked me into it. Downloading American Assassin now. I read a lot of non-fiction but need a bit of a break before I tackle the giant Ted Williams book I have sitting on my night stand http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316614351/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

 

[Airplanedoc]

Just finished the "Arsenal of Democracy", after "One Summer America 1927". I found both facinating

 

[passedpawn]

Just finished ... "One Summer America 1927". I found both facinating

Holy crap, I love Bill Bryson! Bought it.

I read more non-fiction than fiction. And this guy is comedy gold in non-fiction.

 

[Airplanedoc]

Holy crap, I love Bill Bryson! Bought it.

I read more non-fiction than fiction. And this guy is comedy gold in non-fiction.

This one is a bit different than other Bryson books, But I still could not put it down. 1927 must have been a fascinating year to be alive.

 

[passedpawn]

This one is a bit different than other Bryson books, But I still could not put it down. 1927 must have been a fascinating year to be alive.

It's already on my Kindle. We'll see. He's a great writer. Thanks!

 

[FermentusMaximus]

I'm about halfway through a pretty creepy book right now called the Demonologist. The book describes a few of the more popular cases from the files of Ed and Lorraine Warren. These two were the paranormal investigators from the recent movie the Conjuring and they were also called in right after the Lutzes fled the Amityville house. Whether you're a believer or not, these stories are terrifying to say the least.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193516922X/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

The reviews of this book are legit...get ready to sleep with the lights on.

 

[Airplanedoc]

Just finished "The Boys In The Boat" It was pretty good.

 

[passedpawn]

Just finished "The Boys In The Boat" It was pretty good.

I'm reading that Bryson book now. Thanks for the recommendation.

 

[Airplanedoc]

I'm reading that Bryson book now. Thanks for the recommendation.

I loved some of the names in the book, You just don't hear many of them these days.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

I found a book called "Yesterday's Gone" through a dystopian collection on the Kindle... enjoyed enough to buy the next three books in the series.

Also bought "How Not to be Wrong", a book about mathematics. Also very interesting...

 

[pupwalker]

cozy mysteries... by the ton!

 

[pricelessbrewing]

Just finished The dwarves hy markus heitz. Before that I had read tower lord, sequel to Ravens shadow which is disappointing. Alex varus series was good. The first book of earthsea, pretty good. Can't get into the 2nd one. Also crimes against magic, which was pretty good.

Need to find some more to read.

 

[Homercidal]

Just started reading "The Girl Next Door". I have no idea who wrote it. It was a freebie from Gutenberg Project.

Ok, it's basically a young ladies story from way back, but I'm hooked on it. It's fascinating how people lived and thought back then.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

I just started The Long Earth (1st in a series) by Terry Pratchett & Stephen baxter. Never read anything by either of them before; so far, so good!
Regards, GF.

 

[MaddBaggins]

My book shelf is loaded with
Stephen King
Tolkien
Heinlein
Dan Brown
Anne Rice
Robert Jordan
A bunch of various author Star Wars
Reloading data and ballistics tables books
And every Heavy Metal magazine going back to 92.


Oh! I almost forgot the religious section:
Papazian
Palmer
Tonsmeire

 

[DrunkleJon]

I just started The Long Earth (1st in a series) by Terry Pratchett & Stephen baxter. Never read anything by either of them before; so far, so good!
Regards, GF.

Pratchett is rather fun to read. If you enjoy his work,you should check out his collaboration with Neil Gaiman called Good Omens.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Pratchett is rather fun to read. If you enjoy his work,you should check out his collaboration with Neil Gaiman called Good Omens.

I'll have to check it out. I'm really kind of grooving on The Long Earth, I'm about 2/3 of the way through it & would like to finish the series before starting another. Which reminds me, I should go to the bookstore soon.
Regards, GF.

 

[AnOldUR]

 

[unionrdr]

I've read the book on einstein's theories from 1941 when I was like 7 or 8. Homer's odyssey, HG Wells books, Jules Verne, Melville's Moby Dick, House of the 7 Gables ( a colonial soap opera), & many books by the original Star Trek writers. Cemetary World & Splinter of the Mind's Eye were pretty good. Read Asimov's The Gods Themselves. Many other books from when I belonged to the sci-fi book club, like The Dream Lords trilogy with Galad Sarian. And of course George Orwell's 1984. My 1st book Time Lords 2034-The Alternate Prometheus is based on modern events that cause Orwell's future vision to happen some 70 years later. I'm almost done re-writing book one & started on book two. It is, of course, dystopian sci-fi. FEMA, the New World Order & technology become evil bedfellows. Too many books to remember them all. But a lot of classic fiction & sci-fi. I still have a copy of the only Conan novel Robert E Howard ever finished-Conan the Conqueror. Some of the stuff in my books has some Wells & Orwellian slants in them. I really liked the Time Machine, War of the Worlds & first Men in the Moon. I also read Mary Shelley's original version of Frankenstein. I used to like buying as old a version of a book as I could find, unabridged. You really get a feel for the formal, flowery writing style of those times. The Copy of Homer's odyssey I have is as direct a translation of it as possible, still in the epic prose.

 

[Gus_13]

Just finished The dwarves hy markus heitz. Before that I had read tower lord, sequel to Ravens shadow which is disappointing. Alex varus series was good. The first book of earthsea, pretty good. Can't get into the 2nd one. Also crimes against magic, which was pretty good.

Need to find some more to read.

I'm working on The Dwarves now. I went ahead and bought the whole series. I was super interested in it. I'll probably get Orcs as well.

I'm also reading The Prince of Thorns. I have to keep multiple books going at the same time.

 

[Homercidal]

Downloaded "A Romance of Lust: A Victorian Erotic Novel" to my phone.

Kind of expected a slightly prudish, ribald story with careful phrasing and lots of innuendo.

NOPE.

Pure Victorian porn. Although the terminology is very often archaic, it's often not. The things the author describes are your basic sexual maneuvers along with some of the more lascivious options.

They usually do it multiple times in multiple fashions in every scene. I'm only about 20% through the book and I'm exhausted just reading it!

SPOILER ALERT! There is not much plot to the story so far...

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Homer, if you like that, you might enjoy Justine by Marquis de Sade.
Regards, GF.