Stephen Brust: The Paths of the Dead

A sequel to 500 years later, and prologue to the Vlad Taltos novels.
Written as a homage, and in the style of Alexander Dumas; Three Musketeers novels, (which takes a bit of getting used to. And makes me want to read those novels)

Just finished Ready Player One (AMAZING) and then breezed through Ellen Degeneres' book Seriously...I'm Kidding for fun.

Might stick with the autobio/nonfiction for a bit and read Olivia Munn's autobio before I go back into fiction.

Was thinking of reading the Darth Plagueis book by James Luceno. Anyone read it?

Originally Posted by RockinTheRedDog Just finished Ready Player One (AMAZING)

Agreed. Fantastic book, and it stirred many good 80s memories. Some of my iconic movies, shows, music and even D&D modules made an appearance. The writer must've had a very similar childhood. You know Ernest Cline is one of the guys who penned Fanboys, right?

Originally Posted by kerouac kid Since my last post I have finished several books. Me Talk Pretty One Day (Meh)

I've been a huge David Sedaris fan since I first heard "The Santaland Diaries" on NPR. I gave out about fifteen copies of Holidays on Ice to friends and family when it came out in hardback.

I can see if you're new to his writing it would seem a little Meh because he casually assumes in later collections you already know quite a bit about the people he mentions, like his sister Amy and boyfriend Hugh.

Originally Posted by SilentBob50023 Agreed. Fantastic book, and it stirred many good 80s memories. Some of my iconic movies, shows, music and even D&D modules made an appearance. The writer must've had a very similar childhood. You know Ernest Cline is one of the guys who penned Fanboys, right?

WHAAAAAT! That's awesome! I love that movie. I look forward to his next book whatever it may be.

Originally Posted by JolietJake Currently reading my networking + book. Yay me.

I'm reading my A+ book and was gonna do net + after, is it hard or confusing? Thanks

Finished Foundation and Earth and started Make Room! Make Room! (aka Soylent Green)


Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison

Finished Make Room! Make Room! and I can't recommend it enough. The first 5 star book I've read in a while. In addition to having what I feel is a great message about birth control, conservation, and the environment, it's also an all around great semi-apocalypse story. As some people familiar with these threads / my posts might possibly know, I'm a huge post-apocalypse nut and this book scares me the most because it jives with my guess at how the world (as we know it) could possibly end. Not with an asteroid, or a black hole, or an alien invasion, or volcanic eruption, or massive earthquake, or nuclear bomb - but with over population and consumption of natural resources past the breaking point towards a slow collapse of society in general. Its really tragic that this book got turned into a movie where the only thing that people know about the story is that 'soylent green is people' (a fact not even mentioned in the book). Make Room! Make Room is $5.38 for the Kindle version on Amazon right now and I highly recommend it.

Started Dune Messiah


Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert

Just finished reading Entropy by Pynchon and I have to say that was unbelievable!

Finished Dune Messiah and started Red Country


Red Country by Joe Abercrombie

Oh man, nearly two weeks since I started reading my last book. I need to stop playing on my phone during breaks at work and finish reading. (Also need to stop working at work and start reading)

Reading the School Rumble manga. Got it cheap from gohastings, and LOVED the anime, so I figured "why not?". Really like it so far. I haven't read a ton of manga, but this one sticks really close to the anime, and is really funny. Makes me want to watch the show again

can we include here some MANGA staff??

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I just finished Hakime no IPPO..

hahaha..thats 1000+ episodes as of now..

Taking a quick time out from Red Country and reading Raised Eyebrows based on Wombat's recommendation on the latest CAGcast


Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho's House by Steve Stoliar

I'd read that. I love the Marx Brothers.

Finished Paths of the Dead. Onto By Force of Arms.

I think it's the fourth book of a series? That I maybe read the prequel to a couple years ago (and no other books in the series). So it's a little confusing, but it's military sci-fi stuff so it's not that complicated. And it's short.


http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7..._Force_of_Arms

Finished Raised Eyebrows and back to Red Country.

Almost done with World War Z by Max Brooks.

The next book I'm going to start reading is: The Neuropathology of Zombies by Peter Cummings and M. Joseph Schuhler Jr.

I love all things zombie since my older brother made me watch the original Dawn of the Dead as a child.

American Gods, before that The Man in the High Castle which gets my highest recommendation

Nietzsche's Beyond Good & Evil

Granted I've only started reading for leisure a year or so ago, this was the best book I have ever read