Right now I'm re-reading The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers. (Currently Free for Kindles on Amazon) It's a classic book of weird tales that influenced Lovecraft and just a bunch of others, and is currently being woven into the show True Detective (which is an awesome show, if you get HBO). I highly recommend it.

Quote from: Shodan on February 21, 2014, 06:12:14 PM
Right now I'm re-reading The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers. (Currently Free for Kindles on Amazon) It's a classic book of weird tales that influenced Lovecraft and just a bunch of others, and is currently being woven into the show True Detective (which is an awesome show, if you get HBO). I highly recommend it.

Been watching it, it's well done and extremely erie and creepy but not too out of line with reality for New Orleans.

Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills 

Quote from: Shantel on February 21, 2014, 06:18:49 PM
Been watching it, it's well done and extremely erie and creepy but not too out of line with reality for New Orleans.

I initially wasn't all that interested in it, until a friend of mine told me about the connection to the book (which, if you can't tell, I'm a huge fan of.) The great thing about it is that it really captures the mood of the book as well, and could have very well been one of Chambers' stories if he were alive today to write another one.

I'm in a very active writer's group and a friend is working on the sequel to his first book, which I recommend you check out if you like sci-fi. I read an earlier draft but he's changed some things so I'm re-reading it all since it's been a little while. It looks very promising and I'm looking forward to reading the final version!

I'm afraid the title isn't very original-- Infinity Squad 2.

Quote from: Shodan on February 21, 2014, 06:12:14 PM
Right now I'm re-reading The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers.

I've seen references to that somewhere, I believe in a game that was Lovecraft-inspired. Arkham Horror?

I'm reading The Hobbit.

Nebula Awards collection from 1968

I am currently reading Carrie by Stephen king, great book in a really weird format i should say also, almost done with it also.

I just finished that scifi collection, and oh my gosh it is dated. The stories hold up fine except for the references to "darkies" and "negroes" (and worse in that vein) and homosexuality explicitly and casually talked about as a perversion. 1968 is not that long ago, but I'm so glad I exist now and not then.

The Trans-fer Student by Elise Himes

Currently reading book 10 in the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson.
An excellent fantasy series (best I've ever read) but very very long (over 3 million words)
Once I finish I plan to start the prequel trilogy that Erikson is currently writing.

I'm reading a great non-fiction book:
Taoist Sexual Meditation: Connecting Love, Energy and Spirit by Bruce Kumar Frantzis

my odd choice is currently transgender 101

I have a reading rotation.  I usually read 3-4 books at a time, a little of each throughout the day.  It reminds me of my school days, which I miss somewhat.  Takes me a while to get through one title but I like to savor things.

On my current rotation is:

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler; Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell; Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever by Christoper Hitchens; and Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee.

Finished Inferno by Dan Brown a few days ago (it's good! I think it's better than the Da Vinci Code, personally. But if you read too many of Brown's books his style becomes too obvious, IMO), and just started in the first book of A Song of Ice and Fire. You know the HBO hit series the Game of Thrones? Well, those are the books it's based upon.
Me as a fully seasoned fantasy nerd find it hard to believe I didn't pick it up WAY earlier, even though I knew of it's existence and knew lots of people said it was good. And even when the series hit TV, I still kept a blind spot for it and DID NOT watch it until season 3 was well finished. I even watched the first episode many months ago and was so unimpressed I didn't even finish it. But later on I convinced my parents to give it a try with me (lots of people say it's... unhealthy to watch it with your parents, but my dad actually loved it! (my mom thought it was too much violence and sex, but yeah...)), and was hooked right after the second episode, and got pretty obsessed with it.
So I REALLY recommend it to anyone (as well the books as the series), and if you like fantasy you MUST MUST MUST watch and/or read this!

ok the new book of the week...... "Shes not the man i married"

I simply must recommend The Days of Anna Madrigal by Armistead Maupin.  If you were reading Maupin's Tales of the City series decades ago this is a fresh treat.  I enjoyed the characters and dialogue so much that rereading the old books from his series was next. 

Anna is the transgender mother to her intentional family of delightful characters that consider her the glue in their lives.  It was one of the first books i read on my kindle that i have also enjoyed.  so much so that when i was reading a hard copy recently I automatically started pressing on a word i wanted to look up in the dictionary.  Duh too techno much?

Great fun!

Quote from: Erik Ezrin on March 21, 2014, 07:32:27 AM
and just started in the first book of A Song of Ice and Fire.

Yeah good choice! I've read all the books, and of course i've seen it on TV. I've found the books even better than the tv episodes. The political plots are way more detailled in the books, there is more characters, and all in all the whole Westeros universe is larger.
Obviously there is a lot you can't put in a tv episode, so the books provide much more depth
I think i've read the entire book set in 6 months. ENJOY!

PS: can't wait for the next book!
PS*: you'll see how hard it is to not spoil people once you reach the fourth book xD

I'm reading The Hobbit. Read it ages ago, but what with the films being so different, I forget a lot of the details so I wanted to read it again and get more familiar with it. Then I'll be reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy again.

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Yeah good choice! I've read all the books, and of course i've seen it on TV. I've found the books even better than the tv episodes. The political plots are way more detailled in the books, there is more characters, and all in all the whole Westeros universe is larger.
Obviously there is a lot you can't put in a tv episode, so the books provide much more depth
I think i've read the entire book set in 6 months. ENJOY!

PS: can't wait for the next book!
PS*: you'll see how hard it is to not spoil people once you reach the fourth book xD

Yeah! I saw it on TV first, and was hooked after the second episode (the first was a bit confusing with all the new names and stuff, and actually the first time I tried to watch it I quit halfway though. I don't even get HOW that was possible now LOL!), and then decided to pick up the books as well. I though the tv show was good (and it IS! Compared to book films it is very true to the books and does a good job in showing the complexity of the politics and plots going on in Westeros, and is good to follow for people who haven't read the books first (unlike many movies of complex books like these))
But now I am reading the books I actually like them A LOT more! You get so much more backgrounds, and details, and everything! Also some characters that come right out of the blue in the show have a good buildup in the books.