It's September, and we're still reading OK?

[knivesout]

A day late, but here is the latest installment of our Now Reading thread.

Tell us what you're reading. Bodice-rippers, quests for oddly named arcane objects, interminable battles between rival galactic empires, spuedo-scientific historical revisionism, or something that's actually kinda neat - it's Ok you can 'fess up about your reading matter, whatever it is.

Me, I'm reading:

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, which is rather dense and odd, but also rather gripping so far.

Glory Season by David Brin, which seems to be settling in for an extended, slow beginning, but ought to get somewhere interesting eventually. I hope.

The Enemy Stars by Poul Anderson, which isn't as good as his later truly epic SF, but is moving along qite nicely anyway.

And generally dipping into a variety of Philip K Dick essays.

[polymorphikos]

I am also reading Gravity's Rainbow, and would agree with your sentiments. Although it is, saddly, so far less odd than I had been lead to believe.

Added to this, I am reading If On A Winter's Night A Traveller, which is rather vague and odd, but also rather gripping so far.

[Leto]

I'm in between books. Donn't know which one to pick first :
Tailchaser's song by Tad Williams or Until I find you by John Irving ?

[Taltos]

Started Brust "Phoenix Guard" - which means that Leiber is on hold - again

[littlemissattitude]

I'm reading two right now - Sacred and Profane, by Faye Kellerman, and Magic Street, by Orson Scott Card. Looking forward to perhaps getting to do some serious reading over the holiday weekend.

Oh, and JP, I love the new avatar.

[cyborg_cinema]

Originally Posted by knivesout

...Now Reading....

...finished Gateway by Frederik Pohl yesterday. Now headed for Neuromancer by William Gibson and Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card—followed by another trip to the bookstore. Gibson coins "cyberspace", and Card picks up where Ender's Game left off.

[Culhwch]

Not reading fantasy/sf at the present moment, but have just finished the graphic novel Batman: Hush. And am about to read Catherine Webb's Waywalkers. Anyone read it?

[Esioul]

Never heard of it. Is it good? Still reading Credo by Melvynn Bragg.

[sanityassassin]

not reading anything at the moment but just finished the di vinci code again a really good book unsure what to go for next

[cyborg_cinema]

Originally Posted by littlemissattitude

...Magic Street, by Orson Scott Card.

...how is Magic Street so far?

[littlemissattitude]

So far, so good. I'm not really very far into it yet. Haven't had much reading time. After I go out and do some errands this morning, I'm going to try to spend some time with it.

[cyborg_cinema]

Originally Posted by littlemissattitude

So far, so good. I'm not really very far into it yet. Haven't had much reading time. After I go out and do some errands this morning, I'm going to try to spend some time with it.

...ok thanks...bought Speaker of the Dead yesterday.

[Thadlerian]

Originally Posted by polymorphikos

Added to this, I am reading If On A Winter's Night A Traveller, which is rather vague and odd, but also rather gripping so far.

Italo Calvino is the best. At least, one of them.

I'm reading Invisible Cities by that very fellow.

[Esioul]

Originally Posted by cyborg_cinema

...ok thanks...bought Speaker of the Dead yesterday.

Now, I've got that, but haven't got round to reading it yet.

[cyborg_cinema]

Originally Posted by Esioul

Now, I've got that, but haven't got round to reading it yet.

...did you read Ender's Game?

...if I hadn't been trying to write Speaker for the Dead...there would never have been a novel version of Ender's Game at all.—Card