What are you reading?

**werewolf** · Nov 3rd, 2012, 05:33 PM

actual i am listen to audiobooks myself; the audiobook i am listen to now is called fuzzy nation by john scalzi. its a reboot from the original called little fuzzy. otherwise i try to learn new stuff in my field, like zbrush.

**werewolf** · Nov 10th, 2012, 02:43 PM

just got done listen to the walking dead the road to woodbury it was great. it takes place just after rise of the governor check it out.

**reaper239** · Nov 12th, 2012, 10:07 PM

jah, de rise of da governator

**scbubba** · Nov 13th, 2012, 04:41 AM

Originally Posted by Solanine

I like dated. This one's interesting but at the end of the day its taken me a week to read it. A book I love will take 2 days tops.
Next up "Dune".

I'm with you on "dated." I'm currently finishing up "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge and following it with "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman. A couple of classic hard Sci Fi greats....

"Childhood's End" is one of those Clarke works that I just never got around to reading. I may have to grab a copy.

**Solanine** · Nov 14th, 2012, 12:54 AM

Originally Posted by scbubba

I'm with you on "dated." I'm currently finishing up "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge and following it with "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman. A couple of classic hard Sci Fi greats....

"Childhood's End" is one of those Clarke works that I just never got around to reading. I may have to grab a copy.

I tried "A fire upon the deep" and just couldn't get into it. "The Forever War"
is brilliant though.

**scbubba** · Nov 14th, 2012, 04:44 AM

Originally Posted by Solanine

I tried "A fire upon the deep" and just couldn't get into it. "The Forever War"
is brilliant though.

I will say that this is my second time in Fire Upon the Deep. It can get, um, dense at times. Vinge doesn't explain via backstory. He uses revelation to get you into the story. It sometimes works and sometimes frustrates, I've found.

Totally agree with you on The Forever War.... :-)

**Vlarken** · Nov 21st, 2012, 03:52 PM

Currently re-reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I'm on The Two Towers.

**scbubba** · Nov 21st, 2012, 03:56 PM

Originally Posted by Anavrin

Currently re-reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I'm on The Two Towers.

Yeah. Excellent choice. Especially with the Hobbit movie about the premier...

**Vlarken** · Nov 21st, 2012, 04:03 PM

Originally Posted by scbubba

Yeah. Excellent choice. Especially with the Hobbit movie about the premier...

True! I'm excited for it. I have ideas about why they split it into three movies, which are quite hopeful. I think it'll be two movies covering what actually happens in the book (which is justified. There's enough material there to warrant two movies), and the third movie will cover Gandalf and the White Council expunging The Necromancer (Sauron) from Mirkwood. I'll be interested to see how that turns out, because it was never covered in any of the books in depth, so it seems like Peter Jackson will have to make it up based on thin guidelines.