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Since we already have currrently playing and watching... Anyone up for this topic?

I'll start. Just finished up Robopocalypse by Daniel H Wilson. I'm not a big scifi book fan, but this one was very good. His descriptions drew you in, you could really imagine the robots, and the action was virtually nonstop. Highly recommend it if you enjoy the Terminator movies, and like to read.

I just finished the first 2 books of THE CLIFTON CHRONICLES by Jeffrey Archer. Getting ready to start the 3rd. He's very good. Very Dickens like. I like just about all genres. I just happened to pick up the first of the series and got drawn in. Cliche as it may be, Stephen King is still probably my favorite overall. Mainly because I like horror, but also he is a great story teller and has an extremely dark side at times.

Just finished "a simple act of violence" by RJ Ellory... I loved it, frankly. It's a pretty polarizing book, the reviews on amazon are covering a wide range of comments, but I frankly loved it, the frontier between reality and fiction is really really thin on this one

I read Playboy...for the articles.

Many on the go, this is the newest and one book that I want to read right away. Even though it is way to wintery to fire up the smoker, I am going to be prepared very early this year.

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I did have a copy of The Happy Hooker I'd snatched from my dad in 7th grade or so.(pun intended). I really boned up on my reading back then...

Been working on Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson for about a year now. Fascinating historical fiction, but really dense and detailed. It's slow going, so when I get bogged down I put it down and pick up something lighter.

Just started on The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde. Weird, smart British humo(u)r with a supernatural/sci-fi angle; it you like Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett, you'd like his stuff. He also seems to be a car guy; he makes a particular point of mentioning what all his characters drive.

BTW, for you 80s pop-culture and videogame nerds (aren't we all?), you have to read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.

markbt73 wrote:BTW, for you 80s pop-culture and videogame nerds (aren't we all?), you have to read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.

Consider it done! Thanks for the tip!

Right now I'm working on Einstein's Unfinished Symphony, Listening to the Sounds of Space-Time, by Marcia Bartusiak. It's about detecting gravitational waves. I used to read different genres, but pretty much only science/physics/space books anymore. Honestly, I can only understand about half of it, but I find it very interesting and thought provoking.

markbt73 wrote: you like Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett,

I have read them both, Pratchett is a good writer. Patrick Rothfuss is another recommendation to all that like Sci-fi and fantasy style novels.

The name of the wind is his first book in this series. I highly recommend it.

Diamond Dave wrote:The name of the wind

I rarely name my wind. I usually just blame the dog...

You are on a roll tonight man! Between your nameless wind and your dads hooker books you have got alot of bases covered!

markbt73 wrote: BTW, for you 80s pop-culture and videogame nerds (aren't we all?), you have to read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.

X2 Great story, and lots of 80's references.

One of my favorites genres is Intelligence/spy stories. I've read almost all of Robert Littell's books, even the neraly 900 page The Company. It was made into a miniseries for TV a few years back. Watched it all no youtube again after I finished the book. I just recently finished Alan Furst's first (LOL) book Night Soldiers, which was really good. It starts in the late 30's and goes right through the War. I'm going to move on to the next in the series when I finish what I'm reading now.

justinspeed79 wrote:Right now I'm working on Einstein's Unfinished Symphony, Listening to the Sounds of Space-Time, by Marcia Bartusiak. It's about detecting gravitational waves. I used to read different genres, but pretty much only science/physics/space books anymore. Honestly, I can only understand about half of it, but I find it very interesting and thought provoking.

I liked Hawking's Brief History of TIme, and its the only cosmology book I've read. I kind of got burned out on cosmology after a few years of subscribing to Scientific American. almost every other issue, that was the cover article. That and particle physics.

If anyone remembers the television show Connections, hosted by James Burke, he (Burke) wrote several books that are great reads. Just like the show they trace the connections between scientific discoveries and the advancement of technologies that the discoveries made possible. Good stuff.