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[MetalMike]

The Moon of Three Rings by Andre Norton.  Picked up a couple of old paperbacks at a used book sale a while back.  Fun to see how science fiction themes and writing have changed in 40 years.

[Dragonchaser]

In the last few weeks or so:

Harlan Coben - Hold Tight
Stephen King - Bag of Bones
John Hart - King Of Lies
Luke Rhinehart - The Dice Man
Art Spiegelman - The Complete Maus
John Connolly - The White Road

[Sargon the Terrible]

Frederick Lewis Allen's Only Yesterday

I really think this should be required reading for all US students.  I don't see how people can understand their own country without reading a book like this one.

[MetalMike]

Frederick Lewis Allen's Only Yesterday

I really think this should be required reading for all US students.  I don't see how people can understand their own country without reading a book like this one.

Sounds pretty damn cool, and I'm a history whore anyway.  I have reserved a copy at my library.  Oh, yeah, in addition to being a history whore, I'm a huge nerd as well.   

[Sargon the Terrible]

Sounds pretty damn cool, and I'm a history whore anyway.  I have reserved a copy at my library.  Oh, yeah, in addition to being a history whore, I'm a huge nerd as well.   

Also on my stack:
Dancing in the Dark
Metropolis in the Making
Endangered Dreams
The Great Depression

All 20's, 30's -era histories.

[Jan]

Eric Flint: 1634: The Bavarian War
- Third vol in an alternate history tale of a 20th century US town moved to 1632. Entertaining, but somewhat naive.

[Sargon the Terrible]

Eric Flint: 1634: The Bavarian War
- Third vol in an alternate history tale of a 20th century US town moved to 1632. Entertaining, but somewhat naive.

I've never read those, but Eric is a cool guy.  He co-writes the Course of Empire books with my friend KD Wentworth.

[Dragonchaser]

Alex Barclay - Darkhouse
James Joyce - Ulysses
Michael Connelly - The Scarecrow

[darigaaz]

The Silmarilion................. just speechless.

I can only dream that some day a very well produced tv series of this epic can be made.

Making a movie would be impossible. It would not be realistic to make it into a movie just due to the fact it is too long, and character development (unless narrated) would take up too much time, and there are waaaaaaaaayyyy too many characters!!!!!

[Master Cthulhu]

Reading a collection of short stories from Lovecraft. I've read most of them already, but I wanted to catch a few that I've missed.

[Agis]

The Silmarilion................. just speechless. I can only dream that some day a very well produced tv series of this epic can be made.

Please, Gods, don't let it happen.  

[wanderingfrank]

Please, Gods, don't let it happen.  

Seconded,somethings are just better left to our imaginations.

[Dragonchaser]

The Silmarilion................. just speechless.

I've never got all the way through that. I started reading it as a kid after LOTR, but it was like trying to read the bible. I don't know how well it reads now that I'm older.

[MetalMike]

I've never got all the way through that. I started reading it as a kid after LOTR, but it was like trying to read the bible. I don't know how well it reads now that I'm older.

My sentiments exactly.  I plowed through it when I was in high school, but it was so dense with names and places, I can't remember anything.  It reminds me of when Rev. Lovejoy on the Simpsons drones on and on about so-and-so the father of so-and-so, the father of so-and-so, as nauseum.

[darigaaz]

  I never said it would be easy, but i bet few who read LotR before the movie came out believed it would be such a great movie, and it was quite true to the book apart for the ending and Tom Bombadil being left out.

Its definitley not an easy read especially if not read in a few days, cos i tend to forget the characters and have to go back few chapters to remember, so i ended up jotting some notes to have an idea of the characters, their families and their abode. After a few careful reads the big picture starts to form and it really is an awesome story.