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[sublinimal]

Also, ANSI Common Lisp by Graham for a CS class. Lisp is pretty fuckin' cool.

Practical Common Lisp for me. why-can't-i-hold-all-these-parentheses.lisp

[Fallsburg]

well both stories are part of the same arc, aren't they?
And yeah vinge is the best author I've read in a long time.

Yeah, in book chronology it goes:

Deepness in the sky -> 20,000 years -> Fire Upon the Deep -> 10 years -> Children of the Sky.

And I'd rank them Deepness, Fire, Children.  Deepness and Fire are some of the most inventive sci-fi I've read in a long time.  Vinge writes aliens unlike anyone else I've ever read.  He manages to write them in a very real, relatable way despite the fact that they are completely foreign to the human experience (talking about the Spiders and the Tines).

[moi]

I read the second before the first and it wasn't very important because there is no real chronology between the two, I didn't even know there was a third book!

[Fineldar]

Also, ANSI Common Lisp by Graham for a CS class. Lisp is pretty fuckin' cool.

Practical Common Lisp for me. why-can't-i-hold-all-these-parentheses.lisp

I just finished The Little Schemer, which is like those books, but for babies.  You two obviously have a much higher grasp and appreciation for Lisp languages than I do.

I'm also reading Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.  Not normally my thing but it's really good.

[Alec S.]

Finished reading The Cornelius Chronicles.  Probably my favorite thing by Moorcock so far, although I have to admit much of it confused the hell out of me.  There were times during the sentence-long chapters of A Cure for Cancer and the episodic scenes of The English Assassin that I missed the (relatively) straightforward but well-written and enjoyable The Final Programme.  However it all came together into a really effective package.  I'll probably want to read it a second time in the future and see if I can catch things I missed the first time around.

Now started reading Anansi Boys.

[Ashkin]

Finished reading Ender's Game for the first time. I liked it. Now I'm reading 'Stories of Mystery From Lafcadio Hearn', a compilation of Japanese short stories based on myth and folklore.

[Inanimate]

That sounds wonderful, Ashkin! How are you liking it?

[Ashkin]

I'm actually really enjoying it so far. It reminds me of Mushishi, the anime, and I can see how they both draw from the same pool of inspiration. I've always found Japanese folklore much more interesting than that of other cultures. It's pretty much a collection of ghost stories, and the atmosphere is really inspiring to me.

[crowe]

Desert Solitaire

The memoirs of a man who worked for some time in a desert national park, alone. It is more or less a late-era transcendentalist work, though I expect if you told the author that he would beat the shit out of you. Very good.

[saibot216]

Swords & Deviltry by Fritz Lieber

Read about the characters of the series and I realized I could relate to them so it gave me more reasons to buy the first book in the series.

[goshki]

Finished Beginning Android 4 games development and now starting with Pro Android games.

[tnr]

Eh, started working on the Game Maker for Beginners tutorials. Haven't really read in the last couple of weeks other than that.

[indiePub]

I just finished the series A Song of Ice and Fire. Not sure what to read next!

[Alec S.]

Finished reading Oryx and Crake, now reading Man in the High Castle.

[Uykered]

Almost done A Dance With Dragons, glad I kept reading the series it was great.

[ThetaGames]

I just finished the series A Song of Ice and Fire. Not sure what to read next!

Almost done A Dance With Dragons, glad I kept reading the series it was great.

I'm reading "A Storm of Swords" right now - these books are really amazing.  All the hype about them is definitely well-earned.

[Trystin]

I just finished the series A Song of Ice and Fire. Not sure what to read next!

Almost done A Dance With Dragons, glad I kept reading the series it was great.

I'm reading "A Storm of Swords" right now - these books are really amazing.  All the hype about them is definitely well-earned.

I concur, I'm reading them as well and loving them

[forwardresent]

I got my fiancée the first few books in the series... and the making of book... and the graphic novel. She really likes the TV show and I had no Christmas ideas. I kind of want to read them, but I haven't really enjoyed a fantasy book since Cry of the Icemark when I was like 12.


I've been reading Anna Anthropy's book Rise of the Video Game Zinesters lately, it's not bad.

[Franklin's Ghost]

Just finished the Mistborn trilogy. Amazing ride, full of twists that I never saw coming. The ending was better than I ever could have imagined.
I want a videogame.

What's that you say?

Have started reading the first book now after seeing you guys mention it. Enjoying it so far

I read the Mistborn trilogy a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it. I really liked Vin as a character.

After that I read the follow-up book, Alloy of Law, and also Elantris, by the same author; both very good as well.

And the reason I started reading Sanderson was from a recommendation on the blog of Patrick Rothfuss, author of the sublime Name of the Wind which I heartily recommend. I may have mentioned it before in this thread, but not sure.

EDIT: Test Your Metal is a terrible, terrible catchphrase for the Mistborn game.

Finally had the chance to finish the series. Was really impressed and now just trying to figure out what I should be reading next...

[Ashkin]

Finished Cat's Cradle, starting Slaughterhouse Five.

I'm not a drugs salesman. I'm a writer.
What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?