Fallout: Equestria when I have Internet acces

Metro 2033 when I don't.

International Law was another favourite. I was lectured by one of the most celebrated international law academics, and he went sooo deep into legal theory that it got confusing sometimes.

And yes, our constitutional law is about 900 years of charters, cases, theories and vaguely agreed on conventions.

Am rereading The Hunger Games in anticipation for the movie next month.

I'm still reading through the Discworld series, I just finished 'Thief of Time' and will be starting Night Watch soon (yay Vimes!).

I've read some of Lovecraft along time ago. Like Edgar Allen Poe, I really need to do some refreshing on him and read some more of his stuff. He's another one of those authors that people have copied so much you are not sure if a story you read along time ago is him or someone that copied his "ethos". I do specifically remember a story about a small town by the ocean where the residents are turning into these sea creatures and this guy and his girlfriend (and some other people, I think) get stuck there and the girl gets kidnapped. People are getting skinned or something and then there is a big well-like pit with a many-tentacled creature in it or something. Seems like Lovecraftian stories always come down to a pit filled with water (that leads to the ocean) and some tentacled creature. The simple fact that someone can use the term "Lovecraftian" and many people have a certain imagery that comes to mind tells you something about the cultural impact his writing has had.
Well, I know the guitar parts to "Call of Ktulu" (sic), I guess that counts for something, right?

I've read some stuff by Lin Carter and Sprague DeCamp, but I have to say, none of the characters or stories stand out to me like Conan. It's been a long time since I've read much "pulp fantasy". I had started reading Edgar Rice Burroughs "Barsoom" Martian series long ago. I don't remember much of the stories, but just enough to be excited about the new "John Carter" (of Mars) movie they are making. That would make for some great re-reading, too.

There is alot of stuff I need to brush up on. I think college pretty much 'reformatted' much of my synaptic hard drive space to store comparatively useless crap like Statistics, Discrete Math and endless mandatory reading lists for different English classes. And although I generally enjoy history, some of the memorization from the History classes, I could do without, too. Not to mention Military organization, traditions and history and medical training for the military. Well, at least some of the medical training was useful.

The Eternal Champion and Elric of Melniboné.

I'm actually getting ready to start brewing in the next week or two. Can't wait until I can make my own IPA's! Stone is a hell of a brewing company, Ruination is one of my favorite imperials.

Under the dome by Stephen King. About 500 pages done and loving it so far. It builds up tension quite nicely and for a book this long, keeps really well to the point and doesn't sidetrack.

Needful Things By Stephen King again. One of my favorites of his, along with Pet sematary and Desperation

Come to think of it, i've never read anything but fiction

^I've got Under the Dome sitting on my bookshelf, I just finished Leaving Las Vegas so I think I'll go ahead and start it, good to hear it's a good book.

So far it is - and, again so far, I'd consider it among the best of Kings even though it doesn't quite feel like his regular stuff, eg The Shining, or The Stand, and overdoes the violence in the beginning a bit (what with a few line chapter dedicated solely in explaining how cleanly and nicely a deers head is cut off, and stuff) - and hopefully the good carries over to the very ending.

Tbh, my favorite King book is The Green Mile, which is vastly different from his usual work.

Making my way through Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy. Currently on Book 3: The Last Enchantment.

They are amazing books.

Is it? It seems fairly on par. Any minor differences can be explained by the way in which he released the book, in installments. I've read it once and I can't again... That goes for all of his books, actually: I don't feel the need to read anything he writes more than once. He's good at pulp horror. Probably one of my top ten writers, even though I never read anything of his anymore.

Just started "A Song Of Ice And Fire" and it's looking real promising right now.

I'm currently reading The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. Its very enjoyable. Next up are The Purgatorio and The Paradiso by Dante Alighieri. I've had the Inferno and the Paradiso for some time now, but it took quite a while for the local bookstore to track down a copy of the Purgatorio.


Out of the Silent Planet was a great book by Lewis. I really recommend it.


Ooh, lucky you. I've always thought that Night Watch was his best book. Read it at least a dozen times so far.

I wouldn't want to imagine a time when I'm not reading through the Discworld series, in the sense that I pick them up here and there where I can get them. When you say reading through, do you mean in publication order? I usually skip around, but at least try to read the "miniseries" in order. (I think the Watch is the only one I haven't dipped into yet, though it's many people's favourites, so I look forward.)


Hmm, that Lovecraft story sounds sort of like Shadow Over Innsmouth (with the fish creatures), but I don't clearly remember them getting skinned, but it's been quite a long time. Unless it's Dagon, but Dagon only has one character (the narrator) so it probably isn't. (And weirdly they based that Call of Cthulhu game mostly on SoI, rather than the actual Call of Cthulhu story for some reason.)

Ah, I just picked up most of the old Elric books on the cheap. I've never read Moorcock before. I've been in the mood for some classic Sword and Sorcery (hence reading Howard and I'm also going to get back into Fritz Leiber's Gray Mouser stories.)

The Republic by Plato, Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle and L'existentialisme est un humanisme by Jean Paul Satre for my philosophy class. Also casually re-reading the First Law trilogy.

My favourite series, how many have you read so far?
My favourite is still The Eyes of the Dragon, I love that book.

A Song of Ice and Fire: A Feast for Crows.

It's a bit of a slog, focusing on mostly my least favourite characters. Also very little is happening (I'm ~500 pages in). Looking forward to finishing it and moving onto the next book.





I loved those books. I've got Best Served Cold sitting on my bookshelf (a standalone novel set in the same world) - looking forward to reading it.

I have three different textbooks to read... they range from awesome to rather dull.

My pleasure book right now is Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.


Excellent book.

I recently just bought a complete collection of Sherlock Holmes. Only just started but as good as I assumed it would be.

Right now I'm reading Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring. (The first book of the Lord of the Rings.) It's going pretty slowly, as there's a lot to take in, and I have to give books like this my full attention.

After that I'll probably move onto the other LOTR books, but have something a little lighter-going at the same time. Perhaps a fantasy/assassination story.

Finishing up Fury, one of the last in the Star Wars Legacy of the Force series. 2 more left in the series. Once season 2 of Game of Thrones ends on HBO, I'll be reading the 2nd, and maybe the 3rd, book in that series.

I know, you might want to check out The Heroes as well, being another standalone novel set after Best Served Cold (which are both better than the last two ASOIAF books ). Abercrombie is also bringing out a final standalone novel this year called A Red Country, which is apparently a fantasy western, where Best Served Cold was a revenge novel (Kill Bill set in reinessance Italy) and the Heroes was a war story.