Active Topics | Member List | Search | Help | Register | Login
The John Byrne Forum
Byrne Robotics > The John Byrne Forum << Prev Page of 261 Next >>
Topic: What are you reading now? Post ReplyPost New Topic
Author
Message
Matthew Chartrand
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 2007 June 17
Location: United States
Posts: 1360
Posted: 2011 January 28 at 5:19pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

 

 The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx. I can't believe that guy survived the '80s.

 WWW Wake by Robert J. Sawyer. A novel about the internet achieving sentience. Excellent book.

 Dinosaur Summer by Greg Bear. This book is I guess a sequel to  Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. The edition I read has a number of illustrations throughout the text. A very fun book.
Back to Top profile | search
 
Wallace Sellars
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 2004 May 01
Location: United States
Posts: 17720
Posted: 2011 January 28 at 8:05pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
THE LAST DAYS OF PTOLEMY GREY by Walter Mosley
Back to Top profile | search | www
 
Brian Burnham
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 2004 April 16
Location: United States
Posts: 571
Posted: 2011 January 28 at 8:46pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
Just finished The Sentry by Robert Crais
Back to Top profile | search
 
Michael Huber
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 2007 August 27
Location: United States
Posts: 3338
Posted: 2011 January 28 at 9:06pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
this thread...
Back to Top profile | search
 
Thomas Moudry
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 2004 April 16
Location: United States
Posts: 5060
Posted: 2011 January 28 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
Finally decided to begin Stephen King's Dark Tower series. For whatever reason, I just never picked up the first book, even though I've owned it for several years.

Also reading Nora Ephron's I Remember Nothing...it's hilarious!

Back to Top profile | search
 
William Roberge
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 2006 July 05
Location: United States
Posts: 11327
Posted: 2011 February 13 at 9:10am | IP Logged | 6 post reply

Just started The TERRA COTTA ARMY by John May. About Emperor Qin Shi Huang and the (you guessed it) more then 8,000 Terra Cotta Warriors.

I'll update when I'm done.
Back to Top profile | search | www e-mail
 
Peter Martin
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 2008 March 17
Location: Canada
Posts: 16090
Posted: 2011 February 13 at 9:48am | IP Logged | 7 post reply
Wizard: the life and times of Nikola Tesla
Back to Top profile | search
 
Petter Myhr Ness
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 2009 July 02
Location: Norway
Posts: 3986
Posted: 2011 February 13 at 10:56am | IP Logged | 8 post reply
ECHO BURNING - a straight-forward thriller by Lee Child.

BITTER SEEDS by Ian Tregillis - done reading it, but thought I'd recommend it all the same. A sci-fi novel set during WW II. Very exciting.
(slight disclaimer: Ian's a friend of mine, but his books IS really good!)
Back to Top profile | search
 
Soren Hjortkær
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 2004 April 29
Location: Denmark
Posts: 161
Posted: 2011 February 13 at 11:14am | IP Logged | 9 post reply

I`m currently reading "The fall" by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. It`s the second part of a trilogi concerning a kind of virus outbreak. I won`t spoil the surprise for those who haven`t read it.

The first one is called "The Strain". That was a really good read.
Back to Top profile | search
 
Andrew Hess
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 2004 April 16
Location: United States
Posts: 9846
Posted: 2011 February 13 at 1:15pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply
Just finished THE PASSAGE - by Justin Cronin

Huge, thick (700+ pages) vampire novel, set in the near future when a government-created virus turns people into vampires who then infect others (thru obvious means), which leads to the fall of civilization.

Part of the novel is about what leads up to this, but the bulk is about the survivors a couple of generations down the road.

Couldn't finish it before I had to return it to the library, but it was such a slog almost didn't put myself on the list again. Finally finished it, but...it wasn't worth the slog. Interesting situations/developments/characters, but sparsely written; and ultimately, not a satisfying end in any way.
Back to Top profile | search | www
 
Joe Smith
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 2004 August 29
Location: United States
Posts: 6691
Posted: 2011 February 13 at 1:17pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply
ALWAYS BY MY SIDE - Jim Nantz
RATIO - Michael Ruhlman
Back to Top profile | search | www e-mail
 
Chris Wood
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 2009 July 17
Location: United States
Posts: 166
Posted: 2011 February 13 at 2:03pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply
Henry Clay — The Essential American, by Davis S. Heidler and JeanneT. Heidler. 

It's a great examination of a historical figure who was one of a triumvirate of Senate greats that also included Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun.
Back to Top profile | search
 

<< Prev Page of 261 Next >>
  Post ReplyPost New Topic
Printable version Printable version

Forum Jump
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot create polls in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum

 Active Topics | Member List | Search | Help | Register | Login