My list of books I want to read is fairly short right now.

Tom Clancy: In Cold Blood
Jack Finney: Time and Again
Harry Harrison: The Stainless Steel Rat

Judging by the sheer quantity of replies, I suppose 'reading' has gone out of style.

THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT?!?! oh my god i love that guy. i have most of the series. it's very good. funny too. that's what inspired me to maybe do a thief training rp. i've read those books so many times.

and i'm working on executive order by tom clancy...but he drags out scenes too long by putting ONE incident into the views of the secret service, the president, the fbi, the police, and the firemen...and the enemies, and the people of america. that i'm sure if you took out everything like that and only did one person's take on a subject that book could be chopped into 1/3 its size. so i've taken a break from it to read some pride'n prejudice and i'll work on beowulf (the seamus heaney translation) next.

All the political books by Tom Clancy are slow, (that just happens to be most of his current work).

Never read Stainless Steel Rat but I did read Stars and Stripes in Peril (also by Harry Harrison). I think there is another one Stars and Stripes Triumphant or something like that I need to read.

But usually for alternate history I read Harry Turtledove. A new book came out in the American Empire series. Read his Worldwar and Colonization series.

In the last two weeks I finished the 9 books of the Wheel of Time series and am disappointed it doesn't even seem close to ending even with book 10. I will probably wait till 10 comes out in paperback. I also finished Star by Star.. (I finally found it in a 2nd hand store).


Currently reading X-Wing: Book 2 about the NR conquest of Coruscant. I've never read the Xwing series.

I have one Tom Clancy book.. Executive Orders.. bought it for $5.00.. it was a slow read. I prefer just watching his movies and playing Ghost Recon... lol

I've browsed Harry Turtledove, never picked one up though. They do look interesting.

WoT is a very long series, I do wish it would move a little faster. After book 7 the series started to lag (the ending of Lord of Chaos is the best) Book 10 is a bit slow as well, but starts to heat up then... it's done. Disappointing.

I should grab the X-Wing series from the library again some time; it's been a few years.

I know this was books you want to read, but Imma list all the books in my personal library I love...

Books by Greg Bear (My fave author)

Eon
Legacy
The Forge of God
Anvil of Stars
Blood Music

Books by Frederik Pohl (My second Fave author)

Gateway
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
Heechee Rendezvous
Annals of Heechee
The Gateway Trip: Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee
World at the End of Time

Other Good Books

Orion Among the Stars
Green Mars
Blue Mars
Red mars
Engines of God
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Man O' War
Future Battlefeilds
The entire "Left Behind" series
Cosmic Voyage

I'm waiting on Terry Pratchett's Night Watch, I just ordered it last week and can't wait :)

the x-wing series is my favorite star wars series.

all the books about luke and stuff are usually pretty boring to me because he's "finding himself" and etc...

x-wing is a bit more fast paced...tho i prefer aaron allston's books because they mixed in more humor and still kept some romance in them too...

stackpole focused so much on pairing off his pilots and stuff and pretty much began to focus on corran only because he'd made him into something great. aaron kind of flips between focusing on pilots...like one focused on kell and the other on face, etc...

but i suppose i'm also just partial to the fighters of star wars...so my opinion could be terribly biased.

Since I've just finished reading Ring, by Suzuki Koji, I'm dribbling over the prospect of the translations of the sequels, Spiral and Loop being released in 2004 and 2005 respectively.

I've managed to get my filthy mits on a copy of the Manga translation of Spiral, and it's absolutely fantastic. I can't wait for the book . . .

*drools*