Anybody read any good books lately?

I'm contemplating spending a large amount of what's left ofmy wage this week on all Robin Hobb books - four trilogies. I think I've got about £50 ($100) to spend (£120-odd is going to my parents to pay for things like my graphics card).

Anyone read the series "The Dresden Files" by Jim Butcher? I'm about to start the series, so I was curious what I should expect.

I haven't read it, but members on the other forum I'm active on seem to be crazy about it. By all accounts it's very good.

What are some of the books called?

Storm Front
Fool Moon
Grave Peril
Summer Knight
Death Masks
Blood Rites

Forgive the double post, however I wanted to let others know that I just finished Storm Front, the first book in the Dresden Files series, and it was fantastic.

One of the better stories to blend modern technology with magical forces that I've read, and full of dry humor. I'd recommend it to any fan of Scifi or Fantasy books, and apparently this has spawned a SciFi channel show (according to the sticker on the cover stating "As Seen On SciFi".

I'll be checking out the next books over the next day or two.

I just want to chime in since I was reminded just now of a book I read recently called The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris. A few parts seem slightly too theory-heavy but the rest of it (while pretty much all informed theory) is very engrossing and I'd recommend it for anyone interested in humans and/or biology.

Reading short stories by Hemmingway now. Beautiful prose, but he was obsessed with death.

Every book I've read in the past couple months I've gotten from suggestions by Zelaron users.

I read:
The Alphabet of Manliness by Maddox - not a very good book, IMO. Waste of $17. It gets old after the first 10 pages. It's the same ol' schtick.

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max - AWESOME book. I can't remember if it was Sov or Kagom that reccommended it, but holy shit, this guy is hilarious. Some of the things he's done in his life are pretty freakin outrageous. If you want to laugh about drunken revelry, pick up this book ASAP.

Now I'm onto World War Z. It better be good, Vault! They didn't have a paperback so I had to shell out $25 for this damn thing. Hoping it's worth it!

What are you guys currently reading?

I've finished the whole series of The Dresden Files (9 books so far), and they're really good. They're a Contemporary Fantasy (modern day + magic) series about a young Wizard who became a Private Investigator, so they're also somewhat supernatural mysteries.

The series sounded cheesy, but it's actually pretty damn good. The character has a very dry sense of humor and isn't exactly a 'goody twoshoes' type of hero.

http://www.jim-butcher.com/books/dresden/1/

Has the first two chapters available online for you to sample.

Recently finished Stephen King's The Stand (the unabridged version, at that), and lats night I started and finished the first book of Robin Hobb's Tawy Man Trilogy - Fool's Errand.

Both were very good books.

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens is a pretty good one.

Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar is pretty good as well if philosophy is your thing.

Finished the second book in The Tawny Man Trilogy today - The Golden Fool. Another good book by Hobb. I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on the last book, Fool's Fate, but I'm also not looking forward to finishing it. By all accounts it's a certain end for the three trilogies linked trilogies, of which Tawny Man is the third.

I think I might buy them.

I read a good book about part of the field I will be going into, it's called "Paramedic" by Peter Canning.
It's obviously about Paramedicine, and what I like about it is he uses real stories from his field service as well as real medical terminology. Nice read for inbetween semesters when I have a few moments to spare here and there.

I'm sure it'll be made into a movie starring Nicholas Cage soon enough.

About two weeks ago my thirteen books I'd ordered arrived:

The new Pratchett - Making Money
All twelve Robin Hobb books (four trilogies, three of which are interwined)

I'm slowly making my way through them all. Onto the ninth book now.

Holy shit! Eight to nine books in two weeks? If that's what you call "slowly," then when the hell do you sleep?

From about midnight to seven on weekdays, and three to noon at the weekend.

I'm a fast reader with an absurdly long attention span at times.

I've had much better 'sprees', though. About six months ago I stupidly got out 20 quite beefy books (all over the 800 page mark), with a time limit of three weeks in which to read them. Ah, that was fun.