What are you reading?

[DarkArtist81]

Reading "Exile" in the Legacy of the Force SW novel series.
Also reading TONS of history, math and English Comp books for school

Just re-read "The Killing Joke" and "The Man Who Laughs" of Batman/Joker lore in preparing my recent customs and getting pumped for Dark Knight.

 

[Darth Caedus]

Also 1/3 of the way through Labrynth of Evil and it is a great prequel to ROTS. The more Greivous the better

That was a really good one. You need to read Dark Lord: Rise of Darth Vader after that.

Star by Star - New Jedi Order series

That's a great book, the end made me

Reading "Exile" in the Legacy of the Force SW novel series.
Also reading TONS of history, math and English Comp books for school

Just re-read "The Killing Joke" and "The Man Who Laughs" of Batman/Joker lore in preparing my recent customs and getting pumped for Dark Knight.

Gotta catch up, #8 Revelation comes out next week; can't wait for that. For batman, you should read The Long Halloween, Dark Victory, and Haunted Knight (great trilogy).

I'm currently rereading Kingdom Come, Watchmen, The Silmarillion, couple of school books (strategic management, information systems, a random walk down wall street), Darth Bane: Rule of Two (just finished Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, which was awesome), next tuesday will start Star Wars Legacy: Revelation, and couple other stuff I can't remember.

 

[Vader AL]

That's a great book, the end made me

uh oh.....first Chewie and now something else! too bad it's a huge book and I'm only on page 150; long way to go.

 

[DarkArtist81]

Gotta catch up, #8 Revelation comes out next week; can't wait for that. For batman, you should read The Long Halloween, Dark Victory, and Haunted Knight (great trilogy).

I'm currently rereading Kingdom Come, Watchmen, The Silmarillion, couple of school books (strategic management, information systems, a random walk down wall street), Darth Bane: Rule of Two (just finished Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, which was awesome), next tuesday will start Star Wars Legacy: Revelation, and couple other stuff I can't remember.

I know... I am trying to burn through this one to at least get into Sacrifice.

And I LOVE the Sale, Loeb trilogy. They handled Two Face, Scarecrow and Catwoman better than any writer team before them. The Long Halloween and Dark Victory stand as the BEST Two Face tales ever written. I was so giddy when the used the Scarecrow line from Haunted Knight in Batman Begins... "Dr. Crane isn't here right now.... but if you'd like to make an appointment..."

I can only hope they give the Joker some scenes reminiscent of The Killing Joke or Man Who Laughed, many great ones to choose from. Those two stories are, for me anyway, the definitive Joker stories. Another one is A Death in the Family, when he beat Jason Todd to death with a crowbar.

 

[Agent0028]

Another one is A Death in the Family, when he beat Jason Todd to death with a crowbar.

I keep going back and forth on whether to read that one or not. It sounds like a good story, but then I think about Joker as being an ambassador and it seems stupid. But I guess it can't be too bad if you consider it a difinitive Joker story...

 

[Darth Loki]

Seriously, anyone who's a fan on LOTR really needs to check out Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn from Tad Williams. Check out the reveiws on metactritic. Most people say it's better than LOTR! Haven't finished so I won't go that far but I promise you won't be disappointed.

 

[CAhobbit]

Lamb: The Gospel According the Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal - Christopher Moore

Hilarious book thus far. Only about 100 pages in.

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien

About my 5th re-read. A little over halfway through and really enjoying it.

 

[Darth Caedus]

uh oh.....first Chewie and now something else! too bad it's a huge book and I'm only on page 150; long way to go.

Probably shouldn't have said that, but yea, get ready. That story pretty much ends with the Dark Nest Trilogy (which is pretty good)

 

[Darklord Dave]

"Lamb" is very funny - in fact Christopher Moore's stuff is consistantly funny.

I just finished "Blasphemy" - a interesting thriller in the vein of Crichton.

Currently "Superman Vs. Hollywood" all about the Man of Steel on the Screen of Silver. Not much new information if you followed the developments of every incarnation as closely as I did - but it's a good distillation of how the character has been treated and mistreated.

Also trying to slog through Frijof Capra's Leonardo Biography and a bunch of books about the Masons and the founding of America which I'm reading for work.

 

[Reinhardt]

just finished "No One Gets Here Gets Out Alive" - a biography on Jim Morrison.

Absolutely Brilliant!!

 

[Darth Caedus]

Currently "Superman Vs. Hollywood" all about the Man of Steel on the Screen of Silver. Not much new information if you followed the developments of every incarnation as closely as I did - but it's a good distillation of how the character has been treated and mistreated.

I'm sure that book's author LOVES Jon Peters, freaking idiot...

 

[Bannister]

I can only hope they give the Joker some scenes reminiscent of The Killing Joke or Man Who Laughed, many great ones to choose from. Those two stories are, for me anyway, the definitive Joker stories. Another one is A Death in the Family, when he beat Jason Todd to death with a crowbar.

I need to dig out my copy of the Killing Joke and re-read it. It has been a while.

 

[Bannister]

I'm sure that book's author LOVES Jon Peters, freaking idiot...

This movie needs a giant metal spider. Wasn't that one of his requirements for the script? Something like that.

 

[Darth Caedus]

This movie needs a giant metal spider. Wasn't that one of his requirements for the script? Something like that.

Oh yes, and for Superman to have body guards....WTF???

 

[Bannister]

Oh yes, and for Superman to have body guards....WTF???

 

[lcummins]

Do you guys really read more than one book at a time (except for school or work related)??? I could never do that! Once I'm "in" a book, I want to finish it...


I'm currently reading Mu Shi Shi volume 3; after that the new Death Note novel followed by Death Note 13 and Blood+ volume 1.

 

[Agent0028]

I never read more than one book at a time either. One time I left a book at school over winter break and had to go buy another copy to finish it.

 

[DarkArtist81]

I keep going back and forth on whether to read that one or not. It sounds like a good story, but then I think about Joker as being an ambassador and it seems stupid. But I guess it can't be too bad if you consider it a difinitive Joker story...

Some of that story is pretty hokey, but that death scene is brutal. Just shows how far the Joker is willing to go to achieve his ends. He doesn't mind killing a child to hurt his enemy.

 

[Agent0028]

Yeah I'lll probably read it some time just because of its importance in the Batman mythos.

 

[Darklord Dave]

Depends - I may read one nonfiction and one fiction at the same time as a comic book collection. Depends on my mood as to which I pick up.

I never read more than one fiction at a time.