Author Topic: What are you reading now? (Read 63766 times)

Dark Clone · « **Reply #510 on:** September 17, 2011, 03:33:55 PM »

Almost done with "Acension" Best of the series so far

Lord-Penter · « **Reply #511 on:** September 22, 2011, 04:47:48 AM »

I am loving "Confidence Men" by Ruskind

Its great & sheds light into the inner circles of power in D.C. & how inept & corupt & influenced things really are.

Slobba_the_Hutt · « **Reply #512 on:** September 22, 2011, 07:36:09 PM »

I'm halfway done with Abyss

so far I'm not too hyped about crazy jedi kids and their misadventures

Lord-Penter · « **Reply #513 on:** October 23, 2011, 06:23:55 AM »

I am reading: "Retirement Heist" by Ellen Schultz

A great read, true accounts of how big Companies have stolen $ from pension plans to fill their own coffers from employees.
It tells of what & how they do it. If anyone works for any big Corp. or Gov't & you think you've got retirement coming? or a friend or family?
You need to read this book. Like Life Ins policies being taken out on workers w/o them knowing?!? so when you die they get paid!!
& your family gets nothing?! WTF!! or pensions being bundled with CDS (Credit Default Swap) or deratives which are worthless & sold to
everyone all over the world so when you retire? there is no pension.

Dark Clone · « **Reply #514 on:** October 24, 2011, 02:36:59 PM »

Quote from: Slobba_the_Hutt on September 22, 2011, 07:36:09 PM

I'm halfway done with Abyss

so far I'm not too hyped about crazy jedi kids and their misadventures

Don't worry dude. It's a tough read until you get to "Allies" and gets alot better. "Ascension" was GREAT!

Jedimom · « **Reply #515 on:** October 27, 2011, 07:32:12 PM »

"Ready Player One" by Ernie Cline (of "Fanboys" fame) deserves a read for any geek that was alive in the 1980s. I have smiled a lot so far and I am not quite half-way through

Dark Clone · « **Reply #516 on:** November 10, 2011, 01:38:12 PM »

SW: Riptide
I'll tell you what. CrossCurrent and now Riptide. These are two of the best novels to date. The storyline is GREAT! and all the little hints as to what Thrawn was doing back in the day is really interseting.

Lord-Penter · « **Reply #517 on:** November 17, 2011, 06:09:51 AM »

I am reading "Throw them all out" Schweizer very interesting to me, as a former trader. We are drilled about insider trading & its VERY illegal,
ask Martha Stewart? This book explains how all the members of Congress & Senate who sit in on meetings & then trade their own money to
make maximum profit & they get away with it. This is how the Fxxxing idiots make 2-3million a year! & all sides participate equally.
The get info & then place their bets, knowing what is going to happen next & make MONEY off of it. If I did that?! 5 years in FED Pen min.
Makes me wonder if all the bailouts were to protect the politicians investments?

?They seem to only care about themselves.

Dark Clone · « **Reply #518 on:** November 19, 2011, 12:04:09 PM »

Still reading "Riptide", but just picked-up Revan. Can't wait to start on that.

Dark Clone · « **Reply #519 on:** November 26, 2011, 12:41:54 PM »

Started on REVAN. Really getting into the "Old Republic" era

jedibrian77 · « **Reply #520 on:** November 27, 2011, 01:14:00 AM »

Quote from: Dark Clone on November 26, 2011, 12:41:54 PM

Started on REVAN. Really getting into the "Old Republic" era

I havnt gotten that book yet but I really really want to read it

Jedimom · « **Reply #521 on:** November 27, 2011, 05:54:08 PM »

On an alien kick right now so I am reading "The Grays" by Whitley Strieber followed up with "Majestic"

Dark Clone · « **Reply #522 on:** December 10, 2011, 11:43:46 AM »

Quote from: jedibrian77 on November 27, 2011, 01:14:00 AM

Quote from: Dark Clone on November 26, 2011, 12:41:54 PM
Started on REVAN. Really getting into the "Old Republic" era

I havnt gotten that book yet but I really really want to read it

Dude. This book is AWESOME! You won't look at Revan the same again. It picks-up after the KOTOR game. He's transformed. (thanks to the Jedi mind-wiping him) This book has everything and explains alot. The Emperor in it been around for a 1000 years.

Dark Clone · « **Reply #523 on:** December 17, 2011, 02:48:07 PM »

SW: Shadow Games

Dark Clone · « **Reply #524 on:** January 20, 2012, 02:48:54 PM »

Darth Plagueis

Not bad so far, but learned that Darth Tenebrous (Plagueis' Master) also secretly trained another. So much for the "Rule of Two."
Startes to set up how the Sith will destroy the Jedi Order by political means and not by brute force.

Dark Clone · « **Reply #525 on:** February 26, 2012, 02:31:28 PM »

SW: Coruscant Nights II Street of Shadows.

Finally can get caught back up with this series. All the new novels have been keeping me pretty busy. But I don't mind at all.

Lord-Penter · « **Reply #526 on:** February 29, 2012, 05:54:46 AM »

reading "Rigged" by Cass Its true & factual accounts on how all electronic voting is manipulated & IT WILL MAKE YOU ANGRY!!
The amount of proof that he has uncovered will get him suicided by powers that be. like Vince Foster or D.C. Madamm & many others.
I've always wondered how do you "double tap" yourself? or hang yourself w/hands & feet bound? & its ruled a suicide?!?

Dark Clone · « **Reply #527 on:** March 18, 2012, 11:10:14 AM »

SW: Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse

Dark Clone · « **Reply #528 on:** April 27, 2012, 12:00:33 PM »

SW:Scourge

Jedimom · « **Reply #529 on:** April 29, 2012, 01:52:55 PM »

"Tough Sh*t" by Kevin Smith

Dark Clone · « **Reply #530 on:** August 15, 2012, 02:11:32 PM »

Lost Tribe of the Sith The Collected Stories
By: John Jackson Miller

Hand So Low · « **Reply #531 on:** August 15, 2012, 02:35:41 PM »

Just finished Dune. Absolutely the best sci-fi book I've ever read. It's a beast, but if you can make it through, it's a great story.

Now reading SW: Red Harvest

Dark Clone · « **Reply #532 on:** September 01, 2012, 08:57:01 AM »

Finished "Lost Tribe of the Sith"

Now reading X-Wing: Mercy Kill

colwildcat · « **Reply #533 on:** September 01, 2012, 10:27:18 AM »

A year or so back, I started on the books from the end of ROTJ and am trying to read them all chronologically. I'm on "Star by Star" in the New Jedi Order series. It's tough sledding, and I'm a bit tired of the Yuuzhan Vong story, but I'm going to keep going.

Dark Clone · « **Reply #534 on:** September 01, 2012, 11:41:25 AM »

Quote from: colwildcat on September 01, 2012, 10:27:18 AM

A year or so back, I started on the books from the end of ROTJ and am trying to read them all chronologically. I'm on "Star by Star" in the New Jedi Order series. It's tough sledding, and I'm a bit tired of the Yuuzhan Vong story, but I'm going to keep going.

NJO and the X-Wing series were tough to get through. Don't know if you keep up with things, but as long as you stayed away from LOTJ and FOTJ there should be spoilers for you.

Hand So Low · « **Reply #535 on:** September 01, 2012, 12:11:19 PM »

On my 7th (yes, seventh) time through the Harry Potter books. Just finishing Chamber of Secrets.

Dark Clone · « **Reply #536 on:** January 11, 2013, 03:15:36 PM »

Finished "Scoundrels"
Timothy Zahn needs to step out of his comfort zone and get back to basics.
All this story was and Ocean's 11-12 rip-off that was tough to get through. His novels are becoming to predictable.

Dark Clone · « **Reply #537 on:** February 07, 2013, 02:21:45 PM »

Went old-school and re-read Han Solo at Star's End and Han Solo's Revenge
GREAT books and at a time when there was only the Marvel Comics as the official EU.
When the EU was pure and simple.

Hand So Low · « **Reply #538 on:** February 07, 2013, 04:28:28 PM »

Quote from: Hand So Low on September 01, 2012, 12:11:19 PM

On my 7th (yes, seventh) time through the Harry Potter books. Just finishing Chamber of Secrets.

Midway through "Order of the Phoenix"

Slobba_the_Hutt · « **Reply #539 on:** February 13, 2013, 02:52:09 PM »

just finished reading ANNIHILATION
took only2 1/2 days
the hard cover book is over 200 pages
must be large type

SCOUNDRELS is up next for me