What are you currently reading.

[sepp]

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There are Darkness masks?

Ah, not really, the mask was a paper cut out mask that the staff were giving out to the people who played their game

[Roselaar]

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There are Darkness masks?

Ah, not really, the mask was a paper cut out mask that the staff were giving out to the people who played their game

But still...   

[Sharptooth]

Last book i've read was "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke; great story, i've also tried the sequel but didn't like it very much 

Anyway, i pre-ordered in my public library (which is located just 10 or so meters near my home  ) the following:
"Dinotopia Lost" by Alan Dean Foster
"Legend of the Guardians" (2nd omnibus) by Katrhyn Lasky
"Oath Breaker" by Michelle Paver
"Warrior Cats" (first trilogy) by Erin Hunter

Hopefully they'll arrive next week 

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I'm about 3 chapters in to this one :



I liked the Dragonriders series so figured I would give this one  a shot...so far not much dino action.

[Sharptooth]

Looks good, at least judging from the cover... What's the story?

[Primeval12]

Primeval Shadow of the Jaguar, it's a good book

[Roselaar]

I'm about 3 chapters in to this one :



I liked the Dragonriders series so figured I would give this one  a shot...so far not much dino action.

Any relation to the funky movie Planet of Dinosaurs? Cover appears similar to that film's overall feel.

[Takama]

I'm about 3 chapters in to this one :



I liked the Dragonriders series so figured I would give this one  a shot...so far not much dino action.

Any relation to the funky movie Planet of Dinosaurs? Cover appears similar to that film's overall feel.

Yes i like to know too,is it the book that inspired it?

[Gwangi]

Yes i like to know too,is it the book that inspired it?

"Planet Dinosaur" was written in 1977 and "Planet of Dinosaurs" was released in 1978. Anne McCaffrey's book is about a mission to find new energy sources but in the "Planet of Dinosaurs" movie the crew was shipwrecked. Aside from a planet inhabited by dinosaurs in the future there is really not much similarity between the two and "dinosaurs in space" themes are somewhat common in science fiction. I don't think there is any relation between the two.

[radman]

Just started reading "Anansi Boys" by Neil Gaiman (that would have been a tough name to grow up with, btw, at least here in the US), a couple of chapters in, and it's interesting, not quite what I expected, but I wasn't sure what to expect, except maybe quirkiness.  Also checked out from library but haven't started, Stardust, by same author.
Thoughts, reviews, anyone?

[Roselaar]

The only thought popping in my head when hearing 'Neil Gaiman' in any capacity is 'oh, goodie!'. Gaiman is pretty cool. 

Currently reading 'The Amalgam Age of Comics: The DC Collection'. Dark Claw kicks ass! 

[Libraraptor]

Currently I´m pretty much into literature, Cesare Pavese, Peter Rühmkorf and Hermann Hesse galore!
Plus, I really like male literature, that doesn´t mean porn or erotica, but things like "Eisenhans" of Robert Bly or Steve Biddulphs "Manhood".

[DC]

 Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World by Foster
Great presentation of information easy to read.

The Age of Dinosaurs in South America (Life of the Past)  by Novas

Both these books are very good at presnting the sucessive faunas in time.  If you want to know who lived with what at a particular time both these books are very good.

[Gwangi]

"Once and Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals" by Sharon Levy, the title pretty much sums it up. Interesting read but also quite depressing, we truly do live in a damaged ecosystem, one that has been damaged for over 13,000 years. Before that I read "Carnivorous Nights: On The Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger" which was a really entertaining book but again...slightly depressing. I think my next book will not be about extinctions brought on by humans. I do highly recommended both though.

[deanm]

Earth Before The Dinosaurs, by Sebastien Steyer. Quite a good read so far (the first 60 pages or so are an excellent summary of early tetrapod evolution and limb development.  Reading this one before I read Jennifer Clack's "Gaining Ground" second edition.

[tyrantqueen]

This! Although it doesn't have any words, so does it count?




I love Dark Horse comics

[Battatitan]

What an interesting thread  Great books everyone. I should probably pick up a few of those myself.

As for my current reading, I'm steadily getting through a series of Agatha Christie books; I have to say, I love them! Right now I'm reading At Bertram's Hotel and I've just finished A Caribbean Mystery. It's no surprise that Bertram's is just as enthralling as the rest. 

Happy reading!

[radman]

The Plague Dogs, by Richard Adams.
Actually read this first about 30 (!) years ago.  Very English/Lakeland  dialog.  A good read, tantalizing in the sense that one can just sort-of, barely remember what happens next.  Recommended for anglophiles.  Having worked on occasion with animals in some similar contexts in the US, at least I can say that humane procedures have improved  since this time.

[Gwangi]

The Plague Dogs, by Richard Adams.
Actually read this first about 30 (!) years ago.  Very English/Lakeland  dialog.  A good read, tantalizing in the sense that one can just sort-of, barely remember what happens next.  Recommended for anglophiles.  Having worked on occasion with animals in some similar contexts in the US, at least I can say that humane procedures have improved  since this time.

I almost read that one and I've seen the animated movie a couple times. Have you read Watership Down also by Richard Adams? I've read that one and it is among my favorites, I should read it again.
Right now I'm reading "Illumination in the Flatwoods: A Season with the Wild Turkeys" by Joe Hutto. Excellent book about this man's experiences imprinting wild turkey chicks, there is also a PBS documentary about it as well.

[Takama]

I always heard that watership down was a movie that scared kids who were took to see it by mistake.


I am now reading several Text Books for College .