Just finished Beyond the Black River by Robert E Howard.

Currently...Um, mostly Geoff Johns Green Lantern run. On Deck is Hour of the Dragon, also by Howard.

Just finished: Dogs Stars - Peter Heller

Just started: Eisenhorn Omnibus - Dan Abnett

Has anyone read “Malice” by John Gwynne ? Is it any good?

Almost finished Game of Thrones.

Will start the Fredrick Feursythe trilogy, The Jackal/ Odessa file/ Dogs of War.

I'll be wrapping up Neal Stephenson's "Some Remarks" in a few days, and will then try to find a couple authors recommended to me earlier in this thread.

Probably going to crack open the new Road & Track magazine while I'm sitting here in the waiting room.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/10260118/The-Luminaries-by-Eleanor-Catton-review.html

The Luminaries, Victorian murder mystery told through the eyes of several people, a very good read.

Closed the covers on Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story, a biography of author David Foster Wallace by D. T. Max. It's great. Supplied many biographical origins for scenes in Wallace's Infinite Jest, which I'd recommend you go read, in case you haven't already (given something like that is your thing). There's a lot about the human DFW, the good and the less so, which made him even more relatable to me. I wanted to read on when I got to the end.

If you haven't sat down with anything by David Foster Wallace, perhaps you wanna listen to his speech This Is Water.

Lots of manga right now. And a few manhwa (korean equivalent of manga).

As someone mentioned a while back, "The Guns at Last Light" by Rick Atkinson.

Finished up Elmore Leonard's "Road Dogs". Not his best but still better than so much other stuff in the crime genre.

Honestly, I can't get enough of Leonard's work. Gonna start looking for more of his Westerns - I read "Gunsights" about a month back and loved it.

Right now it's

The Coming of The Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

The Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn (The novels are set in the Expanded Universe of the Star Wars galaxy.)

1. Heir to the Empire
2. Dark Force Rising
3. The Last Command

Not far from that, I read a book about french pro-nazi comics for kids, during the ww2 occupation (the "temeraire" magazine).

Fascinating stuff. Comedic strips and scifi flashgordon-like stories with strong racial and antisemitic undertones. I know quite a few people who, today, would still claim "come oooon, it's juuuust fantasy and entertainmeeeent"...

Now that you mentioned it, do you happen to know a book called A Writer At War by Vassili Grossman (it's a book about the battle at stalingrad against the nazis during the ww2 in a russian's point of view if I'm not mistaken)? In case you knew and have already read it, may I know what's your opinion about the book? I'm planning to read it soon.

Yeah, some people these days..

I've looked it up based on your post, thanks. Apparently, Beevor, who wrote the Stalingrad book I read, also edited the English translation of A Writer At War. So it wouldn't surprise me if Grossman's work was one of the sources for Beevor's book.

I'll look for this book too, thanks.

No problem. Thanks for replying too.

Maybe I someday I would go check on Beevor's books if I had the time.

The Wise Man's Fear at the moment.
The Name of the Wind was the first book that wasn't a later book in a series (as in neither a single, separate book nor a first in a series) that I gave a max rating to in 9 years, this is somewhat below it, but still just lovely in parts, still rather wise in others, and the atmosphere and the way it pulls you in remain.