What are you BEHIND on reading?

[Solaris]

Heh. I've got maybe ten new books we've picked up, either as something that looks interesting or latest one from a fav. author... and I haven't turned a page. Not even in the new Tamora Pierce or David Weber. Argh. I also have some Morts sent me that I've *got* to get read and sent back... my life has just been so crazy lately, I've had practically no time for reading anything.

And THAT my friends, is sad indeed.

Anyhow, I've got those Pratchett's to read, the new "Circle" Pierce Book, the new Honor Harrington, a trilogy of books by Kim Harrison that Troy wants me to read... and more.

So what are you behind on reading? :)

[cactusmaac]

Critical Mass
An Army At Dawn
A Walk In The Woods
The City and the Stars
Influence
Taxman Tactics
The Economist Guide To Business Numeracy
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Killing Pablo

I blame the X-Box.

[Arrjay]

Excelsior!
The Historian.
Naked Ape to Superspecies: Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis.
Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, gangsters and the birth of the comic book.
& a whole bunch of National Geographic magazines I've been receiving lately.

I blame work, T.V, Nintendo and general housework chores. Gotta read more

[Karl J. Barnes]

I still have like eight or nine books that I bought two years ago that still need to be read(I bought like 70 books at the time). It seems a bit opressive to have so many books still to read and try to control my itch to go to book stores and get new ones, I've failed a time or two. Still, I'm trudgin through and will hopefully finish my To Be Read stack, so I can honestly get some new books.

[Jonathan Bogart]

Everything.

[Shellhead]

Ten years ago, I borrowed Crime and Punishment from a friend while he was still living in the Midwest. I struggled to get through the first few pages a couple of times, then my friend moved to San Diego, and then Scotland. I still haven't gotten around to reading it yet. Maybe I will finish it before the class reunion in two years.

[Chuckg]

Haven't read the latest Honor Harrington. Getting vibes from it that it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay grim this time, and, well, me not wanting any grim right now.

[Roquefort Raider]

Freedom evolves
Metamorphoses
The rise of the Roman empire
Moby Dick
Alice in wonderland
The golden bough
Sagas of the icelanders.

I have no excuse, really. I should resist the urge
to buy more books than I can finish.

[Puma]

Eldest
Lord Loss

[Ilash]

A Storm of Swords. This book is just so freakin' huge, I swear it feels like I'm never going to finish it especially because I'm only on the fourth chapter (or something). Hell, it's so big that the English version of the book is split into two seperate novels (I have the American one though). I actually think I'll probably read something else halfway through, much like I did with the Stand.

And speaking of Stephen King, I also have Wizard and Glass that's been waiting for me to read but these epic-fantasy books are just such daunting reads that i will probably read a whole bunch of more modest books before I get to it.

[berk]

Freedom evolves
Metamorphoses
The rise of the Roman empire
Moby Dick
Alice in wonderland
The golden bough
Sagas of the icelanders.

I have no excuse, really. I should resist the urge
to buy more books than I can finish. Great list. Which translation of Metamorphoses are you thinking of reading? I looked at a few before settling on the Oxford ppb by A.D.Melville (which I had initially dismissed because I disliked the cover).

Polybius is one of my favourite ancient writers, definitely my favourite ancient historian after Herodotos and Thucydides. I wish Penguin would publish a more compete translation of his History. The current one leaves out the interesting period between the first two Punic Wars.

What's Freedom Evolves about? Everything else on your list is among my favourite books (except Moby Dick - never gotten around to reading it), so I'm curious about the only one I have't heard of.

[cactusmaac]

Also got

The Road Less Travelled
Are Universes Bigger Than Blackberries?
The Fall Of The Roman Empire

making me feel guilty.

[Deathstroke]

I've got about 100 novels waiting to be read, so I'm behind on everything.

[Dizzy D]

Dan Simmons Olympos (unfair because I have started it for a few pages, but can't seem to find the time to continue)
Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A bundle of short 70s Sci-Fi stories
Moorcock's Condition of Muzak (2nd attempt, first attempt was years ago before I read any of the other Jerry Cornelius novels)
Pratchet's A Hat full of sky.

[Roquefort Raider]

Great list. Which translation of Metamorphoses are you thinking of reading?

I have the Horace Gregory translation, but it's really an uninformed choice (I didn't really look at the respective values of different translations). Luckily, if I'm unhappy with it (which is unlikely!) there are three more versions available on the Perseus digital library website!

Polybius is one of my favourite ancient writers, definitely my favourite ancient historian after Herodotos and Thucydides.

I'm glad to hear it! I haven't read Polybius yet but I do love Thucydides (as well as the *ahem* imaginative Herodotos. I also love Tacitus).

What's Freedom Evolves about? Everything else on your list is among my favourite books (except Moby Dick - never gotten around to reading it), so I'm curious about the only one I have't heard of.

It's a book by Daniel Dennett, a philosopher who's interested in how natural selection plays a role in non-biological systems, such as the concept of free choice. I read his "Darwin's dangerous idea" and it's now a recommended book in a molecular biology class I teach. Great stuff!

Cheers,

- Ben

[ragnarok_2012]

Library books that I just had to renew:

Men of Tomorrow (maybe 40 pages from the end) by Gerard Jones-this is awesome, by the way

Tales to Astonish by Ronin Ro
Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez & Vicki Robin

Books I own:

Feast For Crows by George RR Martin
and a cast of dozens

I'm also eyeing the new Honor Harrington. Looking forward to that one after I read Feast For Crows.

[Sir Tim Drake]

Oh, God, what am I not behind on reading? Madame Bovary, numerous Spanish comics, How to Read Donald Duck, Stanley Fish's Is There a Text in This Class and other books I'm using as references for my term paper, and that's just the stuff I have to read for academic reasons... As for books I'm reading for fun, I started Mario Vargas Llosa's War of the End of the World and didn't have time to finish it. I have two Essentials and the one-volume Bone lying around, plus a bunch of comics, many of which are still left over from Comicon, and Barthes's Mythologies, and other books I bought over the summer and never finished... Oh well, it's a good thing I can read pretty fast.

[MKTerra]

The Young Wizards series, by Diane Duane (I'm up to A Wizard Alone, but haven't read Wizards at War, or whatever the title is).

The Redwall series, by Brian Jacques (last one I read was... hmm... well, I haven't read Loamhedge or Rakkety Tam).

The New Jedi Order series. Sooner or later I might finish it.

Also, I look forward to getting A Feast for Crows soon :)

[jimmyboy]

I have stacks of books I intend to read. Most of them are historical non-fiction and biographies, but I also have several older classics that I want to get to, like more stuff by Charles Dickens (one of my favorite authors), and several others.

That's not even thinking about the stacks of comic books that I have yet to touch. Try catching up on the bulk of DC and Marvel from the early 70's to today, and it can be a bit of a mountain to climb.

By the way, I suffer the same "itch" many of you do: I love shopping book stores and buying stuff that looks like an interesting read, even though I already have too much to try to read.

[Slam_Bradley]

I have tons of stuff I'm behind on reading. I figured it out a bit ago and I have about 15,000 pages of comics to read all in tpb form. I have probably 25 prose books in my "to read" pile.

[Damon]

Feast of Crows
Shamans crossing
Promise of a Witch King

Im behind on a bunch of other less known authors as well.

[Parallax48]

A Storm of Swords. This book is just so freakin' huge, I swear it feels like I'm never going to finish it especially because I'm only on the fourth chapter (or something). Hell, it's so big that the English version of the book is split into two seperate novels (I have the American one though).

While reading that book, my hand kept cramping for a week. It was worth it though. Martin is such a brilliant author. Speaking of which, I have A Feast for Crows waiting, alongside The Historian and Anansi Boys.

[Bright-Raven]

Good gods...

LITTLE FUZZY by H. Beam Piper

THE GIANTS NOVELS trilogy by James P. Hogan

ECCENTRIC CIRCLES by Rebecca Lickiss

INKHEART by Cornelia Funke

THE FEAR PRINCIPLE and LEARNING FEAR by B.A. Chepaitis

FULL TIDE OF NIGHT by J.R. Dunn

MINDSCAN by Robert J. Sawyer

THE FIRST CASUALTY and THEY ALSO SERVE by Mike Moscoe

END OF DAYS by Dennis Danvers

THE BUCHANAN CAMPAIGN by Rick Shelley

ELDEST by Christopher Paolini, but that's supposed to be a Christmas present, so I don't really count that.

Seems like I have about twenty other books by various SF authors that I've ordered from the SFBC, that I've either not gotten to or have tried to read, but just ended up not getting into. (Like INKHEART, for example - I've started that book six times and still haven't gotten through the first eight pages.)

A lot of these books I own because they were .25 to $1 paperbacks in bargain bins, Publisher's Warehouse or at flea markets. So I don't feel like I wasted money if I never get to them.

The SFBC books or ones I pay full price for, I try to at least push my way through. Or, barring that, give them away to someone else who wants to try reading it (and to get them out of the house so I don't feel guilty when it "stares" at me from the coffee table or bookshelf).

I've never felt bad about giving away a book I ended up not reading. How about you?

[Calamas]

Too numerous to name. I will die with more unread books than I can store in one place. I can’t help myself. I keep buying. I’ll never catch up, but I’ll always keep trying.

[Devon C.]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Tom Sawyer.

[Slappy san]

I have hundreds of book in my library that I haven't read. :eek:

[Rabid Trekkie]

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Volume 2 and a couple of religious books.

[cactusmaac]

Critical Mass
The Adventures of Ibn Batuta
To Rule The Waves
Chronicles Of Amber
The Count Of Monte Cristo
Going Postal
Islam And The Destiny Of Man
Conan The Adventurer
Mohammedan Rule In Medieval India
Trusts And Estates Law
Allan Quartermain
Colloquial Urdu
Line By Line: How To Improve Your Writing
The Missing Will
The Mouse That Roared
Understanding The Muslim Mind
The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay
Travels In The Mogul Empire

[Karl J. Barnes]

I haven't read ANYTHING in two weeks. I don't know why, but I just don't seem to have the energy or desire to read.

[Donald M.]

What am I behind on reading? Crap, too much to list!

A local bookstore had a going out of business sale over the summer and I picked up about 60 books on the cheap. I've read about ten of them so far. I'd have read more, but I can't resist picking up whatever new books (or books new to me) interest me!

[Adam Crocker]

Well there's that Kruschev book Kruschev: the Man and His Era by William Taubman that my brother got for Christmas in 2004 that I still haven't finished. It's lying on my shelf somewhere.

[cactusmaac]

I've reduced my list of unread books to five. Once I get down to three I might buy an XBox 360.

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad Chaudhuri
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Vasily Grossman, Writer at War by Anthony Beevor
Ebb and Flow by Omar Kureishi
Babur-nama by Emperor Zahiruddin Babur

[Shellhead]

Ten years ago, I borrowed Crime and Punishment from a friend while he was still living in the Midwest. I struggled to get through the first few pages a couple of times, then my friend moved to San Diego, and then Scotland. I still haven't gotten around to reading it yet. Maybe I will finish it before the class reunion in two years.

When somebody resurrected this thread, and I instantly thought of Crime and Punishment again. My friend is still in Scotland and may not make it to the class reunion this year. And I still haven't gotten around to reading Crime and Punishment yet.

[Sir Tim Drake]

Oh, God, what am I not behind on reading? Madame Bovary, numerous Spanish comics, How to Read Donald Duck, Stanley Fish's Is There a Text in This Class and other books I'm using as references for my term paper, and that's just the stuff I have to read for academic reasons... As for books I'm reading for fun, I started Mario Vargas Llosa's War of the End of the World and didn't have time to finish it. I have two Essentials and the one-volume Bone lying around, plus a bunch of comics, many of which are still left over from Comicon, and Barthes's Mythologies, and other books I bought over the summer and never finished... Oh well, it's a good thing I can read pretty fast.

Huh. I totally forgot about this post.

I finished Madame Bovary, How to Read Donald Duck, Bone and Mythologies, though I forgot about the last of these, and it took me a whole year to get back to it.

In the meantime, I bought lots and lots of other books, and only finished some of them. This was because I now have a slightly larger income and less reluctance to spend money, and I live in a place where they have library book sales twice a year. So I probably have at least two hundred books I'm behind on reading.

Oh well, it's a good thing I can read even faster.

[Roquefort Raider]

It's fun to resurrect this kind of thread!

My updated list looks a bit like this:

Freedom evolves √
Metamorphoses √
The rise of the Roman empire
Moby Dick
Alice in wonderland √
The golden bough
Sagas of the icelanders √
Heimskringla
Pirates et corsaires
The kite runner
Asimov's understanding physics

but the way things are going, I'm sure I'll get more books from the library before I start on any of these.

[Deathstroke]

Well, I don't have 100 novels waiting to be read anymore, but I do still have quite a few of them.

I read a lot of them but some I just gave up on ever getting to and sold them off or gave them away.

The big thing I'm behind on now is reading my copies of the Ireland and Scotland magazines I subscribe to.

[Sir Tim Drake]

Which were your favorite Sagas of the Icelanders? I've read Njal's Saga and Laxdaela Saga, and I liked the former a lot more than the latter.

[dupersuper]

DC Showcase books

Wheel of Time series

a bunch of books I got cheap at a library sale (quite alot of these; you fill a bag for 1$)

a box of books in my closet or storage room somewhere, buried under a bunch of crap since I moved a few years ago

[a. non]

I have a storage unit full of books, and the main ones I want to get to are

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman

[Expletive Deleted]

Everything.What he said, over two years ago.