"Yay fer books!" - What We're Reading.

It's not a bad movie. Seeker is based off of the first book in The Dark is Rising series.

As I said in my first post, I'll keep this one open - think of it like a "What Song are you Listening To?" but for books. if someone started a "Music Suggestions 2008" thread, we wouldn't even consider closing the other thread.

This thread is a basic list of what you're reading, nothing special. T'other goes into more depth about books that people reckon others should read - not necessarily what they themselves are reading at the moment.

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Anyway, I've just started Inception, the first book in the Projekt Saucer series by W. A. Harbinson. It's Sci-Fi, and based on facts about flying saucers and rockets and... yeah... not my usual reading material, and if I saw it in a Library I wouldn't borrow it, but my neighbour has lent it to me, and I don't really want to give it back without reading it.

A chapter in, and I'm stopping - Return of the Crimson Guard came in the post today! Ian C. Esslemont and Steven Erikson come above anything else on my reading list at the moment. I'm going to start RotCG later tonight.

My favorite of the series so far is First Strike.

Actually I got it mixed up with the 4th in the series that I forgot I had... Ghosts of Onyx.
Ghosts of Onyx starts off with the Spartans on a mission, in space. One of the Spartans' harness fails and he is jetisoned through space on an unknown trajectory at an unknown speed...

Later in the book, you find that the incident was staged, and the UNSC hijacked that spartan to train a new series of Spartans, the Spartan IIIs. The original Spartans were never meant to go public. Their revealing to the public was a critical move to raise the moral of the UNSC forces, to show that the human race isn't giving up without a fight. As such, they are restricted from certain missions, missions that guarantee no survivors. The Spartan IIIs on the other hand, do not technically exist, so they are allowed to go on these high risk missions. In fact, that is the whole reason for their creation. And to keep their existance a secret, they are trained on a planet on the outskirts of the colonies, a planet named for its rich deposits of the magnificent mineral. Onyx. I am not going to ruin the main part of the book, but near the end, for me at least, gets the best response of mixed emotions, from sadness to joy to excitement.

Ghosts of Onyx. The fourth book in the series, and it has no direct ties to any of the games. Actually, Master Chief is hardly mentioned in the book.

Nearly finished Return of the Crimson Guard ().

I bought some new books today. Well, I say bought, I mean I exchanged money on a gift card for them (3 for 2 on kiddies books, too, so I only exchanged money for two of them! ): the new pTerry, Nation, the new Artemis Fowl, and the new Garth Nix book. I'll force my way through Inception as quickly as possible, so that i can start on these.