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Yes.

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I think 'Dust' wraps up the series quite nicely.

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Tried any of his other work? Halfway Home has a similar feeling to the Silo series, pretty quick read.

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I haven't read anything else by him, but I've got 'Halfway Home' in my Amazon wish list.

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100% it is!

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Starship Troopers by Heinlein, been going old school Sci Fi lately. I'm also getting ready for a 2 week vacation so I ordered several other books to reread.

Dune
Foundation
Hyperion

Just finished Ubik and Ender's Game. :tu

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A great book Tom...

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I re-read the Hyperion series every couple of years. I'm currently about 1/4 of the way through the last one, 'Rise of Endymion'.

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In the last couple weeks I read...
All 4 books of The Hyperion Cantos, which were good, but about 3 books too long.
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke. Might have been a real piece that spoke at a time, but I didn't think it was all that great. Not nearly for the accolades it gets.
Going Postal - Terry Pratchett. Funny and kept me hooked.
Lock In - John Scalzi. It was pretty good. I'd recommend it.
I am Legend - Richard Matheson. I started reading it yesterday morning and never put it down till I was done last night. I loved it. It was nothing like the movie, as you can imagine, wasn't strung out an extra 10,000 words, and was pretty damned awesome.
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut. Bleh.

I know there were a few more in there that I finished, and at least 3 or 4 that I started that were so awful I gave up.
I Am Legend was easily the best of the bunch.

Edit:
I just saw the couple posts above. I thought I was the only person in the world who ever waded through The Cantos. :tu

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If you guys like Hugh Howey, I, Zombie is pretty good. It's an easy read, and it's from the Zombie's point of view. Kinda dark, but a fun read.

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Halfway through The Dome, Stephen King. Interesting.

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You My People Shall Be Holy - A festschrift honoring Rev. Dr. John Kleinig
Support And Defend - Tom Clancy
Lord Foul's Bane - Stephen Donaldson

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Caught up on a lot of reading around the end of the year with travel and vacation.
Finished up A Dance with Dragons so now it is a wait game.
Read Inferno by Dan Brown, the first 4 books in the Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne and getting ready to read the last 2.

Heads up, Havana Nocturne is the Audible daily deal if you a good book on Cuba and the mob for $5. http://www.audible.com/pd/History/Ha..._rd_s=center-2

happy reading in 2015

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Started reading the Lee Child series with Jack Reacher. Probably read them all before i hit a new author.

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The Shell Collector - Hugh Howey. I've read all his stuff, enjoyed them all.
I read The Old Man's War again the other day, now I want to read Ghost Brigades again.
Finally got to Ubik, I enjoyed it.

I just recently finished Canticle For Leibowitz, I'm trying to finish up all of the SF Masterworks.
Problem with that list is that there's a lot of Fantasy and not a lot of Science Fiction.

I recently read "The Stars My Destination" and "Godwhale".
Godwhale was really good, I thoroughly enjoyed it. A dystopian/sci-fi mixture. Semi-dystopian, anyways. You just gotta read it. It's very different and very fun.

Michael and Tom, I think you'd love this one if you haven't read it yet. :tu

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Fevre Dream
That was really fun. Out of my normal type of things I read, it was about vampires and steamboats on the Mississippi when they owned the river. It was long on steamboat and short on vampire, and really, really good.

I'm reading Space Viking - H. Beam Piper right now. It's a bit draggy, I'd put it down were it not so highly vauted. It's a short space opera, I'd say. And the way Piper writes, he's hard to follow.

I read Little Fuzzy - H. Bean Piper the other day.
I got onto Little Fuzzy because I was going to reread Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi.
It's a reimagining of Little Fuzzy.
Of the two, I think Fuzzy Nation is a lot better. But without anything to compare to, Little Fuzzy is excellent. Both are very worthwhile.

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"Tinseltown"
William Mann

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Stephen King's Revival. Enjoyable quick read.

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"The First Paul" by John Crossman and Marcus Borg.
It's biblical scholarship written for the layman. Talks about the view you get of Paul when you look only at the letters that are universally ascribed to him. Apparently half the letters are regarded by many scholars as having been written by others later. Well written and not too far over my head (lifelong churchgoer but by no means a scholar) so probably accessible to anyone who is interested. I thought it was fascinating. Warning: the authors would be classified by some as centrist or liberal in their view of religion and society. Obviously their biases are reflected in their biblical interpretations. On the other hand they footnote well so contrasting views are easy to track down for a balanced view.

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Yes, Borg and Crossan are definitely quite far in the Jesus Seminar point of view of things. They are good writers and Crossan is very entertaining with his impish grin and Irish accent when interviewed. But I certainly find grave fault with their theology- as an amateur Bible and Historical Jesus scholar.

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Revel, Riot and Rebellion, Popular politics and culture in England 1603-1660 by David Underdown

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I'm thinking of trying something from Ben Witherrington. He also seems to write for the layman. Have you read any of his work?

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Looks interesting - maybe a little specialized for me though. Especially with the sticker shock associated with university presses :). Are you a student or a professor?

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Witherington takes a much more "conservative" view of things. I have read him and he is also a good writer. Another recommended writer is Darrell Bock. I also like Bart Ehrman even though I disagree almost completely with his pov.

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I read Little Fuzzy sometime last year as part of an anthology. I was quite surprised at how good the story was. Now I am intrigued about Fuzzy Nation and will have to add that to my list (I like Scalzi a lot).

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You'll enjoy it, Michael. It's a lot less absorbed with the courtroom drama.

I'm just finishing "Consider Phlebas".
It's the beginning of a 10 book series by Iain Banks.
It could have been trimmed by about 200 pages, quite frankly and bored me to tears in spots.
I'm going to read the second installation "The Player of Games" and if that doesn't shake out, I'm done with the series.
I really only started the series to read "The Use of Weapons". I hate to burn 900 pages of boredom to get to it, though.

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Just finished Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle last night and am currently in the middle of All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.

I recommend All the Light highly. Wolf in White Van was just incredibly convoluted. It did however, maintain my interest.

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Just started Stephen King's 'Mr Mercedes'

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Last hot battle of the Cold War by Peter Polack. A study on the battle of Cuito Cuanavale during the Angolan war (1987). He studies the role of Cuba vs South Africa including some details on CIA involvement.

Try not to bullsh@t people who were there Peter.

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American Sniper. Halfway through it. Want to finish it before I see the movie.

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Just finished Tina Fey's book Bossypants and now re-reading The Walking Dead comics

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Still working thrugh the Complete Sherlock Holmes (a new guilty pleasure of mine) and just started "How to live on 24 hours a day" by Arnold Bennet

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Just finished Unbroken and now reading Asimov's Second Foundation.

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Cigar aficionado - Getting Gotti

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"Dr. Mutter's Marvels: a true tale of intrigue and innovations at the dawn of modern science"

-Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

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"In Pursuit of Giant Bass"

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The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.

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"Empire of Sin: A atory of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans" - Gary Krist

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The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
I'm on the last book. Nice light reading but the 4th book could use some polish

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Just finished The Eye of the World, the first book of The Wheel of Time series. I'm intending to read through the entire series, but I'm not used to books lasting me four weeks to read! Planning to start The Great Hunt shortly. Thinking about reading something a little lighter in between each book though.

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I read the first 5 of Iain Bank's Culture Series. Consider Phlebas, Player of Games, Use of Weapons, State of the Art and Excession.
I needed a break, so I switched to BV Larson, the Undying Mercenaries series.
I'd already read Steel World, so I read Dust World, Tech World, and I'm almost done with Machine World.
I like BV Larson, but the series is getting thin.
Iain Banks, I just can't get with him. He jumps around and keeps me confused way too much.
I'm gonna get back to BV Larson (Star Force Series) or Marko Kloos (Frontlines Series) next.

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Reading Brothers, We Are Not Professionals by John Piper, Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler, and Sandstorm by James Rollins.

Audio books: Finished listening to Conquerer by Conn Iggulden. Now listening to Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Smith and read by David Hyde Pierce (Niles Crane from Fraser).

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"Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibalism, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art" - Carl Hoffman

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Red Rising by Pierce Brown

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Stevenson's Treasure Island. Arrrggh!

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Tom Clancy support and defend by Mark Greaney

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