I just finished Magic Street, by Orson Scott Card. In the last three weeks, I read Niel Gaiman's Anansi Boys, the first five books of David Drake and Eric Flint's Belisarius series (An Oblique Aproach, Into the Heart of Darkness, Destiny's Shield, Fortune's Stroke, and Tide of Victory [Dance of Time is on pre-order]), and Sue Grafton's "G" is for Gumshoe. I have started reading Dan Simmons Olympos, and my next book is Sue Grafton's "H" is for Homocide (I wonder her series of books could be translated into other languages, without radically changing the titles).
I have read some James Clavell; although, even after seeing the miniseries, it took me three attempts to read Shogun (stopped at page 79 on the first attempt, 283 on the second, but it becomes engrossing by about page 300, and it holds for the remaining 900 pages). After Shogun, I read Taipan, but chose not to read Noblehouse or King Rat. I did read Whirlwind a couple of years ago.
Tolkien gets a re-read, every couple of years, most recently just before the release of Peter Jackson's Two Towers (Jackson's films are great movies, but rather mediochre adaptations of the books. Rankin Bass productions did a much better version of The Return of the King, not because they kept more in, but had better ways of making the pieces that they kept seem to be a whole story. Rankin Bass also did an adaptaion of The Hobbit, both are animations).
I used to read alot of P. D. James mysteries, but I finally got tired of the fact that every character is an unhappy one. I like Ruth Rendell Mysteries, and may start to reread them all.
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