I’ve not posted lately on what I’m reading, so… By the way, I’ll be taking a bit about Ringworld’s plot, so if you don’t want it spoiled, skip the fiction section. 
I finished Ringworld about a week ago. While I posted previously about not liking it much, I ended up enjoying it for the most part. While there were quite a few science-rich areas that mostly baffled me (see my mention of the orbiting / approaching of the Ringworld in my first post), all in all it was an enjoyable book.
The only other thing that I didn’t care for, besides the headache inducing science sections, was the bit about Teela Brown having genetic luck. This just seemed a bit silly to me, especially when set next to the science / math heavy explanations of other stuff in the book. As an aside, Seeker, the chap the that Teela meets near the end of the book, reminded me a lot of Cloud from Final Fantasy 7. Mostly silent, badass fighter, uses a giant sword; in fact, that sounds just about identical to Cloud. Maybe some of the fellows at Squaresoft read Ringworld before starting work on the game. 
After finishing Ringworld, I started Ringworld Engineers. It wasn’t really my intention to read it so soon after finishing the first one, but while browsing books at the college library, it caught my attention. I figured it was destiny (or maybe I’m just genetically lucky), so I checked it out.
I’m not very far along in it at all, maybe 30 pages. I’m glad to find that it’s picking up much quicker than Ringworld did. Seeing as we already know the characters involved (mostly), by page 30, Louis, Chmee (Speaker-to-Animals), and an unknown puppeteer are on a ship, heading to the Ringworld. That’s about all that’s happened so far, so we’ll see how it turns out as I go along.
That’s pretty much it for fiction lately. While I don’t have any concrete plans yet, when I’m done with Engineers, I’d really like to wrap up my reading of the Dark Tower series by King.. or at least read the next one, Wolves of the Calla.
I have a few books in the nonfiction department that I’m currently reading, but I’ll save those for another post.
Heh. I am similarly wanting to continue some series. Actually my two main considerations were Dune (reading the prequel prequel books and reading summaries of the other ones to get myself refreshed for the new “Dune 7″ books), or finally getting around to the rest of The Dark Tower.
I just picked up a used copy of Dune a couple of days ago for $0.50.
I’m not sure when I’ll get around to starting it. I really don’t want to start any more series until I finish up a few, particularly The Dark Tower and The Belgariad. With TDT I have 3 books to go; Belgariad, 2 (I think). That’s not counting the Mallorean, which I think is a sister-trilogy to Belgariad.
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