Unless, apparently, one is referring to the Minotaur with regard to the House.  I gather that there are weirder iterations still.

!i!

Ah, yes, my friend Eric has the version with Minotaur in red and house greyed out.  I loaned my copy of HoL to my brother, but doesn't the publication information mention a version with red and blue?  I wonder if that's just another artifice; I've never seen a copy like that.

I got 3 nice books for christmas:

Lies and the lieing liars who tell them: A fair and Balanced look at the right. By Al Franken.

Dude, where's my country? By Michael Moore.

The complete zombie survival guide. By Max Brooks.

Quote from: AnthrobotGalactic North by Alastair Reynolds. Its a book of hard SF short stories set in the universe of the Revelation Space books.

WOW! You mean you can read?!?!?!

Currently reading a 1982 collection of Isaac Asimov's robot stories.
I've decided to work my way through my library in alphabetical order, although I've already read all the Harry Harrisons in my collection in the last couple of months.

Currently in the middle of Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond.  A fairly well done anthropological and biological study of why cultures, nations, etc may have turned out the way they did.  Despite the bigness of the topic, its fairly readable -- though not quite as much as the marketing blurbs would tell you.

I have a collection of Conan short stories as well as a collection of classic science fiction short stories that I've been reading now and again.  I did just finish Aasimov's first Foundation book.  I'm not sure if I'll go onto the rest of the series, maybe just the first trilogy since that seems to get the most accolades.

I picked up Terry Brooks' Armageddon's Children but I'm having trouble getting into it.  I was in the mood for some post-apocalypse fiction but A.G. seems a bit too much like Left Behind and not enough like Gamma World.  We'll see though.

On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates.  She might be dead wrong about Liebling,  but she has a deep understanding of the spirit of the game.

I was reading Eragon, I left it half way through, maybe I'll retake on it after the exams.

Right now, I halfway through the 2nd Game of Thrones book, and I just started Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall.

I'm also getting a book discussion group together, which is reading Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles first.

Q, a novel about the reformation and the wars that accompanied it, ostensibly written by Luther Blisset but in fact written by four Italian communists.

Recently I got through a lot of stuff due to being on holiday, I read:

Dogs and Demons, a book about modern Japan and particularly about politics and the construction industry

The Quincunx, a fabulous faux-Victorian novel

I, Claudius and Claudius the God, the great Robert Graves pair of novels

Montaillou, a book about a medieval village based on period records

The White Mughals, a fantasticly well written history of the cross-pollination between the English and the Mughals in late Mughal period India.  Very timely, as in part the book is intended to show how historically things were not as black and white as we now paint them and that there is nothing inevitable about clashes of civilisations

There were others, but those spring to mind.

Just read "Echoes of Honor" by Dave Webber. A bit of a jumper book, I.E. jumps around a lot, but a good one up to Webber's usual excellent standards and loaded with RPG setting potential.

Quote from: UmaSamaI was reading Eragon, I left it half way through, maybe I'll retake on it after the exams.

I'm reading Eragon now as well. My wife got it for Christmas, and so far I'm really not impressed. On the other hand, it's certainly not the worst I've ever read either. It's kinda boring and definitely unoriginal, and otherwise average.

I'm reading World War: In the Balance by Harry Turtledove.  It's a lot of fun.

I am currently reading "The World is Round" by Tony Rothman and am trying once more to get into a "Storm of Crows" in the Game of Thrones books...but two years have passed since i read the last one so my interest has waned. Can't reread 5000 pages of novels just to pick up where I left off....

I just finished Dzur by Stephen Brust.  In non-fiction I am currently reading Self Made Man by Norah Vincent and On War by Von Clauswitz

Currently reading a big pile of 70's comics I bought: The Invaders, marvel team-up and Power Man/Iron Fist.

Also have a Marvel Masterworks of Ant-Man waiting on me.