What are you reading?

[deathlynx]

Bedside reading - 'A Game of Thrones', George R R Martin. I like his style, but find the stories overwhelming - too much in one book, maybe. I thought I was wordy but he makes me look terse!

Read the first three (I think) and am still looking forward to #4...they don't get any thinner...I think it's not so much that he's overly wordy (as I can read him and not Dickens) but that he crams an awful lot of plots into a single novel...Very good writer though...

Downstairs reading - currently 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' (second reading).

I'm sooooo looking forward to next year...

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Oh, I forgot some more interesting characters from Fortune's Favorites: Cato, Servilia, Mamercus, Aurelia, Julia, Mucia Tertia, Young Marius, and Metellus Pius. And let's not forget Spartacus.

 

[Aurora Black]

Right now I'm re-reading the following books:

Nicholson Baker - Vox

Susie Bright - How to Write A Dirty Story

Donald Maass - Writing the Breakout Novel

 

[Aurora Black]

Kate Chopin's The Awakening.

 

[rgraham666]

My all time favourite book, The Doubter's Companion - A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense by John Ralston Saul.

Also The Butcher's Bill by David Drake.

 

[deathlynx]

Eldest by Chris Paulini (sp?)...A good book...anyone else heard they're making a movie of Eragon?

 

[Decayed Angel]

I'm reading several...

Haruki Murakami's collection of short stories, "The Elephant Vanishes"

The Late Wife by Claudia Emerson, a poetry collection

and Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States"

 

[Saucyminx]

Eldest by Chris Paulini (sp?)...A good book...anyone else heard they're making a movie of Eragon?

I have. They are, and you can find additional info here:
Eragon movie info


F. Paul Wilson's Midnight Mass

 

[MagicaPractica]

Haruki Murakami's collection of short stories, "The Elephant Vanishes"

The Late Wife by Claudia Emerson, a poetry collection

and Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States"

Loved Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland

 

[Liar]

Have you read Hat Full of Sky? I can't recall the other one at the moment. Some people skip the two because they are geared toward middle schoolers but I loved them.

They're two of his best.


Reading A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Great for all that science shit you never got the hang of in school.

 

[vampiredust]

I've finished The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch and Peter Camenzind by Hermann Hesse, currently reading Night by Elie Wiesel

 

[arienette]

I've finished The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch and Peter Camenzind by Hermann Hesse, currently reading Night by Elie Wiesel

That book has done very well recently, thanks to Oprah. I used to work at Borders and we couldn't keep it in stock and then all of the high schools assigned it for their summer reading lists.

I still haven't read it, although I probably should - so tell me how it is!

 

[Frank Noir]

Just finished Michel Houllebecq's "H.P.Lovecraft – Against the world, against life"

So now I'm picking up Cervantes' "Don Quixote" where I left it a while ago...

 

[Hooper_X]

"Every Frame a Rembrandt: Art and Practice of Cinematography" ~ Andrew Laszlo

 

[matriarch]

Only into light reading at the moment, too much going on in my life and my head.

So I'm re-reading my favourite British detective writer, M.J. Trow. Currently working my way through his delightfully teasing and amusing 'Maxwell' series.

 

[Decayed Angel]

Murakami

Loved Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland

Oh yeah... those sideways moving elevators and everything. Be sure to get Murakami's latest: "Kafka on the Shore". It has a guy who talks to cats... and hell, I believed every word of it.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I was reading Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way (my second book in two years, after over ten of not reading anything printed), but IO never finished it. I only finished If Chins Could Kill because my computer had been broken at the time. Shame really, as it was a good book from what I read of it, and I do want to finish it. I just can't get myself to do it

 

[janiexx]

I'm heavily into Douglas Kennedy at the moment. I read "Special Relationship" on holiday (picked it up at the airport and never put it down) and now I'm into "The Pursuit of Happiness" and rationing myself so I don't finish it too soon.

"The Pursuit of Happiness is riveting and it's set in 1950's America against the background of the McCarthy witch hunts. I never knew much about that period but I'm amazed at what happened then.

I don't want the book to end but I have another of his waiting in the wings - "The Big Picture" so the withdrawal symptoms won't be that bad.

janiexx

 

[ChilledVodkaIV]

The Sacred Art of Stealing. Christopher Brookmire


Ask TheEarl.

 

[672]

Lewis Black - Nothing's Sacred

Poppy Z. Brite - Exquisite Corpse (finally)

various comics, also, like Blade of the Immortal (swoon), Kabuki, Get Fuzzy and such.

 

[Minervous]

.....

 

[arienette]

I am finishing Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye today and starting Wicked. I have a lot of time on my hands.

 

[Aurora Black]

How We Die, Sherwin B. Neuland

 

[Trombonus]

The official strategy guide to Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, and several Transformers books, includin: The Ultimate Guide to the Transformers; Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye vol.2; Transformers: War and Peace.

Simple minds...

 

[AchtungNight]

I am rereading the Mission Earth series by L Ron Hubbard. I thought it might be interesting to do that with all the stuff I've gone through recently thanks to my writing about misunderstandings related to his work. I am finding the series not as great as I did the first time I read it- I'm shaking my head at the man's overblown style, obviously immense ego, and weird ideas as much as I am nodding in agreement- but he's still a good writer and his stories are every bit what the acclaim quotes in the beginning of the book say they are. Mission Earth is classic satirical science fiction, much of which still holds true today. I expect to continue being entertained by it. <knocks on wood>

Upcoming Novel Which I Recommend: Laura Joh Rowland's Red Chrysanthemum. You want a good historical samurai mystery, this woman is your writer. And her latest release promises to be the most intriguing yet. Look out for it next month.