Readers! what are you reading?

[Vault101]

I went back to read some Issac Asimov. Currently on I, Robot, and planning to pick up the Federation (uh is that right?) trilogy later on.

Might go back even further and reread some Poe. I'm in the mood for Pit and the Pendulum.

did you see those "prequel" novels for I,Robot that came out not that long ago? I think its a trilogy

I've read the first...there was some stuff I really liked but it was kind of ruined by the dumb romance, Susan Calvin doesn't swoon dammit! *ugghh*

better seen as a stand alone than related to the original

EDIT: also I think you might mean the "Foundation" books

 

[MetalDooley]

What are you reading now?

Nothing right now.I finished "Wrath of a Mad God" by Raymond E.Feist which is the 3rd book in the Darkwar Trilogy the other night and have "Fevre Dream" by George R.R.Martin lined up next but I'm taking a break for a day or two first

What do you like to read in general?

Fantasy,Sci-fi,Historical Fiction and Comics are my preferred reads

Have you stepped out of your "comfort zone" at all recently?

No.I'm struggling to actually remember the last thing I read that didn't fall into one of the categories I mentioned above

 

[Auberon]

Books of Magic, and I plan to order Planetary Omnibus for summer. Which covers most of my recent stuff... Wildstorm/Vertigo British Wave authors. Other than that, I'm expecting Winds of Winter.

 

[OneCatch]

[b/]what are you reading now?[/b]
The Ilium/Olympos Cycle by Dan Simmons. It kinds of bridges a gap between hard philosophical sci-fi and space opera. And it's packed with enough other literary references to keep me busy! Though the 'because quantum mechanics' fallback appears disturbingly often...

[b/]what do you like to read in general?[/b]
For fiction, mostly sci-fi of various types. Non-fiction? A bit of everything with an emphasis on history!

[b/]have you stepped out of your "comfort zone" at all recently?[/b]
Kind of for War and Peace, though tbh that was more my unfamiliarity with the period than the actual literature itself - I get slightly obsessive about getting to know the era when reading books with historic settings.

Recently finished the 1st 2 Hyperion Cantos books, which were very good.

Did Simmons break out the Lapis Lazuli yet?

 

[Erttheking]

I haven't really had a chance to do much reading as of late, there's just been nothing really that grabbed my attention, although I am reading an interesting book called "Country of the Young" for a class and I'm interested in getting into the Song of Ice and Fire books.

 

[Ratty]

Medusa's Coil and Others - The Annotated Revisions and Collaborations of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 2

I like the brevity and slightly more punchy style Lovecraft seems to show in his ghostwritten works. Since he can sometimes have the bad habit of using using a paragraph where a sentence would be more effective. Sad to see that he's as racist as ever in some of these collaborations though. Like in the title story "Medusa's Coil" where the big last-line twist is

Spoiler

that the woman who has already been established to be an evil Gorgon was also *GASP* part black! Yeah that living hair that slithered around and crushed people like a giant snake was bad, but having a little bit of extra melanin in her skin just makes it so much worse.
To be fair this particularly stupid twist might have been the doing of co-author Zealia Bishop according to S.T. Joshi's reading of Lovecraft's original notes for the story.

 

[Someone Depressing]

I'm re-reading the Scott Pilgrim series. A ton of manga that I should have finished now.

For actual books, some Roald Dahl books that I'm re-reading. The giraffe, pelican and Me, Matilda, The Twits, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (and the other one... The Glass Elevator). Oh, remember "snozleberries?" Didn't taht confuse you? That's because the word comes from a shitty erotica that Dahl wrote a few years ago before Charlie.

Pretty shocking, isn't it? The world-renown, perhaps most well-known childrens' author in the entire world, found his footing in the literature world with an Ikea erotica? Well, I'm reading that.

It sucks.

 

[theboombody]

I want to read Faust and Catch 22. I just finished The Republic.

I HIGHLY recommend The Book of Sorrows and The Neverending Story. Most books I read I am disappointed by, but not those two.

 

[Padwolf]

I've started to read Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice. Holy gods these books are amazing! Interview with the Vampire was a bit of a slog to get through, but The Vampire Lestat was absolutely amazing! I can't wait to read more. I do feel like going on another Stephen King binge though. I also want to read more Lovecraft. Oh there's so many good books out there to read! I find it hard to stick with one!

 

[The Funslinger]

I'm currently about 40-45% through Stephen King's It. As with basically any Stephen King novel, I'm loving it. I love how similar it is to a TV show in its use of flashbacks and recollection. It's the sort of thing that could have been poorly written, but here is in safe hands.

My girlfriend is on the second Song of Ice and Fire novel. I want her to hurry up and finish the set so I can stop holding onto all these spoilers! D:

Stephen king can make anything work, like a guy being killed by a floating coke machine that chases him I'm tommy knockers...I'd recommend that one too, I
Also really liked Delores Claiborne, it's quite a different style

He is, without a shadow of a doubt, my favourite author of all time.

 

[Gauntlets28]

I've been going through "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley and "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde recently. And it's true what they say, alarmingly. Oscar Wilde's the most quotable man in all human history for a VERY good reason. I keep turning pages and recognising sayings I never knew the origins of before now.

 

[Little Woodsman]

I'm about half-way through A Song of Ice and Fire and I've just started At the Back of the North Wind.
Both are pretty well in my 'comfort zone' as they are by authors I am familiar with.

 

[Plasmadamage]

I just finished Midnight Tides, Mazalan Book of the Fallen 5 (of 10) and am currently biding my time whilst I wait for The Bonehunters to arive

Anyone who hasn't heard of this series, I advise you to get the first book as soon as possible. It blows A Song of Ice and Fire out of the water, imo, with better characters, more variety and absolutely my favourite magic system in any form of fiction.

 

[Kiwi Shizz]

I'm currently about 40-45% through Stephen King's It. As with basically any Stephen King novel, I'm loving it. I love how similar it is to a TV show in its use of flashbacks and recollection. It's the sort of thing that could have been poorly written, but here is in safe hands.

My girlfriend is on the second Song of Ice and Fire novel. I want her to hurry up and finish the set so I can stop holding onto all these spoilers! D:

I'll take my time dammit!
I already have too many feels!

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell. What's strange is most of his historical fiction I've liked, particularly the Warlord Trilogy, but the series that made him a high-profile author, the Sharpe series, I found boring.

Also just finished Matthew Stover's Heroes Die and found it much more agreeable than its profanity-laden sequels, though part of that was probably my fault for trying to read those first.