What are you reading right now?

[Sephychu]

Consider Phlebas, Iain M Banks.

Excellent novel, excellent. Brilliant series. Can be a bit daunting, but there isn't much overt continuity to it, so read whichever catches your eye.

 

[Watchmacallit]

Game of Thrones, the first is the Song of Ice and Fire trilogy.

I watched the tv show and loved it and knew I had to read the book. Yes, I know whats going to happen, but the book reveals extras that the show left out and its far easier to imagine the scenery when you've already seen it

 

[flyingwithsharks]

Three books atm:
Mogworld, Gone and The Hunger Games

 

[DonMartin]

The same two, three books I've been reading for the past months or so.

Although I started reading Pratchett's Mort yesterday.


This is all immensely fascinating, isnt it?

 

[Angelus SnV]

wonders if this counts: I'm finishin' up the "Flashpoint" series, and have already read "Justice League #1"....now i just gotta wait 'till the other 51 titles come out...

 

[Sovvolf]

Just got back from town and found Frankenstien for £2 at a local book store... So I thought I'd pick that one up . Currently read that one at the moment. The book doesn't look big and the first like 50 pages are all bloody author stuff... HEY WHY DO NEED TO FILL MY BOOK WITH THIS SHIT I JUST WANT TO READ THE STORY!!!!.....

-cough- I'm okay, but seriously that stuff annoys me, if they want to put that shit in, couldn't they put that in the back of the book?

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

A friend gave me a few good books to go through, right now I'm re-reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Next I'll be re-reading A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.

 

[rutger5000]

I want to start reading the Guardians of Ga'hool. Any tips on where to find it?

 

[Toaster Hunter]

Path of daggers, book 8 in the Wheel of time series. I plan to finish the series by the end of the year.

 

[EHKOS]

Atlus Shrugged, and I am disappointed in the amount of sex in it.
Ghost in the Wires- Kevin Mitnick Reading primarily because of all the easter eggs in gaming about him.
Dracula I'll prolly drop this one, it's just too dry for me.

 

[Jacob Haggarty]

I'm reading The Golem's Eye, by Jonathan Stroud. It's pretty good, but I'm reading it very slowly.

I love that book! Have you read it before? I just finished reading the trilogy.

OT: I am reading "the left hand of god" at the moment, which is very good.

 

[Scarblade]

I am reading "Dracula" by Bram Stoker and it is wicked.

 

[GeorgW]

I'm reading Hitchhikers. Have been doing so for a year or so. It's my feel good book.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

I'm reading a takeaway menu right now. Very good.

As for books I'm reading Star Wars: The Unifying Force. So far so very good.

 

[Slash Dementia]

I'm reading The Golem's Eye, by Jonathan Stroud. It's pretty good, but I'm reading it very slowly.

I love that book! Have you read it before? I just finished reading the trilogy.

OT: I am reading "the left hand of god" at the moment, which is very good.

Nope, but I read the first book last year and it was great. I got the trilogy as a Christmas gift.

I'm thinking about buying God, No! by Penn Jillette, has anyone read it?

 

[Tubezz]

I'm reading The Field of Sword by Conn Iggulden and before that I was reading The Death of Kings by same the author.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

Seriously, though, I find that swamping the reader with ordinarily incomprehensible language is somewhat flow-breaking. Judging from your descriptions... I'm both curious... and wondering what she was attempting to achieve...

It doesn't come across as needless at all and none of it thus far really falls into the realm of pointless pedantry. Most of them are used to form metaphors using objects that I've just never heard of (a lot of things that a classicist would know of, but the average person would not, like, say, what a palimpsest is...). It's not obtuse language for its own sake, but mostly a bunch of object names for objects you wouldn't have any reason to be remotely familiar with.

 

[roguetrooper96]

101 Sudoku puzzles... yeah...

Before that I was reading the necronomicon and if I remember correctly, I stopped reading about a quarter of the way through becaus-OOH LOOK A BUTTERFLY!!!!- wait, where was I? Curse my terribly short attention span.

 

[SckizoBoy]

It doesn't come across as needless at all and none of it thus far really falls into the realm of pointless pedantry. Most of them are used to form metaphors using objects that I've just never heard of (a lot of things that a classicist would know of, but the average person would not, like, say, what a palimpsest is...). It's not obtuse language for its own sake, but mostly a bunch of object names for objects you wouldn't have any reason to be remotely familiar with.

After I posted, I went and read a preview of the first few chapters on Amazon's 'Look Inside' (prologue & intros to Sei & November). It must've been an edited version, because none of the vocab seemed excessively difficult to understand, though I will admit to re-reading some of the passages to understand the allegory.

Still, her writing style (which is very cerebral to say the least) got me interested enough to order it(!)

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

It doesn't come across as needless at all and none of it thus far really falls into the realm of pointless pedantry. Most of them are used to form metaphors using objects that I've just never heard of (a lot of things that a classicist would know of, but the average person would not, like, say, what a palimpsest is...). It's not obtuse language for its own sake, but mostly a bunch of object names for objects you wouldn't have any reason to be remotely familiar with.

After I posted, I went and read a preview of the first few chapters on Amazon's 'Look Inside' (prologue & intros to Sei & November). It must've been an edited version, because none of the vocab seemed excessively difficult to understand, though I will admit to re-reading some of the passages to understand the allegory.

Still, her writing style (which is very cerebral to say the least) got me interested enough to order it(!)

I've perhaps overstated the case. There aren't many, but having any was a strange sensation for me. The first one that comes to mind was the name of some obscure textile that occurred near the beginning.

I imagine there aren't a tremendous number of people who know what a frontispiece is either, for instance.