What are you reading?

[PatientZero]

The books I have recently read whilst ignoring the pile of journals for my uni course are;
Lucifer's Lottery by Edward Lee
The Summer I Died by Ryan C. Thomas
Serial Uncut by Blake Crouch and Jack Kilborn
And I am currently reading Born To Bleed by Ryan C. Thomas and Randy and Walter Portrait of Two Killers by Tristan Slaughter. All belong to the Horror genre.

 

[Gizmo1990]

So as i've been potentially structuring a review type thing in which i discuss books i have read, i had the idea to ask this forum..What books if any are you fine people reading?

List title, author and genre and maybe i'll look them and give them a read if they interest me.

To answer the topic question i am currently reading book number 2, (as i've already finished number 1) in Brent Weeks' Night Angel Trilogy and am enjoying it thoroughly.

You my friend have great tast in books. I have read the night angel trillogy about 15 times.

OT: I am currently making my way through the Dresden Files for about the 30th time. I am currently on Proven Guility which I think is about number 7 I cannot remember of the top of my head.

 

[GrimGrimoire]

A Dance with Dragons, fifth book in the series "A song of Ice and Fire".
Author: George R.R. Martin.
Genre: Low-Fantasy.

A series as good as Lord of the Rings, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Weel of Time.

 

[charda11]

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (or something like that), it's an overly-preachy sci-fi (by the loosest use of the word because it takes place in the future)

 

[Jedamethis]

infantry attacks by Erwin Rommel


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OT: I am Legend. Supposed to be reading Catcher in the Rye for school, but I'm halfway through and the guy has done fuck-all really.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

I'm still working my way through the Warhammer 40k Horus Heresy series. It's a good launching point for folks looking to get into the mythology of the series...but if you're not into the setting don't bother.

Other than that, I just picked up "Confederacy of Dunces" which, if what I'm told is true is one of the best satire/comedies ever.

And I'm almost finished with my umpteenth reading of War of the Worlds.

 

[Vern5]

I've had to read "How the Other Half Lives" by Jacob Riis for a Literature class I'm taking.

I read extracts from that last year for a module I took at uni. It was really interesting when read alongside the other stuff we had to study. What's the literature class you're taking?

It's a class focused on Literary Realism and Naturalism. We are still in the Realism portion and "How the Other Half Lives" neatly encompasses everything Literary Realism is about. What did you read alongside this book?

 

[dlsevern]

The Dragon Reborn, fourth book in the Wheel of Time series. Considering taking a break from the series soon. It's a fantastic read so far, but bloody hell that series is huge. Still got Yathzee's Mogworld to read as well, and

Keep reading The Wheel of Time series, some will say that it starts to go downhill around the fifth or sixth book but they must not have been reading the same series. I'm into book eleven now and it just gets better and better.

 

[Davih]

I am about 3/4 of the way through "The Southern Vampire Mysteries" books. The series which the TV show True Blood is based on for those don't know.

Once I finish these I plan on reading "A Song of Ice and Fire" series since I haven't read the latest book.

 

[Chalacachaca]

The Two Towers, it's been ages since I read The Lord of the Rings.

 

[Gauntes]

Reading Dracula by Bram Stoker
and Animal Dreams by Kingsolver

the latter is a required reading, and I have a bit of a bias against it
but I haven't gotten through the book yet, so I'll withhold judgement for now

 

[RoyalWelsh]

I am about half way through The Ruby in the Smoke by Phillip Pullman. I enjoyed His Dark Materials so I decided to give it a read.

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

The new Rick Riordan book, Son of Neptune. It is very good so far!!

Rick Riordan wrote a new book? Thanks for informing me, I'll have to get that.

 

[Turigamot]

Rereading Gardens of the Moon, the first book of Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Rereading, because it is worth it. Too complex to be as popular as several other fantasy series, but in my opinion, better than any.

Also, Brent Weeks is terrible.

 

[Kelethor]

The Republic. its hard.

 

[ToastiestZombie]

Finally gotten round to reading "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Phillip K Dick. Its a sci fi set in a dystopian future where most of humanity have either emigrated to another country or have been killed following a great war. Its the book that Blade Runner was based on. No need to go into much more detail since most of you here have probably read it or heard of it.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Now personally I don't think Stephen King is really good at creating characters

Get into The Dark Tower series.

OT: Just finished Peter f. Hamilton's void trilogy last night. Good original nerdy sci-fi stuff.

I can't second that point enough! I'm reading the Dark Tower series now, (on book 4 of 7) and I think the characters are awesome!

Also currently reading Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, 1982 by George Orwell (Finally! ) and re-reading The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (Awesome book, also not very long, can finish in a couple of days!)

Iain Banks is a good writer, he also has a set of Sci-Fi if that's more your thing, under the name 'Iain M Banks'.

 

[agent_orange420]

about halfway through Star Wars: Survivors Quest. Not the best timothy Zahn written in a galaxy far far away, but by no means the worst star was book ive read.

after that, got big collection of Philip K. Dick books to devour, then the new hitchikers guide,, new bernard cornwell book about the vickings (another one just came out have to get that one as well!) hungers games to read and maybe twilight. if i can stomach it. and if no one tells anyone...

 

[SckizoBoy]

"Ciaphas Cain: Defender of the Imperium" (Warhammer 40.000)
Sandy Mitchell
Sci-Fi Military Comedy

The adventures of Ciaphas Cain (written in the first-person perspective, as an autobiography) are the only pieces of Black Library sci-fi literature with a comedic element, and I love them; basically, the protagonist is a lazy, cowardly officer who keeps stumbling into the most horrific of battle scenarios, escaping/surviving by the skin of his teeth in ways that make him look like a bonafide hero.
"Defender of the Imperium" is the second omnibus in the series, spanning novels 4-6, so if you want to give the series a try I suggest picking up the first omnibus, "Hero of the Imperium".

How is that comedy!?... Oh, right!!

OT: a really old monthly military magazine, and an article about the Battle of Barossa, interesting.

 

[kinglovejoy]

I'm currently reading Journey to the West (although it's actually 1/6th of the tale and called Monkey instead, I think because of translation issues and trimming). I finished Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and going from baffling English spy novel to a simplified Chinese story is actually quite refreshing.

Once I'm done I'm moving on to Sharpe's Battle (Bernard Cornwell) and Full Dark, No Stars (Stephen King). Then I've gotta get through Robinson Crusoe, Huckleberry Finn, Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities.

Yeah, I'm a reader. Thinking about buying a Kindle.