So, what are you reading right now?

[William Ossiss]

im waiting for the next dresden file book. it comes out the 26th...

...of July

CRAP!!!
really?
damn you wikipedia!!!
though, the synopsis of ghost story (which i read on jim butcher's website) is rather...

dumb.

but, really... it's all i have right now. at least till i get more drizzt or find another series i absolutely adore...

anyone have any suggestions?

 

[lettucethesallad]

The Game of Thrones books and Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. I've read Murakami about a thousand times, but it's one of those books I can come back to again and again. Good stuff.

 

[Furbyz]

Under the Dome by Stephen King.

It's very good and not quite as Stephen King cliched as some of his other stuff. Also, I keep noticing mistakes whoever his editor is missed: accidental paragraph change in mid-sentence, a comma splice, etc. Two or three mistakes in 1000 pages isn't so bad though.

It's about a force field randomly isolating a small, rural town that I'll give you three guesses on where that town is and the last two don't count. Then the struggles and eventual toll of that isolation upon the townspeople's psyche. And of course, the people that were in power before the dome came down try and assert even more authority over the community, all but turning the society into a police state.

I highly recommend it.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I'm reading The Name Of The Wind. A member here recommended it to me, said the Fable soundtrack reminded him of that book. I'm only a few chapters in but damn I love it already.

And said member was right; I read it while listening to the Fable 1 and 2 OST's and woah do they enchance the reading experience. Absolutely fantastic.

I am reading Children of the Mind (the forth book in the Ender Quartet) for the 5th time since I was 11ish

Finished Ender's Game a while back, didn't expect that there would be a sequel, let alone three more books. So are the follow-ups on par with the first one? The first one's ending was something I expected from a Dune novel, do the sequels follow that trend?

 

[maninahat]

I'm reading "Night Watch" by Terry Pratchett. Please don't kill me, because it's the first City Watch tale I've read. Other than it I've only read the Rincewind books.

quote wiat how many city watch books are there i liked the first and the second was good but there are more!

Let's see.. Guards Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, The fifth elephant...

I've seen a couple of the recent adaptations of Pratchett's books into tv movies. The Hogfather was cool, but had pacing problems. The Colour of Magic was pretty sucky (most of the jokes are looking very dated now), and had pacing problems. I wish they would make movies based on the "Night Watch" books, because their straight-forward cop mystery format lends themselves much better to a tv format.

 

[tobi the good boy]

The title of this thread...

 

[Furbyz]

You will either love or despise the end. The good news in either case is that there are plans for the Dark Tower series to become the next Hollywood cash printing machine. All I know right now though is that Ron Howard is on the project and that it's slated to be a movie trilogy with two season long television runs tying them together.

http://www.ifc.com/news/2011/06/dark-tower-ron-howard-stephen-king.php

Oh, there's also an 8th book on the way supposedly. I'm thinking prequel, don't know the details.

 

[Death Wolf113]

i just picked up a book called tiger's curse so far really good

 

[Trilaanus]

Jim Butcher's Codex Alera, book 4, Captain's Fury

 

[Jimmybobjr]

"Brisngr" By christopher paolini.

About the 5th time ive read it.

Two days ago i was reading "Seven Ancient Wonders" (Seven Deadly wonders to those in the US) By Matthew Reilly, my favourite Author (and my favourite book)

Before that i was reading "The lost symbol" by Dan Brown. The ending pages sucked, the rest was brilliant.

Before that, i was reading "Arthas", the World of Warcraft Tie-In writeen by Christie Golden. A decent book, but nothing i didnt already know.

Before that i was reading "Angels and Demons" also by Dan Brown. My favourite of Dan's books, Since i understood most of it.

And before that, i was reading "Montanna 1948" By Larry Watson. Had to read it for a english assignment. It was well written, but not my kind of book.

And, Before that i was reading "Of Mice and Men" Also for English. One of the most surprisingly best books i have ever seen. The ending was so damned sad, i swore that if i wasnt in the middle of a classroom full of kids, i might have cried. Might not ever read it again, however.

And Finaly, before that, The entirety of the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore. The first 5 or so books are brilliant books for young adults, but by the last two in particular, it seemed Robert had gotten bored with it, and began to write about uninteresting topics. Zzz. The entire series took me about a week to get through.

Edit:
And a note, thats about a months reading for me. i can finish a good sized book (Read: 300 Pages) In about two or three days, sometimes quicker considering Print Size and such.

The longest its taken for me to read a book was "Magician" by Raymond E. Feist. It took me over a month to finaly finished the bloody thing, but it was brilliant.

 

[CrashBang]

The Colour Of Magic by Terry Pratchet. That's right, I'm 21 and I've never read a Discworld book before! Verdict, so far? It is awesome!
I'm also reading DC Comics' Kingdom Come by Mark Wait and Alex Ross. Yup, never read that before either, I'm so damn ashamed

 

[Jimmybobjr]

I am rereading the Animorphs series, the extended univeres books included.

i Have (Nearly, see below) the entire series on my bookshelf, even though i havent read them in about 5 years. I loved them when i was about 12, and could get through a book a day.

But since i only started reading the books when i was 12, the books were out of print, and i searched both the itnerwebs and every local bookstore trying to find any copy i could get. My favourite was book #44, The Unexpected, where One of the characters ends up lost in Australia. As a Australian child, i loved it.

However, i dont have the LAST FRIGGIN BOOK and never figured out how the 60+ BOOK STORYLINE ENDED. FUUUUUU-

 

[TheFinalFantasyWolf]

LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov

It's written from the perspective of a middle aged man named Humbert Humbert, who falls in love (and even gets sexually involved) with a 12 year old girl named Dolores.

So yeah, he is pretty much a pedophile, however the novel itself is actually cleverly written and quite enjoyable, even with all the controversy surrounding the topic and characters. The term "Lolita", is meant to describe a sexually precocious young (or prepubescent) girl. There have been two movie adaptions of the book and the film "American Beauty" was inspired by this novel. Even the name of protagonist Lester Burnham is an anagram of "Humbert learns".

THE DIVINE COMEDY by Dante Alighieri

Its an extremely long poem that was originally written in Italian, but its also renowned as being one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem is divided into three parts, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, and it is meant to describe Dante's (the authors) journey through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven, as he is led by his guide, the Roman poet, Vergil. The book has been refered to by games aswell, such as "Dante's Inferno" (duh), the Devil May Cry series, Bayonetta, Final Fantasy: IV, V, VI, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Tamashii no Mon, The Last Remnent, Fallout 3, and Persona 3 just to name a few. (There are obviously many more)

 

[Aprilgold]

I'm reading this... Oh, you mean a book, I'm trying to find one to continue reading.

 

[spacepope22]

I'm reading Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven.

Without spoiling too much, it's about the power of dreams. But don't let the title fool you. It's not really about religion.

 

[WakeTheDead1]

currently on a book by Louis Theroux called call of the weird, some people might know him from doing documentaries such as The Most hated family in america about the phelps family, and louis theroux in miami super jail, those who dont know him hes an english journalist and the book is just about going to america and searching out weird families and people and trying to get to know them
he visits ike turner, a hooker, a nazi white supremacist group, a porn star amongst others, quite an interesting read

 

[LuckyClover95]

30,000 Mornings.
I'm not very far in and now I've lost the actual book, but so far, yeah it's interesting.
So far about a woman who's friend has gone missing and all the shit that goes on in the world of fashion and photography. It's good. It's called so because she likes the quote from some zen philosopher "I do not own time but 30,000 mornings" or something like that. When I find the real quote I'll edit it in.

 

[Geamo]

The book i'm currently reading is Aesop's Fables. It's interesting to go over them since they were read to me as a kid.

The comic/graphic novel i'm reading is book 7 of the Fables comic series, Arabian Nights. The entire Fables comic series is absolutley fantastic, and I highly reccomend it to most people.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

I'm reading through Deathworld 2 again by Harry Harrison. Great sci-fi book about a psionic professional gambler.