What are y'all reading for fun?

[FPLOON]

Death of a Salesman... mainly for shits and giggles...

Other than that, I rented Important Information Inside last month, which was a fascinating read on John Peto and the still-life art style...

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

I'm also reading First and Only, a Warhammer 40,000 novel that several of the people here at the forum recommended I checked out. They were right to do so. It's great.

I'm currently reading The Armour of Contempt. It's the tenth book in the same series >.>
Just powering through this series so I can re-read the Honor Harrington books again. Also reading Last Human, a Red Dwarf book, at the same time.

 

[Dalisclock]

Clash of Kings by George RR Martin.

John Strange and Mr. Norrell by can't remember her name at the moment.

Around the Moon by Jules Verne.

 

[Queen Michael]

Clash of Kings by George RR Martin.

John Strange and Mr. Norrell by can't remember her name at the moment.

Around the Moon by Jules Verne.

Susanna Clarke. Also, sorry to nitpick, but it's "Jonathan Strange."

 

[StatusNil]

"The Beautiful and Damned" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and 1989 issues of Hustler magazine of course.

Nah, I was just kidding. It's not that fun.

 

[Rastrelly]

I've finally put my hands on W. Gibson's Sprawl trilogy. Funny thing - it doesn't look that aged in comparison to many other near-future sci-fi, even those released much later, mostly because Gibson never digs too deep into technological part of things.

 

[MetalDooley]

Magicians End by Raymond E.Feist

Superman:Last Son of Krypton

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I'm reading Silence, by Shusaku Endo. Which I just learned is getting a movie by Scorsese sometime soon.

 

[necromanzer52]

Just finished lord of the rings and now I'm quite hesitant to start on something else. It's hard to imagine any other book coming close to that level of majesty. I know some people find it a bit dull/meandering at times, but I was totally engrossed by the glorious prose from start to finish.

Maybe I'll dial it back and read some shorter books for a while.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I'm re-reading Half-Blood Prince for the umpteenth time and I may or may not read Deathly Hollows again after. If I don't than I'm going to read through Rising Steam, which I've had for a few months at this point and haven't begun to read yet...yeah...

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

I'm reading Stein's Gate on my Vita. It's an awesome story thus far, and I can't wait to get the anime on either DVD or PS4.

...What? Stein's Gate counts, right? ...Right?!

 

[Tsun Tzu]

Forums.

Ha ha. Ha. Haaaaaaaaaa.

I kid. Reading forums is a self-perpetuating nighmare-

I haven't been reading much lately...as in the past couple years... (unless we're counting visual novels) but I'm trying to get back into it. Yahtzee's books, Mog and Jam, have interested me for a while so I'm debating the audiobooks to listen to while workin'.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

I do auidobooks. Probably haven't physically read anything beyond video game shit or instructions since College. Who has time anymore? I think I glanced at a cookbook during Turkey Day, but does that really count?

 

[Ryallen]

I'm reading The Autumn Republic by Brian McClellan. It's not bad so far, it shows a little promise, but I'm worried that it won't be able to hold my attention for long. I've never been very fond of political intrigue, and this isn't really doing much to change my mind.

I also have Dracula downloaded on my phone and ready to read. The next book on my to read list is the Angel of Fire book in The Macharian Crusade, followed by The Silmarillion which I have in my room right now. After that, I'm gonna try to get through Alice in Wonderland, since a girl I work with told me it's a good read, despite my short attention span and lack of understanding of madness, despite my frequent dances with it. After that... I don't really have any idea. I'll just try to find another one, I guess.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I'm reading the third book in the Locke Lamora books, which have been blowing me away ever since I started them a month or two ago. There's something about the world, the characters and the writer not pulling any punches that's deeply engrossing. I think they're my favourite low-fantasy novels now, even trumping my adoration of The Kingkiller Chronicles (because re-reading them a while back made me see through the world-building that grabbed me so and made me notice the Mary Sue-ness more).

I'm also reading bits and bobs of the Younger or Prose Edda from time to time. When you think Norse mythology is weird from regular fiction, man you ain't seen nuffin' yet.

I've also been listening to Iain Banks' Excession whenever I go out for runs or do some outdoor chores like grocery shopping. So far it's my favourite The Culture novel. The last two I listened to were just so damn... random. Stuff just sort of happened in them and stuff sort of ended. Like, holy shit Consider Phlebas are you like Blue Balls: The Book or something?

Who has time anymore?

I read a lot during 'the small moments' now that I've got an e-reader. You'd be surprised how many a-couple-minutes-gaps there are in a day. Two minutes there, five minutes there. Not a lot by themselves but in the end the pages really start adding up, even though you only read a couple at time. But for me it's mostly the longer bathroom breaks and half an hour or so before bedtime. It's a good way to put your brain in a lower gear.

 

[Queen Michael]

I do auidobooks. Probably haven't physically read anything beyond video game shit or instructions since College. Who has time anymore? I think I glanced at a cookbook during Turkey Day, but does that really count?

I don't get it. Wouldn't listening to an audiobook take even more time than reading it?

Just finished lord of the rings and now I'm quite hesitant to start on something else. It's hard to imagine any other book coming close to that level of majesty. I know some people find it a bit dull/meandering at times, but I was totally engrossed by the glorious prose from start to finish.

My sentiments exactly. Gods, I love that book.

 

[Hawki]

I'm in-between books right now - the last one I read was 'The Well of Ascension', it being the second installment of the second Mistborn trilogy. Good read. I'm hoping that I can get my hands on book 3 in a shorter space than a year (which was about how much time passed between reading book 1 and 2).

On the non-fiction front, the last book I read was 'The Short and Excruciatingly Embarassing Reign of Captain Abbott.' If there's any fellow Aussies on the forums, I'd recomend giving it a read as well if you like political humour, though it doesn't go into as much depth in the Abott government as I'd have liked.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I do auidobooks. Probably haven't physically read anything beyond video game shit or instructions since College. Who has time anymore? I think I glanced at a cookbook during Turkey Day, but does that really count?

I don't get it. Wouldn't listening to an audiobook take even more time than reading it?

Well when you actually read a book you can't really do much else. Audiobooks you can listen to during other stuff, like work or chores. Like when I clean the bathroom I put on an audiobook. When I do grocery shopping; audiobook. Going for a run? Audiobook. Etc etc. As much as I think that actual reading is easy to fit into small moments, that is a nice advantage of audiobooks.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

I am still reading Dune, stopped at the last fifth or something
Also reading River God by Wilbur Smith, fun book

I recently bought the Mahabharata, I Ching, Pihkal, Metamorphoses, Arrians book on Alexander, Sumerian Grammar by Foxvog and the Gilgamesh story with Enuma Elish, the Book of the dead, Inanna the queen of dusk by Kantola & Warring, One River by Wade Davis, Stone and Zenders book of Maya art and the four books of Wales
Gonna take some time to get through that, as well as the books i got last year... and comics... and periodicals... and stuff on my computer...