what are you reading right now?

[JBarracudaL]

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler... again.
It's one of my all-time favorites so I always find myself gravitating back to it every so often.

 

[DreamKing]

I'm reading the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. I do not think I need to post who the author is for both these books.

 

[ThaBenMan]

I would say its better than Harry Potter, and this is coming from a fan. If your worried about cheese, this is deffintly not that. Niel Gaiman has a very...blatant way of wrighting. Theres often no moral or grand meaning, its just a series of events, wheather they be the wierd and creepy of American Gods, funny yet gruesome of Netherwhere, or more fairytale like this one and Caroline. If your going to pick up this one and you like it I would deffintly pick up Caroline, which, for a childrens book, is fucking scary.

Sorry to nitpick, but it's Coraline, not Caroline. In fact, in the book, she would correct anybody who called her Caroline. But yeah, it's a great book. I'm a huge fan of Neil Gaiman. I've got to get The Graveyard Book sometime soon.

Right now I'm reading Altered Carbon [http://www.amazon.com/Altered-Carbon-Richard-K-Morgan/dp/1596061855/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227590072&sr=1-1] by Richard K. Morgan. It's kind of a sci-fi noir story. It's set about 500 years in the future, where people are effectively immortal because their mind is digitized and stored in a "stack" at the base of their skull. If they die or are killed, they are simply "resleeved" into a new body. The main character is a former spec-ops agent hired by a super-rich 300 year old dude to find out how and why he was murdered about a week earlier. It's excellent, well-written and absorbing. I'd definitely recommend it.

 

[Jenkins]

Catch-22

there IS no way to describe this book... except for its awsomeness

 

[sneakypenguin]

I'm reading the Fairtax book. Which I find the whole idea interesting and brilliant if it really works(have to look at the opposing side before I chose)
That and i'm trying to read Tom Clany's Red Rabbit which isn't going so well because I read it years ago as a kid and it just isn't keeping my interest. Plus it's close to finals and school takes precedence

 

[Death916]

Hunters of dune by frank herbert and kevin j anderson.

 

[Graustein]

Pratchett's Nation. I'm loving it.

 

[Nimbus]

Anyway, currently re-reading the demonata series by Darren Shan.

I am reading the same thing as well, which book are you on?

I'm actually reading it backwards. Currently on Blood Beast.

 

[Reillk]

The Nightwatch trilogy by Sergei Lukyanenko. Nightwatch, Daywatch, and Twilightwatch. Currently on the second book, and enjoying them a lot. Couple of movies made based on the books, but the books are much better and easier to follow.

 

[poleboy]

I just finished Orwell's "Down and out in Paris and London". Not sure what's next.

 

[Jamanticus]

The Great Gatsby

I remember that book.....

Gatsby was a nice character, but everyone else was not to my liking in that book.

Well, the book I'm reading at the moment is 'The Vampire Lestat' by Anne Rice......Yep......Talk about messed up to the extreme, this book is it.

EDIT: Oh, and I'm also reading 'The Pirate King' by R.A. Salvatore and 'Dracula' by Bram Stoker at the moment.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

I would say its better than Harry Potter, and this is coming from a fan. If your worried about cheese, this is deffintly not that. Niel Gaiman has a very...blatant way of wrighting. Theres often no moral or grand meaning, its just a series of events, wheather they be the wierd and creepy of American Gods, funny yet gruesome of Netherwhere, or more fairytale like this one and Caroline. If your going to pick up this one and you like it I would deffintly pick up Caroline, which, for a childrens book, is fucking scary.

Sorry to nitpick, but it's Coraline, not Caroline. In fact, in the book, she would correct anybody who called her Caroline. But yeah, it's a great book. I'm a huge fan of Neil Gaiman. I've got to get The Graveyard Book sometime soon.

Sorry, havn't head the book in a very long time. All I can really remember are the button eye'd parents. They were creepy as hell.

Pratchett's Nation. I'm loving it.

It is excellent isn't it? Really kind of Harrowing for childrens book, one of the most seriouse things Pratchetts wrighten.

 

[orifice]

This thread

 

[birdboy]

I've just finished reading Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker, and before that, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War by...Clive Barker.

Coldheart Canyon is a good horror story, but the ending is kind of anti climactic, in that it's too happy, compared to the rest of the book which is a really twisted look at fame and how it affects people in Hollywood.

Abarat is a Young Adult book apparently, but lots of fun, and at least here the happy ending is deserved, of course, it's an obvious set up for the 3rd book in the series, but I'll worry about that when it comes.

Oh, and American Gods by Neil Gaiman, great read, definitely picking up The Anansi Boys

 

[Omnidum]

The entire series of Edge Chronicles. I also copied a curse from one of the books. [sup]By the Gloamglozer! I'll kill you! I'll kill you![/sup]

 

[TheBlackKnight]

Othello