What are you reading right now?

[Jaime_Wolf]

Palimpsest by Catherynne Valente.

That woman can fucking write.

I hadn't realised how seldom I read books with truly astounding writing just in the sense of diction and word-play. Certainly I read a lot by authors who are great story-tellers, but it's very rare to find people who write with anything even beginning to approach the style of Valente.

She also nails the modern-day fairy tale better than any author I've ever seen, including favourites like Gaiman. There's a description of a myth (the characters in the fairy tale are telling each other fairy tales...) about Japanese trains that will blow your fucking mind within the first few pages. She's the only author I've ever seen that manages to create fairy tales that sound as breathtaking and profound as the best real-world fairy tales always are. And these are not children's fairy tales, they're the good, real-world sort free of child-friendly sanitation. The sort that adults tell to each other and dream about rather than the sort that exist only to instill particular values in children.

(Palimpsest is a word for re-used manuscript pages where the old writing was scraped off or otherwise removed, it isn't some weird sex thing.)

I stumbled upon her "Girl who ..." yeah the one with the long title. She seems interesting. I'll have to check out Palimpsest.

Suggestion: keep a dictionary handy.

I have an enormous vocabulary and haven't had to use a dictionary when reading a novel in probably close to a decade, but this one sent me to the dictionary several times within the first few pages. And it's usually worth knowing what the words mean since most of the book is written with very figurative language such that it's hard to know what's going on if you're missing pieces of her analogy and metaphor. Luckily, I've been reading it on a Kindle, so that's made it somewhat easier.

 

[Happy Yay]

This thread.

Sorry if someone already made that joke.

Anyway for my serious answer What The Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell. I have nearly finished it.

 

[stormcrow5]

For Paperback books currently re-reading some lovecraft
For electronic just started reading/playing however u want to say it a VN a friend reccomended Demonbane

 

[BlackWidower]

Various My Little Pony fan fics. I think I'm addicted. I need to go into rehab.

 

[Kyrian007]

"Circle of Enemies" by Harry Connolly. A Twenty Palaces novel.

 

[Knusper]

Just finished reading The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - basically a book that explains Marxist principles a lot more clearly than in the Communist Manifesto. It took me a while but I really enjoyed it. Last night I ordered Mogworld so I'll be getting onto that soon.

 

[BabyRaptor]

The Great Divorce, C S Lewis.

 

[romanator0]

I am currently reading the Grey Knights Omnibus. After I finish that I plan on finishing the Black Company series by Glen Cook.

 

[WaReloaded]

At the moment I'm reading Magician by Raymond E. Feist, it's the first book in the Riftwar trilogy. The book is incredible thus far, perhaps the best book I've ever read (I might be enjoying Magician even more than The Hobbit).

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

Retribution by . It's been pretty good so far, and I've been waiting for a book about Sundown since Dance With The Devil.

 

[Wintermoot]

Count Zero by William Gibson I have the entire Sprawl Trilogy.

 

[dragdev]

I've been reading sharpes Triumph and the shantaram on the train.

 

[Death Wolf113]

blood lines right now and a few others

 

[Sk1ver]

Feed, Mira Grant.
Bloggers and Zombies, together at last

 

[Mister Swift]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

It's remarkably true to the original.

 

[doggie135]

Currently going through "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Great classic read :3

 

[Incredible Bullshitting Man]

Finishing up The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi. Very much enjoying it.

Also, Watchmen.

 

[smeghead25]

I have a problem. Basically, I'll start reading something, then something else will come along and I'll start reading that, then it'll happen over and over again until I have something like 30 books on the go that I just randomly pick up and continue when I feel like it.

I'll spare you a big list of everything I'm reading. Instead, here's a couple of the ones I'm deeply entrenched in at the moment:

The Acropolis series by Sean Williams. If you have a craving for more Richard Morgan, this series is probably as close as you're gonna get. And this guy doesn't just stick around on a single planet for a whole book!

I just finished the final page of Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks yesterday, and Dresden Files: Ghost Story by Jim Butcher today. Both are absolutely fantastic reads, and the new Dresden Files was definitely one of his most creative and original books yet. And some others I would recommend that I'm various parts of the way through:

Death's Head by David Gunn
Stealing Light by Gary Gibson
Gridlinked by Neal Asher
Nightfall by Stephen Leather
Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

 

[smeghead25]

Well, I just finished World War Z and now I'm reading Yahtzee's Mogworld and it ain't too bad.

Mogworld surprised the hell out of me. I expected it to be alright, maybe more of a parody, but turns out it also has a pretty good plot with some very interesting... erm... mechanics? It was a genuinely good read, and it just keeps geting better as it goes along. By the end, you really want a sequel.