What are you reading?

[GothmogII]

I'm Reading the Black Magician Trillogy by Trudi Canavan...again

I found her stuff rather...generic, although, I was a little surprised by the gay romance aspect to it, thought those parts were rather well done.

Terry Pratchett once again

he has so many books i can read them in a cycle and never get bored.

seriously, i can open one of his books, for the 30th time, and still find it brilliant, even though i can close my eyes and recite it.

Pratchett is awesomly good :3 I've been trying to collect all his novels with the artwork by Josh Kirby (For the stories too of course hehe), almost done I think. It's a shame though, I'm not overly fond of the new cover designs, even though Kirby stuff wasn't what I'd think the character's would look like (Paul Kidby does better for that imo), it did capture that certain Discworldyness in them.


As for myself...still reading The Algerbraist by Iain M. Banks, it's getting more and more confusing as I read on -_-. Still, not Gene Wolfe levels of confusion, thankfully ^^'

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

Finishing up another Cormac McCarthy book, which always ends up with me simultaneously missing Tennessee and contemplating picking a fight with someone bigger than me.

Thinking I'll go old school for the next read, maybe 'The Prince' or something.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

The Rosetta Key by William Detrich
Die Trying by Lee Child
Harbingers by F. Paul Wilson
The Metatemporal Detective by Michael Moorcock (best Fantasy Author EVAR!)

 

[Dalisclock]

The Worm Ouroboros, by ER Eddison. A fantasy Novel from the 1920's that is very epic and that almost noone has ever heard of. It does remind me of Lord of the Rings, but in a different way. The language is probably the biggest barrier, being very Elizabethan english, but once you get used to it(and get past the useless frame story of the first 1 1/2 chapters), the book gets quite good.

 

[fix-the-spade]

The sheet from University that says fail on it.

 

[irrelevantnugget]

The sheet from University that says fail on it.

Ouch >.<
Then again, I'll get one too soon... though I'll prolly redo a few of my exams in a few months from now.

Anyhoo, not reading any recreational books right now (2 exams left, GAH), but I do intend to read 'Lowest of the Low' by Günter Walraff this vacation. It's about a sociologic experiment in which a guy disguises himself as a Turkish worker. Apparantly he got discriminated in ways you couldn't imagine.

 

[Spinwhiz]

I finished Black House and I'm almost done with The Talisman, both by Stephen King and Peter Straub. If you enjoyed the Dark Tower series, you will like these too. I read Black House first, but I would suggest reading The Talisman first because it deals with Jack Sawyer as a boy and then Black House makes much more sense.

 

[opium of the people]

I'm re-reading catch-22 (possibly the best book ever written after maybe the hhgttg series)

 

[exocel]

Just started the dark tower series again, got almost to the end of the drawing of the three today.

 

[Zemalac]

Just started the dark tower series again, got almost to the end of the drawing of the three today.

I've been trying to read those books. I've got the last three on hold at the library.

In the meantime I've been reading Scar Night by Alan Campbell. Good book, mostly because he does the setting so well. It's a sort of gothic, steampunk-ish city hanging over a huge abyss, suspended there by massive chains. Good stuff.

 

[Earthbound Engineer]

If you're looking for a good fantasy series, I suggest the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. Some people may depict it as a children's series, but I'm 26 and I read them. For a thriller, I suggest Lost Boy, Lost Girl, by Peter Straub. For a Horror, I suggest either Pet Semetary or It, by Stephen King. For a Comedy, I suggest The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. For a Sci-Fi, I suggest the Davinci Code by Dan Brown, or Nostradamus:The Good News by Mario Watkins.

 

[CartoonHead]

Flashman and the Dragon by George Macdonald Fraser. Bloody classic historical comedy. Recommend almost every book in the series (maybe not so much Flashman and the Angel Of The Lord, but it's still good).

 

[klarax]

Good book if anyone is interesting is called:

"The Book With No Name"

 

[vede]

Just finished Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. It was great. And the ending made me really think about how humanity functions and the complex system of happiness.

It was the inspiration for STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl and Stalker, the movie.

I'd recommend it to anyone.

You can download freely and legally at the same time <a href=http://www.cca.org/cm/picnic.pdf>here.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Just finished "The World without us" : How Nature reclaims the planet without our intervention.

Not sure what's next, but I should be writing mine anyway.

 

[irrelevantnugget]

Good book if anyone is interesting is called:

"The Book With No Name"

Would be awesome in a library: "Hello, I was wondering if you have the book with no name, in stock?"

Anyhoo, between exams right now, I'm reading 'The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten, by Julian Bagghini.
It's basically a collection of 100 philosophical theories, ranging from Hume to Mill, to Huxley, etc.. Quite fun to see stuff I was supposed to know for uni, in an easy-to-understand story, with various solutions/interpretations of the problems at hand.

 

[Quaidis]

Highly highly HIGHLY recommend the Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z. If you love zombies then you can't go wrong with those two books. Max Brooks, the guy that wrote them, really really know what he's talking about.

I'm going to back up the 'Zombie Survival Guide'. Definitely something to be read once in a movie or game-geek's life.


And if you really want some entertainment, check out 'The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster' or anything written about the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

 

[Rad_Brad]

The Catcher in the Rye

 

[Artemis923]

I really wish A Dance of Dragons will come out soon. I want more Tyrion!!!

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"For once, his father did what Tyrion asked him. The proof was the sudden stench, as his bowels loosened in the moment of death. Well, he was in the right place for it, Tyrion thought. But the stink that filled the privy gave ample evidence that the often-repeated jape about his father was just another lie.

Lord Tywin did not, in the end, shit gold."

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