Whatcha Reeeading?

[wizzerd229]

Dracula by bram stroker

 

[Vern]

Nixonland. Yes my avatar makes it seem obvious.

 

[metalhead467]

I am reading A Song of Ice and Fire for the first time.

It's amazing, but hooooooooooooooly shit, is it depressing.

 

[simply_simple]

I'm reading Twilight and so far it's pretty lame. The dialouge is really poor in parts and some of the charecters are reallt annoying (well Bella is) but I'm only 75 pages so I'll give it a chance. After this I'm reading Dracula though and I'm looking forward to that.

 

[CounterAttack]

I finished Matthew Reilly's Five Greatest Warriors a while back, and to indulge my nerd side, I'm now reading the Forgotten Realms Player's Guide to Faerun.

 

[Jiggabyte]

So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish by Douglas Adams. I've been on and off reading the series for years but when I sit down and get a few chapters in my mind is officially blown (in a good way), so its probably a good thing I'm not taking in one big hit.
I gave someone my second copy for Christmas (I lost it, bought another copy, found the old one a year later) and the next day they declared they were at chapter 26, thus officially putting me to shame.
I have to criticise slightly and say its a little different from the others (as are the next two, the final for an obvious reason) but its got the same fantastic wit so I can't complain.

 

[Psiboom]

'To kill a Mocking Bird' mostly because I have to. I love how the subject, English Language Arts can suck the fun out of everything.

 

[jupla]

I'm currently reading 'The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century' by Eric Hobsbawm

 

[simply_simple]

I am Legend - Richard Matheson.

It's good so far, but I'll see how the plot develops further before commenting...

The ending of that book is the dest bit by far. It's the ONLY bit of the story that I felt had to be kept for the film because doing a film about one guy on his own owuld be hard but they made their own ending which wasn't great. Still a good film but the books ending should have been kept.

Catch-22 but only because I have to for English.

You sound reluctant to read it! Catch-22 is such a brilliant book and a really good satire.

I'm gonna get a copy of 'Do androids dream of electric sheep?', the book 'Blade Runner' was based on.

It's a really good book, I prefer it to the film (and I love the film). Philip K Dick is a really good author, if you decide you like his writing style then read 'A Scanner Darkly' too. There's a film out for that one as well and it's very good also so you could watch it first if you are that sort of person.

 

[SeanTheSheep]

I just finished re-reading Fever Crumb by Phillip Reeve, which is a prequel to his Mortal Engines series.

Spoiler: For those interested

Book 1 is Mortal Engines, which was the best,
2 is Predators Gold, which was the worst
3 is Infernal Devices, which was OK, but not great.
4 is A Darkling Plain, which is about on par with mortal engines, and rounds off the story nicely.

And I'm about to re-read Douglas Adams' Hitchikers Guide.

 

[Queen Michael]

Discworld - re-reading the whole series

Best series ever

Being a Cultural Guy I was going to tell you different, but thinking about it I realized I can't come up with any better series. Damn good series, the Discworld books.

Myself, I'm reading In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. It's excellent.

 

[Simriel]

Guards Guards, by Terry Pratchett.

 

[Pimppeter2]

History of Fear: Responding to Terrorism by Issac Cronin.

And then I'm going to read that new Dan Brown novel

 

[Cakes]

I'm going through the entire Chronicles of Narnia series right now, wonderful books. I'm at Voyage of the Dawn Treader (fuck the 'Chronological Order'...Magician's Nephew comes first my ass.)

 

[Cowabungaa]

I'm reading Dune and Fool Moon (Dresden Files) together, I pick one of them depending on my mood.

I must say by the way, Dune is a real challenge to read, that's some difficult English right there. But I like a challenge and it's not like there isn't anything I can't understand either by common sense or deduction, so it's all good. Brilliantly written book, I just got past the dinner party scene and Lady Jessica's talk with Hawat. Those parts were just awesome.

Loving the Dresden Files as well, delightful smooth reads, brilliant characters, fantastic setting, nothing not to love.

 

[theultimateend]

First, use the search bar.

Second, Flying Dutch by Tom Holt - it's awesome!

Ehh, the most recent is 20 days ago. I think that's a fair interval. I should be more careful but I think that's fair.

No you shouldn't be more careful. Screw them. Your topic is fine.

Anyways! To answer the OP.

Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series (Currently on Book 2 just finished Book 1)
Rowling's - Harry Potter (Currently on Book 1)
King's - Under the Dome

In all three cases I'm reading very popular books to see commonly accepted writing styles. I can be a tad antisocial so I use books and lots of observation to try and piece it all together.

Hopefully by the end of this adventure I'll have a published novel that makes me happy. Might even sell a copy or two...that would be nice also.

'To kill a Mocking Bird' mostly because I have to. I love how the subject, English Language Arts can suck the fun out of everything.

That book and Of Mice and Men were two stories that I 'had' to read but ended up really enjoying.

 

[littlequietguy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Abides
Great book. But I can't stand to read it in large chunks.

 

[HerrBobo]

Rubicon by Tom Holland. It is a narrative historical work about the fall of the Roman Republic, beginning just before the civil war between Sulla and Marius. Really worth a read, as is all his stuff.