What's been your latest read?

[NewGeekPhilosopher]

A Wind Named Amnesia by Hideyuki Kikuichi. Same guy who wrote and created Vampire Hunter D. Comes with a bonus novel called Invader Summer which is getting interesting.

I read a lot of Japanese light novels because of the fact that I review them for a site called The Ranobe Cafe. It's a blog for Japanese literature, but it's a team blog.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

I read Catcher In The Rye, which has been on my to-read pile for a few years. I didn't think it was to bad, although I'm guessing it's because I didn't have to study it.

 

[Alkestes]

Mass Effect - Revelation. Quite an interesting book actually.

I agree, I thought it was great. And it was nice to know more about Saren. Specifically nice to know that he was an asshole before Sovereign got his claws into him.

OT: I'm currently re-reading Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium. :'D And after that's through I'm going to back and re-read Carpe Jugulum. I couldn't really get into it the first time around, so I wanna see if anything's changed. xD

 

[vorlors]

please kill me the uncensored oral history of punk - legs mcneil

 

[TheEarlOfGrey]

Death Note: L Change The World novel. Didn't like the movie too much but loving the book loads.

 

[Beardly]

Animal Farm - George Orwell.

Great book, and is really short. I'd recommend it to anyone.

Was that made into a play?
My drama class went to go see it in Leeds on Thursday. Unfortunately, I couldn't afford it but it sounds so good.

It was also made into an animated feature. I first saw it when I was about 9 or 10. Blew my little mind to bits! Either my Dad or Brother have a copy of it and I need to read it. Two other Orwell books that need reading are 1984 and Down and Out in London and Paris. I'm looking for the latter but can't find it anywhere! It's quite vexing really...

I haven't read Down and Out yet but I will agree that 1984 is a must read. And of course before or after you read that you should read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

OT: I just finished Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis which is strange and perverse while being a damn good read.

 

[mrF00bar]

I am reading The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett at the moment, I can't remember what I read before that.

 

[RedDeadFred]

I bet no-one will read this post!

I just did lol.

Alright, you win. Have this.

He won a heart attack?

Thanks but I'll pass. I think I'll just get a BLT from Tim Hortons for breakfast and an Ice Cap.
Your breakfast does look a bit deadly...

 

[I Fiend I]

Superfreakonomics

 

[Rock 'n' Soul]

"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

Heheh. Get to the hooker part yet? XD

Interestingly enough, I was able to use that for a literary analysis final last year.

I did actually. I've just recently passed the "taxi driver part". There's a lot of random sex in this book, isn't there?

 

[G1eet]

"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

Heheh. Get to the hooker part yet? XD

Interestingly enough, I was able to use that for a literary analysis final last year.

I did actually. I've just recently passed the "taxi driver part". There's a lot of random sex in this book, isn't there?

Indeed. At least the inclusion of those sex scenes in the story felt more fluid to me than the gratuitous sex scene in Follett's Lie Down With Lions.

I'll never look at pregnant women the same way again...

 

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My Shit Life So Far by Frankie Boyle ... epic life = epic book XD

 

[Jerious1154]

Right now I'm rereading the Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay. Probably my favorite series of fantasy books.

Before that it was The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, which was amazing.

 

[GeekFury]

Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert, onto Children of Dune now.

 

[Elonas]

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, read it a while ago, and decided to pick it up again. An awesome read.

Next on my list: Call of Cthulhu and other weird stories, by H. P. Lovecraft.

 

[FretfulGnome]

Just finished The Catcher in the Rye and The Fellowship of the Ring. I'm starting on Otherland by Tad Williams.

 

[G1eet]

I'm currently reading Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick

Good read so far. Blade Runner is based on it.

I leave for a trip to Puerto Rico in a few days... would you recommend picking it up for an "airport" read?

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

I'm currently working my way through Dark Creed by Anthony Reynolds, the 3rd Word Bearers novel, and one of the many many Warhammer 40,000 novels in my book collection. I'd have finished it a while ago but all kinds of stuff I wanted/needed to do has cut into my reading time recently - something I'm actually happy about since now I have a small backlog (3) of new books waiting for me, whereas before I'd acquire each month's new release, read it, and be out of new reading material until the next month rolled around.

Now that I've finished Mass Effect 2 I'll probably spend more time reading for a bit before I go on another gaming binge.