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What are you reading?
Sad to see that this thread died a few months ago..
Simply, what book are you currently reading? Are you enjoying it? What books are you looking forward to? --- As for me, I'm reading And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini. I am really enjoying it and love all of the characters and the way they are portrayed. Hosseini really captures what it truly means to be alive in such an unfair world. |
I have so many books that I've started and thus stopped because of school. So, here's the books I've started to read again before school picks up once more.
The Fall of Five by Pittacus Lore, I really enjoy this series and I remember being really enthralled by the the first three books even though it feels like I read them so long ago. That book and, A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin, I've been trying (and failing) to read the books before continuing the show. It was mostly so I could stay ahead of the TV Show, which is why I'm only on season three. |
I'm currently nearing the end of Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb
It's the first book in the Tawny Man trilogy - the sequel series to the Farseer trilogy I LOVE these books - Robin Hobb's writing is fantastic, her books are a true joy to read; I've previously read her Rainwild Chronicles and the Farseer ones :) Really looking forward to reading her next series: Fitz and the Fool! I really recommend these books to anyone, particularly anyone who loves fantasy/romance/action/magic etc!!! Truly brilliant books |
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. very compelling characters and storyline. way more erotic than I was expecting. Overall, A Winner
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Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin: I started to read this when PC's staff was excited for the new season to start, and I'm still not done with the book. It's slow going, and that's all I say about that.
Pathfinder - Orson Scott Card: Another fantasy book that's more like a brick, but it's a Card book so I'm enjoying it. It's slow going with this one as well, but there's only three characters to keep track of and the plot's moving along. I haven't read the rest of the series yet, so I'm looking forward to Ruins and Visitors. |
Just started reading The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling). I really enjoyed the first book in the series and hopefully this one is great too.
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I'm reading 'Fangirl' by Rainbow Rowell, it's pretty good so far
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I've started reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I'm not quiet sure how I feel about it.. At this point, I really don't seem to be liking the protagonist 'good guy' of the story, so I guess I'll have to see how it goes.
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The World According to Bob - James Bowen
I picked up this book because it looked so cute with the kitty on the cover. It has a prequel, but reading this book is hard to resist. You know me, being the ultimate cat lover and all. 8D |
I'm reading Web of the Witch World by Andre Norton. Old fantasy from the 60s, and the second it a seemingly very long series of books which I probably won't ever read. It's kind of so-so, but there's enough to keep me reading. It does things a little differently from typical fantasy from then and now, and that's nice to see.
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I finished The Fountainhead, and I enjoyed it a bit more than I thought I would initially but it is by far not the best book I've read recently. Now I'm reading All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, and so far it has been very beautifully and vividly written with an interesting story to follow.
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One book I am currently reading is Shadow Warriors: The Untold Tales of American Special Operations During WWII by Richard Camp.
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The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima
I actually got two other books from the series, not realizing I didn't have the first one. I only just got the first one today. My intention was to actually buy the prequel to "The World According to Bob", but I never asked if they had it. :/ |
I finished All the Light We Cannot See today, and it was a very good book. I'm not going to lie - I found it a bit disappointing, but I think that may be part of the effect it's supposed to have. Nevertheless, the writing was beautiful, especially in the first half.
I've just started The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, a book that has been on my list for a while. I've really been looking forward to reading it for a while now, so I hope I enjoy it! |
I picked up Stats Canada: Satire on a National Scale about a week ago, and I'm loving it so far. It's exactly what it sounds like, though if you aren't into Canadiana at all, you might not be all that interested in reading it. But then again, where else can you learn fantastic things like the fact that the average Canadian says sorry 45,000 times a day, or 37% of Canadians die due to choking on a Timbit?
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Shaman's Crossing, by Robin Hobb.
I actually bought this book years ago, hoping to try once more to get into another series of hers, since I absolutely loved reading her Farseer Trilogy back when I was in high school. I fell in love with her characterizations and the way she writes. I actually did get maybe like a third of the way through this book originally, but I stopped reading it for some reason. I think what happens with her books - and what happened here - is that I tend to peek ahead, and then I get absolutely pissed at what happens and then don't feel like reading anymore. So now that I just finished read the book I had been trying to finish for a few years (!!), I'm starting this book over, and I'm going to actually read it all the way through this time. No skipping ahead. No spoiling myself. |
I just finished Oscar Wao, and I really enjoyed it! I'm glad that I've finally read it after having it on my to-read list for so long. I'm about to start Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, another book that has been on my list for a while.
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky: This was recommended on a subreddit, and I finally got around to reading through it. It's interesting to me because I absolutely love alternate universes and reimaginings of stories. Some of the parts (about the higher sciences and theories) go over my head on the first readings and I have to go back and re-read them. But it's still interesting to see Harry Potter looked at in a more scientific way. The writing style could use a little work, though.
Ruins by Orson Scott Card: Then we get to the books about time-traveling and saving the world. I'm enjoying this one more than the first book in the series, Pathfinder, but I like when Card writes about the relationships between his characters, which this book has more of than the first in the series. |
Re-reading Lord of the Rings- The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Someone recommended to me Uprooted by Naomi Novik. I've only just started but it's already a pretty good book. Very much a fairytale with its setting and characters, but it moves quickly and already I've got the sense that there is a lot more underneath the simple exterior. I've got high expectations of this book and I hope I won't be let down.
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^ I like her dragon alternate history novels.
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I just finished reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. It started off a little bit meh, but once you get more into the novel it gets really amazing, honestly. It's best to go into it if you don't know anything at all about the plot, either.
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At the moment I'm reading Lirael, the second book of The Abhorsen Chronicles, by Garth Nix
They're quite dark books, but really thrilling and interesting. Very good :) |
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I was going to grab the book that comes after the one I had been reading and read that one, but then I remembered I have quite the backlog of books around here, maybe I should actually read at least one of those before I buy another one.
So I settled on one of the Dragonlance books sitting around here. Kendermore, by Mary Kirchoff. It's been years since I've read a Dragonlance book and it involves my favorite character from that series, so why not. :') |
Finished Ruins and started the next book in the series, Visitors. At this point, I'm just wondering what was going on in Card's mind as he was writing it, because it feels "off." It's a very weird series, and I think it's going to fall under my "don't read again unless I really want to" pile.
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There is a prequel to the Old Kingdom/ Abhorsen series that came out recently.
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I've just finished reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. I had a fantastic cast of extremely - and almost scarily - relatable characters. I'm about to start Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee's second book. I'm hoping that it will live up to its hype, and hopefully to its predecessor.
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'Fangirl' by Rainbow Rowell
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I finished Go Set a Watchman and I really enjoyed it! It was a little slow at first but I think it had a really strong push in the middle that kept me from putting it down until it was over. Now I feel the need to go re-read To Kill a Mockingbird and see how my perceptions of it might have changed..
But I'm not re-reading TKAM just yet. I've started She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. I read another Wally Lamb book earlier (I Know This Much Is True) that is so far one my favorite books of the summer, so I'm hoping the one I've just started is just as good. |
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
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I was expecting. Overall, A Winner
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I'm reading Fables comics. I'm pretty far behind and I'm trying to catch up in time for the last issue, but I probably won't get that far. They're really good comics, but I can't read more than a little at a time.
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Oh, do comics count? In that case, I'm reading Uncanny X-Force vol.1 omnibus, 'cuz I simply can't get enough of it! Ahah. Also picked up a new book yesterday called 'Mr. Mercedes' by Stephen King. I hope it'll be a good read.
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Reading The Martian. I wanna read the book before the movie comes out since the plot from the trailer exposition, while similar in ways to Interstellar, intrigued me.
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I'm jumping from one thing to another. I can't find the right thing so I'm currently re-reading the Saga comic. Such a good series.
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Fool's Quest will be out soon, better catch up! |
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Finished Sabriel, now reading Lirael.
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I finished reading Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone last night and I thought it was a fantastic book. I don't think I liked it as much as the other Wally Lamb book I've read, but it was still outstanding. I've since started, and am now more than halfway through, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. So far it has been an interesting read with a really unique and awesome narrator.
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The Alphabet of Manliness
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I finished reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time last night. It was a really good, interesting, short, and easy book to read. I'd suggest it for anyone looking for a fantastic book that will be easy to digest.
I'm now reading Ian McEwan's Atonement. I'm only forty pages in and I have been completely blown away by how beautiful it is. Already, there have been a lot of really interesting concepts - things that I have been trying to capture in my own writing - that I have been thinking about recently, and it is just so interesting seeing these thoughts that I have had written down by another person. I may be early into this book, but I feel like it may be one of my favorites. |
Re-reading Clariel by Garth Nix
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Philippa Gregory's The Red Queen, which is about Margaret Beaufort and her attempts in battling the Plantagenets to put a Tudor on the throne. Not big on royal fiction, but Gregory's an amazing writer.
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On Liberty And Other Essays by John Stuart Mill and the works of Aristotle as well. Sort of burned out on all the fiction I've been reading lately so I've delved into my backlog of philosophical treatises.
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I just finished the first book in the Old kingdoms series which was pretty good and i think ill move on to number 2 some time in the future.
Now im finishing up Paper Towns which so far im loving <3 |
^ The next book, Lirael, is set some fourteen years later. I've moved to re-reading Clariel now.
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I'm reading a history book on the Byzantine empire: Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin. It was something that I never really learned about in all my schooling and history classes. Among other things I learned how the fork found its way into European life and how previously it was considered something only barbarians used. The more you know.
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One of my coworkers let me borrow her copies of the 50 Shades books, and since I'm dumb and cant' not read a book, I'm reading them. Already finished the first one (50 Shades of Grey) and plan to start the second one today (50 Shades Darker).
I'm also reading Sarah by Orson Scott Card and Life's Too Short by Jen and Bill Klein. The former is about the woman from the Book of Genesis; the latter is the biography by the stars of TLC's The Little Couple. |
I am nearing the end of Abhorsen at the moment - really enjoyed these books :)
Also, I'm reading Insurgent, currently at Chapter 14. Read Divergent ages ago lol Wasn't sure at first if I liked the story, to read ahead...then the film came out, and I thought they made that brilliantly, and now the Insurgent film is out, I decided I would indeed go ahead with the rest, as they're really quite good! :D |
Although I am a book worm, I have been mainly reading strictly comics the past few months. I just finished Crisis on Infinite Earths and I started Forever Evil: A.R.G.U.S.
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Abhorsen by Garth Nix.
@VanillaMiltank- Do you plan on reading Clariel too? |
picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde
finish two books in one night? challenge accepted |
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I only found out about Clariel just recently...I will eventually get to reading it! |
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I've been reading NW by Zadie Smith. I really did not enjoy the first section of the book, but I've liked the two middle sections. I'll have to see how the final section is before deciding how I feel about the book as a whole though. |
A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin
Yeah, I've watched the TV series but I wanted to see how the series went in the books and I can say that I really enjoy reading it. :) |
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i'll also be picking up we were liars by e. lockheart as soon as i can get my hands on it. heard it was great. |
One book I am currently reading is A Dawn Like Thunder The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight by Robert J. Mrazek
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Shadow Of The Wolf by Tim Hall
A dark new twist to the tale of Robin Hood |
I'm reading Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy by Bruce Watson right now. It's a required read for the university I'm attending this Fall, but it's decent.
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The Silkworm, by Robert "J. K. Rowling" Galbraith, a simple detective book for the holidays. Love her dialogues too.
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I just picked up Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Only just a little into the book, but the movie was great and so far I'm really liking the writing style, very vivid and prettiful. Can't wait to really sink my teeth into it.
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The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey (it's been a while since I read it.)
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@Topic: I am currently reading "Wizard and Glass", the fourth book of Steven King's "The Dark Tower". A lot of people say it's the best book of the series, and I really do like it so far. :) |
Yesterday I started reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. It's a cyberpunk science fiction book, which thematic of virtual reality. It was quite popular and became many good reviews when it was released in 2011. At the moment a movie adaption with Steven Spielberg as director is being planned. I really love cyberpunk and especially the topic of virtual reality. Since I only started yesterday I cannot really say how good it is, but I hope it will be that what Sword Art Online should already have been for me.
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Kinda stopped reading the last book I was trying to read (it just wasn't doing it for me, I might pick it back up later)...
So now I've started Mort, by Terry Pratchett. Found some Discworld books the other day that I realized I haven't read yet (of which there's probably still a good bit, to be fair), so I grabbed those and I'll probably end up going through those soon enough. |
the plot against america philip roth
it's a short little alternate history book presented as the author recalling his youth in a world where charles lindbergh was elected president after rallying up the public to remain isolationist during wwii, resulting in increased anti-semitism before and during his presidency it's interesting because it portrays a pretty believable account of how such a scenario could come to pass |
It by Stephen King
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I have read it when I was about 15 or so, and two years ago I read it again (in English, this time) and I liked it even better. I just love the structure of the book (i.e. the two timelines) and the way the main themes are handled - there are so many subtle things he is telling us which I couldn't even quite grasp the first time I read it. So far, I have read many Stephen King novels, and in my opinion, this is his very, very best one. I haven't watched the movie until I have read it the second time, and since it really did not meet the standard of the book (as I expected after all I've heard of it), I am really hoping that the new one (which seems to be in progress, more or less) is going to be good. ;) |
Runaways, Such a great series.
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I'm about 70% of the way through and love it, I agree that it's cool how he structured everything with the two timelines. This is the first Stephen King book I've read and I'm really enjoying it :) |
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Right now I'm reading The First King Of Shannara by Terry Brooks
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The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth.
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The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie... I'm not very far because of my small attention span, unfortunately. ;; However, I've really been meaning to get back into reading mysteries! I used to love reading them so I figured it's time to pick some up again.
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I am currently reading, Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Anonymous.
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards.
It's a really well written book but it has been taken me a while to get through, mainly because classes have started up again and I've had more things to do lately than read. |
The Green Mile, by Stephen King, and I'm loving it. I'm so going to study his word choice and scene structure.
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Just started reading Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine - I have read her previous Morganville Vampires, and really enjoyed them, so that was partly what influenced me to get this new one, but also drawn in by the beautiful cover and interesting summary
It's the first of a new series titled The Great Library Really liking it so far :) |
Dreamer's Pool by Juliet Marillier
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Carrie - Stephen King
I have read it many times over, but being a creature of habit, I like to reread my fav King books each year. Just finished The Stand, my favourite novel of all time. :) |
Mathias Thulman: Witch Hunter. Witch Finder. Witch Killer.
I've strayed into the Fantasy section of the black library and so far I think it's decent, if not that, the protagonist absorbs much dislike from me for being a bit. . . rude. |
I started reading Jonathan Franzen's Purity a few days ago. It has been really good so far, with awesome characters and an interesting story.
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Well, I'm reading The Princess and The Goblin by George Macdonald. I recently start reading but the book seems a little boring to me. Actually I don't like reading fantasy too much except Tolkien. I've read Hobbit and The Fellowship of the ring, also I'm going to read more Tolkien books. I'm on a vacation, I don't have another choice so I have to finish The Princess and The Goblin.
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Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman. It's about a spooky underground city beneath London. I haven't read much in the genre of magical realism until this one, but it's fun once you wrap your mind around the disconnect between the representation of reality and the magical out-of-this-world elements.
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I've been slowly chipping away at The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, a pre-cursor science fiction book from the 14th century. I've also been reading the Arabian Nights every now and then.
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Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
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Seeress of Kell, by David Eddings. Overall, the Malloreon has been a tad repetitive - which Eddings even acknowledges and tries to integrate into the plot - but it hasn't been too bad. Not sure what I'll read after this...might give Gemmell a try. |
Armada, by Ernest Cline. I'm also reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone again because why not?
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Currently reading Of Mice and Men for both of my English classes. Was originally going to read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone because I've wanted to read the books for a long time but when I went back to grab the book someone else took it. *cries hysterically*
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Animal Farm by George Orwell.
(What do you do when humankind mistreats farm animals? Start a rebellion of course!) |
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I'm reading... uh, "The Cure of Imperfect Sight" by Dr. Bates. I know it's not a fiction book, but do anyone here understands Indonesian words? :P |
Persuasion by Jane Austen. I'm a little torn on whether I like this book or not, I like some of it but there are some parts I find pretty horrendous at the same time, too... I guess I'll just have to decide for sure once I finish it. It seems that most people either love or hate Jane Austen but I'm really sitting on the fence with how I feel about her writing.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
I'm almost through reading it. Well, not almost... I still have a little ways to go. I'm anxious to see how Tim Burton's version of it will turn out. It's right up his alley, and you just KNOW it's going to be amazing. <3 |
The Watchmaker Of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
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Persuasion by Jane Austen, and Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens.
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I'm re-reading Into the Wild from the Warriors series by Erin Hunter. I'm getting the full set of the first series when my dad gets his check. :3 I recommend it if you love cats!
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