What are you reading?

[Lucid]

The King's Curse - Philippa Gregory

 

[Austin]

The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien. I've been reading a bunch of Tolkien recently for some reason.

 

[Ullion]

Currently reading Dust of Dreams, the 9th book in Steven Erikson's Malazan series.

Book 8 (Toll the Hounds) had a ridiculous ending.

 

[Sutpen]

Currently reading William Faulkner's The Wild Palms. Like everything Faulkner wrote and like everyone doing a PhD on Faulkner will say, it's incredible. I much prefer the alternative title, If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, however.

 

[abnegation]

I started reading The Magicians trilogy by Lev Grossman. It's kind of a guilty pleasure since the fantasy in it isn't the most original thing in the world. It feels heavily inspired by The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe. Enjoyable all the same however, I'm just kind of floating through it and enjoying part to part. I wouldn't run out to recommend the trilogy, buuut it's not too bad. I'll be interested to see what they do with the TV series.

Aside from that I'm somewhat reading Blood Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski. I'm a bit behind on catching up on that series. I find his writing to great, really engrossing, really deep. But the prose could do with some work. It doesn't flow too well. That said, I'm a massive fan of the Witcher series and can't get enough of it.

I really need more medium fantasy to keep me going though, I say it every time, but Patrick Rothfuss is a genius and I need his final book in the Kingkiller Chronicle to come out nownownow.

 

[Jayce]

I think I've posted this book here before, but now that I'm finished with all the books I needed for school I've picked up Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay again. It's a collection of essays, really go so far.

 

[dad]

the great gatsby, v classic.

 

[maccrash]

I'm reading House of Leaves and it is utterly terrifying. it's in that niche of horror where almost nothing is described and the concept isn't even really scary (family moves into a house that's larger on the inside than it is out) but holy shit. it's so complex and claustrophobic and paranoia-inducing. it's also written extremely well; there are four different narrators (all written in different fonts so it's kinda easy to keep track), one of which is a book about a movie about the house they moved into (the main part of the book (and this sounds confusing but it isn't)), another of which is a guy that moved into the same house after the events transpired (more of a romance, but it's also kind of terrifying in parts) and a couple others that are kinda unimportant in the grand scheme. also some pages look a bit odd, like this one. buncha weird formatting which is also terrifying. GOOD BOOK

 

[Gligar]

I'm currently reading Donkishott, it's a great book.

 

[Ice1]

the great gatsby, v classic.

Just read that book, I really liked it.

Currently reading Frankenstein, which I like, but is really hard to get through for me, because of the poetic language, and the big words I have to think about. Maybe I just should've gotten the Dutch one, that would make things easier, haha.

 

[Ullion]

A lot of the classics people have listed here I had to read in high school and HATED. Including Frankenstein, Gatsby and Regeneration.

However, Brave New World was okay, and I kinda liked Children of Men. :)

 

[Jayce]

I'm reading Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac now. I've wanted to pick up another one of his books since I finished On The Road (I was a bit late to that one...), and found this guy for under $5 at a used bookstore, so voila. I just started, but it's good so far. I'm enjoying the working-class New England vibe.

 

[cream]

i'm currently reading another, by yukito ayatsuji. i actually watched the anime adaptation a few years ago and since then i've always wanted to read the novel it was based on. my dad got it for me as an early birthday present and i must say i really enjoy it so far. c:

 

[Astinus]

The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff - Another book I bought years ago when I first started getting interested in Eastern religions, and only started to read now when that interest was renewed. It's interesting, and I'm learning quite a bit about Taoism, which is something I always wanted to learn about.

The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card - This is some of Card's earlier work with a little rewriting to reflect what he learned mixed with the best that he could do as a young writer. Even though it's science fiction, which is what he's known for, there's a quality to the work that makes it read different than other science fiction books he wrote. It's taking me longer to read this than it usually takes.

 

[Loriania]

The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick

 

[Psychic]

I just finished Year Zero by Rob Reid. It was a light, quick read and quite enjoyable. If you liked Hitchhiker's Guide, you'll enjoy this.

~Psychic

 

[Winter]

Reading Saul Bellow's Seize the Day. Another book that I picked up for free at the school library. I've never read Bellow before but I have heard so much about him. :)

 

[Foxrally]

Reading the first book in the Heroes of Olympus series, The Lost Hero.

 

[DerpyTails]

Though it's an eBook, I've been reading The Kindgom Keepers "Disney at Dawn" (My Library's eBook repository only has Book 2 :p)

 

[dad]

finished the great gatsby in class, ngl i teared up a little. i'm looking for something scary to check out but if i can't find anything i'll prob check out can't get there from here or the absolutely true diary of a part-time indian