What are you currently reading?

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Hoping I'm not the only avid reader here.

Currently busy with His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, halfway through Northern Lights.

Also recently, for the second time, tried to read the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson, but while I was intrigued by Gardens of the Moon, I just could not get myself to finish Deadhouse Gates. The same thing happened about 2 years ago when I first started the series. I find the story to be immense and of great, interesting detail, but Erikson's writing just wearies me.

Can't wait for A Dance with Dragons by George RR Martin to be released on the 12th of July. Will buy that as soon as it hits the shelves.

What are you reading?
 
Currently...working through the whole R.E Feist series...again...for the 8th time :D Love the man's work. Also reading the Assassins series from Brent Weeks. I HIGHLY recommend it. His first work. It is damn stunning.
 
Just finished the latest Wilbur Smith, Those in Peril, much better than the previous novel by him but still only average.
Been busy with the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan since the beginning of last year and currently on the 8th book. Wish I'd discovered it earlier.
Will be reading the latest Terry Goodkind novel, "The Omen Machine" as soon as it hits the shelves, I think the Sword of truth series is the best I've read so far, even with the extremely long dialogues you need to work through from time to time.
Also plan on taking a look at the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series by George R.R. Martin after seeing the first few episodes of "Game of Thrones".
 
Just finished Dan Brown's Digital Fortress. Love Fictional Thrillers such as his books.

Gonna start Deception point soon :)
 
I'm reading Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. It's fascinating stuff, a look in to Chinese culture as it went through some serious changes. It autobiographically follows the story of three women from the same family over nearly 200 hundred years. From the warlord governments of the 1800's to the communist revolution and Chinese cultural revolution of the 1900's. Great historical insight with a human touch to keep it emotive and engaging.
 
Raven, at the moment. Just finished Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Chronicles, and moving onto Giles Kristen's Raven series. Quite similar.
 
Going to fetch the first four books of "Song of Ice and Fire" by George R.R. Martin today. Looking forward to getting into that as I really enjoy fantasy books

Also reading Kathy Reichs' Temperance Brennan novels and the Sookie Stabckhouse novels by Charlaine Harris
 
Ive started on the new Trudi Canavan series - The traitor spy. First book is The Ambassador's mission. Also going though all the Tami Hoag books as well as the JD Robb (aka Nora Roberts) Her Eve Dallas books are brilliant. Also have Stephen King's The Cell and the new Kathy Reich on the list.
 
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Ive started on the new Trudi Canavan series - The traitor spy. First book is The Ambassador's mission. Also going though all the Tami Hoag books as well as the JD Robb (aka Nora Roberts) Her Eve Dallas books are brilliant. Also have Stephen King's The Cell and the new Kathy Reich on the list.
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/accepts thanks :p

What is the new Kathy Reichs book called?
 
Spider bones/ mortal remains. But now Im not sure if Ive read it or not. Saw there was another once called Virals that I want to get as well.

Ok just double checked Ive read Spider bones - I saw it at Exclusives as Mortal Remains and that confused me for a bit till I saw that the they are the same book.
 
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Spider bones/ mortal remains. But now Im not sure if Ive read it or not. Saw there was another once called Virals that I want to get as well.
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Oh yeah, saw that when i was looking for the books on Take2.

Virals is a young adult novel...Brief description from Take2

Tory Brennan is the leader of a ragtag band of teenage "sci-philes" who live on a secluded island off the coast of South Carolina and when the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing on a nearby island, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever. Young adult debut novel from a #1 New York Times best-selling author.
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I'm reading Marilyn Manson's Biography - The Long Hard road out of hell... I understand why he's such a strange fellow!
 
@Orihalcon: I've never gotten hold of Feist's novels. When I start reading an author I want to start at the beginning, and every time I've been at the library the first installment has never been there, so I usually just find something else to read and get caught up in that. Then next time I go to library it's the same process. It's also why I've never read any Robin Hobb or Robert Jordan. Three things I'm very ashamed of - but I blame our libraries. The two closest to me really neglect SF/Fantasy. But I'm going to Canada soon and I'm planning on just purchasing the firsts in the series while I'm there - books are really cheap in CA (A Dance with Dragons brand new, hardcover selling for R160).

I enjoyed Trudi Canavan's The Age of the Five but not so much The Black Magician trilogy and stopped halfway through the second novel. Found the formula too similar. But I guess - seeing that the sequel series is getting much praise - I should give it another try.
 
Do yourself a favour before reading the black magician trilogy get the prequel called the Magician's apprentice. It gives you a better background on the how's and whys. I have to admit I prefered the Magicians story line more than the wilds one.

I need to get the new RE Feist books. I loved all of his other books, still reread them once a year :D
 
Currently busy with Steel Remains by Richard Morgan. I have made it my personal mission to read every single book he has written (already bought them all), but the Sci-Fi just got a bit too much for me while I was reading the third Takeshi Kovacs novel (Woken Furies) so I decided it was time for some Fantasy instead. I have to say, I am really enjoying Steel Remains, Morgan has an insane imagination that suits the fantasy genre quite nicely.

Also have the latest Ted Dekker novel (I don't know I love his books for some reason) and The Room by Hubert Selby Jr. that I recently started, but haven't put too much time into yet. I'm kind of afraid to read The Room, not scared but afraid that it will emotionally scar me :p

EDIT: Here's a review of The Room in case you wonder why I'm afraid to read it. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2007/nov/20/agenuinelyfrighteningameric

Here's a little excerpt from that review:
It begins as a fantasy of revenge against the cops who framed him, and quickly spirals into an ugly tirade of twisted sex and violence, deploying the kind of imagery that made a literary pariah of Bret Easton Ellis in the 90s. The book includes scenes of rape, murder, brutality and torture that become so deadening, so awful and detailed, that the impact upon the reader is almost physical.

Tackling such explosive material was not easy for Selby, either. He famously claimed that he was unable to read The Room until a decade or more after its publication. Talking about the book in the so-so documentary on his life It'll Be Better Tomorrow he looked uncomfortable. To this reader's mind, the difficulty was not prompted by the explicitness of the scenes, but rather the psychological atmosphere created by the book, which is so thick as to be almost toxic. Unlike American Psycho, which was clearly satirical, and created a bogeyman who embodied the worst of his era, the reader of The Room is dragged kicking and screaming into the head of the narrator, feels his rage, his impotence, his anger, his fantasies of retribution: we are made complicit in every sordid fantasy
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Empire by Orson Scott Card - After the Amazing Ender's Saga its nice to read something a little more... grounded.
 
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