What are you reading right now?

lunanoir said:
ok so I read lots... most if it crap pulp (I read bodice rippers mostly so yeah... BLUSH) but here follows a few of my fav's and unfav's.

I read lord of the rings, started at the Hobbit... it was terrible. I only started giving a f*ck about what was going to happen at page 800. The writing style is just soooo dang old and stretched out and those dang hobbitses sure like to friggen sing a lot... in my opinion, rather watch the movies. The misty mountain song is so much nicer when done by hot dwarfs...

This leads me to Robert Jordan's Wheel of time series... there was just waaaay to many similarities with LOTR. I mean really?? every thing is there... the chosen unlikely one, his friends helping him on a dangerous journey to fight against a terribly dark power that has been vanquished before but has come back. he has a sword instead of a ring... yada yada yada... sigh... I know this is the way epic myths are supposed to be written, but eish.... too much of the sames... and it just keeps going. Even after the author dies it just keeps going, every book near 1000 pages!!.... I'll wait for the movies of these too frankly.

I lurve lurve lurve Terry Pratchett, and on that note, I have some to sell as I don't want to keep my hard copies any more... PM me ;p

Another series that has some local sci-fi flava is Tad Williams's Otherland series... damnit people it's got a Bushman and a Zulu girl in it! well to be fair, people across the globe really and they are pulled into the internet in a virtual reality world and they are stuck there etc etc ... just pure awesome! READ IT! it has lots of interesting ideas about how virtual reality could work, and how one could obtain immortality by uploading yourself online... sucha good series I have all of the books and plan to keep them forever and ever...

Iain Banks (RIP) has some really goooood books too. Not only the hard deep space sci-fi stuff, or the weird dreamy stuff (The Bridge), but his regular stories were good too, like "The Crow Road" and "Espedair Street". Check him out. High octane good writing stuff.

Douglas Adams of course... all of his stuff... even the Dirk Gently books. I loved those... the one with Thor and Odin in the old age home... hehe... good good good.

I don't really read a lot of the fantasy stuff anymore due to the books sucking and having too many elements of LOTR in them... But the Liveship series by Robin Hobb I read all of em... er except the last one... but it's been years so I will have to reread before I can get to the new one... but a good series.

CJ Cherryh's Chronicles of Morgaine series... I just adore this... It's about a woman who is the last of her race, tasked with closing the gates between worlds with her sword, that works like a key kinda, but if she takes it out of the scabbard, you get sucked into the void between the gates and you stop being a problem... so it's all about how she has to do this job and how she cannot worry about people and then this guy swears to protect and follow her etc etc I guess it is the romance between them that I like, but also that she is such a bad ass cold biatch. I like strong, tortured female characters. It is a rather old series and Mrs Cherryh's style isn't for everybody, but you can get used to it.

I have lots of e-books to get through but I have to sleep sometimes too...
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I have a standard recommendation for people that enjoy Pratchett and Adams: If you haven't read Jasper Fforde yet, give it a go. Start with the Thursday Next series. Reading order is important, so mind that. You can return to rep me when you finish the first book :D
 
Two months dormant. Apparently nobody reads books anymore :cry:

I've finally finished "Wool" after months of reading. As much as I enjoyed it at the start it dragged on and on and on... In the end it felt like real work to just read a single page. It is a good story but it is in dire need of a good editing.

So I pulled up "Deeply Odd", the latest book in the "Odd Thomas" series by Dean Koontz. I've been flying through it (in stark contrast with "Wool", even though it is not necessarily a better book, it just reads easier) and I should finish it within a day or two. It has all the elements fans of the series would expect including a few unexpected twists and turns and some new characters (like the mysterious and pretty cool Mrs Edie Fischer).

Unfortunately, the Odd Thomas books have become a bit preachy of late. It is not a major issue, but one that needs to be addressed by Mr Koontz or the series could suffer because of it.

Some ideas also seem to have been recycled from previous books, but I'll first finish the book before elaborating on that.
 
Mister 44 said:
Two months dormant. Apparently nobody reads books anymore :cry:

I've finally finished "Wool" after months of reading. As much as I enjoyed it at the start it dragged on and on and on... In the end it felt like real work to just read a single page. It is a good story but it is in dire need of a good editing.

So I pulled up "Deeply Odd", the latest book in the "Odd Thomas" series by Dean Koontz. I've been flying through it (in stark contrast with "Wool", even though it is not necessarily a better book, it just reads easier) and I should finish it within a day or two. It has all the elements fans of the series would expect including a few unexpected twists and turns and some new characters (like the mysterious and pretty cool Mrs Edie Fischer).

Unfortunately, the Odd Thomas books have become a bit preachy of late. It is not a major issue, but one that needs to be addressed by Mr Koontz or the series could suffer because of it.

Some ideas also seem to have been recycled from previous books, but I'll first finish the book before elaborating on that.
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More than likely dormant because of the removed stickies a while back by James, ill help you out though. I am busy reading Hatchet again. Loved that book as a child.
 
I haven't had time to read for a while. The little time I manage to squeeze out for myself goes to gaming, so I'm STILL busy with book 5 of A Song of Ice and Fire (AKA Game of Thrones), but I do have the latest Wheel of Time waiting for me on the bookshelf. It's an actual paper book, and quite big, so it'll make a big change from the Kindle
 
Mister 44 said:
Two months dormant. Apparently nobody reads books anymore :cry:
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I usually do a shameless bump post, which I've forgotten to lately :o.

In the past 2 months I've read A Crown of Swords (Wheel of Time #7), The Path of Daggers (WoT #8), and The Fall of Five (Lorien Legacies #4).

A Crown of Swords and The Path of Daggers were both good reads, but it's pretty evident at this point that the pacing has changed from the 1st 6 WoT books' higher action oriented pace to a slower more character and plot driven pace, and at times it can drag on. I'm certainly feeling a bit of fatigue as I'm currently reading Winter's Heart (WoT #9). Good story, but it can drag on with the political focus at the forefront at the moment.

The Fall of Five was epic, great pace, great focus on characters, awesome action, but what a crappy ending :/
 
Currently reading Without Buddha I could not be a Christian by Paul Knitter.

If any of you are looking for some great fiction I recommend the Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks, epic series!
 
have any of you brave souls ever had the strength of character necessary to read the Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien?
 
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