What are you reading?

[kdrcraig]

Started reading The Walking Dead Compendium 1 over the weekend, love it and I'm about 3/4 of the way through already.

Also reading The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson on my kindle, it is really good. And from what I understand it's going to be a 10 book series. I really need to stop getting myself invested in long book series.

[Minpin]

Also reading The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson on my kindle, it is really good. And from what I understand it's going to be a 10 book series. I really need to stop getting myself invested in long book series.

As long as he doesn't kick the bucket mid way, because who do you bring in to finish it then (he IS that guy haha) To his credit he churns out books at a production line rate...
Ive only read the first book of the Mistborn trilogy by him, but yeah was pretty cool. Heard his WoT stuff was good, but no matter how many times I set about reading that long arse series I never made it past book 7 or 8. One of these days...

[kdrcraig]

As long as he doesn't kick the bucket mid way, because who do you bring in to finish it then (he IS that guy haha) To his credit he churns out books at a production line rate...
Ive only read the first book of the Mistborn trilogy by him, but yeah was pretty cool. Heard his WoT stuff was good, but no matter how many times I set about reading that long arse series I never made it past book 7 or 8. One of these days...

The only other book of his that I've read is Elantris and I really loved that book, read it twice so far. I've heard good things about the Mistborn trilogy, might have to check that out at some point.

[dlb]

After holding the film up high for so long I finally read through this 600 pages epic and it was quite a ride. Not that different from the movie, but Buchheim's Das Boot gives you much more insight into the minds of the crew. Whether everything that is described here is true remains unanswered. A bit too much happening for a single war patrol one may think...



Together with the slighty better iron coffins by Herbert A. Werner this remains as one of my favorite war-time novels.

[miss k bee]

the average american male by chad kultgen

meh tempted to stop reading but will persevere through it.

[owinn]

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. Much better than Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

[jmtd]

Just finished 'Hyperion' by Dan Simmons.
Canterbury-Tales like stories-in-story set up. Some fun stuff in there and a lot of variety of writing styles; but the book doesn't resolve itself, it merely stops. I hate that.

[aggroculture]

the average american male by chad kultgen

meh tempted to stop reading but will persevere through it.

It's OK, quite average. The Lie is a lot more fun.

[allegro]

Finished Franzen's "Freedom" last night, cried for 10 solid minutes after closing the book.

Then I started this one:

[orestes]

Per recommendation from razzletiger:

[mixxy]

Finished the bio of Henry VIII (summary: He was a weak little man obsessed with public opinion who really played no leading role in the war efforts of his time, the end of his marriages, or the Reformation, but let more talented ministers do it all for him).

Now reading this for a book club, a detective story in which sheep must figure out who murdered their shepherd.

[kdrcraig]

If You Love This Game...: An MVP's Life in Baseball by Andre Dawson and Alan Maimon. Dawson is my favorite player of all time, didn't even know he had written this but my Mom got it for me for my birthday. Man is a class act.

[ad infinitum]

Time for some essays. More Didion, whose writing style I seem to have a love/hate relationship with, but it keeps me coming back. And more DFW, who for all his verbosity somehow never comes off as pretentious. To me, anyway.

[aggroculture]

Reading this again for a paper:

Edit: Knowing the surprise ending made this book a much less interesting read the second time around.

[Alexandros]

I have nearly finished reading this and I recommend it to anyone interested in environmental and socio-economic matters. It does get a bit bogged down at times, because Diamond, in trying to paint a complete picture, sometimes offers a LOT of detail. It is admirable, but can be a bit tiring. However, the bigger picture is fascinating and, depending on how you interpret the facts, can be also quite ominous when applied to contemporary times.

[aggroculture]

Re-reading this:

[allegro]

Okay, all the women at the salon are reading "Fifty Shades of Grey" so I just downloaded it to my Kindle. I gotta see what all this fuss is about.

[aggroculture]

Sorry but there's no way I'm reading a book that started out as Twilight fan fiction. That's like listening to a band that was formerly a Justin Bieber cover band.

[Iran_Ed]

I just finished reading Meg Jay's The Defining Decade: Why your twenties matter and how to make the most of them now. It was comforting and a little scary. I've never been a partying person and the amount of people who seem to just party their second decade away is terrifying. The book just hammered home the fact that I'm nowhere near where I want to be in life, and that I need to constantly be moving forward to obtain the goals I set. Whatever those turn out to be.

[carpenoctem]

Just finished John Irving's The Cider House Rules. UGH, SO AMAZING. I cannot get enough of Irving's writing. I love his sense of whimsy, but he doesn't get carried away and start putting in random quirky things just for the sake of it, there's a good balance between the oddball humor and the serious character and plot development.

Now I'm going to read books three and four of the Percy Jackson series, which my library finally got in. They have like a million copies of the series now - did an entire middle school class check them out at once? Hmm.

[allegro]

Sorry but there's no way I'm reading a book that started out as Twilight fan fiction. That's like listening to a band that was formerly a Justin Bieber cover band.

Yeah, I know, it's hard to start reading a cheap crotch novel when this one is sitting there on my bedside table in its hardcover splendor:

[miss k bee]

Yeah, I know, it's hard to start reading a cheap crotch novel when this one is sitting there on my bedside table in its hardcover splendor:

I must read Wolf Hall sometime.

[allegro]

Reading this now:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/28/bo...ns-memoir.html

Awesome.

[aggroculture]

EDIT: pretty awful fantasy novel, not a patch on Perdido Street Station.

[mixxy]

Just started reading The Grapes of Wrath for the first time. It really is so beautifully written; the descriptions of the landscape are so vivid that you can almost feel the atmosphere he's trying to create. I've read Steinbeck before, but I don't recall it being so deftly written. Maybe I'll have to go back and re-evaluate.

[littlemonkey613]

Just started reading The Grapes of Wrath for the first time. It really is so beautifully written; the descriptions of the landscape are so vivid that you can almost feel the atmosphere he's trying to create. I've read Steinbeck before, but I don't recall it being so deftly written. Maybe I'll have to go back and re-evaluate.

This book made me a socialist. I have never been an author's bitch quite like I was when I read this. Write again when you've finished!

[allegro]

You two have just inspired me to read that book.

I highly recommend Willa Cather's "My Antonia."

[mixxy]

This book made me a socialist. I have never been an author's bitch quite like I was when I read this. Write again when you've finished!

Will do. I'm actually reading it for a book club, so I imagine I'll have lots of different opinions to share. By the way, while I'm here, I gotta say I love book clubs. I enjoy reading so much, but with my job and the craziness of life in general, I find a deadline helps me to actually a finish a book I'm reading for pleasure within a reasonable amount of time. Plus the talking and sharing and stuff.

[kitz]

Why haven't I read it earlier? It's awesome!

[aggroculture]

Great book. About A Boy is awesome too.