What are you reading?
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I'm reading The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan, it's part of the Percy Jackson & The Olympians series. They are for kids, but they are funny and actually have a LOT of information in them regarding the Greek pantheon.
Just finished "The Woods" by Harlan Coben
Never read this author before, will be looking for more books from him in the future.
Never read this author before, will be looking for more books from him in the future.
Finished this book Friday and am reading "Otherland Volume One: City of Golden Shadow" by Tad Williams. Not into this book too much as it's completely different than the fatasy books I'm used to. Don't know it I'll finish this one or not. I'm half tempted to toss it in the garbage...
starscream5000;1537054 said:
starscream5000;1559711 said:
I didn't make it through it
I gave up on it about halfway through, just couldn't do it. I loved War of the Flowers, and Tailchaser's Song, and the Otherworld book didn't catch me like his previous books. Oh well.I'm currently re-reading the Tir Alainn novels by Anne Bishop, Pillars of the World, Shadows and Light, and the House of Gaian. I love her books, I own everything she's written, lol!
I'm getting close to being half way done with it, it's getting better, but I'm finding that I have to almost force myself to read it.
DsBetterHalf;1560602 said:I didn't make it through it
I'm currently re-reading the Tir Alainn novels by Anne Bishop, Pillars of the World, Shadows and Light, and the House of Gaian. I love her books, I own everything she's written, lol!
Okay, so I'm about 3/4 through the book and it's getting much better. All of the jumping around between groups of people with no foreseable relation to each other really kills the book IMHO, but now you can tell they're all drawing together into some sort of climatic meeting towards the end.
starscream5000;1565898 said:
Okay, so I'm almost at the end of the book and everyone's met now, the book is now setting itself up for the next one, almost to the climax. It's an okay book after the first 350 pages.
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I just finished Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonneght. A little weird but intresting to read. Lots of really cool outside the box ideas on life and death and the preception of time.
Next on my plie to read is All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland. I read another book by him, Girlfriend In a Coma and I really like his writing style.
Next on my plie to read is All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland. I read another book by him, Girlfriend In a Coma and I really like his writing style.
Finished the first book, now about 175 pages into the second book, "Otherland Volume Two: River of Blue Fire" much better starting out that the first book!
***NOTICE***
For those of you that have read and enjoyed the books by George R R Martin in his Fire & Ice series (A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows) -- in 2011 HBO will be premiering a new series called A Game of Thrones. It is based on the books, and Martin is playing a LARGE part in the production of it.
So psyched!! Can't wait!!
In other news, I'm re-reading the Kushiel novels by Jacqueline Carey. Definitely a different take on religion and fantasy combined
For those of you that have read and enjoyed the books by George R R Martin in his Fire & Ice series (A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows) -- in 2011 HBO will be premiering a new series called A Game of Thrones. It is based on the books, and Martin is playing a LARGE part in the production of it.
So psyched!! Can't wait!!
In other news, I'm re-reading the Kushiel novels by Jacqueline Carey. Definitely a different take on religion and fantasy combined
I have, quite by accident, managed to wolf down novels lately like a fat kid at a buffet table.
In these past three weeks - to the day - I have read Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams, Everyone Worth Knowing, by nobody worth reading, A Fine and Private Place by my personal literary hero, Peter Beagle, and the following by Patricia McKillip, who's sort of my novelist version of a rockstar (I'm devil horning her as we speak): The Riddle Master of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire, Harpist in the Wind, In the Forests of Serre, and The Bell at Sealy Head.
Somehow, this thread escaped me the entire time.
I'm about 10 pages away from finishing A Fine and Private Place, and for whatever my opinion is worth, it was exactly that, for me. A fine and private place, somewhere comforting to escape to. Even when its characters all became hopeless at the same instant, I kept reading without so much as a pause. Tailchaser's Song became really dark and unpleasant in the second half, one of those books that follows you on late night trips to the toilet and makes you second-glance at things even when they're familiar. I literally stopped reading it for a day to recover. o.o I might be way too sensitive about cats. . .
Either way, I was ripe for something sad, slow, and touching. There is no fanfare in this book; it's the Tarantino of novels - mostly dialogue. Funny, clever, heartbreaking dialogue. Nothing in it batters you over the head with its message, it's a very subtle story.
Anyway, I'm rambling. Maybe it was just the right time for me to read something about loneliness and intimacy, but whatever the case, I highly recommend it to basically anybody.
In these past three weeks - to the day - I have read Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams, Everyone Worth Knowing, by nobody worth reading, A Fine and Private Place by my personal literary hero, Peter Beagle, and the following by Patricia McKillip, who's sort of my novelist version of a rockstar (I'm devil horning her as we speak): The Riddle Master of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire, Harpist in the Wind, In the Forests of Serre, and The Bell at Sealy Head.
Somehow, this thread escaped me the entire time.
I'm about 10 pages away from finishing A Fine and Private Place, and for whatever my opinion is worth, it was exactly that, for me. A fine and private place, somewhere comforting to escape to. Even when its characters all became hopeless at the same instant, I kept reading without so much as a pause. Tailchaser's Song became really dark and unpleasant in the second half, one of those books that follows you on late night trips to the toilet and makes you second-glance at things even when they're familiar. I literally stopped reading it for a day to recover. o.o I might be way too sensitive about cats. . .
Either way, I was ripe for something sad, slow, and touching. There is no fanfare in this book; it's the Tarantino of novels - mostly dialogue. Funny, clever, heartbreaking dialogue. Nothing in it batters you over the head with its message, it's a very subtle story.
Anyway, I'm rambling. Maybe it was just the right time for me to read something about loneliness and intimacy, but whatever the case, I highly recommend it to basically anybody.
