Thread: What are you reading?

Just finished Pride and Prejudice. Tightly written, especially the copious amounts of dialogue, funny, good characters and story. It's great.

I finally finished The Law of Nines, by Terry Goodkind. It was pretty much a decisive letdown, especially the ending. Left me with an overall feeling of "Meh." It really lacked punch, and, as usual with Terry Goodkind, the hero came out totally unscathed and unrealistic. I'm beginning to grow tired of that crap.

Just finished A Clockwork Orange.

Disappointing. Nothing like the feeling of finishing a very mediocre book. I can't really complain because the author did warn you it's not very good in the introduction.

Had bath, read Great Gatsby.

The 20s appeals itself to me more and more. I most enjoyed the Jewess running a Swastika decoration office in a time before Nazism made that weird.

Ender's Game series

Originally Posted by no-Name

Ender's Game series

I just finished reading the first chapter, seems good!

Originally Posted by Siиdяed

read Great Gatsby.

I finished that novel less than a week ago. It was really good!

'Salems Lot ---- Stephan King

It took me long enough, but I'm finally on Children of the Mind.

Just finished Children of the Mind~
starting Xenocide now...

Mostly things from my past.

Had bath, read The Day of the Locust.

Took me a while to realise Homer Simpson had the same name as Homer Simpson.

It took me long enough, but I'm finally on Children of the Mind.

I believe that's where I bailed on the series, and really I should have stopped at Speaker for the Dead. My favorite OSC novel is Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus.

hahaa... I'm still trying to finish the first Dune book.
I'll try to wrap it up this week then move on to the second one.

Had bath, read Heinrich Straumann's American Literature in the Twentieth Century.

You can tell what he wrote in the twenties and what he revised in the sixties. Nice, conversational criticism.

Had shower, read Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair At Styles.

The mystery continues...

Had taco, read Into the Wild.

Had bath, read Andre Gide's The Immoralist.

Started it long whiles back. But finished it now. Read it in parallel with Guillaume Apollinaire's Alcools.

The Dark Tower!!!! Specifically Wizard & Glass

I'm reading Going Bovine by Libba Bray. So far, I love it.

I put Dune to the side for now and I'm currently reading "Breathless" by Dean Koontz and "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen.
Both are REALLY good (but Austen is a bit harder for me to follow lol)

Terry Pratchett, Terry Pratchett, Terry Pratchett

Originally Posted by InvisibleWoman

Had taco, read Into the Wild.

which reminds me, I have to finish Walden...

The Brothers Karamazov.

Mr. Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

fucking russian literature. so god damned meticulous. bit hard to digest. but of course it's great.

Recently read Brave New World and 1984 (for the second time).

Brave New World has great ideas but I really didn't think much to the plot or characterisation.

1984 on the other hand is fantastic both conceptually and in the writing, the characters and the story.

Planning on reading Godel Escher Bach soon, I think I may have matured enough now (originally I was too naive to digest that kind of thing and came unstuck pretty quick). Also I skimmed through Plato for the first time and I found it really grabbed me, I will have to read something along those lines soon.