What are you Reading.

[Rin]

the Witcher

You are a good person.

I for one, have shitload of books to catch up with.
Last one I read FULLY was Carpe Juglulum... or something, Pratchett. An awesome book about vampires it was. : D

[Acid]

Oh yeah, I have some unread Pratchett booky flying around too.

Colors of Magic and Dark side of the sun come to mind. And a book or two about death.

[Bueno Excelente]

Oh yeah, I have some unread Pratchett booky flying around too.

Colors of Magic and Dark side of the sun come to mind. And a book or two about death.

Get Going Postal and Making Money.

Best Pratchett books, in my opinion.

[Acid]

My book stash is big enough as it is, but I'll add them anyway.

[Reaperoid]

Catching back up with Forgotten Realms recently, with The Dark Elf Trilogy. Drow are by far the best.

[Quickman]

Just started on Sapphique this evening.

[Flame]

Chronicles of the Black Company, by Glen Cook.



Really good High/Dark fantasy book. It's about a company of a mercenary army for hire and how in betraying their employer and escaping the country for a much better job they were advertised, they end up involved in a fight between an ancient evil witch-queen, the rebels who had sealed her and her husband away ages ago, and eventually the husband himself, trying to escape his magical imprisonment after his wife pretty much said "nah, Im gonna rule by myself this time." They end up fighting on both sides over the course of almost 40 years as narrated by their Annalist/Doctor.

I found it when I was in Borders feeling in the mood for some Dark fantasy. Nothing TOO fantasy, just some. Also, a book that would last me a while. I saw this one and the cover appealed to me. I saw it was basically a compilation of a 3 book series, and pretty big, so I bought it, and DAMN it was exactly what I needed. EXACTLY.

Posted on: May 15, 2011, 10:18:43 PMWow, nobody has posted here since my last post?

Well how funny, because I just finished the above book.

Damn, its a really good series.

In fact, I think I will definitely read some of it's other books

[Mirby]

The improper punctuation in the topic title.

[Flame]

What about the improper capitalization?

[Mirby]

That as well...

[Flame]

The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company, by Glen Cook



Another omnibus collection of 3 books, which follows directly where the last one ended.

After the near destruction of the company, the annalist/doctor becomes Captain, and decides to return to the company's country of origin, from which it originally left 400 years ago, in order to return the annals to their final resting place as per his duty as annalist, should the company ever be destroyed. so they start going south towards there, and the book covers the [parasitic bomb] that happens along the way, since you know they cant just get it easy.

[Sparky]

Just began All Quiet on the Western Front today.

[irgpie]

East of Eden by John Steinbeck.

About 600 pages evenly. Almost halfway. Enjoying it a fair bit so far.

It's actually written directly from John Steinbeck's perspective. He tells the story of Adam Trask, whom after striking rich from his inheritance, moved to Salinas and became friends with Samuel Hamilton. Things don't go well as Adam's rather strange wife Cathy, ditches him shortly after giving birth to twins, later named Caleb and Aaron. From there it focuses on them and such I do believe. Haven't gotten to that yet. But if the blurb is anything to go by, it winds up like something along the lines of Cain and Abel. No clue how much of the whole book is true though, since Samuel Hamilton is apparently John Steinbeck's grandfather.

Either way, quite good. Definitely liking it more than The Grapes of Wrath.

[Ladd Spencer]

I am presently towards the end of I, Robot, but I detoured with Game of Thrones. I've told myself I'll finish I, Robot before I start Clash of Kings.

[Quickman]

Read Horror from the Hills, The Hounds of Tindalos, and Space-Eaters, all by Frank Belknap Long.  Then, I read Call of Cthulhu.

Posted on: November 17, 2012, 03:27:54 AMI read The Dunwich Horror and Herbert West — Reanimator a couple nights ago.

[Frozen Potato]

Mardock Scramble(novel), brought it two months ago.

I really need to continue reading it.

[Dantonumanoa Ongdolota Amycronicon]

I finished The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat yesterday.

What the [tornado fang] was going on?

[irgpie]

oh right so after like a year I actually went back and finished East of Eden. It was so looong but enjoyable nonetheless. If there's one thing Steinbeck always excels at is fleshing out characters and such. On that subject, I also read The Wayward Bus by him for my book report in English last year. Literally at least half of it was monologues on each and every character. Apparently it got a film adaptation like a lot of his other works, but that one in particular I couldn't picture translating well to any other form of media. Either way I quite liked it. I could give details but that was still like 6 months ago since I finished it.

[Amatiramisu]

I'm gonna bump this thread because why the fuq don't we have an active book thread?

Anyways, while I'm waiting for The Thorn of Emberlain to release in Fall, I'll be starting The Way Of Kings and it's own series, by Brandon Sanderson.

[Quickman]

I've got Cloud Atlas and The Dalek Generation on my reading list.  Haven't started on them, yet.

[Amatiramisu]

Cloud Atlas

dis look gud
might look into

[Quickman]

I got it for my birthday.  I'm told that the beginning can be a bit challenging to read, but the book itself is worth it.

[Amatiramisu]

I'm honestly REALLY picky about what I invest my time into. That's why I don't read much manga, watch much anime... And to be honest, I've barely read any books in the past four or five years. Trying to change that last thing. So far The Magicians by Lev Grossman and the Gentleman Bastards have helped me out in that regard.

[Quickman]

My reading list lately has been a lot of Lovecraft.  I can read most of his work online, and the majority I can get through in about a day.  Cloud Atlas is looking imposing because it's going to require a lot more time to read, which will take away from time I set aside to draw, paint, write, clean, go outside, etc.

[Quickman]

Just read Pickman's Model and The Thing on the Doorstep.  My Lovecraft reading list so far:

The Dunwich Horror
Call of Cthulhu
Herbert West- Reanimator
Cool Air
Dagon
The Colour Out of Space
The Beast in the Cave
Hypnos
Pickman's Model
The Thing on the Doorstep

I need to finish reading The Shadow Over Innsmouth and I need to read The Haunter of the Dark.  Thankfully, most are short stories and the longer ones are novellas, so I can read through them in about a day or two.  I can also find them all online, which makes things easier.

The Dunwich Horror was great and still remains my favorite.  I definitely recommend starting with that one, as Lovecraft wrote it as more of a serial and it has a more pulpy prose.  Herbert West- Reanimator was also a good one, and it absolutely nothing like the schlock of the movie.  I enjoyed Pickman's Model, and it was quite... weird.