The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings

[masterthes]

The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton. I'm participating for the first time in social media's tome topple challenge and I thought I'd be highly ambitious and see if I can  read the whole Night's Dawn trilogy by the 20th. Well, hopefully I'll end up liking the first book to continue on

[Prog Snob]

My regular book reading will be slowing down for the next year to eighteen months as I prep for the Cisco CCIE exam. So I'll probably be reading shorter pieces of literature. I wanted to start The Dark Tower and Wheel of Time series but they will have to wait. I wanted to read Clarissa by Samuel Richardson which is the longest novel (by words) written in the English language. Instead, in between studies, I am going to start to reread The Great Gatsby - one of the greatest pieces of literature ever.

[Kwyjibo]

The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson

I love the movie and I'm curious if the book is that much different.

[ChuckSteak]

Erich Fromm - An Inquiry Into The Psychology Of Ethics

[WDADU]

Room, by Emma Donoghue. Loving it so far. Before that, it was In a Dark, Dark Wood, by Ruth Ware. It was awful. And before that it was American Gods, by Neil Gaiman, and that book kicked my ass all over the place.

[ozzy554]

Picked up the other 5 volumes of Locke & Key by Joe Hill from my local library. Im loving this series so far. I hope Joe Hill returns to the world of graphic novels in the future.

[SchecterShredder]

The Forfotten by David Baldacci.

[Cool Chris]

I wanted to read Clarissa by Samuel Richardson which is the longest novel (by words) written in the English language.

Good lord just googled this book. Samuel must not have studied this in school.

Instead, in between studies, I am going to start to reread The Great Gatsby - one of the greatest pieces of literature ever.

There is always time to read The Great Gatsby.

[Prog Snob]

    

I'm so curious as to what kind of story can go on for almost one million words. It's an epistolary novel so it's probably akin to reading hundreds of journal entries, except there are also letters and other documents added in.

[hefdaddy42]

Strunk & White's Elements of Style is the one book that all writers of any kind should read.

[SchecterShredder]

David Baldacci's The Escape.

[axeman90210]

Re-reading It thanks to the first trailer dropping. Sofa king good.

[hefdaddy42]

Blackest Night by Geoff Johns & Ivan Reis

[Podaar]

I've been reading the Bill Hodges trilogy by Stephen King. I'm on the last book now. Great stuff!

[hefdaddy42]

I've been reading the Bill Hodges trilogy by Stephen King. I'm on the last book now. Great stuff!

I've put off reading those because I only own the first two.  I need to acquire the third one before I start reading lol

[Cool Chris]

Those books are good, nothing great or memorable. In fact, I can't remember much about the second one at all. Still need to read the third.

[axeman90210]

I read (and enjoyed) the first two. I pre-ordered the third book, which Amazon cancelled for some reason. I should probably get around to picking up that last one.

[hefdaddy42]

Warlock Holmes: A Study in Brimstone by G.S. Denning

[Prog Snob]

Grimoire of the Thorn-Blooded Witch by Raven Grimassi

I just ordered the first book in The Vampire Dairies series.

[masterthes]

The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton

[Kwyjibo]

Lockwood & Co. - The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

[WDADU]

Coldheart Canyon, by Clive Barker. Liking it so far.

Before that it was Coronado, by Dennis Lehane. I'm a Lehane fan, but these short stories didn't really do it for me. Dunno why. Anyway, his new novel, Since We Fell, comes out May 9th, and I'm stoked as hell for that.

As for Stephen King's Hodges trilogy: Mr. Mercedes was all right. The last one in the series, End of Watch wasn't very good. But the second on in the trilogy, Finders Keepers was very well done. That could have been a standalone novel, instead of part of a trilogy.

[SchecterShredder]

Just finished Baldacci 's The Innocent,  and now I've started into his No Man's Land.

[Kwyjibo]

Dreamsongs Vol. I by George R. R. Martin

[hefdaddy42]

Warlock Holmes: A Study in Brimstone by G.S. Denning

This was funny as hell, BTW.  It really helps to be a fan of the Sherlock Holmes stories, because the author does write in that style (somewhat).  It also helps to be a fan of Douglas Adams, because that style is also incorporated.  I recommend it.

Currently:

The Burning Room by Michael Connelly.  It's a Harry Bosch novel.

[Prog Snob]

The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening

This is an even easier read than the first Harry Potter book and TOTALLY different from the tv show.

[Tomislav95]

Sacred by Dennis Lehane. As arilliant as first two books from the series

[masterthes]

Haven't kept up in a while: but I've read Nutshell by Ian McEwan (eh), Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology (really good), and If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (which was alright)

Now, for a bit of a change in pace, The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans

[SchecterShredder]

Damn bookstore didn't have either of the books i wanted to pick up,  so i took a recommendation from one of the clerks.  Started John Sandford's Rules of Prey.

[masterthes]

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

[masterthes]

I hate DNF'ing books. Anyway, going to give The Secret History a try. I hope it's better than Goldfinch

[SchecterShredder]

I hate DNF'ing books. Anyway, going to give The Secret History a try. I hope it's better than Goldfinch

I've only DNF'd one book: Sound and the Fury by Faulkner. Got half way in and just couldn't handle the stream of consciousness writing anymore.  Especially given it's from the POV of a mentally handicapped man.

[v_clortho]

Just started "The Wheel of Osheim" by Mark Lawrence. Just Finished "Senlin Ascends" by Josiah Bancroft. Really good book.

[WDADU]

Gold, by Chris Cleave.

Finished Coldheart Canyon, by Clive Barker, last night. I loved the first four hundred pages or so, but for those last hundred pages, I really wish Barker's editor had given him a kick in the ass.

[masterthes]

4321 by Paul Auster