What are you currently reading?

I am currently reading The Night Circus~ I really, really love this book so far. The storyline is really extravagant and stunning. The characters are all very extraordinary, each in their own way. The use of diction and details are truly mesmerizing to the point it feels like you're in a dream. Just about everything is in this book is nothing short of gorgeous! I highly recommend this to anyone who is looking for something amazing to read and if you're looking for a book to get lost into~
 
trudi canavan , the ambassadors mission the first book in the , traitor spy triology , never read any of her books before but rather enjoying it
 
purplewings said:
trudi canavan , the ambassadors mission the first book in the , traitor spy triology , never read any of her books before but rather enjoying it
Click to expand...
You would have been better off reading the Black Magician trilogy first, since the Traitor Spy trilogy is a sequel trilogy, but as a standalone series its pretty good, and Canavan is an exceptional writer besides.

Anyways, at present, I am slogging my way through Murder in LaMut, a collaboration novel between Raymond E. Feist and Joel Rosenburg, part of the former's Riftwar Cycle. With 27 books in the series, and the final part FINALLY coming out next year, I'm re-reading the lot. I want to skip this one, so very badly; it's so painfully tedious I can literally feel the will to live being sapped from me. The characters are a far cry from Feist's usual standard, and I fail to see how it's even relevant to anything at all. I am going to be so glad to be done with this one so I can move on to the far more interesting Empire trilogy.
 
Fleur said:
You would have been better off reading the Black Magician trilogy first, since the Traitor Spy trilogy is a sequel trilogy, but as a standalone series its pretty good, and Canavan is an exceptional writer besides.
.
Click to expand...

i kind of figured about half way through the book that it seemed like a sequal as it kept reffering to past events , but picked it up on a total whim in the library one day will need to hunt down the rest
 
Don't forget about Magician's Apprentice if you do - it's set just before the founding of the Guild. It's a little strange in its focus, but it's still a pretty good story...now we just need The Mad Apprentice to go between it and the Black Magician trilogy...

I am currently reading Servant of the Empire, second book of the Empire trilogy, a collaboration between Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. I need to check her books out when I've the time, this isn't my favourite trilogy, but it's still one of the better instalments in the Riftwar Cycle. I LOVE Tsurani politics.
 
I recently finished reading the Hobbit for the first time because I am a bad person. Overall it was a good book, and I could see what people didn't like about the movie compared to the books. I was a bit disappointed with how they got rid of Smaug, but the interactions between Smaug and Bilbo was great. Solid book, and I'll be reading the rest of the books later.
 
Shu said:
Bought four Nietzche books today, and have started "The Birth of Tragedy" on the way back. I'm going to try to get back into heavy philosophy and I've always been down with his woes in Prussia.

Next will be Dean Koontz, "Velocity"
Click to expand...

I recently finished 'Human, All Too Human' by Nietzsche which was a great insight into the guys mind. It's written in aphorisms so you can pick it up and read any page in the book and still get something from it. It passed many a long train journey away quite well. I still need to read 'Beyond Good and Evil' which I've heard is his dissection of religious belief amongst other things. A deep and disturbed dude in many ways...
 
I'm currently reading Dolores Claiborne by Mr King (on my new Kindle!). It's such a good read, even if it is a bit slow. The way she kills her husband (which is no spoiler, I assure you) is incredibly gut-renching. The great mystery of what happens to Vera is still hanging around, and I'm sure it'll be solved very soon.
Did she kill her employer...or did Vera slip? :gasp:

Loving this book :sir:
 
The Wind Through The Keyhole

It is the newest Dark Tower book by Stephen King, though it's really a side-story because the series has finished. It involves Roland, the main character, telling a story within a story while he and his companions are waylaid by a storm. The first story is about him as a youth hunting down a skin-man (something like a werewolf) that has been terrorising a village. The second is a story he tells to comfort a young child whose family has been killed by the skin-man recently. The skin-man story is very exciting and engaging so far, but I'm not sure how interesting the second story will be.
 
A Clash of Kings, second book of the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin. I had started reading this book several months ago in hopes of completing it before the third season of A Game of Thrones started to air. I only have about 160 pages left to read, so that hope may come true.
 
I am also reading A Clash of Kings :gasp: And I have about 300 ebook pages left, since the ebook version is 1100 pages instead of about 700. I've been reading a bit of it every night and on my lunch breaks at work.
 
Since I recently bought the "The Hobbit" tie in set, I've begun to read the Lord of the Rings- obviously beginning with "Fellowship of the Ring".

I haven't had much time to get to seriously reading, so I'm only getting through the foreword. I'd never usually read it on my brother's older copy (One of the single book variations), but since the print is much better I'm doing it this time.
 
Just started reading Paprika, which was adapted to the Japanese film, and is basically the Japanese Inception...
 
I watched the movie "We need to talk about Kevin" over the weekend and I found it so interesting that I IMDB'd it to see what other people thought of the ending. I then found out it was based on the book and read about the book vs the movie which made me want to read it a lot.

I've only read the first chapter so far so I haven't made a proper opinion on it yet but I'm not bored or anything. it's set out in a letter format where the mother Eva is writing to her husband telling her side of the events that eventually happen.

It's a great movie and I've heard it's an even greater book so I am looking forward to reading more!
 
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre. I saw the movie when it was out and it was very good, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and that guy from Sherlock. I had a read a couple of Le Carre books before both were unremarkable. But I had nothing else to read so I started this and it has been very good so far. Everyone is suspicious of everyone else, it's a bit like a whodunnit but without alibis or anything like that. The main character is an ex-spy and probably one of the least James Bondish people in the world.
 
I have been slaving away at Baudolino by Umberto Eco for months now. I love it, but I am in one of those periods where sitting down and picking up a book comes hard to me. I will hopefully finish it before 2014 at least :P
 
Halfway through Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. I've only read one of his other works; "The Wind Up Bird Chronicle." So far this doesn't compare, but it's still entertaining enough to keep me reading on.
 
Currently reading A Ball Of Beasts.

It's basically A Feast For Crows and A Dance With Dragons mashed together into one HUGE book. While I've read the other two, separately, before, I'm finding this merged version to be FAR superior. I only really enjoyed Sansa and Cersei in AFFC, Sansa's story is one I'm most interested in seeing in the next book, and Cersei's POV was just so... delicious. While I enjoyed ADWD, it benefits from padding out with the AFFC POVs so it doesn't feel as rushed.

That, and it's boring to stay in mainly Essos, land-of-the-unpronounceable-names forever.
 
I haven't read any books for quite a while now, and the time I do I pick something that I already know will bore me. There aren't many books that I dislike by Stephen King, but "11.22.63" is one of them. I've only read about a tenth of it though, so I'll give it a chance to improve.

Now, I didn't expect it to be about time travel (I thought the protagonist would have been from the era already), so that may make it more interesting. Really...there's not much I can say. The sort of...environment is interesting too (the old diner in a run-down part of town).

Bah, I can't decide. I'll get back to you once I've read a bit more.
 
The Gypsy Morph by Terry Brooks, third in the Genesis of Shannara trilogy. I haven't touched a Shannara novel for about five years, so I figured I'd pick them up again...re-reading the Genesis trilogy to refresh my memory before I move on to the next book, Bearers of the Black Staff, which I've never read. I've always been quite fond of Terry Brooks, although I have mixed feelings on his post-apocalyptic novels set before First King of Shannara. It's better than I remember it being, though. It's quite an easy future to envision, really. Could do with a trilogy set between it and the Word and the Void to flesh out how civilization collapsed, though...plus a little more backstory for Findo Gask. As far as background antagonists go, he's quite a good one.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top