What Books Are You Reading?

[kurisquare]

I recently finished reading Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov, and with that I finished reading the whole Foundation series. It was an interesting read.

Aaaaand now I ran out of books so I'll have to either get some more or re-read some of the ones I own...I'm thinking of re-reading Lord of the Flies, I really like that one and last time I read it was like 3 years ago.

[UzukiCheverie]

It's not as impressive, but I'm currently working through the four-book box set collection I got of Calvin and Hobbes. I'm on book 2, but there are so many strips it feels like I haven't even made a dent x___x

I'm also trying to get myself to read Game of Thrones. It's very difficult for me to just sit down and read things (especially after leaving high school) so I'm trying to get myself back into reading regularly.

The last book I read was The Hunger Games but I have no intention in reading the sequels.

D:

But they're not "sequels", they're all books that are a part of one whole trilogy > < It's not like Suzanne Collins was like "OH THE HUNGER GAMES WAS A HIT, BETTER RELEASE MORE BOOKS" (that would be like calling The Two Towers from Lord of the Rings a "sequel" and not reading it because of that). The whole trilogy was out before they even became popular enough to get their own movie adaptions.

Please, please, please read Catching Fire (Book 2). It's so well done, I actually like it more than the first book. Mockingjay (Book 3) is okay, I don't really prefer it, but it wraps up the story at least.

But read Catching Fire. It's amazing ; ;

[ghostnxs]

Well if it continues a story I call it a sequel regardless of how it was planned. Any way I have no intentions of reading the sequel not because it is one but because I had no interest in the rest of the story. I liked the hunger games but after reading the first chapter of Catching Fire I didn't care to find out what happened next.

[cheeznh]

@ghostnxs, I read the whole triology and wanted my time back! I hated book 2 and 3.

In the YA genre, Ender's Game - Speaker For The Dead - Xenocide is my favorite "trilogy".
Red Rising is pretty amazing too; waiting for book 3 with bated breath. The first book starts as a Ender's Game/Battle Royale/Hunger Games mash up, the second book is a SPACE OPERA!!!

@uzukicheverie I couldn't get into the Game Of Thrones series either, but I was listening to the audio book. That first chapter went by soooooo sloooooooooow...

@joannekwan @annalandin So what's the series like? High fantasy? Sci-fi?

[Doubtcent]

Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
I think I'll read That Hideous Strength next.
I'm still working through some manga I've gotten from the library, which I need to finish first.

[cheeznh]

@vincentprendick If you like That Hideous Strength, Thrice does a great song version of it.

[punkarsenic]

im currently rereading perks of being a wallflower, just because i have nothing else to read and i read it a whole two years ago. its very calming, stops me from getting too loud and burning myself out, but it gets so boring after a few letters in a row.

i finished rereading harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban a few days ago. my favourite. id love to reread the rest, but i dont think i have time, they get longer after that one.

[joannekwan]

@cheeznh
Contemporary fantasy/sci fi, I'd call it. Night Vale is a town in the American southwest and basically a bunch of weird stuff happens there, half of which are a part of every day life for the citizens, the other half are cause for concern.

[kurisquare]

In the YA genre, Ender's Game - Speaker For The Dead - Xenocide is my favorite "trilogy".

I loved Ender's Game and I've been thinking of reading Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide!! I've heard that Ender's Shadow is pretty good too.

[guilhermecahu]

Not that I expect anyone to be reading or to know those books (except que first and second ones) but here I go.

I'm reading Martin the Warrior by Brian Jacques, from the Redwall series. The Bellmaker is on the shelf, waiting to be read.

On my pile I also have A Sul. O Sombreiro, by the angolan writer Pepetela and Dragões de Éter (Dragons of Ether) the first book of a trilogy by brazilian author Raphael Draccon. Adding to them there are 2 Stephen King's books a friend gave me (Carrie and Jerusalem's Lot).

[jackieuy127]

Right now I'm reading Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad for school and When Marnie Was There by Joan G. Robinson

[DynamoToon]

Just finished reading Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan. Pretty good series

[UltHamBro]

I'm reading Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin.
Reading A song of fire and ice wasn't one of my top priorities, but I came across an extremely cheap English edition of the first two books, and I couldn't resist.

[TAMAnnoying]

Reading the night angle series and this book called Dead wake

[cheeznh]

The shadow series are great too, if you're into action! Speaker For The Dead, Xenocide, and Children Of The Light are much more philosophical. That said, Speaker For The Dead is my favorite.

[AnnaLandin]

@cheeznh Night Vale is kind of hard to the define, but falls somewhere between scifi in a contemporary setting, and what is called New Weird. It's the story of a fictional American town, told (in the podcast at least; haven't read the book yet) through broadcasts of its equally fictional public radio station. It features shadowy city councils with supernatural powers, the Sheriff's Secret Police openly operating among the citizens, an indigenous population of sinister hooded figures, an underground civilisation living beneath lane 5 of the Desert Flower Bowling Alley and Arcade Fun Complex, and earthquakes that register on seismographs, but which no one can see.

And that's all in episode one, AFAIK. Also, all the weather reports are songs, containing no reference whatsoever to actual weather reports.

[EcoSky]

Started reading >The Doomsday Key< by James Rollins, good stuff.

Finished last week >the last Oracle< by James Rollins, couldn't sleep properly for three nights
though while reading this one. X)

[Doubtcent]

Robert Lewis Stevenson
some of his his short stories

[Chopythes]

Wow, I kinda read a book/week since it's rather boring at work as is.
But I've soon completed the whole Game Of Thrones series, only got half of the fifth to read, in less than two months.
Gonna jump onto the third book of Maze Runner rather soon (hopefully by the end of this week ;D)

[purrlpankras]

The only Novels I read was No.6 and Shounen Onmyouji
Currently reading Air Gear...