What Books Are You Reading?

[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...

[Kura]

I tired reading Hunger Games but I absolutely abhor books written in first person. There are a lot of books that get recommended to me that read in this format, so I try to force myself through it despite not liking it, but the reading format quickly drives me to stop and I have hardly managed to get very far in them at all.

I don't read very much, dyslexic makes it a little bit difficult (though I seem to have an easier time reading out loud, and even then if I read something out of order it wtf's everyone that can hear me not just me)

I think the last books I read were the Harry Potter series.

[natchevil]

I've have decided to go through many classics because, in the words of Mark Twain, "It's something everyone wants to have read, but nobody wants to read."

I'm a slow reader. Over the last year I've gone through To Kill a Mocking Bird byt Harper Lee, which I adore...
I tried to go through Catcher in the Rye again, but it's drivel. I now hate it and everyone who loves it.
I'm now on chapter Thirty-something of The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Damas and I get real intellectual pleasure just from the language. Dumas was a genius by every scope of the word. Such a genius that even translated into English, the text sends shivers down my spine.

It's just...

Oh God...

I need new pants.

[VermillionWorks]

I'm currently very, very slowly going through the Penguin Book of Vampires Stories (a book of MANY short vampire stories from throughout the years) and A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe. Also got a book that's a collection of stories by Shirley Jackson I still need to finish. I read We Have Always Lived In the Castle already, but still need to read The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House.

.....in case you haven't noticed, I like weird stuff. XD

[Mohchi]

I'm currently reading...
Arabian Nights
and next on my list is The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
both are more than 1000 pages
wish me luck T.T

[Strontium]

If you like quirky gothic cosmic horror, perhaps check out A Pretty Mouth by Molly Tanzer! It's a collection of short stories and a novella about a seriously off family and their demonic family history.

[Strontium]

Right now, I'm working through the Legend of Eli Monpress (aka "monopress") series by Rachel Aaron. Her Heartstrikers series was my introduction to her writing; it's dragon politics in the magical future. The Eli Monoress series is a fantasy world of magic, demons and weird gods done in a relatively refreshing manner.
I'm looking forward to the new Rick Riordan book out in October, Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo in September, and the last book in the Valhalla e-book trilogy by blogger Ari Bach which should be out sometime during the school year.

[SteamTK]

Been reading Sherlock Holmes - The Complete Novels and Stories Volume 1 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Also recently re-read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling and Eragon, Eldest and Brisingr by Christopher Paolini. I tend to juggle books a lot and read several at once instead of finishing one and starting another.

[VermillionWorks]

Sounds up my alley. Noted. XD

[lucasdelrose]

I'm currently Reading "Hunger by Michael Grant", it's the second book in the Gone series.
It's not bad, kinda Under the dome meets Lord of the flies. I enjoyed the first one so going to attempt to stick out the series.

[AnnaLandin]

... I'm still reading Moby Dick (but I've made definite progress!).

However, I recently went on a book-buying spree, and am now reading Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer on the side. It's my first book of his, and not the one I intended to buy (I was looking for City of Saints and Madmen) but it's shaping up to be pretty interesting. I like scifi/speculative fiction, I like claustrophobic city-settings, I like grey moral landscapes, etc. So far, so good!

[cheeznh]

Since my last update, I finished The Ocean At The End Of The Lane (Gaiman) and American Gods (again, Gaiman)!

Right now I'm half way through DUNE.
Because classics, gotta read em all.

[AnnaLandin]

@cheeznh What did you think of the Gaiman-books? I've read them both, as well as a bunch of his other works, so I'm curious what other people think of them.

[cheeznh]

@AnnaLandin I enjoyed The Ocean, it was like the Graveyard Book in that it seemed less "grown up" and had a dreamy quality to it. American Gods was weird and entertaining but the climax went a little flat for me.
I still have to read the Monarch Of The Glen to see if it gives me any closure.

[AnnaLandin]

@cheeznh I liked aspects of both Ocean and American Gods, but I've always been more fond of Gaiman's more fairytale-like works - like Stardust, and also Neverwhere, which remains fairytale-like in structure, even with its urban setting. American Gods fell a bit flat for me, probably because I never quite clicked with Shadow as a main character.

[cheeznh]

@AnnaLandin If you liked Neverwhere, you should listen to the BBC radioplay version. It's amazeballs - James McAvoy as Richard Mayhew, Natalie Dormer as Door, and Bananaboat Cucumber as Angel Islington!!!!

[maryvinnickaya]

Three in the boat except for dogs
I love these American humour