[February] What are you reading?

[Nytmare]

Finished
Hunger Games trilogy.

I read about 2/3 of this series over the Christmas break, to see if it was something I should get for my son, and was looking to get other people's opinions of it.

I felt like it started off strong, with a lot of really well handled, grown up (albiet maybe liberal) themes, but by about halfway through the second book, everything felt like it was falling apart/slapped together messily. When I started the third book, I think I read two pages before I got sick of it and swore to never pick it back up.

 

[Mercutio01]

I felt like it started off strong, with a lot of really well handled, grown up (albiet maybe liberal) themes, but by about halfway through the second book, everything felt like it was falling apart/slapped together messily. When I started the third book, I think I read two pages before I got sick of it and swore to never pick it back up.

That is EXACTLY the way I felt, except I felt like I had to finish because I'd wasted a B&N gift card on buying the Nook book.

 

[Stumblewyk]

Just finished Ready Player One yesterday, and started A Princess of Mars today. For free, even.

 

[Krug]

Finished Warhammer novel Thanquol's Doom, about the scheming skaven Thanquol. Patchy and characters just disappeared off the page suddenly, but I enjoyed the humour and the anti-hero lead.

Starting on Pablo Bacilagupi's The Alchemist soon.

 

[Mark CMG]

Decided to reread some sections of good old Life in Medieval Times by Marjorie Rowling.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Just finished No Quarter, a short story/novella by John Wick. $5.00 seems a little expensive for it but it was a decent romp that would've fit into a fantasy Sin City mode.

 

[Jhaelen]

After finishing the excellent "Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher" by Walter Moers I'm now about halfway through "Drood" by Dan Simmons. So far I didn't find it nearly as gripping as "The Terror" which was the last novel by him I read.

 

[Krug]

Finished The Alchemist. Intriguing world, great characters, excellent story; pity that it's short. Also finished The Executioness by Tobias Buckell, which is set in the same world. Not as engrossing but still entertaining.

Now onto Laura Hillenbrand's [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Unbroken-World-Survival-Resilience-Redemption/dp/1400064163/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329220914&sr=8-1]Amazon.com: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (9781400064168): Laura Hillenbrand: Books[/ame]

 

[Stumblewyk]

Finished A Princess of Mars, now reading Hal Spacejock, by Simon Haynes.

So far, it's very reminiscent of Douglas Adams meets the old Sierra Space Quest games.

 

[Starman]

I finished Master and Commander. The plotting was a bit rough, but the characters were enjoyable and I look forward to reading more in the series. Right now, though, I'm reading The Knight by Gene Wolfe.