[June] What are you reading?

[Stumblewyk]

I have sooooo much Dresden Files to get through. Currently about 75% of the way through White Knight, and then I plan to take a break from Dresden to read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Hunger Games.

 

[Crothian]

I have sooooo much Dresden Files to get through. Currently about 75% of the way through White Knight, and then I plan to take a break from Dresden to read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Hunger Games.

Wow, those are some really good books. I just read Hunger games over the weekend and was pretty impressed by it. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is also good, but a lot different and darker of a novel.

I also finished Battle Royal a Japanese book that may have inspired the Hunger Games some.

 

[Jhaelen]

In 2000 the Modern Library put out a list of the best books of the 20th century (fan list and expert list).

Ah, interesting - Ulysses is even the #1 of the board's list of the 100 best novels.

I'm at about page 160 right now. There have been a couple of scenes where I lost the thread, though. This really requires careful reading and already makes me wish I knew more about meters and stylistic devices. It also makes me want to reread the Oddyssey in a translation that is close to the original greek text to see if I can find more parallels

The reader's list includes a few odd choices: L. Ron Hubbard? Really? Someone probably wrote a bunch of bots to push it
I read 'Atlas Shrugged' a while ago, which is the #1 here (it was recommended to me by an ex-co-worker) and quite liked it, but it was getting a bit tedious at times. This definitely could have been told using fewer pages...

Still, the site looks like a good starting point when I'm trying to decide what to read next!

 

[Crothian]

The reader's list includes a few odd choices: L. Ron Hubbard? Really? Someone probably wrote a bunch of bots to push it

His Fear which is on the list I can see being there. But the Mission Earth which is the whole 10 book series should not since it is a series and not a book. I've chosen not to read those and ignore that entry on the list.

There has been plenty of books on the list that I didn't like. I like the fans of Charles De Lint obviously got the vote out and stuffed the ballot boxes as I don't think he should have like 10 books on the list. That's far more suspicious then L Ron Hubbard being there.

 

[ggroy]

Every once in a while I enjoy tackling something a bit more challenging than the usual sf/fantasy fare

I went in the opposite direction. I was previously reading an engineering textbook on heat transfer, for "pleasure reading".

With that being said, I've been slowly reading some cheesy D&D Abyssal Plague novels: "The Temple of Yellow Skulls" and "Sword of the Gods".

I know. I know ... They're the fantasy literature equivalent of "junk food".

 

[Elodan]

Finished:
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Pathfinder-Tales-Worldwound-Robin-Laws/dp/1601253273/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1307806388&sr=8-1"]The Worldwound Gambit[/ame] by Robin D Laws
Decent read. Good premise but the characters' motivations were always hinted at by never really explored. There was no real reason to care what happened to them. The writing style was choppy which was somewhat distracting.

Currently reading:
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Riot-Ben-Aaronovitch/dp/034552425X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1307806348&sr=8-1"]Midnight Riot[/ame] by Ben Aaronovich
Only about 75 pages in, but I'm liking it so far. It uses a fair amount of British slang which has me guessing but isn't distracting.

 

[ssampier]

I just finished reading Fool Moon, book two of the Dresden files. I liked it, but I am still ambivalent about the protagonist Harry Dresden.

I think I would like to read something light, breezy, and action-packed next; maybe something like Indiana Jones in book form.

 

[megamania]

Lawrence Sander's First Deadly Sin

Disturbing how the serial killer grows and develops into the pure evil he is.

Makes me want to do a serial killer story in my Eberron stuff.

I have decided the "hero" of the book is a total bastard and jerk and I am nearly routing for the killer.

 

[megamania]

I just finished reading Fool Moon, book two of the Dresden files. I liked it, but I am still ambivalent about the protagonist Harry Dresden.

I think I would like to read something light, breezy, and action-packed next; maybe something like Indiana Jones in book form.

Some of the James Bond books are very good and fit what you are looking for.

 

[ssampier]

Some of the James Bond books are very good and fit what you are looking for.

The originals by Ian Fleming or pastiches by other authors?