What Are You Reading, Again?

[Pokurcz]

Fifty

Pratchett writes very intelligent comedy set in a fantasy world, often very insightfull in its parody of the real world usualy in the most minute of reflections but also as a great whole. The dude is very smart. But it took me a while to apreciate it.

Bigfatron

Iain M Banks is a very good choice, he has this very blunt aproach wich usualy takes you completely and suddenly by surprise, often very shocking and outright evil. I recomend his nonsf books, if you havent read any of those.

Right now I'm reading Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk. So far its very immersing, the man writes very refreshing litterature.

 

[Guangxi]

I've never heard of Terry Pratchett anywhere but on this website, and everyone here is absolutely fanatical about him/her: why?

hes a fantasy-comedy writer. does very good dialogue, i think.
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Spoiler :

English Burger Lords managed to take any American fast food virtues (the speed with which your food was delivered, for example) and carefully remove them; your food arrived after half an hour, at room temperature, and it was only because of the strip of warm lettuce between them that you could distinguish the burger from the bun. The Burger Lord pathfinder salesmen had been shot 25 minutes after setting foot in France.

-- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)



I WAS AT A PARTY, he added, a shade reproachfully.

-- Death is summoned by the Wizards (Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic)



"Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words."

-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)



"I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting "Forward, brave comrades!" you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the one wearing the only really arrow-proof helmet!"

-- Rincewind gives a speech on politics. (Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times)

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I'm reading two books right now:

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

and

The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh.


Both are absolutely excellent novels thus far.

 

[angeleyes]

Sjostakovitch and Stalin (by Volkov): the beginning is very interesting, but i doubt if i will read it till the end.

 

[TheBoatman]

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, a classical piece to relax before the new term begins

 

[Red Door]

Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present - Michael B. Oren.

If you thought the US just started to enter the Middle East, boy, you are wrong.

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

I've never heard of Terry Pratchett anywhere but on this website, and everyone here is absolutely fanatical about him/her: why?

I'm surprised you've never heard of him - other than JK Rowling and Tolkien he's probably Britain's most well known/best selling author.

He's written about 30 (?) Discworld books, a fantasy/comedy series, they are very well written and very funny. I'd reccomend them to just about anyone, even if they weren't big on fantasy.

If you want to read one you can just pick any one and read it, as they are mostly self-contained with little/no on-going stories, though it's probably better if you read them roughly in order.

 

[Technocactus]

Just starting the Aeneid by Virgil.

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

A Coventry City fan! A fellow Sky Blue is a rare sight in these parts!

Just so this isn't spam - I'm reading the Silmarillion.

 

[LLXerxes]

The Illiad by Homer.

Same. Signet Classic Version, translated by W.H.D. Rouse.

It's very wordy, but it's very good overall.

 

[thetrooper]

Currently reading Casino Royale.

I may be busy in the future as I now own every 007 novel Fleming wrote.

 

[De Lorimier]

I just finished The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .
Not a bad book, but I was expecting more. Tom Saywer is a very boring and tedious character. I was just waiting for somebody to shut him up, but nope. No dice.

Before that, it was Lord of the Flies. Now this one I loved! Great book!

I just bought Uncle John's Curiously Compelling Bathroom Reader . "Since 1988, the Bathroom Readers' Institute has led the movement to stand up for those who sit down and read in the bathroom." Useful reading material.

Since I was at the bookstore, in uniform and all, and didn't want to look like a dork, I also bought myself a more "serious" book by Max Gallo called Les clés de l'histoire contemporaine. It's also in the bathroom.

My next novel will probably The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. I got for christmas and didn't get around to read it yet. My seeing the movie based on the book numerous times explains this delay.

 

[Turner]

Speaking of spy thrillers, I just finished The Talbot Oddysey. Great cold war story. Somewhat predictable, but an entertaining read.

Now trying to read The Reality Dysfunction. I suspect it will be like Pandora's Star, slow at first, but picks up as you get into it.

 

[Elrohir]

I just started rereading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. A classic.

I also recently began a history book, How the Irish Saved Civilization (Don't laugh ) which is about Irish scholars preserving the written texts of the ancient world. Sort of interesting, and a good break from longer history books.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

I'm reading
The Last Guardian by Jeff Grubb

The last of the Warcraft series that exist here.

 

[Till]

I'm reading
The Last Guardian by Jeff Grubb

The last of the Warcraft series that exist here.

Are they any good? I usually wouldn't touch a video game novel with a ten foot pole...

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Are they any good? I usually wouldn't touch a video game novel with a ten foot pole...

As a matter of fact they're very good. I loved Thrall's story - Lord of the Clans. - they wanted to make an adventure game with that exact story.
The first one (Day of the Dragon) is about Alextraza and how she was freed from the orcs.
The third one (Last Guardian) i barely started - but it is about Medivh.

I've heard several other books about World of Warcraft appeared. Those don't intrest me that much tho. I bet they're based mostly on WoW itself.

I'd love to get my hands on the Diablo books about the Sin Wars. Sadly they are nowhere to be found around here.


This is Blizzard we're talking about here. They would never stain their reputation with crappy books ya know.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I'm working on both The Ancestor's Tale and Once an Eagle.

 

[FredLC]

I'm just finished with "Almost Harmless", by Douglas Adams. Next book is gonna be "The Intermittences of Death", by José Saramago.

Regards .

 

[Gilder]

I've been reading Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.