What book are you currently reading?

I just bought a collection of short stories by Franz Kafka.
I thought i had read everything which has been released, but there was at least one that i had not come across before. Read it in the bus, on my way home. It was not that great, rather a beginning of a story, and i can't say i liked it. However i collect editions of Kafka anyway, so the book is worth something to me.
 
Game of Thrones before I start watching the series and The Lost omnibus by Dan Abnett cause I love cheesy warhammer novels.

Also The Rising Sun: The Decline and fall of the Japanese Empire,1936-1945 by John Toland
 
I'm not currently reading a book, but I am reading the Harry Turtledove series The War That Came Early, the third book comes out in July.
 
I myself have just started reading a book called Drylor The First Artifact. It is an Action/Fantasy book created by Ryan Tomasella. So far it is actually damn good, it is a story about a man that suffers amnesia and struggles to regain his memory. As his memory starts to come back to him he realizes that his brother is an evil S.o.b and he makes it his mission to stop him.

It seems like a fairly generic story line but the author makes it his own. There are tons of twists and turns in the story (mainly when the main character thinks he remembers something from his past he realizes that it was only an illusion that his brother wanted him to think was true.) I must say I am really impressed with this book, then again I read almost anything that involved sword and sorcery. Below is the cover of the book and what the back of the book reads.

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When a man wakes up inside a cage that is being carried through
an underground city, he has no idea where he is or what has
happened to him. As Von, a victim of amnesia, is taken to a jail
cell to await his fate amongst elves, humans, dwarfs, gnomes, and
halflings, he is told he is a member of the Royal Guard of Genisus.
It is not long before he is transported to the palace where he
meets an impatient king who eventually returns him to his jail
cell while deciding his destiny.

As Von’s memory slowly returns, he discovers that he is the only
one who can protect Drylor—a world that abandoned him—
from its greatest evil, his own brother. Through his journey to the
truth, Von meets an unlikely group of friends who are willing
to sacrifice everything to help him stop his brother Scarlet
from annihilating the only world they have ever known.

As Von’s past becomes clear and reveals his future, he soon
realizes the only way he can end his brother’s heartless
massacres is to find him and kill him.
 
I'm currently reading Dune, 1 Federalist Paper a day, and finishing up All Quiet on the Western Front (for about the twentieth time).
 
I'm currently deep into another reread of Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora. Gods, are these books great.
 
Patrick O'Brian's The Hundred Years and Joseph Heller's Catch-22.
 
The Bald Soprano or La Cantatrice Chauve from Eugène Ionesco
and Jack, or The Submission and the future is in eggs.
 
Just Read

Animal Farm- George Orwell- For my 9th grade English class

Currently Reading
Churchill's Secret Agent
Marine One
Allies and It's Enemy's A History of the Cold War- Norman Stone
The Human Story
And The Hunt for Red October- Tom Clancy
I forget the authors for 3/5 of the books that I am currently reading.
 
Not yet, but I'll get around to it soon enough. I heard that the Edith Wharton society is having a conference in Florence, Italy next year. I am trying to come up with a paper topic so that I can go. Next on my list is Wharton's The House of Mirth and then I'll probably get into some Henry James. Also near the top of my list is Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis. It's a satire on southern evangelicalism. How could I pass that up?
 
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

A collection of essays by Ayn Rand. (Please don't hurt me. :please: )
 
Reading those must be painful enough as it is.
Which? LotR or Ayn Rand? If it is Rand, just read it with a knowledge of history. That is your best tool to combat her inanity.
 
I was referring to Rand. Now I'm starting to think about connections between Objectivism and Sauron's plan to conquer Middle Earth.
 
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