What are you reading?

[Paycheck]

This seems like a perfect fit for this forum. Have we had a topic like this before? I don't think so.

The Time Quintet by Madeleine L'Engle - From A Wrinkle in Time onward, I'm now on the last book, An Acceptable Time. At times, each book had it's overly drawn-out and boring parts, but I really love how each book is almost completely different from the one before. I hope to eventually get through the rest of Kairos generation, which is the other books having to do with Polly O'Keefe.

Dreamkeepers by Harvey Arden - Sorry, it's not about the comic. It's about Aboriginals in Australia, and their ways of life. Random find in the library.

Fables by Bill Willingham - Great series, and once I get all caught up I'll be hopefully be reading Transmetropolitan next.

Some good books I've read recently.

Sum by David Eagleman - 40 different ideas of what the afterlife could be. Short, but really good.

Weaveworld by Clive Barker - Long and drawn-out book about some people saving a world inside a carpet. I thought it was written more from the perspective of a scientific observation, but it's still a great book. Check it out.

[PorpoiseMuffins]

The Foundations of Morality by Henry Hazlitt

Love Wins by Rob Bell

[Spectre907]

This thread.
For cereal, I'm reading Plausible Denial by Mark Lane
Also, Porpoise, there's an entirely new subsection and nothing in news/updates about it?

Relevant to this subforum:

[Hyram the Hedgehog]

Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. It feels like Archie Sonic for the amount of characters with voice.

James Clavell's Shogun. (not shotgun) It tales Feudal Japan's clan wars on XVII Century. As a bonus of nerdyness I got 1st edition of both books.

Twilight Eyes (expanded) From Dean Koontz, I like how powerful and badass it is, but I am quite 'Huh?' for the thing the author got for taling rape with gross and excessive detail (bordering pornography on some bits)

Yep, I got a thing for big books, and I read each of those on one sinle session, of course not the same one...

[Spectre907]

Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. It feels like Archie Sonic for the amount of characters with voice.

James Clavell's Shogun. (not shotgun) It tales Feudal Japan's clan wars on XVII Century. As a bonus of nerdyness I got 1st edition of both books.

Twilight Eyes (expanded) From Dean Koontz, I like how powerful and badass it is, but I am quite 'Huh?' for the thing the author got for taling rape with gross and excessive detail (bordering pornography on some bits)

Yep, I got a thing for big books, and I read each of those on one sinle session, of course not the same one...

Oh god, war and peace. I hated that book with the fury of a trillion gods. So much of it is unnecessary. In all seriousness, you could cut out most of the first quarter of the book and only miss out on 2-3 pointless aristocratic dinner parties. That last for hours and have every conversation written out in full by everyone there. Occams razor, Tolstoy. Never looking at that book again, in fact, I sold it off at yard sale for a dollar.

[Velvet D'Coolette]

Jude the Obscure - I'm going through a stage of reading the odd classic just to see if they really are much good. I'm only about 70 pages into this one. It takes a bit of wading through sometimes on account of some Olde-Worlde language, but it's not as bad as Wuthering Heights on that score. Essentially it's shaping up to be an angsty story so it's mildly amusing to see angst in a story written long before I was born, using a genre so beloved of young writers these days. Ha! You did not invent suffering!

The story in and of itself is reasonably compelling, and so far has made up for the prose, which as I said, sometimes comes across as a touch awkward.

Surface Detail - A Culture novel. Nice n' chunky so it kept me busy for a long while. Vibrant visuals and the usual refreshing lightness of humour from Mr. Banks, which makes a pleasant change from many sci-fi authors who take themselves, and their work, deadly-seriously.

Dibs in Search of Self - I've been keen to read this one for a long time and it was on my course's reading list. Finally read it. Couldn't put it down - it was a fascinating read. I admit to checking on Wikipedia after I'd finished the book to see if Dibs' identity is unveiled there at all, but it is not. Criminally, the Wikipedia page for this legend of a book is a stub!

The instruction leaflet for a Salicylic acid-based verruca treatment - light reading, but the only plot twist was that the protagonist could cause an allergic reaction, which it has so far failed to do. Ending was quite abrupt.

[32ChiliDogs]

Sword of Shannara.
It kind of rips off Lord Of The Rings, but it's well written and extensive in detail. (as is the rest of the series)

[Vindicator]

has anyone read Redwall? about the mouse warrior and the pirate rat? if you liked Secret of nimh you may enjoy it...