What are you currently reading?

[Mattrick]

Thinking of trying something very different. Anyone read Koji Suzuki's Ring books? Yes, the novels the Japanese and the American Ring movies were based on. There are three novels, Ring, Spiral, and Loop, and a collection called Birthday. I vaguely remember seeing the first Ring in theaters and being scared shitless, but that's all I've experienced of the franchise. I wonder what the source books are like.

Have you read any Alex Garland? I quite enjoy his writting style...read everything except The Tesseract.

[noal]

I've been breaking up the longer novels with the short story collections or shorter books in general and have been happy with it. Of course, to each their own. You should really get a copy of IT, also. It's a spectacular book.

Thanks Dan but I have got IT and, as you say, thoroughly enjoyed it. I remember the t.v. film and loved that as well.

I just went mad on e-bay one day and brought loads of King books I didn't have (may have been drunk as well), hence the backlog. I suppose it just took me a while to get to King's 'other' books ( as opposed to the big titles).

[DoctorDodge]

Thinking of trying something very different. Anyone read Koji Suzuki's Ring books? Yes, the novels the Japanese and the American Ring movies were based on. There are three novels, Ring, Spiral, and Loop, and a collection called Birthday. I vaguely remember seeing the first Ring in theaters and being scared shitless, but that's all I've experienced of the franchise. I wonder what the source books are like.

Have you read any Alex Garland? I quite enjoy his writting style...read everything except The Tesseract.

Oh, he's written novels, has he? I'll have to check those out. I only really know him as the guy who wrote the script for 28 Days Later and a certain upcoming film based on a British comic, but I enjoyed 28DL for the story as much as for the directing.

[mae]

Thinking of trying something very different. Anyone read Koji Suzuki's Ring books? Yes, the novels the Japanese and the American Ring movies were based on. There are three novels, Ring, Spiral, and Loop, and a collection called Birthday. I vaguely remember seeing the first Ring in theaters and being scared shitless, but that's all I've experienced of the franchise. I wonder what the source books are like.

Have you read any Alex Garland? I quite enjoy his writting style...read everything except The Tesseract.

Will check him out, thanks.

Always like finding out about new stuff.

[mystima]

Grabbed two books from the library today...this is what they are...


and

[WeDealInLead]

Insomnia - King. 60 pages in, so far, so good.
Koontz - What The Night Knows. Half done. Very good so far.

[mae]

Thinking of trying something very different. Anyone read Koji Suzuki's Ring books? Yes, the novels the Japanese and the American Ring movies were based on. There are three novels, Ring, Spiral, and Loop, and a collection called Birthday. I vaguely remember seeing the first Ring in theaters and being scared shitless, but that's all I've experienced of the franchise. I wonder what the source books are like.

The Ring (movies) franchise did absolutely nothing for me. I wish I was scared once during it, but I was only bored. To me there was no horror to it. I know nothing of the books though.

I didn't find the movie very good, but definitely creepy. And didn't know they were all based on books. Found a couple of reviews on YouTube and it really sounds enticing:

[DoctorDodge]

Ok, close to finishing A Game of Thrones, just about 80 pages left to read, and I've just reached MAJOR SPOILER:

Spoiler:

the death of Ned Stark. My reaction can best be summarised with this:

Spoiler:

"YOU ****ING IDIOT, MAN!"

Seriously, the number of dumb, naive mistakes that guy made...I mean he was noble, and that was ok, but man, did he have shit for brains at times! Still, it was a sad moment, seeing it through Arya's eyes.

[Brice]

Grabbed two books from the library today...this is what they are...


and

Cthulhu will wait to eat your soul until you finish it.












....if you don't take too long.

[frik]

Finally!!



sk

I'm about halfways (yes, I'm a pretty slow reader) and after a very promising opening I must say the story has lost (some of) its momentum. Hope things will pick up!

sk

[stone, rose, unfound door]

I'm currently in the middle of Jules Verne's books. I've read 26, 58 to go! They're pretty good stories and not only for kids.

[fernandito]

Finally!!



sk

I'm about halfways (yes, I'm a pretty slow reader) and after a very promising opening I must say the story has lost (some of) its momentum. Hope things will pick up!

sk

It's all downhill from there, sadly.

[Brice]

I'm currently in the middle of Jules Verne's books. I've read 26, 58 to go! They're pretty good stories and not only for kids.

I agree! I've read many of them. I don't know exactly how many though.

[WeDealInLead]

I forgot to mention I'm also reading Neuromancer by Gibson. I'm 2/3 done. It's a very demanding read that needs full immersion and concentration. I like it a lot.

[OchrisO]

I finished Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie last night and started Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi. Both are really great books. Redshirts has a very unique twist on the scifi Redshirt concept.

[Bethany]

Ok, close to finishing A Game of Thrones, just about 80 pages left to read, and I've just reached MAJOR SPOILER:

Spoiler:

the death of Ned Stark. My reaction can best be summarised with this:

Spoiler:

"YOU ****ING IDIOT, MAN!"

Seriously, the number of dumb, naive mistakes that guy made...I mean he was noble, and that was ok, but man, did he have shit for brains at times! Still, it was a sad moment, seeing it through Arya's eyes.

*hands DD a cookie and his Welcome to the GRRM Club badge*

Starting my re-read of Winds of War and War and Rememberance.

[Ruthful]

[John Blaze]

I'll start it tomorrow, B. I got distracted with A War of Gifts, and I'm still halfway through Homecoming book 5.

[stkmw02]

Has anyone ever read The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley? I started it a little while ago and find myself - still - only about half way through. It's an interesting read (for a literature fan) but for some reason it's taking me an awfully long time! I can usually finish a book of this size in just a few hours and can't figure out why this one is slowing my reading pace.

[jhanic]

I read that a long time ago. I don't remember much about it, but I don't recall having any problem getting into it.

John

[Bethany]

I'll start it tomorrow, B. I got distracted with A War of Gifts, and I'm still halfway through Homecoming book 5.

Pittering around until you say go.

[Dan]

I finished Floating Dragon and Locke & Key Vol. 1. Now I'm starting Duma Key. It gets a lot of love here, so I am looking forward to it.

[stkmw02]

I finally finished the Haunted Bookshop. I figured out why I took so long to read it, too. The author is following a mysterious plot with a bit of romance thrown in, but takes tangents to discuss war and humanity and reading etc. In these tangents, I would note the other works referenced and I think that my own mind would wander farther down the digression and away from the story, which is why I kept putting the book down so often. It is a very good book!

[Dan]

I'm 180ish pages into Duma Key and loving it. I like this style of King where he introduces bits of the horror slowly.

[Ben Staad]

The Road.

I'm loving this book so much!