What are you currently reading?

[Storyslinger]

You just sold me

[Erin]

It is a great book Storyslinger.

I'm currently reading Imajica by Clive Barker. So far, it's pretty intriguing, but i'm only about 40 pages in or so. I may pause in the middle of it to read Purfume though.

[Storyslinger]

Thanks, I check it out

[ManOfWesternesse]

I just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy - this is a truly awesome book. If you haven't read this yet go get it! It's heartwarming, it's scary, it's tragic! The boy's and his Papa's struggles to simply survive another day in the post-apocalyptic world is amazing - a tale of human spirit, love, determination, compassion, ruthlessness - a tale of hunger and pain and darkness, and hope - and a tale that could happen - shudder the thought!

Agreed - it is an awesome book.

[funky dredd]

John Grisham - Playing For Pizza

[Cutter]

Reading The Keep by F. Paul Wilson (pretty cool atmosphere)
Listening in audio book to Donaldson's The Runes of the Earth (a re-read), and when finished will jump into Fatal Revenant.

Just finished Terry Brooks The Elves of Cintra, which I thought was his best effort since the Jerle of Shannara trilogy.

Also just finished a collection of short stories by Jeffrey Ford called the Fantasy Writer's Assistant. Good stuff, urban stories that are fantastical in nature, not your standard fantasy fare.

[sarajean]

nearly 400 pages into the amber spyglass. i don't want it to be over.

i truly didn't expect to fall in love with lyra and will like i have.

[sarah]

wasn't it such a fun light read, sarajean? Don't forget to read Lyra's Oxford.

I just finished Twlight and Full Moon. Such teenage Youth Fiction Drama. I can't believe I'm as wraped up in this series. They are 17 for hellsakes yet i can't put the story down. I'm off to get the third book so i can ignore all the real world.

[Patrick]

Currently reading (and nearing the end of): BLAZE by Richard Bachman

[Kevin]

Currently reading Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban.

It's extremely hard to follow because its written entirely in a broken form of English. For example:

'Coming pas that aulder wood that girzly morning I fealt my stummick go col. Like an aulder kincher ben putting eye on me. No 1 never had nothing much to do with the chard coal berners they come in to the forms fer ther new red clof but in be twean they kep to the woodlings.'

So far its been very good, despite that its hard to understand sometimes.

[Daghain]

Almost done with The Bachman Books, then on to a reread of Bag of Bones.

[Harrald]

I just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy<<SNIP>>

You sold me too. I'm just starting The Silmarillion (for the 8th time) then I have The talisman (I think I've read this before) and I just ordered The Road from the library. Thanks for the tip.

[sarajean]

yesterday at the store, i found a book someone had left on a bench. it was the unfortunate miss fortunes, which turned out to be a romance disguised as a fantasy. i was very disappointed.

i decided to start reading battlefield earth again this morning. that should last me for awhile.

[Storyslinger]

Real Ponies Don't Go Oink

[Jean]

now that only about 100 pages separate me from the end of Lisey's Story, it suddenly became very, very good.

Spoiler:

Since Lisey took Amanda from the hospital.

[Darkthoughts]

You're like me with cd's Jean. Sometimes I buy one but only end up liking 2 songs on the whole album.

[Jean]

it's a better rate than what I'm now having with LS. You see, one can listen to specific songs separately...

[sarah]

ok these past five days i have read three books that I was so utterly wraped up in that I'm embarrassed to even admit it. What is wrong with me that I got so absorbed in ooie gooie teenage love/lust?

btw, the books were

twilight, new moon, and eclipse

I even went to my parents house for a couple of days so they could watch my kids and i could read. wtf is wrong with me?

[Storyslinger]

evil

[Patrick]

... I even went to my parents house for a couple of days so they could watch my kids and i could read. wtf is wrong with me?

Awesome.

I finished BLAZE. It was a good book, not great, but I enjoyed it. I know this book was mostly written long ago, but there's a device that SK uses a lot that I'm kind of tired of at this point.

Now reading, for the first time, FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS by Hunter S. Thompson. This book is freakin' hilarious.

[fernandito]

We were somewhere around Barstow, at the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...

Maer - I'm plan to read those books also, even though I have no idea what they're about ...well, now I do! [feels lusty]

[Patrick]

We were somewhere around Barstow, at the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...
...

Great opening line.

I'm in about Chapter 6, I think. I already know I'm going to be reading this book again.

[Fishonabike]

Just finished Harry Potter HPB last night... hope to pick up Deathly Hallows on the way home tonight.

[Erin]

ok these past five days i have read three books that I was so utterly wraped up in that I'm embarrassed to even admit it. What is wrong with me that I got so absorbed in ooie gooie teenage love/lust?

btw, the books were

twilight, new moon, and eclipse

I even went to my parents house for a couple of days so they could watch my kids and i could read. wtf is wrong with me?

I sometimes do the same thing Marelyn. I get really tied up and absorbed in the dumbest stuff, mainly stupid reality TV shows or sometimes when I go to my mom's house, I pick up one of those old cheesy teenage books where someone always has cancer or some other horrific disease and dies a terrible death. They make me sob like a little baby and I feel stupid for even wasting my time reading them.

I finished BLAZE. It was a good book, not great, but I enjoyed it. I know this book was mostly written long ago, but there's a device that SK uses a lot that I'm kind of tired of at this point.

Now reading, for the first time, FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS by Hunter S. Thompson. This book is freakin' hilarious.

What device would that be Patrick? And i've always wanted to read Fear and Loathing....I need to do it.

[Patrick]

I finished BLAZE. It was a good book, not great, but I enjoyed it. I know this book was mostly written long ago, but there's a device that SK uses a lot that I'm kind of tired of at this point...

What device would that be Patrick? ...

Spoiler-Lite alert for... let's see... Blaze, Secret Window/Secret Garden, Drawing of the Three, The Shining, and other unnamed stories..

Spoiler:

I'm tired of people having another complete person in their head - either knowingly (like in Blaze) or unknowingly (like in SW/SG or DotT). King writes these types of characters very well, but I realized during Blaze that I'm just personally kind of tired of it. I think I prefer his stories where characters struggle with going outright crazy (like in The Shining for example).