What are you currently reading?

[mae]

Really looking forward to reading this:

This novel demands that the reader immediately suspend disbelief, but if this summons is heeded the reward will be a superior tale told by Hamill (Snow in August; A Drinking Life) in the cadence of the master storyteller. The year is 1741 and this is the story of Cormac O'Connor-"Irish, and a Jew"-who grows up in Ireland under English Protestant rule and is secretly schooled in Gaelic religion, myth and language. Seeking to avenge the murder of his father by the Earl of Warren, he follows the trail of the earl to New York City. On board ship, Cormac befriends African slave Kongo, and once in New York, the two join a rebellion against the British. After the rising is quelled, mobs take to the streets and Kongo is seized. Cormac saves Kongo from death, but is shot in the process. His recovery takes a miraculous turn when Kongo's dead priestess, Tomora, appears and grants Cormac eternal life and youth-so long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan, thus the "Forever" of the title. What follows is a portrait of the "city of memory of which Cormac was the only citizen." Cormac fights in the American Revolution, sups with Boss Tweed (in a very sympathetic portrait) and lives into the New York of 2001. In that year he warily falls in love with Delfina, a streetwise Dominican ("That was the curse attached to the gift: You buried everyone you loved"), and comes into contact with a descendant of the Earl of Warren, the newspaper publisher Willie Warren. His love, his drive for revenge and his very desire to exist are fatefully challenged on the eve and the day of September 11. This rousing, ambitious work is beautifully woven around historical events and characters, but it is Hamill's passionate pursuit of justice and compassion-Celtic in foundation-that distinguishes this tale of New York City and its myriad peoples.

Anybody read this?

[Jean]

Guys, I have copied the "sauce assault" posts to this new thread.

[Ruthful]

[Brice]

And would you consider many of those good or great ?

And if so - NAMES.

Not until you read those too. I am holding out on you. Those are the best since Fevre Dream anyhow.

[WeDealInLead]

Tobias Buckel - Sly Mongoose
Neal Stephenson - The Big U

[Odetta]

Just finished Game of Thrones... onto Clash of Kings

[Patrick]

Just finished Game of Thrones... onto Clash of Kings

Currently reading, FAHRENHEIT 451, by Ray Bradbury (re-read)

[jhanic]

Just started Wizard and Glass in my reread of The Dark Tower series. Better than I remembered!

John

[John Blaze]

Just finished Game of Thrones... onto Clash of Kings

how you liking it?

I'm currently rereading Clash, actually. Also rereading War and Remembrance and I started Animal Farm last night...

[mystima]

here is what i am reading at the moment

[Jean]

Just started Wizard and Glass in my reread of The Dark Tower series. Better than I remembered!

John

I have to admit, it does get better on re-read

[Patrick]

here is what i am reading at the moment

I love Joe Hill. Please let us know what you think of his novels.

[Odetta]

Just finished Game of Thrones... onto Clash of Kings

how you liking it?

Well, I enjoyed the first book, but I had watched the first season already, so I knew what was going on. Just started book 2 but I am not going to watch season 2 until I am finished the book and see what I think!

[Mattrick]

Finally got a copy of The Scarlet Letter. Reading it on my vaction.

[alkanto]

Started Vol. 1 of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen this afternoon. This one won't take me very long at all...it is very good!

[WeDealInLead]

Started Vol. 1 of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen this afternoon. This one won't take me very long at all...it is very good!

YES YES YES! Read all of them in publishing order. New one just came out.

[Roast]

I've been tumbling through book one of the Illuminatus! trilogy for a couple of weeks now - the Eye in the Pyramid - and I'd definitely highly recommend it...that is, if you enjoy an incredibly schizophrenic narrative, consistently travelling to and fro between tenses, and acres upon acres of name-dropping (sounds...familiar, now that I think about it.)
Yes. It's pretty excellent, although I've heard a lot of mixed reviews from people who believe it to be just a smidge too wacky for their tastes.
If anybody browsing this page has read it, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.

[Ka-mai]

The Three Musketeers. I can't say I understand every sentence (some of them seem ridiculously convoluted to me), but I do understand every paragraph! It's pretty enjoyable although I'm ready for some serious plot to happen, instead of hints that plot will happen soon.

[Shannon]

Reading through Nightmares & Dreamscapes. "Chattery Teeth" was excellent, but what. the. fuck. was up with "Dedication"? Easily the worst King short story I've ever read. Blah and yuck.

[Jean]

<...>what. the. fuck. was up with "Dedication"? Easily the worst King short story I've ever read. Blah and yuck.

I remember that it bored me to tears and I've never re-read it.

Reading now: Summer of Night, by Dan Simmons. Fantastic.

[WeDealInLead]

Agreed. Where are you in the book? I'm right at the middle point. Actually, more like 55% done.

[Jean]

Agreed. Where are you in the book? I'm right at the middle point. Actually, more like 55% done.

I only started today, 15% in

[divemaster]

Reading through Nightmares & Dreamscapes. "Chattery Teeth" was excellent, but what. the. fuck. was up with "Dedication"? Easily the worst King short story I've ever read. Blah and yuck.

I didn't find much to like in Nightmares & Dreamscapes. Weak collection. Only a few nuggets.

[neosatus]

Nearly finished and really loving it.

[WeDealInLead]

Still reading Summer of Night. Just finished Red Nails by Robert E. Howard and holy fucking racism Batman! I couldn't believe that shit. This wasn't some fencewalking (like Simmon's slight xenophobia in Song of Kali and Phases of Gravity), this was just straight up good ol' Texas boy racism. Holy fuck! I'm still not over it. Calling Conan's enemies (who are always black) "black dogs", negroes etc. Conan being fueled by "racial anger". I heard that Howard was racist but sometimes you don't believe something until you see it. That being said, the stories were good. But if he were to write like that today, his career would be even shorter lived than it really was.