What are you currently reading?

[Bethany]

Working on the Ender Quartet. HELL YEAH!

[Ka-mai]

John Dies at the End.

This is... not what I expected. I'm still trying to decide how I feel about it. Part of me is just so happy to be reading a new book it doesn't even matter.

[Stebbins]

[OchrisO]

John Dies at the End.

This is... not what I expected. I'm still trying to decide how I feel about it. Part of me is just so happy to be reading a new book it doesn't even matter.

I LOVE that book. The sequel is great as well........but sort of more of the same, so I guess it is only great if you decide you like that one./

[fearless-freak]

JDaTE is part of what i consider to be a rarely seen genre nowadays, weird fiction

Magician by Raymond E Feist

[Ka-mai]

So, I'm still not sure how I feel about it, but it's pretty funny. I actually laughed a little

Spoiler:

when the ammo fell out of the deer.

That said, the writing is a little clunky. Also, I think part of what's putting me off here is this reminds me A LOT of someone I already know. It sounds like he wrote it. So it's sounding a little less original to me than I think it should... or maybe everyone knows "that guy" and that's why they like it. Thoughts, anyone?

[Ka-mai]

Well, shit. That got really dark, really fast. The attempt to return to humor with a gorilla-crab is not working for me at all.

[fearless-freak]

wait till you read Spiders

[Ka-mai]

Yeah, maybe I won't be reading Spiders, then.

[Ka-mai]

Finally finished JDatE. Still don't really know how I feel about it. Parts of it were really funny and clever. The whole

Spoiler:

"I was gang raped in the locker room and carved out my rapist's eyes with a knife" thing was a little too much for me. I'm just really sick of sexual assault in my media in general. I feel like pretty much every book, show, movie, has some sort of violation, and I'm just over it. It's not specific to this book, just a pet peeve of mine that this is somehow the go-to way to make your story "edgy" or give someone a tragic back story.

That said, the next book I got out of the library is Horns. So I'm deciding if I want to read it, or just take it back and get something else instead.

[Patrick]

Recently completed, in order:

NOS4A2, by Joe Hill
WHILE MORTALS SLEEP, by Kurt Vonnegut
THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE, by Neil Gaiman.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS, by Neil Gaiman.
GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. Fantastic book.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, by Roald Dahl (re-read from my childhood to my kids)L
DOUBLE FEATURE, by Own King. Really enjoyed it.

Current reading: EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE, by Jonathan Safran Foer.

[OchrisO]

Finally finished JDatE. Still don't really know how I feel about it. Parts of it were really funny and clever. The whole

Spoiler:

"I was gang raped in the locker room and carved out my rapist's eyes with a knife" thing was a little too much for me. I'm just really sick of sexual assault in my media in general. I feel like pretty much every book, show, movie, has some sort of violation, and I'm just over it. It's not specific to this book, just a pet peeve of mine that this is somehow the go-to way to make your story "edgy" or give someone a tragic back story.

That said, the next book I got out of the library is Horns. So I'm deciding if I want to read it, or just take it back and get something else instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja06DJrFe5E

[Jean]

[Stebbins]

Recently completed, in order:

NOS4A2, by Joe Hill
WHILE MORTALS SLEEP, by Kurt Vonnegut
THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE, by Neil Gaiman.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS, by Neil Gaiman.
GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. Fantastic book.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, by Roald Dahl (re-read from my childhood to my kids)L
DOUBLE FEATURE, by Own King. Really enjoyed it.

Current reading: EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE, by Jonathan Safran Foer.

You should start keeping a list in the 2013 Read Book List (if you want), I find it very convenient.

[Stebbins]

Recently completed, in order:

NOS4A2, by Joe Hill
WHILE MORTALS SLEEP, by Kurt Vonnegut
THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE, by Neil Gaiman.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS, by Neil Gaiman.
GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. Fantastic book.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, by Roald Dahl (re-read from my childhood to my kids)L
DOUBLE FEATURE, by Own King. Really enjoyed it.

Current reading: EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE, by Jonathan Safran Foer.

You should start keeping a list in the 2013 Read Book List (if you want), I find it very convenient.

[frik]

Awesome book! One of Straub's best! (pretty poor movie adaptation, though!)

sk

[Ka-mai]

Finally finished JDatE. Still don't really know how I feel about it. Parts of it were really funny and clever. The whole

Spoiler:

"I was gang raped in the locker room and carved out my rapist's eyes with a knife" thing was a little too much for me. I'm just really sick of sexual assault in my media in general. I feel like pretty much every book, show, movie, has some sort of violation, and I'm just over it. It's not specific to this book, just a pet peeve of mine that this is somehow the go-to way to make your story "edgy" or give someone a tragic back story.

That said, the next book I got out of the library is Horns. So I'm deciding if I want to read it, or just take it back and get something else instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja06DJrFe5E

Care to elaborate?

I decided to continue with reading Horns. I love it.

Spoiler:

When he confronts Lee and Lee's immune to his horns, I was just like GOD DAMN IT! I don't know why I expected the story to resolve that quickly.

[SirFolio16]

Just finished reading King's Joyland and am now re-reading The Shining in order to get ready for Doctor Sleep.

And just like the first time I read it I am loving it.

[OchrisO]

Finally finished JDatE. Still don't really know how I feel about it. Parts of it were really funny and clever. The whole

Spoiler:

"I was gang raped in the locker room and carved out my rapist's eyes with a knife" thing was a little too much for me. I'm just really sick of sexual assault in my media in general. I feel like pretty much every book, show, movie, has some sort of violation, and I'm just over it. It's not specific to this book, just a pet peeve of mine that this is somehow the go-to way to make your story "edgy" or give someone a tragic back story.

That said, the next book I got out of the library is Horns. So I'm deciding if I want to read it, or just take it back and get something else instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja06DJrFe5E

Care to elaborate?

I decided to continue with reading Horns. I love it.

Spoiler:

When he confronts Lee and Lee's immune to his horns, I was just like GOD DAMN IT! I don't know why I expected the story to resolve that quickly.

Oh, just that you didn't love the book unequivocally.

[Jean]

Awesome book! One of Straub's best! (pretty poor movie adaptation, though!)

sk

yes, so far it's the only Straub book I really love

[frik]

Try Shadowland, Jean - or maybe you have.
After more than 30 years, it's still my favorite Straub.

sk

[Stebbins]

A quarter of the way through, and it's my favorite Parker novel-- every word is so good. After the last one I read, The Hunter, the first of the Parker novels, I was glad I started with Comeback. Hunter was still incredible prose, but I felt Stark was still finding the voice a bit (but that could be from starting with Comeback). The way Stark seamlessly interjects the surroundings of his story is masterful.

[Jean]

Try Shadowland, Jean - or maybe you have.
After more than 30 years, it's still my favorite Straub.

sk

I will, thank you!

[Ka-mai]

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. I definitely prefer his other book, Middlesex. This one isn't holding my attention.

[Merlin1958]

Now, that is a good book!!! Enjoy!!