What are you reading?

[Tatsu]

I finished reading "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss a bit ago. :O That's a really good book!!!

[Htom Sirveaux]

It's time for my annual reading of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I only just started this little personal tradition last year, but it's one I think I'll keep.

[ich1990]

[b]“Paradise Lostâ€

[rocklobster]

I agree with you 100%, ich1990.
I'm almost done reading Inkheart.

[ShiroiHikari]

Still working on Good Omens. I'm a notoriously slow reader when it comes to novels. I'm enjoying it but I do kind of wish it would focus more on the characters I like and not the ones I dislike

I've also borrowed a book from a friend called The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper but I'm not sure I'll be able to make it through the whole thing. @_@ It's pretty...thick.

Oh and I'm also planning on starting For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, and I still need to read more of Les Miserables...

[Kkun]

Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaugh. Once I recover from school being over, I'm going to pick Moby Dick back up, I think. We'll see.

[KagayakiWashi]

Mozart in Vienna 1781-1791 by Volkmar Braunbehrens. Composer biographies amuse me, and viewing "Amadeus" (which is highly fictional) made me wanna know more about Mozart.

[rocklobster]

Just finished Inkheart! Loved it! Now I'm reading Sunwing.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

I purchased Camus' The Stranger today. I will read that during the Christmas break.

Then if I get to it, I wish to then start Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.

[Silent Seraph]

Nothing which is strange for me thinking about rereading Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks which was a very good (if a little to detailed) series.

[Doubleshadow]

Reading Homosexuality and the Bible: Two Views by Dan O. Via and Robert AJ Gagnon.

[Kkun]

I'm re-reading the "Fear the Hunters" arc of Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard's The Walking Dead. This is probably one of the best comic series out there right now (though it is DEFINITELY not for kids..and probably not for a lot of teenagers and adults, either. It's fairly nihilistic).

[rocklobster]

I just started Inkspell, the second book in Cornelia Funke's Inkheart trilogy.

[Alice]

I am re-reading Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet, by M. C. Beaton. I'm also working on a book about simplifying your life, and another mystery by Stuart M. Kaminsky. (I don't have the titles right here, though.)

[the_wolfs_howl]

I've started The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy. My first Tolstoy, yay! XD I'm not sure what to think of it yet, but I've learned to give Russian novels some time. Like...a lot of time. I expect it'll get really good later on.

I'm also reading a collection of poetry by Sylvia Plath. I'm not much of a poet, so it's kind of all going over my head, but oh well.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

I've started The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy. My first Tolstoy, yay! XD I'm not sure what to think of it yet, but I've learned to give Russian novels some time. Like...a lot of time. I expect it'll get really good later on.

I'm also reading a collection of poetry by Sylvia Plath. I'm not much of a poet, so it's kind of all going over my head, but oh well.

Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are some amazing writers, aren't they? They're good at being very very long... haha.

[Htom Sirveaux]

I'm taking a break from the grown-up, diversely well-read intellectual stuff just long enough to chew on some popcorn fiction. To that end, I am reading Needful Things by Stephen King.

edit.
You know what, to be honest I don't feel like reading that one. Having read the bulk of it before, I remember enough of it that it would just be a chore to read through the three-quarters of the book that I already have done just to get to what I haven't read yet, but I've forgotten too much to be able to pick up where I left off and finish it from there. So that one's pretty much ruined for me. However, as luck would have it, there was a book sale going on at the library today, and, still being in the mood for a Stephen King novel, I happened to find Pet Sematary, as well as The Dark Half. I also found Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, and two Doctor Who stories on (laugh if you must) VHS.

[TheSubtleDoctor]

I'm taking a break from the grown-up, diversely well-read intellectual stuff just long enough to chew on some popcorn fiction.

Seconded! Reading Orson Scott Card's Ender's Shadow. I loved Ender's Game, and I am really digging this one too. Bean is a very interesting character to follow. For anyone who likes sci-fi light reading/young adult novels these is good stuff.

[rocklobster]

Just started the Oath.

[Song_of_Storms]

[SIZE="1"]I'm reading Tom Sawyer for school. Overall, its slightly enjoyable, so far. Their dialect still annoys me. >.>

-also having to re-read C. S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters for yet another course. Not that I mind, I loved Screwtape Letters. I'm looking forward to see how I view it from the perspective of now being Catholic. ^^

I just bought Brave Story, but I'm not going to begin it till after Christmas. I have too much to read! @~@[/SIZE]

[uc pseudonym]

Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson

I feel very much the same about this as I did about the first volume of Malazan Book of the Fallen. Despite a novel's worth of background, the beginning still swarms you with new terms and it takes a number of scenes for the plot to actually get around to anything engaging. But the world-building is so comprehensive that it's worth it, and now that I'm past the beginning I am enjoying it again.

Regrettably, my interlibrary loan on this title took a while, so in the meantime I have read...

Eldest by Christopher Paolini

This will be the last book of the series that I read. If anyone knows the word count of the novel I would be interested, simply to know how many words were spent on the number of events that actually occur. Off-hand I'd guess it's over 200k, but my estimates are skewed toward books with smaller text.

That having been said, I will leave everyone with a quote from an Eragon fan-site regarding the main character's ludicrous infatuation with a certain elven princess:

Eragon expressed his deep feelings for her on many occasions, but because of the broad age gap between them, her fear of Eragon distracting himself from more pressing matters, and the fact that Eragon hadn't spent more than a few months with her, she chose to reject his advances.

I find this unduly amusing.

[rocklobster]

Just started Inkdeath, the final book in the Inkheart trilogy.

[animeguild53]

just started Xtreme Calling... i'm sure i'll be learning a lot... praise GOD!

[Silent Seraph]

Prophet of Yonwood- City of Ember Book 3 (prequel)

So far its a pretty good series but this book is slow in starting unlike the other books.

[That Dude]

I just finished
Humility -by- Andrew Murrey.
A christian classic by one of those "old dead guys" whom I love so much. It was a very helpful book, it reminds you that though things may seem to suck, we can use our weakness to glorify Christ, and that we should strive to remain in our weak state so that we are fully relying on God for everything and not so focused on ourselves.

I'm just about to start Absolute Surrender -by- Andrew Murrey.

[Chaos Aroura]

I've been re-reading the "Cirque du Freak" series. I know they recently made a movie, but I heard it was really bad...

It's about a boy, Darren, who goes to a freak show and sees a spider there that he instantly wants. He's always loved spiders, so he goes back to the show one night and steals this spider who belongs to a vampire. The spider then bites his best friend. To get the cure for the spider bite and save his friend's life he has to become the assistant to the vampire, Larten Crepsley.

I really love this series, and only gave a description of the first book so others can read it ^-^ It's really good!

[Mithrandir]

Just finished: Conspiracy of the Rich - Robert Kiyosaki. Interesting read.

[rocklobster]

Now reading the first Warriors book, Into the Wild.

[TheSubtleDoctor]

Just finished: Conspiracy of the Rich - Robert Kiyosaki. Interesting read.

What could that have been about?

[rocklobster]

Just started Stone of Tears, the second book in the Sword of Truth series.