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[Chukchi Husky]

I'm currently reading through The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy in five parts. At the moment I'm at the beginning of Life, the Universe and Everything.

[Selena]

Halfway through Anna Karenina.


Meaning I'm on page 35,014. But it's good.

[Kisseena]

Lena, is the book really that long?

[Selena]

No, no. Only about 1,000 pages.

War and Peace even longer.

[Crimson Lego]

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad.



Stupid English projects.

[Hypnotic13]

Wake by Robert J. Sawyer

First book of the WWW Trilogy.

I abslutely fucking love this author... <3

[Crimson Lego]

Through My Eyes - Tim Tebow.

[Showsni]

I wish I'd kept a record of every book I'd read since this thread started. That would make for some fun reading.

Currently reading "The Hunt" by Zoe Daniels. They had the first book in our school library way back when, so I ended up tracking down the other two to find out what happens.

[deep]

I'm reading The Best of Youth, by Michael Dahlie. He's one of my profs.

Some terrible things have happened to goats. Also a hot debate of 4th-cousin incest. Fascinating super-close third-person POV.

[Jezzer]

National Geographic - Year 1927
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston by Ernest Callenbach

[Doctor Pogo]

Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women by Ricky Jay.

[Egann]

Raven's Strike, Patricia Briggs.

EDIT: Spoilers for all 0.33 people intending to read this book in the future.

So this is the other half of said Raven "duology." As I said when I posted about the first one, the series isn't too terribly creative or well executed. At least the first one wasn't, anyway. This one...it was interesting. One of the key tension-builders was that there was this tainted evil dark lord with a desire to conquer and destroy everything and, at the end of the first book, no one knew who it was. Guess who it was.

The merchant for their tiny village of Redern who gives Seraph a good deal and some haggling tips in the first book. Basically, their next door neighbor.

Huh. Not exactly what you think of when you say "dark lord?" Me either. I don't know. Props for being unpredictable, I guess. Also core cast member from previous book turns out to be the goddess of magic and the "orders" are reincarnations of pieces of various dead gods who sacrificed themselves to save a broken world. I don't think Mrs. Briggs was trying to write another fantasy Christ allegory, but, well, there you have it.

Of course, in all fairness, The Wheel of Time and FF XIII are Christ allegories as well. It's a rather popular fantasy trope.

Edited by Egann, 17 February 2013 - 09:59 PM.

[Fëanen]

I'm currently alternating between two collections of short stories, since after reading The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit straight through I feel like a bit more variety. One of them is Very Good, Jeeves! by P.G. Wodehouse, and the other is Celtic Myths and Legends by Peter Berresford Ellis. I might also read some Sherlock Holmes while I'm at it. Yay for variety.

[Doctor Pogo]

I'm reading The Remarkable Millard Fillmore, and laughing my ass off. It's a biographical satire, with a bumbling, Forrest Gump-esque Fillmore wandering through the early 1800s stopping shark attacks and accidently inventing vulcanized rubber, that kind of thing.

It's also amusing to read the amazon reviews, dominated by people who thought they were buying a real, respectful biography, and were shocked to discover that it wasn't, despite having Fillmore riding a unicorn on the cover. One reviewer apparently got halfway through the book before he realized it was bogus.

[Showsni]

I'm currently alternating between two collections of short stories, since after reading The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit straight through I feel like a bit more variety. One of them is Very Good, Jeeves! by P.G. Wodehouse, and the other is Celtic Myths and Legends by Peter Berresford Ellis. I might also read some Sherlock Holmes while I'm at it. Yay for variety.

Love Jeeves and Wooster... Might bust one of them out next.

Since my last posting I finished that Year of the Cat trilogy I mentioned, read the first two books in the Healing Wars (The Pain Merchants and Blue Fire, Janice Hardy), read the Immortal Rules (by Julie Kagawa) and skim read Enid Blyton's Five on Finiston Farm. I guess I don't spend as much time reading as I used to...

[Crimson Lego]

Read the first 4 books of A Song of Ice and Fire and am now about a fifth of the way through A Dance with Dragons. So far I still have to say that A Storm of Swords is my favourite if just because of:

Spoiler

Jaime being humbled after losing his sword hand and upholding his oath to find Sansa and Arya.

The best part about the 4th one was:

Spoiler

Arya adjusting to new life in the House of Black and White, and just seeing how she copes with losing her whole family and having to start a new life, and so on.

[SteveT]

I just started Brandon Sanderson's "Way of Kings."  It's off to a good start; Sanderson never disappoints.

[Crimson Lego]

Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success - Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty.

[Quistis]

I just finished Following Ezra by Tom Fields-Meyer.  It's about a father whose middle son is Autistic, and it tells about their relationship, how Ezra behaves in the world, and how his life is.  

 

I think I'm going to do some light reading now with book 4 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.