What Are You Reading...?

[milo]

["What are you listening to at the moment"'s ugly sister...]


I have no doubt that the Tavern community is a well-read bunch. List a few of your favourite authors, and maybe the last good book you read.


Fiction: David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, Jorge Louis Borges

Nonfiction: David Toop, James Gleick


Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, after getting the film from a buddy. Both are really good.

[Hirsch I]

this thread.
also, Crime and Punishment, by Dostoiévski. everyone should read his works at some point.

[Siegurt]

This week, Julian May, and Jim Butcher (Each of their fantasy series, actually)

[JoeOwl]

Terry Pratchett, Dodger.

[TehDruid]

this thread.
also, Crime and Punishment, by Dostoiévski. everyone should read his works at some point.

Of all his books I've only read the Gambler, have you read it too? I thought it was very good.

[Arrhythmia]

Gravity's Rainbow. I think I'm even going to finish it this time.

[Klown]

Currently reading White Night, book 9 of The Dresden Files

My favorites though.

Series

A Song of Ice and Fire - By George R.R. Martin
The Dresden Files - By Jim Butcher
Cirque Du Freak - By Darren Shan
The City Trilogy - By Darren Shan

Stand Alone

Life Expectancy - By Dean Koontz
The Good Guy - By Dean Koontz
Dracula - By Bram Stoker
Thirteen Reasons Why - By Jay Asher
Cell - By Stephen King
Mindscan - By Robert J. Sawyer

[Hirsch I]

this thread.
also, Crime and Punishment, by Dostoiévski. everyone should read his works at some point.

Of all his books I've only read the Gambler, have you read it too? I thought it was very good.

I read it when I was 13, but was really too young. just scammed through the book to add it to the list of "books I read" (oh look at me I'm intellectual.)
but I liked what I understood from it. I read that Dostoievsky wrote it under the pressure of severe gambling debts. his inspiration reminds me of that:

Spoiler: show

[Hopeless]

Currently reading Robin Hobbes (Soldier's Son). And about to start on Dan Simmons (Hyperion).

[Moanerette]

Hirsch I, please tell me what that is from.

Gravity's Rainbow. I think I'm even going to finish it this time

Heh, when I read it I got to page 200 or so and, while I was enjoying it, found myself completely lost. So I went back to the start, got on much better (though I'd still be hard-pressed to describe it properly) and finished it. The Crying Of Lot 49 is really good too.

I'm currently reading A Crack In The Wall by Claudia Pineiro (I don't know how to do accents/cedillas etc.), who is apparently Argentina's best-selling crime author. It's good, and seems well translated - not that I speak Spanish, but it reads smoothly and the characterisation comes through very well.

[Hirsch I]

Hirsch I, please tell me what that is from.

Gravity's Rainbow. I think I'm even going to finish it this time

it is from arrhythmia's post.
kidding, here is the website. it is pretty much NSFW, like 90%. and into please dont ban me.
http://oglaf.com
there are lots of comics that relate to older ones, so it is a good idea to start from the beginning.

[tasonir]

watership down by richard adams.

After that I have monkey girl lined up (a book about teaching evolution in schools trial a few years back) by someone I don't remember offhand.

[TeshiAlair]

Just read the Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, excited to pick up the next ones. That man is too talented for his own good.

[Klown]

Just read the Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, excited to pick up the next ones. That man is too talented for his own good.

I couldn't get into that book/series

Have you read Mistborn?

[mellonbread]

Just finished A Deepness in the Sky, now working on Solaris. I was expecting "The Ocean is alive!" to be the big reveal, but they explain that within the first couple chapters, and since then it's only gotten weirder and more interesting.

[Hopeless]

Just read the Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, excited to pick up the next ones. That man is too talented for his own good.

I couldn't get into that book/series

Have you read Mistborn?

Yeah the mistborn series was quite entertaining.

[Sprucery]

And about to start on Dan Simmons (Hyperion).

I really enjoyed the Hyperion quadrilogy by Simmons. Other similarly astonishing scifi writers are Alastair Reynolds and the late Iain M. Banks.

[headcrab0803]

The Crying Of Lot 49 is really good too.

I recently read this and enjoyed it so I was looking for his other books. Seems like the small bookstores doesn't have his books.

[Hopeless]

And about to start on Dan Simmons (Hyperion).

I really enjoyed the Hyperion quadrilogy by Simmons. Other similarly astonishing scifi writers are Alastair Reynolds and the late Iain M. Banks.

Iain Banks (is) was a great author, I've only got a couple of his books left to read. Never heard of Mr Reynolds.