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Maklershed · Oct 1, 2012

Atruvius · Oct 1, 2012

Right now I reading the last pages of Cloud Atlas.

Book contains a bunch of short stories which all are connected to the previous story in one way or another. The books spans from the 1850 - to the far flung post nuclear war future. Really interested to see how this all wraps up.

Some advice: The book gets much much better after the first story, which I found terribly boring.

wwlnd · Oct 1, 2012

Dropping A Naked Singularity halfway through. Starting Correction (Thomas Bernhard) and it's owning hard from page one.

thomaser · Oct 1, 2012

Still reading Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep". Very nice, but a little strange after reading two Dashiell Hammett novels. D.H. felt much more serious, while Chandler is more flippant, with lots of corny wisecracks and odd similes. I thought it would be the other way around for some reason.

teruterubozu · Oct 1, 2012

You still reading that? "Big Sleep" is really short. Anyway, you should also check out James M Cain ("Double Indemnity", "Postman Always Rings Twice", etc.) if you like hardboiled stuff.

Yen · Oct 1, 2012

Started Rafa Benitez's Champions League Dreams. Very good insight into his CL campaigns.

Like the hat? · Oct 1, 2012

Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The Areas of my Expertise by John Hodgman (hilarious book)

yonder · Oct 1, 2012

I'm about halfway through Super Sad True Lovestory. At first I had a hard time with: both the style and the characters felt annoying, even obnoxious, but after a while I adjusted, and now I'm enjoying it. I have a soft spot for first person narration, so that helps.

I also finished the third book in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's about as great as I expected, but I had to cleanse my pallet before reading the other two. Although they're very funny, I can't take five books of the same kind of humour at once.

thomaser · Oct 1, 2012

teruterubozu said:
You still reading that? "Big Sleep" is really short. Anyway, you should also check out James M Cain ("Double Indemnity", "Postman Always Rings Twice", etc.) if you like hardboiled stuff.

Yeah, been traveling for work and doing some other things, so I haven't read much the last week. I'm doing an online English degree, and the course I'm taking right now is about American detective novels. Cain isn't on the syllabus, but I'll add him to my to-read-list. Thanks! I hadn't read a single hard-boiled novel before this course, but they're really enjoyable. Next up after Chandler is Ross Macdonald's "Black Money".

Arksy · Oct 1, 2012

Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges - By Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner. Excellent book on oral advocacy.

Interview With A Vampire - Anne Rice. Girl I'm seeing loves Anne Rice and strongly recommended I read it. It's pretty good so far. I don't think I'd have the stomach to read the entire series, unless this book is particularly good.

teruterubozu · Oct 1, 2012

thomaser said:
Yeah, been traveling for work and doing some other things, so I haven't read much the last week. I'm doing an online English degree, and the course I'm taking right now is about American detective novels. Cain isn't on the syllabus, but I'll add him to my to-read-list. Thanks! I hadn't read a single hard-boiled novel before this course, but they're really enjoyable. Next up after Chandler is Ross Macdonald's "Black Money".

Yeah, I took a summer course in American Popular Genre Fiction and we covered Westerns, Hard-Boiled, Spy, Science Fiction, Horror. Fun stuff. It was definitely the best summer reading I ever did:

Western - "The Virginian" (Owen Wister)
Hard-Boiled/Crime - "The Big Sleep" (Chandler), "Postman always Rings Twice", "Double Indemnity" (Cain)
Spy - "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" (Le Carre)
Sci-Fi - "The Left Hand of Darkness" (Le Guin), "Man in the High Castle" (Philip K. Dick)
Horror - "Salem's Lot" (King)

brianjones · Oct 1, 2012

nakedsushi · Oct 1, 2012

Attempting to finish reading this again:

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

This time in a new translation. For some reason, the Garnett translation was slowing me down and I just couldn't get into it. Now that I'm reading P&V, it's going much better.

Anyone have preferences in translations here? I know that for Count of Monte Cristo, the translator made a *big* difference.

Number45 · Oct 1, 2012

Ploughing my way through The Silmarillion, in preparation for the Hobbit film.

Grenouille · Oct 1, 2012

(Fevre Dream)
Started this yesterday. reminds me of American Vampire.

demented · Oct 1, 2012

Got around to reading this, almost done:

Maklershed · Oct 1, 2012

Kindle

The King's Blood by Daniel Abraham

And on the hard copy side of things, I just finished up The Killer Angels last night. Gonna start The Innocent Man tonight.

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham

Togeo · Oct 1, 2012

Tomorrow....

massoluk · Oct 1, 2012

Not read, but I finished the free (trial) Audible's prologue of Memory of Light. The price they are charging for Kindle version is day light robbery.

That scratched my itch. I thought it would be just a boring prologue chapter. But damn. Shits went down, hell breaks lose pretty damn fast.

Taishar Manetheran.

Monroeski · Oct 1, 2012

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Like the hat? said:
Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The Areas of my Expertise by John Hodgman (hilarious book)

Absolutely yes, love that book and the sequel More Information Than You Require.

FlyinJ · Oct 1, 2012

xxracerxx · Oct 1, 2012

Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West

One of my favorite novels ever, just doing a re-read. Love it.

BenjaminBirdie · Oct 1, 2012

Just finished my book of the year.

Astonishingly well-written, funny, poignant. I don't know what could top it.

Hank Scorpio · Oct 1, 2012

Waiting for this:

Just ordered after listening to a review of it on Irish radio. Sounds haunting.

Dead Prince · Oct 1, 2012

after this book i'll start reading the books from here:

http://storybundle.com/

WeeBritian · Oct 1, 2012

Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule

RatskyWatsky · Oct 1, 2012

chiQ · Oct 1, 2012

Loving it.

Syrinx · Oct 1, 2012

Will finish reading The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), hopefully by the end of this week. Afterwards, I will choose between Cosmos (Carl Sagan), In The Garden of Beasts (Erik Larson), and The Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut).

Emerson · Oct 2, 2012

Finished:

Starting:

AngmarsKing701 · Oct 2, 2012

Still reading Pandora's Star by Peter F Hamilton. 9 months now.

But I only have 30 pp left! I might actually be able to post something else in this thread in a couple of days.

Mumei · Oct 2, 2012

I am reading His Dark Materials, currently about 100 pages into the third book.

AlimNassor · Oct 2, 2012

One Second After

Is a 2009 fiction novel by American writer William R. Forstchen. The novel deals with an unexpected electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States as it affects the people living in and around the small American town of Black Mountain, North Carolina.

It's really fascinating, within a day people begin dropping like flies, by the end of the first year most the US is gone. Hell, most the town is gone, only 20% of the residents survived the first year. Depressing as all hell.

An-Det · Oct 2, 2012

Still kinda big even in the quote, but oh well.

Towers of Midnight

I never technically finished it two years ago (tough for me to get in the time to read physical books), and realizing that A Memory of Light is so close now, I bought the kindle version and have been going through it at a good clip. Some of the names are kinda fuzzy for me for their relevance since it's been so long, but it's like coming home again, jumping back into this world after being away for years, seeing old friends and catching up on the times. Great so far, I'm so glad Sanderson is finishing the series.

I was about halfway through Erikson's Memories of Ice when I picked up ToM. Loving it, but ToM is a bit more time-critical as I dont want to play catchup when AMoL releases. ToM is also an easier read so far, so I'll be back in Genabackis before long.

BlazingDarkness · Oct 2, 2012

A random combination of books over the next week, including;

Paul Ekman's 'Emotions Revealed' (non-fiction)

John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' (epic classic poetry)

Jean-Dominique Bauby's 'The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly' (memoir of a 'locked-in syndrome' sufferer)

Pat Barker's 'Blow your house down' (thriller based loosely on the Yorkshire Ripper)

Neffarias_Bredd · Oct 2, 2012

New favorite book series. After trying to start Gardens of the Moon for 3 years, I'm finally addicted

Maklershed · Oct 2, 2012

The Sister's Brothers just dropped $5 from $7.99 to $2.99. Not sure how long this will last. I heard good things about this book ...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004CFA91Y/?tag=neogaf0e-20

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

Bitmap Frogs · Oct 2, 2012

Right now I'm reading the third book in the Kostas Jaritos series by Petros Markaris.

If you are into crime and detective novels, the Jaritos series is worth checking out. Much better than Mankell's overrated Wallander that's for sure.

Orrichio · Oct 2, 2012

eattomorro · Oct 2, 2012

Have you supported an indy writer lately?

isual · Oct 2, 2012

Horus Heresy's Nemesis.

Nymerio · Oct 2, 2012

So I've been on vacation and managed to get some reading done. In no particular order:

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Was an OK read I hope the last book can keep it up and doesn't end in such a disastrous way as the Hunger Games did...

Great book, Willikins is one of my favourite characters and I love all the nights watch novels.

Out of this bunch this is probably my favourite book. The setting was something completely new (at least for me), couldn't put it down, I hope there's more to come.

Also pretty great, definitely going to read the other twenty palaces books.

vagabondarts · Oct 2, 2012

Getting another reading in before the film drops and replaces a lot of the imagery I'm used to.
Silmarillion is next.

Quake1028 · Oct 2, 2012

The Gun Seller - $1.99
The Black Prism - $1.99
Leviathan Wakes (w/bonus book The Dragon's Path) - $1.99

Ezio · Oct 2, 2012

About halfway through "The Blinding Knife" by Brent Weeks. Part of the Lightbringer series. So far it's been great, then again I'm a huge fan of his writing style.

rocksteady1983 · Oct 2, 2012

Pretty close to finishing the e-book: The Remaning. Its pretty good and really gets going quick. Post-apocalyptic/Zombie style book. Super cheap/free on Amazon.

PoweredBySoy · Oct 2, 2012

Light read, but really good. Especially if you have a hard-on for submarines like I do.

Maklershed · Oct 2, 2012

Gloomfire said:
The Gun Seller - $1.99
The Black Prism - $1.99
Leviathan Wakes (w/bonus book The Dragon's Path) - $1.99

Wow Leviathan Wakes and The Dragon's Path is a steal for $1.99. They're both great books. Thanks for posting.

Number45 · Oct 2, 2012

vagabondarts said:
Getting another reading in before the film drops and replaces a lot of the imagery I'm used to.

As much as I'm really looking forward to the films, I'm going to miss this as well.

Smashing Drive · Oct 2, 2012

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