What are you reading?

[Gaz 1097]

read another Higashino's book Salvation of a Saint. not going to say it's as great as The Devotion of Suspect X but it was a good read nonetheless. usually i'm not very fond of mystery detective book but this guy is legit. going to read every of his book available in english soon.

 

also reading Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.

was highly disappointed about it as first, since 1/3 of this book was really boring and didn't look like Murakami book. also was a little surprised about him bringing up homosexual bed scenes into book. it's not like i didn't expect something like that from him. it's just that everytime i read his books i was wondering WHEN there will some gay porn. i guess he's pretty late to the party lel. anyway this book got slightly better in the middle and i finally can see Murakami's writing there. still doesn't change the fact that it's worst of his book so far

[PsychoΔelica 648]

Right now I am reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Again not much happens plotwise, but I like the writing style and the characters. Comparing to the last one I read by Murakami the events aren't strictly organized in chronological order, but I like that.

Next I'm going to read Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte that I bought today.

[yukidogzombie 101]

Vampire Knight vol 3

[Jigsaw9 6783]

Just finished Zero History by William Gibson a few days ago. It wasn't bad, tho not that ultra-exciting. I think I liked the 2nd book of his Blue Ant trilogy (this being the 3rd, closing volume) a bit more, which really says something, cuz I wasn't head-over-heels for that one either, heh. I dunno, there just wasn't much happening and the writing style didn't really motivate me to get involved in the story. Shame, cuz otherwise the overall theme and various gadgets/thingies were pretty cool (underground "secret brand" fashion × military clothing, etc).

 

Also finishing The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs probably tonight (not long to go). Curiously enough, this is the closing book of a trilogy too. Well what can you say about Burroughs really? Obviously, this book is good and at least on par with the other two installments of this later-era trilogy. After the pirates, occult detectives and time-traveling gunmen of the previous books, we get a kind of hallucinatory out-of-space-and-time Egyptian dreamworld mixing with some autobiographical snippets in this piece. As per usual, some characters from previous novels appear here or there and the story (very loosely saying "story" here) is neat and packed to the brim with lots of vivid and/or revolting imagery -- tho at times quite melancholic too. Nicely done.

 

On a related note, I quickly read The Cat Inside, also by Mr. Burroughs. It's an incredibly slim volume that's basically just a collection of short musings and vignettes on the author's love of cats and how magical/amazing these animals are. Funny, sad, intriguing, mysterious -- it's all there. Some of the writings really make you think.

 

Will most likely start Dimitri Verhulst's Godverdomse dagen op een godverdomse bol (I dunno, the Hungarian title translates to something like "Fucked up days on a fucked up planet") next, which seems like it should be worth a few good laughs. That, or Serhiy Zhadan's novel Depeche Mode.

[Gaz 1097]

Serhiy Zhadan's novel Depeche Mode.

not a big fan of his but yay for someone actually reading his stuff outside of ukraine xD 

[usuxorz 30]

Fairy Tail (on ch 31x-something)
A Tea Shop Mystery series by Laura Childs (I'm on book #9)

[yukidogzombie 101]

Vampire Knight vol 5 <3

[Ito 2438]

Manga goes here, guys

http://monochrome-heaven.com/index.php?/topic/11063-what-manga-are-you-reading/

[hiroki 5521]

just finished reading Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It.

Maclean was an English professor at UChicago, who began writing fiction after retiring at an age of 70+. at just slightly over 100 pages, this semi-autobiographical novella is a haunting throwback to his childhood and teenage years packed with memories of fly-fishing with his father and brother in rivers of the Rocky Mountains (where they grew up). at times Maclean's narrative is imbued with a quasi-religious tenor (his father was a deeply religious person), but the novel as a whole remains a down-to-earth, heartfelt tribute to his brother who had tragically passed away at 32.

Fun fact: this book was the very first (and only, i think) fiction that UChicago Press ever published. apparently it has been made into a film too, but i haven't watched it.

[freesia 714]

The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Wind

Interesting read which got me interested because I've read the prequel to this story.

[Dark Kinma 960]

I has started to read "Autre Monde : Neverland" it's tome 6 of "Autre Monde" and in parallel I read to Game of Thrones, i'm on the integral 3 (I guess that represent tome 6,7,8 & 9)

[Scarlet Obsidian 383]

Reading the 3rd book of A Song Of Ice And Fire (Game of Thrones) and Frankenstein for university

[PsychoΔelica 648]

Count Cain

[evilcoconut 109]

The Light Fantastic. Need to read the small amount of Terry Pratchett books I haven't read yet.

 

Have also been reading Gintama and just started Dance in the Vampire Bund.

[eiheartx 1310]

The Hobbit (now that I've seen the 3 movies the latest week-end, I'm reading the book).

[Incogneeto 23]

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

 

 

Gonna resume Discworld series after I'm done.

And maybe some Nabokov works in between.

[Tokage 5930]

'Wyrd Sisters' by Terry Pratchett

'The Narrator' by Michael Cisco

'Dangerous Visions' anthology edited by Harlan Ellison

 

ayyy

[takeruismyhero 19]

I'm just reading Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. It's a pretty good book, and I'm also very excited to know that Tim Burton is doing a movie of it. I think it'll be amazing, considering how much of a genius he is with horror-related things.

[Jigsaw9 6783]

Irvine Welsh: Porno - Sequel to Trainspotting, and more or less equally excellent so far. Welsh really struck gold with this trilogy it seems. I'll never tire of reading about the crazy lives of these losers, haha.

 

Michael Gira: The Consumer - I realized that I probably will never own a real copy of this short-story collection, so reading it in PDF format now, lel. Just what I expected: weird, disgusting, twisted, nightmare-like. Maybe a bit 'over-written' but still interesting.

 

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Can't say much about it, since I've only just begun reading it but seems to be decent. So many quotable witty remarks too, heh. So far so good.

[Gaz 1097]

*SLOWPOKE ITT*

 

A Storm Of Swords by George R.R. Martin. the more i read it, the more i hate GoT series tbh. great stuff nonetheless.

[enyx 903]

Recently finished José Saramagos The Double which I wrote my thoughts on here. In short, it's okay but lacking in any real story outside of its core plot and some occasional philosophical musings.

 

Currently reading Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which is proving to be a surprisingly enjoyable book so far. I should be done with it by the end of the weekend and following that I'm going to move on to either Nabokov's Lolita or Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.

[hiroki 5521]

Finished Gunter Grass' Crabwalk some time ago. The book almost feels like it's written for scholars to pore over its Freudian references, historiographical claims etc. than one that's actually entertaining to the casual reader. It might be better untranslated but I can't read German so yeah.

 

I also read John Banville's The Sea. Nice ponderous and introspective book that's more about setting up a mood and flagging it up for the entire text rather than concrete plot/character development. I won't be surprised if most people found it a lot longer than it could have been, although it was fine with me.

 

More recently I attempted Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist for the second time, couldn't get past 20 pages, and promptly returned it to my shelf.

 

Not sure what i'll move on to... possibly Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Toni Morrison

[vanivani 558]

"An Abundance Of Katherines" by John Green.

It was a gift from my sister.

 

I really want to get back into reading. I'm open to anything.

If anyone has any recommendations, let me know

[suzura 4]

The Askir Saga by Richard Schwartz, currently on the third book but there are only a few pages left.
And since I still need to buy the other 3 volumes, I'll start reading Alexey Pehovs Siala Saga next <3

[Mei 276]

 

The Baztan trilogy - Legado en los huesos (Legacy in the bones) by Dolores Redondo (Spain). Actually I finished this one today.

 

KRAKFLICKEN by Erik Axl Sund (Sweden). And started this one.

 

I'm a thriller freak, especially if it's psychological thriller.