So what have you been reading?

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**celeborn**

My apologies if this has already been done but I did a quick search and could not find anything so I thought I'd start a thread

So my question is, what have you been reading lately ? Fantasy? Science fiction? Historical? Or anything else...

Ill start of with what I've been getting stuck into for the past couple of weeks. I am about two thirds of the way through the second a song of ice and fire book by George Martin, a clash of kings, and I've got to say they have been fantastic reads so far

So what have you been reading ? Perhaps you've got something to share that might interest other people

**Experiment 626**

Currently grinding my way through 'A Feast for Crows'.

It's not quite as horrid as most say it is - but then I enjoy the political scheming, backstabbing & stuff!
Sansa's chapters are boring as feth however...

Hoping to finish the book within a few more days so I can get onto 'A Dance With Dragons' and get back into Dany, Tyrion & John Snow!

**Coolyo294**

I just finished reading Walden in my English X class and now we're moving on to Civil Disobedience.

But for the books that I chose myself and actually enjoyed, 10,000 Days of Thunder. It's a non-fiction book about the Vietnam War. Very interesting, lots of pictures. My knowledge on the Vietnam War was always a bit iffy, so I found it very interesting.

**azazel the cat**

Currently reading All the Pretty Horses. The Border Trilogy are amongst the few Cormac McCarthy books I have not yet read.

**spiralingcadaver**

House of Leaves-- good weird horror/suspense, great if you like media/social theory.

The Invisibles-- antiauthoritarian superheros (kind of), lots of ideology, punkish in feel.

The Malifaux game books, surprisingly good for fluff.

Personally, I found the Game of Thrones series pretty boring/hard sympathize with/unbelievable...

**Ahtman**

Stuff. And things. Books mostly.

**Mattman154**

Anne McCaffreys Dragonriders of Pern series.

**Fafnir**

Dostoevsky's The Idiot. Sporadically, can be difficult finding a good time to actually sit down and read the damn thing. After that, I'll probably read Devils. After that, I'll be done all of his major novels. I'll probably look into William Gibson then.

**InquisitorVaron**

Trudging through the hours heresy series.
Recently been going for the classics:
Three musketeers
Around the world in 80 days
Tolstoys war and peace, ect.

I'm well read really, expanding my horizons from classics and sci-fi to political books and true historic accounts.

**rubiksnoob**

Last pleasure reading I did was a song of ice and fire before school resumed. The most recent thing I read was the Phaedo.

**hotsauceman1**

Just finished Bonds womens Narritive. ITs a book about a female slaves various attempts at escape. Its kinda well, ok till the last 3 pages where you find out she found her mom, a husband and her old secret teacher.
Now im reading mothers of invention, About women of the slave holding south in wartime.

**RossDas**

Sisterhood Of Dune, against my better judgement, but my local library had it so I gave it a go. Two thirds through and so far I'd only recommend it to those Dune fans who're determined to catch every last proverbial drop squeezed from the sponge of Frank Herbert's creation. Chapters are typically no more than a few pages long and characters often feel like they serve only to move forward the events of the Dune universe towards those depicted in Herbert's books, but lacking the depth and philosophising of those novels. The only plus point on offer here is the opportunity to explore the origins of such interesting organisations as the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, the Mentats, the Spacing Guild and others, but it's not exactly what I'd call gripping stuff.

**Frazzled**

http://gillian-flynn.com/sharp-objects/

Sharp Objects
WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart
Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker’s troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille’s first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls.

NASTY on her kneecap, BABYDOLL on her leg
Since she left town eight years ago, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed again in her family’s Victorian mansion, Camille is haunted by the childhood tragedy she has spent her whole life trying to cut from her memory.

HARMFUL on her wrist, WHORE on her ankle
As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violent crimes, she finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past to get at the story. Dogged by her own demons, Camille will have to confront what happened to her years before if she wants to survive this homecoming.

With its taut, crafted writing, Sharp Objects is addictive, haunting, and unforgettable.

**Leigen_Zero**

Lord of the Rings.

On the Two Towers at the moment, had the books since the movies came out but only now have I been motivated to read them. Mainly because I can churn through books pretty quick doing the commute.

My only problem with Tolkien is that he goes into such fine detail about things that I end up getting bogged down in minuitae and lose interest. Seriously I think about a quarter of the Fellowship of the Ring is just describing what the Hobbits are eating at various mealtimes (or wish they were eating).

**Macok**

Finished "King Rat".
Now crawling through Xenos (Eisenhorn book I).

**Frazzled**

King Rat from 40K or King Rat ala James Clavell's novelization of his experiences in WWII?

**FITZZ**

The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor, to be followed by The Road to Woodbury.

**RossDas**

Macok wrote:
Finished "King Rat".
Now crawling through Xenos (Eisenhorn book I).

Is that China Mieville's King Rat, by any chance?

**Scott**

1 month ago I finished "The Coldest Winter" by David Halberstam. It is a history of America's involvement in the Korean War and touches on all the individuals and nations entangled in that conflict - an excellent read and very informative survey of the history prior to and immediately after the conflict.

More recently I reread my entire collection of Hellboy and BPRD related comics - it's hard to believe that this creation of the talented Mike Mignola began in 1994....

Now I'm rereading the entire run of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. At some point in the future I believe I will investigate all of the many Pulp (and earlier!) bibliographical references (with which I have a passing familiarity) - months of joy await.

Getting back to reality, I am looking for a good history of the post-Warlord era China for deeper info regarding Mao Tse Tung and Chiang Kai Shek.

My goal for December is the second volume of David Drake's excellent sci-fi combat series Hammer's Slammers....

**Macok**

Frazzled wrote:
King Rat from 40K or King Rat ala James Clavell's novelization of his experiences in WWII?

James Clavell's one. I had no idea about 40k book under the same same.
It's one of the books I've read ~10 years ago and want to read again (have a long list waiting

). I want to see how different I'd perceive some of them after this much time.

**Avatar 720**

Just finished re-reading Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth series, incl. A Debt of Bones and The Omen Machine (although The First Confessor eludes me, since I don't own/don't want/can't afford an e-reader).

**Frazzled**

Macok wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
King Rat from 40K or King Rat ala James Clavell's novelization of his experiences in WWII?

James Clavell's one. I had no idea about 40k book under the same same.
It's one of the books I've read ~10 years ago and want to read again (have a long list waiting ). I want to see how different I'd perceive some of them after this much time.

Its a good book. Noble House and Shogun are also quite good.

**d3m01iti0n**

Im currently wrapping up the Iron Warriors omnibus. Sometimes Ill read a couple HH books at a time (Im on Age of Darkness). But for non BL reads, I have recently finished the the collected works of Tad Williams and Charles Stross, the Black Company and Dread Empires series of Glen Cook, the Name of the Wind and its sequel, and probably some other stuff I missed. I read the first Wheel of Time book but the second bored me.

Yeah I read a lot.

**Mr Nobody**

Reading a prequel story to the bioshock game series called "rapture".

**Cheesecat**

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**Perkustin**

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OT
'The Psychopath Test' by Jon Ronson. One of those books everyone has already read but i have just picked up. It's pretty good, very addicting.

**Cheesecat**

Because I'm in University I've also been reading a lot of articles and text books and the occasional text written on bathroom stalls, in fact I learned from this one washroom if I called this one girl's number I can get free blow-jobs. In all seriousness I haven't cracked a book for

recreational purposes since grade 12, which was The Hobbit which is a fantastic novel btw. I just don't see much point in reading now I'm too busy with all this schoolwork, friends, movies, video-games, DakkaDakka, etc.

**KalashnikovMarine**

Well I've been reading course material mostly, I just finished the Knight of the Card (horrible) and "An Arab-Syrian Gentleman and Warrior in the Period of the Crusades" which is an Auto Biography of an Arab knight during the 13th century (very good)

**MrMerlin**

I enjoy reading fantasy... read Martins Song of Ice and fire a while back, then the "Troy" series by David Gemmell (awesome!)

atm I don't choose my books, I write reviews for a magazine and they send me stuff I have to read....

**Hedgehog**

Vernor Vinge - A deepness in the sky