What are you reading now?

[Pariah]

I'm going to start the second book tonight when the kids go to bed. I've been reading a ton lately--roughly a book every couple of nights. That'll probably change when some of these TVs shows begin and come back from hiatus.

 

[AzStevenCal]

I just meant in general that is my trepidation with going back to the well in series and recurring characters.

No, I understood, I was just offering encouraging words to continue reading the remaining books.

Steve

 

[D-Dogg]

Getting ready to start the second book in the Iron Druid series. I like the guy's writing style...funny stuff. The dog convos are well done and flow nicely in the writing with the <> and italics.

 

[Pariah]

Just finished up the third Hunger Games book. IMO, we're both right: the series was entertaining, but it went downhill from the first book.

I loved the first one.

The second one was good, but not as good as the first one.

The third one wasn't all that good, IMO, and felt really forced.

 

[Mulli]

http://www.amazon.com/Bloody-White-Baron-Extraordinary-Nobleman/dp/0465014488

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Just started this some Russian dude becomes a Khan and kills people in Mongolia. Crazy.

 

[Pariah]

Just started this some Russian dude becomes a Khan and kills people in Mongolia. Crazy.

You totally plagiarized this summary from the NYTimes. It's so obvious.

Is it non-fiction?

 

[Mulli]

You totally plagiarized this summary from the NYTimes. It's so obvious.

Is it non-fiction?

Guilty. It is non-fiction, and the author seems really good so far. Turns out Mogolian Buddhists not exactly the sweet harmless Buddhists one might like of at first.

 

[PortlandCardFan]

Just finished 'sleepless' by Charlie Hutson... Now starting WW Z....

Sleepless was okay... It took 2/3rds of the book before it finally got interesting. The only reason i stuck with it is due to the premise... World goes to **** economically and a disease starts to sweep the planet where you cannot go to sleep.

 

[Pariah]

Just finished 'sleepless' by Charlie Hutson... Now starting WW Z....

Sleepless was okay... It took 2/3rds of the book before it finally got interesting. The only reason i stuck with it is due to the premise... World goes to **** economically and a disease starts to sweep the planet where you cannot go to sleep.

Try some of his other stuff. Houston is pretty good.

 

[jf-08]

The third one wasn't all that good, IMO, and felt really forced.

I agree. It had potential, but like Early Doucet, it tripped over itself.

 

[D-Dogg]

Just finished up the third Hunger Games book. IMO, we're both right: the series was entertaining, but it went downhill from the first book.

I loved the first one.

The second one was good, but not as good as the first one.

The third one wasn't all that good, IMO, and felt really forced.

I liked the third much better than the second. MUCH. Other than the end of the second, I felt it was kind of treading water to get to the story of the third book.

 

[AzStevenCal]

I liked the third much better than the second. MUCH. Other than the end of the second, I felt it was kind of treading water to get to the story of the third book.

Yeah, I was the same way. But, it's been awhile so maybe I need to re-read the series.

Steve

 

[Pariah]

"Sandman Slim," by Richard Kadrey

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Kadrey (Butcher Bird) provides biting humor, an over-the-top antihero and a rich stew of metaphoric language in this testosterone- and adrenaline-charged noir thriller. James Stark spent 11 years killing monsters in Lucifer's arena for the entertainment of fallen angels, but now he's back in seedy, magic-riddled L.A., trying to avenge his girlfriend's murder and hunt down Mason Faim, the black magician responsible for getting him sent downtown. He meets with some initial success, beheading second-rate magician Kasabian (whose head becomes Stark's smart-mouthed sidekick), but he can't find Faim. Instead he encounters Homeland Security agents, a near-psychotic angel and some odd nonhuman, nonangelic beings called the kissi. Darkly atmospheric settings, such as a posh gentlemen's club where angels are tortured in an attempt to bring about Armageddon, bring this violent fantasy into sharp, compelling focus.

So far so good. I'm about a quarter of the way through it.

 

[PortlandCardFan]

Try some of his other stuff. Houston is pretty good.

I'll give it another shot but between going from first person to third person and in the middle of dialog interjecting a page or two of background before finishing said dialog made it difficult for me...

At the end I understood why it was first person/third person. So I'll should cut Huston some slack...

 

[PortlandCardFan]

WW Z makes me want to smack the crap out of every politician, pharmicutical CEO, and crappy ass general... This book is good! It took me almost an hour last night to fall asleep I was still thinking about the book.

 

[D-Dogg]

Reading Game of Thrones right now.

Completely. Sucked. In.

 

[Pariah]

"Sandman Slim," by Richard Kadrey

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I've been violating my personal code of not reading recurring character fiction...I'm now on the third Sandman Slim book. Love 'em.

 

[RugbyMuffin]

Just finised reading: Papillon - Very good book with a AWFUL introduction into the story.



Currently Reading: Lonesome Dove - Pretty Good.

 

[D-Dogg]

Reading Game of Thrones right now.

Completely. Sucked. In.

Yikes. That book was amazing.

Epic.

 

[Louis]

Just bought Tina Fey's Bossy Pants.

Great first few chapters.

School's kicking my butt so I'm keeping the reading light.

 

[Mathew81]

Reading Game of Thrones right now.

Completely. Sucked. In.

Just finished it myself. Now starting A Clash of Kings.

 

[jf-08]

Yikes. That book was amazing.

Epic.

You killed that book in a few days? Good job!!

 

[D-Dogg]

You killed that book in a few days? Good job!!

Yeah, it hooked me like a drug. My wife is now reading it on my kindle while I wait for book two...she's tearing through it too.

Dude wrote just amazing characters.

I'm now reading the third book in the Millennium series...Salander's last ef you...while I wait to continue the song of fire and ice series.

And I've been scoping out the HBO site for the series info...can't wait to watch it in March.

 

[D-Dogg]

Just finished the Millennium series by Steig Larrson. That was a fun set of books, too. I love Salander, some of the scenes in the Girl Who Kicked the Hornets nest are just awesome, especially when she's being questioned...she's so obtuse. I love her.

(wife finished Game of Thrones yesterday, and we are waiting for the digital version from the library for clash of kings.)

 

[McCutchenistheTruth]

All my stupid law school text books.