Re-reading Interview with a Vampire. I finished it earlier but found it to be pretty overrated but I wanted to give it another shot.
I've actually recently gotten into comics, and am reading Fallen Angels, a series of 8 books from '87. Some sort of X-Men story. I'm also debating on whether I should read Stephen King's The Stand (With 500 extra pages! Holy crap!) and The Master of Space and Time (TMOSAT), by Rudy Rucker. I've never read The Stand, but...TMOSAT was so fun...
Thought I'd try my hand at some Shakespeare :S I own the completed works of shakespear and have yet to even attempt to read it. So why not right now? haha I'm starting with a little Hamlet (with the help of some online translations of coure. haha)
Shakespeare is good. I've read most of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet when I was younger. I didn't necessarily understand every little thing, but I enjoyed it. I tend to have this curse with Billy's work though. Seems every time I read it, my place mark vanishes and I can't remember where I was, so I have to restart. I've got many different versions and volumes of his work, which I should go back and take a look at. Good pick, though. As for the thread, currently I am reading Rage By Stephen "Richard Bachman" King.
I love Shakespeare. I genuinely shocked my English teacher when I said I actually sat down and read Shakespeare for fun. Hamlet is great fun once you get past the melodrama, though my favourites are probably Twelfth Night and Othello. His sonnets are also very good As for myself, I'm reading The Doomsday Machine: Another Astounding Adventure of Horatio Lyle by Catherine Webb. It's the third in a series and I love them.
I just started Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy And i am reading, Chaos: Making a New Science, By James Gleick
I try to read my bible everyday but even that gets difficult. I have a short attention span and most of the time a hard time concentrating. I just started about a year ago. In the past I have read, All Quiet on the Western Front, Edgar Allen Poe, Anton Chekov, A Page Must Be Missing by Selig (Poet), John Steinbeck's Cannery Row. I am making time to read at night as time permits.
Finished the Dark Tower 3 by Stephen King around 5am this morning, couldn't put it down, the pace is awesome until the last page Starting the fourth now, on my way to da towa*+*+*+
Currently reading The Greek Myths, by Stephen P Kershaw. Intriguing. Apparently, Athena despatched of Enkelados by hurling the whole island of Sicily onto him! Not a woman to be messed with.
I have just finished reading Samhane, by Daniel I Russell. Very enjoyable read I must say, and I am now going to start reading IT, by Stephen King. Dan bought it for me to help me over come my fear of clowns, so I'm going to start reading it... wish me luck!
Goodluck, clowns still freak me out! I recently finished reading "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick and I loved every page of it. It's really my kind of book and was an awesome Christmas present! At the moment I'm reading Horus Rising by Dan Abnett. I think it's the first book in a series called the Horus Heresy. My brother lent me the book and I decided to read it since he couldn't stop telling me how good it was. So far it's pretty good. It stays true to the Warhammer 40K feel.
His Dark Materials I'm reading "The Subtle Knife" at the moment. It's the second in "His Dark Materials" trilogy. The trilogy is fantastic, recommend it for all people above age 10, Orca
Quantico by Greg Bear - kind of disappointing. I've read it before, but my husband has trouble keep track when he snags books for me out of the library. I'll finish this one tonight. Legacy of the Drow by R.A. Salvatore - I don't really care much for these books. I couldn't headhop that badly if I tried. The only OK think about them is they remind me of playing D&D and Neverwinter Nights. May finish this one tonight as well. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson - Jury's still out on this one as I'm not to far into it. I think I'll like it. The Oldest Living Confederate War Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganess. This is a re-read. Fun book, sort of meandering; great to fall asleep to when you're re-reading because you can just pick up the book and open anywhere - lol.
I finished Jonthan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke not too long ago (loved it) and I'm now I'm in the process of exploring my first graphic novel with Watchmen by Alan Moore.
I think the Forgotten Realms novels by R.A. Salvatore are brilliant, actually. Have you read the Dark Elf Trilogy and Icewind Dale? Drizzt is quite possibly the most well-written character in all of fantasy.
I just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Now I am reading Death In the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway.
Yep, read them both. They're fine for me as long as Drizzt is the only one in the scene, but otherwise, the headhopping drives me nuts. There's one scene I remember, with Drizzt and Vierna, where the POV is Drizzt, but all of the sudden, for several paragraphs, it swaps back and forth between Drizzt and Vierna almost every other paragraph...then bam! Back in Drizzt's head only again. There are scenes like that with Jarlaxle - in a couple of those, he's only an observer, not part of the conversation, and suddenly there's this paragraph with his view of the scene, then bam! Back into the other character's heads. I love Drizzt the character, I really like Jarlaxle, and the drow concept. I like the little Drizzt journal entries, or whatever they are, before the sections. I just don't like Salvatore's writing style. Personal preference.
I am reading a novel called Life of Pi, which I must say is unbeliviably boring right now. Reading the blrub, I thought it was gunna be about like, talking animals, which I wanted to read as it would give me an idea on how others have covered that in their work, as I am working on something right now where animals can talk. It's not - it's about a zoo. And I'm also reading China - A Wolf in the World? which is like an account of China. It's hard reading but interesting.
