What Are You Reading Now.

currently (supposed to be) reading A House on Mango Street for school, but I'm finding it incredibly dull and slow...but I really need to finish it, I'm running out of time

 

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

 

Let me know how that goes and if you would recommend it. I've been wanting to read Roth but have always put it off.

 

Just finished (for the hundredth time) The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld

 

Retribution Falls, by Chris Wooding.

 

Just finishing 'Misery' by Stephen King.

 

Still reading the Bloody Crown of Conan by Robert E. Howard. Collection of three stories by the great man himself.

 

I'm rereading for the umpteenth time:

Exiles: The Ruins of Ambrai and Exiles: The Mageborn Traitor, both by Melanie Rawn. Epic political/magical fantasy works. I just hope she writes the third book sometime soon.

 

Still reading American Pastoral--I really like it so far. Interesting idea, really.

 

XO Manowar series...



Our generation has never known a greater hero

(we don't all have to read hardback books do we?:redface

 

On foot through africa by Ffyona Campbell for the 100th time

 

From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell.

 

Prorok (The Prophet) by Tadeusz Nowak

 

Hell's Prisoner by Christopher Parnell.

Self published by someone who was incorrectly imprisoned in Indonesia for drug smuggling. The writing is absolutely atrocious, but the story itself is amazing, if you can stomach the finer things.

 

I'm only halfway through and I really like it. I would recommend it--it may confuse you at first, but by "The Fall" you'll understand it.

 

The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks

 

Just started Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

 

Atonement by Ian McEwan.

 

A book called being, but I can't remember the author

 

Boso, ale w ostrogach (Barefoot but with spurs) - Stanislaw Grzesiuk

 

Since my last post, I finished:

On audio:
A Kiss Remembered by Sandra Brown
The Chopin Manuscript by Jeffery Weaver & others
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The History of God by Karen Armstrong
I Heard that Song Before by Mary Higgens Clark
Hanna Coulter by Wendell Berry
The Hard Way by Lee Child

Books:
First Council by Brad Meltzer
Koko by Peter Straub

Magazines:
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (a back issue)
UU World Summer 2009 issue

Currently reading:

Audio:
Nighttime is My Time by Mary Higgens Clark

Magazine:
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (another back issue)

Books:
Coraline by Neil Gaiman (Kids book, should finish fast)
Countdown by Iris Johansen

Soon to start (Books):

The Life of Rev. John Murray by Rev John Murray (1839 ed.)
Letters and Sketches of Sermons by Rev John Murray
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Why Not Me? by Al Franken

...and I have several audio books on order at the library.

 

Lock and Key- Sarah Dessen
Just finishing that up. Also,
Wicked Lovely-Melissa Marr

Quite good books actually. =]

 

The Scar - China Mieville

Which has a good chance of ending up my favorite novel.

 

One of the coolest fantasy novels ever. Mieville is so startlingly original. I just started NP, by Banana Yoshimoto. Dead poets and ghost stories and talented beautiful people, in the first five pages. It should be interesting.

 

Just finished Excession By Iain M. Banks.

Probably one of the best Sci-fi books I have ever read. I want more.