Awesome, dresden! I'm so glad you will be joining the discussion, I should be posting a review on Part I soon. I have been meaning to read Moby Dick. I never read it in school, I kinda feel like I'm missing out on something I love Vonnegut, I've not read Hocus Pocus, I'll have to add it to my list as well!
I've never read it before either. It's been on my things to do before i die list for some time now! I've read everything available by Vonnegut, have done since I was a kid. I think player Piano was the only novel i would not recommend. Everything else is brilliant. his kid's book The Eden Express is an amazing read as well, but it's non-fiction.
Just Kids by Patti Smith . A pretty awesome read, and I don't believe you have to be a fan of hers to enjoy it. Anybody with a slight fascination or ambition about artistry and the artist life is bound to enjoy it .
Anxiously awaiting the last Wheel of Time novel. In the meantime, reading The Count of Monte Cristo. Love the classics.
I forgot to post earlier, I finished Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and despite some reservations about the writing style (which I will not be incorporating into my own), I'm reading I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti, and am rather enjoying it.
I was reading WoT but in all honesty it drags on for far too long. I got most of the way through crown of swords but now i'm back with ASOIAF. It's so much richer and complex I feel.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes done and dusted, I'm moving on to 'Salem's Lot. Because apparently when I thought 'ooh, I'll go for something short and relaxing' the book selection part of my brain translated that to meaning 'long and intense'. Oh well, I've wanted to read it for an age to see if it affects my reading of Wolves of the Calla.
As usual I'm reading several books at once.... Florence and Giles, by John Harding Eve, by Anna Carey (audiobook, listen to while doing housework) Without Warning, by John Birmingham (audiobook, listen to while driving the car) Duel, by Richard Matheson (short stories) Dexter is Delicious, by Jeff Lindsay Just finished: The Vanishing, by Bentley Little Monster, by A. Lee Martinez Dexter by Design, by Jeff Lindsay Fragment, by Warren Fahy Superstition, Karen Robards (read purely for the 'ghosty' bit) Monster Hunter International, by Larry Correia Helter Skelter, by Vincent Bugliosi
Hunger, by Michael Grant. This is the sequel to Gone, if anybody's interested in reading it. Though, quite frankly, the plot sounds dumb, the book itself is amazing. It's a sci-fi/fantasy novel (but I think it edges a bit more toward the sci-fi end). My brain is kinda fried right now since I should be sleeping, so instead of coming up with my own summary for it, I'll just post a link to the Gone on Google Books. Enjoy! http://books.google.com/books?id=nRLXi-7ikW0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=gone+by+michael+grant&hl=en&ei=HKXITsSXKuX50gHN6IiGAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=gone%20by%20michael%20grant&f=false
I've just finished I'm Not Scared (brilliantly written, and well worth a read). Now, for something completely different, I'll be having a stab at Henry James' The Turn of the Screw. Wish me luck!
So, yesterday evening I read all of Girl, Interrupted. I was blown away. Such a good novel, and it really made me think- and I actually couldn't put it down. Very much recommended.
Re-reading the stories of John Cheever and Flannery O'Connor, two of my great inspirations. Both give rather brutal views of the world, with moments of the sublime, drawn from two very different segments of mid-20th-Century American life. Cheever: New York bourgeoisie; O'Connor: rural/small-town deep south. It's interesting reading them in tandem.
I just finished Cloud Atlas by David Mitchel. Fantastic book. I don't have anything bad to say about it. It was just fun to read - and fun to analyse, which is interesting for a popular novel. My final exam is at the end of the week. After then I'm going to start on The Kharamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I'm fairly excited; I've been meaning to read that one for a long time.
Still reading The Good Soldier Svejk. Really want to (re)read some Dickens next. Right time of year for that... Perhaps A Tale of Two Cities.
Just finished Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche. Reading: Metamorphosis and other stories of Franz Kafka.
