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  1. jc.

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    Currently reading The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One by Patrick Rothfuss.
     
  2. Steerpike

    Steerpike Felis amatus Contributor

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    Good book. :D

    I am currently reading House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski.
     
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    Just started "The Fault In Our Stars" by John Green today! I'm loving it.
     
  4. Lemex

    Lemex That's Lord Lemex to you. Contributor

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    Good man. ;)

    Currently reading a new translation of a collection of Kafka short stories. This it not a bad translation.
     
  5. Rukh

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    I just discovered and BREEEEEEEZED through A Game of Thrones...can't believe I'd never heard of this series up until a few weeks ago...

    As soon as A Clash of Kings arrives in the mail, I'll be eagerly starting and inhaling that too (sometime next week I HOPEEE!)
     
  6. JessWrite

    JessWrite Word Nerd & Proud! Contributor

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    Finished Princess Academy a few days ago, such a sweet book!

    Now, that I've taken a step into reading more fantasy...I just started The Hobbit by Tolkien. My dad gave it to me forever ago, but it's my first time reading it. :)
     
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    I've started reading The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin - enjoying it so far, a nice winter warmer.
     
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    I'm really getting into John Green's books. Loved Looking For Alaska when I read it a while ago and loved Paper Towns which I finished yesterday.
     
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    I'm reading:
    Pariah by Bob Fingerman
    Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson
    And I'm listening to:
    Tooth and Nail by Craig DiLouie

    All good so far!
     
  10. Banzai

    Banzai One-time Mod, but on the road to recovery Contributor

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    I finished A Cold Season, and very much enjoyed it.

    Now I'm starting on Gary McMahon's Rain Dogs, probably to follow with Susan Hill's The Woman in Black (before I go to see the film).
     
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    The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. The first of her books that I've read; enjoying it tremendously so far!
     
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    Currently reading Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins. I know. Non-fiction? What's wrong with me?

    It's not his best work. Dawkins' Greatest Show on Earth is one of the best books I've ever read so I'm finding Rainbow slightly disappointing.
     
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    Rereading the Redwall series by Brian Jaques!
     
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    currently gave up on uni work and reading "the way to paradise" by llosa. hopefully it will give me some insights on how to go about finding it y'know :))
     
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    I just finished The Neverending Story and the Mars Trilogy. (Red, Green, Blue)

    Just could not stop misreading it as Fantasia.
     
  16. Lemex

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    Just finished One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn for the second time. Now reading Vita Nouva by Dante Alighieri for the second time.
     
  17. jc.

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    Just started on Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill, Stephen King's son. I know he doesn't want to be known for that, but I still can't get over how cool that is.
     
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    Battleaxe by Sara Douglass...absolutely amazing!!
     
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    Reading "Chore Whore" by Heather H Howard, and enjoying it. :)
     
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    Just finished re-reading Perdido Street Station. It's still brilliant. I'll be getting started on Casino Royale later in the day.
     
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    I decided to buy A Game of Thrones because of everyone saying how good it is and singing its praises. I'm only just over a hundred pages in, and I really can't get on with it. I feel bad for not liking it, but I'm really not. Is it just me? Am I missing something? Does it get better as it goes on? I feel weirdly guilty for not liking it. lol.
     
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    Starting Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire for the first time today. It's nice and big, I'm looking forward to it.
     
  23. Ziggy Stardust

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    I've just started reading The Hunger Games, I'm just up to the beginning of the main "event". I am totally enthralled by it, what an amazing book! Makes me want to have a go at writing in first person. I highly recommend it, you can read a sample on Amazon of the first chapter. Totally hooked me, so I had to buy it. I'm super impressed by it so far. It's nothing at all like what I expected it to be.
     
  24. jonathan.gaurano

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    I just finished "The Fault In Our Stars" - and I loved every minute of it! Two cancer patients fall in love and the rest is a pile of happy tears. I do suggest, if you have the time, reading the book. I find it to be my fun filled (Rom-Com) book of 2012.
     
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    Unusual for me: fiction, hardback and hot-off-the-press.:eek: This isn't the sort of thing that happens to someone like you by Jon McGregor..who some think is the next big literary star etc etc. Very handsome volume. Splendid title.
     

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