Just finished the fifth book in the Game of Thrones series. I love the books and GRRM's writing style, but since it was the last in the series (for now and I really hope there are more to come), I'm extremely unhappy with all the loose ends and questions left unanswered. :\
Right now I'm reading '20 Under 40'. It's an anthology of young writers. Being a young writer, I hope it provides for me some inspiration.
I'd like to know what you think of it. I'm a Hemingway fan, but I've avoided this book because it was assembled from partially-completed manuscripts after Hemingway's death. I usually avoid work that seems like the estate is trying to milk every last dollar out of the famous dead guy's unpublished papers. If you think it's good, please let me know!
I will! Actually I didn't know about that fact until just the other night. I agree with you, I usually don't like them either, but now that I've started reading I might as well finish it.
The Winter's Tale Arabic translation of Shakespeare\Francis Bacon play. And - believe it or not - the Protocols of Zion! I like the scary tone of this book.
Currently re-reading (for the third time) Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer Definitely one of my favorites. I think up next will be Joyce's Ulysses since I have not read that yet. Thoughts?
Half way through the Hunger Games at the moment. I love how the Capitol characters are all so decadent but strangely innocent, the constant comparisons to our society are spotless. A lot of detailed discriptions of food too, not surprising though considering the theme. It's nice to see a "Tween" book give such strong messages. Loving it so far.
Good to see another Conrad fan here! If you like those stories, check out Youth and The Shadow-Line. As for Ulysses, I found it pretty challenging, but Joyce's language is exhilarating. I need to read it again - I haven't in twenty years or more. But it contains one of my favorite sentences of all time: Joyce is describing the recovery of the body of a drowned man, and it goes: "Hauled stark over the gunwale he breathes upward the stench of his green grave, his leprous nosehole snoring to the sun." Beautiful, disgusting, and magnificent!
I just finished Let The Right One In (amazing btw) and I'm now dual-reading The Kite Runner and Catching Fire. I bet you can guess which one is for literary/worldly education and which is for pure entertainment.
[Im about to start reading that Right after I finish the hunger games series, almost finished the first book, it is so good![/I]
I just finished the first book. I never wanted it to end. I can't wait for the second. Hands down the best book I have read in a long long while. Even made my cry, TWICE. Never have I cried whilst reading a book.
Sure was I saw the film last night. I thought they did pretty well. They certainly did that particular scene justice as I shed a little tear again.
Last book I read was Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds. Was reasonable, though not one of his best and I thought there were some plot holes in it. I'm sort of reading The Sworn by Gail Z Martin at the moment, but I've not been concentrating very much so I don't really know what's going on. Hate when that happens, I sit and read pages of a book and then realise I've been day dreaming about something completely different and have no idea what just happened in the story. So I may put that aside soon if I can't concentrate on it and try something else.
Just started reading Gauntlgrym the first book in the Neverwinter series. Been awhile since I read Salvatore
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's been on my bookshelf for like six years and I just never got around to it. I'm kicking myself for having waited so long - I love it so much. After this, I'm gonna see what this whole Hunger Games thing is about. I've never heard of it before the movie, which looks really interesting, but I try not to watch movies before I've read the books, if I can help it.
