Just purchased Ayn Rand's Anthem. This will be a re-read. Still dawdling over Elizabeth Haydon's Rhapsody. I'm a bit slow when it comes to fantasy, especially ones with perfect goddesses with golden tresses for an MC, but I'll be damned if I don't finish it. I paid for it, so I have to finish it.
I am reading: King John - Shakespeare Murder in the Cathedral - T.S. Eliot Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton Exodus - Leon Uris Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon Sigh ... I read way too much ...
North & South, by Elizabeth Gaskell. I saw the BBC period drama of North & South, which was very well-executed and decided to pick up the book. Colin Firth's Pride & Prejudice fans will hang me for this, but I prefer Richard Armitage's Mr. Thornton over Colin's Darcy, any day. >_>;; I also picked up two other titles, both memoirs: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami, and Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here, by Joseph Heller.
I'm reading Jane Eyre Breaking Dawn A great and terrible beauty The color of water and this really sick book called Crank it's written like poetry and it's really thick... a really exhausting reading experience
Everyone's reading such good heavy material. I..uh...am about halfway through The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett. Lots of laughs.:redface:
I'm reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at the moment. Read most of it last night actually, I'm rather tired now. Lols
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami) I have mixed feelings about both of them. I'm enjoying Faulkner's style, but am not quite as interested in the content. On the other hand, I'm not so crazy about the way Murakami writes, but the story is more interesting.
The characters are pretty cool in the Stand, but then again I like a lot of Characters King does. He does characters well. I do not however see the appeal of the Stand. I tried so many times to get into it. Have you read Swan's Song by McCammon? It has been compared to the Stand. A lot of people who like the Stand also love Swan's Song. I really enoyed it.
I am presently reading King's the Shinning, because I never finished it. I am also reading God Emporer of Dune. Although this God Emporer of Dune has the same deepness as Dune, it does not have the same gripping magic, but so far it is good. I am half way finished.
Currently re-reading/fininshing Imperium by Robert Harris. I left it in a restaurant in Rome whilst on holiday. I got halfway through and have been waiting 3 weeks to find out the ending! Finally came through my door this morning on the post
I'm reading "guitar girl". It's a french book, of course. Three girls love music and make a group. They become famous but they will meet problems. Once it will be went out, I would read the third volume of Eragon.
Winter's Bone - Daniel Woodrell Have had it for a while because it was recommended but only just began reading it. Seems a good thriller type with inventive and involving prose.
I'm chewing my way through Raymond Feist's works (in chronological order!). At the moment I'm only up to Servant of the Empire (co-written with Jenny Wurst) but that will be momentarily stopped as I read Brisingr when it comes out in 10 days!
Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell Now and Then: Coney Island to Here, Joseph Heller, reading at a snail's pace.
Charles de Lint The Blue Girl, on the suggestion of Rei. Actually very good, very appealing writing. I have a stack of books to work on, yet I keep getting more! AGH!!
