Narcopolis, By Jeet Thayil. Loving it - despite the rather grim setting/subject of opium dens and brothels it's completely mesmerising. The prologue made me smile and think of writingforums; it's about 6 pages long and is just one run-on sentence - would love to see the mauling it would get in the workshop & The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern. I really want to like this but the present tense narration is horribly distracting. It's exactly the kind of story I normally like so I'll persevere for now, but ugh.
I didn't count visual novels as books, but I guess I should. I'm following the Full Metal Panic! visual novels.
@Still Life: Of course, why wouldn't they be considered as that. They're novels after all, the only difference is that they're virtual. Regarding Visual novels, my favourite one is When They Cry
I normally wait for the anime of the manga... Love seeing with color and sound. I was re-reading the Wheel of Time series in preparation for a Memory of Light coming out... Can't wait for that book.
Eyepennies by Mike O'Driscoll. It's the first in a new series of horror novellas from TTA Press. And yours truly has gotten his hands on an advance review copy
Eyepennies was brilliant. I wanted to go to bed last night, but each time I finished a section I just had more questions. My curiosity was saddled and harnessed the whole way through, and it was beautifully written.
A Game of Thrones by George R R Martin. I'm not sure how l feel about it. I am enjoying the story but don't know if l want to read the rest of the series.
I've read a few Philip K. Dick short stories from Project Gutenberg. Some very interesting ideas in them.
I love Lolita!! It's a little hard to stomach at times, but Nabokov's prose is absolutely beautiful. Do it. Your life will never be the same.
Currently I am working through Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Its quite slow going as I find the lack of punctuation in his writing off putting and I have had to re read bits of it until it has made sense! Up to now though it's been a good story and I am enjoying the personalities on board ship!
Currently, I am reading Everyman for a Brit Lit I class. Also, I'm reading Junot Diaz's "The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao. And I just finished the Hunger Games Trilogy for the first time
Micro, by Michael Crichton. It was written up until his death in '08, when Richard Preston took over. Very, very good so far.
XD Finished reading IT by Stephen King. It was really good but in some parts *it* lagged. Overall though, good show. I liked *it*. : D Started reading a new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. REALLY impressed. P.S. Although I liked Stephen King's book, the scene near the end with the questionable content greatly disturbed me. What King was thinking I do not know but in my opinion it should have been completely cut. Disgusting. Nearly wrecked the whole thing for me.
Currently reading Leviathan Wakes for leisure. For university I'm working my way through The Odyssey and then it'll be Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days and Herodotus' Histories. Eep.
Finished reading my favorite book, The Catcher in the RYe, for the second time in my life. As I predicted, reading it a few years later is a different experience. I picked up on different things I'm surprised I didn't when I was younger. And frankly I appreciate its writing even more than I did previously. It really is better written than I remembered, once you get past Holden's adolescent style. It really is.
Reading '77 Shadow Street' by Dean Koontz. About 3/4 through it, wondering how many of the residents of the Pendleton will survive to the end of the book.
Just started looking at the new edition of Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms. This is the one with all of the thirty-nine drafts of the ending plus other revisions. It should be instructive to see how a master worked. Besides, I haven't read the book in over twenty years and it will be worth the time it takes to read it again.
You know there are quite a lot of books I loved when I read them at the ages 10-14 but have only ever read once. LOTR trilogy being one, also To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the flies, 1984 and Catch 22, the last of which I hold as one of my all time favourite books.
