I have started Joanna Trollope's "Friday Night" but I may never finish it. I love her earlier novels but the more recent releases have been incredibly slow and I am finding this one hard going and dull. Back to the library, I think.
I have just started Sam Bourne's 'The Last Reckoning'. I love the way he uses real historic events in his stories and these combined with his writing make every book a real a page turner. 'The Last Reckoning' for example is about a secret Jewish sect founded before the end of the Second World War and focuses on a young Jewish boy who was blond with blues eyes and due to early circumstances, uncircumcised. The story goes back and forth between the characters and the diary narrative Sam Bourne uses makes it even more facinating. Sorry about the rabbiting but if i like a book i tend to go on a bit lol.
I just started reading Cormac Mcarthy's "The Road" It is written in an interesting style, but it is very captivating and a good read thus far.
I think I read too many books at one time. I just finished Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand, a re-read of Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey, and The Stone of Farewell, by Tad Williams.... Yes three at once. Right now I'm reading Brave New World - Aldous Huxley, Ecce Homo - Neitzche (which is proving to be a very good read) and the third book in Tad William's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn Series, To Green Angel Tower (pt.1) I hadn't realised that I hadn't read it the first time I read the series. I am pleased by his character building.
I'm reading a book called "Hacking Harvard" by Robin Wasserman, it's about three boys trying to get a totally unqulaified guy into harvard on a bet, and it's all told by this one girl who is sort of involved. It's on the fluffy side, but it's really good and anyways as a high school girl I probably should read a bit more fluffy books lol
I'm currently reading A portrait of the artist as a young man, by James Joyce for my english class and I hate it. I get that he's a modernist and is trying to prove a point, but it's just so confusing. I have no idea who half the characters are. Over all though, I don't really mind James Joyce, some of his other work is quite good and it's always interesting. I've recently read Stephanie Meyers, Twilight series and absolutely adore her work. I don't think I've ever been as infatuated with a fictional character as much as I am with Edward Cullen.
On a sci-fi classic kick - reading Starship Troopers. As for non-fiction, just finished reading Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of WWII on the Eastern Front.
I read that two weeks ago finally. It was sitting on my shelf for a year. It's a really good book though and like you I wish I got to it sooner. Right now I'm reading The Making of a Story and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. The first one is the best book on creative writing that I've ever picked up. At first I didn't want to spend the thirty bucks, but the pages were so soft... oh, and the writing examples and exercises looked really helpful too.
I've returned to King's Duma Key. It started out horribly, limping as painfully as its main character, Edgar Freemantle. I'm now a little more than a third of the way through it, and it's finally managing to hold my interest. King still beats the story with a large and bloody stick, but the personal connection he has with Freemantle - the character has roots in King's brush with death after he was struck by an SUV while walking along the side of the road - has taken King somewhat away from the formulaic characters and stories in many of his other novels. I'll let you know what I think of it when I finally reach that last page.
Right now I'm reading The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood. My boyfriend surprised me with Ulysses the other day, it looks daunting.
I'm hopping between two books at the moment; The Inferior by Peadar O Guilin and The Way of the Shadows by Brent Weeks.
Currently I am reading The Inner Game of Music, and finding it quite fascinating. The creative process being unmasked, (I'm only two chapters in), is something I believe will enhance my violin playing and my life as a whole. I plan on reading The Inner Game of Tennis as well, just to see how the process applies to other things, such as the sports it was written to enhance.
Right now I'm reading The Black Tattoo, once you get into it it's very good, and very addicting and hard to put down
Man and Wife - Tony Parsons Has anyone read Wilbur Smith's 'Quest'. I feel it doesn't even come close to matching his previous novels. I abandoned it quarter of the way through, but am steeling myself for a second attempt.
I'm obsessed with Haruki Murakami at the moment and how his novels examine what consciousness is and imagine characters that can cross between the physical world and the mental.
My friend forced me to read this book called The Summoner, praising it to high heavens... I haven't been able to finish chapter two yet. The writing style is so bad, in my opinion, that it's distracting. I do not like it when a book distracts me from itself.
Which books have you read of his? I'm about to finish Hard-Boiled Wonderland and start Norwegian Wood.
The Real Science Behind The X-Files i picked it up and im like "oh x-files!" i opened it and im like "...oh... science." but really, it's an interesting book. it is really hardcore science, but the author manages it quite nicely and it's actually readable. im not getting bored out of my mind. it's all about how the X-Files was really grounded in science, which made Chris Carter's fantasy stories believable.
I've been reading the "Twilight" series. I'm on the third book now . I love the whole mythology behind vampires and werewolves.
I started reading Empress by Shan Sa yesterday. It's really good, very descriptive and the author's style is quite refreshing compared to everything else I've been reading lately.
