Finished Prozac Nation and, I have to say, I'm not sure what all the hubbub is about surrounding that book. It's praised as this amazing piece of work depicting depression, but half of it is just talking about how shitty her childhood was and the other half is predictable drama. There was next to nothing about the day-to-day struggle that depression puts you through. The plot was focusing on things that were too large and completely missed what makes a story about depression so interesting, the depression. Wasn't a huge fan, as you can probably tell. Just started a book called Lowboy by John Wray and it's already proving to be more interesting. Nothing like a paranoid schizophrenic 16-year-old wandering the streets of New York City. Oh, did I mention that he thinks the world is ending in 10 hours?
Just started reading 'Grave Witch' by Kalayna Price again, I only even thought about it to recommend it to someone here in answer to their question, now I'm reading that instead of writing. It's a good read with some interesting and unusual ideas, all very well executed to. I tell myself it's good for my writing, it's really just procrastination. So weak, so very weak.
Recently finished The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King - the only writer i know who can make you feel good about the end of the world.
Just started DOOM: Hell On Earth (Chapter 2), and boy howdee is it a leap from Star Surgeon. The two guys that wrote the book based on the game series treat the MC Flynt (Fly) with an extremely juvenile touch and it is more funny than the craziness of the games. But I guess I should expect that from an MC named Fly.
Just finished with Everything Everything, recommended to me by my 21-year-old daughter who added that since I was "never a teenaged girl" I'd probably not be as moved by it as she was. She was wrong. Though it is published under a young adult impress, it touched me deeply, a story of a child growing away from her mother and the pain and confusion that caused, all in the context of a medical framework (the story opens with the girl telling how she has lived her whole life literally inside a sterile environment because her mother/doctor says she was born with SCID (severe combined immune deficiency syndrome, meaning she has no immunity due to a genetic defect)).
I'm re-reading Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials, and appreciating it even more the second time around. I find him a fascinating author. I also just finished his collection of essays Daemon Voices which was superb. Lots in there about his writing methods and philosophy. There is an author I would love to meet and have a chat with.
Reading Small Fry, a memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs. Wonderfully honest and unsentimental, though not without a great deal of heart and humor. Steve Jobs; Founder of Apple Computers, genius, innovative thinker, asshole.
zero k by don delillo. so far i like it, even though i don't see a great plot within (which i don't always need.)
Kristol of Ancea by Me.... Nah just kidding, Actually started editing it. what I am reading or meaning to get back to reading are: Empress Theresa by Normam Boutin And Growing Around: party panic by mr. Enter (can't recall his actual name atm) Both books are awful, with authors who can't take criticism. What is an adventure of schizophrenic proportions and the other is all about abusing your adult children
Bit of a nerdy Australian pick that most of you wouldn't like, but: Paul Keating: The Big Picture Leader by Troy Bramston. He's a bit more neoliberal than I am but he's an interesting guy with some admiral elements to his legacy.
Just finished The Sound of Rain by Gregg Olsen. Good read if you're into murder mysteries. Just starting in on the second book in this series. I would highly recommend the first.
The Mist was.......okay. Apparently the movie has a better ending than the novel, but I dunno how as the ending here was quite open-ended, which worked for me. I'll spoil myself on it via google later today. Need some more horror for the late-night read. Any recommendations?
Planning on reading the entirety of the Sherlock Holmes series, starting off with A Study in Scarlet. Also reading The House of the Seven Gables for English Comp II, already a good ways into that. Was reading Lord of the Flies, but that was terribly boring.
I just finished Paula Munier's new novel, A Borrowing of Bones. Excellent novel. Next up, Peter Blauner's Sunrise Highway.
About to finish "An illustrated history of the Russo-Japanese War" by J. N. Westwood which was very interesting and short to make for a quick read. When I've finished with "The World of Odysseus" its definietly time for some fiction.
Just finished The Black Tongue by Marko Hautala. It was creepy asf. Horror novels don't get to me easy, but as of late I've read some pretty good ones. Started Glen Duncan's The Last Werewolf. It's been on my TBR forever, but finally got around to read it. So far so good. He's edgy. I like that.
Just finished "World of Odysseus" so now I'm lookig for some fiction. I'm yet undecided on reading "The King Must Die" by Mary Renault, getting hold of E. R. Eddison's Zimiarian Trilogy (or at the least two of them ) or perhaps start a project to read through a bunch of RPG books I have to the Werewolf: The Forsaken game and mercilessly mine these for ideas. Time will tell where I go.
Reading The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, one of my favourite writers. I read this some years ago and loved it, then forgot it, and Zafon. Imagine my surprise to find that he had written three sequels. I am salivating so badly Homer Simpson would be jealous.
I’m currently reading A Clash of Kings . It’s the second book to the Game of Thrones series and I plan to get through all the books gradually. I’ve never watched the TV show, so I might be in for a few surprises. I read the first book and it was great. I hope the subsequent ones live up to its standard.
I'm on a Discworld binge myself, having read Guards, Guards!, Men at Arms, and (currently working on) Mort in quick succession. I'm new to the series, having only read The Colour of Magic previously. I love these, and I'll probably just keep going until I've read them all. The first three are excellent, while books four and five are a bit less stellar. Still very much worth reading, if you like the previous ones.
