What books are you reading right now?

Lovecraft is kind of wordy compared to some. Your mileage may vary. 'The Whisperer In Darkness' is a nice creepy place to start, if it's in the anthology you have. Otherwise perhaps 'The Rats In The Walls.'

 

Ooh, I love Lovecraft! "Whisperer In Darkness" is awesome; I have always had soft spots for "Call of Cthulhu," "Shadow Over Innesmouth," and "The Dunwich Horror," myself. He was indeed wordy compared to some, but I think his prose is gorgeously florid, and a unique fusion of fevered surrealism and hauntingly evocative pseudomysticism. I once argued, in an undergraduate course, that Lovecraft was to horror fiction what Tolkien was to epic fantasy, though of course I think Tolkien was the superior artist and the more traditionally erudite of the two. But no one else in horror fiction writes like Lovecraft.

 

The thing about Lovecraft is that even though the tone of his work is horror; the content of it is actually a very nihilistic form of science-fiction. The movie Prometheus is just "At The Mountains Of Madness" moved from Antarctica to an alien world with Lovecraft's creepy crawlies replaced with a more anthropomorphized type of alien.

 

I am reading an article on Enterprise Resource Planning. ugggggg

 

The Wolf Gift, Anne Rice.

 

Just finished the latest of The Chronicles of Nick

Waiting for something else to really interest me.

 

Have you read a Song Of Ice And Fire yet? They are unputdownable.

 

You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends On Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself by David McRaney

 

The Descendants

 

Currently about halfway through Ender's Game. I really need to finish it, but I need to do so at a time where I know that I have nothing else to do because once I pick it up again I *will not* be able to put the friggin' thing down.

I also really want to re-read The Know-It-All by AJ Jacobs and to read King's Dark Tower series. I will have a full plate this summer, whether I like it or not

 

Somewhat inspired by DamnitAll finally picked up the two half finished Chuck Palahniuk books I had on my dresser. Here goes.

 

Don Quixote. I'm trying to figure out how Cervantes plans on making this gimmick not go stale for the several hundreds of pages that make up this book.

My big concern is that it'll go stale about 200 pages in and I'll keep reading with the hope that it'll turn out otherwise.

 

I'm about halfway through Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet) by George Takei. It's entertaining. I also started the Great Gatsby, but I haven't decided if I want to finish it before I see the movie, or after, so it's kind of on hiatus right now.

 

The President is a Sick Man, by Matthew Algeo...fascinating true story about Grover Cleveland

 

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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse and it is available free for anyone by courtesy of Project Gutenberg.

 

ah... this one sounds interesting hamsterball .

 

Yep. Pretty simple rule. And surprisingly effective.