What books are you reading right now?

I, Robot (totally different than the movie. The book explains how scientist discover certain robots are not working properly and how to resolve the issue while the film involves Will Smith acting like Will Smith going after evil robots trying to destroy the human race)

The Wind Through The Key Hole-Stephen King

 

Are you enjoying the Wind Through the Keyhole? I liked the Billy-bumbler story within a story.
I might give IRobot a chance, I need some new books.

 

The Spy in a Little Black Dress -- the second lighthearted romp through the early days of the CIA with Jackie Kennedy as CIA agent.

 

Stephen Baxter's Flux


A race of microscopic beings, who were genetically engineered to survive on the turbulent mantle of a neutron star and who vividly remember their superbeing creators, prepare for the biggest family reunion in history.
http://www.amazon.ca/Flux-Stephen-Baxter/dp/0061008370/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1381944882&sr=8-8&keywords=flux

 

The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II by Edvard Radzinsky
The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II: Edvard Radzinsky: 9780385469623: Amazon.com: Books

 

I have just finished Insomnia by Stephen King. I really enjoyed it.
The more of his books I read, the more I appreciate the complexity of the Dark Tower series. I think I read the Dark Tower prematurely.
I'm about to give Reality Dysfunction another go, by Peter F. Hamilton. It's the first in another trilogy, this one called the Night's Dawn trilogy.

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I just realized this thread is called What bookS are you reading right now?
I've also got these two on the go. Non-fiction self-help kinda books if I have to classify them...

Buddhist Boot Camp by Timber Hawkeye &
F**k it, the Ultimate Spiritual Way by John C. Parkin

 

fifty nine in '84 - Old Hoss Radbourn, bare-handed baseball, and the great season a pitcher ever had
Edward Achorn

 

i'm reading edward gibbon's decline and fall of the roman empire.
it seems appropriate to our times.

julio cortazar's from the observatory.

 

I recently finished Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn. I completely devoured it, but the ending was baffling, and I wasn't really a fan. Total mind fuck.

Allegiant came out yesterday...it's the third book in the Divergent series by Veronica Roth. I'm finding it hard to get into, probably because I read the first two books back in July, and I've forgotten a lot of the details.

 

*Sigh.*

Props for finishing the book. I guess we'll just agree to disagree about it. As the Hebrew proverb goes, al ta'am v'reyach ein l'hitvakeyach ("There can be no quarrels about taste and smell," in other words, you just like what you like, and don't like what you don't like).

 

I can't say I recall any difference off the top of my head. I think his books got better flow as the series progressed, but just within the first book, I don't recall much change.

 

Over the summer I finished both A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons (Books 4 and 5 in Geo. R.R. Martin's book series A Song Of Ice & Fire).
A Feast for Crows was at times difficult for me to get through as my interest would flag and I'd have to push through. I renewed it so many times from the library that I finally bought a copy which is ironic, because it is my least favourite in the series so far.

A Dance With Dragons was actually pretty good, probably because with the exception of Daenerys, I enjoy the characters more (than the ones in AFFC). Watching the TV adaption of the book series helps in that I do picture some of the characters in their more comely, televised incarnations. I just wanted to slap Dany with ever thought she had/words she spoke, though.

I've been trying to find a new comic book series to get into. My latest attempt will be The Sandman : The Dream Hunters / original words by Neil Gaiman.
I've never read anything by Neil Gaiman and am curious.

Also, I've not read anything by Margaret Atwood so I've got In Other Worlds : SF and the Human Imagination on hold and ready to pick up at the library as well as The Year of the Flood : A Novel. Still waiting for anything by Alice Munro to come in.

 

Now I do, too. Thanks for the link, tho'. It's on Tumblr so I reblogged it for the next poor soul who attempts to struggle through A Hound' s Breakfast, er, A Feast For Crows.

 

I'm trying to read the Duck Dynasty book, but I'm finding it a painful read

Also a new Mary Kay Andrews book - again just not in the mood.

I go through cycles of reading lots of stuff and then nothing.

I did recently read Glamour mag - enlightening. No really!

 

In America, a novel by Susan Montag.

It's about an actress, a diva in her home country of Poland, who decides to attempt to extend her career to the US, a decision over which she anguishes ad nauseum. Ms. Montag writes way too many run on sentences and paragraphs, and the pace is painfully slow. I'm only about 70 pages into it, but if something interesting doesn't happen soon, I'm going bail, which I very rarely do once I start a book.

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one fine day in the middle of the night, a novel by Christopher Brookmyre.

The book is set in Broommyre's home country of Scotland. Talk about a fast start. By page 22 four soldiers of fortune have been killed, three shot, one accidently (sort of) by a rocket from a rocket launcher (that happens while they're getting aquainted), and a retired policeman gets coldcocked by a flying arm as he's walking home.
Don't get the wrong impression, although there is plenty of violence in the book, Brookmyre doesn't make it gory, he manages to make it funny. Well, some parts are a bit gory, but only a wee bit. I wrote that silly bit to give you an idea of some of the humor in the book, Brookmyre does a much better job.

Nutshell. An egotistical developer invites some of his former classmates to a class reunion to be held on his latest project, an oil rig being converted into a luxury resort. Many personal interactions occur. A group of hired mercenaries launches an attack on the rig. Many things go wrong, very wrong.

I also have two other novels by Brookmyre. I'm really looking forward to reading them.