What books are you reading right now?

Pretty much my take on it now that I'm wrapping up the series.
Still fun but it's like a TV series that ran one season to many.

I'm reading Richard K. Morgan's The Steel Remains.
He wrote the Kovacs science fiction books that started with Altered Carbon.
They pretty much kicked some of the science fiction tropes in the ass and The Steel Remains does the same thing with fantasy.

 

Just got Gone Girl myself. I paid considerably more at the airport. Want to read the book before I watch the movie. I too hope it lives up to the hype.

 

Sooooo good.

I'm reading 'Red Rising'.
It's pretty damn fun

 

I've 698 pages in to Fall of Giants by Ken Follet, which is book one of the The Century Triology (I have the other two books as well). At around 900+ pages per book, thats roughly 2800 pages total. This a historical novel involving many characters on several continents, it basically covers WWI and the Russian Revolution of 1917.

I give Follet credit. FOG moves at a much brisker pace than his previous two historical novels, The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End.

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I'm compelled to mention this again, which I'll do at every opportunity--Ken Follet stole the idea for The Pillars of the Earth (published in 1989) from Edith Pargeter's The Heaven Tree Triology (the first novel, The Heaven Tree, was published in 1960/61). You might know Edith Pargeter better as her nom de plume, Ellis Peters, the author of the Brother Cadfael novels. If Follet has ever publicly acknowledged Pargetter's works, I haven't been able to find any mention of it.
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Please don't read my earlier post & subsequent discussion with Red Ravin.

 

I'm reading it purely for entertainment, with no expectations. So I'm enjoying it. The last book I read with the intent to really make myself think was "1Q84". I just can't right now. Thinking hurts.

Oh, did you mean "Gone Girl" ? Or "Red Rising"? GG was interesting, too. First time a plot twist actually got me in a long time.

 

I look forward to reading your thoughts, and those of RedSneaker, once y'all have finished Gone Girl.

 

Maybe I'll have time to get started soon. I'm
So distracted by work right now, I'm finding it difficult to settle enough to actually get into a book.

 

I read Gone Girl about 6 months ago. I liked it. But, I'm a woman. I hear that makes a difference.

 

Not to me. Both of the main characters were equally.......best not to say too much.

 

Eeeeeeeeeevil!!!!

 

I'm more than half the way thru CLIVE BARKER THE DAMNATION GAME going to finish it now. its freaking scary. good nite to the TFP

 

I sat on the beach this morning watching the sunrise and I started reading the Green Lantern, Wrath of the First Lantern. Okay, so it isn't a book... but it has words that need reading!

 

ok so why read it? just watch the fudging movie? eh? there has to be 100 versions of that story. is the one you have from the original Marvels comic? Oh and by the way I wish I was sitting on the fudging beach

 

*DC comic

 

I am currently re-reading all of William Gibson's novels. I recently finished the Sprawl trilogy and am now on book two of the Bridge trilogy.

I first read them many (many!) years ago. It's amazing how little I remember of them.

It's also fascinating to see the near future as envisioned by an author writing in the 80s and 90s (iewhere we are living now). For example, he thought people would still be using fax machines to get their news feeds.

 

I finished Fall of Giants, a surprisingly fast read for 900+ page novel, and am now about 308 pages into Winter of the World. WOTW is a good read, but it has too many characters to keep up with, IMO. Not only are most of the characters from FOG present, but now the children are adults with children of their own, and there are many new characters. Follet, and/or the publisher, does provide a Cast of Characters. A COC was also provided in FOG, but it's much more necessary in WOTW.

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Since I bought The Century Triology one used book at a time, for a whopping total of maybe $5.50, I don't feel bad about reading Follet despite my gripe about his stealing from Edith Pargetter:

"I'm compelled to mention this again, which I'll do at every opportunity--Ken Follet stole the idea for The Pillars of the Earth (published in 1989) from Edith Pargeter's The Heaven Tree Triology (the first novel, The Heaven Tree, was published in 1960/61). You might know Edith Pargeter better as her nom de plume, Ellis Peters, the author of the Brother Cadfael novels. If Follet has ever publicly acknowledged Pargetter's works, I haven't been able to find any mention of it."

 

100 versions of this story? Wrath of the First Lantern? Featuring Voolthoom & staring the Green, Blue, White, Red, Black and Orange Lantern Corps? Plus the Indigo Tribe, the Star Sapphires and Sinestros Corps? I've never heard of that movie.
According to the back cover it is a collection of stories from quiet a few different comics. I think it was Geoff Johns final work for the Green Lantern comics. I enjoyed it but I'll be moving on to Flashpoint featuring Batman soon. I like comic collections.
And the fudging beach was great! :-p

 

Yes I have @Lindy, more than once and its amazing. I personally enjoy all genre of art and entertainment however the western is one of my favorites, also the sculptures are fantastic

 

I'm not yet reading them, but this seems like a good thread in which to mention some recent purchases.

Pillsbury's BEST 1000 Recipes BEST of the BAKE-OFF Collection, copyright 1959. These recipes are great, they're clearly from an era when taste ruled and nobody worried about calories, cholestral, saturated fat, etc.

Hollis Dann Music Course Manual For Teachers Book One, copyright 1912. My wife actually likes this book, says there are some worthwhile instructions and lessons. Which pleases me because I've pretty much given up on buying music books for her because in this age of multi-media she finds few books useful.

Rogue Island by Bruce SeSilva.

Erotic Fanatasies A Study Of the Sexual Imagaination by Drs. Phyllis & Eberhard Kronhausen. From what I can tell reading random bits this book is more of a collection of excerpts from erotic/pornographic writing than it is a "study."