What books are you reading right now?

Finished Moby Dick (another book I'd been meaning to read for years)... I loved all the asides, the random tidbits about whaling and whales. Funny though that he classifies whales as fish.

In any case, I'm attacking some fantasy, diving into a stack of Conan books I've got. Starting with Conan the Destroyer.

 

Ready Player One
Comptia Healthcare I.T. Technician

 

"Peter Pan"

Which I'm kinda disappointed in. The script+stage notes was an amazing read, but the novelization of it just is lacking.

 

I love Heinlein (although I don't worship him)! His later stuff is the stuff that really kicks ass, when he got seriously weird and anarchic. I recommend the Lazarus Long books: though technically he's an earlier creation of Heinlein's, since the first book (Methuselah's Children) came out in the '40s, most of the stuff about him is later, since the rest of the books about him (Time Enough For Love, Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, To Sail Beyond The Sunset) came out in the '70s and '80s.

ZOMFG, I love Moby Dick! The twelve-chapter tangent about the pragmatics of whaling can sometimes be a bit much for me, but overall the prose is just stunning, sometimes almost poetic. I think it's right up there with Shakespeare, the Bible, Tolkein, and stuff like that. I should really go back and re-read it.

 

I enjoyed Starship Troopers for what it's worth, and Time Enough for Love. Stranger in a Strange Land was fun as well. They're good sci-fi in my humble opinion. Not worship-worthy though... That way lies L. Ron Hubbard

 

I liked that one so much that I ordered the next one in the series.

I've moved on to Alastair Reynold's Absolution Gap. It's the conclusion of his Inhibitor trilogy, and it's dense. Lots of characters and lots of plot lines. It's good, though.

 

Leviathan Wakes by James Corey
Its basically a missing person type detective story set in space when Earth has colonized the solar system.

Finished The Pearl of China and The Help in the interim.

 

It's a good one, although some of the science in it seemed a little fanciful for my tastes.

 

It was kinda iffy wasn't it.

 

I just finished reading the first three books of 'The Saxon Series' by Bernard Cornwell. I thoroughly enjoyed them but am having a hard time finding unabridged audiobooks of the remaining 3 books in the series.

 

I'm about halfway through 11/22/63 by Stephen King. Time travel is a hackneyed science fiction concept into which King breathes new life making it relevant socially and quite interesting. I almost feel as though I've been to Sept. 1958 personally.
To think that Stephen King was ever concerned about becoming another Mickey Spillane - writing the same book over and over!

 

I'm reading Swamplandia!, which is pretty hokey, so far. It was a xmas present.

 

OMG, that is awesome...!

 

The Joy of Books made me smile:

I had to return S. King's 11.22.63 before I finished it then wait for them to shelve it before I could put it on hold again. It's excellent.

Finished Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead Vol. 12. It may have been the most upbeat 6 issues in the series I've read thus far.

About to start Colson Whitehead's Zone One. It's described a 'a pop-culture thriller of the first order,' which is not an intellectual stretch but I've heard that Whitehead is a superb young writer so why not start here?

After a lifetime of being too cool to dig zombies apparently I am now totally uncool as World War Z by Max Brooks just made it's way into my hands.

 

Brilliant marketing move. I am totally visiting Type next summer when I'm in Toronto. Instead of lugging my summer reading material all the way from Chicago I'll 'buy local' instead.