What books are you reading right now?

Before I Go To Sleep by first time novelist S. J. Watson. Described as an 'amnesiac thriller.' Gets off to an absorbing start...looks promising.

 

I just read Sweet Valley Confidential a few days ago. It was complete fluff, but I was a diehard fan of the Sweet Valley books from 2nd grade (Sweet Valley Twins), through junior high (Sweet Valley High), and a little bit into high school (Sweet Valley University.) I was rolling my eyes through most of the book, but it was sort of a nice way to revisit characters I used to love.

At the moment, I'm rereading the Time Traveler's Wife.

 

I have a hard time re-reading a lot of books from my high school years - many of them just aren't very good for older readers - in some ways I don't want to ruin my memories. For example, I re-read the Belgariad (by David Eddings) a couple of years ago. I really thought it was brilliant when I first read it (when I was 12 or 13), but it just doesn't read well later on, imo. I fully understand the eye rolling feeling.

 

lol...SVConfidential is a new one, and the twins are 27...but it definitely still had that high school feel to it. It was like the author wanted them to be more grown up, but wasn't quite sure how to do it.

 

I went to the library, not knowing what book I might like to borrow.

I haven't read a book in more than a year I'm sure. I get so little time to myself, I always end up on my laptop. I can't read when there's things happening around me and with five kids, that's pretty much all the time.

I've never been much of a reader. When I was young the only books I had read were The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy and The Hobbit. All through school I never read much more than the back cover of a novel and I rarely studied from my text books. Now I understand the consequences of that because I'm too stupid for a lot of books. I loved the hobbit but I read it twice instead of moving on to read The Lord of the Rings. That book was too fucking big.

When my step son's were young I often read to them at bedtime. When Harry Potter came out I started getting interested in the boy's stories and I began reading ahead.

I read the entire Harry Potter series, then another fantasy series by Goodkind, then some Steven King, Dean Koontz, Patterson, Sheldon, Woods. I read a lot of authors to death. I especially like series', or books about a certain character. Action/Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction, Crime/Detective, all genres I like to read. I loved Drizzt and Roman. Alex, Stone, Odd and Skink. I finally read The Lord of the Rings. Bilbo Baggons' a god.

Now I'm in the Library. Haven't read in forever. Finished the last series more than a year ago. What now? How can I get back into making time for a book? Frankenstein is on the shelf. Dean Koontz. Lots of spooky looking books on display at the Library in October.

I come home with three copies of Frankenstein. An illustrated version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Dean Koontz' Frankenstein, Lost Souls; and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I'm a sucker for originality so I want to read the Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I read the first letter after the introduction and about the author. I read it a second time in the illustrated version. One more time with my teenaged son and remembered how I should have read more in highschool. The story must be wonderful because the first part was better and better as I read it three times. I think I'll read the Dean Koontz because he's like an old friend. Mary Shelley,,,, Did she know Shakespear?

After Halloween? Any Ideas?

 

OK - you've mentioned a few authors you like (Tolkien, Salvatore). I'll throw some other fantasy authors at you
Raymond Feist - get the first book 'Magician' and the "Daughter of the Empire" (co-written with Janny Wurts) - this follows the first, so best to read afterwards. Both of these are first books in trilogies.

David Gemmell - English author who is no longer with us, but solid, easy to read fantasy (though his last books were actually a historical fantasy take on the story of Troy - also pretty good).

Dragonlance Chronicles - fairly simple baddies vs goodies story - based on dungeons and dragons - still a favourite. Authors are Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis.

In the horror Genre - my favourite author is James Herbert.

All of this stuff is pretty easy reading. Have fun!

 

Patches of decent amid some really really bad stuff. Kept thinking "bad Angelina Jolie movie" while reading it.

Currently reading The Help

 

It was not my favorite Hiaasen. He seems to be going back to the well a bit much. My favorite was Native Tongue.

I am reading "The Reapers were Angels" a mostly groovy zombie book.

 

God No! By Penn Jillette. Awesome and funny. Who would have known sacrilege could be so much fun!

 

Right now I am reading The Count of Monte Cristo.
Quite an epic and it will take me a couple of months to finish.
I really enjoy the writing style.

Aerr Baerr if you want something well written that will scare the crap out of you get Bram Stoker's Dracula.

 

I just started "Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies and Murder?"

I've been looking forward to reading this book as I followed the murder investigation of Donald Young, the friend and fellow member of Obama's Chicago church. Larry Sinclair did a National Press Club news conference that was buried by mainstream media. The details are in the book.

Here's from the Publisher:

"The biggest untold story of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election... Finally, the no-holds-barred, 100% true story of Barack Obama's use and sale of cocaine; his homosexual affairs and the December 23, 2007 murder of Barack Obama's former lover and choir director of Obama's Chicago church of 20 years, Donald Young, just days before the 2008 Iowa Caucus.

This searing candid story begins with Barack Obama meeting Larry Sinclair in November, 1999, and subsequently procuring and selling cocaine, and then engaging in consensual, homosexual sex with Sinclair on November 6th and again on November 7, 1999.

You'll read in riveting detail how Sinclair, in 2007, repeatedly contacted and requested that the Obama campaign simply come clean about their candidate's 1999 drug use and sales. You learn how the Obama campaign, David Axelrod and Barack Obama used Donald Young (the homosexual lover of Barack Obama) to contact and seek out information from Sinclair about who he had told of Obama's crimes and actions.

You'll read how the Obama campaign used internet porn king Dan Parisi and Ph.D. fraud Edward I. Gelb to conduct a rigged polygraph exam in an attempt to make the Sinclair story go away. The Obama team and the controlled media - specifically MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, the New York Times, CNN, Politico's Ben Smith, The DailyKos, The Huffington Post and others - attacked the National Press Club for making its facilities available to Larry Sinclair for a news conference to present his evidence and allegations to the world media.

You'll read how Vice President Joe Biden's son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, issued an arrest warrant on completely false, fabricated charges to attempt to discredit Mr. Sinclair's National Press Club news conference. This is a staggeringly true story of how the sitting U.S.President with the help of the Mainstream Media, the Chicago Police Department, the FBI, the Delaware Attorney General and others got away with murder and more...."

 

Oh god... currently reading:
You must go and win by Alina Simone
The black dahlia by james ellroy
Nemesis by asimov
The empty city by andy looney
L.A. Noire a collection of stories put together by rockstar
The first book of the elister chronicles by bahhaj hockley
A brief history of the confederate states of america by jefferson davis

Sooo many books I need to finish.

 

Re-reading Wheel of Time (in all its bloated glory) so that it will be more or less fresh in my mind when Sanderson puts out the last book sometime in the next couple months (one hopes.) Currently on Book 6 of 14.

 

Currently reading Robinson Crusoe on my iPod through iBook. Certainly is a pleasant way to spend lunch at work.