The Official "What are you reading" Thread

[*blackrose]

Need next Steven Erikson book. *twitches*

I finished Deadhouse Gates awhile ago...ZOMG, great book. Once I see how much cash is on my next paycheck I am so buying the next few books.

Finishing up the Tonya Huff book now, too. It is good, I'm just protesting how it ends so I'm not as in to it as I should be. LKH just came out with a new book, but I'm waiting to read reviews on it before I pick it up...don't want another sex book, I want the kick ass vampire hunter back.

 

[oakash]

I'm reading Learn to Weave.

And The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett

 

[Miakoda]

I'm being a kid and starting the first book of The Hunger Games.

 

[Renee750il]

I read the second Casey Stone novel, Bullets, Booze and Babes Amazon.com: Bullets, Booze and Babes eBook: Robert W. Godwin: Kindle Store the other night (by Bob!). Normally I don't care anything about mystery novels because, for one reason, I have them figured out by the time all the characters are introduced. Not this one, or the first one. He puts enough twists and turns in them to keep you from figuring everything out without resorting to any kind of deus ex machina antics. The characters are fully realized and, while they may do things that surprise you, they never act out of character.

 

[milos_mommy]

I feel like my taste in reading materials is not the same as anyone else here on Chaz....

Still working on Crime and Punishment, and now I need to start A Confederacy of Dunces.

 

[Backward_Cinderella]

The series that True Blood is based on by Charlaine Harris. I'd rather read the books. LoL

 

[crazy_paws]

I'm reading Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings.

I also read the Hunger Games b/c parts of the movie are being filmed around here, and I really enjoyed the trilogy.

 

[Brattina88]

I just finished reading "Katie: Up and Down the Hall" Katie Up and Down the Hall | The Cocker Spaniel Book by Glenn Plaskin , and I balled my eyes out. Some of the similarities between Maddie and Katie gave me chills, and brought tears to my eyes Gah!

I also read The Vampire Warden... or at least that's what I think it was called. Free on the Kindle thanks to my Mom lol

 

[Miakoda]

I finished the Hunger Games trilogy. Not really sure what to think. Easy reading, but definitely for the younger generations IMO. The ending of the final book sucked. I hate endings that "well, to sum it all up.......".

I also reread Pride and Prejudice. Love the classics!

Right now I'm reading Tom Sawyer just for old time's sake!

 

[Sit Stay]

I just finished the Story Of Edgar Sawtelle last night. I loved the first 90% of it - it's so well written and you just fall head over heels for the dogs, especially his childhood dog Almondine. And then the last 50 pages is the most depressing stuff you've ever read. I bawled when I read it, fell asleep, woke up, thought of it, and started crying again. Not even exaggerating! I am just so bummed that SUCH a good book ended so horribly and in such a scrambled way.

I'm C&Ping this Amazon review because these are my feelings exactly.

If you enjoy spending hours immersed in promising prose that concludes with one of the most dreadful endings in the history of American literature, then by all means buy this book. You will become invested in the characters, mesmerized by the setting, infatuated with the dogs, and absolutely sickened and enraged by the cop-out of an ending. It is as though the author expended all his artistry and had nothing but venom for the story at the end.
I understand tragedy, and I do not require or expect happy endings, but of all the ways this story could have ended, the worst of all possible worlds was chosen. The good guys lose, the bad guys lose, the marginal characters lose, the dogs lose, and ultimately the reader is the biggest loser of them all. The reader is left to resent the time spent getting to the conclusion. A refund of the cost of the book would not repay time wasted reading it.
At times, Wroblewski writes so well that he approaches the level of a Hemmingway or a Steinbeck; but he finishes so wretchedly that he falls far short of an amateur King. The reader is left to wonder why the author hated this story so much that he torched it too at the end.

 

[stafinois]

I felt the same way. The book was amazing until about the last five pages. Then WTF?
,?

 

[Sit Stay]

Glad to know I'm not the only one! It was a very slow moving book (not that I was complaining, I really loved it, it's just that it was fairly slow paced) and then the ending was all thrown together. Not to mention NOTHING was tied up in the end! The old letters? Edgar never even found out who Hachi was and there was never any more insight into if they did use his brother in the breeding program and if so, what came of it. There was also nothing to wrap up the story of Claude and Gar - we had no idea what the riff between them was all about and what Claude was doing in Korea. The whole Forte (the original and Edgar's Forte) story was totally left open too. When it ended I just felt there needed to be another 20 pages - it just didn't feel like it was over.

Ugh, I'm just so bummed out about it. Such a good book, that ended in such a horrible way (and I don't just mean sad). I just want to cry again thinking about it, LOL.

 

[HayleyMarie]

I've started A game of thrones by George RR Martin.

So far so good. Everyone I know who has read the series has loved it.

 

[stafinois]

I've started A game of thrones by George RR Martin.

So far so good. Everyone I know who has read the series has loved it.

Best series EVER!!!! I just finished the new one. I hope that I don't have to wait another 6 years for the next one

 

[milos_mommy]

I finished Confederacy of Dunes....it was pretty funny but not very profound and I wouldn't recommend it unless you're simply looking for a laugh.

Still working on Crime and Punishment, it got put on the backburner, I also started The Illustrated Man by Bradbury

 

[stafinois]

I also started The Illustrated Man by Bradbury

Is that another story about the antagonist in Something Wicked This Way Comes?

I am currently reading Bringing Adam Home by Les Standiford. Every parent's worst nightmare

 

[milos_mommy]

Is that another story about the antagonist in Something Wicked This Way Comes?

Not quite. It's actually a series of short stories, and I never read Something Wicked This Way Comes but as far as I know it's about another person with tattoos and a slightly different story...the antagonist in Something Wicked has tattoos of all the people he's lured into his carnival, and the character in The Illustrated Man has tattoos that move and tell the future every night.

ETA: supposedly Something Wicked This Way Comes was kind of an extension/based on The Illustrated Man, but the character does have different qualities in each story.

 

[stafinois]

Not quite. It's actually a series of short stories, and I never read Something Wicked This Way Comes but as far as I know it's about another person with tattoos and a slightly different story...the antagonist in Something Wicked has tattoos of all the people he's lured into his carnival, and the character in The Illustrated Man has tattoos that move and tell the future every night.

OK, in SWTWC they sometimes refer to him as the Illustrated Man.

 

[milos_mommy]

I did NOT like Farenheit 451, but I was also in middle school when I read it. I always liked Bradbury's short stories, though, but I've been hesitant to read another of his novels.

 

[HayleyMarie]

We should have a Chaz book swap.