What are you reading?

[Vitalos Umbreffigia]

Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson

YOU!

I LOVE YOU

AND I LOVE STEVEN ERIKSON.

I know FAR too few Erikson fans out there. None of my friends whom I have recommended the book to have ever actually bothered to read any. A shame, too; his books are my favorite of all time.

Anyway, I'm reading Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves. It is like nothing I've ever read. Everything about it is bizarre and disorienting, from the plot itself (about a man who finds a book that is a research report on a movie that doesn't exist; complicated, I know), the visual layout itself is astounding. It's... I'm not even sure how to describe the entire thing.

Look. I'm a book guy, as I'm sure nearly everyone on this site is. I've read some pretty interesting/odd/weird things. Nothing comes CLOSE to this. This is a book that challenges the reader to be aware, to pay attention, to keep track of multiple things at once (the footnotes often lead you on crazy tangents). I'm going to cut myself off before I ramble. If you're willing to be creeped out and to have your mind f**ked with, read it. It's astounding.

[Chiriart Falatiri]

Ha I knew there would be a "What are you reading" thread there allways is

I'm reading The Sumoner by Gail Martin and The way of Shadows by Brent weeks

[Vadim]

For my senior year of high school I've been given a list to pick a book from and read over the summer. None of them look too appealing so I thought I'd put the list up here and get feedback from you avid readers.

Life of Pi by Yann Martell

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer

The Collector by John Fowles

Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Unforgiving Minute by Craig Mullaney

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in South Africa by Mark Mathabane

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

[Sama'el Sunsinger]

Vadim, the only one of those I've read is "The Picture of Dorian Gray", and I highly recommend it.

I'm reading:

"A Woman in Berlin" by Anonymous;
"The Witch of Portobello" by Paulo Coelho;
"The Year of the Flood" by Margaret Atwood; ...

Sort of picking through a couple others, and I just picked up "Julian" by Gore Vidal at the library. I wanted to read about the Mithraic Mysteries.

[Alistair deGrey]

Recently finished "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, an amazing piece of classic literature.

Currently diving into "The Tao of Pooh" and "Meditation as Medicine", both have been really fascinating thus far.

[Eris]

I’ve read Life of Pi and Picture of Dorian Grey and I loved them both. So, I definitely recommend the two, Vadim.

Currently, I’m reading Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell. It looks at how snap judgments that are made by our minds unbeknownst to us can often be more beneficial than long thought-out decisions. It’s really, very fascinating, especially after having read Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. Thomas More’s Utopia is waiting to be reread on my bookshelf. I also recently finished The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosely and I can honestly say that it’s one of the most engaging books I’ve ever read.

Oh and Morse, I really enjoyed the Tao of Pooh as well.

[Sama'el Sunsinger]

Morse, I read We earlier this year. Eris, just finished Blink last week!

[Alodian Aviastas]

Well currently I am not reading anything. My favorite authors include, but are not limited to, Jodi Picoult, JRR Tolkien, Terry Goodkind, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Lynne Ewing, Melissa De La Cruz, Aprilynne Pike, P. C. Cast and Michelle Zink. I am always open for suggestions though.

[Vitalos Umbreffigia]

Ha I knew there would be a "What are you reading" thread there allways is

I'm reading The Sumoner by Gail Martin and The way of Shadows by Brent weeks

I didn't care for The Summoner (honestly, making a necromancer all righteous and just? Not at all what I expected when I picked it up. An unpleasant surprise). The Way of Shadows, however, is a brilliant, if twisted, read. One of the best plots I've ever read.

[Griffith]

A Thousand Splendid Suns is written by the same person who wrote The Kite Runner. I've not read it myself, but if the two books are anything alike, I'd recommend Splendid Suns.