This week, I are mostly reading....

John

Jay Tomio wrote:

Terry Brook's new Armageddon's Children (which comes out in August and merges his Shannara setting to his Word/Void series). Brooks is awful - but damn it, I'm intrigued.

Sounds like desperation to me. I liked the first seven or so Shanara books but he pushed them too far for too long. I read and enjoyed the newer ones (and the first couple of the Word series) but they're really just pap. This new one sounds giga awful.

Jay Tomio

Sounds like desperation to me. .

This new one sounds giga awful

I wish I could disagree with either comment. Chalk this up as morbid curiousity.

secret_squirrel

John2 wrote:

but they're really just pap.

Kinda agree with you but the last Word and Void novel redeemed the series for me. Twas up with his best.

After avoiding the recent Shanarra cash-ins like the plague - I too could be tempted by this new one.....

theCzar

reading Labyrinth by Kate Mosse, the cover sounded a bit DaVinci Code knockoff but it was recommended by somebody who's usually right. Only started it so dunno yet.

tbh

I've been reading "Untold Stories" by Alan Bennett - just finished the first part, where he talks about his mothers depression and the family history - really good read, very open and honest.

Fr Clint Power

just finished the cider house rules by john irving. Enjoyable but not as good as his a prayer for owen meaney.

herbieflowers

Huxley - Point Counter Point

Valmont

I started Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, it's very non-specific and demands attention but interesting so far.

Closing Doors

That They May Face The Rising Sun - John McGahern

adonis

Jean giono - To the Slaughterhouse == Bed
Paul Williams - Crimelords (updated version) == Toilet

Myksyk

Just finished "We need to talk about Kevin" by Lionel Shriver. Wonderful writing ... couldn't put it down ... Deeply thought provoking.

BlueSpiral

"Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" By Mildred D. Taylor. I'm rereading it, as I have to look for qoutes for my JC english exam. Damn, I've missed reading good quality literature.

lilmissprincess

May start to read that again...need quotes!!

Blush_01

The Cripple of Inishmaan (again). Typically McDonagh, tragic and hilarious in one breath, so much duplicity and behind the imagology a sense of the real rural community. Or summat.

Capt'n Midnight

Worldmakers - SF adventures in Terraforming

Rhyme

Got a lend of Lian Hearn's 'Tales of the Otori' trilogy... started 'Across the Nightingale Floor' this morning

Scratch Acid

Still reading The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe which I started about a month ago but haven't touched since I finished college. :rolleyes: Excellent book so far.

Art_Wolf

Just bought King's The Stand and am seriously hooked.

*lets work pile up some more..*

andrewie

Bones by Max Allan Collins

Setun

The Odyssey - Homer.
Thought I'd check out some of the classics. Antigone next maybe!

elmyra

The Cure for Death by Lightening- Gail Anderson Dargatz.

Love it.

pork99

Just finished Balzac's "Cousin Bette". The 1998 film based on it (with Jessica Lange) is a complete travesty.

(It was interesting to read it while Big Brother was on in the background - evidence of the decline of Western culture. The contrast was astonishing. The century before last could produce great writers like Balzac, Thackeray and Dickens who were both good and popular. Likewise the operas of Verdi, the music of Liszt and Chopin, artists like Delacroix, Courbet and Daumier. We've gone from that to a culture which produces degraded spectacles like BB and where stupid spoiled whore Paris Hilton is a role model.)

I've also recently read the excellent "Life at the Bottom" by Theodore Dalrymple and I'm currently reading "Intellectual Morons - how ideology makes smart people fall for stupid ideas" by Daniel J. Flynn which I'm afraid have only reinforced my suspicions that we are all screwed

Blush_01

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut. I enjoy his writing style so far. So it goes.

the_syco

Network+ 2005. Gawd, what a boring book, but I have to read it

tbh

I'm re-reading the Just William books - have not laughed out loud at a book in years!!

Myksyk

Just finished Ian Rankin's 'The Flood' which I got in desperation in Barcelona with no other English book available. I think it was his first publication and reads like it ... not up to much at all. Have started 'The Human Stain' by Philip Roth.

dudara

Reading "Kushiel's Dart" by Jacqueline Carey, very well written fantasy indeed. This is to be followed by "God Bless You, Mr Rosewater" by Kurt Vonnegut

Blush_01

Labyrinth - Kate Mosse.

I still don't know why.

John

Terry Pratchett Carpe Jugulum. It's all right, some funny lines but not great. I really don't get this author at all.

Velvet Vocals

Hearing and Writing music - Ron Gorow.... fantastic book!! Really helping me out!