Books you're most looking forward to reading??

Mr. Bones

I know there's threads about what people are reading and have to read before they die, but what book(s) are you most looking forward to reading? I tend to buy books quicker than I can get through them at times, so I've about 40 books on my shelves that I've yet to read. Mine would be Moon Palace & Mr. Vertigo by paul Auster, cos I've read and loved eveything else he's written and Don Quixote, cos the bits i've dipped into have been good & it'd be the biggest book i've read when i do get round to it. I mean something that you'll be reading for the first time, maybe something you want to save for when you have the time to properly devote to it.

CraggyIslander

there's bout 30 in my 'to read pile' couple philip k dick ones (gotta love him!), couple Kurt Vonnegut ones and 2 of the 3 lovecraft omnibi (omnibuses?). Additionally some easy to read (yet pageturners) Elmore Leonard crime ones, and the one that will probably still be in my 'to read pile' years from now: 'crime and punishment'

The one I'm looking most forward to reading tho is: 'last chance to see' co-written by none other than Douglas Adams... right after I finish 4th or 5th installment in anne rices vampire chronicles....... memnoch the devil

Forgot brave new world, snow crash and enders game..... a slight sci-fi bias, but relatively mixed bunch I'd say

Red Hand

The Discworld graphic versions, along wth Death's domain, Streets of Anhk Morpork etc.

Neuromancer by Gibson

The man in the High Castle (might have gotten the title wrong there) by Philip K Dick.

buck65

Celine - Journey to the end of the night (on the way)
Kafka's - novels
The War against civilization - R Fisk (read 300 pages , needed some fiction bad)
Court of the red Tzar - Stalin - Simon Montefiore as above

The_Minister

1984

Mrs. MacGyver

The new Kate Mosse Book - i think its called sepulchre
The Thorn Birds - Coleen McCullough

Dudess

The_Minister wrote: »

1984

Get cracking will you?! It's the best book EVER written!!!

The_Minister

Dudess wrote: »

Get cracking will you?! It's the best book EVER written!!!

So I've heard.

buck65

no guys you're wrong that would be Crime and Punishment. I liked the crime part but not the punishment...

BossArky

Scar Tissue.

Ho-Hum

Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake, got it on a friends reccomendation and it sounds very good

Valmont

Nabokov - 'Pale fire' , I just can't get enough of his prose.

Brethitmanhart

My username might give it away anyway but
Bret Hart's autobiography "Hitman" My real life in the cartoon world of Wrestling.
Out in canada, in UK and Ireland next summer, Going to get one from canada because I can't wait!

InFront

buck65 wrote: »

The War against civilization - R Fisk (read 300 pages , needed some fiction bad)

I've done things a bit in reverse, and can't wait to read Pity The Nation.
The War against Civilization is an amazing read though, amazingly thorough and vivid.

Also can't wait to start reading Hemmingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, but am waiting for an appropriate time when I won't be hurrying.

Dudess

Ho-Hum wrote: »

Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake, got it on a friends reccomendation and it sounds very good

Incredible book. Enjoy!

doonothing

Hmm... the only book in my pile is a Jodi Picoult book recommended to me which I'm not too keen on... Although, that friend introduced me to the Time Taveller's Wife and White Oleander so it gets more than the benefit of the doubt!

Trip to the bookshop as soon as Waterstones bring back their christmas 3 for 2 deal

youcancallmeal

InFront wrote: »

I've done things a bit in reverse, and can't wait to read Pity The Nation.
The War against Civilization is an amazing read though, amazingly thorough and vivid.

I've been planning on reading The War against Civilization. Does is matter if havent read Pity The Nation or are the two books even related?

Lands Leaving

Workin in a library is dangerous for this - I have a massive pile of books to read, Camus - the Plague, few Martin Amis, some Norman Mailer, new Naomi Klein, have to finish Ulysses as well. Keep reading a bit and getting distracted.

brianthebard

Dudess wrote: »

Get cracking will you?! It's the best book EVER written!!!

I disagree.

On topic, I'm looking forward to reading Metamaths, and the great transformation. Can't remember who wrote the first one, the second one is by Karen Armstrong afaik.

humbert

I think 1984 is overrated, very good but not that good.

Really looking forward to reading Dostoyevsky's "Notes from Underground".

ZorbaTehZ

Idd, 1984 is so overrated.

Looking forward to Gene Wolfe's Fifth Head Of Cerberus which I still haven't picked up yet.