[Book Chat] "What's Everyone Reading" Thread

[Wiwaxia]

Well, it's pretty new.


Like it came out in the US 7 days ago.

[williamcll]

well, gotta read the hunger games before watching the movie so that I could spoil it for everyone else.

[forkinyoureye]

Burned through Issola last night, and got a bit of the way through Dzur when I realized just how well-written this series is. It's meant to be read in whatever order you please, and Steven Brust succeeded almost completely. I say almost because even he admits that reading Teckla first is a bad idea.

[BewareOfNerd]

Just finished up the Nyarlathotep Cycle. On the whole, liked it immensely. Roughly half of the stories were about archaeologists exploring the wrong temple/pyramid/whatever and meeting a grisly death at the hands of mummies, cultists, or eldritch monstrosities. The only one I really didn't like was "Curse of the Black Pharaoh" by Lin Carter, which involved a vampire hunter whose family was eaten by werewolves duking it out with a homicidal mummy (who was explicitly NOT Nephren-Ka). Also, one of the stories involved a character named Nathan Karr. Three guesses about the twist ending of that one.

...Wait, I'm the only one here who's into the Cthulhu Mythos, aren't I?

[kaoticAntagonist]

Ciaphas Cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM! is fufilling my book expectations currently.

Also, its kind of funny how 2 readers can dislike the same series but for totally different reasons, some even coming into conflict with one another. Brings to mind how hard it is to write something that appeals to a lot of people.

[forkinyoureye]

I'd read the Cthulhu Mythos if I wasn't so busy with fantasy. I read some of the Dream Cycle and liked it a lot.

[Freack]

I'd read the Cthulhu Mythos if I wasn't so busy with fantasy. I read some of the Dream Cycle and liked it a lot.

I was having a weird time when I tried to read those stories, but it was really tough to get through. Some of the stories are really great, but I got bored with a lot of them. I could only finish the book (a collectection of almost all of his short stories) after I gave myself permission to skip to the next one if I did not like the first page.

Definitely worth reading, but maybe try it in bits and bites rather than one sitting.

[Bohandas]

I'd read the Cthulhu Mythos if I wasn't so busy with fantasy. I read some of the Dream Cycle and liked it a lot.

I was having a weird time when I tried to read those stories, but it was really tough to get through. Some of the stories are really great, but I got bored with a lot of them. I could only finish the book (a collectection of almost all of his short stories) after I gave myself permission to skip to the next one if I did not like the first page.

Definitely worth reading, but maybe try it in bits and bites rather than one sitting.

HPL wrote really good stories really badly.

[chimericWilder]

I just finished Elantris yesterday.

[forkinyoureye]

Got Death or Glory. Unsurprisingly, I like it so far.

[Akazani]

Game of Thrones, halfway through Dance with Dragons at the moment, dear god it never ends! Mind you nor does the suffering of the characters.

[Quirk]

Ender's Shadow now.

Great Scott Bean is messed up.

[Eldunari]

just started reading Eragon for the 4th time. yeah, guess what my favorite book is. i also really need to finnish mokingjay. i'm so close to end but havent gotten around to actualy finnishing it.

[Bohandas]

I just reread Hat Full of Sky and Sourcery. Now I'm rereading Mort.

[Dmatix]

I just reread Hat Full of Sky and Sourcery. Now I'm rereading Mort.

Funny, I just finished rereading Thief Of Time myself. My god, that was an excellent book.

[Bohandas]

Funny, I just finished rereading Thief Of Time myself. My god, that was an excellent book.

Thief of Time is probably my favorite.

[PumpkinMan]

Funny, I just finished rereading Thief Of Time myself. My god, that was an excellent book.

First Discworld book I read, and still one of my favorites.

[Bohandas]

You know, I wonder if Terry Pratchett is involved with Discordianism and/or the Church of the SubGenius. A lot of the kind of things (and many of the specific things) that they focus on turn up in The Thief of Time

[Freack]

REading one of the Saddle Club series I found at a yard sale for fifty cents.

Man, tn year old girls have TERRIBLE taste in literature.

[PumpkinMan]

Just finished Side Jobs, about to start The Way of Kings, and waiting for Mean Streets to come in. Pretty excite, I am.

[Triangle Man]

Thief of Time is probably my favorite.

This was the first title in the series that I read, actually.

I'm working through Witches Abroad right now!

And I hit a library book sale the other day, so between those purchases and stuff I haven't read yet but still own I have enough reading material to last me until the end of the summer and beyond! Yay!

[Freack]

My favorite was Going Postal, but I have not even read a majority of the series yet.

That wand the one where Rock and Roll was discovered.

And anything going on in Uberwald.

So yeah, pretty much all good. I think I read Equal Rites first, so that has a special place in my heart/

[forkinyoureye]

Yeah, Soul Music was a great one.

[kaoticAntagonist]

My favorite was Going Postal, but I have not even read a majority of the series yet.

So yeah, pretty much all good. I think I read Equal Rites first, so that has a special place in my heart/

Moist is like my favorite protagonist ever I think.

And my first was either the Monstrous Regiment or The Color of Magic. I forget which.

My second or third was Making Money.



Concerning Soul Music I should probably read it again. I was thinking about how to portray music in writing recently.

[Bohandas]

Slapped Together an anthology of three books by 'Dilbert' author Scott Adams

Also reading Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore

EDIT: also several webcomics