What are you reading, Chapter 2

[Lazylion]

Which LeGuin books?

Orsinian Tales

Finished it. Well, I just skimmed through the last 100 pages or so. I didn't like it. After the first couple of stories, it was all dark, grim tales where nothing much happens.
She paints a vivid picture, but... didn't blow my skirt up. I've read more enjoyable stuff by her.

 

[Araillac]

Imajica by Clive Barker

 

[Bongolation]

Read this for ten minutes:

Unreadably bad, amateurish writing.

 

[JacoLesFlea]

Elixr by Hilary Duff..going to follow along with audio book i lose focus when just reading a book.

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

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[Bongolation]

This just arrived, going to pick it up as soon as I'm done here:

 

[MatticusMania]

I finished The Shining yesterday, and since I didnt have time to buy a new book to read, I grabbed, this morning, the first unread book that I came across. So now Im reading Salem's Lot.

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Nice one, I'm on a bit of a Stephen King bender at the moment too.

 

[MatticusMania]

I never had much interest in King's work before meeting my fiancee. I read half of Misery when I was 16 and that was about it. After meeting my fiancee she told me she was a fan of his work, and I kinda thought 'oh, one of these types, eh'. She definitely set me straight, started me out on 'The Stand' and I just kept going. I've read that along with 'The Dead Zone', 'It', 'Firestarter', 'Christine', 'The Tommyknockers', and 'The Shining' all within the last year, and have enjoyed them all.

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

I only really got into his work towards the start of last year, or the end of the previous year. I've read most of those and a few of the Bachman books throughout books by other authors.

The Stand was one of the first that I read, and it's still the best book I've read!

 

[MatticusMania]

Its also my fiancee's favorite book of all time. I dont know if I personally favor any one of his books over the others, but if I do The Stand is probably up there.

 

[Bongolation]

This will be here Monday:

 

[dmonroe]

Lights, Camera, SEX....The Christy Canyon bio. as well as a buttload of physics textbooks.

 

[crucislancer]

I recently finished Broken Angels and Woken Furies, both by Richard K. Morgan. The 2nd and 3rd novels of his Takeshi Kovacs storyline, the first being Altered Carbon. I really enjoyed all three novels. Hopefully Morgan will write another Kovacs book in the future.

I have a few that I downloaded for my Kindle that I've been going back and forth with, one of which is called Catalyst by Paul Byers, which is a fictional WWII thriller set near the end of the war. The story revolves around Germany's plans for a jet bomber with the range to attack the U.S., and some folks from OSS trying to stop it. It has some cool aerial action, but it's only ok as a whole.

 

[lowendfriend]

Its also my fiancee's favorite book of all time. I dont know if I personally favor any one of his books over the others, but if I do The Stand is probably up there.

I've read everything King ever wrote and have recently re-read the Stand (with 300 add'l pages vs original release) and all seven books of the Dark Tower series.

His writing style and the quirky nature of his stories are irresistible to me.

Try "It" for an oldie and Under the Dome or Duma Key for one of the newer ones.

He also has quite a few short story collections you may want to check out.

 

[lowendfriend]

Just finished an interesting story not in my normal selection range, but I enjoyed it.

Water for Elephants....

An old guy recalling a tough beginning in life as an (almost) graduating vet who's parents were killed during the depression and he went to work on a circus train.

 

[Diogenes]

"The Devil in the White City" - Erik Larson.

It's non-fiction, was given to me by my son's gf and I'm really enjoying it.

 

[Commreman]

"The Innocents Abroad" by Mark Twain.

 

[Bongolation]

"The Devil in the White City" - Erik Larson.

Historical crime books are pretty interesting. That one was one of the better ones I've read.

 

[Bongolation]

This came in today:

The USMC commandant who got fired for telling LBJ he was screwing up bigtime in Vietnam.