What are you reading right now?

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King. So far it's one of his lamest short story books he made ever. *sigh*
 
I just picked up Disease: The Extraordinary Stories Behind History's Deadliest Killers by Mary Dobson. It's kind of a coffee-table book, really, if coffee-table books were a genre that included graphic descriptions of syphilitic sores--short, a bit lightweight, lots of pictures. I do wish the author had gone into more detail regarding the ways people attempted to cure some of them, too. Overall, though, it's a decent introduction to the subject matter, and manages to score points by including some of the less-famous ones like kuru and Chagas' disease.
 
TheMightyMonarch said:
The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis.
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I just finished American Psycho a few weeks ago. Not sure if I could stomach another BEE novel yet.

Currently working through the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov and then I'm going to see if I can tackle Dune by Frank Herbert.
 
Furina said:
I just finished American Psycho a few weeks ago. Not sure if I could stomach another BEE novel yet.

Currently working through the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov and then I'm going to see if I can tackle Dune by Frank Herbert.
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I'm not that far in Rules but surprisingly, it's pretty damn tame by Ellis's standards. There is a rape scene in the beginning but given the vague way and impassive way that it's written , it's almost something out of a Disney movie in comparison to the shit that goes down in American Psycho. Aside from the typical drugs and sex, there's nothing TOO disturbing going on. Maybe that'll change.
 
The Innocent by Ian McEwan. I absolutely loved Atonement, and so I figure him writing about spies in Berlin in the 50s has to be entertaining.
 
The Skull Throne, by Peter V Brett. Latest part of his Demon Cycle series. Not too bad so far
 
Just arrived from Amazon all the current books in The Expanse series, seeing as I loved the TV series so far and the books somehow escaped me so far I am reading them all.
 
HotWire by Simon Ings. I don't like it very much, but it's engaging and the ideas are interesting. I've never been into the whole Cyberpunk thing, and there are strong echoes of William Gibson's prose and unlikeable one dimensional characters.
 
"War Dogs" by Greg Bear. Not super into it but I'm halfway done so I might as well finish. I usually avoid books written entirely in the present tense and I'm reminded of why. Also, it's written in a kind of a clipped, ungrammatical dialect and it gets really annoying once we meet another character who speaks in a different, even more clipped dialect. Honestly, reading this book is akin to overhearing a conversation in English between two people who speak English as a second language.
 
Le Morte d'Arthur because I've been gaining interest in King Arthur.
 
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I'm about to start The Postman by David Brin. I haven't read a good apocalypse book in a while.
 
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk. Guy gets murdered in 16th century Istanbul and his murder and the events surrounding it are narrated by the people and objects around him.
 
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