What are you reading right now?

[Malt Liquor]

Big Jim Thompson in His prime:very dark and morbidly fun,with a great ending

Whoever said this book is a 20th century novel written 100 hundred years before had completely right

 

[AnOminous]

Whoever said this book is a 20th century novel written 100 hundred years before had completely right

This is one of those "classics" I read out of a sense of duty, like much of the canon that you end up reading, expecting something ponderous and boring. I actually found it impossible to put down and was very entertained by it.

I guess it had literary merits too or something.

 

[sugoi-chan]

Big Jim Thompson in His prime:very dark and morbidly fun,with a great ending

Whoever said this book is a 20th century novel written 100 hundred years before had completely right

Jim Thompson is becoming one of my favorite authors. The Grifters was just plain good and very few books have profoundly unsettled me like The Killer Inside Me did.

 

[Azazel]

Just finished Red Rising by Pierce Brown, now i'm on the second book in the series, Golden Son.

I forgot who it was on this forum that recommended it to me (and sent me the epub file) but thanks, they've been a great read.

 

[Pope Gregory IX]

I know, I know, but whatever go fuck yourself.

 

[TiredConlanger]

Just finished Danielle Steele's A Perfect Life. I read it on a whim, to see if her prose improved and because it'd been years since I last read a novel of hers. Regretting it immensely, as her prose is worse than I remember it. Also, Mary Sues, conspicuous consumption, and telling instead of showing everywhere.

Currently reading A Game of Thrones. My friends finally wore me down to the point that I'm reading it, as they think it'd be my taste. And, thus far, I like it.

And Left Behind. Because I could use a good laugh. I find nearly any story I've encountered that deals with the Anti-Christ, the Apocalypse, etc. exceedingly funny, as I've actually read the Book of Revelation. For clarification, I'm not Christian (agnostic atheist), but the Bible is a book with a lot of literary influence and religious influence for a good chunk of the world's population, so I consider it a wise move to read it regardless of religious affiliation or lack thereof.

What's so funny to me about those stories is because they keep trying to act like they've read it when it's clear from the things they put in there that they didn't read it. Especially funny that the books of the Left Behind series are by two crazy fundamentalist literalists and they should thus believe in the book curse at the end, that adding or subtracting to the Book of Revelation will cause worse disaster during the apocalypse.

 

[Evilboshe]

I've been reading a book called Everything is Obvious. It's about the danger of using "common sense" to understand the world.

 

[Tricksy Fuckin Hobbitses]

I'm currently re-reading His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik because i'm a fgt for napoleonic war and dragons

 

[TowinKarz]

A relative of mine has been feeding me Jo Nesbo books after she finishes them, just got done with Police and The Leopard , like Hiaasen, he has a knack for getting right up to the "aw come ON!" line, but not crossing it.

 

[Guardian G.I.]

Riddley Walker by Russel Hobart. A very good book, even though it's nigh-undecipherable at times because of the language it was written in: a highly degraded version of rural Kent dialect, spoken in-universe by the residents of post-nuclear England millennia after the apocalypse.

 

[xXRonPaul_42020Xx]

The Exegesis of Phillip K Dick.

 

[Ravenor]

I've been reading a book called Everything is Obvious. It's about the danger of using "common sense" to understand the world.

Ooo thank you, I had no idea that existed and has just been ordered off amazon.

 

[sugoi-chan]

Redemption Ark, the second book in the Revelation Space series. This is one of the series that the writers of Mass Effect have cited as an influence and I think "influence" is an understatement. "The Reapers Inhibitors are an ancient race of machine created by a forgotten race who come to exterminate all advanced civilizations every couple millennia to ensure that organic life can continue. Humans are being guided and influenced by the last civilization to be killed, the Protheans Amarantins, to resist."

That said, it's a lot different in plot and tone. It's a really negative, pessimistic book. Dark, almost Lovecraftian.

 

[Rat Speaker]

The Girl In The Spider's Web. It's a new book in the Lisbeth Slander (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) series but with a new author. So far so good, but I just cracked it open.

 

[SpessCaptain]

The Mammoth book on Cult Comics, edited by Ilya.

I got this book when I did my cold-canvassing temp job thing, there are several 'forgotten' comics as Ilya puts it by artists.

Here's a list of the comics:

• A DAY/SHANE - Andy Roberts and Steve Whitaker - both are examples of comic weight and context, "A day" is two pages long where a character drawn by Andy Robert's turns "incredibly badly drawn" in the undefined marvel-comic style. Andy enters his comic and begins to erase the man and calls it a day, asking for a check. "Shane" is only one page, and discusses the fundamentals of displaying a comic outside of squares and bubbles.

• Hummingbird - Gregory Benton: About a young girl named Hummingbird, her mother's first scene is her talking to her junkie boyfriend as she takes a bite out of a cat and flings it at him. Hummingbird calls her father to come down and take her away but her family is cautious around her father as he a few skeletons in the closet. It's quite surrealistic and never defines dreams between scenes.
  
  
• Blues - Eddie Cambell - The comic is 30 years old, shorter than Hummingbird it goes through a night out with a man in the city with his girl. This one didn't garnish my attention much other than "I want to bury my penis in the mud" line.

Theres a few more I haven't read, about 19 left so I'll keep you guys in check.

 

[BatNapalm]

Sherlock Holmes VS Dracula
Also House of Skin by Tim Curran....I'm 14% in and still not sure if I like it.

 

[Vauxhall13]

To Kingdom Come by Will Thomas. It's the second in the Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewellyn series, set in 1880's London.

 

[Pope Gregory IX]

I am now on holiday for a week, and have been bought this:

I am a very happy Pope Gregory right now.

 

[Curt Sibling]

 

[sugoi-chan]

Cop Hater, suggested by someone here on this thread. Liking it.

Finished the second book in the Revelation Space series. Has the same basic plot of Mass Effect, but a better sounding reason for "synthetics killing organics to save organic life" kinda thing.