What are you reading right now?

[ASoulMan]

The last book I've read was William Shakespeare's Star Wars. It's basically A New Hope written as if it were a Shakespearean play.

I need to get back into reading actual novels. Most of the stuff I've been reading had been articles and fanfiction.

 

[yasscat]

The Stand, and The Strain trilogy. So pumped for the series.

 

[BatNapalm]

Reading a bunch of books about the craft of writing at the moment as well as reference materials for police/detective/forensics type stuff and SF world-building. Now that I have stable employment and not a whole lot of other shit to worry about, I want to get back in the habit of writing every day.

Also halfway through a kinda poorly written police procedural/horror story called "The Wolfen." I might as well finish it because it's pretty short (250 pages) and already I'm halfway through but I'm kind of scratching my head at how that prose managed to get by the editor (whole lot of telling and not a lot of showing, plus paragraphs upon paragraphs explaining characters' histories like fucking wikipedia summaries....just no).

 

[Guardian G.I.]

I'm currently reading "The Good Soldier Švejk" by Jaroslav Hašek. It's pretty hilarious.

 

[Ariel]

Almost finished re-reading the Little House series for the hundredth time. I've had a lot of heavy reading for uni, so I like to balance it out with light & entertaining for recreational reading.

 

[Mogambo]

I just picked up the Newsflesh trilogy, along with Black Blade Blues by J.A. Pitts. Needed some more speculative fiction yo!

 

[Slowboat to China]

I've stalled out on the third book of Norwich. It's good stuff and the writing is as entertaining as ever, but watching the fall of an empire is just ... so depressing. I took a break to read an old Ellis Peters novel, A Morbid Taste for Bones. Mystery, medieval monks and body-snatching, oh my!

 

[JP 307]

I haven't really sat down and read a book for fun in a long time, so I just dug out my copy of Wicked and I'm going to start on that.

 

[Grand Number of Pounds]

I'm reading a book called "Education of a Wandering Man" by Louis L'Amour. It lists just about every book he's read during his life and also has brief accounts of his adventures as a hobo and merchant seaman. As a guy who loves books and reading lists this is right up my alley.

 

[House Of Reeves]

I'm re-reading "The Stand" First time I read it was in high school and I felt like reading an epic novel again.

 

[Queen of Tarts]

I read the first 80 pages of Fellowship of the Ring before becoming distracted by weeb music.

Wanna go back to it soon.

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

Just finished The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. How do I describe it? It makes End of Evangelion seem logical in comparison.

 

[Ryebread]

The Lord of the Rings

I then need to get started on Hunters of Dune and then Sandworms of Dune

And maybe reread Brave New World...

Lord of the Rings huh?

I happen to be reading the Silmarillion and the Children of Hurin.

 

[BatNapalm]

Last Days by Brian Evenson

 

[schiessen]

"Hannibal Rising" by Thomas Harris

 

[Mourning Dove]

I want to read Khaled Houseinni's latest book, "And the Mountains Echoed." However, his books are notorious for giving me extreme feels and/or making me rage at the Taliban...

 

[Dollars2010]

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.

 

[bradsternum]

So I'm re-reading Dante's Inferno, and I can't help but feel I'm reading highly regarded fan fiction. It has all the typical tropes of bad fan fiction:

+Author insert main character.
+Author insert main character is super special and invited to join a super special club of intellectuals (the five poets)
+All of the author's enemies are punished.
+A bunch of characters from other works make appearances for no real reason, other than the fact that the author admired those works.

I mean, the poetry's nice, and his vision of Hell is... creative... but maybe some English major here could tell me why it's considered a "great" work.

I'm also reading Lev Grossman's The Magicians. God, what a missed opportunity. Shitty protagonists, underdeveloped characters, underdeveloped plot. And then he's got some excellent writing here and there, and some really great ideas.

I feel like I'm reading an outline for a book, not a proper novel.

 

[Someone in a Tree]

Ada by Vladimir Nabokov. I went into it blind based off the strength of Pale Fire (an absolute masterpiece), but it's been pretty underwhelming. It takes place on an alternate Earth and traces the decades long love affair between a brother and sister. Again, I went into it blind. Next on the docket is Three Men and a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome. Something a bit lighter.

 

[Watcher]

I'm listening to an audio book of Frank Herbert's Dune