What are you reading right now?

Man on Fire by A.J. Quinnell. I'm about one hundred and forty pages in, and it's already one of my favorite novels of the action thriller genre. I also thoroughly enjoyed the Denzel Washington film adaptation, despite it's divergence from the source material.
 
Man on Fire by A.J. Quinnell. I'm about one hundred and forty pages in, and it's already one of my favorite novels of the action thriller genre. I also thoroughly enjoyed the Denzel Washington film adaptation, despite it's divergence from the source material.

Yeah, that one's a good book. Preferred it over the movie a lot, but mostly because it was a Denzel vehicle with a tacked-on happy ending. The book does a better job of earning its emotional impact.
 
Yeah, that one's a good book. Preferred it over the movie a lot, but mostly because it was a Denzel vehicle with a tacked-on happy ending. The book does a better job of earning its emotional impact.
Did you know there was an earlier adaptation with Scott Glenn as Creasy? It's from the same producer, Arnon Milchan, and is somewhat closer to the book in that it's set in Italy. The author envisioned Creasy as resembling Robert Mitchum, though I saw him resembling Charles Bronson or Michael Douglas, at least in my head.
 
I been reading books about autism recently. I be starting to read Childhood's End very soon. I heard many good things about it.
 
I've been reading Foucault's Pendulum... As much as I love Umberto Eco as a writer, whoever translates his books into English are absolute garbage. Some sections are fantastically rendered, others not so much. L'isola del giorno prima is practically unreadable.
 
All I do is read comics day in and day out, RIP. Was tracing back through Batman: Zero Year and Marvel's Goblin Nation, but want to dig up the Golden Age titles I have. Books-wise, I've been going through Chuck Palahniuk's Choke again. I have a habit of rereading...
 
All I do is read comics day in and day out, RIP. Was tracing back through Batman: Zero Year and Marvel's Goblin Nation, but want to dig up the Golden Age titles I have. Books-wise, I've been going through Chuck Palahniuk's Choke again. I have a habit of rereading...

How is Zero Year? I've really liked Snyder's Batman arcs that I've read--I don't expect ZY to be different but just curious.
 
How is Zero Year? I've really liked Snyder's Batman arcs that I've read--I don't expect ZY to be different but just curious.
It depends! He writes the Riddler well instead of just having him be a weak gimmick character. I think he really appreciates the potential Eddie can have. Alfred is written very well -- compassionate and expressive. Gordon is written excellently. Gordon is probably my favorite part of things. I prefer this to his Year One story as far as he goes, to be honest. You can definitely see some Bryan Cranston inspiration in his facial structure, too (a plus for me, because I think he'd play an amazing Commissioner Gordon)! It's not flawless, but I enjoy it, and I like Capullo's art a lot. There's some awesome symbolism through imagery and even some unique takes on panels here and there. I can't really think of any specific complaints! I'd say definitely give it a shot and if you need me too, I can even upload a .rar of the scans for you.
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It depends! He writes the Riddler well instead of just having him be a weak gimmick character. I think he really appreciates the potential Eddie can have. Alfred is written very well -- compassionate and expressive. Gordon is written excellently. Gordon is probably my favorite part of things. I prefer this to his Year One story as far as he goes, to be honest. You can definitely see some Bryan Cranston inspiration in his facial structure, too (a plus for me, because I think he'd play an amazing Commissioner Gordon)! It's not flawless, but I enjoy it, and I like Capullo's art a lot. There's some awesome symbolism through imagery and even some unique takes on panels here and there. I can't really think of any specific complaints! I'd say definitely give it a shot and if you need me too, I can even upload a .rar of the scans for you.
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Oh wow, sounds great. And a .rar would be awesome!
 
I had been reading Middlesex earlier this year and I just picked it up again. I have to say, I've forgotten how captivating it is! I didn't expect a story about an inbred Greek person to be so interesting.
 
It depends! He writes the Riddler well instead of just having him be a weak gimmick character. I think he really appreciates the potential Eddie can have. Alfred is written very well -- compassionate and expressive. Gordon is written excellently. Gordon is probably my favorite part of things. I prefer this to his Year One story as far as he goes, to be honest. You can definitely see some Bryan Cranston inspiration in his facial structure, too (a plus for me, because I think he'd play an amazing Commissioner Gordon)! It's not flawless, but I enjoy it, and I like Capullo's art a lot. There's some awesome symbolism through imagery and even some unique takes on panels here and there. I can't really think of any specific complaints! I'd say definitely give it a shot and if you need me too, I can even upload a .rar of the scans for you.
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I agree that he wrote the Riddler really well and seems to see his potential. I always felt like he was an underutilised character who could be so much more than his gimmick if someone just gave him the platform, like the difference between Mr Freeze in B:TAS and Batman and Robin.

Right now I'm doing a ASOIAF re-read. I just finished A Feast for Crows and I'm now onto A Dance With Dragons. I'm re-reading the ironborn characters and Cersei and Jaime in particular.
 
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