What are you reading?

archerjoe · Aug 27, 2009

AnonymousWriter said:
I read The Secret Scripture not too long ago. The story was good and I'll admit that he is a good writer. But didn't you find a little "purple prosey" at times?

Certainly. I think he sometimes goes overboard with the metaphors. The Eneas McNulty story had even more of that than The Secret Scripture probably due to the symbolism represented by Eneas and Jonno. I read "Annie Dunne" last year. Strange story but likable, same kind of writing.

*RomanceWriter* · Aug 28, 2009

Giving Gena Showalter a try. Starting Darkest Night. It has mixed reviews, so I'll see for myself.

Ken · Aug 28, 2009

The Cocoon / John Goodwin (short story)

Calla Lily · Aug 28, 2009

*RomanceWriter* said:
Giving Gena Showalter a try. Starting Darkest Night. It has mixed reviews, so I'll see for myself.

She's fun. No deep thinking required. Very relaxing and a bit... stimulating, oh my. :e2brows:

Bookdragonette · Aug 28, 2009

Almost done with Just After Sunset, Stephen King's latest collection of short stories.

The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell. So far, I'm unimpressed. But I've never liked psycho-analysis much.

~Country Girl~ · Aug 28, 2009

Between Sisters by Kristin Hannah

gypsyscarlett · Aug 28, 2009

Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.

Frelling good thus far.

Fokker Aeroplanbau · Aug 28, 2009

Free To Choose; Milton Friedman.

childeroland · Aug 28, 2009

Angel: After the Fall and, for the umpteenth time, The NeverEnding Story.

archerjoe · Aug 28, 2009

I'm catching up on a bunch of One-Story shorts. I liked Pigs enough to email kudos to the author. The newest one is Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre.

Emily Arsenault · Aug 28, 2009

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

childeroland · Aug 29, 2009

Le Carre's The Little Drummer Girl.

semilargeintestine · Aug 30, 2009

I'm halfway through The Time Traveler's Wife.

Satori1977 · Aug 31, 2009

childeroland said:
Buffy Season Eight.

I have read the first two...not too big on graphic novels, but they are pretty good. Makes me miss the show. :-(

childeroland · Sep 1, 2009

Me too, and I wish they'd put out the comics faster.

Reading Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

archerjoe · Sep 1, 2009

I found a paperback edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude at a garage sale. Pretty interesting.

benbradley · Sep 1, 2009

I enjoyed "Einstien's Bridge" so much I got the author's (ETA: John Cramer) first novel "Twistor" and am enjoying it, however today I was in the supermarket and saw a brand new memoir:

Dean Koontz A BIG LITTLE LIFE: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

and bought it, a full price $24.95 brand new (kinda smallish) hardback and all. I paged through it, and somehow I find this mundane real life stuff more compelling and fascinating than any "odd" novel a big-name writer could write.

And yeah, his latest novel "Relentless" was also sitting there in the "top 10 sellers" or whatever display. Maybe I'll get that one when I see it for $2.99 or less in a thrift store, and then some months or years later attempt to read it.

I'm a sucker for dogs and memoirs. Though I still long to be had by a cat again.

Diana W. · Sep 1, 2009

I'm halfway through Chosen To Die by Lisa Jackson. Pretty good read.

semilargeintestine · Sep 1, 2009

Finished Time Traveler's Wife the other day. I'm back in school, so I'm about to start reading stuff for that.

Pseudolus · Sep 1, 2009

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano.

Pseudolus · Sep 1, 2009

Emily Arsenault said:
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

How is that?

ejaycee · Sep 2, 2009

The Trout Opera by Matthew Condon.
And wishing I was reading a Neil Gaiman book, too.

Alan Yee · Sep 2, 2009

I'm reading Sarah Monette's story, "White Charles", which appears in the current issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.

childeroland · Sep 3, 2009

Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon

Kenzie · Sep 3, 2009

Pseudolus said:
How is that?

I read The White Tiger a few months ago. I thought it was freaking awesome.

What are you reading?

New kid, be gentle!

On hiatus

Differently Actual

Ma fin est mon commencement

What happened to my LIFE?!

What happened to my LIFE?!

BassGirl 5000

Listening to the Voices In My Head

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It's a doggy dog world

I'm evolving

BassGirl 5000

A spasm, you say.

A spasm, you say.

knows nothing of your ruined garden

Still Here!

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