What Are You Reading Now? Pt 2. Showing 2,351-2,400 of 10,418

[Cody]

Currently reading The World of Ice and Fire, by George R R Martin... Best Christmas gift EVER :) Pretty long read, as the text is small, and it's put together as a kind of history textbook.

[Glen]

Cody I got that for Christmas too. It's a beautiful book with tons of history but as you say it will take a while to wrap it up. Besides I get distracted by the images too and waste time looking at those pretty often. That's the comic book geek in me.

[Jeff]

As if I wasn't already reading 3 books, I started Richard Powers' Gold Bug Variations. 40 pages in its absolutley brilliant.

[Andrea]

I'm up to a slow reading start this year. I just finished The revolution was televised by Alan Sepinwall and I'm about to get back to Eye of the dragon by King and to begin Butcher's Crossing by John Williams

[Kandice]

I think The Eyes of the Dragon is such an incredibly sweet book and have always wondered how it never got the graphic novel treatment so many of his have. The visuals would be stunning. GN would be infinitely better than a movie.

[E.]

NICK ! I just finished A Dirty Job on audiobook and it made me think of you. If you liked Anansi Boys, you will totally like this! It's Anansi Boys meets Talisman, meets... I don't know what, but I highly recommend this audiobook to anyone.
I'm sure the printed book is great, but this story was perfect for audio. Crazy funny fantasy, wonderfully written and enthusiastically narrated.

[E.]

I also just started Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by the same author, Christopher Moore, on the recommendation of TheLongWait and I'm pretty excited about it.

[Jeff]

E....you will love it!

[Andrea]

Kandice wrote: "I think The Eyes of the Dragon is such an incredibly sweet book and have always wondered how it never got the graphic novel treatment so many of his have. The visuals would be stunning..."

so far I'm still in the first part of the book, getting to know Flagg and Roland (seems strange saying so). But yes, I imagine it a colorful place..

[Doreen]

Just started a classic, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollet. It's a little different but not bad at all. Figured I'd try something a little different from my usual genres and am pleasantly surprised.

[Susan]

Broken Monsters

[Squire]

The Man Who Loved Children

[Rhian]

finally reading the stand by king

[Erin]

[Cody]

Started A Walk Among the Tombstones last night, and almost got halfway through the novel before I made myself put it down! Great detective story by Lawrence Block, and I plan on reading more of his work.

[Kirstin]

Just started A Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons.

[Doreen]

Just started another book today since I usually have 3 going at once. Started 11/22/63 by the master Stephen King. Been dying to get into this book.

[Jeff]

Still working on the Four Fingers of Death by Moody, the Gold Bug Variations by Powers, Skinny Legs and All by Robbins and Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon. Then on to Bag of Bones by King and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Chabon.

[Jeff]

Enjoy The Stand, Rhian! It's a great read!

[Rhian]

@Thelongwait I'm sure I will thank you :-)

[Rhian]

I'll let you know in a month or so ha ha

[Jeff]

Yeah it may take a while. But it does move pretty fast.

[Kandice]

I'm on the last few pages of Antony and Cleopatra, just finished vol. 1 & 2 of Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing and have begun vol. 3. I'm also a little more than halfway through Bittersweet which I am loving despite some unbelievable parts.

[Nick]

E. wrote: "NICK ! I just finished A Dirty Job on audiobook and it made me think of you. If you liked Anansi Boys, you will totally like this! It's Anansi Boys meets Talisman, meets...."

I read it quite a while ago... when it first came out I guess. I've read a lot of Moore, but I've never tried his audio. Thanks for the recommendation. I'll give it a shot.

[Terri]

just starting Suffer the Children

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Doreen wrote: "Just started another book today since I usually have 3 going at once. Started 11/22/63 by the master Stephen King. Been dying to get into this book."

Enjoy, Doreen, it's a great book!

[Nenad]

Rhian wrote: "finally reading the stand by king"

Hey, me too, finished it yesterday =)
4 stars from me, it was good, but a bit long

[Nenad]

Finished The Stand. My next one will be The Archer's Tale

[Michael]

Halfway through and am so disappointed in it. Stephen King blurbed The Troop. Glad his name isn't on this one!

[Kirstin]

Michael wrote: "Halfway through and am so disappointed in it. Stephen King blurbed The Troop. Glad his name isn't on this one!"

That sucks. I have been excited to read this for almost a year! Too bad. Did you enjoy The Troop?

[Michael]

Kirstin wrote: "Michael wrote: "Halfway through and am so disappointed in it. Stephen King blurbed The Troop. Glad his name isn't on this one!"

That sucks. I have been excited to rea..."
I liked The Troop, but didn't quite love it. There were a lot of things about it that I thought worked and some that didn't. Nonetheless, based on The Troop, I was really looking forward to this. (I was number one on hold for it at the library.) This has nothing that worked about The Troop, plus all of its problems and then some.

[Kirstin]

Michael wrote: "Kirstin wrote: "Michael wrote: "Halfway through and am so disappointed in it. Stephen King blurbed The Troop. Glad his name isn't on this one!"

That sucks. I have bee..."

Thanks Michael! I'll keep all that in mind, if I decide to buy it or not. Disappointing.

[Michael]

Kirstin wrote: "Michael wrote: "Kirstin wrote: "Michael wrote: "Halfway through and am so disappointed in it. Stephen King blurbed The Troop. Glad his name isn't on this one!"

That s..."
If you read it, let me know what you think. Other people seem to like it though it does have a lot of bad reviews on Amazon.

[Scott]

E. wrote: "I also just started Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by the same author, Christopher Moore, on the recommendation of TheLongWait and I'm pretty excited about it."

That's his best book. Very funny.

[Shannon]

Over the last few weeks I have read these books
Night Sins & Guilty as Sin by Tami Hoag Both books are very good and they tie to each other so great but I think Night Sins is alot better then Guilty as Sin was maybe because liked Megan O'Malley more in Night Sins then Ellen North In Guilty as sin

I also read Missing Justice by Alafair Burke Its the 2nd book of her Samantha Kincaid series I really not too crazy about this series as I am her Ellie Hatcher series

I read Kill and Tell by Linda Howard didnt really care for it but it was alot better then her Ice Book i read in December

Last I read Blood Memory by Greg Iles I LOVED IT! I couldnt put it down but I wasnt shock that the grandfather was a sicko still very good read!

[Shannon]

Will Be reading these now

Power Play by Catherine Coulter
The Broken Places by Ace Atkins
Skeletons by Kate Wilhelm
Strangers by Dean Koontz

[Bruce]

Managed to finish Weaveworld today. I really, really enjoyed it for the most part, but it felt like it was repeating itself a bit too much towards the end.

[Nick]

Bruce wrote: "Managed to finish Weaveworld today. I really, really enjoyed it for the most part, but it felt like it was repeating itself a bit too much towards the end."

It's next on my reading list, although I have to say, when you finish one Tom Robbins novel you really feel at a loss and want to start another immediately.

[Michael]

I just finished , which I'm sorry to say I just hated. Review here. Now I'm reading Christopher Rice's which is off to a much better start.

[Nick]

Michael wrote: "I just finished , which I'm sorry to say I just hated. Review here. Now I'm reading Christopher Rice's which is off to a much better start."

So, the real question here Michael, is why did you take the time to finish the book? When I commit to reading a book and announce it on goodreads I feel compelled to finish it. But I think that's wrong. Too little time to be wasting my readings on junk. (Please note, if you're currently reading one of MY books, please ignore that last comment. Of course, I hope I'm not writing junk, but King probably had the same feeling when he wrote Desperation.)

[Michael]

Nick wrote: "Michael wrote: "I just finished , which I'm sorry to say I just hated. Review here. Now I'm reading Christopher Rice's which is off to a ..."

I kept reading for a number of reasons. As a horror writer myself, I feel it's important to know what is selling, current, popular, etc.

I also kept reading because I was getting madder and madder at the book the more I read. It was like being in a bad relationship and I wanted to catalog all of my grievances so that when we split up (or wrote my review), I could demonstrate just how bad the relationship had been!

[Nick]

Michael wrote: "Nick wrote: "Michael wrote: "I just finished , which I'm sorry to say I just hated. Review here. Now I'm reading Christopher Rice's which..."

Sort of a combination of revenge and community service. :-) Makes sense. Thanks.

[Kandice]

I often finish books for those exact reasons! You were just able to state them better. :D

[Michael]

Nick wrote: "Michael wrote: "Nick wrote: "Michael wrote: "I just finished , which I'm sorry to say I just hated. Review here. Now I'm reading Christopher Rice's [bookcover:The Vines..."

I hate to think of it as revenge, especially since I've been on the bad end of reviews. But that's life as an author. When I give a big chunk of my free time over to a writer and then end up feeling like they haven't taken me seriously as a writer, then I get pretty upset. So yeah, I guess revenge!

And I didn't even get to all of the annoying writing things Cutter does in this book. He's in love with trying to capture the "sounds" of things. Instead of just writing, "It slithered down the corridor" we get, "It slithered down the corridor going splttttiiieee..." or some such nonsense over and over. I could go on, but I won't!

[Nick]

See, that quote right there about the sound of slithering is reason enough not to read that book. Community service. thank you very much. I'm downloading the audio of Weaveworld, and hoping it's good.

BTW, sure notice differing opinions on this one by some of my respected friends. We'll see.

[Michael]

The differing opinions make Goodreads so interesting, he said rolling his chair back with a "crrrrwwwwzzzzzing" noise.

[Kandice]

Michael wrote: "The differing opinions make Goodreads so interesting, he said rolling his chair back with a "crrrrwwwwzzzzzing" noise."

*shakes head*

[Andrew✌️]

In these days I'm reading Duma Key and Dune Messiah. Two great books!

[Nick]

Kandice wrote: "Michael wrote: "The differing opinions make Goodreads so interesting, he said rolling his chair back with a "crrrrwwwwzzzzzing" noise."

*shakes head*"

Are you shaking your head at me, Miss Steele... or rolling your eyes... or just your chair... or David's chair?

[Kandice]

Nick wrote: "Are you shaking your head at me, Miss Steele... or rolling your eyes... or just your chair... or David's chair?"

All of the above. :-)