I don't know if this sort of topic will last, but whatever.
I have a massive backlog of books and comics (~40 so far, and it's going to be more once I go to Borders and feast on their carcass), and I've been reading some of them recently.
I finished Don Quixote near the beginning of this month / end of last month (I loved it, strongly recommend it). This month I started rereading The Count of Monte Cristo, and I started reading The Souls of Black Folk earlier this week. I am through the first ten essays of Du Bois and I am on Chapter XXXIX of Monte Cristo. Monte Cristo is one of my favorite novels, if not my favorite.
I'm not sure what's next - probably The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle or something. I really loved Murakami's other books, and it has been awhile since I've read him.
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Re-reading Ghost Story by Jim Butcher, newest Dresden Files book. I love it and I have an appreciation for stories about the afterlife.
Going through some discworld stuff, currently reading Soul Music which isn't very good to me, found it boring really, can't say that about many discworld books.
Reading this random fantasy novel called Dhampir about a half vampire/human chick who is like buffy. First part of a series, nothing great but its something.
No idea what I want to read next. Mumei you should suggest something.
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I just finished the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riodan. I had some issues with the writing style and some of the content in general, but the bastard kept me hooked. He is good at plot points and setting up the whole series even stuff for book 5 in book 1, but there were a lot of times where he just jumped from point to point and didn't really give much substance.
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My neighbor's daughter read the Percy Jackson series recently. I don't really know much about it beyond the fact that it involves Greek mythology... somehow.
I think the last young adult-ish fantasy series I read was The Dark Is Rising Sequence, which is excellent stuff. Very charmingly British (and Welsh, for that matter).
I'm nearing 50% of the way through of Monte Cristo in the meantime, though.
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Currently reading at home: Wing Commander: Freedom Flight. Surprisingly good for early game tie-in fiction. Doesn't quite line up with canon, which is a shame, but it does add a lot of depth to the characters and Kilrathi culture. And fills me in on the plot of the expansion pack that I can't be bothered to finish because the fifth mission is ****ing impossible.
Currently reading at work: A Clash of Kings. Yeah, I get a lot of free time.
Currently reading in comics: Blackest Knight. Working my way through the reading list, finally hit the big event. Great stuff.
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Currently reading at work: A Clash of Kings. Yeah, I get a lot of free time.
It's definitely possible to get a lot of reading done at a full time job, assuming you get an hour's worth of breaks. I read the second half of Don Quixote and about half of The Count of Monte Cristo mostly reading on break at work.
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I'm in middle of A Dance with Dragons at the moment. Hoping to finish it before school starts up again -- otherwise my progress is gonna slow down quite a bit.
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Went to pick up The Count of Monte Cristo but I was too late; forgot my favourite used book store closes at 4PM on Sundays. Chapters was charging $30 for it!
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Went to pick up The Count of Monte Cristo but I was too late; forgot my favourite used book store closes at 4PM on Sundays. Chapters was charging $30 for it!
$30? That's absurd. You can get the same edition I'm reading off Amazon.ca for $13.
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From: Mumei | #023 $30? That's absurd. You can get the same edition I'm reading off Amazon.ca for $13.
I'm aware, which is why I didn't buy it in store! I'll be downtown again in a few days though.
From: Giggsalot | #028 i'm definitely gonna get that in time, but i've got a decent backlog (including a few more of his own) to work through before i worry about it!
It's out late October, so you have time.
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I'm reading A Clash of Kings right now, and will probably read through to A Dance With Dragons because I'm really liking the whole ASOIAF show/book thing. Before that I was reading One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez) and The Seven Mysteries of Life (Murchie). I still poke around in Seven Mysteries sometimes when Theon bugs me, but for the most part it's just been ASOIAF.
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Mumei posted... There goes my plan to read IQ84 in its native language before it's in English :(
You still have until October 25th!
... Though I have no idea how fast you read Japanese.
About a thousand lines of Aiyoku no Eustia every night over the course of about two hours (guessing about 30 pages equivalent in Japanese), with the aid of a dictionary and I need someone to sanity check my comprehension about once every 100 lines, note that Eustia has pretty plain Japanese and the only difficult parts are the mountains of aristotalk.
I can't even imagine beginning to tackle Murakami's Japanese when I'm reading the equivalent of pulp fiction and struggling.
But the translations are good enough that I have no excuse not to read them.
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Got around to finishing A Dance with Dragons recently, and just began Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials by Reza Negarestani, which I've been meaning to read since it came out. I also had to stop halfway through Catherynne Valente's feminist mythology poetry collection A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects because the library's a big meanie head, but I'll go back and finish it off soon. After those two, I dunno; maybe A Canticle for Leibowitz.
And on the non-fiction front I just finished re-reading Dumezil's Gods of the Ancient Northmen, attempted to read Birger Pering's Heimdall in German for an hour or two before I realized I decided I don't remember German, and will soon be gnawing on Hilda Ellis Davidson's Roles of the Northern Goddess. GUYS CAN YOU TELL I LIKE NORSE GODS.
As for comics, I just read the first two volumes of the Mouse Guard series; I found the first just okay but I loved the second one. I hope the other volumes are as good as Winter is!
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I have about 400 pages left of A Dance With Dragons. I'm trying to figure out what I want to read next. I really want to read Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, but I don't know if I really want to dive into another 1000 page fantasy novel. I might read the fifth Dresden File book. Or maybe Horns by Joe Hill. I also have downloaded about 30 free books onto my Kindle and haven't had a chance to check out any of them. I also really want to reread The Sandman. I really don't know what to read next.
just finished Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind *spoilers I am really starting to dislike some of the characters as they have this I am holier than thou attitude.
Will start reading Prince of the Dogs by Kate Elliot. Need to get Oceans of Blood by Darren Shan from my library and will start reading that along with Pillars of Creation by Terry Goodkind
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