Thread: What are you reading?

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch and The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

Justice League, #1, of course!

'In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts' by Gabor Mate.

I'm a bit over halfway through A Passage to India, and have moved on to The Wise Man's Fear for my bedtime story. I think I've seen more people say they liked The Name of the Wind better, but I'm finding The Wise Man's Fear to have more of the engaging and fewer of the off-putting qualities of its predecessor. The first was rife with forced conceits, and the framing story and the characters therein lacked all depth and color until the very end. The second book is not so overwrought.

Carlos Castaneda - The fire within. Not as good as the others, but very good nonetheless. The Art of Dreaming is an all time favorite and an EXCELLENT book

I really couldn't get into the Art of Dreaming. I wanted to, but the writing wasn't interesting enough.

A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin, these books are #@$&@%&*#$^&ing amazing.

Im rereading "Les Chants de Maldoror" by Comte de Lautreamont. Amazing book, a must read for anyone interested in surrealism or poetry in general. I also just started reading "Darwins Dangerous Idea" by Daniel Dennett.

Originally Posted by tehmuffinman

A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin, these books are #@$&@%&*#$^&ing amazing.

Yes they are, Im reading the latest one, A Dance with Dragons, that was released this summer. I really really hope the next book doesnt take another 6 years to come out!!!

Once Im done with this one tho, Im going back to reading the Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher. I read the first one, then a dance with dragons came out, so I had to put the second one on hold lol

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, by Philip K. Dick
Going to take a break from pkd after this one, going to read through some random books I've seen at the library that caught my attention next

I'm reading the second book in A Song of Ice and Fire. I've read the whole series a few years ago (minus A Dance With Dragons since it wasn't out yet). But I thought I'd refresh my memory of the series by reading it again, now that the HBO series and ADWD are out. It is still amazing the second time around. It was interesting in A Game of Thrones to read the specific scenes and notice what was left out and added. I want badly to read ADWD, and can't wait until I get to it. I want to know what happened with Tyrion and Sansa and others that were left out in A Feast for Crows.

Everyone in the world should read the series, even people who aren't fans of fantasy. They are just great books.

Originally Posted by Dianeva

Everyone in the world should read the series, even people who aren't fans of fantasy. They are just great books.

Much agreed.

I think it was like 2003 when I read them first, at the time book 4 hadn't come out yet so I went through that whole process when it came out... reading the first 3 books a second time to refresh myself for the newly-released Feast for Crows. At this point, I've been I've been in perpetual patience with GRRM and his series for so long, and I'm starting my graduate school in 3 weeks so personal reading is out the window for a while, so I'm going to see if his pace picks up for the next couple of books before I let make me refresh/re-read all the first books again. Which means as amazing as I'm sure DwD is and as long as I've waited for it, it's going to wait a bit longer.

The lost symbol by Dan Brown

Nothing by Frank Close. It's a summary on the subject of "empty" space, from the musings of ancient philosophers to the modern quantum vacuum. I'm almost done the book, it's great, I highly recommend anything written by Frank Close.

As boring as it might sound, I've never actually read Stephen LaBerge's EWLD before (only recently got interested in lucid dreaming, before I was more into AP) so now I finally get to enjoy it. It's really good.

Catching Fire -Suzanne Collins.

Thud!

The Chronicles of Narnia. I read the first book in two days, and I'm reading Prince Caspian right now. I strongly recommend these even though you might be an adult (shh I wont tell anybody).

currently reading The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac.
he uses beautiful language and imagery and is generally just a really thoughtful writer.

huge recommendation from flyingspag

Originally Posted by Puffin

"The Edible Woman" by Margaret Atwood. The only author I actually enjoy reading is Chuck Palahniuk because of his dry humor, Atwood's writing was so different and plain that I hated the book as a whole. Kind of silly storyline, too.

Chuck Palahniuk is awesome! i loved rant

Kerouac was such a poser. Far from being "the man who launched the hippie world," he was the original "guy who showed up at protests to get laid."

I've been reading up on postmodernism, Hegel, and Heidegger around the internets, and otherwise still have A Passage to India on pause and am most of the way through Stephen King's On Writing and halfway through the audio of Brandon Sanderson's Elantris, all of the above being pretty cool so far.

I'm trying to clear these off my plate along with a couple of tech projects before I get into Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 and/or Norwegian Wood, depending on how engaging I find the former. My history with the author is finding Kafka on the Shore decent but not compelling, and being fairly enthralled with Dance, Dance, Dance. Norwegian Wood seems to be a favorite among those who have read a lot of his works, though The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is probably his most widely read novel.

I also might just stick to philosophy for a while. The articles over at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy have been pretty stimulating, and Jean-François Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition is also on my radar for the near future.

I've read a couple of noteworthy books lately. I read Jag vill inte dö, jag vill bara inte leva (lit. I don't want to die, I just don't want to live) by Ann Heberlein. It was a very interesting book, a good insight into the way people think when they're suicidal. I also read The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse, which was a very nice read. Sweet, in a way, and yet sad. Highly recommended. I read The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson, a sequel of sorts to the Mistborn triology. I had great problems catching the spirit of the book, but I did like it. I also read The Way of Kings by the same author, which is the first book in another series. It was supreme. Brandon Sanderson an is obligatory read for any- and everyone interested in fantasy. Lastly I'm catching up on Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, having read Small Favor and nearly Turn Coat, while Changes is lined up.

I just finished Inheritance, and it was fucking great.

Reading the Hitchiker's 'trilogy' at the moment, currently near the end of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

I just read Brutal Journey by Paul Schneider. It is about conquistadors in the early 1500s, the hardships they endured, and their encounters with the native peoples in America. Of an army of about four hundred who landed in Florida led by Narvaez, only four survived (three Spaniards and one African slave). These four men became known as "shamans" by the natives and traveled throughout the land performing cures. They made their way to Mexico. True story.