So, what books are we all reading? (Inspired by Rapscallion's games post!)

[AnaKhouri]

On vacation, I read A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth. It is about a woman who starts over someplace new and finding herself...and I usually wouldn't touch a book with a blurb like that, except this woman's version of starting over involves murdering her family. It's really great and I was feeling surprisingly sympathetic toward the heroine at the end.

I also finished Natsume Soseki's Kokoro, and am currently reading River of Doubt by Candace Millard.

[Mytical]

I'm currently reading Casual Rex by Eric Garcia. It's (sorta) about dinosaurs. As PI's. In LA.[/I] alot.

When I first saw this I saw Casual Sex..and wondered what it had to do with Dinosaurs. The PI's and LA I could understand....

[FloridaLizardQueen]

Right now I am reading What Dreams May Come. I've seen the movie, and I didn't know it was a book until I saw it at a garage sale.

[Parrothead]

When I first saw this I saw Casual Sex..and wondered what it had to do with Dinosaurs. The PI's and LA I could understand....

Well, the other two are Anonymous Rex and Hot and Sweaty Rex, so I can understand.

[BookstoreEscapee]

So I've brought Reading Lolita in Tehran back and forth in my work bag since I posted that I was going to read it but I haven't even started it yet. Last night I couldn't sleep so I went back to reading The Atheist's Guide to Christmas which is a collection of essays that I did not finish back around Christmas when I started it. I'm about halfway through so I think I'll finish that first.

[KabeRinnaul]

I'm re-reading Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth for the sake of adding to a series of literature parodies a friend of mine is writing. And I have quite a few more classic works to go through for the same thing.

But for personal reading, I'm in the middle of the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Unfortunately, at the part it gets really slow and tries to tell every character's story at once. I've also seen a bunch of recommendations for The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear in the webcomics I read, and I might try to find those eventually.

[BookstoreEscapee]

So I've brought Reading Lolita in Tehran back and forth in my work bag since I posted that I was going to read it but I haven't even started it yet.

OK, I started it at lunch yesterday. Already on chapter 8 (they're short chapters). Good book so far.

[Jack T. Chance]

I just started re-reading Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End, which has made it onto the list of the Greatest Sci-Fi Movies NEVER Made!

The film adaptation has been stuck in Development Hell for over 50 years, and in all that time, Hollywood has shown that they LOVE to rip off the beginning of the novel. Seen V or Independence Day? Then you already know how Childhood's End begins. But where the story goes after the flying saucers arrive, who the aliens are, why they're here, and what it ultimately means for Mankind is much more original and intelligent than anything Hollywood's writers have come up with. I can't recommend this book enough.

[Sarlon]

Re-reading Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series. Wow. I thought he'd ended the series, but the link I just looked up here shows a new book due out in late July. Awesome.

its actually slated to be a 24 or 26 book series.....

so for me I just finished reading 2 books at once (listened to one while working, and read one in bed).

.......disturbingly I could see the 2 books intermingling, even though they are not set in the same time frame.

the two books I just read? The Stand and Under the Dome both by stephen king.

can ANYONE whos read The Stand PLEASE explain to me wtf is up with the last chapter?

please note that I've only read it once, and had borrowed the copy from a friend, the copy is the uncut longer version.

private message if we don't want to get to deep into a book discussion espically for those who have never read it.

[RayvenQ]

Speaking of Stephen King I'm now pondering re-reading the entire Dark Tower series again.

[Jack T. Chance]

After I finish my re-read of Childhood's End, next on the list will be...

1. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman... gonna re-read it in the author's preferred/definitive edition, with additions and revisions overseen by Haldeman himself.
2. Forever Free by Joe Haldeman, the sequel to The Forever War... only read this the one time, when it first came out, so I'm gonna re-read it, too.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I just finished A Plague of Angels (1993) by Sheri Tepper, and am now reading the sequel, The Waters Rising (2010). A Plague of Angels was excellent, and The Waters Rising is proving to be the same.

[AriGriffin]

I gave up on 'The Court of the Air' and 'The Kingdom Beyond the Waves,' both by Stephen Hunt.

I'm re-reading 'Ruby in the Smoke: A Sally Lockheart Mystery' by Philip Pullman. I loved the movies with Billie Piper as Sally so I read the books. I wish they had made the third book into a movie as it was my favorite.

[Peppergirl]

For any metal/hair band fans:

"My Appetite for Destruction", by Steven Adler - it was amazing. I am floored this guy is still alive. Pretty insightful for such an addict.

I'm on the waitlist at my library for Slash's autobiography.

"I am Ozzy", by ...well..Ozzy. I am 3/4 way through this and have laughed out loud SEVERAL times. Granted, I'm a huge Ozzy devotee, but I think it could be interesting for anyone with even a passing interest.

"The Heroin Diaries", by Nikki Sixx. This was tough to read. Insightful and honest, but alot of gory details. Kept my interest, though.

[ralerin]

For smut: The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Erotica. I need to get Best Fetish Erotica, and The Mammoth Book of Erotic Confessions and one more on sci-fi erotica that was EXTREMELY good (as in, well written and hot to read) but I can't look up the title right this second.

Right now I'm reading Edith Hamilton's Mythology of Ancient Greece and Rome. Can't decide if I should read the book on 5 tragic Greek and Roman plays or A Canticle For Leibowitz. I LOVE getting books for cheap from yard sales.