What are you reading?

Astaroth Location: Denver, CO Posts: 248 KARMA: 22122

I didn't see this topic anywhere in the forum and this seems like the right subforum for it. What's everyone currently reading?

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Between reading school textbooks I'm trying to slog my through George R. R. Martin's "A Dance with Dragons". I've been following the Song of Ice and Fire series since the second book and pretty much re-read the series whenever a new book is published. This new one is somewhat of a letdown and the story seems to have gotten away from Martin a bit. Supposedly he has an end in mind, so hopefully he can pull all of threads together in two more books. The dude isn't very prolific so it could be awhile, but if he truly has an end in mind maybe it'll be a bit quicker than the writing of previous books.

Subject: Re: What are you reading? Sun Feb 12, 2012 12:09 pm

Kuwa Slayne wrote:

Between reading school textbooks I'm trying to slog my through George R. R. Martin's "A Dance with Dragons". I've been following the Song of Ice and Fire series since the second book and pretty much re-read the series whenever a new book is published. This new one is somewhat of a letdown and the story seems to have gotten away from Martin a bit. Supposedly he has an end in mind, so hopefully he can pull all of threads together in two more books. The dude isn't very prolific so it could be awhile, but if he truly has an end in mind maybe it'll be a bit quicker than the writing of previous books.

I finished that one a while ago. I liked it, I'm still interested in everything that's happening, so no complaints from me. Currently I'm reading The Name of the Wind and have hit a huge wall near the end where I'm having a hard time staying interested enough to just push on through...

After I do finish though I have two books to pick from: The Blade Itself and A Deepness in the Sky.

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wyrenn wrote:

Kuwa Slayne wrote:

Between reading school textbooks I'm trying to slog my through George R. R. Martin's "A Dance with Dragons". I've been following the Song of Ice and Fire series since the second book and pretty much re-read the series whenever a new book is published. This new one is somewhat of a letdown and the story seems to have gotten away from Martin a bit. Supposedly he has an end in mind, so hopefully he can pull all of threads together in two more books. The dude isn't very prolific so it could be awhile, but if he truly has an end in mind maybe it'll be a bit quicker than the writing of previous books.

I finished that one a while ago. I liked it, I'm still interested in everything that's happening, so no complaints from me. Currently I'm reading The Name of the Wind and have hit a huge wall near the end where I'm having a hard time staying interested enough to just push on through...

After I do finish though I have two books to pick from: The Blade Itself and A Deepness in the Sky.

Yeah, I'm still interested in the story and invested in the characters, it's just not the page-turner that the first three books were.

I haven't read The Name of the Wind, but I've heard a lot of good things and a few people have recommended it to me.

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The following is what i am actively reading right now...not including textbooks and stuff related to school...

Book 4-Aleister Crowley
About Behaviorism-B.F. Skinner
Dreams of Terror and Death (the dream cycle of H.P. Lovecraft)-H.P. Lovecraft
Origin of Species-Charles Darwin
The Great Shark Hunt-Hunter S. Thompson

Subject: Re: What are you reading? Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:59 am

Albert Camus- The Myth of Sisyphus Smile

philosophical essay on Absurd. I recommend it, for everyone who is always questing himself: what is the sense of life"..

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Subject: Re: What are you reading? Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:46 am

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Subject: Re: What are you reading? Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:49 am

Ed wrote:

is is worth reading? I am more interested in his work with Sabbath and Purple than anything else.

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Subject: Re: What are you reading? Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:01 am

Elmore Leonard - The Big Bounce

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Subject: Re: What are you reading? Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:21 am

Doomed poet wrote:

Ed wrote:

is is worth reading? I am more interested in his work with Sabbath and Purple than anything else.

Yes it is. His battle with Cocaine addiction was extreme so there are some interesting stories there. If you are a fan, you probably know 99% of it already but it is still a good read. This might seem weird but I think Purple was the band that suited Hughes the least. I love Purple but Hughes to me sounds much better in Trapeze and in his solo work than with Purple.

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Subject: Re: What are you reading? Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:00 am

Ed wrote:

Doomed poet wrote:

Ed wrote:

is is worth reading? I am more interested in his work with Sabbath and Purple than anything else.

Yes it is. His battle with Cocaine addiction was extreme so there are some interesting stories there. If you are a fan, you probably know 99% of it already but it is still a good read. This might seem weird but I think Purple was the band that suited Hughes the least. I love Purple but Hughes to me sounds much better in Trapeze and in his solo work than with Purple.

I don't know much outside of Sabbath and Purple and I am not a big fan of those two eras, but I would like to know everything connected to Sabbath Smile

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Subject: Re: What are you reading? Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:13 am

Doomed poet wrote:

Ed wrote:

Doomed poet wrote:

Ed wrote:

is is worth reading? I am more interested in his work with Sabbath and Purple than anything else.

Yes it is. His battle with Cocaine addiction was extreme so there are some interesting stories there. If you are a fan, you probably know 99% of it already but it is still a good read. This might seem weird but I think Purple was the band that suited Hughes the least. I love Purple but Hughes to me sounds much better in Trapeze and in his solo work than with Purple.

I don't know much outside of Sabbath and Purple and I am not a big fan of those two eras, but I would like to know everything connected to Sabbath Smile

I haven't got to the Sabbath era in the book as yet but I have scanned through the pages and there doesn't seem to be much on that era anyway so I wouldn't buy it for that alone. I am not a big fan of the Hughes/Purple era either. Burn was solid but it went downhill after that.

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Doomed poet wrote:

Albert Camus- The Myth of Sisyphus Smile

philosophical essay on Absurd. I recommend it, for everyone who is always questing himself: what is the sense of life"..

Nice, I'm a pretty big Camus fan. His short story collection "Exile and the Kingdom" does a nice job of boiling down the existential viewpoint and definitely showcases the absurd. I also really liked "The Stranger".

Subject: Re: What are you reading? Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:45 am

Kuwa Slayne wrote:

Doomed poet wrote:

Albert Camus- The Myth of Sisyphus Smile

philosophical essay on Absurd. I recommend it, for everyone who is always questing himself: what is the sense of life"..

Nice, I'm a pretty big Camus fan. His short story collection "Exile and the Kingdom" does a nice job of boiling down the existential viewpoint and definitely showcases the absurd. I also really liked "The Stranger".

I haven't read Exile and the Kingdom so far, but I had read The Stranger and it is a masterpiece

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Doomed poet wrote:

Kuwa Slayne wrote:

Doomed poet wrote:

Albert Camus- The Myth of Sisyphus Smile

philosophical essay on Absurd. I recommend it, for everyone who is always questing himself: what is the sense of life"..

Nice, I'm a pretty big Camus fan. His short story collection "Exile and the Kingdom" does a nice job of boiling down the existential viewpoint and definitely showcases the absurd. I also really liked "The Stranger".

I haven't read Exile and the Kingdom so far, but I had read The Stranger and it is a masterpiece

The Stranger was excellent, i've heard Exile and the Kingdom is good from a philosophical point but not a good sample of Camus' nonfiction work in general.

Subject: Re: What are you reading? Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:34 pm

I used to have a bunch of Camus' stuff... but looking on my shelf I can't find any. The ex must have taken them.

Subject: Re: What are you reading? Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:29 pm

Palo Mayombe - Carlos Montenegro

Became interested in this after watching the movie named Borderland very strange stuff.

Subject: Re: What are you reading? Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:47 pm

wyrenn wrote:

I used to have a bunch of Camus' stuff... but looking on my shelf I can't find any. The ex must have taken them.

then you must buy it, because it is really worth buying Smile

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Doomed poet wrote:

wyrenn wrote:

I used to have a bunch of Camus' stuff... but looking on my shelf I can't find any. The ex must have taken them.

then you must buy it, because it is really worth buying Smile

I second that notion...excellent author. You can get his anthology/collected works from amazon for like $17.

Subject: Re: What are you reading? Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:43 pm

perdurabo wrote:

Doomed poet wrote:

wyrenn wrote:

I used to have a bunch of Camus' stuff... but looking on my shelf I can't find any. The ex must have taken them.

then you must buy it, because it is really worth buying Smile

I second that notion...excellent author. You can get his anthology/collected works from amazon for like $17.

It'll have to go on the 'list'. And the 'list' is already pretty long, and definately longer than my wallet.

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Subject: Re: What are you reading? Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:29 am

Just finished The Name of The Wind... ending saved it for me and now I do want to continue with the next one. Fliped a coin and started reading The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. So far so good.

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Subject: Re: What are you reading? Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:30 am

Oscar Wilde- Picture of the Dorian Grey

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Subject: Re: What are you reading? Sat Mar 03, 2012 9:46 am

Flying through The Blade Itself... better than I expected.

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Subject: Re: What are you reading? Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:51 pm

Just finished. I havn't flown through a book this fast in along time. So into it, instead of reading one of the many books I actually have to read, I'm going to have to go get the next two in this series... good-bye once again spending money.

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Leviathan Location: Michigan Posts: 555 KARMA: 38542

Started reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy last night...liking what i've read so far.

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perdurabo wrote:

Started reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy last night...liking what i've read so far.

Great book! There's some pretty dark stuff in there. Child of God and Blood Meridian are really good, too.

Subject: Re: What are you reading? Fri Mar 09, 2012 7:27 am

Dracula- Bram Stocker

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Doomed poet wrote:

Dracula- Bram Stocker

Classic

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Kuwa Slayne wrote:

perdurabo wrote:

Started reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy last night...liking what i've read so far.

Great book! There's some pretty dark stuff in there. Child of God and Blood Meridian are really good, too.

Yeah i'm thinking all of my other reading is going on the back burner until i get this one finished. I started reading it last night and chewed through 50 pages in my first sitting, hope to have it done by the end of the weekend.

Subject: Re: What are you reading? Fri Mar 09, 2012 7:46 am

perdurabo wrote:

Doomed poet wrote:

Dracula- Bram Stocker

Classic

it trully is. If I remember it right, when I was a child I read it once ( but in my own language). Now I am enjoying reading the original one..

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Doomed poet wrote:

perdurabo wrote:

Doomed poet wrote:

Dracula- Bram Stocker

Classic

it trully is. If I remember it right, when I was a child I read it once ( but in my own language). Now I am enjoying reading the original one..

Yeah, Dracula is excellent. It's funny, I have a leather bound copy that also includes Frankenstein. I've read Dracula about three times and have never gotten around to reading Frankenstein. It's up there on my list, though.

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Kuwa Slayne wrote:

Doomed poet wrote:

perdurabo wrote:

Doomed poet wrote:

Dracula- Bram Stocker

Classic

it trully is. If I remember it right, when I was a child I read it once ( but in my own language). Now I am enjoying reading the original one..

Yeah, Dracula is excellent. It's funny, I have a leather bound copy that also includes Frankenstein. I've read Dracula about three times and have never gotten around to reading Frankenstein. It's up there on my list, though.

Oh man, you've gotta read Frankenstein...it is excellent.

Subject: Re: What are you reading? Sat Mar 10, 2012 12:13 am

perdurabo wrote:

Kuwa Slayne wrote:

Doomed poet wrote:

perdurabo wrote:

Doomed poet wrote:

Dracula- Bram Stocker

Classic

it trully is. If I remember it right, when I was a child I read it once ( but in my own language). Now I am enjoying reading the original one..

Yeah, Dracula is excellent. It's funny, I have a leather bound copy that also includes Frankenstein. I've read Dracula about three times and have never gotten around to reading Frankenstein. It's up there on my list, though.

Oh man, you've gotta read Frankenstein...it is excellent.

I will after I will read Dracula. I have a kindle app on mobile, so I can download both Dracula and Frankenstein for free. Oh yes, right now I am also reading I am Ozzy and I have almost finished with it...

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Subject: Re: What are you reading? Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:24 am

Started reading A Deepness in the Sky while I wait for the sequels to The Blade Itself. Really good science fiction if anyone is into sci-fi.

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Subject: Re: What are you reading? Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:08 am

I just finished The Hunger Games (My girlfriend was going to make me see it anyway, might as well read it)

Started Tony Iommi - Iron Man
I am digging it so far

Next will be some HP Lovecraft

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Subject: Re: What are you reading? Tue Mar 20, 2012 1:14 pm

Ugh. The Hunger Games. I just need to remember that it's YA, and all my complaints don't matter to 14 year olds.

I gaurantee that the Lovecraft stuff will be better. Because he's awesome. Racist as shit, but an awesome writer.

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wyrenn wrote:

Ugh. The Hunger Games. I just need to remember that it's YA, and all my complaints don't matter to 14 year olds.

I gaurantee that the Lovecraft stuff will be better. Because he's awesome. Racist as shit, but an awesome writer.

Yeah my girlfriend is reading the hunger game series right now...she's tried talking me into to reading but i don't compromise on that sort of shit. I am currently in the midst of reading The Case of Charles Dexter Ward...no one can touch Howard Phillips. Just about done with Crowley's Book 4 too and when i'm done with that i plan on beginning Beyond Good and Evil or The Devil Rides Out not sure yet.

Subject: Re: What are you reading? Tue Mar 20, 2012 1:35 pm

perdurabo wrote:

wyrenn wrote:

Ugh. The Hunger Games. I just need to remember that it's YA, and all my complaints don't matter to 14 year olds.

I gaurantee that the Lovecraft stuff will be better. Because he's awesome. Racist as shit, but an awesome writer.

Yeah my girlfriend is reading the hunger game series right now...she's tried talking me into to reading but i don't compromise on that sort of shit. I am currently in the midst of reading The Case of Charles Dexter Ward...no one can touch Howard Phillips. Just about done with Crowley's Book 4 too and when i'm done with that i plan on beginning Beyond Good and Evil[/i] or [i]The Devil Rides Out not sure yet.

I haven't read that so far, but I have it prepared on my Kindle... I love Nietzsche, even if I am more an opponent of his philosophy...

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Subject: Re: What are you reading? Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:27 am

Stayed up till 4 am reding to get A Deepness in the Sky finished. Great book, the ending was awesome. On to Before They are Hanged.

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Subject: Re: What are you reading? Sun Apr 15, 2012 1:53 pm

Finished the First Law trilogy. Pretty good... if you like bloodshed check it out. On to Memory, Sorrow and Thorn.

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