What are you reading?

[-Evil Shady-]

I read a lot. And I think that's probably true for at least some of the people here at THIA. Se I decided to start this topic so that people can recommend some books and talk about the one they're reading.

I'm currently reading Stephen King's "From a Buick 8".

It tells the story of this Buick that closed on a shed of Pensylvania State Police for more than 20 years. Some pretty weird things happened during all that time, like creatures and plants flying out of its trunk, and even one of the cops from that Troop disappeared soon after the car was discovered. It's a very intriguing book, I already read like half of it and I don't have a clue yet about what's with the car.
The only thing is must say is that King's style gets me tired some times. He wastes a lot of time describing something that doesn't even matter but, on the other hand, he gets very well into details of the important things. Anyway, a good read

Hope you guys like the topic

[Darkmoon]

'The Wheel of Time' by Robert Jordan. As in the whole series. Just to be clear, I read a normal novel in two, maybe three evenings. I'm not at the end of this series yet and it's taken me over two months.

They're good, well written stories with good characters. They border on Mary-sueism sometimes though. If you feel that doing anything else, ever is bad then definitely worth reading.

Oh, the only other complaint I have is book ten is barely worth reading. Very little happens in it.

[Guest]

I'm starting reading Marley & Me today, must be awesome

[Town of Green]

Perry's novels. I love bad movies, books, etc., and I just had to re-read these after finding them again. I'm not reading Caliban Cove (that's just a bit too bad) but I'll be reading the novelizations of RE1 and RE2. I remember liking "RE2: whatever it was" quite a bit.

[Vector]

Textbooks and more textbooks.

[aris13]

I am a big fan of Bret Easton Ellis and I read all his books: American Psycho, Less than Zero etc. Lately I started reading the works of Cormac McCarthy, at Christmas I read "No Country For Old Men" and last week I finished "The Road".

[Skunky]

I read lots (bookworms unite!)

@Evil Shady. I quite like Steven King too. I've been reading the epic 'Dark Tower' series. I gotta go to the library and borrow the 7th and final book. Aye, Gunslinger...

I had nothing to read at work last night so I took in Perry's Zero Hour and read that again. (I read all kinds of shit. Good and bad)

@Darkmoon. Robert Jordan. He's written a few Conan novels that I've read (I love Conan!).

@Aris. Cormac McCarthy is great! I read both of those books too. 'The Road' was one of the best books I've read in a long time. It was brilliant.

I would also recommend stuff by Philip K. Dick, William Peter Blatty, Robert E Howard and Clive Barker...

[TheSelfishGene]

I bought some new books to read. I've been dipping into each of them a little.


Australia United. About Australia's assault on the 2006 World cup.


An autobiography from 2002 about Rex Hunt, an Australian media celebrity.
In it he says about how wholesome he is, and how much he loves his family. In 2006 it was found out he has dealings with prostitues, and this year he's up on assault charges.
I'm reading it, all the while thinking the guy is lieing through his teeth.
Any Australians here will know what an idiot the guy is


Possibly my favourite book ever.
Tony Martin is a NZ comedian. These are crazy short stories from his past. I've read it a few times before, but it's so good I'm reading it again.

[Henry Spencer]

Funnily enough, I am also reading Cormac McCarthy's epic 'The Road' and I am really glad that I am. I'm also currently delving in and out of the most vile novel ever written (by far) William Burroughs' 'Naked Lunch'.

In one scene two characters are fornicating and setting themselves on fire, that is only the tip of the iceberg there is much, much senseless violence and disturbia. Really is the darkest piece of literature ever conceived. Bar none. Ever wanted to know the limits of fiction and how far writers can go? This is it.

[GuardhouseMusic]

Reading has been a bit dreary lately, I've entered a phase where I read a book for a variable amount of time then I just abandon it.

I got through over half of The Plague by Albert Camus and I'm currently trying on The Mask of Sanity by Hervey Cleckley. It's pretty cool, a bunch of interviews with psychopaths I believe around the 1950s but I haven't yet gotten to the meat of it.

I've heard good things about Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian." Can anyone vouch for it?

[nemesiswontdie]

i just got done reading "Johnny Got His Gun"
its a very good book, with some parts that i would honestly hate to happen to me.

its about a young man who goes into WW1 and gets hit by a bomb
and gets his arms and legs blown off and gets put on life support and cant talk,see,smell
or hear
theres this one part where hes in bed and a rat starts to eat him and he cant do anything
about it
damn that would hurt and be annoying

[aris13]

I've heard good things about Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian." Can anyone vouch for it?

It's Cormac McCarthy you don't have to worry about anything, just read it.

[Perry Barclay]

Undecied at the moment. just finished my last Resident Evil book and nearly done all the reading research on the Bismarck.
Think I'll plump for William Gibson's The Aesthetic Adventure.

[missvalentine]

i just got done reading "Johnny Got His Gun"
its a very good book, with some parts that i would honestly hate to happen to me.

its about a young man who goes into WW1 and gets hit by a bomb
and gets his arms and legs blown off and gets put on life support and cant talk,see,smell
or hear
theres this one part where hes in bed and a rat starts to eat him and he cant do anything
about it
damn that would hurt and be annoying

i could not read a book like that, it would be too depressing, i would hate to lose my limps.

and a rat eating you would be more than annoying it, it would give me mental scaring from being totaly helpless against it.

[-Evil Shady-]

@ Skunky: Philip K. Dick > all
He's my favorite author =D

I'm almost finishing the Buick, and now I'm between Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" and "Through The Looking Glass" o.o