What book(s) are you reading right now?

[ControlD]

Then do it now. It gets soooooo much worse.

Hmm. I quite liked that series and thought it got better as it went along. I seem to recall the third or fourth book was hard to keep reading though.

 

[highland145]

FYI Amazon has a new kindle unlimited for $10/mo. 700K titles. Might be worth looking at.

 

[Oyeve]

Hmm. I quite liked that series and thought it got better as it went along. I seem to recall the third or fourth book was hard to keep reading though.

Book 6 and 7, I just couldn't keep up. It just totally derailed itself. I managed to finish the series but it left me feeling so flat.

 

[ControlD]

I'm currently reading the second Malazan book, "Deadhouse Gates". I find these books to be somewhat fascinating to read because the amount of history that Erikson put into his world is almost mind boggling. At the same time, these books are hard to read. I feel like every story starts in the middle without any setup. Maybe that's done intentionally, but I find the books to be engrossing and yet frustrating at the same time.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Ok, this was what I was digging for sadly.

How did you like the way The Hollows series played out?

I used to call Harrison "my guilty pleasure" but she became "my guilty bore".

I have not read the final book yet, but overall I have not been impressed with the last few books. The series has a real problem with power creep, and in doing so lost a lot of what made it interesting. It forgot that it was about a witch, a vampire, and a pixie fighting crime, while worring about paying the rent, and became a godlike being saving the world singlehandedly all while worrying about if the cute guy is going to ask her out.

 

[SMOGZINN]

I've been reading the last two books in The Acts of Caine, Caine Black Knife and am currently reading the last book in the series Caine's Law.

I thought that Caine Black Knife was a sci-fantasy book, it turns out that it is a brilliant essay on the proper use of profanity. The Acts of Caine books are about someone that is not a hero. In fact in any other book he would be the villain. One of the things I enjoyed about this book is just how colorful his vocabulary is.

If you have read the first two Caine books the story is really more of the same, just this time it tells us the story of how his career started in between chapters of his returning 20 years later to the place where he became the world's most loved and hated anti-hero.

Overall I enjoyed the book.

I'm still reading Caine's Law. I'm currently about half way through it, and I have to say that it is very different from the last three books. I'll withhold judgement on it until I'm finished.

 

[dainthomas]

I'm currently reading the second Malazan book, "Deadhouse Gates". I find these books to be somewhat fascinating to read because the amount of history that Erikson put into his world is almost mind boggling. At the same time, these books are hard to read. I feel like every story starts in the middle without any setup. Maybe that's done intentionally, but I find the books to be engrossing and yet frustrating at the same time.

I spent probably at least a year plowing through that series and was thoroughly exhausted by the end of book five. I'm currently on hiatus from it for a while.

 

[DigDog]

made it through two whole chapters of au boneur des ogres before i realized i had read it already.
also, the spy who came in from the cold. read the first chapter, then went and watched the film.
watched intro of the film, then went on wikipedia and read the plot.

bascally i got teh whole thing done in 20 minutes.

 

[Pheran]

FYI the whole Mistborn trilogy is $5.75 right now on Amazon for Kindle. I grabbed it based on some previous positive comments here. Maybe I will read it after I finish Slow Burn book 6.

EDIT: Dammit, I didn't realize this was more than a trilogy. Looks like book 4 is out and 5 is coming.
EDIT2: Oh, but book 4 is some add-on thing, not the main series. Well that's not so bad.

 

[disappoint]

I've always wondered whether there's a point in people's lives (I'm thinking of an age) where they stop reading self-help books. I mean if you're 50 and you're still trying to find the true inner-you, you ain't never going to find it.

Yes there are points where people stop reading self help books. When they are dead, when they are brain dead or when they are trying to escape reality by reading fiction instead. Any one or more of those can happen at any age.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Yes there are points where people stop reading self help books. When they are dead, when they are brain dead or when they are trying to escape reality by reading fiction instead. Any one or more of those can happen at any age.

I think there is also a point in your life where you realize that they are all complete BS, and that the author of the awesome 'How to save your marriage in 5 easy steps' book just got his 5th divorce last year.

Then a year later you see that 'How to be the best you you can be' and think, yes! I want to be the best me I can be and another BS artist gets another $20.

 

[disappoint]

I think there is also a point in your life where you realize that they are all complete BS, and that the author of the awesome 'How to save your marriage in 5 easy steps' book just got his 5th divorce last year.

Then a year later you see that 'How to be the best you you can be' and think, yes! I want to be the best me I can be and another BS artist gets another $20.

Oh how cute you're trying to sound smart by being cynical.

 

[Mai72]

It's an audiobook titled "A Man's Search for Meaning" by Victor Frankl.

This book will change your life. Victor was a prisoner in the concentration camps in Germany. How do you go on when everyone around you is either dead or dying. He was able to do it.

By Victor Frankl...

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

 

[DainBramaged]

I just finished The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia by Alfred McCoy, a professor up at UW-Madison. Absolutely fascinating and revealing book. It made me feel like a dumb American. I had no idea how complicit the British Empire had been in the creation of an opium-addled workforce in China. I never realized how little responsibility the US government took for the creation of a heroin-addled military. And I never had any idea how much the CIA not just KNEW about this all, but actually DID to create all of this mess. Amazing book.

I'm now reading Street Without Joy by Bernard Fall, concerning the French Indochina War in Vietnam.

 

[Muse]

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

Well written, informed. She's a journalist, so knows how to keep her reader interested in at-times rather detailed scientific material. Changes up nicely to keep things lively. Full of interesting personal/professional but not cloying stories. Not proselytizing, you are left to draw your own conclusions, your own feelings. I'm ~1/2 way through.

Water 4.0 by David Sedlak

He's a professor, and I believe it's his first book for popular consumption. Not as entertaining as the other book. However, this book is providing me with information I have never encountered about things that are fundamental to human civilization: usable water and the problems concerning waste. It's both historical and scientific. I'm around 25% into it. He starts with the Romans and takes it from there to the present time and extrapolates, explaining where things can go from here.

 

[Muse]

Yes there are points where people stop reading self help books. When they are dead, when they are brain dead or when they are trying to escape reality by reading fiction instead. Any one or more of those can happen at any age.

I haven't read any fiction in memory. Yes, it's been years. No, I take that back, a few months ago I read a book highly recommended by that girl who was shot by the Taliban in Afghanistan and won the Nobel Prize. She said it was her favorite book: The Alchemist. It was a pretty meh experience for me.

I got an email last week from a former coworker inviting me to attend a local reading by her at a book store of her first novel. I downloaded it to my Kindle, and will read at least some of it before the event next month.

I'm so interested in non-fiction, I have no inclination to seek out fiction. As a kid I read a lot of science fiction, however, it was the genre that got me really interested in reading. I think nowadays a lot of non-fiction has much of the same appeal I got from science fiction back in the day.

 

[nickbits]

Stephen king dark tower series. Currently on book 5/7

 

[Brainonska511]

About a week ago, I finished off The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. I need to pick up the next two in the trilogy, as it was a pretty good read. In the meanwhile, I'll probably start Love in the Time of Cholera by Marquez.

 

[SKORPI0]

About to start this after part 3-Genesis.

http://www.amazon.com/Millennium-Pro...02ZD9YXZB0202D

Hard to find in print/cheap of the Projekt Saucer series by W.A.Harbinson
http://www.changingthetimes.net/bookreviews/project_saucer.htm

 

[DainBramaged]

I'm so interested in non-fiction, I have no inclination to seek out fiction.

I have a TON of fiction I want to read, I just don't have the time. And it's hard to justify fiction compared to non-fiction of almost tangible importance.

 

[Pheran]

Now in the middle of Mistborn, I'm really enjoying it. Interesting magic system too.

 

[pontifex]

Just finished Service: A Navy SEAL at War by Marcus Lutrell (the guy who wrote Lone Survivor).
http://www.amazon.com/Service-Navy-SEAL-Marcus-Luttrell/dp/031618537X

Very good. I enjoyed it a lot.

Now reading:
Finn Mac Cool by Morgan Llywelyn
http://www.amazon.com/Finn-Celtic-Wo.../dp/0312877374

Just started it so not that far in. I love Irish mythology. It's ok so far, nothing special yet.

 

[Superself]

About a week ago, I finished off The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. I need to pick up the next two in the trilogy, as it was a pretty good read. In the meanwhile, I'll probably start Love in the Time of Cholera by Marquez.

Im on Before They Are Hanged right now. I'm hooked.

 

[Superself]

Now in the middle of Mistborn, I'm really enjoying it. Interesting magic system too.

I enjoyed this trilogy as well.

 

[thedarkwolf]

Just finished the Mistborn trilogy and while I enjoyed the magic system I thought the story was just ok. I loved Joe Abercrombie's First Law books and really want to red the newest set in that world Red Country but my local library doesn't have a copy yet.