My current reading list

[orangejesus]

Oh, reading material. . . How I love thee. . .
Currently my own plethora of reading material includes:
--reworking through all of Robert Kirkman's Walking Dead trades.
--halfway through A People's History of the Supreme Court by Peter Irons
--and I'm picking at bits and pieces of Hamlet (one of the inherent dangers of majoring in theatre is a sometimes obsessive interest in certain plays. Hamlet and the Scottish tragedy get me riled. Whatcha gonna do?

Also, there is always the Perpetual List. These are books (or series) that are always available either near the bedside or on the towel rack in the bathroom. These include, but are not limited to: Nick Hornby's High Fidelity, Garth Ennis's Preacher series, The Bible (many authors, some unknown), and any of the Hitchhiker's Guide tales by Douglas Adams.

I'm also plowing (or trodding, or really, after a year and a half of trying to finish, slogging) through The Wolves of Calla, by Stephen King. I've been working and reworking through the Dark Tower series for a full 12 years now, and I'm a little afraid to finish it. . .

Don't judge me on this gang, but I've heard badness about the ending and there really is a part of me that fears the real world ramifications if I find that King stopped listening to the voice of the Turtle for these last three books. What if I get to the end, recognize that he didn't tell the real story and the Tower really does fall? What happens to us then? Am I more than a little crazy? Damn. . . I really don't know.

[TheOogieBoogieMan]

Jul 21, 2008 2:21:47 GMT -5 orangejesus said:

Don't judge me on this gang, but I've heard badness about the ending and there really is a part of me that fears the real world ramifications if I find that King stopped listening to the voice of the Turtle for these last three books.

It depends on your definition of "badness." I thought the ending was technically very good (it actually left me stunned for a good while), but... well, I don't want to give too much away. Let's just say that, since I finished book seven a few months ago, reality has not been torn asunder.

[orangejesus]

Eh. . . I just don't know if I'm brave enough to try it. . .
*Cue sweeping sad music*
--I weep--

[deathproof]

Update...

"Pigeon Feathers" - John Updike
"Leaves of Grass" - Walt Whitman

That's in addition to all my class reading. It keeps me sane

[Head Mutant]

Just finished "The First Law" trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. Good stuff, awesome fights, great characterization. The plot seemed to meander a bit too much and the ending is fairly controversial, but there's apparently going to be more stand-alone books to take place after the trilogy.

Halfway through Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book. Excellent, excellent stuff. Reads like a short story collection.

[StarOpal]

Just started The Serpent and the Rainbow, by Wade Davis, and a little before that 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne.

[ismail]

hello guys

[blinkfan]

Oh Hi!

I just finished reading Stephen Kings "Everything's Eventual". The highlights would be the stories: The Death of Jack Hamilton, The Man in a black suit and Everything's Eventual. And today I ended my 4 year Stephen King binge by starting to read "Invisible Monsters" by Chuck Palaniuhk

[coccatino]

Who Can Save Us Now?: Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories

A collection of short stories about superheroes. fun so far.

[Al]

I just finished A Canticle for Leibowitz, I book I had never heard of and only picked up because I was stuck at work with nothing to read and thought the title sounded ridiculous. It turns out it's actually considered a sci-fi masterpiece! Go figure.

[BlackCatWhiteCat]

I just finished The Stand and now I'm on Michael Crichton's The Sphere.

Will she ever stray from her Stephen King/Michael Crichton binge? Stay tuned for more....

[StarOpal]

A little more than halfway through Auralia's Colors, by Jeffrey Overstreet. I'm not sure how I feel about it right now (I never decide until I finish the book, I've been burned too many times by books that were chugging along merrily only to fall apart at the end), but I hope it turns out well for me since I already have the second book in the series, Cyndere's Midnight, in my dangerously overgrown TBR pile.

[TheOogieBoogieMan]

At home, I'm reading The Uncrowned King by Kenneth Whyte; it's about William Randolph Hearst, but also covers a lot of post-Civil War history, and works as a "how to run a newspaper" textbook. Fascinating stuff.

Also, I keep a copy of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce in my backpack for when I'm at school. I can pick it up anytime and read a couple pages without having to remember the story (since...y'know...there isn't one). On top of that, I have a copy of The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom out. I'm not reading it yet, but it's only a matter of time...

[penguinslovedw]

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, as well as a marvelous copy of Dracula annotated by Leonard Wolf.

[BlackCatWhiteCat]

The Vampire Lestat. I never read Interview, but a reliable source who goes by the initials DTH tells me I can pick up the book from the movie and be fine. I'm enjoying it so far, though I'm not sure yet if it's because I like Ann Rice or that I'll read/watch just about anything involving vampires.

Except Twilight. I have my standards.