What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

[Clinton Huxley]

Cheers, KLR, will keep my eye out for 'em.

[redunderthebed]

I'm reading perfume: The story of a murderer by patrick suskind the protagonist is one screwed up little munchkin.

I just finished reading it holy fuck it is good its fucked up and disturbing right from the first page to the beginning and the ending is totally out of left-field and you will not see it coming.

Overall i highly recommend it i have no bloody idea what to read next though not that i'm short of options.

[Cormac]

I'm reading books 12 and 13 of the epic fantasy series "Wheel of Time", by Robert Jordan (with the assistance of Brandon Sanderson, since Robert passed away after book 11), in preparation for the final volume, "A Memory of Light", which has arrived...

Given that he finally died - is that series actually going to end.

I liked the first three books. Then he spoke in Trinity College Dublin, and announced his intention NEVER to finish the series. My impression was that this was an appalling attitude, and that it was going to make the series stink of stagnant cess.

I was right. The books badly lose their way, and progress becomes so insufferably slow, it kills the story entirely.

[Cormac]

I'm reading perfume: The story of a murderer by patrick suskind the protagonist is one screwed up little munchkin.

I just finished reading it holy fuck it is good its fucked up and disturbing right from the first page to the beginning and the ending is totally out of left-field and you will not see it coming.

Overall i highly recommend it i have no bloody idea what to read next though not that i'm short of options.

It is an odd one isn't it?

[JimC]

I'm reading books 12 and 13 of the epic fantasy series "Wheel of Time", by Robert Jordan (with the assistance of Brandon Sanderson, since Robert passed away after book 11), in preparation for the final volume, "A Memory of Light", which has arrived...

Given that he finally died - is that series actually going to end.

I liked the first three books. Then he spoke in Trinity College Dublin, and announced his intention NEVER to finish the series. My impression was that this was an appalling attitude, and that it was going to make the series stink of stagnant cess.

I was right. The books badly lose their way, and progress becomes so insufferably slow, it kills the story entirely.

He did get a little bogged down at times, but I still loved it. The guy who did the final 3 books, working from Jordan's notes, has done a really good job.

[redunderthebed]

I'm reading perfume: The story of a murderer by patrick suskind the protagonist is one screwed up little munchkin.

I just finished reading it holy fuck it is good its fucked up and disturbing right from the first page to the beginning and the ending is totally out of left-field and you will not see it coming.

Overall i highly recommend it i have no bloody idea what to read next though not that i'm short of options.

It is an odd one isn't it?

Odd indeed i really want to read his other book the pigeon.

[redunderthebed]

Reading a collection of short stories by katherine mansfield.

Just finished the first one it is wonderfully written she writes in such details that it is like she is painting a whole world for you as you read it and the story twists and turns and it wasn't chore to read it and the ending was ambiguous.

Can't wait to get to her next story.

[Tero]

Taking a break from murder mysteries for a while. I typically read ones that have been translated. But I read a Michigan one and two European ones. All three were such that I wont bother with those authors much. Pedophiles, DNA, bone marrow transfusions, faked death. All boring by now. And some writers get very repetitious with their whodoneit formula. One writer always has his cop get personnally involved with ssuspects and witnesses. He does not know it but his pattern is the same: the cop himself has to end up the loser, so the killer is whoever would be the worst case for the cop.

Watching a few BBC series though. It's less work than having to read them.

[anna09]

I had to give up on Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It took me three days just to get through 100 pages of that book; not a good sign!

Starting this now. . .

[Sean Hayden]

[Hermit]

I had to give up on Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It took me three days just to get through 100 pages of that book; not a good sign!

Starting this now. . .

I saw the film version a few years ago. Don't know why it was panned by the critics, and books that films are based on are in my experience almost always better. So, anticipate a good read.

I have a copy of Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin on my shelf waiting to be read. Going by the rate I am currently reading, watching films and listening to music, it may be a while till I get around to doing so.

[redunderthebed]

I just finished grapes of wrath what a freaking strange ending.

[redunderthebed]

Reading death in brunswick by boyd oxlade.....i'm enjoying an excellent australian novel.

[redunderthebed]

Finished it and it was excellent and macabre and messed up.

[redunderthebed]

aaand started john steinbeck's cannery row and finished it tonight awesome book loved gone and download all his books i could find.