what are you reading?

We do indeed. Maybe we're just men of good taste...

Although I suppose I could cope with being a multiple personality, as long as you don't mind *Edited due to accidental innuendo...

Edited by hotknives - 10-Jan-2012 at 9:51pm

Sadly I'm a top...

My housemate is in the process of reading the first one. I was going to pilfer it and read it but he might hurt me...

Originally posted by Anna Raven By the way I really liked Ready Player One. It was kind of a mix of Tron with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, sprinkled liberally with tons of geeky pop-culture and video game references.

I was disappointed in it. It was a great concept and the plot had it's moments but it's characters were horrible and one dimensional. The main character has something horrific happen because of him and while it could have been a great character moment for character growth, nothing came of it. The most character growth came from a one dimensional relationship.

So while parts of the book was good, it faltered, IMO, on the most important aspect of the book; the characters.

'Rivers of London' is good, halfway through and I like that you're just thrown straight into the plot, although I dislike the fact that the main character is so far pretty unsurprised by the supernatural turn his life has taken.

Yes, that irked me somewhat. I know they need to move the plot along, but going from not believing in magic/the supernatural to living with a wizard, fraternising with the souls of rivers, talking to ghosts, and doing spells, all seems rather a jump in the space of a week!

That said, I did enjoy the book. I've bought the second one, but have yet to read it, I'm attempting to read the complete History of MI5, which is a massive tome

The Masked superhero prose anthology with stories from Bill Willingham, Mike Carey, Gail Simone, and Marjorie M. Liu is a bargain book for $6 at Amazon.com right now. I'd say go for it, just for the talent involved. While I haven't read it (because my own copy just got ordered when I saw the price), I think based on the talent alone it'll be enjoyable.

I just finished "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys, a modernist take on Jane Eyre from the point of view of the Creole wife of Rochester and him, sort of a prequel. As I hate Jane Eyre and this book mostly points out the horrible racism that Creole women dealt with, and the sexism of the age, it was a gem. I love work by Rys.

Originally posted by Cable In my years long quest to get through them all, yesterday I officially finished my 90th Star Wars novel. Not counting the young adult books, I have a little over 60 more to go. I then might end up reading the YA novels as well which believe it or not would add over 100 more books to the pile.

Ho. Lee. f**k.

I'm just starting Game of Thrones. It's slightly jarring going from the TV series to the novels, but still, enjoying it so far.

DUDE! Which book was that?!

Ha, my love for Austen would be a lot greater if that was the case.

It's called Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, by Cory Doctorow. I picked it up in a budget bookstore near my office for a couple of quid. I mainly bought it because I like the cover, but I enjoyed it.

I'm trying to flit between my reading for Uni, and the two other books I have on the go - A biography of Henry VII, and The Strangers Chid by Alan Hollinghurst

That's what I love about the summer. The pile of comics that's just gotten higher the last four months is starting to get smaller.