[Books] What are you reading right now?

[apepi]

I am still reading Speaker for the Dead, I have not had a lot of time to read....in other news the book I recently read is getting a tv show! Maybe it will give me a firefly feeling.

[Digglett]

Probably gonna pick up The Shining to read at some point, I kinda want to get he sequel Doctor Sleep when it comes out.

[vizzle]

#10 Malazan. Eh. Glad it will be over, but I'll miss a few characters.

[forwards1ca]

Probably gonna pick up The Shining to read at some point, I kinda want to get he sequel Doctor Sleep when it comes out.

Be prepared to not sleep when you're reading The Shining...he really did a fantastic job with that book, and it is freaky as all hell

[apepi]

Be prepared to not sleep when you're reading The Shining...he really did a fantastic job with that book, and it is freaky as all hell

Just remember to keep it in the freezer.

[NightZero88]

I am still reading Speaker for the Dead, I have not had a lot of time to read....in other news the bok I recently read is getting a tv show! Maybe it will give me a firefly feeling.

Ooh, I really enjoyed it. My dad and a lot of people on this forum actually stated they thought Card was a one hit wonder with Ender's Game but I personally have enjoyed all his books (Only two so far). I haven't read much in years but I read Ender's Game in about a week and Speaker for the Dead just as quick. Now I'm on to Children of the Mind.

If you enjoy speaker, there was a deal on Amazon where I got 9 books (the 4 ender series, 4 shadow series and ender in exile which takes place after ender's game) for about 40 bucks.

[Shockeye]

I really liked Ender's Game when I read it years ago, but I simply cannot read OSC now having realised he is a raging psychotic bigot.

Currently reading Saturn's Children by Charles Stross, about a biomechanical "pleasure companion" created by humans but born after the last humans became extinct. I just started and like Stross' other books I have read (Accelerando, Glasshouse), what it starts out as apparently being about turns into something quite different.

I have become quite fond of Stross and he has a significant body of work I'm looking forward to exploring.

[NightZero88]

I really liked Ender's Game when I read it years ago, but I simply cannot read OSC now having realised he is a raging psychotic bigot.

Yes, his views do bother me quite a bit but I won't let that stop me from seeing the movie (which I really hope is good!) or reading his books.

I personally don't understand people who refuse to a see movie because it has a certain actor. For example I have friends who flat out refuse to see any movie that has Tom Cruise in. I mean, I hate Leo DiCrapio. but I'll still watch his movies. This sort of logic just doesn't make sense to me.

[Deleted]

53% through Feast for Crows by George R R Martin.

First 40% of the book was rather slow but it's really picking up the pace now. Love it. CAN'T WAIT FOR DANCE OF DRAGONS.

[Henako]

Anything involving Warhammer 40k. Especially anything involving both that and Dan Abnett.

[Dasffion]

Yes, his views do bother me quite a bit but I won't let that stop me from seeing the movie (which I really hope is good!) or reading his books.

I personally don't understand people who refuse to a see movie because it has a certain actor. For example I have friends who flat out refuse to see any movie that has Tom Cruise in. I mean, I hate Leo DiCrapio. but I'll still watch his movies. This sort of logic just doesn't make sense to me.

I agree. I hate Tom Cruise for some indefinable reason, the only thing I think he's been really great in is Tropic Thunder and Rock of Ages. He's always in great movies though so I'd be missing out on a lot if I didn't see them because he's in them.

On Topic: OSC really isn't that bad about putting his own beliefs and feelings into his books, look at Alvin Maker, not a whole lot of Mormonism in there. If you want to see someone who puts their own beliefs into their books read Sword of Truth. Finally got through my reread of Sword of Truth and by the end it ended up feeling like a chore. Just got real tired of the repeated preaching.

Re-reading Sword of Shannara now.

[xylophone]

Started reading Brandon Sanderson's mistborn serie. I'm about 1/3 into the first book, not sure what to say, it's not bad but it's not mind blowing stuff either.

Well I liked it. The sequel to the trilogy was meh though imo.

OT: Just started the Hyperion Cantos today.

[obdigore]

I really liked Ender's Game when I read it years ago, but I simply cannot read OSC now having realised he is a raging psychotic bigot.

To be fair,w hen he wrote the first couple of the Enders series, he wasn't psychotic. I kind of think he contracted http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis and lost his shit at some point.

[Jero]

I just finished RA Salvatore's The Companions, which is fantasy, and now I am going to start Mark Levin's The Liberty Amendments, which is about the government. I like to change it up.

[Shockeye]

To be fair,w hen he wrote the first couple of the Enders series, he wasn't psychotic. I kind of think he contracted http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis and lost his shit at some point.

Heh, nice.

I do understand the not holding a person's personal beliefs or agenda against their artistic output, but Card, I just cannot, personally speaking, enjoy his stuff knowing he's so batshit crazy intolerant.
I mean, I really liked Ender's Game and I fully intend on seeing the movie as I've long thought it'd make for a great film. But reading a book is really getting inside an author's head and OSC's head is not somewhere I want to be or be invited to enter, if that makes any sense.

[Jero]

Heh, nice.

I do understand the not holding a person's personal beliefs or agenda against their artistic output, but Card, I just cannot, personally speaking, enjoy his stuff knowing he's so batshit crazy intolerant.
I mean, I really liked Ender's Game and I fully intend on seeing the movie as I've long thought it'd make for a great film. But reading a book is really getting inside an author's head and OSC's head is not somewhere I want to be or be invited to enter, if that makes any sense.

I don't know what this author's views are, but I always love this "logic". I am going to be completely intolerant of his views because I see his view as intolerant. I think I will call him a bigot too just to make myself feel better. Classic.

[Sand Person]

finishing dresden files "turn coat" for a second time. have a half chapter left.

[obdigore]

I don't know what this author's views are, but I always love this "logic". I am going to be completely intolerant of his views because I see his view as intolerant. I think I will call him a bigot too just to make myself feel better. Classic.

Thinking gays should be killed, blacks should be deported, and muslims should be executed is pretty intolerant. There is no reason to listen to or agree with someone like that. But good job trying to make yourself feel better by claiming that anyone who doesn't listen to small minded bigots is a small minded bigot themselves.

[Deleted]

Done with the massive Under The Dome and now it is time for the first Game of Thrones book! I know I am very late to the party

[Aero-]

Currently reading Mihail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. I've been recommended this one for years and I finally thought it would be time to get to it.