[Books] What are you reading right now?

[inboundpaper]

I'm reading my way through Revan, Halo: First Strike, and Trainspotting.

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I used to read some sci-fi, even Warcraft books for a while, but these days, school forces me to read more and more scientific texts (linguistics and literary studies). Kinda hard to force myself to read something else afterwards, even though there are so many books waiting for me...

I wonder, how do people manage to read serious literature in their 20s? There's just so much to do!

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My latest ones are both Vespasian books by Robert Fabbri (can't wait for the third book to come out in January) and now I'm mentally preparing myself for The Hobbit by reading the book and now that's finished I'm reading LotR. I do quite like reading, I got myself a Kindle not too long ago and it's just made reading more enjoyable. So nice to just hold a flat little tablet instead of a book the size of a brick!

I mostly like fantasy books with the occasional historical fiction thrown in. After LotR most likely going to get Game of Thrones.

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I'm not much of a fan when it comes to reading...

But I do like the occasional adventure ..

Right now, I'm reading two books, or a novel, The Walking Dead and some other book with a NSFW name.

[Skizzit]

I am much more a fan of sci-fi then fantasy. Reading Neuromancer by William Gibson right now. After reading Ready Player One (great book btw) I was looking for a bit more serious cyberpunk book and decided to go with one of the tent poles of the genre. I have read it before, but it was many years ago and I barely remember it. Might go with Stephenson's Snow Crash next but I am not sure.

[cudomix]

Whatever I can get my hands on, i try to read at least 3-4 books every week. Specialization is for insects:P

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Currently readin "Perks of being a wallflower" for the third time

[Aronaz]

Lord of the Clans (again). Gonna write an assay about it for my english class as well. Exciting!

[obdigore]

"Red Country" by Joe Abercrombie.

Not really a fan of Westerns, but Abercrombie is awesome and I'm about 20% through the book and
He already set it up for a confrontation between Caul Shivers and Logen Ninefingers. Of course, since it is Abercrombie, they probably end up becoming blood brothers and killing all the 'bad' guys.

[Nest]

Currently reading:

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Just started reading The dark tower - The gunslinger

[Algore]

Will recieve Oil! and The Jungle this coming monday. As I've grown interest for Upton Sinclair's style of books, I plan to buy a couple more of his works; King Coal, namely, and more. Anyone have experience of Upton Sinclair? Which books are entertaining and worthy of reading?

[Panoramixe]

I've just read the 90 pages of introduction by the translator which consists solely of context and to be honest I'm loving it. For the rest I'm going to start on a lot of classics, just got me a BB Playbook and stuffing it with free eBooks now:
- The Odyssey of Homer
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Ulysses (The book most people stopped reading before the ending ever? Sounds like fun!)
- Star Wars EU since Disney said I shouldn't bother waiting for the movie
- Dracula - Bram Stoker

Any other suggestions for classics that are old enough to have lived beyond their copyright? (I do prefer my books free)

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Started reading The Walking Dead, like a week ago, only read one book. *.*

I need to read more, it's good and I like it a lot, I recommend it to anyone, especially people who like zombie stuff and a good story too.

[Puupi]

Currently reading this:

Next, I'm going to read this:

[Aphrel]

Currently reading Red Country by Joe Abercrombie.
This one also set in the same world as the other 5 books and follows up on the story about Logen ninefingers and also feature our favorite drunk mercenary captain Nicomo cosca
Nicomo cosca is hired by the union to root out rebels down in the old empire (talk about the wrong guy for the job^^), and logen ninefingers return to his farm to find 2 of his adopted children kidnapped and the farm burned down.. so he and his oldest "daughter" Shy goes on a hunt to get them back! (Logens first blood in this book is priceless!)

ON the horizon is Cold days by Jim butcher soon to be released!

[Deepsidedj]

Fifty shades of Beige

[Masark]

Just finished the Xenogenesis trilogy.

Going to start on the Mercy Thompson series while I wait for the next Dresden Files book (on the 29th)

[Zulandia]

Just finished the first two books in the Kingkiller Chronicle which I enjoyed extremely much and I'm now making me way through the Sprawl trilogy which is also fantastic thus far.

[Kraenen]

J.G. Ballard - The Voices of Time (short story)
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children

I'm a big fan of Ballard's writing. Both his style and theme (psychological, dystopian, industrial) are wonderful. It's the first time in a while I'd rather read something than play computer games. I'm reading Midnight's Children for a bit of the challenge and to get to know why he had an international hit put on him. It's hard to understand his style at first, but it's true what critics say - it's magical.