What are you reading right now?

[O.Supreme]

I usually dont post here because I figure people would get sick of my endless posts about Star Wars Novels I am constantly reading. But Recently I found this book by a comedian I have quickly become very fond of.



Of course we have a lot in common. Wife, kids, love to eat etc... I really enjoyed his stand-up routines on Netflix, and when I quite randomly saw this book at Target I had to get it. Hilarious stuff! I highly reommend it to anyone who loves clean comedy.

[MekaGojira3k]

[O.Supreme]

[Destroysall]

[Psycho Soldier]

I recently finished a collection of stories by Nikolai Gogol. Sometimes they ramble more than I find interesting, but overall, they clicked with me. I know that he influenced David Lynch a fair bit. Given how strange and surreal their works can be, that's easy enough to see. Also, I feel "The Portrait" should be mandatory reading for any artist.

Started Jack London's White Fang this evening. So far, the writing style and plot have me interested.

[MekaGojira3k]

Started Ready Player One today. I'm 76 pages in and this has the potential to be one of my favorite books.

[MekaGojira3k]

I finished Ready Player One. TONS of Kaiju references...

hell, the final battle is Ultraman vs. Kiryu. If you like video games, even a littler bit, or are even just a general geek you should read this book.

[canofhumdingers]

[Shonokin]

Well, I don't know if it qualifies as "reading" but Ima going to be pouring over this for a while. I've been told it's rare and expensive. But with some detective work I snagged it for $23.




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[jellydonut25]

[Dr Kain]

[jellydonut25]

Ender's Game - fantastic book. One of the best I've read in a good long while.

Speaker for the Dead - not as good as Ender's Game, but it's got a certain understated tension running through the whole thing that I found engrossing.

Xenocide - meh. Too philosophical, too wordy, too inconsequential...the whole thing was just...ehhhh...kinda boring.

[lhb412]

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

[MekaGojira3k]

Just finished Ender's Game.
Eh.
Maybe people hyped it up too much for me. I was sort of just like, okay, this is kind of alright
minus all of the embarrassing attempts at dialogue amongst children. I don't know. I really feel
like it was the hype.

[Silver Kamen]

The Godzilla Chronicles Volume 3.

[klen7]

[jellydonut25]

I loved Ender's Game. It had almost no hype for me, other than being one of "those" books that you "should" read...but I've run across SO MANY of "those" that I've not liked over the years, I had no expectations.

I think the movie will be pretty bad though, and I can't even see it working.

[Silver Kamen]

[Destroysall]

Started reading this again:

[lhb412]

Dracula by Bram Stoker

[Silver Kamen]

[jellydonut25]

[Silver Kamen]

[quote="jellydonut25"It's the same kind of book throughout, it's just that the second half doesn't DO much.

I remember reading it a few years ago, and for the first half wondering what everyone in high school who was forced to read it (I wasn't) was talking about when they said it was boring. Then I got to the second half of the book and said, "oohhh....it is kinda boring"[/quote]

Yeah, I understand what your saying. Though there is just such a contrast with the first half, compared to the second half.

[sentaison]

Steelheart-by Brandon Sanderson. It's set in a world where a number of people have superpowers and have used them to set themselves up as rulers over different parts of the world. It's set in "Newcago" which is what is left of Chicago after the titular character takes over. The story's hero and the band of freedom fighters he joins up with have no superpowers, just some advanced tech. And each superpowered being, called Epics in the story, has a weakness. The trick is to find out what it is with each Epic and then find a way to exploit it. A really decent read and interesting world. I'm only about 1/4 of the way through it, but it's one of the more interesting "supers" books I've read recently.

[klen7]

interesting... i've read some of his other books, and it seems like he saves all the big stuff for the end