What Are You Currently Reading?

[Lamp Post]

I can't believe we don't have this thread, I went through all the threads looking for it.  Brought back such memories, too.  :D  Tell me if I, however, missed it.

 

So, pretty self explainatory.  What are you currently reading?  'Tis appreciated if you'd also say whether or not you'd recommend/not recommend the book, too, so everyone can expand their reading list.  :D 

 

I'm curretly reading:

 - Symphony of Ages Seires -- Elizabeth Haydon.  They're great.  I'm adoring them.

 - The Messenger -- Markus Zusak.  'Tis lovely.  Very down-to-Earth, great writing style, fast moving without too much action. 

 - The Gates -- John Connolly.  Only a few pages into it.  'Tis beyond amazing, though.  I love this author.

 

[nathan_p]

Romeo and Juliet is a black comedy.

[Xuut]

The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan. 

 

I meant to read this ages ago but never got to it. I like it even though it's mediocre at best, and somehow my favourite character is the violent old guy. Of course. 

[Doomy]

JUST FINISHED HERO OH MY GOD THAT WAS AWESOME. But the author seems like a total flake. It came out in '07, and the alleged sequel doesn't even have a title yet. It's 2011 Perry, time to get your rear in gear and give us our book!

[Contradiction]

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe - Charles Yu.

 

First couple of pages in, and it's wonderfully witty.

[nathan_p]

That's why I even read thrillers (when I do). I love guessing the plot twists.

 

I was so close to getting the one in the last Preston & Child book I read, too. Turns out it wasn't a parasite, it was the flu (vaguely stated for spoilers). Huh.

 

...Right now I'm slogging through a slang dictionary to rewire my mind in preparation for a 1960s-era fic. Award for funniest slang term of the night goes to "double-gaited".

 

What's it mean?

 

Go on.

 

Guess.

 

You'll never get it.

 

Bisexual.

 

I giggled a little.

[nathan_p]

Jaws is more of a mediocre thriller, really :\ I like Michael Crichton and Robin Cook, mostly, though Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, separately and as a team, do some pretty good work and are actually still writing.

 

1960s slang is both endearing and baffling :V

[Omega]

Naamah's Kiss, by Jacqueline Carey.

 

I'm not sure if I should be appalled at the amount of sex in this book. What I am amused about is that most of it is lesbian sex at the moment, and I can imagine my mother's reaction to this.... whew!

[EndOfTheEarth]

The Regulators --Stephen King.

Just got ANGEL though, so that's probably going to take a back seat for the weekend.

[MusicInTheWind]

Fall for Anything by Courtney Summers. I just started it and I already know I'm going to love it.

[Ovie! Ovie! Ovie! Oy! Oy! Oy!]

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

[EndOfTheEarth]

Mein Kampf, of all things, for a race and diversity course.
The guy doesn't even use sources...how the hell did people buy this?

[Fake]

...I just thought of Hitler posting Mein Kampf as a blog post and being ridiculed by 4chan over it, namely due to the absence of sources.

*Nervous, horrified laughter*