What are you reading right now?

LoathsomePete · 01-16-2012, 03:45 PM

I just finished reading that one last week. A lot happened in the third book, so I won't spoil anything. I will say that I was quite pleased when I saw that my copy of the fourth book is only 1254 pages rather than 1697 that was the third.

RVCA · 01-20-2012, 12:35 AM

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Reading the third book in the Song of Fire and Ice series.

Whaaat a kawinky-dink! I just started Game of Thrones!

anticipation · 01-16-2012, 11:44 AM

**Janszoon** · 01-16-2012, 11:56 AM

Continuing on my streak of classics that I've never read before. Pretty good so far. The last time I read anything by Steinbeck I wasn't really at an age where I noticed the style of people's prose as much, but I'm finding the style of the writing in this book interesting. It's simple and unadorned writing. Honestly it sometimes feels a little like something written for children. Not that that's a bad thing, just interesting.

bob. · 01-16-2012, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Continuing on my streak of classics that I've never read before. Pretty good so far. The last time I read anything by Steinbeck I wasn't really at an age where I noticed the style of people's prose as much, but I'm finding the style of the writing in this book interesting. It's simple and unadorned writing. Honestly it sometimes feels a little like something written for children. Not that that's a bad thing, just interesting.

nice

i have also been thinking about re-reading and trying to read classics i've never read....starting with a re-read of Moby Dick and 1984 then attempting War And Peace

**Janszoon** · 01-16-2012, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by bob.

nice

i have also been thinking about re-reading and trying to read classics i've never read....starting with a re-read of Moby Dick and 1984 then attempting War And Peace

I have a little stack classics I got out of the library recently which I'm trying to work my way through before they're due back. After Torilla Flat the remaining books are Gulliver's Travels, Dracula and Treasure Island. I'm debating which to read first.

~~someonecompletelyrandom~~ · 01-16-2012, 11:57 AM

Starting a business. Thus I am reading The Art of War by Sun Tzu. It will probably effect my modding as well

ThePhanastasio · 01-16-2012, 09:31 PM

I also have a stack of classics...'

but I also have a stack of superhero novels...and my nerddom tells me that I should read the latter first.

Paedantic Basterd · 01-18-2012, 07:55 PM

High hopes for this, because Colin Meloy. I already know I love his verbose storytelling, so hopefully it translates smoothly into a series.

And just finished:

Which was a great deal of fun. A lot of deus ex machina in the plot, but so does every fantasy series suffer from it.

TouchMeImDick · 01-18-2012, 07:57 PM

Just finished "A Clockwork Orange". Now I'm going through Modern Drummer Magazines again.

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Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	High hopes for this, because Colin Meloy. I already know I love his verbose storytelling, so hopefully it translates smoothly into a series. And just finished: Which was a great deal of fun. A lot of deus ex machina in the plot, but so does every fantasy series suffer from it.