What book are you currently reading?

[Tom Hendricks]

Just finished reading Shogun and I'm perplexed. The novel itself is truly griping, after a slow start and some repetitive narrative the book really started to flow. However its ending is horrible, like he just lost steam and couldn't write any more. It felt like a movie ending, like the whole buildup was for nothing. Being this is the first book I have read by James Clavell, not sure if his other work is the same way. I wanted to read the whole battle, not a two paragraph summation. I wanted to know what Blackthorn did during the war, weather he accepted the marriage and consort?

 

[CaptainCanada]

He did, obviously; the novel basically ends once we get inside Toranaga's head at last and he reveals all his plans, including keeping Blackthorne around permanently.

The guy he's based on, William Adams, did indeed remain in Japan for the rest of his life.

 

[Stiletto]

Do audio books count?

I'm in the middle of Towers Of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, book 13 of the Wheel Of Time series. I started in December with the first one and the final one is due out late November or June 2012.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

Trying to figure out what to read next, then I decided to re-read Dune. I read Dune at least once a year, have been doing so since I was 14. I decided to read Dune now, just coming off Shogun because I feel a lot of the themes are similar. In fact I thought of Dune often while I was reading Shogun.

 

[CaptainCanada]

The Reluctant King: The Life and Reign of George VI, 1895-1952 by Sarah Bradford

1989 biography of George VI that was reputed to be the best (the author has written a number of other biographies, several of them royal-related, and apparently has one of Elizabeth II due out next year), but was out of print for years until the success of The King's Speech (this new edition even has a sticker on the cover saying "the full story behind The King's Speech" on it). At 600 pages, it's quite extensive, the author is clearly knowledgeable on the subject. It's also a particularly unflattering picture of Edward VIII and the Duchess of Windsor, the former's behaviour being attributed in great measure to being corrupted by the effusive public adulation of the 1920s.

 

[Nomad V]

Just finished Randy Lalonde's space opera (to date) "Spinward Fringe, Fragments". Just rereading Pournelle's "The Mote in God's Eye".

 

[Distorted Humor]

Trying to figure out what to read next, then I decided to re-read Dune. I read Dune at least once a year, have been doing so since I was 14. I decided to read Dune now, just coming off Shogun because I feel a lot of the themes are similar. In fact I thought of Dune often while I was reading Shogun.

I reread dune every year as well. Finished up in February.

 

[timothy]

that's how I feel on tolkien I do the scimilarion through to the return of the king.

still on star trek typhon pact: sieze the fire plan to finish it this week and then onto rough beast of empire.






hail to the king baby...

 

[NancyRoy]

Currently I am reading the threads in this forum. Nevertheless I have started reading “Bone & Cane” by David Belbin. This is an interesting fiction book.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Up to Proven Guilty on the great Dresden Re-read. I think I'm slightly ahead of schedule to get them all read before the release of Ghost Story.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

that's how I feel on tolkien I do the scimilarion through to the return of the king.

still on star trek typhon pact: sieze the fire plan to finish it this week and then onto rough beast of empire.






hail to the king baby...

I don't read The Lord of the Rings trilogy in the same calendar year, but I read at least one book a year. While I love LOTR, Dune is still my all time favorite with LOTR a close second.

 

[Saga]

reading Queen of the Damned

 

[speedingslug]

Just finished Bank's Transition, a lot like sliders but using drugs not electrical devices, I didn't like it as much as his space opera stuff.

Now reading Mieville's Kraken loving it very Lovecraft.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Dresden-athon is now up to Small Favor, hoping that'll be finished tomorrow then on to Turn Coat.

 

[SG-17]

I'm reading my leatherbound Barnes & Noble special edition of Jurassic Park and The Lost World until July 19th when The War That Came Early: The Big Switch by Harry Turtledove comes out.

 

[Kelthaz]

I'm reading "Equal Rites", the third Discworld book. When that's done I'll be starting "A Feast For Crows" with the intention of finishing before the next book comes out.

 

[BoxWhatBox]

I'm reading the latest 007 novel, "Carte Blanche," by Jeffery Deaver.

 

[Kirby]

I've been so busy at work I haven't been able to do much reading lately, but I have The 4 Hour Body, The Lamb's Supper, and QBQ all in various states of completion. I'm also way behind on reading some magazines.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Now reading Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Had already read World Without End, but after having seen the miniseries, I decided to pick up the book.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I have just finished reading "Snow Angels" by James Thompson. It is a crime mystery set in Finland. Thompson is an American who has lived in Finland for 12 years. This is the first book in a planned series about the the police detective Kari Vaara. "Snow Angels" was a passable first novel and I liked Vaara but thought his American wife was too perfect to be true. I also slightly disliked the fact that the book was written in the first person. 3.5/5.