Any good books we're reading right now?

Viorica · **Joined:** Fri Dec 17, 2010 2:36 am **Posts:** 4

I'm currently engrossed with Bram Stoker's Dracula and Real Ghost Stories by Brad Steiger. I enjoy my heavy dosage of the supernatural

Xelinis · **Posted:** Fri Dec 17, 2010 9:36 pm

I'm about to begin reading One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Xelinis · **Posted:** Wed Jan 05, 2011 4:58 pm

I've just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude. It was quite a read.

KC_MCDOHL · **Posted:** Thu Jan 06, 2011 1:05 am

By that, do you mean it took you 100 years?

Xelinis · **Posted:** Fri Jan 07, 2011 3:16 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundre ... f_Solitude

tachikoma · **Joined:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:21 am **Posts:** 6

Recently started Game of Thrones after watching Season 1 of the show and loving it.
Also re-reading Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series - pretty fantasic!

Raww Le Klueze · **Joined:** Sat Jun 26, 2004 1:38 am **Posts:** 1375

The sad thing about Game of Thrones is that it's fantastic but from A Clash of Kings forward it's pretty much further downhill for each book.

Oppenheimer · **Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:17 am

I have to agree with Raww on that one. I had a bit of trouble getting through the last book and I am absolutely slogging through Dance with Dragons. Nothing has really happened for the last two books. Considering how exciting the first book this is very disappointing. He is in bad need of a good editor. The last two books were supposed to be one originally, they still should be. There are so many chapters that could be lifted entirely, or at the very least slashed of all their irrelevant fluff and combined with future chapters. I would like to see how the series ends but it's going to be torture getting there.

Rooks · **Joined:** Mon Jul 05, 2010 2:03 am **Posts:** 308

@Xelinis Yeah, Gabby Marquez's best work. It is likely to become a "classic" eventually, especially with the push towards feminism in academic circles.

Never Read Song of Ice and Fire or any of those. I have problems with modern fantasy, as C.S. Lewis and Tolkien were the last two to get it right, or even know that they were talking about. I guess it is just my exposure to medieval Lit that makes me think that though.

KC_MCDOHL · **Posted:** Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:02 pm

Anyone read Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay? I think thats a great fantasy novel. It feels very 'Suikodeny' to me also. I think it would be right up your street, Ryan.

Chris_Lightfellow · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:36 am

Rooks wrote:

Never Read Song of Ice and Fire or any of those. I have problems with modern fantasy, as C.S. Lewis and Tolkien were the last two to get it right, or even know that they were talking about. I guess it is just my exposure to medieval Lit that makes me think that though.

If you like Medieval, you would probably like the Song of Ice and Fire.

Nikisaur · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:39 am

You guys are making me want to REEEEEEAD. I wish I had time to read things outside the texts I'm studying.

DoReMi_Vampire · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:24 am

Haven't read too much lately, all I have time for at the moment is homework and sitting at this forum of course. I have however been listening to the audiobook of The Master and Margarita. Anyone know it?
It's basically about Satan coming to Russia to corrupt all it's people. There's a also a talking cat who likes beers and guns :mrgreen:

Nikisaur · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:00 am

DoReMi_Vampire wrote:

There's a also a talking cat who likes beers and guns :mrgreen:

Sold!

Xelinis · **Posted:** Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:16 am

Rooks wrote:

@Xelinis Yeah, Gabby Marquez's best work. It is likely to become a "classic" eventually, especially with the push towards feminism in academic circles.

I'm don't think I picked up on any of the feminist themes. The book indeed had some strong female characters, but they mostly stayed within the role that the culture dictated at that time. The primary themes I observed are recurrence, the non-linearity of time, and (of course) solitude.

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Gabby Marquez

You do know that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a man, right? :wink:

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