Books you are reading right now

[Darrell]

The Last Command. The final installment of the Grand Admiral Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn.

/nerd

 

[brieze]

About to start Deception Point by Dan Brown.

Reps for Dan Brown goodness.

I just got done with the first book in The Looking Glass Wars series. I'm about to start the second. It's a good twist on Alice in Wonderland.

Alyss Heart, heir to the Wonderland throne, was forced to flee through the Pool of Tears after a bloody palace coup staged by the murderous Redd shattered her world. Lost and alone in Victorian London, Alyss is befriended by an aspiring author to whom she tells the surreal, violent, heartbreaking story of her young life only to see it published as the nonsensical children’s sojourn Alice in Wonderland. Alyss had trusted Lewis Carroll to tell the truth so that someone, somewhere would find her and bring her home.

It's pretty good.

 

[retro]

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

 

[Abcinthia]

Finished Deception Point. Now going to read Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence.

 

[Darrell]

 

[Staci]

a patricia cornwell novel

 

[Ryder]

 

[Minor Axis]

The thriller minus the thrills... at least the first book. The following two got better, but the story seemed labored to me.

Just finished Flag in Exile, number 5 of the Honor Harrington series. The War between Manticore and Haven continues while Harrington deals with heavy drama, conspiracy, and intrique on her adopted planet of Grayson. The series appears unstoppable!


ps- after the 3rd book, The Short Victorious War, cover art for the paperbacks took a hit imo.

 

[Minor Axis]

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

That is on my suitcase ready to go... Here's hoping I'm wowed...

 

[Darrell]

 

[brieze]

Seeing Redd.

 

[Brujahpriest]

Just started storm of swords a few days ago.

 

[Zorak]

Dracula - Bram Stoker
Carmilla - Sheriden La Fanu
The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpol
Orlando Furioso - Ariosto
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
The path to the Spider's nest - Italo Calvino
Arthurian Romance - Chretien de Troyes
The Kill - Emile Zola

 

[Panacea]

Intentional Interviewing and Counseling- Ivey, Ivey, and Zalaquett

 

[Minor Axis]

Dracula - Bram Stoker

If you consider when this book was written, and as far as I know the first of it's kind to reach popularity, even if you don't consider, it's a pretty good read.

 

[Zorak]

If you consider when this book was written, and as far as I know the first of it's kind to reach popularity, even if you don't consider, it's a pretty good read.

It's a relative latecomer in the realm of the Gothic, or Vampiric fiction. The second novel on my list, Carmilla predates it by several decades but there are others too.
I think Dracula has it's good and bad points. It's certainly an atmospheric novel, and I enjoy reading it for the most part. Depending on how you interpret it, I would say there's an arguement for both it being strikingly contemporary, and sluggishly dated.

 

[Minor Axis]

It's a relative latecomer in the realm of the Gothic, or Vampiric fiction. The second novel on my list, Carmilla predates it by several decades but there are others too.
I think Dracula has it's good and bad points. It's certainly an atmospheric novel, and I enjoy reading it for the most part. Depending on how you interpret it, I would say there's an arguement for both it being strikingly contemporary, and sluggishly dated.

Is Carmilla any good?

 

[Zorak]

Is Carmilla any good?

I haven't finished it yet, but it's written in a similar style (not Epistolary though) so is accessible to modern readers, and deals with similar themes; sexualism and gender transgression and exotisicm and so forth. I like it so far.

 

[Darrell]

The third book of the Dresden Files. I am digging this series, a lot.

 

[Johnfromokc]

An appropriate title for the times we live in.