What 📔book are you reading right now?

[DGoeij]

Dutch libraries are not quicker than bookstores when it comes to adding Pratchett to their collections. Last time I checked even the bookstores who specialize in english books did not have 'Going postal' in the pocket edtion. So I'll have to wait.

 

[Wolfshead]

Is Going Postal any good?

 

[Aulë]

Book 11 in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan: The Knife of Dreams!!!!!

Woooo!
Better than books 6-10 already!

 

[Hammersmith]

Is Going Postal any good?

Not bad. It comes in around the halfway mark on the list of Discworld books I've read. It's hilarious and engaging to the end, but doesn't have as much bite as some others. I may reread it, but not for quite a while. Definitely worth reading at least once though.

 

[Wolfshead]

Book 11 in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan: The Knife of Dreams!!!!!

Woooo!
Better than books 6-10 already!

When the hell did that come out?

*goes to check*

Ah ha, today it seems. Although a reviewer on Amazon apparently bought it in WHSmiths last week. Looks like I'll have to get it at some point in the not too distant future

Oh, and I'll also read Going Postal. Just checked the university library catalogue and the only Pratchett book they have is Johnny and the Dead, for reasons unknown. And no Robert Jordan. Well, not the RJ in question anyway. Looks like it might be time for me to find a public library in Aberdeen then...

 

[Lindir]

Book 11 in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan: The Knife of Dreams!!!!!

Woooo!
Better than books 6-10 already!

I was just about to post this bit of good news, bur you beat me to it. Bought it yesterday but won't be finished with it until this evening/night. It's so unfair having to work at times like these.
On a side note: there's a new Gaiman out, a new Hobbs and very soon a new Martin. Autumn's looking up.

 

[e.Blackstar]

I too, just finished Going Postal. I enjoyed it very much...it was a little more serious seeming than some of Pratchett's others, and Mr. Gryle was just plain creepy, but it wqs good on the whole.

Now I just have to wait for the library to get Thud!

 

[Eledhwen]

I've borrowed The Hounds of the Morrigan from my eleven year old daughter. Very mystical Irish! I'm too tired and busy to read it very fast.

 

[Ithrynluin]

Reading Dean Koontz's Frankenstein. Great suspense, vintage Koontz.

 

[Elbereth]

I just finished reading "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".

Something I told myself not to do until my nephew was old enough for me to read it to him. Unfortunately though, I had read all of my books in my house and didn't have time to go to the library or book store...so I grabbed the book and read it.

Took me three sittings to read it all. And it probably would not have taken me so long but I didn't want to spend my entire day reading.

It was a cute book...exactly like the movie really...so nothing was really a surprise for me.

Would I continue reading Harry Potter...probably...but I wouldn't go out and buy the books....unless it was to give to my nephew when he grows older.

 

[Wolfshead]

I just finished reading "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, dammit!

As for me, I've started reading Harlequin by Bernard Cornwell again. It's all about the Hundred Years War, with the Holy Grail involved. A great book, and it's even more interesting for me now because I've been studying medieval Europe at uni recently, and I know the period it's set really well now and know all the history in the story. Brilliant

If you live in the US the book's called The Archer's Tale. I love his mini-rant on his website

The first book of the series is Harlequin, unless you live in the United States where the book, to my considerable annoyance, was retitled as The Archer's Tale. Which is not a particularly bad title, but I hate it when publishers do that. Their reason was that there is a well-known series in the States called Harlequin Romances, much like the British Mills and Boon, and it was thought that folks would get confused and, thinking they were buying a bodice-ripper with heavy breathing, find instead that they had a tale of the Hundred Years War with arrow-spitted Frenchmen. So what? Maybe they would have enjoyed the read, because more than one bodice gets thoroughly ripped in Harlequin. Vagabond is a follow-up to Harlequin (The Archer's Tale in the US) - and starts almost as soon as the earlier book ends, carrying on Thomas of Hookton's story. He has been sent back to England to pursue his father's mysterious legacy which hints that the Holy Grail might exist and gets tangled with the Scottish invasion of 1347. He survives that only to discover that various powerful folk in France are pursuing the same quest, a complication that takes Thomas back to Brittany and the brutal fighting about La Roche-Derrien. The third book in the series is Heretic and begins with the fall of Calais.

 

[e.Blackstar]

The Count of Monte Cristo for English class, The Prince of Christler-Coke for fun. Anybody else read the latter?

 

[Hammersmith]

No, but I'm currently rereading The Count Of Monte Cristo

 

[Wolfshead]

I saw the film of that with Jim Cavaziel a couple of months back... good film. Not read the book, though

 

[Hammersmith]

I saw the film of that with Jim Cavaziel a couple of months back... good film. Not read the book, though

Aye, I've seen the film as well. Great film.

 

[e.Blackstar]

Ja, it's a fantastic movie.

 

[greypilgrim]

I'm reading "The End of the Dream" by Anne Rule, it's a true-crime story, a really good one about professional bank robbers from back in the '70's.

 

[Urambo Tauro]

As some of you may have noticed, I'm putting together a "reading schedule", if you will, for The Lord of the Rings. (See my signature.)

For almost two months (between October and December), the group rests in Rivendell before beginning their quest. Starting in mid-December, the story will pick up again in The Ring Goes South. Since that is nearly a month away, anyone who is interested in "following the Fellowship" can read up through The Council of Elrond to catch up. Click on the link in my signature for more information.

 

[Ingwë]

I'm reading 'Peter I' by Aleksei Tolstoi. It is a book about the Russian Tzar Peter I the Great. The author tells the reader about the real life in Russia when the tzar was young. Tolskoi show the country through the eyes of two young children, who escaped from their parents. You must read this book

 

[Lindir]

Just finished 'A Feast for Crows' by George Martin. Great book, I loved it. I think Martin is one of the best fantasy authors ever, maybe even the best (and I do include Tolkien).