Whatcha Reading? / What Should I Be Reading?

[Clouded Sky]

So, it's summer time, and for quite a few people I know, that means finding something to do in their free time. I could spend all my non-working hours playing video games, but what's the fun in that? I'd like to mix it up and get some reading done because I don't do near enough of it these days. I'd also like to exercise and I might even be able to combine the two, but that's a whole different story...

Anyway, what are you reading? Have you read any good books recently? Care to recommend any? What's it all about anyway? I have a two college, and one public library at my disposal, so I should be able to find most things. (I hope.)

[Quindiana Jones]

You should be reading The Dresden Files. All of them.

[Breine]

I'm still reading Lord of the Rings for the second time. I hope to get some time to read it through this summer - I love that book!

There are many books I'd like to read after that. For example, Middlesex and The Road. There are more, but I can't think of them right now. Whenever I walk into a book store I also just feel very inspired to read all of the books in there..!

[scrumpleberry]

Desperately trying to improve my french so am reading Camus' L'etranger with a translation. After that I will read the Divine Comedy this summer. Oh please, someone ask me if I've started it yet in a month or so, and if I haven't (particularly if I'm reaing a potter or discworld again), bitchslap me.

I read easier books for little breaks when I get bored of heavier reading. At the minute I'm re-reading Alice in Wonderland and the sequel, Through the Looking Glass, which just happen to be the best children's books EVAR. I love them so much.

Hop down to your library, see what they've got out.

[Zeta]

I was reading the Illiad, but haven't gotten around to finishing it, it's pretty good though, can't beat the classics.

Right now I'm reading Pro Tools 101 because Pro Tools makes Zeta cry.

[Bunny]

At the moment I am reading two books: Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman and Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road by Neil Peart. I do not read much so they both may take awhile.

Afterwards, I will begin Glen Cook's Chronicles of The Black Company, which contains the first tree novels in his ten book series about the history of a group of mercenaries named The Black Company. It sounds interesting.

You should read The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

[rubah]

<img src="http://www.snowy-day.net/stuff/others/toreadstack.jpg"/>

That's most of my to-read list atm.

I just finished Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett and Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams. I'm currently reading Last Act by Christopher Pike, the royal diaries book about Kaiulani by someone or other, and the Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.

[Shoeberto]

Lovecraft Tales.

I think my next book will be Fight Club, just because.

[I Took the Red Pill]

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Read it.

[Nominus Experse]

Read the following:

A Brave New World
1984
Lord of the Flies
Cat's Cradle
Slaughterhouse Five
The Jungle
The Great Gatsby
Heart of Darkness
The Idiot
Invisible Monsters
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Fight Club
Naked Lunch
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A Clockwork Orange
Foundation
Dune
Ender's Game
The Wasteland
The Tempest
The Illiad
The Odyssey
Lisa Strata
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Bible
The Koran
The Teachings of Buddha
Nicomachean Ethics
Lost Gods
The Selfish Gene
The End of Faith
Leviathan
Middlesex

As for what I am reading at the moment:
Youth

[Miriel]

I'm reading Running with Scissors for the 2nd time. I didn't really like it the first time, so I thought I'd give it a second chance.

It's really not that great of a book.

Y'all have such different tastes than I do in books. I'm not a huge fan of the classics, and aside from Tolkien, I'm not a huge fan of fantasy books.

Anyone have any good contemporary recommendations?

[I Took the Red Pill]

Anyone have any good contemporary recommendations?

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

[Polaris]

That reminds me I must finish "Picture of Dorian Gray" and "Oliver Twist"hm..

[fire_of_avalon]

You should be reading The Dresden Files. All of them.

Yes.

Aside from being smack in the middle of The Dresden Files, I should be finishing up Duma Key by Stephen King this weekend and then I'm gonna read Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut and then probably As I Lay Dying and Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner. Also I'm going to do a book swap with a friend of mine because I really do want to read some good sci-fi and she wants to start reading more classicy/read this if you're human type stuff so I'm sending her Catch-22 and she's sending me something by Alistair Reynolds I think. And then I need to find copies of a few books I had to put down because they weren't mine or something and finish those up. Oh, I just finished Not June Cleaver which is a book of essays on the realities for women in the 1950's as they oppose our historical acceptance and that was really kinda neat. Like real stories from real people with a little information tossed in.

Then ... hmm. I don't know what I'll read. I'm open to recommendations, always. And I suck at this so I have no suggestions whatsoever.

[Miriel]

Anyone have any good contemporary recommendations?

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

Already read it. I liked Me Talk Pretty One Day better.

Then ... hmm. I don't know what I'll read. I'm open to recommendations, always. And I suck at this so I have no suggestions whatsoever.

Have you read any Margaret Atwood books, foa? I think you'd like her. I loved The Handmaid's Tale.