What are you currently reading?

[TJCams]

I may - depends on my mood after I'm done Hyperion - LOL

[saginawhorror]

Just finished Retribution Inc by Geoff Cooper and starting The Hole by William Meikle in a few minutes.

[Dave1442397]

I ran out of new library books, so I reread The Dead Zone and Firestarter yesterday, and started The Shining.

It's fun reading these again, especially because they are the original trade paperbacks that I bought when they first came out. I remember reading this particular copy of The Shining at school in 1979.

[TJCams]

I finished Hyperion - it was a very good sci-fi read. I didn't expect it to be so much of the stories of the pilgrims, as opposed to more about the result of their pilgrimage - I assume Fall of Hyperion will cover that.

Before I jump into that, I am now reading my Goodreads win: The Thicket by Joe Lansdale. Very good so far - glad I have a chance to read this before it is for sale in stores!!!!!

[srboone]

I couldn't get into The Chosen. So I read part II of Don Quixote. DQ part I & II are on my favorite books short list now. Not sure when I'll pick The Chosen back up. Of course, I'm not certain when I'll pick NOS4A2 back up either.

[marduk]

I'm halfway through "The Teachings of Don Juan" by Carlos Castaneda. Not what I expected. So far there hasn't been any wisdom, just a guy experimenting with drugs. Yawn.

Recently finished "The Professionals" by Owen Laukkanen. It was a good caper book, but the ending stunk. I tend to root for the villains; he made you care about them and then just decimated everything at the end. Boo. I wish the ending hadn't been so "morally just."

[Highbury]

Reading Wizard and Glass by S.King. This thing is a brick.

[marduk]

Reading Wizard and Glass by S.King. This thing is a brick.

I got stalled halfway through. Every now and then I pick it up again, but I'm not getting anywhere. I just think it moves way too slow.

[srboone]

W&G is the only thing I dread about rereading the DT series. It's about 300 pages too long and is the least interesting of the 8 books and 1 novella. Good luck!

[Teriw]

I'm glad I am not the only one who dislikes this book. I couldn't put the dark tower books down until I got there. Got stalled on that one for quite a while. So damn boring.

[Highbury]

I'm on page 215 of 669. Initially I found it good but now it's flash backing to when Roland was young and its definitely boring.

[subie09lega]

I didn't have a problem getting through Wizard but I thought the whole saga should have been pared down to five books. After DTII, it felt like they became too wordy and at times rambled.

[TJCams]

I should be finishing off The Thicket by Joe Lansdale in the next day or so. What a fantastic read so far. I wasn't sure what to expect going into it, but consider myself lucky to have won this ARC from Goodreads. It's my first Lansdale, and first western themed read as well. I really love how Lansdale paints a picture of the time period, and also the surroundings that this story takes place in.

Up next will be a LibraryThing win titled Appalachian Undead which from what I understand, is a anthology of zombie type stories based in, of course, the Appalachian region of the US.

[marduk]

Almost finished with "Masks of the Illuminati". Even better than the original trilogy.

Recently purchased a set of the "Prydain" books by Lloyd Alexander, so I'm itching to start those. Also, "Another Day, Another Dungeon" by Greg Costikyan, which I read years ago when it first came out, and recently stumbled upon it on Amazon so I was overcome with nostalgia and had to buy it again.

[TerryE]

I loved the Prydain books. We read "The Book of Three" in 8th grade English and I read the rest of the series soon after. I loved our curriculum in 8th grade. We also read "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" and had an entire section on horror which included writing a couple horror stories, the start of my literary ambitions.