Author Topic: What are you reading? (Read 210215 times)

muppet · « **Reply #560 on:** November 24, 2012, 11:13:13 PM »

For All the Tea in China (Sarah Rose)

muppet · « **Reply #561 on:** November 25, 2012, 02:02:10 AM »

Soul Mountain (Gao Xingjian) [Translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee]

Fadeout · « **Reply #562 on:** November 26, 2012, 02:06:24 AM »

Quote from: wiwi on November 05, 2012, 01:14:44 PM

The shadow rising, book four of the Wheel of time series (there are fourteen books overall, so I've got a lot of reading ahead of me )

Though I'm told it's the last of the good ones

Yoshino · « **Reply #563 on:** November 30, 2012, 04:41:26 AM »

Estrea · « **Reply #564 on:** November 30, 2012, 04:58:15 AM »

Reading the His Dark Materials trilogy. Just finished Northern Lights, where is my copy of The Subtle Knife? D:

Shenjin · « **Reply #565 on:** December 03, 2012, 12:41:23 PM »

No Easy Day

Pretty damn good book IMO

marisado · « **Reply #566 on:** December 16, 2012, 06:30:02 AM »

Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Well I just started reading it so here goes the description

Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is an engrossing record of Mao's impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love.
Jung Chang describes the life of her grandmother, a warlord's concubine; her mother's struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents' experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a "barefoot doctor," a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving -- and ultimately uplifting -- detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.

vampireape · « **Reply #567 on:** December 17, 2012, 01:15:53 AM »

World War Z - Max Brooks

I hope I'll be just in time for the film

Estrea · « **Reply #568 on:** December 17, 2012, 07:17:55 AM »

Reading A Cavern Of Black Ice by J.V. Jones. It's taking me a lot longer than I expected. Well, hopefully by the time I finish, the last book of the quintet will be out!

Forthisgift · « **Reply #569 on:** January 01, 2013, 07:30:51 PM »

Tuffty · « **Reply #570 on:** January 01, 2013, 08:48:41 PM »

The title would more accurately be what am I not reading right now? Ok let's go...

Before They Are Hanged (Book 2 of The First Law trilogy)

A dark fantasy novel that scratches that itch that ASOIAF had left me. It's got a lot of the same themes, while leaning a little more towards the fantastical (the crux of the story does revolve around a wizard recruiting a party of warriors to find an ancient treasure), but what makes it stand apart is how dark it is. The three main protaganists can't even really be called anti-heroes, these are just bad, despicable people. The first book, The Blade Itself, was good, but felt like a lot of it was just setup, this book is really kicking things off for the better. Enjoying it so far, have the last one to read as well when I'm done so technically there's two here!

Assassins Creed : Forsaken

A tie-in novel to the game. Based off the last book I shouldn't expect too much, but it was an enjoyable enough read. Reviews say this one is better so...we'll see.

Crazy Horse and Custer

A book detailing the lives of the famous generals, cultural opposites of each other, but remarkably leading similiarly parallel lives. Born at the same time, leaders at a young age, stripped of power, had to work hard to win the respect of their people. It's a purely factual book based on a setting that's always intrigued me so curious to read it.

Consider Phlebas, The Player Of Games, Use Of Weapons (Culture series)

This is something I'm most excited about actually. Apparently the Culture series is fairly hit and miss, but these books are universally praised as being the best in the series as well as some of the best sci-fi ever. Sign me up.

So yeh, fairly occupied right now.

mendoza11 · « **Reply #571 on:** January 04, 2013, 10:23:36 AM »

It's been getting virtually no press, somehow (come on, people -- it's Morris!!) but it's really quite good. Morris and I are definitely on opposite sides of a generational rift or two, but I love him, sweater vests and all.

mendoza11 · « **Reply #572 on:** January 07, 2013, 08:49:23 AM »

muppet · « **Reply #573 on:** January 13, 2013, 02:12:03 AM »

The Garden of Evening Mists (Tan Twan Eng)

mendoza11 · « **Reply #574 on:** January 15, 2013, 11:59:42 AM »

muppet · « **Reply #575 on:** February 02, 2013, 01:59:11 AM »

Twenty-four Eyes (Sakae Tsuboi) {translated by Akira Miura}

mendoza11 · « **Reply #576 on:** February 02, 2013, 06:58:09 AM »

It's absolutely wonderful.

muppet · « **Reply #577 on:** February 03, 2013, 09:18:14 PM »

SHOGUN The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu (A.L. Sadler)

mendoza11 · « **Reply #578 on:** March 28, 2013, 01:56:49 PM »

muppet · « **Reply #579 on:** April 03, 2013, 05:15:50 PM »

Salvation Of A Saint (Keigo Higashino) {Translated by Alexander O. Smith with Elye J. Alexander}