Books

[legoline]

Let's discuss books ;D What are you reading at the moment? Any interesting purchases? Release dates you're looking forward to?

I just finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I genuinely loved it but for some reason it took me two months to read and I have no idea why. It moves very slowly, I guess, and it's very atmospheric, but it shouldn't have taken me two months...anyway, I loved it.

BTW, half the time I went, "Oh Kripke, I see what you did there for Supernatural..."

[obsessive24]

I love Gaiman. I can't remember if I've read American Gods or not... is it an anthology of short stories? Either I read it, or it's on my to-read list. ;D

For quite a logn time I haven't been reading anything other than A Song of Ice and Fire series (nearly done with Feast of Crows), which is annoying because I have five books sitting here from the library that I keep having to renew:
- Rupert Everett's autobiography. He's so funny and witty.
- A biography on the Meredith Kercher murder
- Douglas Coupland's The Gum Thief, which I'm pretty sure I've read before, but I'm so bad at remembering things I've read.
- EM Forster's "Maurice". I loved the movie so checking out the book.
- Something called Errornomics, which looks like it's written in the vein of Freakonomics and should be interesting.

Oh, and I have Atlas Shrugged at work which I'm rereading on my lunch breaks. That is taking forever.

[mithborien]

I am currently in the middle of reading 'The Kingdom of Gods', the last book of the Inheritance Trilogy by N. K. Jemison and enjoying it immensely.

The way she has written and created Gods in these books is my favourite out of all the fantasy books I have read.

[nataliemich]

I am halfway through American Gods right now! I started reading it about a month ago, so maybe 2 months is a normal amount of time to take? I think a lot of it is cryptic in a non-urgent way, so it's very intriguing and engaging, but not something I absolutely have to read every free moment I have just to see what happens.

Atlas Shrugged has been sitting on my bookshelf for years, but I got kind of classic-literature'd out after college (and didn't have time to read it during college, since I was reading other things). Since it's been over a year now, maybe I can give it a shot.

[obsessive24]

I absolutely flew through Atlas Shrugged the first time I read it, because I found the plot to be really engaging. Not sure if that's the common response. ;D This time round I'm reading it much more slowly because it gives rise to a lot of thinky thoughts about the current financial crisis. I think it's always gonna be one of those terribly divisive works - you either resonate with it, or throw it away in disgust about five pages in. I personally agree with the general principles, although I don't disagree that Ayn Rand is batshit crazy on the whole. ;D

[legoline]

@nataliemich Yes, absolutely!

I've started reading "The Eyre Affair" now. Heard good things about it.

[nos]

BTW, half the time I went, "Oh Kripke, I see what you did there for Supernatural..."


I have a feeling that the writers of Supernatural are all huge Gaiman fans, and now you should read Good Omens, cause then you will go OMG.


*Good Omens has a demon named Crowley. I shit you not.

[legoline]

Nov 27, 2011 14:52:47 GMT -5 nos said:

*Good Omens has a demon named Crowley. I shit you not.

Seriously? O.o

And here I found it amusing that Death in the Sandman comics and Tessa are basically the same person...

[nos]

Nov 27, 2011 16:24:57 GMT -5 legoline said:

Nov 27, 2011 14:52:47 GMT -5 nos said:

*Good Omens has a demon named Crowley. I shit you not.

Seriously? O.o

And here I found it amusing that Death in the Sandman comics and Tessa are basically the same person...

At this point, I seriously consider Supernatural giant Gaiman fanfic.



*Also, Crowley in Good Omens is the demon that teams up with an Angel to stop the end of the world. Seriously.

[legoline]

Seriously?

Okay. I thought it was a coincidence that in the Sandman comics you need a ruby (!) to get into Hell but then again...maybe that name wasn't purely coincidental after all, Kripke.

[littleheaven]

I'm reading Bite Club by Rachel Caine. It's part of the Morganville Vampires series, which is YA but easily accessible to adult readers. I have to admit Rachel is a personal friend and she actually employed me (with real money) to make a release vid for one of the books in the series. It's the only pro-vid I've done (all with stock footage and the song was sourced from Sony) and I'm quite proud of it.

[rokikurama]

legoline
Jasper Fforde rocks the house! I love his books, particularly the Thursday Next ones, although I'd also recommend the Fairy Tale mysteries without hesitation as long as you get to them in the Thursday books first.

I'm waiting for his new series to keep going--it's a really fascinating world with a social order based on colorblindness. (serious)

nos
Good Omens is my go-to "please make me feel better about life" book and Crowley/Aziraphale are my favorites . I love the Gaiman-Pratchett combination; it has a very different feel than either of their solo works.

[legoline]

Nov 28, 2011 22:22:04 GMT -5 rokikurama said:

it's a really fascinating world with a social order based on colorblindness. (serious)

That sounds amazing!

[rokikurama]

It absolutely is. The first one is called Shades of Grey, and I think it's a planned four book series. In addition to the social order based on how much/which color you can see thing, he explores the idea of a society where stability, rather than progress, is the main value. It's also freaking hysterical.

[legoline]

That sounds very intrigiung. It shall go on my neverending list of books to read