Well I just finished reading a lengthy profile comment from Illusion, if that counts... hah.

I really need to find a good book. I'm such a picky reader. I only like witty, suspenseful, end-of-the-world romance novels with detailed sex.

Speaking of which, people are saying 50 Shades of Grey is the biggest pile of shit they've ever read. Which I don't understand, because it has an extensive fan base. People said the same about the Twilight series, which I've never read either.

**side note - I just typed 'sex' into the keyword search bar and nothing came up. What in the hell... and my boyfriend is all the way in North Dakota right now. >.>
For some reason, I get super turned on when I realize sex with him isn't readily available. And I come up with all of these scenarios that involves him coming home with my favorite Starbucks drink, laying naked in bed with sexy music playing. Like, woah.

It has a massive fan base because it's Twilight with the names changed to protect the innocent trademark rights. It's readily-available highly-publicized sexual fantasy fiction in a popular genre, which means it's going to sell a zillion copies EVEN THOUGH it's crap. (Most people who read those kinds of books aren't exactly book critics, nor are they looking for good literature.) I mean, Twilight was bad enough on its own, but Fifty Shades is literally a Twilight fan fiction that got sanitized for publication.

As for me, I recently finished Accelerando: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...celerando.html

A Dark History: Tudors by Judith John

Shadow of Night, Book Two of the All Souls Trilogy

A Dark History: The Popes: Vice, Murder, and Corruption in the Vatican
Brenda Ralph Lewis

Oh...I read a few like Pet Sematary and The Shining.

There is a trope, called "Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy" - where darkness, conflict, and pain without meaning tends to make the audience numb and lose investment. That is how I feel several of King's works are.

Given, I am told that the Dark Tower series is better (have not read).


Poe and Lovecraft did much better with that. Perhaps, that is due to their unreliable narrators, or being more subtle; a growing darkness, rather than "Boo! Grim and dark down your throat!"

Lawtan: Darkness and pain in a story should have a point. If we want to be disgusted by pointlessness we'd just go watch a horror movie. I guess some Stephen King is intended to be the paper equivalent of a horror movie.

Last book I read was Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah.

That was sort of what I meant. <.<

Right now, I am rereading "The Halloween Tree" and "Something Wicked this Way Comes" - by Ray Bradbury

(The latter is very lovely - far better than most Carnival Horror you see/read)

Looks interesting. I hope I get to read it sometime.
I'm getting a book called The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi for my birthday. I read half of it at a library at the other end of the country where I don't have ownership, and was dying to finish it. The author wrote it when she was as old as me, which totally blows me away.

the last book i read was Kalona's Fall; it's a House of Night novella.

currently i'm reading The City by Dean Koontz.

i read a LOT.

Most recently I finished reading "By Blood We Live", the third in a trilogy by Glen Duncan. I like that it was a werewolf-centric story that doesn't get sappy like this other series I got a look at which I think was written by Anne Rice earlier this year.

i'm still reading The City... but i'm almost done!

(and then it's on to another Chicagoland Vampires book! =) )

A book I read recently is The City and The City by China Mieville. It's interesting.

i just finished reading The City. i love Dean Koontz. i have for a long time.

The last book I finished was Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. Sadly, that was quite some time ago. I started to read the Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, but my English teacher assigned a book of which was so miserably boring to me that I ended up not even reading half of it. Then I tried to read the Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell, and naturally the teacher assigned another book. High school sucks.

I'm still reading the book in my signature....

I've been re-reading all the Watch novels in the Discworld series again. I just finished The Fifth Elephant and started on Night Watch. I love Terry Pratchett, I love ALL the Discworld novels, but especially the Watch books. I really identify with Sam Vimes.

In terms of "new" (that is to say, previously unread) books, I think the last one I finished was either Olivia's Luck (Catherine Alliott) or The Two Week Wait (Sarah Rayner). I can't remember what order I read them in, but I read them one after the other. I really enjoyed both of them.

The Unfinished Song Book 1 Initiate

bought a set of books concerning faeries, etc and this was one of the books in it. I am thinking of getting the complete set cause I want to see what happens to the lead character.

I just finished Saga Volume 4. I am not sure if comics count in this thread, but I like the story. Its a bit cliche with enough thrown in to make it unique.

i would think comic books count. =D

I finished Fifty Shades Darker yesterday morning and got Fifty Shades Freed this morning, the last of the trilogy by E L James. Though the sex scenes are a bit cliche and she uses the same adjectives to describe many of them, I'm interested in further knowing about Grey's past and where their relationship will ultimately take them.

Well, The Hubs convinced me to read Divergent so we could watch the movie. It was pretty good, so I read the rest of the series. Insurgent was disappointing, it felt rushed, and unnecessarily angst-y, but I guess it was a decent story. Allegiant, however, was just unnecessary IMO.

I just finished Charles de Lint's The Cats of Tanglewood Forest.

I just love how he uses native american mythologies and interweaves them into these stories.

Plus Cats! Win, Win, imho. :s-wink:

oooh, another de Lint fan! i've read a lot of his stuff... mostly borrowed from a friend who buys them. i love all his mythologies, too.

yaay cats!

He's got all of these novellas and short stories for the kindle. I really prefer to read paperback or hardback books than on a screen. (There's something really satisfying about actually taking a page in my fingers and turning it.) However, I don't see where those stories are in hardcover anywhere, so I may have to break down and buy some of them to read with my kindle app.

oh yes, i know what you mean about reading actual books. i have a similar dilemma with another author i read too! she's continued her stories in the Kindle Worlds 'verse, and the only way i can get those novellas is as an eBook too. i want to read them because i love her series.... but, eBook. *sigh*

Allegint by Veronica Roth. I'm still reading Four. I have a lot of unfinished books like Matched, The Great Gatsby, Whipping Boy: Forty year old search for my 12 year old bully (currently reading) and Summoned.

Hyperion by Dan Simmons.
I am not going to read the sequel, The Fall of Hyperion.

not = now?

The Raven Boys - Maggie stiefvater

LOVE THIS BOKK FGHREIHBREIBF SCBHhhhhhhGTBGFHGHHHFGJHFGHTRHTHHFGHDFF *SCREAMS ETERNALLY*

I recently read Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. My friend lent it to me, it was very interesting.

The last book I read was Rich Dad Poor Dad by Richard Kiyosaki and Zodiac Star Force.

Rich Dad Poor Dad is interesting. It makes you get excited about making money with out giving you the tools to directly do so. The point of the entire book, i feel, is to entice you go and figure out more for yourself. Needless to say its done that for me.

And Zodiac Star Force is just fun, nicely drawn comic in the vein of all magical girl stories.

Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children

Green Rider by Kristen Britain.
Not a terrible writer be the main character was kind of annoying in some aspects.

'The Paradise Snare' by A.C. Crispin, it's the first book in the Han Solo Trilogy, and takes place 10 BBY -- Before the Battle of Yavin, aka A New Hope. my current book is 'The Hutt Gambit,' the second book in the series and now it's 5 BBY.

apparently, the third book ends right before Luke and Obi-Wan Kenobi come to see Han at the cantina in Mos Eisley. =)