Hopefully, enough people on here read regularly enough that this stays alive. I'm willing to take my bets as you are all writers, so that would make you more likely to be readers as well.
Anyways,
Last Read: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
Overall, a very solid experience. It drags a bit in the middle, especially for a McCarthy book, and it's definitely not as brilliant as No Country for Old Men, but the last third is very compelling stuff and it's definitely still worth checking out if you've enjoyed any of McCarthy's other work, and his action-focused, minimalist style is as fantastic as ever.
Currently Reading: Wolverine: Enemy of the State by Mark Millar.
Usually not a Marvel reader outside of Spiderman, but I got this for free and I'll give it a whirl. So far decent, but nothing special.
Next up: The Lost Fleet: Dauntless by Jack Campbell
I need a space opera fix every few books or so I read. This is a series I haven't tried it yet and most people like it, so I'll give it a go.
Anyways, since this is post one for me, some stuff to indicate my tastes so you can all get perspective on what I think about certain books/authors.
Favorite Authors: Amy Hempel, Chuck Palahniuk, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Isaac Asimov, Mark Twain, Garth Ennis, Junot Diaz, Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells.
Popular authors whose writing I dislike: Nora Roberts, Stephanie Meyer, Edward P. Jones, Robert Jordan, Dean Koontz, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway.
Okay my turn's over for now, now it's yours. ;D
Last Read: The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
Currently Reading: The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
Reading Next: The Dark Tower VI: Song(s?) of Susannah by Stephen King
Writers I typically enjoy: Alan Moore, Bret Easton Ellis, C.S. Lewis, Dean Koontz, Douglas Adams, Frank Miller, Garth Ennis, Jeff Lindsay, Kurt Vonnegut, Max Brooks, Pat Frank, Ray Bradbury, Stephen Ambrose, Stephen King, Tennessee Williams
Last Read: Jack of Fables 4, I think. It was fun, though I still like regular Fables better.
Currently Reading: Nothing.
Reading Next: Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Dead and Alive. I finally get to finished this fucking series which should have been out two years ago.
Writers I typically enjoy: Not very many. I'm rather picky which is why I don't read regularly.
Last Read: Hells Angels by Hunter S Thompson
Currently Reading: Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
Faves: Chuck, HST, Kurt Vonnegut, Frederick Forsyth, Mark Twain, Edgar Alan Poe, Robin Cook, Alan Dean Foster, Edgar Rice Burrows, Douglas Adams, Tony Hillerman, and recently Monica Drake.
Not to say I gobble up all of their work, probably only Vonnegut, Chuck, and HST are the ones I mark out for the most.
Last Read: Fluke by Christopher Moore
Currently Reading: Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr (yeah, shaddup, I read teen goth books)
Reading next: Koontz's Frankenstein #3 (when Amazon gets around to shipping it to my damn door)
Faves: Stephen King, Christopher Moore, Lilith Saintcrow, Dean Koontz, Henry Rollins, Chuck Palahniuk
Last Read: Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
Currently Reading: Nothing really... Magazines...
Reading next: 3:33; The Darkest Hour and if I have to tell you who wrote it, you should be slapped... Anyways, I want something comfortable to travel with...
Faves: Don't have faves... I just read what I wanna read.
Last read: Stephen King's The Long Walk and Charles Bukowski's Burning in Water Drowning in Flame.
Currently reading: Stephen King's Desperation.
Reading next: William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Light in August.
Favorites: Bukowski, Dickens, Eggers, T. S. Eliot, Faulkner, García Márquez, Hemingway, Irving, King, Lehane, Leonard, and McCarthy.
Last Read: Skin Trade by LKH
Currently Reading: The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Reading next: Don't know yet. Might be the Dante Valentine series again.
Faves: Stephen King, Lilith Saintcrow, Anne Rice, LKH...I have a lot of favorites. Too many to list. I read what I like. lol.
Last Read: 3:33; The Darkest Hour :) Great Book
Currently Reading: Depths of Madness by Erik Scott de Bie
Reading Next: The Howling Delve by: Jaleigh Johnson
Faves: R.A. Salvatore, John Grisham, Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen King, and S.E. Hinton
I know a couple of them aren't particularly the biggest or hardest books to read but when you got ADHD like I do, just making it all the way through a book is an accomplishment in and of itself. lol. See Spot Run!
Hmm... I only really read Marvel comics or Muscle mags...
That's the most RANDOM pairing I've ever heard of Zig. You're one of a kind.
LOL
Quote from: silas on July 29, 2009, 05:48:10 PM
That's the most RANDOM pairing I've ever heard of Zig. You're one of a kind.
idk, it seems to work. I mean superheroes and muscles kinda go together. it sorta makes sense, enough that im sure he isn't unique, even if there isn't a booming community.
also, update. finished the wolverine book, finished out the same, decent, kinda fun, but not something im gonna bother to remember long term. Reading Dauntless now, and I must say I enjoy it. If you like military sci-fi, it's definitely worth a shot. I'll wait till the end to compare it to my favs though (Starship Troopers and Old Man's War).
Well, it'd be okay if he was like... a nerd trying to get muscle mass to get ladies, but it's random if you truly know Zig. Like, I just can't see someone like him having comic books.
Quote from: silas on July 29, 2009, 06:44:29 PM
Well, it'd be okay if he was like... a nerd trying to get muscle mass to get ladies, but it's random if you truly know Zig. Like, I just can't see someone like him having comic books.
lol. Then you don't know Zig.
I've known since TTW, aka like 6 years ago, that he was big into comic books. I'm just saying, for him to plug ONLY the two forms of literature was a shock to me. That's all.
Actually, technically I've known him since WPW.
Ahhh....hahaha.
I do read other stuff, but not on such a regular basis that it qualifies as consistent enough to list, you know? I need my Marvel fix and, well, you can never pick up too many tips from pro bodybuilders. Yeah, that's my life. LOL
Quote from: Osbourne Kilminster on July 30, 2009, 08:10:52 AM
I do read other stuff, but not on such a regular basis that it qualifies as consistent enough to list, you know? I need my Marvel fix and, well, you can never pick up too many tips from pro bodybuilders. Yeah, that's my life. LOL
geez... and I thought I was a nerd.
Yes, I'm a nerd. Oh well. Yes, I had a nerdgasm when Thor killed his grandfather. A smaller one back when Thor dominated Iron man without a second though. Shame on me, huh? LOL
Quote from: Osbourne Kilminster on July 31, 2009, 12:56:45 PM
Yes, I'm a nerd. Oh well. Yes, I had a nerdgasm when Thor killed his grandfather. A smaller one back when Thor dominated Iron man without a second though. Shame on me, huh? LOL
Oh, nerdgasms all around for those moments. ;) But Zig gets the blame for getting me hooked on JMS's Thor storyline.
Last book read: New World Order by Ralph Epperson- sue me I'm a conspiracy theorist
Reading now- my sons books at night very very fond of the Peter Rabbit series
I'll prolly try to get into another book when my oldest starts kindergarden, who knows what wonderful UFO books I might be able to find then.
I'm still slogging through Wolves of the Calla myself. Up to this month I'd read 20-odd something books, but it's gone a lot slower now that I fill the hours between 10pm and 4am with work rather than pages. It's a pretty good read though if anyone's interested in reading The Dark Tower series. Still have two to go, but I'm still of the opinion that the 3rd one was the hardest to get through so far.
Oh man. It was the fourth one -- Wizard and Glass -- that effectively slowed my pace down to a screeching, grinding halt. Once I finished it, though, the last three I tore through.
I recommend the
Second Sons Trilogy by Jennifer Fallon
for those that like sci-fi/fantasy and intrigue.
Updates.
last read: Dogwalker by Adam bradford - book of short stories. The guy is bizarre but he has this weird charm that he likes. I def enjoyed it.
currently reading: Abarat by Clive Barker - this guy keeps getting recommended to me and i still cant find a book i really like by him, so far this one is solid, but i wish he would spend more tiem worryin gabout story structure and consistent narrative and less about how many fucked up things he can think of.
next up: Either Bel Canto by Ann Patchett or Orcs by stan nichols depending on whether or not I want to read more fantasy after this one.