The Reading Thread

[Tim]

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.   

[Seth Dryden]

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

[Spiral]

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.

[Tyler Lukas]

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.

[Jackson]

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

[Ryann]

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.

[Patterson]

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.

[Sinnybuns/Mika]

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.

[Kris Peek]

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!

[Osbourne Kilminster]

Hmm... I only really read Marvel comics or Muscle mags...

[silas]

That's the most RANDOM pairing I've ever heard of Zig.  You're one of a kind.

[Osbourne Kilminster]

LOL

[Tim]

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).

[silas]

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.

[Sinnybuns/Mika]

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.