mega thread What book are you reading?

[SparklingSquirrels 21,345]

I've been reading "The Great Gatsby" for school, and I'm really enjoying it. The 1920s was a really interesting time period.

 

Plus, F. Scott Fitzgerald's writing style is beautiful... he's like a poet.

[Sonatica 124]

Currently reading "Dirty Streets of Heaven" (which takes me a while as it is in english and that is not my native language ^^ and finally got "Heroes of Olymp: The Mark of Athena" (I generally read paperbacks because I read a lot when I'm on the go, and somehow it takes forever for those to be available here... xP) so I will continue with that afterwards. Both are great in their own different ways

[PinkieatHeart 208]

I read The Elements of Harmony Mlp guide book all the way through yesterday... does that count? >.>

 

 

I have trouble finding books I like enough to read all the way through, and I don't know why. I wanna read more. I just... don't.

 

 

However, the book Runemarks is really good if you like Norse mythology. I can't remember who wrote it right now though. >.>'

[StormdustPony 471]

I am currently reading The Secret

 

I do want to read The Golden Compass series again,  I think the last time i read that was when i was in high school.  2010

[cybershocker455 324]

I have the entire Chronicles of Narnia stories in one book for Christmas. I'm on Prince Caspian right now and I'm enjoying it so far.

[PastelBread 147]

I am currently reading the unabridged version of The Count of Monte Cristo.  

[Zexcoiler Kingbolt 5]

I'm almost done reading To Kill a Mockingbird. It was an enjoying read.

 

And I'm also starting the next 2 chapters in A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki. An eye-opening version of history from different perspectives other than the Eurocentric version.

[NullAccount 287]

I just started reading the book Eragon, although it wasn't my idea. I was visiting my school's library and asked the librarian what she recommended. The next thing I know, my hands are full of several books she wanted me to look into, and she told me that she took the liberty of checking out Eragon and putting me on the wait list for Ender's Game. She is really on the ball when it comes to books.

[Melon Blitz 423]

Lindsey Stirling's autobiography, "The Only Pirate at the Party."

[Kapitan zur See Hans (Daz) 883]

Right now I be reading "Fulgrim" from the Warhammer 40k Horus Heresy series. Moving pretty slow on it though, haven't really been reading as much as I would have liked due to school.

[Ted Cruz 177]

Weeellll....

The Reason For God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Tim Keller, Hate List by Jennifer Brown, Looking for Alaska by John Green, The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class by Bernie Sanders. 

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Edited January 31, 2016 by MalignCynicalIce

[cybershocker455 324]

Done with Prince Caspian and now I'm on Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

[rdgoesfast 25]

Finally got around to Eragon. 

 

And yeah I read...

[ISleepNow 20]

Twilight recommended this book personally.  She said that she would've made physical love to it if the publisher had only provided his trademark illustrations..

[Ziggy + Angel + Rain 11,302]

It hasn't been long since we finished reading the last couple of books left to us in "The Dresden Files" series (Skin Game and Side Jobs).  That is, last until the next novel is published.  We returned to Pratchett's Discworld with Wyrd Sisters, and I plan on downloading Pyramids to our Kindle tomorrow.

[Matakas 31]

miss peregrine's house for peculiar children, it's soooo good, it's a thriller novel and the main character aint a lil shit (plus, no signs of any dumb romance or love triangle involving him of what i read so far)

apparently there's gonna be a movie on march abt this book, but i'm not really looking forward to it bc it's tim burton who's gonna make it, and lately his movies havent been the best pieces of work i've seen :/

[DixonTheAdversary 1,632]

I'm about halfway through this book: 

 

[cuteycindyhoney 13,307]

I'm about a third into "Gateway". Written in 1977, It's the first book in Frederik Pohl's Heechee saga. It's a re-read for me, but it was so many years ago (grade school) that I don't remember a lot of it.

 

I love the premise though! Imagine the discovery of an asteroid, tunneled, with a livable atmosphere, containing nearly a thousand faster than light interstellar spacecraft. Older than recorded human history, the ships still work, but nobody knows how. Any attempt to dismantle or reverse engineer the ships causes a small nuclear explosion! You can guesswork out an accepted flight-plan for the on-board navigation computer, but nobody actually knows where you'll end up, or how long the flight will take. (Death by starvation before you can return is a VERY real risk!) It's all random chance. You could come back with a new alien artifact or discovery, and be fantastically rich for the rest of your life, or more often then not, the ship comes back with a dead crew...If it comes back at all. Ships have been known to return automatically, with the crew actually BAKED onto the inner hull after emerging from light drive into real space within the photosphere of a star! The science fiction aspects are so well written, it could have been penned today. Emotionally, it's timeless. The book is presented from world renowned and fantastically wealthy Robinette Broadhead's point of view. Through visits with his AI shrink, and flashbacks to his time as a young man poor and desperate enough to become a Gateway prospector, the reader slowly learns the terrible emotional price he paid to be one of the "winners".

Edited February 2, 2016 by cuteycindyhoney

[Johnny1226 14,674]

Warhammer Horus heresy mechanicum

[TrueSight 10]

Right now I'm reading Angel of Storms by Trudi Canavan and also rereading the Wheel of Time series along with the Wheel of Time Companion.  Patiently (not really though) waiting for the next book in the Stormlight Archive series.  

[Crypty Scribbles 5,074]

"Single-floor America" by V. Posner, B. Kahn, I. Urgant

It's traveling notes.

 

[Dan. 1,825]

Do guides count? I'm reading a book on mediation.

[Archangel 143]

I both listen to Audiobooks and read books. So... Here we go. 

 

On the Audiobook side of things, I'm reading the Fear Saga. Specifically, I'm almost done with the first in the series: Fear the Sky by Stephen Moss. I'm also listening to Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Which is the sequel to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Which is an amazing read by Douglas Adams by the way.

 

On the actual reading side of things, I'm currently reading a fantasy short story anthology called Diversity is Coming. I haven't gotten far through it yet, but the author gave it to me for free so I'm checking it out. I've also decided to progress a little bit more through my complete Sherlock Holmes collection. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's style of reading is very tiring for me so I need to take breaks from his stories. I'm almost half way through The Hound of the Baskervilles. 

 

Add all the pony fanfiction that I read because it's shorter, quicker, and free, and it's amazing I have time in my life for anything else! 

[chili 120]

I'm currently reading "Dead Island". Some lame zombie book so far, hopefully it gets better.

Before that one, I read plenty of books I enjoyed. Sparkly dreaming Dexter or whatever the name was, was a great book and I could not put it down. Will be looking for the other two sequels for that one.

Then I read " What we left behind". A particularly special book about a genderqueer person and a girl, with their romantic problems and stuff. Fairly interesting, especially the characters.

Then also two books of Antonia Michaelis. Basically my advice is to read all her books. Do it.

[Whirlwind 1,059]

A book that I'm reading right now is "Night" by Elie Wiesel

 

It's a true story about  Elie being a holocaust victim. And his experience of hell on earth during the dark days of WW2