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Leo tickles

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I've found myself reading a lot lately, which is quite surprising considering this is the best time of the year to get video games, and I like my video games.

Currently in the process of reading Stephen King, the book called IT. Long ass book, but a good one.


Anybody else finding themselves reading a lot latley? If so, what?
 
I have been reading alot since i been laid off

Nightwatch, Daywatch, TwilightWatch, FinalWatch, then i read American Gods, Votan, now im on Henry Rollins' "Roomanitarian"
 
I used to read all the time. But, the past year or so I've been so busy with site work, yard work and general everyday stuff that I have done no reading at all. When I do have time, it's generally murder mysteries, suspense and the like.
 
I was in the bookstore the other day and found Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a re-working of Jane Austen's mind-numbingly boring novel. I've said it once, and I'll say it again: Everything is better with zombies!!!
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I always try to find time to read.

I just finished Stephen King's "Salem's Lot." It was great.

Now I'm working my way through "The Mermaid Chair" by Sue Monk Kidd.
 
I'm always reading something, whether it's sci-fi, romance, thrillers, mysteries, whatever. 🙂
 
HUGE Stephen King fan myself, and so is my mother. But right now I'm in the middle of "Bravemouth" Billy Connolly's second Biography written by his wife.
 
I've been reading those books by Charlaine Harris that inspired the show True Blood on Showtime. Its about vampires and is soooooo much better written than Twilight.
 
IT is a great book, one of my absolute favorites.
My undying love, however, goes to Clive Barker. I just finished Sacrament (my very favorite book, i can read it a thousand times and never get tired of it) Weaveworld and Imagica. All three really show Barker's talent for putting the reader somewhere foreign and teaching them everything about a place by the end. I read Abarat a month or two ago too before I gave it to squidlett. 😀

If you're looking for something you might not have seen before, try Stephen R. Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series. The character development is AMAZING and it's the only story I've ever read where I spent 3/4 of the story truly disliking the protagonist. He does a good job making an unlikeable character evolve into a real upstanding person.
 
Just finished this one:
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It was a great book. I have to go pick up the rest of the trilogy. I have a ton of must reads. The pile keeps growing and growing. It only got worse when I bought my ereader. Now I don't have to worry about shelf space and forget how many books I actually have to work my way through.
 
I started to read Dantes Inferno once again.A few years ago I read it as well as Purgatory but I have yet to read Paradiso.

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fireguardian said:
Just finished this one:
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It was a great book. I have to go pick up the rest of the trilogy. I have a ton of must reads. The pile keeps growing and growing. It only got worse when I bought my ereader. Now I don't have to worry about shelf space and forget how many books I actually have to work my way through.
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You and I share the same love for reading Chris. (I have a "Must read" list a mile long.) But I'm lucky that all of those books are in my house.​
 
Leo tickles said:
I've found myself reading a lot lately, which is quite surprising considering this is the best time of the year to get video games, and I like my video games.

Currently in the process of reading Stephen King, the book called IT. Long ass book, but a good one.


Anybody else finding themselves reading a lot latley? If so, what?
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Hiya Leo :bunny:

Do I read??? - :blaugh: I am the household bookworm - which includes professional and non-fiction reading (mostly history and Christian life books) but when it comes to reading for pleasure I mostly get into SF and Fantasy with a dabble in Regency era romance.

Actually speaking of Romance I was totally thrill-mazed to discover two great authors Katherine Allred and Linnea Sinclair who both write serious Science Fiction Romance adventure. talk about being in heaven!!

Oh and in these romance novels there is even some tickling! - though only a touch (no pun intended 😛 )

Anyway, hope your ventures into reading prove ever more enjoyable, Leo.

Many blessings,
chickles:redheart:
 
I don't read anywhere near as much as I want to because of school and sleep apnea. My library is always growing but never getting used.

When I do read, I prefer the formalists like Umberto Eco, Thomas Pynchon, and Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men is AMAZING) although I also have an appreciation of mid-20th century classics because of the literary heritage they brought with them. So far my favorite recent reads have been the magnificent Of Human Bondage and Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop (not quite as good unfortunately). I'm also tackling Borges when I can and I'm going to give The Great Gatsby another go in the future. I'm looking forward to more of McCarthy's older work like Blood Meridian and Child of God.

But in my opinion, the best writers out there today are writing comics, not novels and the results are mind-blowing: Chris Ware (Quimby the Mouse), Alan Moore (Watchmen; From Hell), Brian Michael Bendis (Powers), Mike Carey (Hellblazer; Lucifer), Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets), (some) Garth Ellis, and Garth Ennis (Preacher; The Boys).

and last but not least...
AnnieHall said:
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The Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman
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I TOLD you that stuff was good didn't I? When you're done, pick up the Lucifer follow-up series by Mike Carey, and the first volume of Books of Magic by Gaiman...it's the same universe and it's just about as good.
 
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