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Reading

Posted by WritersBlock - November 24th, 2009


I just thought I'd share what I've been reading over the past couple of months. And what I've got lined up to read.

Read:
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Mark Haddon
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Breath, Tim Winton
Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld
Animal Farm, George Orwell

Reading (primary):
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
The Beach, Alex Garland
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Reading (secondary):
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
Dune, Frank Herbert
A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
Dracula, Bram Stoker
It, Stephen King
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith & Jane Austen
The Wild, David Zindell

To Read:
Nineteen-Eighty Four, Goerge Orwell
The Well, Elizabeth Jolley
Notes From Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
The War In Heaven, David Zindell
The Lightstone 1: The Ninth Kingdom, David Zindell
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Green Mile, Stephen King
Duma Key, Stephen King
Making Money, Terry Pratchett
Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett
The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett
Across the Nightingale Floor, Lian Hearn
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass, Lewis Caroll
Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy
Cities of the Plain, Cormac McCarthy

To purchase:
The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
The Difference Engine, William Gibson & Bruce Sterling
Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (on order)
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Haunted, Chuck Palahniuk

If you've got any questions or comments about these books or other books by the same authors/in part of a series, I'd gladly discuss them with you. I bought Animal Farm today, which is more of a novella than a novel, so I should be able to get through it in a couple of days or so, I think. Also, if you want to suggest good novels I'm all ears. I'm always looking for a good book, and my pile of books to read is always growing, as is my wishlist of books to buy. But I've been reading a shitload lately, which is awesome, I've read some really cool books. Last one I finished was Leviathan and it's a WWII alternate history/steampunk novel, the first in a trilogy, with part two, Behemoth due next year (I think?). I'm really loving the prose of Neil Gaiman at the moment though. It's just phrased so well. I must look into more of his stuff once I've finished American Gods. Even though I'm only 30 pages in. Bravo Mr Gaiman, bravo.


Comments

i've read like four of five of those, "To Kill a Mockingbird" (boring) and "Great Gatsby" (decent) are usually part of the high school english curriculum in the United States.

i'm more of a non fiction guy.

Personally, I can't stand non-fiction. So far, I think the Great Gatsby isn't too spectacular, mostly because I still don't know what's so great about the guy.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time -- Ok book, made me laugh.
War and Peace -- Great book.
Fight Club -- Amazing book.

I loved Curious Incident and Fight Club and I'm looking forward to reading War and Peace. Even though it'll take me ages to read.

anything by neil gaiman = awesome

I'm learning this now. <3