Apart from the umpteen-millionth reread of GRRM's A Song of Ice and Fire, I've also been rereading Neil Gaiman's Sandman and am getting caught up with Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Specifically, I'm now on Interesting Times, and chuckling madly at every page, footnote, in-joke, and trope-fiddling that comes standard with anything done by Pratchett.

Wolfblade by Jennifer Fallon at the moment. Think I'll either continue with the crown of stars series by Kate Elliot, the series by Diana Gabaldon or begin with Shadowline by Tad Williams when I'm finished. Or maybe Necronomicon if someone's bought it for me as a christmas present. Ok, I think I'm going to stop thinking about that now. To many titles... (considering I've got another half a dozen in my room) Um, yeah...

Currently Surface Detail but Iain M. Banks, and he's really excelled himself in the strangness this time. For those familar with his Culture novels it's one, for those not it's set in a very advanced civilisation (and setting) where most things are possible. It revolves around the idea that it would be possible to 'back-up' a persons mind, memories and personality and possible repercussions of this. Particularly the rather more certain possibilities of heaven and hell running in simulations...

It's classic Banks really, outlandish ideas, well written with mad characters. Like much of his SF stuff it is uncompromisingly Science Fiction and can be a bit heavy though. Still a good addition to the Culture series.

I'm currently on the final book of The Deathgate Cycle. I've been on a fantasy genre reading spree all year. Once I'm done with The Seventh Gate I think I'll switch to Sci-Fi and read Ender's Game again. It's one of my all time favorites and I haven't read it in about 4 years.

OOH. I'm rereading the:

Pendragon Series
Harry Potter Series
Phantom Tollbooth
The Great Cheese Conspiracy
Barcode Rebellion (and Sequal)
Maximum Ride (Series)
The Lightning Theif (and the other 4 books)
Alice in Wonderland
Seeing Redd
Through the Looking Glass Wars
Ender's Game
Ender's Shadow
Xenocide
Shaddow Puppets
Shadow of the Hedgemon
Eregon
Brisingr
Eldest
Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay
and a couple other ones. Yeaaaah... I'm reading to many books, huh? Oh, well. I'll be done with all of em before Jan. 15th (Because I am a super fast reader , highest record, 1331 pages in 3 hours. However many pages per minute that is, it's true.) . So, yeah.

That is an impressive reading list, Petra. I figured from your name that you were a fan of the Ender books. I've read all of them myself, more than once. (Ender's Game: 8 times. Ender's Shadow: 8 times. Shadow of the Hegemon: 6 times. Those are my three favorites.)


That's about 7.4 pages per minute. I wish I could read that fast. As it is, my best was reading ten books (totaling 6283 pages) over an eight day period. I read for two and a half hours each day (so about 5.24 pages per minute).

Hey, thanks. Yeah, Ender's Game is battling for my top favorite series. It's either that or Hunger Games. Orson Scott Card is a MASTER. I've gotten a lot of subtle writing tips from him.

I'm giving THE SILMARILLION by J.R.R Tolkein, a read. It's pretty darn good.

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Recently got into this Clockwork Century series. Pretty good.

I'm reading the instruction manual on my new coffee pot. It looks like a cyborg robot or something, and is way too complex for something you use BEFORE you wake up in the morning. If I can figure out how, I plan to set it up the night before so all I need to do is push a button in the a.m. - GAAAAAH !!!

Lol. Good luck, mALX. Here's hoping this is what you get:

ROFL !!! Thanks, Acadian !!! Maybe when I get it figured out I can sip my coffee while leafing through the latest National Geographics. What tribe was it that thought being cross-eyed was a sign of sex appeal? After trying to figure out this coffee pot, I may be cross-eyed now ... etc.



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I think those are zombies, not a tribe...

I just started reading Pride and Prejudice. I have seen the movies enough times, I thought I owed it to Jane Austen to at least read it.

It was quite wordy, I think in those days they were paid per word - but excellent. It takes just a little longer to immerse because of the wordiness, but her characters are excellent and begin to shine through once you wade in. By the time her plot is opening, you are hooked into the genius of her. I loved the book Emma much more than the movie, although Emma can be irritating in print as well as visual. Both Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility - I thought the book was better until the Colin Firth and Emma Thompson/Kate Winslet versions of the movies came out (respectively).

Well, I just finished my ninth read through of Ender's Game. I've started reading Gauntlgrym by R. A. Salvatore. I just can't seem to get enough of Drizzt Do'Urden.

I don't read much, as *shh* my parents banned me from reading, but I am secreatly reading the Lord of The Rings! It's good! I like tom bombadil.

I just finished Blood Debt. Apparently its the fourth or fifth book in the series. The story was interesting but the writing was.... oh goodness I could barely get through it at times -_-

Yay! He's one my favourite LOTR characters. I only wish they had included him in the films.

I am currently read Jian by Eric Van Lustbader he is my favorite author of all time because of his descriptive writing skills.

Recently received a couple new books from my grandfather over my Christmas vacation:

-Helmet for my Pillow, by Robert Leckie
-With the Old Breed, by Eugene Sledge
-Hero of the Pacific, the life of John Basilone

The first two are autobiographies of their services in the Pacific theater during World War 2, and the third is a biography of a marine legend and celebrity, who was sadly killed in service on Iwo Jima.

The Pacific war was one of the most hellish experiences a man could ever go through. You had the intense heat, incredible humidity, disease, and an enemy who would sooner die than surrender. This was a truly brutal war, and every man who served in it, who are now constantly haunted in their dreams by it, has my undying respect.