What are you reading?

[Bricky Dee Williams]

I'm just getting 'round to reading the Harry Potter series (and consecutively watching the respective movie after each book) on my iPad. However, I'm running out of books, and am running into too many spoilers...fantastic series though. Great dynamics between characters that are far underrepresented in the respective films.

[Iria]

The Road. It's so depressing.

[Vindicare]

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Just have Act Four left to read. I'm loving the book. I wasn't sure how the script format would play out, but I really like it. It's a nice change of pace from the usual books. The story is great. That twist!

[-zenn]

Tapping the source by Kem Nunn

People go to Huntington Beach in search of the endless parties, the ultimate highs and the perfect waves. Ike Tucker has come to look for his missing sister and for the three men who may have murdered her.

In that place of gilded surfers and sun-bleached blondes, Ike's search takes him on a journey through a twisted world of crazed Vietnam vets, sadistic surfers, drug dealers, and mysterious seducers.

Ike looks into the shadows and finds parties that drift towards pointless violence, joyless vacations and highs you might never come down from... and a sea of old hatreds and dreams gone bad.

And if he's not careful, his is a journey from which he will never return.

Edited August 2, 2016 by -zenn

[Columbus019]

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Columbus

[x105Black]

Just finished Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man.

[Iria]

Just finished Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man.

Just in the middle of that one. I didn't know it was going to be a collection of short stories from the cover description. But I guess Ray Bradbury has almost only written short stories. I enjoy his writing style in any case.

[x105Black]

Just in the middle of that one. I didn't know it was going to be a collection of short stories from the cover description. But I guess Ray Bradbury has almost only written short stories. I enjoy his writing style in any case.

I wasn't aware, either. It works, though, with the framing story of the Illustrated Man. And having read October Country, I'd say that not only is he a very good writer of short stories, but also that these are some of his best. Fahrenheit 451 was a fantastic novel, and I'm looking forward to reading more from him in the future.

Next on the list, however, is Orson Scott Card's Speaker For The Dead. I really enjoyed Ender's Game (more than I would have expected), so I'm hoping this one is as enjoyable a read.

[Vindicare]

I just cracked open "Dark Matter" by Blake Crouch. It sounded pretty good. One chapter in & we're already off to an interesting start.

[x105Black]

Just quoting you to say I love that Moebius avatar!

Anyways, I'm currently reading Orson Scott Card's Speaker For The Dead. It's really good. I'm about 2/3 through it, and it's really picking up. Compared to Ender's Game, well, it's so different but still very much the same. So far, I'm enjoying it about as much as the first book.

[Iria]

I started reading a collection of short stories in Blue World by Robert McCammon. I previously had read Night Crawlers, which is in here too and wanted to check out more of his stuff. The stories are so far hit-or-miss. A few cheesy ones, but others are pretty good.

Just quoting you to say I love that Moebius avatar!

Thanks!

[Actor Builder]

"Bird By Bird"

It's a book on writing. It's very odd, but I'm enjoying it.

There's a lot of good advice in it.

[Robert8]

"Bird By Bird"

It's a book on writing. It's very odd, but I'm enjoying it.

There's a lot of good advice in it.

I thought you were going to say you were reading this thread

I'm disappointed

[Rotundus]

It's "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline for me. Pretty good read, lots of fun. It has some really good "didn't see that coming" moments, and a ton of 80's pop culture refs. Supposedly it will be a movie soon.

[x105Black]

"Bird By Bird"

It's a book on writing. It's very odd, but I'm enjoying it.

There's a lot of good advice in it.

That sounds interesting. I read Why I Write by George Orwell and found it fascinating.

It's "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline for me. Pretty good read, lots of fun. It has some really good "didn't see that coming" moments, and a ton of 80's pop culture refs. Supposedly it will be a movie soon.

I have heard that's a very good book. I'll have to check it out.

[Umbra-Manis]

Just finished the Martian. Great book!

[Vindicare]

It's "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline for me. Pretty good read, lots of fun. It has some really good "didn't see that coming" moments, and a ton of 80's pop culture refs. Supposedly it will be a movie soon.

One of my favorite books. As a gamer & watcher of Sword Art Online, I can definitely get deep into this one & visualize it so easy. It makes me want to play World of Warcraft.

[Actor Builder]

I thought you were going to say you were reading this thread

I'm disappointed

My gosh...

I didn't even consider it...

I'm also disappointed.

[x105Black]

I'm reading the above post by Actor Builder and feeling disappointed, as well.

[BrickJagger]

I am disappointed in Actor Builder's disappointment, he seems like such a cheerful fellow.

Just finished reading The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwall. Excellent book, I intend to watch the TV show soon.

[x105Black]

This morning I finished reading Speaker For The Dead. It was a great read. I'm not sure if I will continue reading other books in the series, but I really enjoyed this one and Ender's Game. Very different, but both very good.

I also started to read Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Place this afternoon. I'm excited to be reading Heinlein, this is my first and I've heard great things. I'm only about 15 pages in, and I'm already enjoying it quite a bit.

[xboxtravis7992]

This morning I finished reading Speaker For The Dead. It was a great read. I'm not sure if I will continue reading other books in the series, but I really enjoyed this one and Ender's Game. Very different, but both very good.

I also started to read Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Place this afternoon. I'm excited to be reading Heinlein, this is my first and I've heard great things. I'm only about 15 pages in, and I'm already enjoying it quite a bit.

I did read in High School Xenocide and started Children of the Mind but I lost interest halfway through. Honestly I can't remember much of the latter books, they are definitely far more intellectual and less action packed. The end of Xenocide and the subject for Children of the Mind just got a little to weird for me to follow. Ultimately I would have to say they are very forgettable stories compared to the original Ender's Game and Speaker of the Dead.

If you were to continue reading the Ender-verse stuff I would recommend Ender's Shadow, it offers a good look at Beane's story and really makes him a more fleshed out character. There was also a graphic novel short story thing I really liked in high school but I can't seem to find it online for the life of me.

[Bricky Dee Williams]

I'm in the midst of reading the 1937 short story "Ethan Frome." An English teacher/ theater director recently sent it my way.

[Umbra-Manis]

I read Xenocide, but I haven't had time to read Children of the Mind. And Xboxtravis is right about the more intellectual story, with an extra does of wackiness at the end.

[Forresto]

X-Wing Rogue Squadron. An incredible SW book that makes me sad Rogue Squadron has been usurped by Corona Squadron in the new canon. Wedge Antilles is a straight up boss. Isard and Tycho Celchu are no longer canon as well...

Just finished Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man.

I really want to go and reread that one.