Books, books, books

[Rainsparrow]

I'm a bit of a bibliophile. I sacrifice good meals for books. It's terrible. I shouldn't be allowed within eyesight of a bookstore. I just can't help myself. I also make assumptions about people based on what they're reading. It's only natural that I should want a thread all about books.

So... what are you reading these days? I'm currently reading Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham and India Unbound by Gurcharan Das. I almost forgot, I'm also reading The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier. I've been a little distracted by Maugham lately, though.

Do you have a favorite novel? I think this can be a tough question, but if you could only take one book to a cabin deep in the woods... what would it be? I would probably want Persuasion by Jane Austen. I'm a little bit in love with that book at the moment.

[cine]

I've been on a comic kick as of late. I miss a great novel, perhaps you have a recommendation? My favorites are sci-fi esque like Enders Game or I, Robot. I like interesting styles and unique storytelling too.

[cine]

One novel in the woods would be Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Takes a solid 2 to 3 hours to finish and it envelopes you in hope and wonder every time.

[Rainsparrow]

Have you ever read anything by Mark Z. Danielewski? He's pretty experimental. There's also a novel called Time's Arrow by Martin Amis that I highly recommend. It's told from the point of view that everything is happening backwards. It begins at the end of a man's life and ends with his beginning.

[TwilightFalls]

I'm currently on a Robin Hobb kick, and am working my way through the Liveship series. Unsurprisingly to anyone who knows me, my favourite of his books was called the Assassin's Apprentice. Still need to get old of the rest of that series, because I adored the whole of that book in a way I rarely do even with books I quite like.

Time's Arrow sounds pretty cool. Might need to add that to my reading list

[cine]

Time's Arrow will get added to the 'to read' list for sure.

[vampiric]

Wow. I'm not sure I could pick just one to take... but it would probably be 'Sophie's World' by Jostein Gaardner

Favourite series of all time has to be Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher. 14 books in, and still going strong. I wish the next book was out already...

I've recently been reading Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Night Watch trilogy by Sergei Lukyanenko.

I loved Ender's Game, and the His Dark Materials trilogy, and I love anything by Philip K. Dick.

[Shubit]

I'm currently reading "The Railway Children" by E.L Nisbet. I use Kindle and this was free on Amazon.

Favourite series of all time-- possibly between Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" or Harry Potter. I echo "The Dark Materials" too Vampiric, as being one of my childhood loves-- it was a shame that the films (at least in my opinion) didn't live up to the reading experience.