What book are you reading right now?

[Wee Little Puppet Man]

The last book I read was Blood Noir, in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. Well it was £2 in HMV and I was hoping for some Buffy-esque story and action but Christ, it was awful. I spent the first half of the book wondering if I was gonna like this and the second half realizing I didn't. It must be the worst book I've read in ages, or the worst one I've finished anyway, and that's from skimming my way through the last hundred pages just so I could finish it. And the worst thing wasn't that it spends half the book building up to a confrontation that never happens, but its portrayal of some of the female characters which was just appalling. This is going straight to the charity shop this weekend.

But on the bright side I also picked up Worth Dying For, another Jack Reacher book, this week after liking the first one so much. I'm already halfway through and it's starting to become a new must-read series for me to follow.

[evil ash]

Now reading Sourcery by Terry Pratchett

[Mr Cairo]

just finished Outpost by Adam Baker it was brilliant until the last 50 or so pages and then it kind of lost the plot a little

now reading Double Dead by Chuck Wendig after seeing Boo post about it ..so far pretty damn fine

[The Curious Orange]

Originally Posted by Wee Little Puppet Man

The last book I read was Blood Noir, in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. Well it was £2 in HMV and I was hoping for some Buffy-esque story and action but Christ, it was awful. I spent the first half of the book wondering if I was gonna like this and the second half realizing I didn't. It must be the worst book I've read in ages, or the worst one I've finished anyway, and that's from skimming my way through the last hundred pages just so I could finish it. And the worst thing wasn't that it spends half the book building up to a confrontation that never happens, but its portrayal of some of the female characters which was just appalling. This is going straight to the charity shop this weekend.

The first 6 or so Anita Blake books were actually pretty good. After that it descended into soft pr0n, then hard pr0n then nasty pr0n. I stopped reading at book 11, and that was at least 2 books too many. Please don't inflict it on a charity shop - throw it in the recycling, it's all it's good for.

[Barsoom]

Originally Posted by Jamie

Just finished Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, absolutely excellent, tightly controlled novel about a less-histrionic-than-usual collapse of US society.

You might want to try the sequel, Parable of the Talents, which is also very good

Just finished the Stephen King short story collection Just After Sunset. A few so-so ones there, but on the whole a good collection. My favourite was 'N', a Cthuluesqe story about a cosmic demon attempting to break into our reality

[Iain Gibson]

Fort Freak, latest in the Wild Cards books, which is returning to the series' New York roots and seems all the better for it.

[Sass1]

Read A SUNLESS SEA by Anne Perry yesterday.

Now reading OUR MUTUAL FRIEND by Charles Dickens (that's going to take more than 24 hours to read!)

[The Curious Orange]

City of Ruin by Mark Charan Newton. It's very good, and very well written, and I am only 100 or so pages in, but so far it's lacking that certain je ne sais quoi that made Nights of Villjamur so good.

[St Francis Xavier]

It's sat on my shelf for nigh on 12 years but I've finally taken up ULYSSES by James Joyce.
This could take a while...

[runalong]

Finished the Chalk Girl by Carol O'Connell. It's classed as a crime novel but this is one of my favourite authors. Imagine a modern day New York mixed with crime noir and every character is a strangely flawed person. She reminds me of Shirley Jackson in her style and live of making the strange seem normal. This tale involves a cruel park murder, escaping rats, corruption and a boy's evil journey through school

This is going to be on my reads of the year - yeah I kinda liked it