Books you're reading now

[Metcarfre]

It's fantastic. Have you read Guns, Germs, and Steel by him?

[Dubious_wolf]

A Storm of Swords.
Wow. It's hard to wrap my head around how vastly different this book is from the last.

[Yaxley]

Just finished NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. It was scary, but I found it most interesting because of the two main characters having such clear, distinct voices and vastly different world views. Very well done.

[Geoff_B]

A Storm of Swords.
Wow. It's hard to wrap my head around how vastly different this book is from the last.

Ayup

[Dubious_wolf]

A Storm of Swords.
Wow. It's hard to wrap my head around how vastly different this book is from the last.

Ayup

It's just so good!!

[Geoff_B]

Really? I thought Clash of Kings was marginally better

[Dubious_wolf]

Didn't enjoy clash of kings. I felt like I really had to trudge through it.

[Avistew]

I can never remember the order of them because I bought an ebook version that has them all in one file and so I never really had to look at the title of whichever book I was currently reading. My favourite one was the third one thought. I liked the 4th one less, and the 5th one I found meh. It seems like as the series goes by, more and more of the books are about nothing. I'm waiting to see if these things become consequential later on.

[Geoff_B]

But but but Clash of Kings has the most amount of Tyrion awesomeness so far!

[Avistew]

Tyrion is awesome in all the books he appears in, though.

[Dubious_wolf]

If not for Arya's story line and Tyrion's I wouldn't have made it through a clash of kings.

[Dubious_wolf]

Man, I don't feel like anything good ever happens in these books. It's quite depressing.

[Ptangmatik]

I agree. I was really enthusiastic for a particular character's chapters every time I saw those come up, then when they died for what I felt was an out-of-character, bullshit reason I had to stop reading for about a week

I don't know whether to spoiler that or not, I was fairly non-specific

[Mara Kalat]

In any other series that might be considered a spoiler, for this one? It's more like a feature.
I've trod my way through all 6 and my favourite is fortunately still alive, but George R. R. Martin's mind is not a happy place.

Mara.

[Yaxley]

Just finished The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. It's so well written, but it's so dense with feels. Er... I mean, I'm sure it was just dust getting in my eyes. For the entire final third of the book.

[Geoff_B]

I believe this comic is germane to the Song of Ice and Fire discussion...

[tamaness]

Just finished The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. It's so well written, but it's so dense with feels. Er... I mean, I'm sure it was just dust getting in my eyes. For the entire final third of the book.

qft. Also, I lent it to my mom immediately after I finished the book. I wonder how she felt at the end.

[Dubious_wolf]

Storm of swords. A freaking roller coaster of action!!! This can't be the same author...
All the bullshit from "a clash of kings" is FINALLY paying off.

[Dubious_wolf]

One "silver linings playbook" later I'm crying. That was a good little uplifting book that I needed.

[My pseudonym is Ix]

My rate of reading has suddenly gone up to one book per day, with my daily structure having been shot to hell. I'm currently two-thirds of the way through His Dark Materials and remembering exactly why I didn't enjoy these books 5 years ago

[Thysane]

I'm devouring William Gibson's Count Zero right now. Man, I love cyberpunk. Think I might try to get my hands on Mona Lisa Overdrive next, or maybe the short story collection he put together before Neuromancer, Burning Chrome.

[Geoff_B]

I think Count Zero is the best of the three

[Dubious_wolf]

Finished "Silver Linings Playbook" last night.
Pat Peoples would HATE "A Song of Ice and Fire."

[Thysane]

I think Count Zero is the best of the three

Finished it. Oh man, SO GOOD. A very different beast to Neuromancer for definite. Didn't quite reach the heights of poetic hallucination that Neuromancer did, but man. What a book.

Haven't been able to get my hands on MLO, but I've made a start on Virtual Light instead. Interesting stuff.

[Bebop Man]

I've been plowing through Ebert's Your Movie Sucks since he passed away about a month ago. I'm a couple of stories short from finishing AC Doyle's His Last Bow as well, but can't seem to gather the energy.