What are you reading? [Book Discussion Topic]

Figured I'd go ahead and start this and use this topic as a means to record what books I will read over the year.

I'll use the format [Date Finished] - Book Title/Author

[Early January] - 11/22/63 by Stephen King
[January 8] - Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
[January 11] - So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld
[January 12] - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
[January 15] - Glasshouse by Charles Stross

I read 11/22/63 for pleasure and Revolution because I'm a part of a book reading contest at school (ten books, team-based quiz over the books, team with the most points wins.) 11/22/63 is Stephen King's newest novel and is about a man who is heralded into a scheme to travel back in time to stop the assassination of JFK. The catch? He can only travel back to 1958, five years before the assassination. A lot of King books have questionable, left-field endings; sudden twists that leave the reader disoriented, but this book did not. It had a twist, yes, but it was a very enjoyable book with an enjoyable ending.

Revolution bugged me a bit as being marketed toward thirteen year olds with how melodramatic it was. That being said, it was an interesting book about a young girl who finds a diary of another young girl during the French Revolution. Not really much to say on it, it's a neat little story, especially if you can look over the melodrama.

So Yesterday was about a couple of teenagers involved in the market of all things cool pursuing someone that is trying to disrupt the cool pyramid. It's a short, fun read, not really anything substantial, and I'll probably forget about it in a month.

Ready Player One is about an online game so massive that everyone plays it for everything from school to adventuring to business meetings. When the game's creator and lead designer, James Halliday, dies, he lives a video will, promising controlling stock of his company and his fortune of 240billion dollars to any one who can find his secret Easter egg. Players must find three keys to open three gates to find the Easter egg. It's a story about unlikely hero Wade Watts's obsession with the Easter egg and the obstacles he goes through to seek it. I read this 400 page book in a single sitting. This is required reading for ANY geek or nerd. This book has quickly escalated to my top three, perhaps even my very favorite book. I can not stress this enough: read Ready Player One. You will not be sorry. Thanks to Eaglendia for the awesome suggestion.

Glasshouse was a pretty good sci-fi book, though I wouldn't recommend it to non-fans of the genre. In a future where technology has accelerated beyond belief, a group of people willing undergo memory surgery and enlist in a program that places individuals in a recreation of a 1990-2000 suburban town. From there, naturally, things go pretty south. Nice read.


What about you? What are you reading?

How are you watching Clash of Kings?

[Reading]
11/22/63-Stephen King
People of Sparks-Jenny DuPrau

I agree. King can tell a good story, but the endings can get pretty derpy.

Since when can you speak German Kiwi?


Reading: Today's Newspaper

Going to read: Tomorrow's Newspaper


And that sums up my reading within the past year (aside from a few car magazines here and there).

Err, sorry, mind was somewhere else. Meant how is A Clash of Kings?

I'm not too fanatic about reading books. Though, some time I'll probably read:
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

and

11/22/63, it sounds like it's worth the read.

Have read:
Art of War -Sun Tzu
Brave New World -Aldous Huxley

Plan on reading:
Der Untergang des Abendlandes -Oswald Spengler

I also read the newspaper. lol

Jagdgeschwader wrote:
I also read the newspaper. lol

+5

Of Mice And Men

[Reading]
The Walking Dead vol. 14-Robert Kirkman

[Going to read]
The walking dead vol. 15-Robert Kirkman
Catching Fire-Suzanne Collins
MockingJay-Suzanne Collins
The Dresden Files book 1-Jim Butcher

And that's about it