What are you reading . . . . Now?

Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 10607 Location: Bellingham, WA

31... it helps that Neil Gaiman was on there four times. Odd that William Gibson is only on it once. Of course, I take issue with Wheel of Time being on the list. Also kind of surprised that RA Salvatore's Drizzt series is on there... I was really into them when I was a teenager, so it's not that they're bad... I just don't expect to see D&D novels on best lists.
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Heretical Rants · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 5193 Location: No.

I've read ~17 of those as a low estimate (I am not confident in my counting skills and book covers are distracting and difficult to parse)
there are another ~10 that I've taken a pretty close look at and read a bit and decided wouldn't be worth it, or that I just skimmed through a bit, or lost interest halfway through
and maybe 10 others on the list that I'd like to read but haven't gotten around to yet

plus a few more that I probably would have liked to read but I think have been somewhat ruined for me by pop culture so I won't bother

aaaaand I see a bunch on there that I probably would not read even if you gave them to me, put them on the easiest-to-access part of my bookshelf, and then got rid of all of my other books and banned me from all libraries
and another one or two that I would like to burn

EDIT: oh wait you can just click them
that would have made the counting easier
oh well

let's see
there's actually 27 in the "yeah, I definitely read that, for better or for worse" category, and a few more that I'm not totally sure about because sometimes I don't remember book titles exactly (and I used to be even worse about authors)
and some of these titles are pretty generic
and cover art is very distracting, and unhelpful here since it often varies between different releases of a book and is something that I am unlikely to remember, at least in a way that is associated with the book itself, anyway
...wow, my unassisted counting was way off

Celaeno · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 3029 Location: Kzoo

LOVED Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane. I devoured it.

It's probably not the most representative of his work, though. Perhaps start with American Gods or Neverwhere.

Heretical Rants · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 5193 Location: No.

This list mostly just served to remind me that there are a few Pratchett books I haven't read yet, but American Gods is up right after that
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Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 10607 Location: Bellingham, WA

I liked Neverwhere more than American Gods, but I appear to be in the minority (of the people I hear/see talk about it).
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Heretical Rants · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 5193 Location: No.

aaaaaaand I just now found a ~100k word fanfiction that I am most probably going to read in its entirety
immediately

welp
there goes my afternoon
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Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 6328

Huh, that's super weird, up until now it seems like everyone tells me the opposite, that they preferred Neverwhere to American Gods. Which to me makes no sense because North Dakota makes the most hysterically accurate cameo in American Gods and it still makes me laugh thinking about it years after actually having read the book.

Well anyway.

I'm reading Agnes and the Hitman, which marks this the second time I've decided to read a romance novel recommended by a coworker. The first time I did that I ended up reading all of Twilight, so. This one is at least intentionally funny. I'm halfway through and quite like it so far.
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Heretical Rants · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 5193 Location: No.

Vox Raucus · Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 1:54 am Post subject:

Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 6328

*snort*

Aright, I'm taking back that 'up until now'.
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Darqcyde · Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 4:14 am Post subject:

Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 10607 Location: Bellingham, WA

The Silmarillion* was a total snoozefest. The Once and Future King, though, was the bomb.

* I forgot I'd read it until you mentioned it... 32.
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eureka00 · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 1990 Location: Pretzel City