Unofficial What are you Reading Thread?

[Disco Pickle]

WAIT WHY IS THIS THREAD UNOFFICIAL? WHERE ARE THE CORRECT CHANNELS?

The proper channels require an order, signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public enquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.

[Placid Dingo]

WAIT WHY IS THIS THREAD UNOFFICIAL? WHERE ARE THE CORRECT CHANNELS?

It's there in LC. All four pages or so of it. I think it says something about us as a community.

[kingyak]

About halfway through Supergods by Grant Morrison. Fucking excellent.

[Faust]

Just finished every issue of hell blazer to date. The series never dips in quality and it has been running for 31 years. Definitely recommend this to anyone who found the character in swamp thing interesting.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Just started the Wind-Up Bird Chronicles. It's pretty compelling so far.

[Eater of Clowns]

I picked up House of Leaves.

It's been a while since a book captured my interest to this degree.  I knew from the first page that this would be one I'd fall in love with, but it wasn't until this morning that I actually read a bit of it.  And I did nothing else but sit with this big beautiful book in the sun and nothing else mattered; I could piece together a quick lunch, the dishes could be done later.  This moment, with this book, is perfect and fleeting and reminded me so much of being a kid, the wonder books could bring.

[Faust]

I picked up House of Leaves.

It's been a while since a book captured my interest to this degree.  I knew from the first page that this would be one I'd fall in love with, but it wasn't until this morning that I actually read a bit of it.  And I did nothing else but sit with this big beautiful book in the sun and nothing else mattered; I could piece together a quick lunch, the dishes could be done later.  This moment, with this book, is perfect and fleeting and reminded me so much of being a kid, the wonder books could bring.

I'd like to talk to you about this after your done, I wont say anything now because you are clearly enjoying it but I had a few things nag me about that book.

[Eater of Clowns]

I picked up House of Leaves.

It's been a while since a book captured my interest to this degree.  I knew from the first page that this would be one I'd fall in love with, but it wasn't until this morning that I actually read a bit of it.  And I did nothing else but sit with this big beautiful book in the sun and nothing else mattered; I could piece together a quick lunch, the dishes could be done later.  This moment, with this book, is perfect and fleeting and reminded me so much of being a kid, the wonder books could bring.

I'd like to talk to you about this after your done, I wont say anything now because you are clearly enjoying it but I had a few things nag me about that book.

Hah, I'm only 61 pages into it and I think I'll be taking this one slowly.  I have five or six hundred pages to find things that nag me.  Let's see if I can remember this conversation in a few weeks and I'll pick your brain.

[LMNO]

I picked up House of Leaves.

It's been a while since a book captured my interest to this degree.  I knew from the first page that this would be one I'd fall in love with, but it wasn't until this morning that I actually read a bit of it.  And I did nothing else but sit with this big beautiful book in the sun and nothing else mattered; I could piece together a quick lunch, the dishes could be done later.  This moment, with this book, is perfect and fleeting and reminded me so much of being a kid, the wonder books could bring.

I'd like to talk to you about this after your done, I wont say anything now because you are clearly enjoying it but I had a few things nag me about that book.

I'd like to discuss it as well, once you're done with it.

[Freeky]

I just finished reading 1-6 of Preacher.

First I was like  and then I  and then  and then  . 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I just finished reading 1-6 of Preacher.

First I was like   and then I   and then   and then   .  

The whole thing with Cassidy and Jesse's GF kind of ruined it for me.

[Freeky]

I just finished reading 1-6 of Preacher.

First I was like   and then I   and then   and then   .  

The whole thing with Cassidy and Jesse's GF kind of ruined it for me.

I think that that was more a combination of God fucking with Jesse and the voodoo guy trying to curse Cassidy, also a "protagonist vs. stabbed in the back" sort of plotline.  And it isn't like Tulip was into it, or at least not that I interpreted.

[Freeky]

But yeah, that kind of devastated me in a way that is hard to describe.

[Eater of Clowns]

Cassidy with Jesse's GF, and Cassidy's relationships with women in general, were one of the biggest fridge brilliance moments I had throughout that series.

Spoilers ahoy for those who intend to read Preacher.

He's a departure from the typical vampire, highlighted by his interaction with that other vampire in New Orleans.  But he still sucks the life out of people.  What he did to his exes, what he did to Jesse's GF, it's vampirism without the blood.  When I realized that, I could move past it.

What bothered me the most about the series was just the loads and loads of author tract.  Just pages and pages of what was clearly Ennis speaking instead of his characters.  Still an entertaining series, though.

[EK WAFFLR]

Just finished Good Omens.

Thought I'd either re-read Prime Chaos by Phil Hine, or Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse.