Unofficial What are you Reading Thread?

[BADGE OF HONOR]

There, I changed it to something even funnier.   

[Richter]

http://www.fredvanlente.com/cthulhutract/pages/index.html

(Potential counter - missionary marterial.)

[Jasper]

I like that a lot.  Favorite line was "sanity-blasting truths of the greater cosmos".

[Richter]

It gets funny whenever I read it.

"It isn't a proper CoC game / fiction / etc. unless 'put the gun in your mouth' is an option."
-paraphrased Tim the Necromancer, former coworker.

[Iason Ouabache]

FINALLY finished "Breaking the Spell".  May or may not do some writing on it.  The beginning and end sections were kinda boring but the middle section was absolutely fascinating.  Still one of the most important books I've ever read.

Anyways, now reading "Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Neil Gaiman. 

[Reeducation]

I'll start reading Wilhelm Reich in Hell today

[Darth Cupcake]

When on public transit, I am currently reading The Best American Non-Required Reading 2008. It's a great smattering of fiction and nonfiction, along with some hilarious ephemera at the front (such as "Best American Newspaper Headlines, 1907"--I nearly shat myself from laughing). I don't like some of it, but some of it is so brilliant that I'm laughing out loud in the T. I don't think it's particularly diverse in the selections--you can really tell exactly what the selections board was into, and it's a little fatiguing sometimes, because it feels like this group of high schoolers is trying to proselytize to me through what they put into the book--but overall, I'm enjoying it and would recommend it, if only for the ephemera.

[Bu🤠ns]

The Blue Equinox..

[Cain]

A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin.

I think I guessed the plot about 100 pages too early.

[Payne]

A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin.

I think I guessed the plot about 100 pages too early.

I was completely unable to read his books. Just couldn't get into them at all.

[Cain]

It takes about 100 pages or so to get into this.  But once you do, it becomes much more interesting.  Assassination, intrigue, the games of great houses, uncertain and uncomfortable alliances...its all there.

I left it alone for a while for the same reason.  But I decided to give it another go, because so many people had told me it was worth it.

[Payne]

It takes about 100 pages or so to get into this.  But once you do, it becomes much more interesting.  Assassination, intrigue, the games of great houses, uncertain and uncomfortable alliances...its all there.

I left it alone for a while for the same reason.  But I decided to give it another go, because so many people had told me it was worth it.

I think what did it for me was reading through the first book, then buying the second to find there was a printing error, and the first 150 pages or so were just repeated 5 or 6 times.

Then I just couldn't work up the motivation to buy a proper copy and finish the series.

[Cain]

Ah.

Well yes, that would be annoying.

[Darth Cupcake]

I love those books.

But I am about ready to give up on them because stupid George RR Martin keeps promising that he's going to finish the next book, but he's been promising for YEARS (it was supposed to be released by the end of 2004, to give you context) and we're still seeing nothing. I understand that writing can't be rushed, but FOUR YEARS LATE? I'm not patient enough for this crap. Not when there's supposed to be something like seven or eight books and there's only four out and he can't even keep to his schedule.

He's an amazing writer and the books become darker and more ridiculous and more amazing the further in you get (though sometimes a bit over the top), but this is just absurd.

[Payne]

He's going to do a Robert Jordan.

And I laugh at all you fuckers.