What fiction are you currently reading?

[Tim]

I'm reading Chris Adrian's "The Children's Hospital." It's a McSweeney's title, so I'm bound to be impressed by it, and the prose is good -- at least the first 50 pages.

Tim

[RobinFinderson]

For fiction I am reading Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. I think The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and A Clockwork Orange were the last sci fi I had read (way back in high school), so I had forgotten how good the best of the genre can be. Neal Stephenson is pretty freaking amazing.

[BigPiney]

I am just starting "The Pillars of the Earth", by Ken Follett. So far a great book.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I'm reading Chris Adrian's "The Children's Hospital." It's a McSweeney's title, so I'm bound to be impressed by it, and the prose is good -- at least the first 50 pages.

Tim

Currently reading Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer. It has not really taken yet, I am unsure if I will finish.

[LiveCoug]

I'm reading some book called Wheel of Darkness. It's aight.

[Brian]

Just finished "Life of Pi". Really enjoyed it.
Just started "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote. 20 pages in and I'm totally hooked.

[bluegoose]

Just finished "Life of Pi". Really enjoyed it.
Just started "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote. 20 pages in and I'm totally hooked.

I'm about 2/3 through "Life of Pi". The first 75 pages were fairly painful to struggle through, but it has been great since that point.

[ERCougar]

I'm about 2/3 through "Life of Pi". The first 75 pages were fairly painful to struggle through, but it has been great since that point.

My reaction was exactly the opposite. I loved the first 75 pages, then it just started to drag. Loved the ending. It's a great book, even if it is plagiarized.

[ERCougar]

Right now, I'm reading Les Miserables, which is going to be like a 6-month project, and I just finished Peace Like a River. Great book. I think I'm going to read Wicked next.

[Brian]

My reaction was exactly the opposite. I loved the first 75 pages, then it just started to drag. Loved the ending. It's a great book, even if it is plagiarized.

Agreed. The middle did drag a bit, but the ending is worth it.
Not that original, but then, if you really get down to it, not much is.
Gives you much to ponder...

[bluegoose]

My reaction was exactly the opposite. I loved the first 75 pages, then it just started to drag. Loved the ending. It's a great book, even if it is plagiarized.

It had some interesting perspectives on religion in the first 1/3 of the book. Some things still have me thinking about them a couple of weeks after reading them.

I'm not sure why I struglled through it so much. I guess I had heard a little of the story line and was hoping it would move along faster than it did.

[Solon]

Praise of Folly by Erasmus of Rotterdam.

[tooblue]

I'm about 2/3 through "Life of Pi". The first 75 pages were fairly painful to struggle through, but it has been great since that point.

It's one of my favorite books.

[woot]

I'm about 2/3 of the way through War and Peace and I refuse to give up on it. The writing is among the best I've ever read, but I don't agree with many of his editorial choices. I adore his shorter works, and I've heard that Anna is a much tighter story, so I'm still motivated to get through it.

Good call with Snow Crash. That's one of my favorite books ever. I still haven't read any of his other books, although Cryptonomicon has been on my unshrinking to-be-read stack for a very long time. My brother loves everything the guy's ever written and I do plan to get back to him some day.

[Raketemensch]

"In Cold Blood" is a great book...
Just finished "Gravity's Rainbow," can't decide what I think of it. Alternately funny, brilliant, and impossible to read. Feel I should get a medal for finishing it (The Moby Dick-type experience).