now that i think about it...i would say nynaeve...which is odd...since i generally felt she was a real cunt and didnt like her that much while i was reading it.

mat/tuon

elayne/birgitte

For some weird reason I couldn't get into the new Brent Weeks novel, so instead I put it down and grabbed a book from my childhood. Artemis Fowl is still really good, I burnt through the first book in a night and then read the rest of the series over a couple of days. It's just got such good characters and a really interesting universe, it also helps the Eoin Colfer is an amazing writer. One of the hardest challenges for writers is being able to write a childrens book that's also smart enough and engrossing enough to appeal to an adult and Colfer (like Rowling) nails it in every novel.

I've picked up another bundle of books to read and hopefully I'll find one that sticks, I've been finding it harder and harder to find books that keep my interested for longer than a few chapters.

I've got 'The Painted Man', 'The Alchemyst', 'The Book of Dead Days' and 'The Tapestry'. I've heard got things about a couple of them, but the others a completely new. 

I have also just finished 'The Whisky Rebels'. It was pretty well written and it was a nice break from the fantasy streak that I've been going through for the last couple of months. Well recommended to anyone who enjoys historical fiction.

never read Starquake but I have read Dragon's egg the prequel and liked it it's not great but a decent read.

@ Doobie_wop the The Alchemyst is alright nothing special but that does remind me I never read the sequels lol, I have heard good things about The Painted Man but never read it myself, haven't heard of the other 2...

Finally had time to start another book yesterday on the way to Londn, life of Pi, 17 train stops, there and back >_>, interesting intro but the first several pages seem to be more of a filler to the story, although interesting the related bits are far and few in between. I don't want to be a zoologist.

Some people really like Life of Pi... I never finnished it...

200 or so pages to go in Dust of  Dreams.

I think this will be the first megaseries I've ever finished, come to think of it. All the others I've finished reading were much, much  smaller.

my english teacher recommended starting it from page 80-something, that's when it starts to get interesting apparently , but I think I am beginning to see the relation in regards to the book cover and plot in the story, but it's pretty interesting thus far.

well the self-loathing blob of a main character is particularly endearing ;)

My latest read:

I started reading this the very day the quake in Japan happened. I wanted to learn more about Japan, and in my Anthropolgy class we were told that reading books written about different cultures can give you info on those cultures. This book is epically long (about 1500 pages), and tells the story of a British sailor named John Balckthrone (LOL, what a name, at least it wasn't Blackbeard), who winds up on Japan after an expedition to the New World, where he charted undiscovered territories and raided Portuguese/Spanish colonies. Here he finds a coming civil war, consipracies, deceit, love, adventure, fortune, loss, and more excitement than most people have in a lifetime. In the end Blackthrone will be a changed man. It also has one of the most hardcore, yet realistic female characters I've ever seen. Awsome book overall.

Oh man I haven't read  Shogun in ten years, I need to pick it up again.

Shogun is good as Hell.