i am reading Ravenor: The Omnibus.   i like when i can find trilogies or series all in a single book.  i sometimes feel compelled to buy them even if i have no idea what they are.

Reading ´Footfall´ from Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. To me one of the best ´alien invasion´ books out there.

I won't let this thread die. Here is what I've been reading recently

Faith: What it is and what it isn't.

The God Delusion

All Quiet on the Western Front- Greatest war novel of all time!

Now Reading

The Zombie Survival Guide- I'm not going to let those zombies get me.

I've finished a whole batch of new books, so here it is:

'Desert Spear' by Peter .V. Brett, it's the sequel to 'The Painted Man', which is a book a really enjoyed. 'Desert Spear' was interesting because it spread it's plot and character development over a far larger amount of characters than your usually use to in a fantasy novel and though I liked some characters more than others it was still fun to read. Brett is odd because he avoids the fatal flaw that a lot of fantasy authors misuse, which is anti-fan service, everything you want to happen doesn't happen and everything you don't want to happen does happen. This keeps things interesting and keeps you guessing, you never know who's going to die, who's going to sleep with who, who wins what battle and so forth. It's basically the anti 'Way of the Shadows'.

'Smoke & Mirrors' by Neil Geiman. It's a book of short stories, some scary, some dramatic and some just plain weird, but they were all interesting. I liked it, I'm a fan of short stories and this was one of the better compilations I've read.

I read 'The Wise Man's Fear' again, it's one of my favourites by an author named Patrick Rothfuss. On a second read through I've found that picking out it's flaws was much easier and the results were pretty disheartening. Pat made a lot of dumb mistakes in the books, not even amateur mistakes, just a lot of bad editing and way too many uncut threads. I won't go into detail, but I will say that hopefully he can tie it all up in his next book, this seems like a stepping stone, when it should've been a mid-air jump, I just hope he nails the landing.

I've got a massive stack of books to read, but I've been burning through my anime backlog and haven't had much time for a 10 hour read. Having an I-pad makes anime watching really easy, but I just can't get into reading E-books, it's uncomfortable and I prefer a physical book.

I've read a whole bunch of manga, some of them were pretty amazing and I just wish that more books could broaden their imaginations to such ridiculous heights sometimes. Claymore was fantastic, I've always avoided it because I thought it's be some Xena rip off or something, but it's not and it's amazing.

What I read recently:

This any good? I don't know much about it but one of my work colleagues is really enjoying it.

Just finished 2001: A Space Odyssey and just started Mass Effect: Ascension (figured I might as well read the books before Mass Effect 3 is out).

Will start reading "A Dance with Dragons" next week (finally released!).

Yep, it's very good. One of those sci fi novels that doesn't bore you with pointless tech stuff, and deals with actual serious issues (in other words it's an actually good book). It's about clones used to harvest vital organs from and is told from the POV of one of them (first person narration). I greatly enjoyed it, though I couldn't help but start crying at the end. Definately can be desribed as a "tearjerker", and is also a little depressing, but still wonderful. You should read ASAP!!!

Just finished the Mistborn Trilogy (The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages) by Brandon Sanderson and it was amazing! It was nearly 2000 pages of book but I couldn't put it down.

Sanderson is just simply amazing at creating unique and believable worlds (well, as believable as fantasy gets) and the twists he throws in are amazing. For every twist he plainly puts it out there that this thing is a twist but it's done in a way that you just don't see it until the twist is finally revealed. You then go back and think of it and realize, yup, if I had stopped and thought about that for a minute, I might have seen that twist coming.

Seriously, if you like fantasy books give the Mistborn Trilogy a go.

As for what I'm reading now, I'm reading Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell and I'm pretty indifferent towards it. I've only just started it and there are some interesting parts but nothing has really dragged me into it yet.

Thanks for the info. I'm looking for the Kindle/ebook version as I type this.