What book(s) are you reading at the moment?

Michioliphant said:
Too bad Auel died before finishing the series isn’t it?
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To be honest I'm not really a fan of long books usually, I reckon you should be able to tell a story in 300 pages. And 6 books of 500 pages or more is frankly ridiculous. I didn't know that she had planned MORE. Ive always shied away from War & Peace because of the length. Hemingway won a bet once that he could tell a story in 6 words......for sale, baby shoes, never worn. Now that's my kind of writing.
 
NewToThis said:
To be honest I'm not really a fan of long books usually, I reckon you should be able to tell a story in 300 pages. And 6 books of 500 pages or more is frankly ridiculous. I didn't know that she had planned MORE. Ive always shied away from War & Peace because of the length. Hemingway won a bet once that he could tell a story in 6 words......for sale, baby shoes, never worn. Now that's my kind of writing.
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Valid. By the same token, there’s a lot to be yearned for in Hemingway’s story there. Leaves the reader hanging .
 
Listening to the audio books of The Wheel of Time after someone here mentioned the books and jogged my memory of how good they were.
Reading only magazines at the moment, mostly wh40k or military history.
 
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ALIENS - BUG HUNT

(awesome anthology. short stories about the colonial marines. not just fighting xenomorphs, but pirates and other aliens, too)
 
"The Deep Blue Goodbye" one of John D MacDonald's Travis McGee mysteries.

They were looking to make a flick out of this with Christian Bale in the lead role, but apparently it got runover by other committments. Too bad....hed have had about 22 others for sequelae.
 
Zebby said:
The War of Powers, Robert E. Vardeman & Victor Milan.
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A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie.

To my delight there was a passage quite early on in the book where a particularly nefarious character called Stour Nightfall muses about how he is gonna torture a girl he is chasing through the woods...by making her fuck his dogs, then his horse and then a pig...
 
Michioliphant said:
Too bad Auel died before finishing the series isn’t it?
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Say what? I hadn't heard she'd kicked off. And I've been under the impression that Painted Caves was the last of the series. It sure SEEMED like she'd wrapped it all up, and everything I'd heard after reading it suggested that even SHE was tired of writing prehistoric porno.
 
Audiobooks count, right?

Finally (My lord, what an incredibly tedious slog...) made it through Atlas Shrugged. (as an audiobook - a 69 hour reading!!!)

Needed something a bit lighter to get the nasty taste it left out of my mouth, so loaded up Dhalgren, and am about halfway through it. One of my all-time "comfort food" books.
 
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UR20Z said:
Say what? I hadn't heard she'd kicked off. And I've been under the impression that Painted Caves was the last of the series. It sure SEEMED like she'd wrapped it all up, and everything I'd heard after reading it suggested that even SHE was tired of writing prehistoric porno.
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And now that I've gone looking, she's apparently alive and well in Portland Oregon, which is exactly the situation I last knew about. And Painted Caves is noted as being "the final volume of the series", again, exactly as I thought. What are you jabbering about, @Michioliphant ???

Or perhaps you're riffing on the oft-thought "The brain-eater killed her off just about the time "The Mammoth Hunters" was released" opinion?
 
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