The Now Reading Thread

[Seventhzealot]

The Plague by Albert Camus.

[hellawaits77ny]

Originally Posted by SomewhereInTime72

I've read a pretty decent number of his works (not as many as certain other modern authors that have huge catalogs, but still). Pretty cool guy.

Yeah, I love his work. I want to read his new one, 77 Shadow Street, but the reviews have been shitty. Also a little hesitant after reading one of his most recent, What The Night Knows. Overal, a pretty decent novel, but it could have been so much better. Beginning towards middle was great, then the end was pretty blah.

[adamclark52]

I just finished the Star Wars novel 'Red Harvest'. It was decent enough, it didn't have the creepy feeling that it's predecessor 'Death Troopers' had or any of the scenerios that actually had shivers running up my spine (any parts in Death Troopers that involved the wookiee child were really well done). It was also a little short, less than 250 pages, and featured no characters in any other Star Wars work so there wasn't much room for backstories. If anything there were to many characters in this novel, most of which were pointless. And since 95% of the characters (victims) are sith, you really can't feel bad for them.

On the plus side I always enjoy Star Wars material that exists outside the classic characters everyone knows. I always find it's better when the author can use the technology and lore of the Star Wars universe but not be tied down to a core group of characters and keeping in line with their already established personalities. This novel, being set some 3500 years before the movies, fits into that catagory. The descriptions of the mutilated corpses and zombies was a lot more graphic than Death Troopers.

Overall, a really good read. If you haven't read Death Troopers I'd suggest you read that before this one.

4 out of 5

[illninoese]

The Subtle Knife - Phillip Pullman
Book II of III: His Dark Materials

[Natrlhi]

The Book of Drugs - Mike Doughty

[brutal_descent]

Finished the first part of Gogol's Portrait. Fucking heavy.

[Seventhzealot]

Finished up The Plague by Albert Camus. Now starting off with Lovecraft's Tales and A Clash of Kings.

[SomewhereInTime72]

Lovecraft's The Lurking Fear.

[Blackened12]

Read this year so far:

Beowulf - X
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield
Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone - Sophocles
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
1984 - George Orwell

Reading:

Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Macbeth - Shaespeare

[kalfitegrdan]

Originally Posted by Blackened12

Read this year so far:

Beowulf - X
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield
Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone - Sophocles
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
1984 - George Orwell

Reading:

Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Macbeth - Shaespeare