Reading Clash of Kings at this very moment. So yes I also read this book last.

Pretty damn good.

The book I most recently finished was The Vampire Lestat. I am currently reading The Queen Of The Damned. Then I think I shall read The Forgotten Realms War Of The Spider Queen series.

Hey I read this one recently, I found it really great, although personally I prefered the Iliad because of the direct involvement of the gods in the war.
I enjoyed reading both so much that I then looked for more and read Aeschylus' plays, I recommend the Oresteia and Seven against Thebes Since they are plays they can be read very quickly.

I was reading Jane Eyre but it was so wubbish I actually just stopped. Can't think the last time I did that actually...

Been reading a couple of samples on my Kindle to see what to go for next and am quite drawn to Wil Wheaton's book about his time on the Star Trek set. Or another Shardlake book - they're about a hunchback lawyer/detective in 16th century London. Excellent pre-CSI detective stuff.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Baby-Owners-Manual-Instructions-Trouble-shooting/dp/1931686238/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311708347&sr=1-1. It was pretty good - the ultimate nerd's guide to raising a family. I'll certainly keep it handy for the easy-to-follow diagrams. I'm now reading the much-more-sensible Secrets of The Baby Whisperer, which I'm also finding really useful.

As for fiction, I'm re-reading Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen, which I've read at least twice before. He was the novelist behind Strip Tease - great book, terrible film - and is pretty similar to Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty). It's comedy crime fiction.

Prior to that I read six of the Dark Tower books by Stephen King, and I had to pause the seventh because it was making me queasy, but I'll definitely finish it off when I'm feeling better. I'd very highly recommend the series to fans of fantasy/sci-fi.

"a Brief History of Time" by stephen hawking... my head nearly exploded.

You're a better person than I. I had such little patience for baby how-to books, deciding instead to wing it with instinct and www.askdrsears.com when weirdness happens.

To make this comment relevant, the Dark Tower series was my initiation into the world of Stephen King, they are really awesome books. I then had to go and read all the other books with the rose in the keyhole on the back cover...

I love Stephen King. I've got It lying around, but it's like a billion pages long and I'm daunted by that so I doubt I'll be reading it for a while... Anyone care to convince me?

Next on my list at the moment is Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton because I've been lent it and told to read it. I dunno anything about it or the author at all so I think I'll be going into it blind.

It I didn't get around to reading. The Stand is definitely a brick on its own, though, and it was definitely worth it.

I had almost forgotten that I actually bought the first book in the Dark Tower series a couple months back, still haven't gotten around to starting it. I'm not sure I'm too keen on the western theme it has though.

Western theme? You definitely haven't read it...

Which version of the first book? Original or revised?

reading a dance with dragons, i like it sofar, it has teh characters that i like in it...instead of teh others

How do people read multiple books at the same time and not get confused.

I don't think its that hard :shrug: The characters, plot, and setting are different enough to keep separate as I'm reading. Some minor problems can arise after I'm done and have had time to forget specifics, but they are rare.

I read Dark Tower a while back, though I didn't finish and don't remember much of it. Got as far as the book with the doorways.

The second one, then, "The Drawing of the Three". My favourite was the one right after..."The Waste Land."

Maybe its you that's missing out? Perhaps your heads too buried in the books for you to have a wealth of experiences out of a book, hmm?

But before I try to figure you out let me tell you how I work. I can tell you that I'm a very visual person. I can visualize what I read very well but at the same time as I'm reading I'm physically looking at all these words on a paper. It just looks like its going to take a lot longer than watching a movie or documentary which totally distracts me and throws me off my train of thought.

Sounds like a classy case of laziness to you too, right?

Just different intellectual styles. I kinda see books as having a personal experience with a story (your mind paints you a picture based on a textual template) while seeing a film is more of an exposure to a filmmaker's perspective on a story. Some people have more of an affinity for one than the other (I am not one of those people).

Ender's Game Is one of my all time favorite books, the next book in the series was very good as well.

On killing by LCol Dave Grossman. It was an really interesting and eye opening book and brought up some good points, especially the later chapter, which would've made most people here rage.

Funny, I picked that up a couple months ago. Started reading it and it was really interesting, but it got drowned out by all the reading of textbooks for school. I should get around to finishing it.

At the moment I'm reading The Lord of the Rings, last time I read it was 7th or 8th grade. I'm almost done and enjoying it, though The Hobbit is still my favourite. I guess the last book that I completely read must have been Children of Men. Which was good for the first half, and garbage for the rest.

I never got around to reading the rest of the series, does it pick after that last event in Ender's Game which I can't speak of because I don't know how to use spoiler tags?

Also, I have read (part) of the first book of the Dark Tower series and haven't gotten back into it. I was at the point where the Gunslinger and that boy (don't remember if he had a name...was it Ben?) first get past the desert and into the mountains.

I got put off by the fact that every time I heard about The Man in Black, I thought of the Dark Man, which caused me not to be interested in him as I felt I already had an idea of what kind of character he was.

A Game Of Thrones