What are you reading right now? (possible RotE spoilers)

[redchild]

I used to read one book at a time. Now it's just multiplied...

Currently reading:
George RR Martin's Storm of Swords. It's been a while since I last finished Clash of Kings so it's been kind of tricky for me to remember the details of what had happened since.

CG Jung: The Portable Jung. I just got this in the mail today and wow-- it's a veritable BIBLE :shock:

Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. Nearly finished with this one. Very insightful read (as is anything when it comes to Sagan.)

TH White's Candle in the Wind. I only have this and Sword in the Stone to finish off The Once and Future King.

Yeah I'm trying to squeeze in all I can before fall semester begins and I'll be stuck reading required texts.

[Albertosaurus Rex]

Yeah I'm trying to squeeze in all I can before fall semester begins and I'll be stuck reading required texts.

I am well aware of that phenomenon. In fall, my reading slows a lot and sometimes stops altogether, either because I don't have time to read for fun, or because I have read so much required texts that I don't feel like reading any more.

Halfway through Dangerous Visions. On another note, I managed to get a discount copy of The Three Musketeers. Yay!

[Nuytsia]

CG Jung: The Portable Jung. I just got this in the mail today and wow-- it's a veritable BIBLE :shock:

Hmm so is the 'portable' a joke or is there actually a literally non-portable version that you have to visit somewhere to read?

[Farseer]

Starting Chapter Twenty-One of 'The Magicians' Guild' but wanted to come on and make some predictions as it was so much fun when I did it for the Soldier Son series! I think Manephelian may be the only one to have read the Black Magician trilogy though?

The Magicians' Guild spoilers

Spoiler

Dannyl is going to be a love interest of Sonea's but I think Cery will win her heart in the very end.

What is with Fergun?! Oh, I hate him (!!), and can't imagine what he's going to do with Cery as his prisoner BUT it's my guess it's a rouse so he can become Sonea's guardian instead of Rothen. What will Sonea do to him when she finds out??!!

Also, Rothen told Sonea about how the High Lord supposedly got through the blocked mind of a murderer, and this was a very rare ability to pass a blocked mind. He said that nobody knew how Akkarin had done it but I think that's because Akkarin DIDN'T read the mind of that man...he just accused him of the murders to cover up the fact that it was he who was committing the crimes (this is going on from the fact that Sonea had seen the High Lord in his home, covered in blood with a knife, and it seems logical to me?!). From there, I am guessing that it will be Sonea who will be the only one strong enough in the magic to overcome the High Lord and defeat him.

[redchild]

CG Jung: The Portable Jung. I just got this in the mail today and wow-- it's a veritable BIBLE :shock:

Hmm so is the 'portable' a joke or is there actually a literally non-portable version that you have to visit somewhere to read?

Actually it's a compilation of Jung's works. The title is a bit strange but that's because it's one in a series called the Viking Portable Library, which has books of compiled works from different people or subjects, to make it easier than having to hunt down the different volumes yourself.

So actually the title would be Jung (as it reads on the spine)

[Albertosaurus Rex]

Nearly finished Dangerous Visions, and I'm sort of glad about it. Most of it is very good, but the sheer amount of stories and the constant changing of styles and of "dangerous" ideas is a little overwhelming. I'm eyeing a larger story for my next read, probably The Three Musketeers.

['thul]

Just started on a new book, "and all the kings men". It is pseudo-history, a sort of "what if" story, based on a theoretical successful german invasion of Great Britain in WWII and thus a British resistance movement... Not gotten far yet, but it looks promising...

[joost]

Speculative and alternate history can be very good. My favourite writer in that genre is Mary Gentle. Ash: A secret history (about the fall of Burgundy in 1477) is one of the best books I've ever read.

[Albertosaurus Rex]

Reading The Three Musketeers now, having fun.

[Nuytsia]

Hmmm my jokes lose something in translation!

Also, Farseer your spoilers about that book you're reading sounded almost like the latest plot in Neighbours ........ until it got to 'high lords' and 'magic' anyway.....