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

[Albertosaurus Rex]

I've just started reading Two Ages by Thomasine Gyllembourg, a 19th century Danish novel. How did I ever get the idea to read that? Because it comes with a lengthy review by philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.

[Nuytsia]

I still have Dead Witch Walking, that book with the notorious cover. And I have two words for you: rat fight. One of the tensest scenes I've read in quite a while.

Intriguing..... reminds me of 1984 .... creepy ...

[Atthis]

Is that old school Jekyll and Hyde?

Yep, old school indeed. The only other book I've read by Robert Louis Stevenson is Treasure island, and that was ages ago. I was suprised by how much I enjoyed it, but it's a pity I already knew the twist going in (but doesn't everyone?). The other short stories in my edition were good too, perhaps even better, though some had really bizarre endings.

[Farseer]

by Robert Louis Stevenson

An illustrated version of 'A Child's Garden of Verses' by Robert Louis Stevenson *sigh* ...my most favourite of childhood gifts that I still have on my bookshelf...

To Alison Cunningham
From Her Boy

For the long nights you lay awake
And watched for my unworthy sake:
For your most comfortable hand
That led me through the uneven land:
For all the story-books you read:
For all the pains you comforted:

For all you pitied, all you bore,
In sad and happy days of yore:--
My second Mother, my first Wife,
The angel of my infant life--
From the sick child, now well and old,
Take, nurse, the little book you hold!

And grant it, Heaven, that all who read
May find as dear a nurse at need,
And every child who lists my rhyme,
In the bright, fireside, nursery clime,
May hear it in as kind a voice
As made my childish days rejoice!

R. L. S.

*drowning in the memories*

I have 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' and 'Treasure Island' there as well !

[Albertosaurus Rex]

Just finished Dead Witch Walking. As I've said before, it's fun, but the whole pattern of getting captured and escaping, again and again, got a little repetitive. That being said, I will be reading the rest of the series.

My next train-read will be Keith Baker's The Shattered Land. Yeah, I know that I called him mediocre in another thread, but I'm giving him another chance.

[Albertosaurus Rex]

Finished Two ages yesterday. I'm now reading Kierkegaard's review of it, which is included with the book. In fact, the whole reason Two Ages has been reprinted is because Kierkegaard's works are being translated into Dutch, and Kierkegaard's analysis makes more sense if you've read the book itself. Kierkegaard's review is almost as long as the original novella itself.

[Albertosaurus Rex]

Just finished Kierkegaard's book. I'm now going to read the Warhammer 40k omnibus Gaunt's Ghosts: The Founding, consisting of First and Only, Ghostmaker and Necropolis. The author, Dan Abnett, is considered to be the best author of the Warhammer 40k franchise, so I have high expectations.

[Nuytsia]

They sound cheery
As expected I guess, grim dark future and all

[Albertosaurus Rex]

I'm about 40 pages in now and it's a good read so far, although I'm not sure yet what the actual storyline is. It's rather fragmentary, skipping between a war in the "present" (actually of course THE GRIM DARK FUTURE IN WHICH THERE IS ONLY WAR) and flashbacks to previous moments in the eponymous commander's life.

The Shattered Land, meanwhile, is like the first volume in its trilogy: it's passable, but by no means great. One plot strand, though, appears to be eerily similar to something I had planned to put in one of my novels. (Which might of course not get written for years, but still...) I'll have to read on to see how it will develop and hope it won't be too similar. See, now I have to finish the trilogy!

[joost]

I was in the mood for light reading, so I started David Edding's Belgariad again.