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

[Liquid Ice]

I'm currently nearly finished "The Killing Floor" by Lee Child.

It's the first of supposedly many adventures of the one Jack Reacher. A lil too smart, lil too cool for his own good action hero.

Anyone read any books that Follow Reacher? Heard they're pretty popular. Least if you like Thriller/Crime kinda books.

[Nuytsia]

Hmmm doesn't really sound like my sort of thing - I'm pretty sure they've mentioned that author on that TV show the first tuesday book club?
I think they liked it?

[Albertosaurus Rex]

Geees I didn't know it was such a bad seller! Thanks for the review, I'll give it a look some time.

GRRM recounts in his commentary for Dreamsongs that the book was intended to be his big breakthrough. It got good reviews, but virtually nobody bought it. He then started working on a new novel, Red and White and Black All Over, but as a result, no publisher would touch it, resulting in him mostly abandoning prose (except for Wild Cards) and working in the tv industry for some years.

(Red and White and Black All Over was never finished, but part of it was published in the collection Quartet.)

Currently reading: Pandora in the Congo by Albert Sanchez Pinol. (Or actually the differently titled Dutch translation of this originally Catalan novel.) I read a review of this book some years ago, but it spoiled a rather big twist, so I was discouraged from reading it. A shame, as up to the spoiler it sounded very interesting. Recently, however, I came across the book at a discount price, so now I'm reading it after all. Not sure what to think of it yet.

['thul]

these beings have begun to reread dragon keeper, as well as rereading "the red wyvern", a book in the deverry cycle...

[Albertosaurus Rex]

You're reading two books at once? How does that work out for you? I always end up putting one book down until the other is finished.

Less than 100 pages to go in Pandora in the Congo. Boy is it weird.

['thul]

It works quite well ('xcept they be, in theory, reading 5 books at once...)

[Albertosaurus Rex]

Five?? One would need to work out a schedule to read five books at once.

10:00 - 11:00 Book one, 50 pages.
11:00 - 12:00 Book two, 40 pages
12:00 - 12:30 Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00 Book three, 100 pages
14:00 - 14:30 Catch-up time in case I didn't read as many pages as planned of the books just mentioned.

...Anyway, I've finished Pandora in the Congo. Very weird, but I liked it for the most part. I'll be checking out Pinol's other novel Cold Skin soon, but for now I'm reading Harlan Ellison's famous anthology Dangerous Visions.

['thul]

a few of those books have been put on hold... the main focus is just two books...

[Nuytsia]

oooh i hate reading more than one book at a time!
I think I've said that already .....

[Farseer]

It could be said that I've read multiple books at the same time ever since I was introduced to Robin Hobb...I can't help but lose myself in one of the RotE books while I'm reading something else but then, that's mostly in the name of research that gets out of control!

Though I have no spare time to read a new book right now, let alone begin a new series, I am MAKING time because I can't stand having these books sitting here any longer!! * heads to the ironing pile and opens the front cover of 'The Magician's Guild', the first of Trudi Canavan's books in the Black Magician trilogy *