So...what's everyone reading?

[Fellfrosch]

I just finished Neil Gaiman's Coraline, and all I can say is wow. That man can write. He's also pretty spooky.

[stacer]

So am I the only one who thought it was rather obvious? I mean, yeah, the writing's tight, but the story wasn't that great. But everyone else in class loved it. Maybe I should read it again. I read it among so many other books that maybe I didn't give it the attention I should have.

Fell, did you read the discussion about Coraline from last spring when I read it? It's in here somewhere.

[Fellfrosch]

I didn't read it, because I hadn't read the book yet and didn't want to spoil anything. I'll go look for it.

I'm not sure what you mean by "obvious." There's not really any mystery involved, so there's nothing to figure out and therefore nothing to figure out early. It's definitely a style/idea book rather than a plot book, and the writing is excellent and the mood and images are very vivid.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

I've got 4 textbooks on my agenda. One is petite, another two are regular sized. And my Art History book is obesely large. Instead of the book ordered by the teacher, the place sends these monolith sized books instead. And were only using half of the book for the first semester. If I take Art History 2 then I'll get the rest of that books damnable use out of it.

I finished "Temple of the Winds" by Terry Goodkind at the beginning of the week. I had not, until the end of the book, thought that Drefan was the person doing those things to the prostitutes. And overall I like this book from the series. Number 4 that is. But overall the series has been well placed, at least to me. I'm going to start working on "Soul of the Fire" book 5. I'm on page 6 now.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I was on page 6 of that first Wheel of Time book for like, 6 months.

Anyway, I'm reading the most recent TLE issue as well as King Arthur Pendragon (RPG). Just thought you'd want to be up to date. Plus damned if I'm going to do any work before my lunch ends, so might as well post.

[EUOL]

Dang, Gemm.  That looks like a mighty nasty spoiler you just dropped.  I wasn't really intending on reading the book--I stopped after the first--but I might someday.

As for myself, I'm reading Initiate Brother by Sean Russel, along with Fast Food Nation, the book we're teaching in English 115 this year.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Well EUOL, you really should try and read the series. Its one of the few series thats good somewhere. But book two is a bit more graphic. As there is a group of females called the "Mord-Sith" that use things called Aigels, or something like that. And if a magic user use's their magic against them, the Mord-Sith can take control of their magic, making that person helpless. And once they capture them they torture them... and thats the more graphic parts. But Goodkind seems to like making his books very graphic.

Take in book 3, "Blood of the Fold" where the general of the 'Blood of the Fold' has a woman's nipple cut off, and with that nipple cut off he can basically control her. Weird, no?

[Entsuropi]

I like terry goodkinds books, but i think that he could have lost a lot of that sort of crap and it would not have harmed the books. A few bits were, however, necessary for Kahlans character. Or however her name is spelt. Terry goodkind seems to love putting his characters through utter hell of the rape variety.

Either that, or he has a pain fetish...

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

*even greater fear of Gemm*

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Well thats cool. I didn't expect that to happen.

I really don't know why SE's doing that.

[Entsuropi]

I think the barely restrained tone of eagerness as you described those things may have been the cause.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Well I was eager about it.

[Mistress of Darkness]

Well I certainly wouldn't want to meet you in a dark alley.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Heh, thats kind of redundant. I've never really been in a dark alley before.

[EUOL]

That's kind of the problem I had with the first book.  It was excellent except for that one chapter where the main character gets captured and tortured.  I bought the second, started reading it, and realized it was going more in that direction.  I put it down after that, and never felt the need to pick it up again.

It's a shame, too, since WFR was such a good book.  I hear that the second in the series is the worst in many people's opinion.