What literary delights are you delving into this December?

Just finished The Memory Of Earth By Orson Scott Card. Book number one is his homecoming series. It's very good.
 
Finished both House of Chains and Midnight Tides, the fourth and fifth installments of Eriksons behemothine :confused: fantasy series. The best damn epic fantasy to date, period, and dare I say, edges past even the great Martin himself :eek:, IMO of cause :). Now the only problem with reading Erikson is that I have to torture myself with something else till I get my hands of The Bonehunters and Reapers Gale. Lets see...Ahh perhaps Watchmen by Allan Moore will not disappointed...

Cheer's, DeepThought

P.S. The cover of Reapers Gale: with you know who sitting on the throne looks really cool
 
Glad you've seen the light DeepThought.

Currently reading Richard Matheson's Shrinking Man. Only 50 pages into this one but it's shaping up nicely. Matheson can certainly write.
 
I just finished Eric Brown's The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne, and now I'm going to read Earth Abides by George R Stewart.
 
I couldn't resist it for long... The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss... very good so far

xx
 
After taking a couple of deep breaths, I recently started Samuel Delany's Dhalgren. So far, so excellent.:)
 
Dhalgren is one of my favourite sf novels. Not to everyone's taste, but I love it,

Gollum - The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne - see here. Good stuff, although I've already taken the piss out of Eric for the line: "...the bouillabaisse of emotions stewing within his mind..." :)
 
Now reading The Great Crash, 1929 by J K Galbraith. As Galbraith himself notes, every speculative bubble is compared to the 1929 crash and it's interesting to read the 1950s take on 1929 in the current climate.
 
Been reading away these past five days and it's been great. I've worked my way through the following:

Soul Music - Terry Pratchett
The Gunslinger - Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King
And I'm about three quarters of the way through The Waste Lands.

Yup, I'm rereading the Dark Tower series. It's my first rereading of the entire series (I've read the second and third volumes multiple times because they're my favourites) and it's amazing how much you pick up on when you know how it all turns out.
 
I've never been much of a poetry reader, don't know why, but there you are. So now I've decided to tackle the stuff head-on, and have started on Poems on the Underground.
 
Locksmith said:
Now reading The Great Crash, 1929 by J K Galbraith. As Galbraith himself notes, every speculative bubble is compared to the 1929 crash and it's interesting to read the 1950s take on 1929 in the current climate.
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Did you enjoy Blood Music? Would you recommend it?

I want to try Bear and thought it sounded a good place to start.
 
Now halfway through book 6 of Harry Potter series. Despite being completely dismissive of these when I started and making comments like "poorly written" and "not sure what the fuss is about" I am now totally hooked. I am now dying to find out who dies, whether the dark lord chap is defeated and most importantly of course, who wins the quiddich match.
 
jackokent said:
Now halfway through book 6 of Harry Potter series. Despite being completely dismissive of these when I started and making comments like "poorly written" and "not sure what the fuss is about" I am now totally hooked. I am now dying to find out who dies, whether the dark lord chap is defeated and most importantly of course, who wins the quiddich match.
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It sneaks up on you.;)
 
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