What Are You Reading?

[Mzo]

I believe it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad star in the classic holiday comedy, Kindle All the Way.

[sedition]

I finished Stonewielder by Ian C. Esslemont around February 1st. His third book in the Malazan series. Pretty decent. The endings for some of the PoVs leave more questions open than I typically like.

So in the time between finishing Stonewielder and waiting for the tenth and final Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Crippled God, from Steven Erikson to hit March 1st, I've been reading:

Freedom (TM) by Daniel Suarez. The sequel to Daemon. The second book is actually a little less embarrassing, but still cringe worthy for anyone versed in the multiple areas he's trying to tackle. I finished this recently and had to choose between The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1) by Patrick Rothfus and Orson Scott Card's Children of the Mind.


I don't know why I went with Children of the Mind. I think I just wanted to knock out the series so I never have to deal with it again. Ender's Game was pretty impressive and Speaker for the Dead had a lot of potential. Xenocide was a struggle for me. I'm probably 30 pages in and already my mind is wandering.

[Uriel]

Guess what! Reading for more than an hour or so on an iPad makes my eyeballs feel like they're going to fall out, and I can't focus. Totally bogus!

I read mine in the dark with the brightness turned all the way down. That works pretty well and doesn't strain my eyes. If you're using the kindle app then you also want to fiddle with the color and in-app "dimmer" to get it as low as possible.

Of course not everyone's a bedtime reader.

[Andrew]

[Compass]

That's cute.

[icarusfall]

Like 7 cooking textbooks at the same time.

[Josh]

I read mine in the dark with the brightness turned all the way down. That works pretty well and doesn't strain my eyes. If you're using the kindle app then you also want to fiddle with the color and in-app "dimmer" to get it as low as possible.

Of course not everyone's a bedtime reader.

Tried all that. It's the way the text is rendered on screen I think?

It's moot. I borrowed a Kindle, and it rules.

[Chemist]

About 50 pages into House of Leaves, and its intense. Its the first book i have read that actually uses the way the words are printed on the page to enhance the experience. Seems hard to envision i know, but when you get into it you notice that in tense situations they print only a few words on a page so you have to turn the pages faster. Certain words get colour coded, and for some reason the backs of pages are really just the previous page printed as a mirror image so its like your looking through the page haha Its crazy.

The story is fucked up too, i think its a book based on a fictional essay that was written on a fiction movie based on a fictional experience. and it included the essay describing the film, complete with fake foot notes haha

[Vasteel]

The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks. I've never read any of his stuff before, but I plan to rectify that. This book is awesome.

[icarusfall]

Read The Wasp Factory next.