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[BlitzDungeoneer]

Is there a book discussion thread on GD?

[Vector]

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[MaximumZero]

I may have to take a look into that. The "racing brain" part in particular sounds interesting.

[Vector]

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[Orange Wizard]

I read so little compared to seemingly everyone else here.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Same here.
I really need to get around to making that "unread books I own' list.

[TheDarkStar]

Spoiler: 3/52 (click to show/hide)

13 January - Firefight by Brandon Sanderson - It's the sequel to Steelheart and very well written (you should read it). The premise it that one day a random segment of the population got super powers, but they are like the One Ring from LoTR because using them makes you evil and megalomanaic.
18 January - Visitors by Orson Scott Card - It has a nice premise and has a unique (and very in-depth) way of handling time travel, but the characterization is lacking. Of course, I don't really like Card's current style of writing anyway.
28 January - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - 0/10 would not read again. It's a book about terrible people and in the end the narrator realizes that he, his friend, his cousin and his cousin's husband, and he himself are all terrible people. The book ends with him thinking about how unreachable dreams are.

[Sirus]

Spoiler: 4/52 (click to show/hide)

From a Buick 8 by Stephen King
Good story. A little more small-scale and low-key than some of the King's other books, it follows the decades-long story of a group of Pennsylvania state police as they come into the possession of the titular not!car. "Midnight blue and not quite right", the Buick is odd both in appearance and function. I liked it a lot, because almost all of the characters were ordinary human beings, doing a job that is difficult enough without keeping such a big secret from the public. There is also a relatively small body count: 6 named character deaths, all but one off-screen. The single on-screen death is, sadly, the most horrific of the lot. It involves a dog.

[Sirus]

Unfortunately I haven't read Christine, so I can't comment on any differences. What I can say is that The Buick doesn't go driving around on its own, running people over. It's a bit more low-key, spending entire in-universe years without doing much at all. And when it does do something, it seems more like a machine doing what it was designed for rather than a malevolent entity out to cause mischief.

Most of the story is told via the characters reminiscing about the 20-odd years that The Buick has been around, alternating between Then, when things are told in a sort of third-person omniscient perspective, and Now which is first-person. In other words, most of the action has already happened.

[TD1]

Ohh, nice bookies.

I shouldn't be reading this year much, given exams, but given I have English Literature books to read I should still have some. Also, I shouldn't be reading, but I probably will do so at the normal rate to keep what remains of my sanity anyway.

In no particular order, given I'm just listing them as I think of them:

Spoiler: 10/52 (click to show/hide)

The Tower Lord- Anthony Ryan
Beowulf- Tolkien's Translation
The Fall of Arthur- Tolkien's Translation
Game of Thrones Book One- George R. R. Martin
Selected Poems by Yeats- Don't know author. Library book. Not even sure if that's the right name :/
Selected Poems by Dylan Thomas- same problem with the name, but the author is Thomas himself.
Wide Sargasso Sea- Jean Rhys
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale- Chaucer
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
New Atheism- a Survival Guide- Graham Veale

Edit: This is a list since New Years...not sure if that's what it's supposed to be, or if you post as you read it and don't include books from earlier in 2015?

[Silthuri]

Spoiler: 3/52 (click to show/hide)

Resident Evil Volume II: Caliban Cove by S.D. Perry - 7/10 - It wasn't quite as good as the first book in the series. The writing style kinda reminds me of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein though, which is probably why I'm so fond of this series.

Raised by Wolves by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - 10/10 - Even better than I remember. I couldn't set it down.

Marked by P.C Cast and Kristin Cast - 8/10 - Nearly as good as I remember. Sometimes the way the main character talks/thinks gets to me, but it's good nonetheless.

[flame99]

Why not? I'm probably not going to reach 52, since I've been kinda busy and haven't had a huge number of chances to read new books, but still. Insofar, I'm only at 1/52; Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett. Unless D&D rulebooks count, in which case I read through the entirety of the 5e Player's Handbook, putting me at 2/52.

[Vector]

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[SirQuiamus]

Ohh, nice bookies.

I shouldn't be reading this year much, given exams, but given I have English Literature books to read I should still have some. Also, I shouldn't be reading, but I probably will do so at the normal rate to keep what remains of my sanity anyway.

In no particular order, given I'm just listing them as I think of them:

Spoiler: 10/52 (click to show/hide)

The Tower Lord- Anthony Ryan
Beowulf- Tolkien's Translation
The Fall of Arthur- Tolkien's Translation
Game of Thrones Book One- George R. R. Martin
Selected Poems by Yeats- Don't know author. Library book. Not even sure if that's the right name :/
Selected Poems by Dylan Thomas- same problem with the name, but the author is Thomas himself.
Wide Sargasso Sea- Jean Rhys
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale- Chaucer
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
New Atheism- a Survival Guide- Graham Veale

Edit: This is a list since New Years...not sure if that's what it's supposed to be, or if you post as you read it and don't include books from earlier in 2015?

Is the Pardoner the only Canterbury Tale you have to read in school? If you liked that one, you should definitely read the Miller and the Wife of Bath as well. (...and even if you didn't like it, you should read them all the same.) 

[TD1]

I do like it, and yes, it's the only one we do in school. I was thinking of reading a few more in my own time, but haven't gotten 'round to it yet.