Whatcha reading?

I just finished the 2nd book in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" series....it took me 3/4 of the way through the first one to get into it, but the 2nd was much better, now Im dying to get through the third.

I LOVE scary books, I'll definitely be getting "False Memory" and "Those Across the River"!

The BDB series irritates me half the time, but I keep reading it. I like her Fallen Angels series more. I read an absolutely HILARIOUS review of Dark Lover, that said pretty much everything I felt about it. I'd link to it but MFP would censor it anyways. lol

I'm reading "The Peach Keeper." It's a good light read.

I've also started "Cinderella Ate My Daughter."

The Chronicles of the Black Company...and, The Malazan Book of the Fallen series.

Similar reads, in a way...and both incredible series.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson. Book #3 in the series, so far not my favorite.

I just finished a Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin.
It was pretty good, not as good as the first book but good.

Now reading Legends of Shannara

I just finished a Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin.
It was pretty good, not as good as the first book but good.

Now reading Legends of Shannara

I've loved the George R.R. Martin books for years lol...loooong before the cable mini series lol.

I can also still remember reading the original 'The Sword of Shannara' when I was still a kid in school. The first series to me will always be the best (The Sword, The Elfstones, and The Wishsong)...I never could much get into the others...though to be fair, I've never really tried.

Great books friend =D.

Same here on the Fire and Ice thing, I also started that series well before the show came out. They did a good job with the series (both with casting and with sticking to the story, I'm impressed actually), but you just can't replicate a book series the same on tv, even the LOTRO books fell far short in the movies (granted, P. Jackson did a passable job on LOTRO, but I would have much rather seen the Belgariad, it would have translated far better, LOTRO had too much history to really play well on the movie screen IMHO). I mean, the whole flashback to the 2nd war was out of context in LOTRO, people who never read the Silmarillion were essentially lost, they didn't understand the whole betrayal thing by Sauron, and the Balrog scene was just sad IMHO, no description, no concept of how powerful those dudes actually were and what a feat it was for Gandalf to fight one alone. I mean come on, what's cooler than being lutenants of Melkor and Ecthelion fighting Gothmog. I still would love to see a LOTRO prequel about the first age of Middle Earth and about the Valar and the fall of Numenor.

I have to say though, and this is an anomaly for me, I actually enjoy the new "prequel" series of the shannara series much better than the original. I read the sword of shannara when I was about 13, it was the second fantasy series I ever read (right after the Belgariad by David Eddings, still my favorite by far, maybe it's nostalgia that makes me feel that way, but just the idea of some random boy growing up to be an UBER powerful demi-god wizard is just cool to me). While I really liked the shannara series, and the second series as well, I couldn't get into the offshoot books (like the Jerle Shannara stuff), but when the prequel came out, I was short of good books, so I decided to give it a try, and you know what? It was very cool.

I always wondered how they got from regular earth with sky scrapers and nukes to magic and trolls, this series does a very credible job of transitioning from regular fiction with a touch of magic, to fantasy with a history of science. I was pleased.