what are you reading?

Originally posted by Crawler Originally posted by das_boot Is anyone else reading 'Supergods' by Grant Morrison? Yes. So far I'm finding it kinda "meh," but I'm willing to give it a shot. His analyses of the covers of Detective Comics #1 and Action Comics #1 were rather like the work of an amateur. Kinda bothered me, those did. I'm about to start the next section. It's not a book you can skim, that's for sure.

I've given up on it, Crawler. You're going to get to a certain point where you'll be dropping 'WTFs' like they're going out of fashion. I now want to meet him so that I can thank him for writing New X-Men, the title that got me back into comics, and then slap him for being a pretentious wanktard.

Has anyone else read 'Gypsy Boy' by Mikey Walsh? Again, hardly uplifting but funny in parts and also incredibly harrowing. I'd recommend it, as long as you're not expecting to be really happy at the end of it.

Supergods is, after the initial first chapters, pretty much just about Grant Morrisson telling everyone how great he and his friends are.

Oh god, Knives, there's a sequel. I don't know if I can handle the emotional onslaught. If it makes me emote, I'll be unhappy. 

So, anybody reading Inheritance? Is there a special thread for it?

I just finished HUNGER GAMES.  I really wanted to looove it but coming off the MILLENNIUM TRILOGY this just felt a little derivative and lacked a bit of the depth I'd hoped for.  That's not to say it wasn't enjoyable but I hate when I'm reading a book and actually want the author to linger in a scene a bit more or add a bit more depth to a particular character, but they gloss over it to get to the "next big scene".

And presumably, the Codex Alera? :P

So, I'm dipping into the dirty waters of DC by reading Green Lantern. I've read from 'Rebirth' to 'Blackest Night' in both GL and GLC, and not going to lie... I'm finding it very hit and miss. I've enjoyed it up until the new corps get introduced, but then when it becomes all Rainbow Brite-like I'm just a bit... meh. It might also be because I know next to nothing about most DC characters, so therefore just don't care about Atom and Hawkman and Hawkgirl and The Flash...

I found His Dark Materials really dull.

Edited by Crutey Anth - 03-Dec-2011 at 10:24pm

ZOMG HOW COULD I FORGET ABOUT THE HOGFATHER?!?!

Crutey, you're a genius

What's it about? I'm scared to wiki it in case I get spoilers...

Das, it's basically the same as the Japanese novel Battle Royale, but for Americans and less...weird. In a dystopian future United States, everyone has bombed the crap out of each other and all that remains are a Capitol and 13 districts. When the 13th rebelled they were blown up by the Capitol and to ensure no future uprisings the Capitol demands that a boy and a girl from each district fight in the Hunger Games every year, which is a fight to the death with one victor from 24 children that everyone in all the districts gets to watch on television. The books follow a young girl who is selected for the Hunger Games and how she survives, and also about a new rebellion she sort of starts by mocking the Capitol in the games.

Just discovered the sci-fi classic Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler. One of those that uses aliens to challenge human perceptions of gender, love, war, religion, and so on. It's brilliant and so addictive I'm going to have trouble going to sleep tonight if I don't finish it!

I think I made friends with someone at my local bookshop whilst drunk. Apparently I had a drunken book conversation with her before Christmas and when I went in today, she suggested a new series for me... I'll let you all know how coherently I managed to convey my literary tastes to her in my inebriated state once I finish Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch.

Also, I want a prize for the nerdiest booze-fuelled conversation EVER to have occurred in Middlesbrough, where approximately three quarters of the population can't read.