[Reading List Question]

[stagexbeauty]

The irony of building a community of interesting people, is that they're always off doing interesting things & therefore never have time to post about how interesting they are. I'm going to post my current reading list, what's yours?

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[quaver]

I, uh... just finished Marvel 1602.

And before that, Watchmen.

...

Cor, when did I turn into such a comic nerd?

[stagexbeauty]

Oh dear, not a bookworm them m'dear?

[quaver]

I've never really been a heavy reader. I used to read a lot of Pratchett, and bits of Eddings (forgive me Lord) and Feist. The last book I finished (and thoroughly enjoyed) was Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, which was a fantastic read.

Other than that and the few fantasy/zombie/pirate fictions I have lieing around, that's really about it. =/

[stagexbeauty]

My Boyfriend likes Terry Pratchett aswell as what you call "heavier" reading, he lent me Good Omens by TP & Neil Gaiman & I enjoyed that, and now he's lent me the first in the Discworld series; It's alright but I don't really think it's my thing, it's more of a feeling of "How many pages are left?" than "WHY MUST THIS END?!", I just don't think i've ever been one for "lighter" reading; Although i've read all of JTHM & Squee :)

It could've been worse though, you could've said you thought reading was "boring" and then i'd have been flung into the spheres of disbelief & utter incomprehension with a drizzle of rage :)

[quaver]

Reading's not boring; I think I just enjoy writing more.

Good Omens was a good book. As for the Discworld... I'd recommend trying some of the later books; even though I'm a huge fan of Discworld, I didn't like the first four or so books, especially since I hadn't read any of the classical fiction like Pern or the Mouse that he was parodying with those books. Once he moved off the parodies and started developing Discworld as his own universe is when the series gets worth reading, or at least that's I think. =)