The "What are you reading?" thread

[SWedd523]

I think I'm going to finish up this Bond series, but I can't decide which book I'm going for next. Perhaps that Extremely loud & Incredibly Close. Any experience with that one?

[TheBeagle]

Good bump up, SWedd. Smoker by Greg Rucka and Great Expectations (4th go around with that one....yeah, I like it) by Dickens.

[dnbman]

Perhaps that Extremely loud & Incredibly Close. Any experience with that one?

No, but I read Everything is Illuminated by him and loved it.

[bing!]

Finished Goliath (and the Leviathan trilogy) last night. Just started on World War Z.

[amour217]

Right now I'm reading The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler. Very interesting book about people who make minimum wage (or less) and try to scratch together just enough to get by.

[ziggy]

Finished Goliath (and the Leviathan trilogy) last night. Just started on World War Z.

You are going to live World War Z!

Let me know what you think about it once you get a little ways into the book.

[bing!]

There's one thing that strikes me about this novel, besides the "collection of recollections" manner of conveying the narrative, and that's its credibility. Humans (at least those who had the means of nipping the calamity in the bud) are depicted as opportunistic scum of the earth and it feeds nicely into my misanthropic cynicism.

Even though I'm not that big of a fan of zombie-apocalypse fiction (besides TWD comics), World War Z already has me thinking about picking up the Newsflesh Trilogy (Feed, Deadline and Blackout) after this. Have you given it a try?

[ziggy]

I read the first 25 pages of feed and for some reason it didn't really grab me.

I may go back to it down the road and give it a fresh try

[bing!]

Loving the combination of steampunk, Victorian setting, paranormal/supernatural elements and comedy of manners. It's like a parody that takes itself seriously.

[amour217]

Right now I'm reading two books. The first is Red and Me by Bill Russell, which is a story about his relationship with Red Auerbach.

Today I'm picking up Unbroken: A World War 2 Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand. It's about a juvenile delinquent who became an Olympic runner then joined the Army as a bombadier. His plane crashed in the Pacific and it's the story of how he managed to survive