What are you currently reading?

[stingo]

Finished Warriors edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. A very good anthology about those who go into battle. The stories are drawn from all different genres, not just sci-fi/fantasy so it kept things fresh and interesting. In fact, my two favorites were not sci-fi/fantasy at all. I imagine most who pick this up will do so only for the GRRM story The Mystery Knight, but they'd be missing out on some other really good stories.

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[mn dave]

Yesterday I read the novella Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu for the first time (believe it or not!). I'm happy to report that it's a classic for a reason! 25 years before Dracula, and still a wonderfully spooky read.

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[Bogey]

Dipping into this as well...
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Cool.  Why dip when you can plunge!

[Ken B]

Yesterday I read the novella Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu for the first time (believe it or not!). I'm happy to report that it's a classic for a reason! 25 years before Dracula, and still a wonderfully spooky read.

FREE!

Great story. Next, Uncle Silas.
It's marvellous.

[mn dave]

Great story. Next, Uncle Silas.
It's marvellous.

Yeah, excellent novel.

[Ken B]

Yeah, excellent novel.

Ah, then you can test drive Wylder's Hand for me.  Supposed to be excellent as well, but I have not read it.

[Ken B]

Contested Will by Shapiro, pushed by several here.

Which I am really liking. Nice to see that someone in the humanities retains a bit of skepticism and disdain for twaddle. I was beginning to wonder frankly.

I never knew Mary Queen of Scots wrote Macbeth.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Now reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Even though everyone knows the reveal in the end that doesn't make the tremendous psychological insight the book provides any smaller. Hell, there are many well-known reveals where even though I know what the reveal is already,  rewatching (or rereading in this case) it still sends shivers down my spine.

The video game sucks though. Ask James Rolfe.

[Moonfish]

Thread Duty:  On my Kindle, revisiting that stunning classic, Churchill's The Second World War.

The abridged or the full version?   

[Karl Henning]

The abridged or the full version?   

I've begun The Gathering Storm (The Full Winston).

[Drasko]

William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury

[Daverz]

Latest Hugo winning novel:

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[Moonfish]

I've begun The Gathering Storm (The Full Winston).

Ahh, you are an inspiration!

[Ken B]

William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury

Cool. Not the easiest book to translate I imagine. You reading it in both languages?

[Drasko]

Cool. Not the easiest book to translate I imagine. You reading it in both languages?

Not in both, just the Serbian translation, but it's a good one, I can tell when the translation from English isn't working. I have read some Faulkner in English and if I had The Sound and the Fury in English at hand I would have gone for it.

[Daverz]

William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury

Do the Dutch always transliterate the names of Western authors like this?  I can understand transliterating names from Cyrillic or Mandarin, but this seems very odd to me.  (Oops, it seems Viljem may be Slovene, not Dutch.)

[Drasko]

Do the Dutch always transliterate the names of Western authors like this?  I can understand transliterating names from Cyrillic or Mandarin, but this seems very odd to me.

Don't know about the Dutch, but in Serbian transliteration of names is standard, whether Cyrillic or Latin alphabet is used.

I guess Latin alphabet threw you off, Serbian language has complete synchronic digraphia (using two alphabets).

[DavidRoss]

[Daverz]

Musta happened before my time.  Or I missed Norma Rae VII at the cineplex.

[Karl Henning]

An actual book (i.e., not on my e-reader):  Oscar Levant's autobiographical musings, The Memoirs of an Amnesiac