What are you reading? Any favourite books?

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Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix :saevilw:

I kid...it's actually Under the Dome by Stephen King.

Well, I am reading The Deathly Hallows for the first time. I sometimes wonder if I'm the only fan of the series who hasn't read it yet.

I am also re-reading Dracula, which I'm appreciating much more now than I did when I originally read it nearly 20 years ago.
 

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I'm working on several at the moment:

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danieleski
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCart
The Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges

Several of them are re-reads, but they're all so good...

Wow, that's an ambitious list. I liked House of Leaves, but after reading about how inaccessible Gravity's Rainbow is, I decided not to bother.

Speaking of House of Leaves, which several people mentioned, there's a previous thread on it here:

http://www.lpsg.org/78580-house-of-leaves.html
 

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Well, I'm back in the wild and woolly west, so my long-suffering-lesbian-documentary-film maker presented me with two collections of Annie Proulx's short stories: Close Range: Wyoming Short Stories and Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2. At least they are collections of short fiction, so I'll most likely knock them off by the end of the week. A couple of years ago several friends all independently sent me copies of The Shipping News. After six chapters into one of the copies I quit reading it and re-gifted all of the other copies. Proulx is crap shoot.

For general fun, I'm going look for my old, dog-eared copy of The Uses of Enchantment, by Bruno Bettleheim. I haven't read it since grad school.
 
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I Love reading but don't find too much time for doing it unfortunately. Currently reading Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' and Deon Meyer's 'Orion'.

My favourite authors are:
John Irving
Anne Rice
Stephen King
Roald Dahl
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
Kahlil Gibran