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Just recently joined/became more active on this great book site;

http://www.goodreads.com/

My profile there is http://www.goodreads.com/univerze Duh.

Have a look, love the site.

Started to re-read The Dark Tower by S.King=) From the very beginning, for the fourth time.

i need to read the last 2 anita blake books by laurell k hamilton..... then after that hell i need to just find GOOD books to read. Actually I might go and re-read some lovecraft.

^^ Haha, I know what you mean, about having to read some GOOD books after Anita Blake.. they're entertaining, but nothing more. They seem to be written in such haste too, that they contain quite a bit of errors, and same phrases over and over. You're one of the few guys I know reading those books though.. can imagine some things about those books guys might not like. Haven't read any of them since "Skin Trade".. they were too expensive back then (18 euros for a tiny paperback, no fucking way), and since I just haven't bothered. Too many good books are coming my way. But sometimes I do miss Asher, Jean-Claude and Nathaniel. And Jason too, those all were my favourites. Mmm.
I don't like Anita very much though.

Oh and by the way, I do love Lovecraft. Just don't like that it's just stories sometimes, I love BIG books, 500 pages the least.

Right now I am reading Jeff Long's the Descent, it turns out differently than I expected.. is about humanity discovering miles and miles of tunnels deep in the Earth, reaching from one continent to another, deeper than anyone previously thought it possible, and while exploring they discover some lifeform they name "hadals", humanoid (where I'm now they think they're descended from Homo erectus) beings, with a culture of their own, deformed by their life in the depths (having tails, horns, white skin etc, resembling devils really).. these beings capture humans and have them serve as slaves (seems for many hundreds of years already if not more), they torture them, flay them alive, practice scarification, and that's on the treasured slaves.. they're cannibals, immensely strong, cruel, and in my eyes, quite fascinating. Also, another storyline has something to do with a group of people sending a member on an expedition in search for what they believe the true figure of Satan. Haven't quite figured out what exactly that's about, am halfway or something. But it's quite a fascinating read, true horror yes, like Journey to the Center of the Earth meets the Descent (film, which has nothing to do with the novel), meets.. well I don't know. But it's good, though something different to what I usually read.

Well they just feel extremely rushed at the end, as if she just said the hell with this book I just want it to end. Also you have to take in consideration that Laurell suffers from Dyslexia.

That book your reading actually sounds quite interesting. I might have to check it out.

Laurell suffers from dyslexia, fine. But honestly, she has proof readers. People who check these books for her. When, even after that, I find many continuity and spelling errors, I don't classify books as good. Like I said. They're entertaining. I like her Merry Gentry books too. Nightseer was shite, but it was her first book I believe.

No from what i recall Guilty Pleasures was her first writing. and you raise a good point about the editors. We are human we are flawed, and these scribblings are meant just to entertain anyways so in that aspect mission accomplished. If she intended to provoke thought, thats a fail.

Nope, Nightseer was her first writing, I checked. Guilty Pleasures is from 1993, Nightseer from '92. Not that much difference though, in time.

http://www.laurellkhamilton.org/nightseer.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurell_K._Hamilton#Bibliography

And I agree with you, entertain yes, provoke thought no. Still, I like her books, for when you need something thoughtless and easy to read.

Well i have to respect her since A)she is a best selling author and B)she is local for me.

well, it is Divina Comedie by Dante I love the way the after life is described

So, before mentioned in my previous post Picture of Dorian Gray I've read Gemmell's The King Beyond the Gate and Quest for Lost Heroes <3

Yesterday I finished Charlaine Harris Dead and Gone (True Blood) - in english - and am craving for more. These books are nothing but easy entertainment, but they're so addictive^^

Now I've started Bram Stoker's Dracula, also in original. So far it's quite boring, but I've read only few first pages.

It took me quite a while to finish Dracula. The vocabulary there was fairly modern, but the grammar so different at times than the one used nowadays, combined with very complex and long sentences, made the book quite hard to read.
I must say it was a little bit boring too. I was surprised though, as the only Dracula movie I saw was Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, that there was no mention of Count seeing the picture of Mina back in Transilvania, nor her reminding him of his dead beloved, nor him falling for her. In the book, he was completely negative character and I felt no compassion for him.


Now I'm half way through Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (yeah, lately I have major Mr Darcy obsession ) and I love it! It's most addictive. I'm reading it in English too, and it's so much easier to read than Dracula, though it was written almost century earlier.

^ Mr Darcy FTW.

So I mentioned in my previous post I bought A Walk To Remember by N. Sparks - finished reading long ago, it was beautiful. I mean, quite easy reading. but I found ti very touching and subtle. I cried.

Then I have bought Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett, and as usually with Discworld novels, giggled my way through the book. This one was about football, so.

I also have a book called Mainspring by Jay Lake, which I have picked because of pretty cover and interesting description, but the book itself quite... isn't it. Not all that boring, just... not living up to the expectations.I'm still just at the beginning though so I will see.

@CC; the other day I started Pride and Prejudice, only to put it away after a page because I felt like reading something else. Now I started John Cleland's Fanny Hill, or the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.. and I must say wow, for a book written in 1748 it sure must have stirred up a lot.. and it did, I knew that before starting it. It's dam near pornographic, or well, at least it would have been for that time. I am finding it odd to read, the vocabulaire is quite like modern english, only it seems some words are used differently, and the authors makes immense sentences, meaning it isn't the easiest thing to read. Half of the time I have to think for each part of the sentence what it means before going on to the next or I'll have no idea what's happened. Still, not a bad read, it was one of the classic books I'd wanted to try, got it for christmas, was on my wishlist, just four euros too. Only it has this horrible bright green cover, like all these books by that publisher (can't remember the name right now).. but hell, it's about the book, not he cover.

Also started re-reading Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey, bad me, re-readign when I have so much else to read, but I wanted some comfort reading.

Really? I'm loving it! Though it definitely helps that I've watched BBC series first. Actually the series was the reason for me wanting to read the book in the first place.

And I so should get myself to work, but I'm just reading the whole day today.


had the same with Dracula. Rather tiring