What are you reading RIGHT NOW????!!!

[radtastic]

brighton rock by graham greene.

it's about a seventeen year old sociopath who heads a local gang.  he kills a guy and spends the entire book trying to cover his tracks.  it was...really damn interesting.



i started to re-read battle royale, but i am SO not up for that yet.  too intense.  an absolutely AMAZINGGGG book, though, and one that you should all go read immediately.

[burning_sands]

I really want to read /I am Not a Serial Killer/.... but my library doesn't have it and I'm not buying a book I haven't read that isn't part of a series I know I love ...

[galantee]

Le Petit Prince. One of the books - if not the book - I sorely regret reading after growing up...

[burning_sands]

I am Not a Serial Killer- Dan Wells (other brother bought it for meeee)

basically a kid who knows he's a sociopath tries not to kill people while trying to catch a serial killer.

I'm so excited.

[radtastic]

i read the entire hunger games series in three days, and i really liked it.  though the end was really depressing and then rushed to make slightly less depressing, which i didn't appreciate.  it would have been more satisfying to read a hundred more pages if i got a better described, more fulfilling ending.  but still a good series.

doesn't compare to battle royale, though.  re-read that one recently, and it freaking blew me away.

[galantee]

Paul Auster's The Music Of Chance.

[burning_sands]

I'm reading Mockingjay today but I started Hunger Games last night and Catching Fire I finished this morning. Yesterday, before I started Hunger Games, I finished The Way of Kings. I got lucky with that (since it only came out today) because I won an advanced copy from an online drawing. So cool

[radtastic]

advanced copies are super awesome.

what did you think of the hunger games?

[burning_sands]

I loved the first book and liked the second. Mockingjay I think could have been a  good amount better. The ending was too cute and I really REALLY am just waiting for a YA novel with a love triangle and a huge teen following to throw everyone for a loop and embrace polyamory.

Like srsly.

[radtastic]

i felt pretty much the same.  mockingjay was sort of joyless the whole way through and then suddenly at the end--in like two pages!--she summed it up and gave it some sweet little finale.  it felt false and stupid.  i still liked the book as a whole, i think, but yeah.

and what are you waiting for?  write that damn book!  i'd read it and give it a starred review.  and many, many people would care about my review because i'm such a big deal, you see.

[burning_sands]

obviously. I mean, I've even heard of you.

[radtastic]

exactly!