I have just finished the first 9 books in the Dresden files. They slump and get a bit samey in the middle, but then Butcher finds his legs again and starts coming up with interesting plot developments in the last couple. I am looking forward to the 10th book (Small Favour) hitting paperback in the cover style I have the other 9 in
Currently reading Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I am only a few pages in, but it's pretty good so far. It's supposed to be a big work on censorship, but at the moment I am reading it as an allegory to waking from ignorance.
At home I currently have awaiting my eye-lookin':
- The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (Aready half-read this. It got a bit slow and I wanted something else at the time, ie: the much faster-paced Dresden series)
- Voltaire's Bastards - John Ralston Saul (Already half-read this. It is a fairly thick philosophical essay. While I like it I wanted a break)
- The Scar by China Mieville (heard good things about this)
- The Beach by Alex Garland (ditto, I think Han was reading it a while back)
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (bought during my "classics" period)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (ditto)
- Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck (ditto ditto)
I also recently picked up Naked Lunch by William Burroughs and was turned off almost immediately by the encounter with the rube on the train. To me it was basically Burroughs explaining that the reader was the rube and he was shining us on. I didn't really appreciate it, so I put it down. I may attempt to read it again at some point, but the style of writing was pretty shit in my opinion so I am not sure if it'll go any better than the first attempt.