Just finished Everything's Eventual by Stephen King. It was pretty good, there were some good stories in there. I still like Different Seasons and Skeleton Crew better though.

I'm now starting Dracula by Bram Stoker.

Just started:

The Cabinet of Curiosities
by Douglas J. Preston & Lincoln Child

Hey Beaver, thanks for reminding me about Everything's Eventual. I had totally forgotten about that one.... Must add it to my growing list

Just finished Invisible Monsters by Chuck Pala...something.

Probably going to start White Jazz by James Ellroy this weekend.

Those interested in the British fantasy writing may perhaps have heard earlier of Holdstock's Mythago sequence.

I have just read the first few chapters of Robert Holdstock's Celtika which is the first in his Merlin Codex series.

It is looking very good indeed.

I think, because of subject matter and technique, this would appeal to anyone who was thrilled by Gene Wolfe's "Soldier of...." books.

I'm juggling about six different books, althought, they are mostly short story collections or short stories by contempary writers.

I'm reading Ana Menendez - In Cuba I Was a German Shepard, Ha Jin - The Bridegroom, Scribner's Best Fiction Workshops 1999, Sarah Vowell - Pass The Cannoli, & Best American Short Stories 1999.

I just finished Crossing the Threshold of Hope by the Pope - along with the many comics i'm into. Coming up will be the new Terry Pratchet novel Night Watch which is due out in HC 11/5. Although after reading through this thread a little i made a list of some things i need to read so it looks like i'll be running to the library tonight to pick up Fast Food Nation and a couple others.

I just finished The Ten Thousand, by, Michael Curtis Ford. It's an historical book set in 401 BC. It's fictional, but it is based on a true story.A fantastic book telling the account of ten thousand men marching across the desert, raging waters, hostile territories, desperately trying to get back to friendly territory.

I was totally enthralled with this historical book. The only problem I had with it was the use of cuss words. Did the greeks really have the word **** in their vocabulary? I don't know. But, it was a bit rattling to read "Push the ****ing arrow until it comes out the other side.'

That aside, it was a great book.

I've already ordered Steven Pressfield's Gates Of Fire from Amazon. Can't wait to read it.

Any other books like the two above?

Re-reading Gardens Of The Moon, by Steven Erikson. Have to try to reread Deadhouse Gates, and Memories Of Ice because House Of Chains will be released early December. It's a superb fantasy series, folks. Deadhouse Gates is absolutely BRUTAL.

Next up: Enders Game, by, Orson Scott Card

just read "IF CHINS COULD KILL" the Bruce Campbell Autobio... great book, highly recommended...

MATT

After having read DUNE: HOUSE CORRINO and loving it, I needed more DUNE.

I had never read HERETICS OF DUNE so I dug it out and started reading it.

Just finished: The Translator by John Crowley. I just love the way this guy writes - pure poetry.

Just begun: The Little Friend by Donna Tartt. Provocative start...

smokedragon, thanks for the heads-up on the new Erikson book. A re-read of the series just went to the top of my list.

I am still trying to finish Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. I don't know why it is taking me so long to finish it, though. I really like it, I am just reading it a little slower than usual. I will next attempt Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy, but from word of mouth I hear I might be disappointed. Oh well, I will give it a shot anyway.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Trying to decide if I should rush and read Chamber of Secrets before I see the movie, or wait and read the book after.

I just started, Everything is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran Foer.

just finished Prayers For the Dead by Faye Kellerman...moving on to Serpent's Tooth, also in the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus series.

Just finished Ghost Soldiers (excellent read and a real eye opener)
Started Black House (pretty good although not as good as Talisman so far)
Next up willl Be Rise To Rebellion

Just recently finished:

The Dirt by Motley Crue (AWESOME. Check it out.)
Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card (Better than Shadow of the Hedgemon, not as good as Ender's Shadow)
Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum (Good, but LONG. Almost too long. VERY different from movie).

Reading right now:

Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by Tom Shales (funny and informative)

Just started Violets are Blue by James Paterson.

I'm thinking of re-reading "The 13th Warrior" (formerly "Eaters of the Dead")

Eaters of the Dead. Yikes. There's a book I didn't like. Crighton is a GREAT writer, but that book put me to sleep. Sorry if you liked, it just wasn't for me. A bunch of people recommended it to me, so other people really liked it. What do I know, I HATED Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger.

My favorite Crighton books are Jurassic Park, Lost World (the book kicks the movie's ASS, really), and Timeline (easily my favorite of his).

American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

Just finished Connelly's 'Chasing the Dime' - not bad (but that's for another thread.....).
Next up is Robert B. Parker's 'Spenser' book 'Widow's Walk'.

About halfway through Everything's Eventual by Stephen King. Not bad but not as good as his earlier short story collections.

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

I just finished "Speaks the Nightbird" by Robert McCammon. I thought it was great, a witch trial in colonial America, but I found the usage of modern profanity in a story set in 1699 offputting. I don't mind the cussing, or even the sexual content, it's just that the modernity (is that a word?) of it all would take me briefly out of the story.

Up next is Michell Malkin's "Invasion" and Philip K. Dick's "The Man In the High Castle".

I just finished Jonathon Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated, and now I'm starting Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude.