I'm not sure I have ever read that novel. But I have the same opinion of a few others, with the first to come to mind: Wuthering Heights.

Thanks to Project Gutenberg I'm reading through all those books I've seen movies or heard from for a while now and although some were pretty good (Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray was one of the best books I ever read), some were at least decent (War of the Worlds and The Time Machine by H.G. Wells), some were just bollocks (The Island of Doctor Moreau, Alice, Alice 2) and then there are those like "The Invisible Man" where I cannot get why this has gotten so well known, Moby Dick definitely falls into the last category, it's horribly written, the plot is thin and it's bloated with pseudo scientifical facts that have all proven wrong by now and takes most of the time for the glorifying of whale hunting instead of a real story.

I sure hope that book is better than the character in the new series Penny Dreadful, because I am just waiting for them to kill him off. He is quite boring and very annoying.

I don't know this series, but I've recently began to see this 2009 movie adaptation and turned it off after a while, because it was extremely dumb/bad.

Cyador's Heirs by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

Awesome to see this appearing out of the recesses of all the posts about the Steam Sales, because I was almost going to start one:)

Splitting my time between two books:

Deadhouse Gates:Book Two of the Malazan Books of the Fallen

I must have picked up and put this book down at least 10 times over the past couple of years. I enjoy it but it moves so darn slowly and there's another 6 books to go through that are about as long. I've actually reread the entire ASOIAF series rather than finish this before. Don't judge ;). I am now close to the ending and actually looking forward to book 3.

A Distant Mirror:The Calamitous 14th Century
I can't recommend the latter one enough if you're interested in the history of the Mid-to-High Middle Ages.

I'm currently reading David Byrne's How Music Works, which I actually won during a contest. The book is very good, Byrne's perspectives about "how music works" socially, technically and spiritually are interesting. I'd say it's the perfect book for music nerds, 10/10 would read again

Awesome, I love me someTalking Heads!

I've just finished 'Into the storm' by Reed Timmer, most famous tornado chaser. Fantastic lecture, I'm so hyped about tornadoes right now! :)

Nice! Byrne's description of Stop Making Sense's creative process were particularly engaging for me. I never really thought about how something as simple as dressing in white actually makes you focus in a particular performer and what's s/he's doing.

I finished flower for algernon. The writer passed away recently btw. Quite a good and really sad story. Love the writing style of the book, making it more intimate.

The GOGBook.

We were supposed to read that story for school, but sadly I didn't give myself the time to read it completely (I know that's short :p) and haven't ended since then. I have read many good things about it, so maybe I will read it soon. The bad thing is that I heard that the story has a sad ending, and my mind now imagines possible endings for it :L

Actually rather messed me up at the end, that one...

In the past I've recorded audio books professionally, and at one point did a brilliant collection of classic short stories called The Science Fiction Hall of Fame. In the one afternoon I recorded both Flowers for Algernon and Tom Godwin's The Cold Equations ... it's so hard to read with tears streaming down your face, and trying to keep the emotion out of your voice! ;-)


For myself, I've just started reading Fire in the Sky, Travis Walton's own account of his alleged abduction by a UFO. I'm not a "believer", but I have to say I'm finding it somewhat persuasive. And more than a little disturbing! ;-)