Finished The Last Wish and now started The Blood of the Elves. Good read and lots of things that I recognize from the games and viceversa.

Finished the River King - it was good - and now started on My Idea of Fun by Will Self.
It seems to be about a murderous psychopath and his memories/justifications, but the only thing I can think of is "Man, that Will Self sure loves his thesaurus."
It seems like the book is written just so the author can show of how many big and fancy words he knows.

I received a batch of Malazan-books today. I'm now reading Gardens of the Moon, and enjoying it a lot so far.

Currently I'm reading Asatru: A Native European Spirituality by Stephen McNallen and The Master of Game by Edward of Norwich. So far I am really enjoying the Asatru book which is about Germanic folkish heathenism and about its history and its influence in politics and culture. The Master of Game is a book about hunting and it was written in the 15th century and contains a forward message by Theodore Roosevelt. It deals with topics like what makes a good hunter and practices although it can be tough to understand since it is written with older English expressions.

I also intend to start reading The Saga of the Volsungs really soon.

I didn't like Mr. Mercedes that much; kind of got the feeling he was trying to pander to a younger audience. Really some lame ideas there. Then again, I don't think "I'm so coked-up I think I'll write a whole book about a rabid dog" was a very good idea either...

I think he's always been hit-or-miss, and he's more "miss" when he ventures away from what established him. His books have always had a lot of psychological horror, though; it just seems like that's what he focuses on these days, to the detriment of of actual physical horror. "Revival" seemed like it was trying to grasp the old days but didn't quite get there.
I read "Holy Cow" by David Duchovny. Quite funny.

I'm debating "Knight's Shadow" by Sebastien de Castell ("Traitor's Blade" was great) and "Zero World" by Jason M. Hugh; I don't know if I should read them for pleasure or for review-writing purposes. They're each quite large and I don't know if I want to tackle them from a review standpoint because they would take too long.

Well, I finished Finders Keepers and it would appear to me that he is trying to establish Hodges as a recurring character and bringing a supernatural-ish kind of slant to the Mercedes Driver for the next book, maybe when he's dead somebody will edit the three books into one good book :)

I'm reading Shakespeare's Othello right now for a university course. Not too far in just yet, but seeing as my class is on Tuesday morning I'll have finished it soon enough. :P

I just started reading Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann. So far it's been pretty boring, but I'm only 30 pages in.

Material for my exams in September. Wish me luck, everyone!

I just finished That which should not be. Pretty awesome book except for the end. I read on and off the complete works of H. P. Lovecraft. I recently tried to read one of the new Star Wars books, A new Dawn I think it is but it was too stupid to read.

A technical book: "The Linux Programming Interface" by Michael Kerrisk (physical copy).

I'm also occasionally reading "Great North Road" by Peter F. Hamilton (eBook).

Each book is over a thousand pages, so it will take some time to completion! :-)

Did you read The Magic Mountain by the same author? I remember its style being ponderous... to be fair, and this was certainly evident, there is a lot under the surface plot there, and I would assume the same for any treatment of the Faust story.

Re-reading my (signed, first edition [/smug]) copy of The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie. Brilliant dark gritty fantasy.

That is one of my favourite books.