Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay, book is sooo good. I really regret not knowing about this author before.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Literal Madness by Kathy Acker

I'm reading A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin. I'm enjoying it a lot more then A Feast for Crows mainly because some interesting characters come back in A Dance With Dragons. I'm only about a quarter of the way into it though.

Almost done reading "Confessor" by Terry Goodkind to finish out the series.

What can I say, these books provide a lot to talk about, and wanted to get those thoughts out before they disappear. I hope you got something out of them, whether books to read or something to discuss (if you actually did read it that is or are just pulling my chain here :P).

Besides that though, really regarding the Song of Fire and Ice series, if I may confide by PM or something with someone who has read the books (does this site have the ability of spoiler tags? Let me see... [spoiler]herp derp[/spoiler] edit: guess not :/) how much I have ruined myself with what I accidentally spoiled myself with. I know there is more to these stories than just the "anyone can die" factor, but that element of danger and surprise is what makes it interesting, and I don't want to feel I'm going to be going through thousands of pages just waiting for those moments I know will happen.

Anyway in the meantime I just started Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren. I did read the first few pages of one of his few non-sci-fi fiction books Hogg and I could tell right from the start it was going to be an unpleasantly tedious read. I suppose I'll go back and finish that and read every attempt the book will make to shock and see if there's anything more to it, just to say that I did, but I doubt it. Anyway, Dhalgren: described everywhere as an indecipherable book, William Gibson called it "a riddle never meant to be solved." The concept, a Midwest city where strange things happen for some unexplained reason, people move out, gangs take over, strange things continue to happen, while we follow around the main character and his experiences in about 800 pages worth of material. I don't know what to expect, but I really liked William Gibson's foreword of the book. He says he doesn't fully understand it, but tries to describe it the best he can in the context of the time it was written, about some "singularity" that happened in America, that some noticed, some didn't, maybe it happened, maybe it didn't, about strange things that happened and disappeared, that most people didn't see, but it all affected everyone, and the book is... some... affirmation of that I guess?

Well I will say it pulls a Finnegans Wake with the first sentence of the book being a continuation of its last sentence, so I am not expecting something conventional. However the first few pages describe some chintzy sex scene between the main character and some Asian woman, then some cryptic dialogue is exchanged, which I don't know whether to say if it's mysterious or just badly written. If this was filmed dialogue I can easily see it coming off as really terrible. Maybe it'll make more sense later on, it is a circular narrative after all. Then he enters a cave with some prisms. I was very tired reading it so I don't exactly what's going on. I do intend to go back to see if it gets better from there. All I know is the number of pages of Delany material I've read so far remains in the single digits and despite some interesting description I'm finding some elements of his writing cringe-worthy already, though this book does hold a lot more promise than Hogg that's for certain, and does feel unfair to judge so early. But, outside that strange sentence tying in with the book's ending sentence, not a great start for me.

Wow, eight years and you still haven't finished the book. I only have one book that took more than a year to finish, and that one (Sum of All Fears) I still haven't finished and probably never will.
As far as the spoiler goes, I have never felt like writing a spoiler in print and usually just censor myself. So, I'll be extremely vague about the book having a lot of ups and downs, or a lot of book throwing over certain scenes. I read on a kindle, so I could never actually throw my book. I did have GoT in papeback and I do remember throwing it a couple times.

Yeah I started reading it in high school back then, then I just... put it away and forgot about it. Tried it again maybe a few years later, same thing. Now I've taken off the shelf to restart it AGAIN this past year and maybe this time I'll actually finish it this time, after I'm through with other things first. It isn't a difficult read, and it's really engaging, it's long, but that's not the problem, I don't know, all I know is that I wish I finished at least the first book before everyone started talking about the HBO series and referencing the story every damn place. :/

I will PM you what's been "spoiled" to me and ask if there's still other things in store for me now that I know those things if that's OK with you...

Just finished The Quantum Thief, the first part of a science fiction trilogy by Hannu Rajaniemi. I just bought the sequel and am kind of looking forward to the third book already. Granted, the style got to me quite a bit at first: there's a lot of seemingly mumbo-jumbo terminology thrown about and it's down to the reader to figure it all out as they go along, which is mildly annoying and still quite nice for not underestimating the audience. I've read some old (as in The Black Star Passes old) sci-fi that goes to great lengths to comprehensively explain absolutely everything in-text, which is even worse, but I still think that even a small glossary or index would have been beneficial for The Quantum Thief, the first quarter or one-third or so in particular.

Still recommended, though. I'll share my thoughts on The Fractal Prince when I'm done with it.

Finished reading a book comprising two works by H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu (5/5) and The Shadow over Innsmouth (4/5). This is Lovecraft at his best, especially with The Call of Cthulhu - a story I don't mind reading over and over during the years.

Recently, I finished an anthology of short stories by Julio Ramon Ribeyro (I started it in 2011 :-) ).

Right now I'm reading some Julio Cortazar, The Watchmen, The Rebel and some poetry by Boleslaw Lesman. I get bored really easy when reading, so to stay motivated, I make sure to have multiple books in multiple genres that I'm "in to" at any given time.

Also, Tigana does indeed rock! I might just have to reread that one...

Almost finished with "The Dragon's Path." Around page 300 my interest started waning a bit, though, because the action dropped off and he got more into history and politics, which to me always drags a story down.

About to start Dan Brown's "Inferno".

CS Friedman's "Legacy of Kings" - book 3 in the Magister Trilogy.

Flowers for Algernon (Never read it in school, and so far I love it)
The Satanic Bible

The Devil's Notebook and Satan Speaks! are good too.