(WWW Wednesdays is a meme hosted by Should Be Reading. Click on the image to join the fun!)
To play along just answer the following three questions:
- What did you recently finish reading?
- What are you currently reading?
- What do you think you’ll read next?
Recently read
Over the weekend I finally got a chance to read The Epic of Gilgamesh. I read it my freshman year of high school (so many moons ago), but you can never read a 4,000+ year-old story too many times. I’m still processing exactly how I feel about it, but I think it boils down to the idea that I love the themes and can’t stand hardly any of the characters.
Currently reading
I’m knee-deep in The Last King of Texas, by Rick Riordan. I recently read, loved, and reviewed Big Red Tequila, the first in the series; this book is actually the third in the series, but I couldn’t find the second at the library this past weekend, and it doesn’t seem to really matter if you read them out of order. I’m sure I’m missing some stuff, but the books don’t seem to intertwine too much.
Coming up next
Okay, I know that I said I was done with dystopian. It’s possibly my least-favorite genre; I hate just about every aspect of it. But I just can’t stop thinking about Veronica Roth’s Divergent. Hopefully the culture of the world Roth has created will distract me from the fact that I’ll probably want to fling the book against a wall by the end of it.
What are you reading this week? Have you read any of these books? What did you think?
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Wow. Are you going to post a review on Gilgamesh? I’ve never even attempted to read it…
That’s the plan. Though heaven knows when I’ll find time to write it this weekend. I liked the themes, if not the characters (they’re all kind of annoying). But it’s an important piece of history, and is remarkably well-developed for a centuries-old story.
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I read Gilgamesh in college and it was really good. A bit strange, but I’m sure that’s to be expected from something so old…
Although I do like dystopian fiction, I’ve been burned-out on it lately. Still, Divergent stands out as one of those I really want to read still, despite the burn-out.
I imagine there’s a lot lost in translation. Add in the fact that there are multiple versions, plus some still-missing sections, parts that are under debate, etc., and I’m surprised it’s readable at all. And yes, it’s definitely strange. I’m still trying to figure out how I feel about it.
Dystopian is my roadblock genre. I read Orwell’s 1984 as a teen (“for fun,” instead of for a class, because I’m a nerd like that), and it scared the crap out of me. I really dislike books with (what I consider to be) unhappy endings, and dystopian is full of those. Also, it’s a genre that’s hard to do well — there’s a lot of bad dystopian out there. I’ve read a handful of reviews of Divergent, and it seems to be more of a “book that’s set in a futuristic society” rather than a strictly dystopian story. I hope that ends up being true, or I’m going to be peeved. 🙂
Yay, Divergent! 🙂 I’m posting my review of it later today. Very solid storytelling, it pulls you in and won’t let go. No zombies, either, so it does make it less of a stretch for one’s imagination. 🙂
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Hopefully I’ll be starting Divergent sometime next week. I was going to read it next, but I remembered that I had one more book from my recent library visit, and I need to read that first so I don’t have to deal with late fees. 🙂
I took the interactive quiz on your blog — what a neat feature! According to my results, “this book will take you outside of your comfort zone, and you’ll need all the zen you can find.” Somehow I’m not surprised. Here’s hoping! And thanks for stopping by!