I just read Fellowship of the Ring and liked it. I'm about to start The Two Towers. I usually like to switch between fiction books and personal development books. So what I'm reading is always changing.
I forced myself to reat tLotR series, and found it rather painful honestly. Cool story, cool scenery, epic world-building, dreadfully dull character interactions. Dialogue is just so universally dispassionate throughout the entire series that it drives me nuts. One of the few instances where I prefer the films to the books, as the films afford the characters emotional content that the books generally lacked.
So what are you reading, or have just read, that is good?
A favorite contemporary writer of mine is Rawi Hage, a Lebanese immigrant to America and then Canada. He's published three books so far that I'm aware of: 'Cockroach', about a suicidal and somewhat psychotic young immigrant from the middle-east who believes he has the power to transform himself into a cockroach, 'DeNiro's Game', about a pair of young hooligans- one a rebel fighter and one just a punk striving to escape war-torn Lebanon, and 'Carnival', about an eccentric, bookwormish cab-driver working a hectic city who finds himself wrapped up in his beautiful neighbor, an Illuminati-style BDSM party, and a series of brutal murders targeting his fellow drivers.
Each of these books is fantastic; him having a really unique style in each that immerses you in the minds of his characters in frequently highly poetic ways. Excellent, excellent author, and a window into the mindset of young men immigrating to the west.
