The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut was a great beach read. I love Vonnegut's way of looking at the world and his second book helped set the tone right away. This is a science fiction book with a great bit of social commentary mixed in. This is another book that I have a hard time summarizing without giving away too much so I'll skip it. He's just an original genius and I hope he's remembered as one of the best of his generation.

God Bless America by Steve Almond

God Bless America by Steve Almond

I first read Steve's short story that's included in this collection called Donkey Greedy, Donkey Gets Punched in The Best American Short Stories and loved it. Funny, sad, poignant, awesome. I then listened to his appearance on WTF with Marc Maron and laughed my ass off. This collection of stories continued the streak and was awesome as well. First Date Back was just stupid good, God Bless America was a great way to star the book, A Jew Berserk on Christmas Eve is my second favorite short story title of all time and lived up to it's name hype.

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

A Storm of Swords book 3 in A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin

Good god was this an awesome book! As amazing as the first 2 were this one was even better. Plot twists, crazy action, fantastic characters and lots of old timey language. I've never read 1,200+ pages faster and never felt like I couldn't put down a book as early into the story as this one. While I would love to talk about what happened there are way too many plot twist to do so without giving things away. I will say this, don't get attached to any one character. Can't recommend this series enough and insanely excited for the HBO series to start up again.