Recently completed:

• The Green Mile, by Stephen King. I don’t want to say surprisingly good, considering that obviously his work has mass appeal, but it was the first book in a while that got me hooked rather than inducing the usual literary-critic mindset that I can’t escape these days. Not sure I want to see the film - it’d be interesting to see if they toned certain elements down or not.
• Pirate Cinema, by Cory Doctorow. A bit of an odd one, this. I spent about four months at university dissecting copyright law, and it’s clear that Doctorow’s done the same (I actually used one of his essays in my bibliography); this is incredibly informative. That said, it rings a bit Brave-New-World-y, in that the literary value is a little hollow. There’s a decent science fiction frame, a lot of hectoring about British attitudes to copyright, and not much else. It also suffers a little from sounding like an American pretending to understand British dialect, which - let’s be honest - it is. Still enjoyable, but less of a novel than a fictionalised manifesto.
• Halcyon, by Casey Morell. It’s good, and I’m not just saying that because he’s my friend. Won’t say too much about this, because it’s not out yet.