The current Babble-17 book is "Declare" by Tim Powers. I've only just aquired it and I can already tell I'm going to have a difficult time getting very far in it. Power's has a complex and multi-layered way of telling a story which makes it difficult to follow unless you are paying close attention. I suspect the satisfaction of reading will come sometime near the end of the story.

I zoomed through Lemoney Snickett's "The Bad Beginning" and "The Serpent Room". Very enjoyable, even when they repeat somewhat in style. I borrowed these books from Purple as well as a "difficult reading" book he recommended called "The Crypto-Amnesia Club" by Michael Bracewell, so I'm going to finish the "difficult" book before I polish off the next Lemoney Snickett book, "The Wide Window".

The list lengthens...!