Books - What are you reading?

Read the first one when I was in Thailand ages ago, and it did indeed take ages. Very, very long. Forgotten most of it, but can't face the thought of trying to read it and the other two in the series. Have the hard copies, but am waiting for the price to come down on the kindle versions to add them to the collection.
From memory it was well written and dense, and have a vague sense of wanting to see how it finished.
But increasingly becoming disillusioned with trilogies, quartets and quintets. Just tell the story in one book! One of the reasons I stopped reading as much science fiction. Takes far too much of a time investment.

Starting reading david wingrove's the Middle Kingdom ages and ages ago and then realised it was the first book in ten and fucked it off..