What are you currently reading?

[Daghain]

Just finished Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers by Louise Rennison and am now reading Startled By His Furry Shorts by the same author.

[Jean]

I just finished Fight Club...wow, what an interesting read. I loved the pace of the book and recommend it to all (guys and gals!). :thumbsup:

You should try some of his other books if you have not. I would suggest Lullaby next.

Thanks, AH! I plan to read more of his books, and I'll definitely look for Lullaby. We own Snuff so might try that one next. :)
only don't read a lot by him in a row, he starts getting so annoying... something has to be inserted in between

[Letti]

I have just finished Odd Thomas (at last) and I could go back to another book I had started before but couldn't finish. It's Senor Kon-Tiki and it's about Thor Heyerdahl's adventurous life.

[theBeamisHome]

i'm listening to the Gunslinger... didn't realize i had the first three books on my computer. :rock:

[Ka-tet]

I just bought the third book of the Inderitance Serise, Brisigr. Loving it so far!

[turtlex]

I just started "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo".

To be honest, I'm having a hard time getting into it.

Anyone else read it?

According to the cover - it's an INTERNATIONAL SENSATION ! :)

Edited to Add : Looks like Bev Vincent read it back in Feb... any comment?

[Harrald]

I just finished the Myron Bolitar series by Harlan Cobin then a quick re-read of Fahrenheit 451 and now in the middle of the last in the series of Dave Robicheaux books by James Lee Burke. Next up is Hart's Hope by Orson Scott Card. After that I need to find a new author.

[Ruthful]

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[MonteGss]

I'm finally reading Nightmares and Dreamscapes. I read Dolan's Cadillac last night and enjoyed it. When I was younger I wasn't too keen on reading short stories by King, I tend to like them now though. :thumbsup: so far to the collection. :)

[jayson]

Cool Monte. :thumbsup:

I've always been a big fan of the short story collections, and I think that's a really good one.

[MonteGss]

Yeah, I'm usually a sucker for long, drawn out stories/novels. :)
Now that I'm older I enjoy the quick reads. I think I will open up 20th Century Ghosts after this one. :)

[theBeamisHome]

i think i love all the short story compilations.. i really liked N&D... i just got a nice new free copy of Everything's Eventual... it can replace the one Keylo decided to used as a dog toy

[Daghain]

Just finished Startled by His Furry Shorts by Louise Rennison and am now reading Love is a Many Trousered Thing by the same author.

After this one I plan a reread of Eyes of the Dragon.

[Jean]

finished Heart-Shaped Box by Hill, now reading Fight Club by Palahniuk. Both fell rather short of expectations.

[Daghain]

That's too bad. I really liked Heart-Shaped Box. Haven't read Fight Club yet but I really liked Haunted, so it's definitely on my list.

[Jean]

Everybody seemed to like HSBox, and I can't imagine why. I hope to go on with this discussion in Joe Hill thread later. (Palahniuk thread, too)

[Daghain]

I liked it a lot. I think the ending could have been better, but overall I did like the story.

Palahniuk just appeals to my gross-out factor. About 2/3 of the way through Haunted, I could not eat while reading the book. And I do not get grossed out easily.

[John_and_Yoko]

Currently reading The Shining (for the second time).

Brushing up for an essay I want to write comparing and contrasting the book with the Kubrick film.

[TLC]

Duma Key finally! im excited!:rock:

[Jean]

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[The Lady of Shadows]

just finished listening to the langoliers read by willem defoe. oh my fucking god how fucking annoying can someone get. was dinah or whatever her name was really that simpering, sniveling brat in the short story? and the voice he chose for bethany made me want to tear my hair out.

i really like willem defoe but for gan's sake that was a fucking horrible reading.


listening to the woods by harlan coben now. and just got a nice big package from b&n (ball and the cross, the living dead, tethered) to add to my ever growing list of books to read.

[razz]

maybe you should make a "what are you listening to, audiobook" thread!
I just finished Eyes of the dragon, then Firestarter. It wasn't bad. I kinda liked it! Now i'm starting Desperation, then the Regulators, then I'll take another shot at finishing Misery, then I am America (and so can you!). Then rose Madder, and maybe try to get my hands o nthe Last Eragon book, cuz like Harry Potter, i'm curious of how it ends.

[The Lady of Shadows]

i keep forgetting there is an audiobook thread. but i count listening to audiobooks as reading. don't you? are you kicking me out of this thread just because i can't concentrate on a book right now razzle dazzle? :o :cry:

okay, i'm off because razzle dazzle says i have to make a new thread. . . .

[razz]

personally, listening doesn't seem the same as reading, though LT's theory of pets was pretty damn good. But if you think it's the same, it must be so. :couple:

[Daghain]

personally, listening doesn't seem the same as listening,

I think you might have wanted to read that for clarity before you posted. :lol:

[razz]

oops.

[Daghain]

It gave me a good laugh. :lol:

[Jean]

I thought it was very zen...

[Heather19]

Finished The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons. I really enjoyed it although I think the ending fell a little short.
Now I can focus all my attention on Choke.

Jean did you finish Fight Club yet, or are you still currently reading it?

[Jean]

Currently reading, and getting more and more bored. I read Survivor a few months ago - I can't understand how someone can chew the same snot over and over, page after page. Haunted was better, but only if separate stories are considered, not the whole.

[John_and_Yoko]

I am so glad I'm re-reading The Shining! :D

I'm getting a LOT more out of it than I did the first time! Even if I weren't writing my essay, I'm much more able to "read" the book (meaning reading between the lines) than before!

[Wuducynn]

Reading "Conspiracies" third book in the Repairman Jack series. Really intense, and scary. It embodies the phrase "curiouser and curiouser".

[Daghain]

You need to stop trying to sell me on these Repairman Jack books - if you could see the unread pile I have now.....:panic:

[Brice]

They are really good books, Daggers.

[Daghain]

Don't help! :lol:

Just finished Started by His Furry Shorts by Louise Rennison and am starting a reread of Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King.

[jhanic]

I've just started rereading Ken Grimwood's Replay. It's a fantastic book with a storyline that just won't quit!

John

[razz]

I just finished Eyes of the dragon, then Firestarter. It wasn't bad. I kinda liked it! Now i'm starting Desperation, then the Regulators, then I'll take another shot at finishing Misery, then I am America (and so can you!). Then rose Madder, and maybe try to get my hands o nthe Last Eragon book, cuz like Harry Potter, i'm curious of how it ends.
Change of plans. Now my reading schedule will be determined by the book club, assuming we get it running!

[Brice]

Don't help! :lol:



No, I mean they are truly great. :dance:

I've just started Daphne DeMarier's Jamaica Inn and a reread of Anthony Burgess' Clockwork Orange.

[Heather19]

I've just started Daphne DeMarier's Jamaica Inn

Let me know how this is Brice. I've got Rebecca on my bookshelf still waiting to be read, but I've been curious about this one as well.

[Brice]

I've just started Daphne DeMarier's Jamaica Inn

Let me know how this is Brice. I've got Rebecca on my bookshelf still waiting to be read, but I've been curious about this one as well.

I will. I read Rebecca in elementary school. It's a great book. This copy of Jamaica Inn I found appears to be a first edition....and it cost .50. :D

Have you seen the Hitchcock film before?

[Heather19]

Jamaica Inn? Yes I finally tracked it down. I have to say that I didn't really care too much for it though. After reading up on it, I saw that he didn't really put too much effort into it, and that he pretty much did it so that he could obtain the rights to do Rebecca, so that probably explains why.

[Brice]

Well, there's that...and I've read that Laughton made some difficult demands upon Hichcock. I agree though, it was far from one of his best films and my understanding is quite a bit was changed from the book. I'll soon find out. :)

[Jean]

I am reading Blaze, and it's like eating rye bread with whole milk after days of paper-and-glue pie (Joe Hill) and snot-and-maggots puddling (Palahniuk).

[Heather19]

Oh no Jean! Your just not having luck with any books lately are you.

[Jean]

yes, I am! With Duma Key, for example - the best book I've read in years.

[Ves'Ka Gan]

Hmmm...I like Joe Hill AND Palahnuick--but I was very disappointed with Blaze, I haven't even finished it yet...and I rarely put a book down without finishing.


I am reading "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K. Dick. I'm not as into it as I was A Scanner Darkly, but it's still good. Interesting premis anyway.

[Jean]

I don't know if I am going to like the whole of Blaze - I only started, and read about 20 pages before I had to go to work - but I know I loved the beginning, and I am so looking forward to reading now!

::crawls to his den with the book::

(and I know most everyone liked HSBox and Fight Club... it's a mystery to me, which I hope to discuss in Hill and Palahniuk threads later)

[alinda]

*shrug* ah, different strokes baby, hope you like Blaze tho'I did.:couple:

[Heather19]

I don't know if I am going to like the whole of Blaze - I only started, and read about 20 pages before I had to go to work - but I know I loved the beginning, and I am so looking forward to reading now!

::crawls to his den with the book::

(and I know most everyone liked HSBox and Fight Club... it's a mystery to me, which I hope to discuss in Hill and Palahniuk threads later)

Yes, when you get the time, please post your thoughts. I'd love to hear them.

[The Lady of Shadows]

I am reading Blaze, and it's like eating rye bread with whole milk after days of paper-and-glue pie (Joe Hill) and snot-and-maggots puddling (Palahniuk).

so jean, tell us how you really feel. :lol:



You need to stop trying to sell me on these Repairman Jack books - if you could see the unread pile I have now.....:panic:


daggers, why don't you try going in reverse alphabetical order. starting with, say, the W's?
hey, come the think of it, doesn't f. paul wilson fit in there nicely? :D

repairman jack
repairman jack
repairman jack
repairman jack
repairman jack
repairman jack
repairman jack

[bluelph24]

nix flatland, add the metamorphosis (reread, but for school)
still trucking along on Infinite jest, good but LONG
their eyes were watching god - couldn't really care less about this book

[Ruthful]

I have a copy of Heart-Shaped Box on my desk right now, but haven't begun to read it yet. I'm also going to start reading Rhett Butler's People sometime in the near future.

[alinda]

The Lasarus Rumba

[Louise]

Under recommendation of my Son, I am currently on book 6 of the Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan, not finding enough time to read though and moving very slowly through it but a good series so far, a little sticky at times.

[ManOfWesternesse]

Under recommendation of my Son, I am currently on book 6 of the Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan, not finding enough time to read though and moving very slowly through it but a good series so far, a little sticky at times.

I'm on a full re-read of WoT at the minute - and currently on Book ......6!
I recommended it to my 11-yr-old a couple of months back, he read & loved it too.

[theBeamisHome]

Metamorphoses.. :wub: i have that somewhere.

[fernandito]

I remember someone saying that Brandon Sanderson was hired to write the final books in the WoT series...

:orely:

[Wuducynn]

Now on book 4 of the Repairman Jack series "All The Rage". Boy, the last book was as downright scary as seeing Brice waking up in the morning in some parts. No, seriously it was THAT frightening!! Daghain and Jayson you REALLY should start this series. :harrier:

[fernandito]

I am loving Speaker For The Dead - and I think Scott Card is oficially my favorite Sci-Fi author.

[idk, my bff jill?]

I'm reading "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini.

I had started it a while ago, but I had to put it off because of college work and stuff.

[Ves'Ka Gan]

Oh, The Kite Runner was very, very good. I had to close the book & collect myself at soem parts because Housseini holds nothing back in his descriptions...but very good. I felt enlightened to a lot of things about Afghanistan I didn't know before.

Another good book (non fiction) in the same region of the world is Three Cups Of Tea. I can say that book changed my life in a lot of ways. It is about an American man who has dedicated his life to building schools for girls in fundamentalist Muslim areas.

[blaineworshipper]

I'm reading 'On Chesil Beach' by Ian McEwan, as it is required for the course I am taking. It isn't the sort of book that I'd usually read, but it's okay, I guess...

[Brice]

Now on book 4 of the Repairman Jack series "All The Rage". Boy, the last book was as downright scary as seeing Brice waking up in the morning in some parts. No, seriously it was THAT frightening!! Daghain and Jayson you REALLY should start this series. :harrier:


If I ever wake up and see you I'll fucking shoot myself. :lol:


I'm now reading The Firm by John Grisham along with some other books I've already listed.

[jhanic]

One of the true SF classics:

Time Enough for Love - Robert A. Heinlein

John

[jayson]

Now on book 4 of the Repairman Jack series "All The Rage". Boy, the last book was as downright scary as seeing Brice waking up in the morning in some parts. No, seriously it was THAT frightening!! Daghain and Jayson you REALLY should start this series. :harrier:

The first book is waiting at my library for me to pick up this weekend. I'll let you know what I think. Thanks for recommending it. :)

[Wuducynn]

Now on book 4 of the Repairman Jack series "All The Rage". Boy, the last book was as downright scary as seeing Brice waking up in the morning in some parts. No, seriously it was THAT frightening!! Daghain and Jayson you REALLY should start this series. :harrier:

The first book is waiting at my library for me to pick up this weekend. I'll let you know what I think. Thanks for recommending it. :)

You won't regret it. In fact you probably should have bought the second one along with it because I know you'll blow through the first one in a couple of days like I did.

[jayson]

You won't regret it. In fact you probably should have bought the second one along with it because I know you'll blow through the first one in a couple of days like I did.

I wish. I have significantly less time to read than I used to. Having a child has definitely cut into my reading time, but it's a tradeoff I am ok with. I'm not used to needing more than a couple of sittings to finish a book.

[Matt]

Almost done with Green Mars, very much enjoying it.

[Wuducynn]

but it's a tradeoff I am ok with. I'm not used to needing more than a couple of sittings to finish a book.

I understand. Giving up the baby for adoption because you need to focus on reading the whole series is a tradeoff one just has to make.

[Empath of the White]

I just bought the third book of the Inderitance Serise, Brisigr. Loving it so far!

Let me know how you liked it. I had a hard time in the middle, but the end got better.

I honestly hated Eragon for what he did to Sloan. Galbatorix's source of power sounds interesting. If I'm reading it right, he's got a bunch of dragons waiting in reserve. Plus if he's looking for the name I think he is, then Alagaesia is in deep shit

I have finished Wheel of Darkness by Preston and Child. I didn't like it as much as I did the "Pendergast trilogy" or any prior books. I think it was the abrupt introduction of the supernatural.

[boq]

The Drawing of the Three.

Yet again:cowboy:

[Daghain]

So wait...who wrote the Repairman Jack novels? I'm going to B&N tomorrow. :panic:

[The Lady of Shadows]

f. paul wilson. you'll either find them in the mystery section or the horror section depending on that particular b&n. ><

[Daghain]

Thanks, t/s! I will definitely check it out. :)

[The Lady of Shadows]

anytime. anything to reel in another repairman jack fan. oh, and some b&n are intelligent and just put him in the fiction section where he belongs. :)

[IWasSentWest]

stone of tears by terry goodkind...i like this series

[razz]

finished desperations. definitely a favorite. next: Regulators.

[The Lady of Shadows]

just finished up high in the trees. getting ready to start the living dead. or maybe tethered. haven't decided. still listening to american gods on my ipod (and that is absofuckinglutely a-mazing!!!!!!!).

[Daghain]

finished desperations. definitely a favorite. next: Regulators.

Good call to read them back to back. I did this just a couple months ago, and it was great fun. :D

[Jean]

finished desperations. definitely a favorite.
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[The Lady of Shadows]

not reading tethered (see the castle for an explanation). reading the living dead.

[Daghain]

Just finished my reread of Eyes of the Dragon and am starting 20th Century Ghosts.

[John_and_Yoko]

Finished The Shining, will probably have to wait for the weekend before writing my essay on it, though....

[fernandito]

Has anyone here both read the book and seen the movie No Country For Old Men? Are there major differences between the two?

[jayson]

Has anyone here both read the book and seen the movie No Country For Old Men? Are there major differences between the two?

I have. There are some differences, but nothing I would consider all that major. It was a pretty direct adaptation.

It was actually a rare instance where I preferred the film version because I find McCarthy's writing style so annoying (particularly his apparent unfamiliarity with quotation marks). He is a great storyteller, but as far as style, it's a chore to physically read his work.

[fernandito]

Has anyone here both read the book and seen the movie No Country For Old Men? Are there major differences between the two?

I have. There are some differences, but nothing I would consider all that major. It was a pretty direct adaptation.

It was actually a rare instance where I preferred the film version because I find McCarthy's writing style so annoying (particularly his apparent unfamiliarity with quotation marks). He is a great storyteller, but as far as style, it's a chore to physically read his work.

Thanks for your feedback Jayson!

The reason I was asking is because now that I'm pretty much obsessed with the movie, I'm wanting to read the book...however I have trouble getting through novels after watching the movies they're based on because the element of surprise has been removed, and this is especially true if they're 'direct' adaptations like NCFOM. If there were some major differences from the book I'd probably read it, but if it's a pretty forward adaptation like you said then I guess I'll just skip it, especially if reading Mcwhatever's work is as ardous (sp?) as you say :lol:

[aberrios75]

Almost done with Song of Susannah

[jayson]

Well Feev, I don't mean to have the effect of discouraging reading, but I know you are an avid reader and will still read plenty if not that specific book. :)

Still, perhaps you can find a copy at your local library and see if you have the same issues with McCarthy's style that I did without purchasing a book you may not finish. Some people don't have a problem with it at all. It's incredibly rare that I prefer a movie to a book but NCFOM was definitely one of these instances.

[Daghain]

McCarthy's Blood Meridian is literally the only book I have ever started and then put down. I couldn't stand it. His writing style drives me insane. I had to read it for an English class, too, so that's saying something. :lol:

[Jean]

It was actually a rare instance where I preferred the film version because I find McCarthy's writing style so annoying (particularly his apparent unfamiliarity with quotation marks).
that's why I can never summon patience enough to read him! (Or our Steve, for that matter.) Lord do bears hate those dances around "new forms"!

[jayson]

I found it very confusing. I'd keep reading things that seemed like narrative but would end with the words 'he said' and I'd have to reread that part realizing it was dialogue. It made for a very herky-jerky read.

My issue with SK is his overuse of italics. I love it when he uses it here and there to exemplify the associative thinking of a character, but when he used it for entire portions of Duma Key he literally gave me a massive headache.

[Jean]

I found it very confusing. I'd keep reading things that seemed like narrative but would end with the words 'he said' and I'd have to reread that part realizing it was dialogue. It made for a very herky-jerky read.

My issue with SK is his overuse of italics. I love it when he uses it here and there to exemplify the associative thinking of a character, but when he used it for entire portions of Duma Key he literally gave me a massive headache.
::vehemently nods to both points::

[Daghain]

I'll take the overuse of italics over a lack of quotation marks any day!

[jayson]

I'm not sure which I'd prefer. One caused confusion, the other physical pain. I think I'd take the confusion.

[Daghain]

:lol:

[IWasSentWest]

wow i bet yall hate reading my typing..

So I guess I should better start typing correctly. Geez, thanks guys, now I think all my sentences are grammatically incorrect!

[Jean]

wow i bet yall hate reading my typing..
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I'll take the overuse of italics over a lack of quotation marks any day!
Absolutely. Because the latter isn't only confusing, it's annoying like hell. Instead of reading, you are in a constant inner dialogue with the writer, which goes like that:

why can't you use them, motherfucker? is it that difficult? is it that you're not sure whether you should put the period mark inside or outside the closing quotation mark? use Yahoo Answers, for God's sake, or wikipedia, if they didn't teach you that at school. Or do you think it will distinguish you from other writers? Is it that deep inside you suspect that your story or your writing isn't worth shit, so you have to use those tricks to make the reader remember at least something about you? (etc, etc, etc)

[Frunobulax]

Damn. I've never seen you so incensed, Jean! I'll make sure to never fall out of my type style!

[Jean]

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we all have our pet peeves... mine is unnecessary formalism

[jhanic]

AS far as liking the movie more than the book--has anyone read The Godfather? That book was very inferior to the movie.

John

[Jean]

I've tried once, but didn't advance too far

Though I have to admit, I am not a big fan of the movie, either - those gangsta passions bore me like hell

I have to say find the Hitchcock's Rebecca far better than the Dumaurier's.

[idk, my bff jill?]

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[jayson]

I read Mario Puzo's Godfather. I thought it was quite good. Different strokes I suppose.

[Jean]

it's not bad, no; it's quite decent. I think I would have made it through if not for the topic - there are things I can read about only if they are very well (not just decently) written: love, Far West, gangsters, vampires... On the other hand, there are things I can read even if they are terribly (well, within reason) written - schoolkids, Middle Ages, classical Japan, any non-vampire horror...

[Daghain]

wow i bet yall hate reading my typing..
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I'll take the overuse of italics over a lack of quotation marks any day!
Absolutely. Because the latter isn't only confusing, it's annoying like hell. Instead of reading, you are in a constant inner dialogue with the writer, which goes like that:

why can't you use them, motherfucker? is it that difficult? is it that you're not sure whether you should put the period mark inside or outside the closing quotation mark? use Yahoo Answers, for God's sake, or wikipedia, if they didn't teach you that at school. Or do you think it will distinguish you from other writers? Is it that deep inside you suspect that your story or your writing isn't worth shit, so you have to use those tricks to make the reader remember at least something about you? (etc, etc, etc)

This, exactly. That, and I HATE having to go back and reread a passage because I've just discovered it's dialogue and don't know WTF is going on.

[Jean]

I am about 50 pages away from the end of Blaze.

I have to put it down.

I do so wish Mr.King had published it when it was written, and I had read it when I was younger and could have taken it.

Now I am old and soft, and I only recently read Roadwork, and I just can't, no, not again. Blaze is even worse, because Roadwork was all about me, and I cried for myself; and Blaze is all about what I am not, it's all about others, and somehow it makes it worse (maybe because I know that I am at least alive, after all).

I will read something that I won't take close to heart now - luckily, I have a Mary Higgins Clark yet unread, and that's just what I need (John Saul would be fine, but I have exhausted my Saul supply). I think I will put Blaze in my bag, and read it in public transport... one doesn't cry in public transport, does he? not especially if he is a fully grown bear? or a man who looks like he belongs in Thunder Five?

I hate Bachman. I know King would offer at least some consolation, and I know Bachman won't.

[Darkthoughts]

I sympathise with you Jean, Blaze is on my reread pile because I only skimmed it last time I read it as it was hard going.

I'm currently plodding through "Fool's Errand" which is book one in Robin Hobb's Tawny Man Trilogy. It's ok, but I'm not gripped by it yet...I'll persevere because my sister said the trilogy were some of the best books she'd ever read.

[IWasSentWest]

Anybody read "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss? The next book of the series is coming out soon and I want it bad!

[Heather19]

Jean what are some good John Saul books that you'd recommend. I've picked up quite a few from yard sales and used bookstores around here, but I've only read The Blackstone Chronicles (which I really enjoyed). I've got Creature, Midnight Voices, The Unloved, and Sleepwalk.

[MonteGss]

I decided that I am going to switch off between stories from Nightmares & Dreamscapes and 20th Century Ghosts. I'm already about 200 pages into N&D but Joe Hill keeps calling out to me. This will be an interesting way to compare writing styles. :D

[Daghain]

Oh cool! I'm reading 20th Century Ghosts right now! We can compare notes! :D

[MonteGss]

I'm about to start it...going over to the bookshelf now. I'm pretty excited!

[Daghain]

I'm only about 20 pages in but it rocks so far. I think you'll really like the first story!

[Ruthful]

I loved 20th Century Ghosts, for the most part. It inspired me to go out and buy his novel, although that could completely suck; who knows?

[jessamine]

Anybody read "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss? The next book of the series is coming out soon and I want it bad!

Read this several months ago and am looking forward to the next one.

[tamez]

I had meant to start a re-read of DT5
but i avoided it in favor of reading Everything's Eventual
again.
i just really didn't like DT5 and it upset me
that I didn't like it.
i KNOW i have to go through it again
and hopefully feel better about it
i'm just dreading it because maybe i'll
hate it even MORE this time.. :onfire:

[MonteGss]

I loved 20th Century Ghosts, for the most part. It inspired me to go out and buy his novel, although that could completely suck; who knows?

Ruthful, though I originally thought the plot of his novel sounded a bit questionable, I really, really liked it. I hope you do too! It actually scared me in parts.

[Daghain]

Oh yeah, I thought Heart Shaped Box was excellent!

[JQ The Gunslinger]

20 pages of The Shining left. Then hopefully im reading For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway

[IWasSentWest]

I had meant to start a re-read of DT5
but i avoided it in favor of reading Everything's Eventual
again.
i just really didn't like DT5 and it upset me
that I didn't like it.
i KNOW i have to go through it again
and hopefully feel better about it
i'm just dreading it because maybe i'll
hate it even MORE this time.. :onfire:

I find it kinda wierd, but I think DT is the only book series on the planet that it's readers dislike atleast one book, or hate the ending, but yet still salavate over the books. Even join book clubs for it. Wierd shit man

and yeh dude, The Name of the Wind was fuckn awesome!

[Jean]

Jean what are some good John Saul books that you'd recommend. I've picked up quite a few from yard sales and used bookstores around here, but I've only read The Blackstone Chronicles (which I really enjoyed). I've got Creature, Midnight Voices, The Unloved, and Sleepwalk.
there's no good Saul among what I've read. There's lousy, boring Saul (I would definitely put Creature and The Unloved in that category; there are more), and mediocre Saul. The latter I find oddly relaxing; I can read tons of him when in trouble or when my emotional sphere is engaged elsewhere (a trip abroad is my other usual Saul-reading situation), but I still need to follow printed text with my eyes because the process is akin to breathing. Those Sauls include:

Punish the Sinners
Comes the Blind Fury
Nathaniel
Hellfire
The God Project
Second Child

There also are books I haven't read yet; I always buy one or two second-hand Sauls when in Europe, so soon I'll have a whole collection (will definitely look for The Blackstone Chronicles now)... although I had to part with Guardian, which I bought in Norwich last June, because I became positive I would never reread it (way too boring); while I reread those on the list above regularly.

[Frunobulax]

I decided to read Mason & Dixon by Pynchon. I hope to finish it by the end of 30 days and move on to a simultaneous read of Blaze and that Eco book.

[MonteGss]

I'm only about 20 pages in but it rocks so far. I think you'll really like the first story!

I've read the first four stories! :thumbsup: Good stuff!
I'm actually liking his more than his dad's older ones...though I did just enjoy You Know They Got a Hell of a Band. :)

[Heather19]

Read I Am Legend, and loved it. I'm trying to finish reading the rest of the stories in the book, but to be honest, I'm not really enjoying any of them.

[The Lady of Shadows]

::swoon::

wasn't i am legend just amazing? what an incredible story.

[Heather19]

It surely was. I can't believe I waited so long to read it. It's probably been on my to read list for a couple of years now.

[LadyHitchhiker]

I am rereading the gunslinger... *sighs*

What a great book... what a great series.. I wish there was some kind of place on the internet where I could exchange ideas with other people who liked the books as much as I do... some place where I could leave a note and then they could leave a note later and so thusly converse about our opinions of this fine story...

Gan, i wish I could find a place like that!

:borg:

[William50]

Right now I am reading The Lord of The Rings series, and Poe. I am also starting Insomnia again. It seems to get better every time I read it.

[Brice]

Jean what are some good John Saul books that you'd recommend. I've picked up quite a few from yard sales and used bookstores around here, but I've only read The Blackstone Chronicles (which I really enjoyed). I've got Creature, Midnight Voices, The Unloved, and Sleepwalk.
there's no good Saul among what I've read. There's lousy, boring Saul (I would definitely put Creature and The Unloved in that category; there are more), and mediocre Saul. The latter I find oddly relaxing; I can read tons of him when in trouble or when my emotional sphere is engaged elsewhere (a trip abroad is my other usual Saul-reading situation), but I still need to follow printed text with my eyes because the process is akin to breathing. Those Sauls include:

Punish the Sinners
Comes the Blind Fury
Nathaniel
Hellfire
The God Project
Second Child

There also are books I haven't read yet; I always buy one or two second-hand Sauls when in Europe, so soon I'll have a whole collection (will definitely look for The Blackstone Chronicles now)... although I had to part with Guardian, which I bought in Norwich last June, because I became positive I would never reread it (way too boring); while I reread those on the list above regularly.

And, if you could meet Mr. Saul would you thank him for his bad books? "Mr. Saul...I want you to know I read every book of yours I can get my hands (paws) on many times. I look forward to each book you put out knowing at best it will be bland and mediocre. I expect nothing but boredom from your books and will you please keep writing them. Oh, and could you please NOT sign my book I'd hate for anyone to know I took the time to meet you. :lol: "

[Wuducynn]

I find it kinda wierd, but I think DT is the only book series on the planet that it's readers dislike atleast one book, or hate the ending, but yet still salavate over the books. Even join book clubs for it. Wierd shit man


I really know where you are coming from.

[Jean]

And, if you could meet Mr. Saul would you thank him for his bad books? "Mr. Saul...I want you to know I read every book of yours I can get my hands (paws) on many times. I look forward to each book you put out knowing at best it will be bland and mediocre. I expect nothing but boredom from your books and will you please keep writing them. Oh, and could you please NOT sign my book I'd hate for anyone to know I took the time to meet you. :lol: "
No. I would say, "thank you for the happy hours I spent with your books that really help me to relax - unlike most other books I read." I didn't use "bland" or "boring", by the way. I would never read a boring book. I don't know about signing - I've never had anything signed by anybody, just don't really understand the practice itself - but I would be happy to look at someone who, while producing indistinguishable characters and similar situations and recurrent plotlines and merely functional dialogue and barely passable writing, managed to keep the bear entertained and relaxed almost to the point of happinness. It's a rare talent, maybe of different nature than those Great Ones' (like Mr.King) talents, but surely appreciated by the bear.

[Brice]

Actually, I was just kidding around. I've read a few of Saul's earlier books and while I certainly wouldn't consider them great, they did entertain me.

[The Lady of Shadows]

I am rereading the gunslinger... *sighs*

What a great book... what a great series.. I wish there was some kind of place on the internet where I could exchange ideas with other people who liked the books as much as I do... some place where I could leave a note and then they could leave a note later and so thusly converse about our opinions of this fine story...

Gan, i wish I could find a place like that!

:borg:

i know, i know. i feel exactly the same way. if only. . . . ::sings, off-key, "somewhere over the rainbow, way up high, there's a land that i heard of, once in a lullabye"::

if you find that place, pm me and let me know where it is. okay?

:wtf:




And, if you could meet Mr. Saul would you thank him for his bad books? "Mr. Saul...I want you to know I read every book of yours I can get my hands (paws) on many times. I look forward to each book you put out knowing at best it will be bland and mediocre. I expect nothing but boredom from your books and will you please keep writing them. Oh, and could you please NOT sign my book I'd hate for anyone to know I took the time to meet you. :lol: "
No. I would say, "thank you for the happy hours I spent with your books that really help me to relax - unlike most other books I read." I didn't use "bland" or "boring", by the way. I would never read a boring book. I don't know about signing - I've never had anything signed by anybody, just don't really understand the practice itself - but I would be happy to look at someone who, while producing indistinguishable characters and similar situations and recurrent plotlines and merely functional dialogue and barely passable writing, managed to keep the bear entertained and relaxed almost to the point of happinness. It's a rare talent, maybe of different nature than those Great Ones' (like Mr.King) talents, but surely appreciated by the bear.

:lol:

[ladysai]

I find it kinda wierd, but I think DT is the only book series on the planet that it's readers dislike atleast one book, or hate the ending, but yet still salavate over the books. Even join book clubs for it. Wierd shit man


I really know where you are coming from.

Me, too.
I'm currently listening to Drawing of the Three, again.
(this will be something like the 10th time)
I never get tired of these books.
Except the last...I've made it through that one just the once.
Bleh.

[jhanic]

Rereading To Kill a Mockingbird for the Book Club.

John

[Wuducynn]

Except the last...I've made it through that one just the once.
Bleh.

Example of what he was talking about in action! :)

[aberrios75]

last 30 pages of The Dark Tower, can't believe I finally made it to the end.

[Daghain]

Just finished 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill and Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (amazing how much reading you can get done on a plane!) and am starting a reread of Firestarter.

[The Lady of Shadows]

last 30 pages of The Dark Tower, can't believe I finally made it to the end.

read slowly and enjoy my friend! you are soon to be a member of the inner circle. :D

[Rjeso]

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman

[The Lady of Shadows]

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman

beautiful and excellent taste in authors!

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk95/turtlesong/smilies/bowing.gif

[aberrios75]

last 30 pages of The Dark Tower, can't believe I finally made it to the end.

read slowly and enjoy my friend! you are soon to be a member of the inner circle. :D

Well I finished, had to go back and re-read the last few pages. Lets just say :panic:

[Rjeso]

I feel ya, dude.

[IWasSentWest]

congrats. first time i read the ending, it was at 4 in the morning. i woke up the next day and thought i had dreamed the whole thing...needless to say it was just as crazy

[Ruthful]

Not With A Bang But A Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline, by Theodore Dalrymple

Into the Devil's Den: How an FBI Informant Got Inside the Aryan Nations and a Special Agent Got him out Alive, by Dave Hall and Tym Burkey, with Katherine Ramsland

[razz]

in my senior english class "techniques of writing" we're reading a book. it really sucks. "Tears of a Tiger". it was so bad i actually took the time to write a review at the barnes & noble website.

if you're interested in reading my "not quite a rant" for some odd reason, click here.

[Ruthful]

It seems to be of the ghastly "young adult" genre. You mean to tell me that it's part of the syllabus for high school SENIORS?!

[razz]

yup

[The Lady of Shadows]

still reading the living dead. listening to anansi boys on my beloved ipod. ah, neil gaiman how do i love thee, let me count the ways. . . :wub:

[Daghain]

Actually, for the town he lives in, that's pretty sophisticated reading. And I can say that from experience.

No wonder you're bored off your ass in school, razz. They've really found the lowest common denominator there, haven't they?

And to be fair, Ruthful not *all* young adult fiction is ghastly. :D

[Rjeso]

Not all, no. I do remember mostly enjoying the Sabriel series a few years ago...

[Daghain]

Ooh, I was looking at that one in B&N the other day. Is it good? And, have you read the Eragon series? I'm eyeing that one as well. I have the first two in the Twilight series that I haven't gotten to yet, and I plan a reread of Lois Lowry's trilogy that starts with The Messenger. Yep, I'm an Ad. Lit. geek. :lol:

Like I need more books!

[IWasSentWest]

We are reading "the road" in my senior english class.

mccarthy writes so freakin wierd. i dont use grammar much when i type, but i expect it in my reading!

[razz]

i don't think I've heard of "The Road". is it any good?

[IWasSentWest]

eragon series is perty good, they are very very similar to the star wars series (but what fantasy book isnt?)...the guy was like 15 when he wrote the first one so its slightly childish but they get better...brisngr is on my table waiting to be read right now actually

[IWasSentWest]

the road is a post-apocalyptic story. the guy who wrote it also wrote no country for old men. it is ok so far, kinda blan

[Daghain]

I have a major hate on for Cormac McCarthy. I feel your pain.

[Ruthful]

I was on the subway the other day and I saw three women, just in my car, reading books by Stephanie Meyer. Then I saw a girl coming out of the library with a copy of one of her books. At first I thought it was a fantasy novel, judging by the cover, but then I found out it was about vampires!

Weird.

[Daghain]

You know that thing about girls and horses? It also applies to vampires. :lol:

[Rjeso]

Ooh, I was looking at that one in B&N the other day. Is it good? And, have you read the Eragon series? I'm eyeing that one as well. I have the first two in the Twilight series that I haven't gotten to yet, and I plan a reread of Lois Lowry's trilogy that starts with The Messenger. Yep, I'm an Ad. Lit. geek. :lol:

Like I need more books!

I do like it. It's obviously YA, but the story is still enjoyable. I've not read any of the other series you mentioned. I'm kinda staying away from Twilight on principle, haha.

[Daghain]

I said that about Harry Potter, but then had to read book 1 for an Ad. Lit. class and fell in love with it. That, and I have a major love of vampire stories. I recently picked up Fred Saberhagen's vampire series used online. I remember loving those at sixteen, we'll see how much has changed at forty-two. :o

[Ruthful]

You know that thing about girls and horses? It also applies to vampires. :lol:

LOL.

[IWasSentWest]

my teacher pretty much wishes he could suck McCarthy's...well there are ladies present. he actually enjoys reading him. i've already predicted the whole book, and it was hillarious bc he started yelling at me bc i got it right. he thought i was purposefully trying to ruin the class bc i had already read the book. i wanted to point and laugh at the book and say "you think id would read this ON MY OWN? HAHAHA"

i know im a prick sometimes, but jesus that book is ass

[Daghain]

So you're saying I'm not missing anything, then? :lol:

[razz]

that sounds like something i would do. i successfully predicted that the main character of "tears of a Tiger" (which i read somewhere that tigers don't have tear ducts, so i thought this was about a mutated tiger or genetics. Damn, i was way off!)
commits suicide
i probably don't need to use spoilers, since nobody will willingly read this, and if they do read it, they probably wouldn't care.
So the teacher was annoyed that i knew it. didn't say anythin tho.

[razz]

( figured i'd posts it here instead of the link)


Recently I was required to read this book (and I use the term "book" in the vaguest way possible) for a high school Senior writing class. The only logical explanation I can find from this is "what NOT to do in writing" It seems that by law, the only books we can read in school are boring, or horrible ones.
Tears of a Tiger is narrated through dialogue, letters, newspaper clippings, and essays. It revolves around a High school student named Andy whos best friend was killed in a car crash that was Andy's fault. Throughout the story Andy tries and constantly fails to deal with survivors guilt, wishing it was he who died instead of his friend.
The Story itself seems sloppy and sometimes incoherent. About 95% of the story is Dialogue, which is often confusing and unrealistic. It seems less like a style of writing, and more like a sad excuse for being unable to actually write anything else. Characters will rant on with nonsense or unrealistic descriptions, such as giving what is basically a two page oral report in response to a simple question. What's more, the dialogue is confusing, and it is at sometimes impossible to tell who is talking.
It's not all bad though. You really get to know the characters through what they say and write, though it's hard when you don't know who is saying what. the storyline, while personally uninteresting in this form would make an excellent novel if there were more than just dialogue.
anybody can think of dialogue, make up some fake news articles, and compile it, and if they did, writing wouldn't be an art, but a fad. While many people claimed that they "Could not put the book down", It took every ounce of my willpower to open the cover after the first time.
Overall, I could only recommend this to people who are so down with their own lives, that they need to see someone else's problems to feel good about themselves. Do not reread this. I wouldn't even recommend it to start with. Especially not for fun. Maybe to find yourself, but that could be seriously questioned. If you want to read about someone worse of than you, read Edgar Alan Poe, or The Dark Tower series. If you give this to your friends, they will never speak to you again, though there may be hired assassins after you.
i failed to mention why i recommended Great Gatsby. i was going to say something along the lines of "If you like this book, Your dull ass will LOVE this one!"

btw i actually posted this here because i wanted to check something from the link, it said it said ther was a page load error. so i just put this here. :D

[Daghain]

Yeah, I found GG a little dry, myself. :lol:

[razz]

you can't make me read it again. I'd let Jigsaw kill me first.

[IWasSentWest]

So you're saying I'm not missing anything, then? :lol:

i havent read the whole thing so i really dont wanna say that, but by the way things are looking...

[Ruthful]

I think you have to be a bit older, and disillusioned, to appreciate The Great Gatsby. Personally, I love the novel, although I must confess my ignorance at the time, because I thought it was a rip-off of The Sun Also Rises, which-as it turns out-was published the year before.

Even if you dislike it, there's so many interesting things in there, e.g. Meyer Wolfsheim owning The Swastika Holding Company, two years after Hitler was released from prison!

[Daghain]

Umm, I was about 36 when I read it, and I hated it.

Maybe in ten years I'll try again. :D

[Jean]

It seems less like a style of writing, and more like a sad excuse for being unable to actually write anything else.
very, very well said; I didn't read the book in question, but it applies to about 90 percent 20/21st century literature appreciated by critics (as opposed to readers) that I've read

[Empath of the White]

A Game of Thrones by GRRM. Best fantasy I've ever read, next to the Tower novels.

[fernandito]

Is this your first time reading the series, Empath?

[ladykatherine]

I think you have to be a bit older, and disillusioned, to appreciate The Great Gatsby. Personally, I love the novel, although I must confess my ignorance at the time, because I thought it was a rip-off of The Sun Also Rises, which-as it turns out-was published the year before.

Even if you dislike it, there's so many interesting things in there, e.g. Meyer Wolfsheim owning The Swastika Holding Company, two years after Hitler was released from prison!

Though I can't pretend to quite understand the ending to Great Gasby, I really enjoyed it. I dont know if it was because it was full of confusion among the main characters and their emotions/intentions or what. But I definitely liked it enough to want to go back and read it again sometime and try to make sense of it. And I don't neccessarily agree with how old you have to be--I was a junior in high school when I first read it, and though I'm obviously still baffled, doesn't mean I didn't get anything out of it (now a sophmore in college)!!

:rose:LadyK

[ladykatherine]

Right now I'm being crazy and reading three books (gasp, i know!):

Untamed (House of Night series) --P.C. and Kirsten Cast (yay vampires!)
Regeneration --Pat Barker (for Postwar Brit Lit...it's pretty good actually)
Wizard and Glass --Stephen King (HURRY! Before I get a late charge! I really should renew this...hmmm....)

I know two of these are kinda obscure books, but has anyone heard of them? :ninja:

[Arthur Heath]

Just cracked Che Guevara's The Motorcycle Diaries last night.

[IWasSentWest]

I think you have to be a bit older, and disillusioned, to appreciate The Great Gatsby. Personally, I love the novel, although I must confess my ignorance at the time, because I thought it was a rip-off of The Sun Also Rises, which-as it turns out-was published the year before.

Even if you dislike it, there's so many interesting things in there, e.g. Meyer Wolfsheim owning The Swastika Holding Company, two years after Hitler was released from prison!

Though I can't pretend to quite understand the ending to Great Gasby, I really enjoyed it. I dont know if it was because it was full of confusion among the main characters and their emotions/intentions or what. But I definitely liked it enough to want to go back and read it again sometime and try to make sense of it. And I don't neccessarily agree with how old you have to be--I was a junior in high school when I first read it, and though I'm obviously still baffled, doesn't mean I didn't get anything out of it (now a sophmore in college)!!

:rose:LadyK

i liked TGG more than i thought i would. we had to read it in 11th grade english, and i found it quite enjoyable at the time. i remember chapter 7 the most...

[razz]

It seems less like a style of writing, and more like a sad excuse for being unable to actually write anything else.
very, very well said; I didn't read the book in question, but it applies to about 90 percent 20/21st century literature appreciated by critics (as opposed to readers) that I've read
Thanks, Jean, but keep in mind that what i said might actually be bullsihit, and it's a good book. i don't think it is though. I just found out otday that we're reading the sequel next. Oh joy.

[The Lady of Shadows]

so basically, your teacher is trying to kill you? :unsure: :scared:

[razz]

indeed. But i have a plan. and a boombox. and a Dark Tower audiobook cd.
:evil:

[ladykatherine]

:lol:
hehehehe. i love the way you think razz.

[iamjacksgoat]

I'm currently reading Crime and Punishment. It's an amazing book, but I felt like it should have ended 100 pages ago... :cry: And it doesn't help that I'm reading it on a time limit, for school.

[fernandito]

About to wrap up Speaker For The Dead - I'll be following it up with The Man In The High Castle and Neverwhere.

[Rjeso]

Neverwhere is awesome.

[ladykatherine]

Aw I've heard neverwhere is good!
I think I'll go look it up.
::googles::
:rock:

[Jean]

I'm currently reading Crime and Punishment. It's an amazing book, but I felt like it should have ended 100 pages ago... :cry: It's because you're reading it in translation. The original version is so much better, and the question "why the fuck is it so long?" just doesn't arise, the text is too good for that. (let alone that it is much shorter than most other Dostoyevsky http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/bear_wink-1.gif)

[Woofer]

The Hellbound Heart
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Clockwork Orange


I like to read. http://psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/whistle.gif

[Brice]

I too am (re)reading A Clockwork Orange, Woofer...along with a couple other Burgess books.

[Woofer]

I am ashamed to say I've read no other Burgess novels since grad school. Hey, I was poor! I was in grad school! I worked 3 jobs and was even selling plasma and cashing in aluminum cans. I read library books almost exclusively. I am now starting to buy books again.

[Brice]

Hey, I hadn't read any other Burgess books till just now. Our local library had a booksale about a month or so ago and I guess noone was checking them out because aside from the normal library markings they look pristine.

[fernandito]

Brice - have you read The Wanting Seed by Burgess?

[Brice]

No, not yet. Aside from ACO I've never read anything else by him. I am now about a hundred or so pages into The Pianoplayers and am about to start another. I forget the title though.

[Wuducynn]

Wizard and Glass --Stephen King (HURRY! Before I get a late charge! I really should renew this...hmmm....)

Do you have any used bookstores near you? You should just buy it. It's important to have the whole series readily available incase of a sudden Dark Tower fiending at 2am.

[fernandito]

No, not yet. Aside from ACO I've never read anything else by him. I am now about a hundred or so pages into The Pianoplayers and am about to start another. I forget the title though.

Google TWC when you get a chance, I've read the plot overview and it looks really interesting. I've been wanting to pick that one up for a while now, but I keep forgetting/putting it off whenever I stop by a bookstore :doh:

[The Lady of Shadows]

the only thing better than reading neverwhere is listening to the audiobook.
neil gaiman = :wub:

[Jean]

Last Sunday I finished the motherfucking Blaze.

As I said before, I read the last chapters on subway - hoping that for the sake of decorum I will be able not to bawl aloud. Fat chance.

I was meeting a former student on that day, she came from Moscow for three days and we were going to have coffee together. When I appeared from the subway train with the book in my paw, she asked me in a very anxious tone if I had a cold, flu, something.

"No," I had to confess, wiping big ursine tears with a big checkered handkerchief, "it's this damned book!"

Will finish my Mary Higgins Clark now... what a consolation, really... and then Harper Lee for the club! (I have become so soft over the years, I fully expect to shed big ursine tears over Mockingbird, too... but they'll be different tears, all hope and faith and joy despite all)

[The Lady of Shadows]

okay, i'm definitely going to have to reread blaze i guess. :unsure:

[ladysai]

(I have become so soft over the years, I fully expect to shed big ursine tears over Mockingbird, too... but they'll be different tears, all hope and faith and joy despite all)

Soft?
No, dear bear...those tears are not the signs of softness, but of a heart that embraces the things that truly move him and fill him with emotion often overfilling said heart...thus the leaking of tears.
;)
Soft? The bear we know would never become soft, that's ridiculous.
:fairy:

[Jean]

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[ladykatherine]

Wizard and Glass --Stephen King (HURRY! Before I get a late charge! I really should renew this...hmmm....)

Do you have any used bookstores near you? You should just buy it. It's important to have the whole series readily available incase of a sudden Dark Tower fiending at 2am.

Hahaha technically I do. Apparently my mom has been making me a mini-Stephen King collection whenever she finds things on sale :lol: I think she's just excited because she basically owns all of his books and decided I needed my own copies (plus, she didn't like me taking her books :doh:) I still owe her The Stand back.....

And I guess I'm so cool that everytime I go back home, I forget them :scared: Shocking, I know.

[The Lady of Shadows]

Wizard and Glass --Stephen King (HURRY! Before I get a late charge! I really should renew this...hmmm....)

Do you have any used bookstores near you? You should just buy it. It's important to have the whole series readily available incase of a sudden Dark Tower fiending at 2am.

Hahaha technically I do. Apparently my mom has been making me a mini-Stephen King collection whenever she finds things on sale :lol: I think she's just excited because she basically owns all of his books and decided I needed my own copies (plus, she didn't like me taking her books :doh:) I still owe her The Stand back.....

And I guess I'm so cool that everytime I go back home, I forget them :scared: Shocking, I know.

1. gee, i wonder why not? :lol:
2. "forget them" i like that. :ninja: come on, fess up. we all know the truth. :D

[Arthur Heath]

the only thing better than reading neverwhere is listening to the audiobook.
neil gaiman = :wub:

Neverwhere was the doorway to my Gaiman world. Loved the man since.

[Sam]

Working on "The Year of Living Biblically" by A. J. Jacobs and just started Dan Simmons' "Hyperion".

[ksmithcats]

Recently finished the Twilight series. I thought they were fantastic. My 13 year old is currently on the third one (Eclipse)

[Unfound One]

Love love love Twilight. :thumbsup:
Movie comes out in 29 days! :lol:

[fernandito]

Neverwhere was the doorway to my Gaiman world. Loved the man since.

Have you read The Sandman yet?

:fairy:

[Ruthful]

Still reading The Bell Jar and Sexless in the City, as well as this,

Amazon.com: Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline: Theodore Dalrymple: Books

Just started reading The Camp of the Saints, and this,

http://www.intothedevilsden.com/

I'm about halfway through "Until Proven Innocent," a great account of the persecution of the Duke lacrosse team by my ex-professor, K.C. Johnson.

[Daghain]

The Bell Jar. EXCELLENT book. Let me know what you think of it. :D

[Ruthful]

I'm actually rereading it. It's funny, I had an A.P. lit. teacher in high school-who kind of looked like Harry Connick Jr. when he played one of those demented, serial killer roles-who gave seniors a choice between that novel and The Catcher in the Rye. I think I was the only male in the classroom who chose to read the former.

[Daghain]

I recently read The Bell Jar for the first time and loved it. :D

[ladykatherine]

Wizard and Glass --Stephen King (HURRY! Before I get a late charge! I really should renew this...hmmm....)

Do you have any used bookstores near you? You should just buy it. It's important to have the whole series readily available incase of a sudden Dark Tower fiending at 2am.

Hahaha technically I do. Apparently my mom has been making me a mini-Stephen King collection whenever she finds things on sale :lol: I think she's just excited because she basically owns all of his books and decided I needed my own copies (plus, she didn't like me taking her books :doh:) I still owe her The Stand back.....

And I guess I'm so cool that everytime I go back home, I forget them :scared: Shocking, I know.

1. gee, i wonder why not? :lol:
2. "forget them" i like that. :ninja: come on, fess up. we all know the truth. :D

:lol: hey im just that cool..............right? :innocent:
and i have no idea what you're talking about. None at all. :ninja:
*ahem*

[Jean]

The Bell Jar. EXCELLENT book. Let me know what you think of it. :D
I love it a lot, and reread it often.

Currently [re]reading: To Kill a Mockingbird. What a bliss. One of the best books ever.

[Daghain]

Now there's one I haven't read in a long time. Good book!

[CRinVA]

Listening to Twilight

Just finished 4th book in Ropbert Jordan's Wheel of Time series!

[atrum_unum]

i am currently reading a wonderful book called The Science of Stephen King by Lois H. Gresh and Robert Weinberg. i would highly suggest it to any of you who are into, or have a mind for, physics. Yes, it discusses alternate worlds (pertaining to the Dark Tower series of course as well as The Myst) along with time travel and genetics. Excellent read!

[Cuthbert Heath]

I just started Liseys Story im about 60 pages in and im not feelin it at all i dont know if its because its the first book ive started since finishing the dark tower series but has anyone else read this maybe it gets better but it kinda reminds me of geralds game which i couldnt get through either...

[jayson]

CH - you are definitely not the only one to not be able to get into Lisey's Story. Some people here love it, some don't (to say the least). I am in the latter group. I finished it, but I hated it.

[Jean]

ditto

[John_and_Yoko]

Just finished "The Mist."

Will probably read "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" and "The Jaunt" tomorrow.

[The Lady of Shadows]

reading:

to kill a mockingbird (and you all should be too so you can join the official tdt.com bookclub! :D )
the living dead
house of leaves (and yes, i still don't get it. i have restarted it three times)


listening to:

dear american airlines
psuedopod
hall of mirrors (mike bennett podcast)

[gsvec]

reading:

to kill a mockingbird (and you all should be too so you can join the official tdt.com bookclub! :D )
the living dead
house of leaves (and yes, i still don't get it. i have restarted it three times)

listening to:

dear american airlines
psuedopod
hall of mirrors (mike bennett podcast)

What? No Moby Dick? :wtf:

[The Lady of Shadows]

pssssst. gretchen?

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk95/turtlesong/smilies/grrrrrrrrr.gif

:D

[gsvec]

umm....turtlesong?
Gotcha! http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e73/gsvec/Smilies/happy111.gif

[The Lady of Shadows]

:lol:

[ladykatherine]

Ooo The House of Leaves?
I've been wanting to read that. In high school my teacher printed out pages from it as examples of modern literary devices or whatnot, and apparently there was a kind of 'key' to read it, like skipping everyother word or something. it was really kinda horrifying though once you figured it out.

[Daghain]

I took one look at that book at B&N and went "uh-uh, NO WAY."

It's too schizophrenic for me. :)

[ladykatherine]

:lol:
i hear ya. but i like confusion, so i may actually invest some time in it!

[agrabin]

I've just finished reading 'To Ride Hell's Chasm' by Janny Wurts (Don Maitz's wife). Her use of words in descriptive text is just stunning and the story itself is gripping and beautifully spun. If you've nothing lined up and you like fantasy adventure, give it a go -- you won't be disappointed.

[Brice]

No, not yet. Aside from ACO I've never read anything else by him. I am now about a hundred or so pages into The Pianoplayers and am about to start another. I forget the title though.

Google TWC when you get a chance, I've read the plot overview and it looks really interesting. I've been wanting to pick that one up for a while now, but I keep forgetting/putting it off whenever I stop by a bookstore :doh:

I just did. It looks damn good. You could always order it online?


Oh, and House Of Leaves is excellent

[fernandito]

Yeah, you can order it through amazon. It's pretty cheap, too.

[Heather19]

Brice, how was Jamaica Inn?

[John_and_Yoko]

Started reading Bag of Bones yesterday. Not much has happened yet, but I'm already enjoying it, and can tell it's going to be good! :D

Plus I can really identify with Mike Noonan....

[jhanic]

Bag of Bones is one my favorite King novels.

John

[The Lady of Shadows]

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[John_and_Yoko]

Bag of Bones is one my favorite King novels.

John

I have a feeling it's going to be one of mine, too. :D

[Brice]

Brice, how was Jamaica Inn?

I'm not finished with it yet. I jump back and forth between books.

[Heather19]

oh ok, and here I thought you had forgot about me

[gsvec]

Currently reading Just After Sunset. :D Will be To Kill A Mockingbird while I'm on the beach!!

[Jean]

last night finished (for the billionth time) the Mockingbird... for the billionth time was too overwhelmed to read anything that could be exciting now, so took the last unread Saul I had - Black Creek Crossing. So far it's exactly like any other Saul, which is totally satisfying.

[batsker]

I'm currently reading "Die verlorene Ehre der Kathrina Blum" and also going through all the Fleming 007 books.

[Jean]

I'm currently reading "Die verlorene Ehre der Kathrina Blum"
Did you already see the Fassbinder movie? If not, highly recommended.

[Brice]

oh ok, and here I thought you had forgot about me

I had not. I have a tendency though to read as many as twenty or so books at once though.

[fernandito]

Wow, how many eyeballs do you have?!

[The Lady of Shadows]

well, he IS cthulhu! :doh:

:lol:

[Brice]

:rofl: Well, I don't mean literally at once, but I jump back and forth between books.

[Ruthful]

Im currently reading:

The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

A book on Richard "The Ice Man" Kuklinski...what a crazy guy!

Philip Carlo is an amazing writer.

I just read his book on the former head of the Luchese crime family, which was very interesting.

He has this vivid way of describing events and emotions that really shocks you.

[batsker]

I'm currently reading "Die verlorene Ehre der Kathrina Blum"
Did you already see the Fassbinder movie? If not, highly recommended.

Gonna watch it this weekend. We are discussing it in class next week. Die Ehe der Maria Braun was pretty good, I thought.

[jayson]

Im currently reading:

The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

A book on Richard "The Ice Man" Kuklinski...what a crazy guy!

Sometime last year I remember watching a series of tv interviews with Kuklinski (on A&E possibly?). That guy was terrifying.

[Darkthoughts]

I'm going to have to give up on Fool's Errand if it doesn't pick up in the next chapter...I hate doing that, but I can't carry on with the boredom ><