Author Topic: What are you reading right now? (Read 47070 times)

Sancer · « **Reply #50 on:** December 24, 2008, 12:58:30 am »

Dow these mean streets by piri thomas

roukan · « **Reply #51 on:** December 24, 2008, 02:30:56 am »

Batman: Inferno by Alex Irvine

Saw it in Barnes and Noble and it looked interesting so I picked it up. It was a nice change to see Batman written in novel form, and it's fairly well done with POVs between Bruce, Joker and this arsonist, created by the author, named Enfer.

Aurora · « **Reply #52 on:** December 27, 2008, 08:39:55 am »

the hitch-hikers guide to the galexy,
a trilogy in five parts:
book three: so long and thanks for all the fish: chapter eleven

by Douglas Adams

RedneckFur · « **Reply #53 on:** December 28, 2008, 07:13:02 pm »

Some stuff by Stephen King, and some stuff by Thomas Hunter. Also considering reading Farenheit 451 again.

Arbutus · « **Reply #54 on:** December 28, 2008, 07:28:31 pm »

Fahrenheit 451 is such a good book.

I just reread Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut... I think the next book I read is going to be The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith.

Sskessa · « **Reply #55 on:** December 28, 2008, 10:05:52 pm »

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I just reread Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

It's my favorite by him. I like it better than Cat's Cradle.

Now reading: Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Also: Buddha, a graphic novel by Osamu Tezuka
I can read two at once only if one is a comic. Otherwise, no.

Relaxing Dragon · « **Reply #56 on:** December 29, 2008, 01:34:56 am »

Taking a brief pause on Let The Right On In (note: it's fabulous! Read it if you can) to dive into a book I got for Christmas: I'm a Lebowski, you're a Lebowski.

It's all about The Big Lebowski

NeoFur · « **Reply #57 on:** December 29, 2008, 01:44:20 am »

I need to finish, Michael Crichton's Prey

Nicholai · « **Reply #58 on:** December 29, 2008, 03:16:23 am »

1984 By George Orwell. Simply, my favorite book.

Arbutus · « **Reply #59 on:** December 29, 2008, 03:24:28 am »

Quote from: Sskessa on December 28, 2008, 10:05:52 pm

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I just reread Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
It's my favorite by him. I like it better than Cat's Cradle.

Same here, I couldn't get into Cat's Cradle that much. Actually, Slaughterhouse-Five was the only book of his I enjoyed, really... I guess I'm just not a fan, but I can't figure out why not. Also, is Venus in Furs good?

Also also, um, I deleted your double post. Consider this your official mod notification.

Edward Vulpes · « **Reply #60 on:** December 29, 2008, 08:04:31 am »

Just finished: Science Fair by Dave Barry and another author whose name escapes me at the moment.

Midway Through: The Gunslinger: Part I of The Dark Tower by Stephen King

About to Start: House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones

To be read in the not-too-distant future: Lotsa chemical papers

Kinshi · « **Reply #61 on:** December 29, 2008, 08:36:48 am »

the last 20 pages of the hitchhikers guide tot the galaxy, mostly harmless: part5 in a trilogy of 5! (i wonder how it's gonna end!) *explodes with anticipation*

Sskessa · « **Reply #62 on:** December 29, 2008, 02:11:32 pm »

Quote from: Arbutus on December 29, 2008, 03:24:28 am

Quote from: Sskessa on December 28, 2008, 10:05:52 pm
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I just reread Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
It's my favorite by him. I like it better than Cat's Cradle.
Same here, I couldn't get into Cat's Cradle that much. Actually, Slaughterhouse-Five was the only book of his I enjoyed, really... I guess I'm just not a fan, but I can't figure out why not. Also, is Venus in Furs good?

Kurt Vonnegut has neat ideas, but I think his characters are sorta flat. And sometimes it feels like he's trying to jam his ideas down your esophagus...but I still like him.

Actually, I'm really enjoying Venus in Furs. It's good in a different way than most "Great Books." The book is 90% the two main characters talking about their philosophies of love or acting them out. Sacher-Masoch doesn't write as smoothly and isn't as technically skilled as others, but there's a raw honesty in it that makes the characters come alive.
Just for comparison, I like it better than "Lady Chatterly's Lover," if you've read that one.

Aurora · « **Reply #63 on:** December 30, 2008, 09:56:18 am »

i'm also trying to finish
Bill Bryson's: a short history of nearly everything

it's fantastic. all the things i wanted to know about how the universe works and how it was agonisingly discovered step by step

Xester · « **Reply #64 on:** January 03, 2009, 11:42:42 pm »

Im about halfway through the final book in the twilight. The series is AWESOME, as theres a good bit of romance in each novel, but at the same time a good chunk of action (usually at the end). It took me about 3 weeks to read the first 3 books, (im a fast reader) and it would have took me 2 but i had to wait a week to get the third one.

promagnum · « **Reply #65 on:** January 04, 2009, 05:09:58 am »

http://www.elainemariealphin.com/Alphin_Simon_Says.html

Made me cry like a little girl.

Tommy Fox Stone · « **Reply #66 on:** January 05, 2009, 02:05:57 pm »

I'm reading The Case of the Missing H-Bomb. and yes this is a true story, on the night of 2/5/58 the US Air Force lost a Hydrogen bomb off the coast of Savannah Georgia and is still missing too this day...

Motion · « **Reply #67 on:** January 05, 2009, 02:14:56 pm »

I'm probably going to read The God Delusion or The End of Faith next, i'll see what one I can get sooner thru my library, I'm leaning towards Sam Harris' book.

PooKa_the_Corgi · « **Reply #68 on:** January 05, 2009, 06:20:39 pm »

The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul

its good and really messed up so far.

Alsek · « **Reply #69 on:** January 06, 2009, 03:36:37 pm »

Just finished, "Our Town," the play by thornton wilder.... Didn't like it much, though it had an interesting theme.

Now on the fourth chapter of "Guliver's Travels," by Jonathan Swift. This one i am actualy enjoying.

Also... On the note of Jonathan Swift... I just read, "A Modest Proposal,"

............

Lol. Awesome satire... But it was... Morbid...

So many school books to read, so soon...

roukan · « **Reply #70 on:** January 08, 2009, 08:50:03 am »

Finished the Batman story...now reading two:

The Essential Iron Man Volume 1 (a collection of a bunch of the original Iron Man comics)
and The Warcraft Archives by Richard A. Knaak

Kayle · « **Reply #71 on:** January 08, 2009, 01:25:52 pm »

I just finished "The Long Walk" by Stephen King. (writing as Richard Bachman.) It was weird, to say the least, but I really liked it. It was pretty sad, too, at the end.

Morroke · « **Reply #72 on:** January 08, 2009, 04:55:13 pm »

Rise of the Horde, by like Christie Goldman I think...

Epsy · « **Reply #73 on:** January 08, 2009, 08:52:20 pm »

The Wee Free Men (A story of Discworld) by Terry Pratchett

MathieuF0X · « **Reply #74 on:** January 08, 2009, 10:19:12 pm »

The Sight by David Clement-Davies

It's basically the life of a wolf pack and involves their own "bible references." It's quite an interesting book.