What Book Are You Currently Reading?

[Hairbautt]

Resident Evil: City of the Dead by S.D. Perry
I'm already done with the Resident Evil series :nuke: , which was very good, but for the love of god finish the series! :crying:

Currently reading: Star Wars Medstar I: Battle Surgeons by Michael Reaves & Steve Perry (Perry is back! :) ) & also The Awakening by Kate Chopin ( :wacko: ).

[cpt_azad]

The Awakening, now that's a good book IMO.

[silent h3ro]

The Awakening, now that's a good book IMO.The Awakening? (http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/055321330X/qid=1104685072/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3_3/701-7496284-0789158) :blink:

[Everose]

'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' by Mitch Albom


From Publishers Weekly:
"At the time of his death, Eddie was an old man with a barrel chest and a torso as squat as a soup can," writes Albom, author of the bestselling phenomenon Tuesdays with Morrie, in a brief first novel that is going to make a huge impact on many hearts and minds. Wearing a work shirt with a patch on the chest that reads "Eddie" over "Maintenance," limping around with a cane thanks to an old war injury, Eddie was the kind of guy everybody, including Eddie himself, tended to write off as one of life's minor characters, a gruff bit of background color. He spent most of his life maintaining the rides at Ruby Pier, a seaside amusement park, greasing tracks and tightening bolts and listening for strange sounds, "keeping them safe." The children who visited the pier were drawn to Eddie "like cold hands to a fire." Yet Eddie believed that he lived a "nothing" life-gone nowhere he "wasn't shipped to with a rifle," doing work that "required no more brains than washing a dish." On his 83rd birthday, however, Eddie dies trying to save a little girl. He wakes up in heaven, where a succession of five people are waiting to show him the true meaning and value of his life. One by one, these mostly unexpected characters remind him that we all live in a vast web of interconnection with other lives; that all our stories overlap; that acts of sacrifice seemingly small or fruitless do affect others; and that loyalty and love matter to a degree we can never fathom. Simply told, sentimental and profoundly true, this is a contemporary American fable that will be cherished by a vast readership. Bringing into the spotlight the anonymous Eddies of the world, the men and women who get lost in our cultural obsession with fame and fortune, this slim tale, like Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, reminds us of what really matters here on earth, of what our lives are given to us for.

[Gripper]

Dark Winter by Andy McNabb

[Biggles]

The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry

I wasn't sure I would like it but it has made me laugh out loud. Not many writers can do that.

[Rat Faced]

Colours in the Steel - K.J. Parker

[{I}{K}{E}]

Dan Brown - Digital Fortress, (aka Het juvenalis dilemma <dutch title> )

[Peerzy]

Playboy :01:

[TheDave]

just read the first 5 chapters of Yann Martel - Life of Pi

dont know why of is in italics :blink:

[Cheese]

just read the first 5 chapters of Yann Martel - Life of Pi

dont know why of is in italics :blink:


Good book.

I have to read The Iliad and Heart of Darkness for next week.

Though for next weeks lecture on The Iliad we get to watch Troy. :01:

[Snee]

Lucifer's Dragon by Jon Courtenay Grimwood

So far it's just like reading another gibson novel, both in tone and subject.
The plot is his own though, so that's all right, and as I like Neuromancer and the rest, I quite like this.

[dsa16]

Oedipus The King, this sick mo fo has sex with his mom

[{I}{K}{E}]

Dan Brown - Digital Fortress, (aka Het juvenalis dilemma <dutch title> )

Great book. Cant stop reading :01:

[uNz[i]]

Currently halfway through Colditz - The definitive history by Henry Chancellor.

Apparently, it's "Based on the Acclaimed Channel Four Series"

[Unikum]

Tupac : resurrection 1971-1996

[Lilmiss]

I have just this minute finished, A series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snickett.

The triolgy included;

The bad beginning
The reptile room
The wide window


Although it obviously written for teenagers, I adore the style he writes in. Quite patronising if it was intended for adults, I guess, but amusing all the same. I'm sure my 14yr old brother will love these books as much as me.

I have to get hold of The Miserable Mill. :w00t:

[Lilmiss]

Now half way through The Miserable Mill.

Went to the local libary this morning. :shifty:


Edit; Finished.
Next up is; The Austere Academy.

[Gemby!]

Just finished reading 'To kill a mockingbird' by Harper Lee

V. good actually - cried a few times too

Next book I am gonna read will either be Donna Tartt's the secret history OR Ian McEwan's Atonement - i aint sure which one i want to start

[Cheese]

The Oresteia - Aeschylus

The Penguin Book of English Verse - Paul Keegan, Ed.

Both for uni unfortunately, can't remember the last time I read a book for pleasure. :(

[DarthInsinuate]

Jack Kerouac - On The Road

because Tim Wheeler and Andy Sturmer told me to :dry:

[Tormentor]

RoadSense for Drivers: BC's Safe Driving Guide (not by choice) :(

[Cheese]

Macbeth.

Read this for GCSE, so it should be interesting to look at it again at degree level.

[Peerzy]

Macbeth.

Read this for GCSE, so it should be interesting to look at it again at degree level.


I did it for GCSE, had to watch a dodgy version of it on video as well, it was by Playboy Products, Heigh Heffner was a p[roducer and the witches were old and very naked. Also had a full frontal of a boy like 10 years old :sick:

[Cheese]

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Heart of Darkness

[Gemby!]

Ian McEwan - atonement

[bigboab]

CASH - by the editors of Rolling Stone. :)

[Cheese]

Paradise Lost
The Penguin Book of English Verse

[Snee]

Prelude to Dune: House Harkonnen

[DanB]

Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden

[Cheese]

Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden

Good book?

[Cheese]

Stupid White Men - Michael Moore.

[DanB]

Good book?


Yes, its quite interesting when you get into it :D



I got The Da Vinci Code in the post today so thats my next one after this

[DanB]

I got The Da Vinci Code in the post today so thats my next one after this


Finished it last night, cracking book :01:


I'm now reading Cracking the Da Vinci Code by Simon Cox

[Gemby!]

Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

quite good and almost finished it - apparently the ending is real sad .... will find out soon enough :)

[ulrick]

Right Now it's Airframe form Micheal Crichton ** very average book so far.

My last Three book :

The Incident with the Dog in the Nightime *** Great Read
Fight Club **** Powerful book
Survivor ***** WOW

[Harsh!]

Just started John Grishams "The Juror"..
good book so far, but so are most of this authors...

[Guillaume]

Arthur C. Clarke/Stephen Baxter - Time's eye.

[BoB!1!]

i'm currently reading "Shrike" by Joe donnelly

[pusher]

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
then it's off to...
How To Lose Friends and Alienate People - Toby Young

[DarthInsinuate]

Batman - No Man's Land

there's been some great writing by Bob Gale so far, including some classic, 'who's that bat-like figure in the shadows?' moments

[Snee]

Market Forces by Richard Morgan.

It combines a Player Piano-type dystopia with roadwarrior-type driving. So far it's fairly interesting.

[MagicNakor]

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Again. I don't know how many times I've read it now. ;)

:shuriken:

[dano99]

I'm reading James Glass' Empress of light. After his first book 'Shanji. A good fantasy. I can't wait to get my hands on his third book 'Creator' that is just out.

[uNz[i]]

As usual, I'm about a year behind the times...

A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett.

[Guillaume]

Frank Miller's "Sin city".

[Lilmiss]

']A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett.


Hoorahz, I'm reading that.

still. :blushing:

[Gripper]

obsidian butterfly by laurell k hamilton

[yonki]

Just finished the shadow of the wind, by carlos ruiz zafon. great book i must say

[Gripper]

Vampyrrhic Rites by Simon Clark

[uNz[i]]

Well, A Hatfull of Sky was feckin' brilliant. :)

Just started on Monstrous Regiment, also by Terry Pratchett.

[Gripper]

Killer Instimct by Zoe Sharpe

[Guillaume]

Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter "Sunstorm"

I'll read the "Hitchhiker's guide" series afterwards.

[manker]

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. I took it away on the weekend and couldn't put it down.

Altho' more fantastical, I found it a better read than The Da Vinci Code.

[JPaul]

Just finished Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything.

Just Started Ben Elton - Popcorn.

Got it in the Oxfam Bookshop in Glasgow and I quite liked Stark and Gridlock (I think it was called) so I thought I would give it a bash.

[iamtheoneandonlyone]

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

[SurfNirvana]

Jsut finsihed D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, EM Forsters ASpects of a Novel, and im kinda reading this poker book

[uNz[i]]

Today, after a 2 year wait, one of my lecturers finally remembered to return my copy of Do androids dream of electric sheep? by Philip K Dick.
Thats the last time he gets a lend of any of my books... :dry:

So that's what I'm reading now...

[MCHeshPants420]

']Today, after a 2 year wait, one of my lecturers finally remembered to return my copy of Do androids dream of electric sheep? by Philip K Dick.
Thats the last time he gets a lend of any of my books... :dry:

So that's what I'm reading now...

Damn, my sister had that when I went to see her this past weekend and I forgot to steal it. I have wanted to read that for a few years now...

Current reading: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

[uNz[i]]

Damn, my sister had that when I went to see her this past weekend and I forgot to steal it. I have wanted to read that for a few years now...

Current reading: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Yeah, it's definitely worth snagging when your sister's back is turned.
It's a good gritty read and every bit as good as Bladerunner, the movie it spawned.

My g/f went to the library today, and for some reason she thought I'd like to read Evil genius by Catherine Jinks.




At seven, Cadel Piggot was hacking into computer networks.
At eight, he was orchestrating traffic jams.
At twelve, he was sabotaging construction sites.
Now, at fourteen, he's studying for his world domination degree.

The trouble is, he's finding it hard to live up to his father's expectations.

Evil genius explores the fine line between good and evil in a strange world of manipulation and subterfuge.

So that's next on my reading list.
Can't imagine why she thought I'd be interested in such a book though. :shifty:

[manker]

Just finished Deception Point By Dan Brown.

Another book of his that is almost impossible to put down. I found this one more predictable than the last two of his I read, still a damn good read tho'.

Next on the agenda is Digital Fortress, the last book of his that I own. Unfortunately I have to wait until the missus finishes it :dry:

[scottfree]

I'm reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson... for the third time. Great book!

[MagicNakor]

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. Again. ;)

:shuriken:

[hal0]

How Few Remain By Turtledove, and Hearts In Atlantis by King.

[JPaul]

Notes from a Big Coutry - Bill Bryson again.

On the strength of the previous and a liking for the writing style. So far I have laughed out loud a couple of times, which is rare for me / books.

I may post some select sentences here, or there. For your laughical a mews meant.

[sArA]

Night Watch Terry Pratchett....nice light bedtime reading...

At the moment, apart from reading this forum, I am currently reading...

'Implementing the EFQM excellence model in a local Authority' by George, Cooper and Douglas...

:sick:

[worldpease]

The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
and the next 1s the dark tower V and VI and VII
Im currently reading 'The Da Vinci Code' too,
I do it at work and I might add that it certanly is an exelent way
to kill time... by now Im on the part where Sophie delivers "the message"
to Mr. Langdon.
As you might know, the movie is under way, so I thought it would be
interesting reading a book before its turned into amovie.

...I was going to ask something next,
but just asking would be out of topic. :) .

[erRor67]

right now.... The Color Purple

[manker]

Notes from a Big Coutry - Bill Bryson again.Had he written a novel with the same title before. That could cause confusion.


I'm reading Blue Horizon by Wilbur Smith, seems a bit slower than others of his but it'll probably pick up in a bit. Not got to the swashbuckling pirateering part yet.

Just finished Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. Very similar to his other books, a thoroughly enjoyable read.

[MCHeshPants420]

The Old Man And The Sea - Ernest Hemingway

[Doba]

I haven't been reading lately. I go in spurts where I will read 4 or 5 books in a row and then take a break. I'm in one of those breaks right now. I've got a bunch of books to read too.

I think I'll pick up Neil Gaiman - Good Omens.

[MCHeshPants420]

Neil Gaiman - Good Omens.


Good book.


Me: Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley.

[maebach]

the horse and his boy -cs lewis (trying to read the series)

[Gemby!]

i just finished reading 'the lovely bones' by Alice sebold :)

i liked it

[lcrt]

once and the future king, a true classic :)

[Hairbautt]

Star Wars Trilogy - George Lucas, Donald Glut & James Kahn.

[losingstreak]

I just finished reading Cats Cradle [Vonnegut] for the 3rd time. Amazing book.

[TheNobleEU]

Haven't posted in a while...

Recently Finished:

_Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer_ by Victor Cherkashin.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465009689/qid=1118160884/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-7470454-9624738?v=glance&s=books

_Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That's Killing Our Soldiers--And Why GI's Are Only The First Victims_ (tacky subtitle, but good book) by Gary Matsumoto
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/046504400X/qid=1118160929/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/104-7470454-9624738?v=glance&s=books


Currently on:

_The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy_ by Howard Friel, Richard A. Falk.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1844670198/qid=1118161044/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-7470454-9624738?v=glance&s=books

Cheers,
-Noble

[MCHeshPants420]

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley.

[menxmen]

Dune - by Frank Herbert. its a great book! i enjoy with every page.

[DigitalSoul]

On the road - Kerouac...reading it again, was the only half-descent thing my girlfriend had, so i took it to work with me, but the weekend is dedicated to louis-ferdinand celine and his journey :-)

[TheNobleEU]

I haven't been reading lately. I go in spurts where I will read 4 or 5 books in a row and then take a break.

I have breaks like that enforced by the library. They call me wanting their book back (on hold for someone else) when I'm only half through it.

Last two books:

_Mud, Blood and Poppycock_ by Gordon Corrigan.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0304359556/qid=1118421960/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-7470454-9624738?v=glance&s=books

_Black Earth: A Journey through Russia After the Fall_ by by Andrew Meier.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393326411/qid=1118422067/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-7470454-9624738?v=glance&s=books

...have been half-read in this manner. Now I have to go buy them to finish 'em.


Interested in this one too:

_Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader : North Korea and the Kim Dynasty_ by Bradley K. Martin
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312322216/qid=1118422248/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-7470454-9624738?v=glance&s=books

...but at 880 pages, I somehow doubt I would get it done in time! Better buy that one too...

Cheers,
-Noble.

[TedLeoPharm]

I'm currently reading "The Amber Spyglass".

[suprafreak6]

im currently reading all the harry potters over im on goblet of fire im trying to read em to refresh for the new one

[ejoeyb]

I'm always between a couple at one time.
At present I'm reading Drummin' Men by Bud Korall.
It a bunch of mini-biographies of the drummers of the swing era from the early 30's on.
It's impecably researched with loads of interviews.
I'm also reading the Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson.
This book is the "Da Vinci Code" of the 70's.
It's unbelievable : )

[maebach]

taming of the shrew - shakespeare

[Abel6376]

Dark tower, the first one now

[daxianne]

I just finished reading Cats Cradle [Vonnegut] for the 3rd time. Amazing book.

I read that about a month ago for the first time, it really was amazing, it was my first Vonnegut book, I'm almost done with Hocus Pocus, which while also good thus fur is not quite as good. I've got Slaughterhouse-Five lined up for when I finish this...and this series I'm reading by Tim Dorsey which I picked up because he's supposed to be liked by Carl Hiaasen fans, but I found him far from as good. The first book, Florida Roadkill wasn't any good until the end, which sucked me in...only to find out that it was the first in a series, now I can't stop reading until I find out how it ends. The second book, Hammerhead Ranch Motel was significantly better but not as clever or as satirical as Hiaasen.

[Barbarossa]

I'm about to start "The Battle of Corrin" by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, part of the "Legends of Dune" series.

[Barbarossa]

im currently reading all the harry potters over im on goblet of fire im trying to read em to refresh for the new one

I think that one is my favourite HP book... :)


I'm currently reading "The Amber Spyglass".

Of the His Dark Materials trilogy, that one is my least favourite, unfortunately.. :(

[Gripper]

Am currently reading Industrial Magic by Kelly Armstrong,its the normal world but living side bt side with us humans are the supernturals,governed by Cabals,bit like mafia families,its a good read and I'm gonna try and find some of her other books

[Gemby!]

mwas reading new hp, but its back to good ol' tess of the d'urbrevilles by thomas hardy

[Barbarossa]

mwas reading new hp, but its back to good ol' tess of the d'urbrevilles by thomas hardy

Wow! Fast reader... :unsure:

[JordoR]

Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
The Cardinal of the Kremlin - Tom Clancy

Just finished Red Rabbit - Tom Clancy and new hp which i read in one day.

[abu_has_the_power]

harry pothead and the half blood pimp

[Darth Sushi]

harry pothead and the half blood pimp
Snape was a pimp? :blink: :D

[abu_has_the_power]

harry pothead and the half blood pimp
Snape was a pimp? :blink: :D
snape? he's the half blood prince? i gotta finish the book! that's 2 spoilers now! ahhhh!

[zeeom]

How to have great sex on your own
By Billy Noahmate

[maebach]

How to have great sex on your own
By Billy Noahmate

:lol: I'm reading 'Think & Grow Rich' by Napolean Hill

[Rat Faced]

How to have great sex on your own
By Billy Noahmate

That ones constantly on my bedside cabinet :P


Just finished:

Insomnia - Stephen King

[MagicNakor]

Just finished We Were the Mulvaneys. I think I'll read Stanley Park next, although I've got about four waiting on hold at the library for me.

:shuriken:

[pusher]

I just began reading The Cluetrain Manifesto.

[missie]

Just about to start; The Slippery Slope - Lemony Snicket.

:blushing:

[dmnyanks1]

Just finished Noble house - James Clavell
Awesome book

[peat moss]

I was on holiday just read Mystic River but didn't think much of it ,too depressing but did enjoy Raptor Red good read. Different book about dino's than Jurrasic Park kind of thru a Raptors eye's ,could n't put it down . :)



http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553575619/104-1101280-3789547?v=glance

[maebach]

I started Slaughterhouse5. by kurt vonnegut.

[Alien5]

i dont have time too read :(
:lol:

[Gripper]

The Cobra Trilogy by Timothy Zahn

[Emdee]

The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson

Pretty good so far.

[manker]

Beneath the Pyramid - Christian Jacq.

First of the Judge of Egypt trilogy of books. Seems much better than his more recent stuff - which was pants.

[Reffy]

Truth & Beauty:The story of Pulp, by Mark Sturdy for the 5millionth time. Yes, I am obsessive and addicted :cry:

[Gripper]

Saucer:The conquest by Stephen Coonts
Just finished Honeymoon by James Patterson + Howard Roughan,havent read a bad book by him yet

[scott_pd]

Deception Point, by Dan Brown. Good book, read 4 of his books now (Decpetion Point, Digital Fortress, Angels & Demons, Da Vinchis Code) and they have all been good books. However i thought Digital Fortress and Deception Point were alot better than Da Vinchis Code.

[Barbarossa]

Deception Point, by Dan Brown. Good book, read 4 of his books now (Decpetion Point, Digital Fortress, Angels & Demons, Da Vinchis Code) and they have all been good books. However i thought Digital Fortress and Deception Point were alot better than Da Vinchis Code.

I thought Digital Fortress and Deception Point were awful. Angels & Demons and the Da Vinci Code were better, good in fact, but basically they are the same story..

In fact, all of his books are the same story. They begin with a death, and end with the hero getting laid. :rolleyes:

[Cheese]

Persuasion by Jane Austen.

[lazyme]

Harry Potter6

[ahctlucabbuS]

The book of illusions by Paul Auster

[Barbarossa]

Iain M. Banks - The Algebraist.

[Gripper]

Re-reading Talon of the Silver Hawk and King of Foxes in preperation for reading the last in the trilogy Exiles Return by Raymond E Feist

[Alien5]

the beginers guide to penis enlargement

[JunkBarMan]

Macroeconomics - 6th Edition
American Government - 7th Edition

Very boring, but some very eye opening stuff.

[Barbarossa]

Re-reading Talon of the Silver Hawk and King of Foxes in preperation for reading the last in the trilogy Exiles Return by Raymond E Feist

I don't think it's a trilogy... I'm guessing (hoping?) there will be more... ;)

[Gemby!]

just finished remembrance by theresa breslin and am now moving on to goodbye to all that by robert graves.

[Gripper]

Just finished Exiles Return by Raymond E Feist,definitly looks as though there are going to be more in the series,Just started Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz

[Gemby!]

i quit goodbye to all that and am gonna read birdsong by sebatian faulks now

[ice-t]

I`m now reading the Dune series by Frank Herbert for the 6 time. I just got book 5 & 6 in hard copy, these i never read before. I`m the number one sci-fi fan i Norway. :)

Next i`m gona read the " Songs of innocense & songs of experience " by William Blake, the best poet ever!

I got over 3.000 e-books, all the beste series, Deathlands, Outlanders, Dune, Discworld, wheel of time, m.m If u want to exchange books with me, please send me your book wishes, and your booklist at my e-mail [email protected] and i`ll send you my booklist, is now compleate with 3.000 books.

Have i great day!

Ice-t :w00t:

[JPaul]

The Runes of the Earth (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant) - Stephen Donaldson.

[Gripper]

Just finished State of Fear by Michael Crichton,Just startingCuba by Stephen Coonts

[Barbarossa]

Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks.

I've read it before, but found the style of writing so difficult to follow, this time I'm determined to concentrate! :huh:

[Chewie]

I've pinched the latest Harry Potter from my daughter and will be moving on to Jeremy Clarkson's latest effort after that.

[twisterX]

None. To my suprise the last book i read was like last year but i was forced to read it

The ONLY book i ever enjoyed reading was holes

[manker]

I read a couple of books while on holiday.

Life expectancy by Dean Koonst was rubbish but quite entertaining, I suppose.

I also read The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell, the same bloke who wrote the Sharpe novels. Feck, it was awesome. Set at the time when the British Isles were over-run with Norse invaders.

I think I'm going to read a few more of his books.

[j2k4]

Got four going right now-Men in Black by Mark Levin, Do-Gooders by Mona Charen, re-re-reading Slouching Towards Gomorrah by Robert Bork, and a bit of fiction, The Closers by Michael Connelly.

Good stuff across the board. :)

[Cheese]

King, Richard H and Taylor, Helen (1996) Dixie Debates: Perspectives on Southern Cultures

[missie]

Re-reading; The Collector - John Fowles.

I lurves this book. :happy:

[ApacNTS]

halo: the flood

[georgia_v]

The Perfume...by Patrick Süskind....

[Samurai]

"Smoking seriously harms you and other around you" - Cigarette Packet (Front)

[missie]

Today, I started; Going Postal - Terry Pratchett. :happy:


walk the walk. :happy:

[scales1]

I am a bit ahead - starting the last Pratchett book - Thud.

[Alien5]

Playboy: october ebook

[jdpatel]

The Dead Zone. SK.

[Chewie]

Well, after "The World According To Jeremy Clarkson" I fancied something a little less lightweight, so it's Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons".
Only 150 pages in and I'm impressed - perhaps I'll find another one of his next.

[Barbarossa]

Well, after "The World According To Jeremy Clarkson" I fancied something a little less lightweight, so it's Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons".
Only 150 pages in and I'm impressed - perhaps I'll find another one of his next.

I think that one is the best.

[Gripper]

America by Stephen Coont Hard going but a good read

[Aaron_T]

im reading the amityville horror, its scary :|

[Gripper]

im reading the amityville horror, its scary :|
Yep darn sight scarier than the films

[Santa]

going postal - pratchett

[Chewie]

Well, after "The World According To Jeremy Clarkson" I fancied something a little less lightweight, so it's Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons".
Only 150 pages in and I'm impressed - perhaps I'll find another one of his next.

I think that one is the best.
God Damn, this is one helluva book; I can't put the thing down!
My son has The Davinci Code and tells me it's excellent so I'll be borrowing that in a few days. Can't wait.

[sysiphos]

crime and punishment by dostojewski :)

[Guillaume]

I'm having a geeky week (well, one more, some might say) I'm reading Spawn comics and the latest Terry Pratchett, "Thud!".

[Vash999]

Just finished "Battle of Corrin" [Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson], which I highly recommend both that series and the other Dune prequal series for anyone who liked Dune (the real one, not that movie from the 80s :sick: )

[Cheese]

Imaginative Writing - Janet Burroway
Black Boy - Richard Wright
Persuasion - Jane Austen

[Barbarossa]

Just finished "Battle of Corrin" [Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson], which I highly recommend both that series and the other Dune prequal series for anyone who liked Dune (the real one, not that movie from the 80s :sick: )

I certainly agree, but weren't you disappointed at the apparent ease of the vanquishing of Agamemnon and the other remaining cymeks? :blink:

[MagicNakor]

Women of Mythology

:shuriken:

[oceansgurlie]

i'm reading atlast shrugged by ayn rand which i love love love

and i'm listening to an audiobook, deception point from dan brown. a lot better than the da vinci code i think

[j2k4]

i'm reading atlast shrugged by ayn rand which i love love love

and i'm listening to an audiobook, deception point from dan brown. a lot better than the da vinci code i think

Careful "loving" anything written by Ayn Rand; the membership here is largely socialist/communist and are, by default, anti-Rand.

I think she was super, myself, and will now willingly suffer with you.;)

[Darth Sushi]

Goblet of Fire...before the I see the movie next week.

[Chewie]

Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code

[hhman]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1565848357/102-5063837-0384958?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance

Mankell, Before the Frost
Ongoing from the Wallander series.
Basically police/detective stories with a rather noir theme.

[Gripper]

Liberty by Stephen Coonts

[Gripper]

Totaly engrossed in London Bridges by James Patterson.
I also got The Runes of Earth:Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant from the library,first one to get it so its all crisp and new:01: :w00t: :01:

[MagicNakor]

A Feast For Crows

Yes, it finally arrived here.

:shuriken:

[maebach]

I just started 'The Sacred Balance' by David Suzuki

[Cheese]

Table talk : or, original essays / by William Hazlitt.

[Blythorama]

The Dynamics of Social Exclusion in Europe: Comparing Austria, Germany, Greece, Portugal and the UK
by Sigvald Harryson

[thewizeard]

..not one at the moment, any suggestions? :)

[Blythorama]

..not one at the moment, any suggestions? :)


NOT The Dynamics of Social Exclusion in Europe: Comparing Austria, Germany, Greece, Portugal and the UK
by Sigvald Harryson

[Rat Faced]

Shards of a Broken Crown - Raymond Feist (again)

[Guillaume]

A Feast For Crows
It's on my reading list, but I'll read the others again before this one.

GRRM FTW.

[silent h3ro]

I am currently reading Cat in the Hat. Classic book right there. :cool:

[Gripper]

..not one at the moment, any suggestions? :)
Whats your preference,thrillers,fantasy,sci-fi?

[j2k4]

..not one at the moment, any suggestions? :)
Whats your preference,thrillers,fantasy,sci-fi?

I will take this opportunity to recommend Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

In paperback, hang in with the somewhat stilted prose for the first 150 pages or so; there are only another 1000 or so to go.

A great book, period.

[powerwolf]

"It" by Stephen King

[thewizeard]

..not one at the moment, any suggestions? :)
Whats your preference,thrillers,fantasy,sci-fi?

Well I prefer books on philospy, but I just finished reading a book by G.I. Gurdjieff, mentioned it earlier sonewhere in this thread, "Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson" I am trying now to find some E-boeks from Peter D. Ouspensky.

[thewizeard]

..not one at the moment, any suggestions? :)
Whats your preference,thrillers,fantasy,sci-fi?

Well I prefer books on philosophy, but I just finished reading a book by G.I. Gurdjieff, mentioned it earlier somewhere in this thread, "Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson" I am trying now to find some E-books from Peter D. Ouspensky.

* Maybe a great set of books to read is, "The Amber Collection" by Roger Zelazny... I have the complete set in both audio and e-book format...if you are interested in them, then you will find me on SoulSeek :)

[Cheese]

Whats your preference,thrillers,fantasy,sci-fi?
I will take this opportunity to recommend Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

In paperback, hang in with the somewhat stilted prose for the first 150 pages or so; there are only another 1000 or so to go.

A great book, period.
Eww, too long. Read the abridged version: http://www.spudworks.com/article/66/2/

That reminds me...:shifty:


Edit: Currently reading - Revisionary Gleam: De Quincy, Coleridge, and the High Romantic Argument. Daniel Sanjiv Roberts.

[differentangel]

The Other Bible

[Biggles]

Making History by Stephen Fry.

Quite Interesting :)

[maebach]

"It" by Stephen King

the movie was scary :fear:

[j2k4]

forever, by Pete Hamill

[MagicNakor]

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, probably for the fourth time.

:shuriken:

[maebach]

Is it any good>?

[MagicNakor]

Very; it's a fun read. I really know I oughtn't re-read it so closely before going to see it in the theatre, but I can't help it. :blushing:

:shuriken:

[HeavyMetalParkingLot]

The Virgin Blue - Tracy Chevalier

[cpt_azad]

Re-reading 1984, wow I was too young back then to even understand wtf was going on, loving this book so far, almost done. Anyone know if there is actually a Goldstein's book out there somewhere, or maybe a lengthier explanation, you know how 1984 has a book inside a book going on (page 192 in 1984).

[HeavyMetalParkingLot]

Re-reading 1984, wow I was too young back then to even understand wtf was going on, loving this book so far, almost done. Anyone know if there is actually a Goldstein's book out there somewhere, or maybe a lengthier explanation, you know how 1984 has a book inside a book going on (page 192 in 1984).

The book The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism is fictional. Goldstein's character is based on Leon Trotsky.

[MagicNakor]

If you like Tracy Chevalier, you'll probably like Girl With A Pearl Earring and The Lady and the Unicorn by her also. I can't comment on Falling Angels as I have yet to read it.

:shuriken:

[HeavyMetalParkingLot]

If you like Tracy Chevalier, you'll probably like Girl With A Pearl Earring and The Lady and the Unicorn by her also. I can't comment on Falling Angels as I have yet to read it.

:shuriken:

Girl With I read before Blue and loved it. As soon as I finished up that book, I headed straight to the book store and bought her others!

[cpt_azad]

Re-reading 1984, wow I was too young back then to even understand wtf was going on, loving this book so far, almost done. Anyone know if there is actually a Goldstein's book out there somewhere, or maybe a lengthier explanation, you know how 1984 has a book inside a book going on (page 192 in 1984).
The book The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism is fictional. Goldstein's character is based on Leon Trotsky.

Yes I knew that "the book" is fictional (because it's a book inside of 1984) but thanks, did not know that Goldstein was based on Trotsky.

[Biggles]

Was given "Thud" for Christmas so I am just about to embark on another trip to Discworld.

[Cheese]

Bacchae - Euripides

[Guillaume]

D. Adams - So long and thanks for all the fish

[Chewie]

Was given "Thud" for Christmas so I am just about to embark on another trip to Discworld.
So did I.
I started last night and the first chapter is certainly more interesting than Lords & Ladies, the only other Discworld novel that I've read.

[Cheese]

Books I got for Christmas:

The Theban Plays - Sophocles
Gallia - Menie Muriel Dowie
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell

[JPaul]

Kilgore Trout was a fictional novelist who appeared as a character in some Kurt Vonnegut books. He was a pulp sci-fi / soft porn hack.

Then a novel by Kilgore Trout was published

http://ookworld.com/img/ovenus.jpg

much to the assumption that Vonnegut had written it. It was actually Phillip Jose Farmer.

A subsequent cover, after Farmer had revealed that he had written the book

http://ookworld.com/img/nvenus.jpg

[Gemby!]

Currently reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein :) Hope it is as good as it is hyped up to be. I'm liking it so far ....but i guess i am not really that far in yet

[j2k4]

Currently reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein :) Hope it is as good as it is hyped up to be. I'm liking it so far ....but i guess i am not really that far in yet

Frankenstein is a superb read, Gems; you must forget any of the cinematic versions when reading it, as they fall far short of the novel.

Hope you enjoy it!

[despikable]

i finished angels and demons by dan borwn and im starting the the da vinci code!

[Barbarossa]

Just finished "Hidden Empire" by Kevin J. Anderson, and now onto the next one in the series, "Sea of Stars" (maybe?).

Not bad, but devoid of anything particularly new in terms of ideas so far... :mellow:

Quite bizarrely these books deal with aliens that live in gas giants, and also the last book I read (The Algebraist by Iain Banks) also deals with aliens that live in gas giants, but previously I hadn't read a book that even lightly touches on the subject of aliens that live in gas giants since, oohhhhhhh, Arthur C. Clarkes 2001.... :dabs:

[Cheese]

Now reading North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell.

Yawn.

[Barbarossa]

Now reading North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell.

Yawn.

Tis surely a book for girls! :o

[desihotchick]

I am reading Gone with the wind right now.

[Biggles]

The Algebraist by Iain M Banks

No one does alien quite like Banks.

[Snee]

Yeah, Banks is brilliant, I think my favourite among his novels is Excession, but pretty much everything he's written about the culture is worth a read.

I just finished Richard Morgan's Woken Furies, the third about a character called Takeshi Kovacs, some of you might remember I made a thread referring to his Altered Carbon, the first novel about aforementioned Kovacs, a while back. Morgan is another brilliant author who writes sci-fi in a sort of noir-ish style.

Sex, ultra-violence, and an interesting view on identity.


He's also written yet another novel, Market Forces, which has a dystopian setting reminiscent of that in Vonnegut's Player Piano, but with elements that seem borrowed from the movie Mad Max.

There's apparently a movie in the works, based on Market Forces.

If anyone is interested in something (possibly) different, try something of Morgan's, I especially recommend Altered carbon.

[fatbobsarmy]

Farewell, my lovely by raymond chandler

[Barbarossa]

Yeah, Banks is brilliant, I think my favourite among his novels is Excession, but pretty much everything he's written about the culture is worth a read.



Use of Weapons gets my vote as the best book I've ever read.

[Biggles]

Yeah, Banks is brilliant, I think my favourite among his novels is Excession, but pretty much everything he's written about the culture is worth a read.



Use of Weapons gets my vote as the best book I've ever read.

Excession has been my favourite to date. Use of Weapons was brilliant but deeply disturbing.

[Snee]

Yeah, Banks is brilliant, I think my favourite among his novels is Excession, but pretty much everything he's written about the culture is worth a read.



Use of Weapons gets my vote as the best book I've ever read.
I actually got that one for christmas :happy:

Brilliant novel.

[maebach]

I just finished reading flowers for algernon. amzing book, almost cried at the end :lookaroun

[Cheese]

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

My favourite book from the Victorian Literature module I am doing this term.

[MagicNakor]

Mm, I love Oscar Wilde. It's unfortunate he's not more widely read.

:shuriken:

[Rat Faced]

The Adversary - Julian May

[Skweeky1]

Dracula - Mary Shelley.

A bit archaic and for some reason Van Helsing keeps talking German and French despite being Dutch, but all in all a nice experience.

[lumin4]

Mm, I love Oscar Wilde. It's unfortunate he's not more widely read.

Oscar Wilde is still alive! You can speak to him as I did at
http://www.eliasforum.org/intro/site_features.html;
do a search to learn more.
Of course his physical body is dead,
but, his essence is not.
His essence is "Elias".
He has something very important to say,
just for you!!!

[Damnatory]

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

My favourite book from the Victorian Literature module I am doing this term.
Also one of my favorite Victorian novels.

Though at the moment I'm reading: "American Gods" - Neil Gaiman.

[jetje]

Currently reading 'Faceless Killers' by Henning Mankell.
It's the 1st of a police novell wich features Kurt Wallander.
I'm halfway and must say it tastes like more.... :rolleyes:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0099445220.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[maebach]

I started Harry POtter6, really good :smilie4:

[Mike Nelson]

On Writing - Stephen King

I haven't read Stephen King since I started my degree. (In fact, I haven't read many books that aren't on my reading list.) It's far less taxing. :happy:

[slayer of soul]

Plato- The Republic

[Rudeboy2025]

Demolition Angel - Robert Crais
The Forgotten Man - Robert Crais
The Third Secret - Steve Berry
The Camel Club - David Baldacci
Scorpia - Anthony Horowitz
The Two Minute Rule - Robert Crais
Miracle on the 17th Green - James Patterson
Pendragon: The Merchant of Death - D.J. MacHale
Comes A Horseman - Robert Liparulo

[Wolfclaw]

Demolition Angel - Robert Crais
The Forgotten Man - Robert Crais
The Third Secret - Steve Berry
The Camel Club - David Baldacci
Scorpia - Anthony Horowitz
The Two Minute Rule - Robert Crais
Miracle on the 17th Green - James Patterson
Pendragon: The Merchant of Death - D.J. MacHale
Comes A Horseman - Robert Liparulo
You reading ALL of them ? Your desk must be HUGE!!!
Terry Pratchett-Discworld The Light Fantastic
Douglas Adams-Restaurant at the end of the Universe

[Rudeboy2025]

Demolition Angel - Robert Crais
The Forgotten Man - Robert Crais
The Third Secret - Steve Berry
The Camel Club - David Baldacci
Scorpia - Anthony Horowitz
The Two Minute Rule - Robert Crais
Miracle on the 17th Green - James Patterson
Pendragon: The Merchant of Death - D.J. MacHale
Comes A Horseman - Robert Liparulo
You reading ALL of them ? Your desk must be HUGE!!!
Terry Pratchett-Discworld The Light Fantastic
Douglas Adams-Restaurant at the end of the Universe

I'm a fast reader. I have been wanting to read Douglas Adams books but my library only has The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.

[gontol]

Currently reading? Well, The Fast & Simple Cookbook :featuring 100.000 menus, I have a big family party goin on tonight :D
Anyway, it's ridiculious, i thought it has 100k menus like it's said in the cover, but it/s only about 200 recipes :-/

[Guillaume]

The battle of Corrin (been reading it on and off for weeks, can't bring myself to read more than a few pages of this big steaming pile of shite at a time).

Les misérables dans l'Occident médiéval (Paupers in the medieval West)

Le roman de Renart (medieval french is teh hard)

[Barbarossa]

The battle of Corrin (been reading it on and off for weeks, can't bring myself to read more than a few pages of this big steaming pile of shite at a time).


:blushing: oh that's one of those books I recommended to someone... :blushing:

[manker]

Harlequin by Bernard Cornwell.

Fighting, raping and pillaging > book learnin'.

[JPaul]

Harlequin by Bernard Cornwell.

Fighting, raping and pillaging > book learnin'.
Words.

[Carcinus]

Lucky - Alice Seabold
In Siberia - Colin Thubron, about his travels through...Siberia.

[JPaul]

I still haven't finished the latest Thomas Covenant. I'm just reading a few pages at a time and not really getting into it in any big heavy way.

[Carcinus]

I'm saving David Attenboroughs Amazing Adventures for the weekend. I'm too sick to go out so I'm going to hole up with a book.

[JPaul]

I'm too sick to go out so I'm going to hole up with a book.

In view of the gravitas of this place and the deep respect I have for you, in spite of knowing you for such a short while, I apologise unreservedly.

:childish::lol::earl:

Sorry, I really am.

[night_elf]

HarryPotter and the prisoner of azkaban

[Hairbautt]

HarryPotter and the prisoner of azkaban
Nice. :happy: Like Harry Potter? It really has a good story, IMO.:) Waiting for the Half-Blood Prince to come out on paperback though...:pinch:

Currently reading:
1.) Travel book--->Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown :cool:
2.) Home book---->A Time to Heal - David Mack :lookaroun (its ST I don't want anyone to know I'm a fan...:shutup: )

[Barbarossa]

Waiting for the Half-Blood Prince to come out on paperback though...:pinch:


Me too. :pinch:

Any idea when that's likely to be? :unsure:

[Hairbautt]

Me too. :pinch:

Any idea when that's likely to be? :unsure:I saw it on Amazon UK (US didn't have anything), it said Feburary 21st I think. I live in US, so I was like eh can't be too far off. Now the amazon US has it listed:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0439785960/sr=8-2/qid=1144924298/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-7883454-6855119?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Semptember 1st, 2006 :pinch:

Just looked at amazon.co.uk it has it newly listed (I dunno what I looked at before):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/202-2592332-8118228
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747584680/qid=1144924429/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i4_xgl/202-2592332-8118228
Paperback - June 23, 2006 for UK. Lucky...

[Cheese]

Icon Ciritcal Guide to Beloved ed. Carl Plasa
Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Apotropaic Imagination by Kathleen Marks
Icon Critical Guide to The Sound and the Fury/As I Lay Dying ed. Nicolass Tredell
Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner ed. Philip M. Weinstein
Sweet Bird of Youth and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
Cambridge Comapnion to Tennessee Williams ed. Matthew C. Roudane
Critics on Jane Austen ed. Judith O'Neill
Cambridge Companion to Jane Austin eds. Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster
Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England by Roger Sales
A Handbook to English Romanticism eds. Jean Raimond and J.R.Watson

And also a few books on Oscar Wilde and Robert Louis Stevenson that I left Mrs. Cheese's house.

[bookwriter]

Hey check out
"Love&Justice" and "Whispers from a Troubled Heart" these are detective stories by author Rique Johnson
Have your woman read "Every Woman's Man" by Rique Johnson if you want to get lucky. It's HOT!!

[mikerodot78]

Right now I'm reading Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.

[MagicNakor]

I need something new to read. <_<

:shuriken:

[ilw]

I need something new to read. <_<

:shuriken:
what kinda stuff do you like?

[chojin]

I'm currently read the Graphic Noval of V for Vendetta

[MagicNakor]

I need something new to read. <_<

:shuriken:
what kinda stuff do you like?

I'll read most anything, save trashy romance/mystery.

:shuriken:

[Guillaume]

LK Hamilton - Incubus dreams.
It's never been literature, but she's managed to reach new lows.
The whole series should be renamed "Let's see how many cawks I can get in one character at the same time". :dry:

[MagicNakor]

It's unfortunate, because the initial books in the series were actually enjoyable. Then it turned into a purple-prose fest.

:shuriken:

[thewizeard]

In search of the miraculous - Oespensky...try it Magic ...

or one of Gurdjieff books..always a little difficult to get into but well worth the effort

http://www.gurdjieff.org/

Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson another brilliant literary work ...

[monkehMAn]

Right now I'm reading Eldest, the sequal to Eragon. Soon I will also start readin One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest which I've heard great things about. I'm loving Eldest and can't wait to start on cookoo's nest.

[Seedler]

The LOTR books.

[ilw]

what kinda stuff do you like?

I'll read most anything, save trashy romance/mystery.

:shuriken:
You've mentioned before that you're an avid reader so you've possibly read things by these 2 authors, but i'd highly recommend Tom Sharpe and Ian Banks. If you want a more obscure author who i enjoyed, but might not be to everyones taste then i'd suggest books by Jeff Noon.

Tom Sharpe: very funny 'slice of life' style books where everyday events seem to conspire to ruin certain peoples lives. My favourites were 'The throwback', 'Wilt', 'Wilt alternative' and 'Blott on the landscape'

Ian Banks: most famous for his sci-fi, which is generally very good, but some of his other books are better imo, in particular 'The crow road'.

Jeff Noon: bizarre stories and sometimes bizarre writing style, but i found them captivating. Not really sci-fi or fantasy, but some weird mix of both. Wikipedia article suggests his writing would fall in a similar genre as Lewis Carrol's work and I've seen his books described elsewhere as technopunk if that helps at all.... I'd suggest 'Vurt' as a starting point.

[Cheese]

A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes