What Are You Reading?

K4t

Bill Bryson's 'The Lost Continent'. Quite funny alright.

Opening line - "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to."

whadabouchasir

David Remnick "King of the world".It has more irrelavent tangents than an episode of Family Guy still very interesting though.

K4t

whadabouchasir wrote: »

David Remnick "King of the world".It has more irrelavent tangents than an episode of Family Guy still very interesting though.

haha is that even possible?! What's the main plot?

WolfForager

Dear sweet jesus they're making "The Dark Tower" - Stephen King, into a TV series... Why is he such a sell out?

A Neurotic

Bought 1984 and Pride & Prejudice & Zombies today :pac:

whadabouchasir

K4t wrote: »

haha is that even possible?! What's the main plot?

Well it's basically a biography of Muhammad ali,except the first 70 pages or so are spent discussing Sonny liston and the Mafia.There's also a fair bit about Malcom X in it and the civil rights movement.Not to mention the pages it spends going on about the various journalists of the time.It doesn't have any fights with giant chickens or random performances from Conway Twitty though,pity really.

Pygmalion

Just finished reading "The Black Magician Trilogy" by Trudy Canavan... The story was good, but I think the author actually kind of sucked.
There are facial expressions other than frowning, not that you'd know it from a read of these 3 books, every character frowns at everything. If they're angry, they frown; sad, they frown; confused, tired, bored, they frown. What's that, this person looks familiar, but you don't know where you recognise them from, you'd better frown at them.
Of course it wasn't all bad, the rest of the times their lips "curled up into a smile", but no variations on that either, every time she describes someone's expression you just get annoyed that she copy pastes on of two descriptions, no matter how little sense it makes.

timmywex

Oh, right now im reading about 3 books.

1) Roadcraft, basically a police drivers handbook, its what all the advanced driving courses and the likes are based on.

2) Blood, sweat and tea, a book about an EMT with london ambulance service, based on his blog random acts of reality.


3) A Paramedics Diary, similar to the last, based on a blog of a london paramedic.



Now if only i could find the time to read all of these!

phasers

Just ordered trainspotting off amazon (for 1p :cool:)

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is next

Shacklebolt

I'm slowly getting through 'Origin of Species'. Its on of those books I always felt I should read and I finally got round to it.

Shacklebolt

Shacklebolt wrote: »

I'm slowly getting through 'Origin of Species'. Its on of those books I always felt I should read and I finally got round to it.

Yah, it is a brilliant book.

If you enjoy it you should read The Voyage of the Beagle and The Descent of Man, they're Darwin's two other Greats. They're brilliant reads, and they tie in closely with On the Origin of Species, so that's a plus.

Fad

-JammyDodger- wrote: »

Yah, it is a brilliant book.

If you enjoy it you should read The Voyage of the Beagle and The Descent of Man, they're Darwin's two other Greats. They're brilliant reads, and they tie in closely with On the Origin of Species, so that's a plus.

WHAT!

He comes back to talk to us plebs? :eek:

Congrats on the modship

Haha, thanks! 'twas a bit of a suprise, it came out of the blue on Thursday or one of the days, so it's feeling pretty new. Now to start the hard job of getting used to it!

QueenOfLeon

Ooh, -JammyDodger-, well done! After all the help and advice on the hpat/medicine threads, im sure you'll be a great mod! You always seem to know what you're talking about

OneArt

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

phasers

JammyDodger is a mod? They're letting all sorts of riff raff in these days :pac:


well done!

phasers

phasers wrote: »

JammyDodger is a mod? They're letting all sorts of riff raff in these days :pac:


well done!

I know, their standards are dropping very low altogether; how they could let me in? It baffles me (honestly)!

A Neurotic

OneArt wrote: »

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

I'm also reading - too much period drama, not enough zombies.

EmoMatt15

Just finished The Shining, watching the movie again tonight
Starting to read Bill Bryson: Notes From A Small Island, its good so far

TheManWho

I got Lolita today, I'm going to try and get through it by thursday.

jefreywithonef

Of Mice and Men. Quite good so far.

Allison91

Reading It by Stephen King..scary stuff.

errlloyd

misslt wrote: »

I just finished Breaking Dawn (Twilight series) and have just started Twilight. Again. I can't help myself, I just love it.

Next on the list is To Kill A Mockingbird, have never read it.

I love the His Dark Materials, has anyone read the other Philip Pullman series, the Sally Lockhart ones?

Yeah I read the lockhart ones, I never liked his darker series, but I liked the first few of the lockhart ones, then they bored me.

degausserxo

TheManWho wrote: »

I got Lolita today, I'm going to try and get through it by thursday.

Try not to let the paedophilia crush your brain.

A Neurotic

Finally reading 1984.

Here's a tip: Don't read Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale just a couple of week before 1984. I have a feeling that the former was quite heavily influenced by the latter. 1984 even quotes Atwood in the blurb saying it's one of her favourite books of all time :rolleyes:

Piste

I'm still reading Jane Eyre about 3-4 weeks after I started it. I foolishly went to France for 2 weeks and left the book here.

thusspakeblixa

I'm currently reading

The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
Klein details how governments use shock tactics. She argues that neo-conservative politicians take advantage of wars, natural disasters etc. to implement changes which the people may object to, but don't notice because they are, in a way, 'paralysed' by shock. I'd really recommend this to anyone. It actually explains a lot about why we are in the sorry situation we are in today.

I have just finished
The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
A man, a raft, and a bengal tiger. Sounds simple, but it had me hooked. Give it a go if you haven't already

I'm planning to read
The Open Veins of Latin America - Eduardo Galeano
This is about colonialism and oppression in Latin America. Many political leaders (Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales et al) cite it as a major influence, and it is the root of 'Bolivarian Socialism'.

A bit of light reading for my summer there...

turgon

A Neurotic wrote: »

Here's a tip: Don't read Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale just a couple of week before 1984. I have a feeling that the former was quite heavily influenced by the latter. 1984 even quotes Atwood in the blurb saying it's one of her favourite books of all time :rolleyes:

Nothing wrong with being influenced. It seems 1984 takes a lot of influence fro, Huxleys Brave New World. In fact the near-end scene where Smith is talking to O'Brien is extremely similar to a scene near the end of Brave New World where the Savage is talking to one of the World Controllers.

Doesnt make 1984 any less of a book.

GA361

I usually just read National Geographics.Especially the ones from the 1980s . . .
In fact I'm reading one right now and it seems the soviets have taken the lead in the space race:eek: Good grief:p

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TheManWho wrote: »

I got Lolita today, I'm going to try and get through it by thursday.

Do not rush that book, if ever a novel was made to be savoured Lolita is it! Approach it like yer wan in that ad with the Haagen Daz. Seriously, once you're finished it you'll wish you could read it again with virgin eyes! You've been warned :P

As for mé féin, just finished good behaviour by Molly Keane, now onto Amongst Women by John Mc Gahern (reading list for college), and on the side Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, by Daniel Everett, which is absolutely fascinating.