What Are You Reading?

EmoMatt15

I just read 'Salem's Lot by Stephen Fry

I enjoyed it...cept the ending was a bit...deflated

Fad

EmoMatt15 wrote: »

I just read 'Salem's Lot by Stephen Fry

I enjoyed it...cept the ending was a bit...deflated

Stephen King?:pac:

I just bough it last week, havent started it yet.

Heggy

Someone had other things on their mind when they posted. :P
Can't imagine Fry doing horror.

Teutorix

EmoMatt15 wrote: »

I just read 'Salem's Lot by Stephen Fry

I enjoyed it...cept the ending was a bit...deflated

OMGWTFBBQ? :rolleyes:

cautioner

Just started The Making of Memory by Steven Rose. It's about memory.

Pigwidgeon

just started the secret life of bees
have to say its pretty good so far.

Heggy

Finished The Man in the High Castle, a bit underwhelmed, I think it's a rather deep book which I just didn't spend too much time reflecting on, it was just begging for analysis.

Anyway, I'm going to read The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson now.

Limerick Dude

I finished reading "Dreams for by Father" by Barack Obama.

Very good start and finish, drags a bit in the middle though.

Overall very good read and its quite insightful.


Already started the "The Audacity of Hope"

Pyr0

Just started The Decent of Angels - Horus Heresy

Elonex

Wuthering Heights because of school.

Don't like it at all

vinylbomb

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
If you can get past the fact that at first glance it seems to be about cricket its quite a good book.

Teutorix

Pyr0 wrote: »

Just started The Decent of Angels - Horus Heresy

The series any good? 40K FTW!

EmoMatt15

Heggy wrote: »

Someone had other things on their mind when they posted. :P
Can't imagine Fry doing horror.

Ooops Yeh I made a boo boo!

Its cos I love Stephen Fry and Stephen King and I read books by both of them!!

Too many Stephens :pac:

Mycroft H

The catcher in the rye..... Its not very good imo

Fad

landyman wrote: »

The catcher in the rye..... Its not very good imo

tbh it completely depends when you read it, you have to be the right age to enjoy it properly.

Teutorix

Fad wrote: »

tbh it completely depends when you read it, you have to be the right age to enjoy it properly.

what age is that? i havent read it yet.
and do you mean age or maturity?

cautioner

I read it last year (17) and didn't enjoy it at all.

Armin_Tamzarian

STALIN (biography by Robert Service).

Great book, what a guy...

Teutorix

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

STALIN (biography by Robert Service).

Great book, what a guy...

Yes, what a man indeed :pac:

Fad

Teutorix wrote: »

what age is that? i havent read it yet.
and do you mean age or maturity?

Around 14/15 is a really good time, then you can read it again and say "This was such a good book" but If you read it at say 17 once you've developed a bit more and hormones kinda level off, its not really all that relelvant.

Same with Wuthering Heights according to my uncle, but I havent read it.

That said when I was 14 I mainly read John Grisham novels..........(But I managed to squeeze in catcher there)

Teutorix

Fad wrote: »

Around 14/15 is a really good time, then you can read it again and say "This was such a good book" but If you read it at say 17 once you've developed a bit more and hormones kinda level off, its not really all that relelvant.

Same with Wuthering Heights according to my uncle, but I havent read it.

That said when I was 14 I mainly read John Grisham novels..........(But I managed to squeeze in catcher there)

oh well im almost 17 now

Armin_Tamzarian

Teutorix wrote: »

Yes, what a man indeed :pac:

Surely TIME magazine couldn't have gotten it wrong...

Fad

Teutorix wrote: »

oh well im almost 17 now

You can still read it, and you could well enjoy it, but just dont expect it to change you outlook on life............

Mycroft H

Fad wrote: »

tbh it completely depends when you read it, you have to be the right age to enjoy it properly.

Hmm true i suppose.

norwegianwood

The Kiterunner- i'm not that far into it yet but it's a really good book.
I just finished reading the book version of Slumdog Millionaire- I can safely say its the only time i ever saw a movie based on a book that was actually better than it.

denashpot

McMafia by Misha Glenny.

cautioner

norwegianwood wrote: »

The Kiterunner- i'm not that far into it yet but it's a really good book.
I just finished reading the book version of Slumdog Millionaire- I can safely say its the only time i ever saw a movie based on a book that was actually better than it.

Wait, which one's better now? Like the book, haven't seen the movie yet.

norwegianwood

cautioner wrote: »

Wait, which one's better now? Like the book, haven't seen the movie yet.

Yeah, sorry, could have been more clear about that.I thought the book was good, but the movie was way better.

RHRN

The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Brien

Are you Dave Gorman by Dave Gorman

Jello

Watchmen. Film is out on Firday so I should be finished it by then. I'm not into comics/graphic novels usually but it's a great read.

cautioner

The Kingdom of Infinite Space by Raymond Tallis. It's more philosophical than I'd expected but very interesting. About the brain and consciousness and all that jazz.

marzabar

of Human Bondage by Maugham... It's amazing. (Nothing to do with like sex and chains bondage...)

Brien

Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"

after which my girlfriend is going to let me read The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (can't wait!)

Brien wrote: »

Are you Dave Gorman by Dave Gorman

Brilliant book. Read "Googlewhack Adventure" next.

Michellenman

Deleted User wrote: »

Brilliant book. Read "Googlewhack Adventure" next.

His stand up version of this is one of the funniest things I've ever watched! I was in stitches throughout the entire thing!

Reading: The Turn of the Screw - Henry James.
It's never as much fun to read for college as it is for pleasure, regardless of what book it is

Crumble Froo

i had a weird habit of starting to read hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, then discovering i had some big state exams to do, only getting halfway through it, and then it having to go back to the library.

so i've finally finished hitchikers guide to the galaxy and am most of the way through the next book, the restaurant at the end of the universe.

cocoa

i finished mostly harmless, the fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named hithchiker trilogy recently and am now readin Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency which is also by douglas adams

Now if only I could get starship titanic to run on my comp...

EmoMatt15

I'm reading 1984 by George Orwell again
Definitly my fave book by him

Professey Chin

marzabar wrote: »

of Human Bondage by Maugham... It's amazing. (Nothing to do with like sex and chains bondage...)

Suuuuuurrreeee it isnt

marzabar

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Suuuuuurrreeee it isnt

haha! I tried to pretend I was a good upstanding girl... Damn you foiled that anyway!

1984 is fantastic ! One of my favourites.

p1akuw47h5r3it

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy... Tis pretty good

yerayeah

I finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas this morning instead of going to lectures:pac: I enjoyed it but maybe it wasn't quite as good as I hoped. Has anyone seen the film? How do they compare?

Crumble Froo

bah, finished the galaxy at the end of the universe. wasn't half as good a read as hitchiker's guide, up until the very last chapter, i was starting to really get into it and then...nope. gone. over. *puff*

Mushy

Reading a book for sociology essay I've to do, Its called 'Quest for Excitement:Sport & Leisure in the Civilising Process'. If you have an interest in sport and history, this is a really good book, although as its aimed for moe academic reasons, that may detract from it.

Professey Chin

yerayeah wrote: »

I finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas this morning instead of going to lectures:pac: I enjoyed it but maybe it wasn't quite as good as I hoped. Has anyone seen the film? How do they compare?

Ive never read the book but buggery I do love the film. Johnny Depp is a legend in it

Neverwhere

Stephen King -- Tommyknockers

KeyLimePie

Gossip Girl - You know you love me
And
Beowulf - Seamus Heany Translation

they cancel each other out really

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Ive never read the book but buggery I do love the film. Johnny Depp is a legend in it

I think they complement each other quite well actually, the whole drug thing is something that's really well expressed visually, but at the same time Thompson's an amazing writer. That bit about the wave breaking is done very well in the film

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

KeyLimePie wrote: »

Gossip Girl - You know you love me
And
Beowulf - Seamus Heany Translation

they cancel each other out really

Ah yes, debit and credit reading, I'm on Caleb Williams and some crappy PD James murder mystery myself

Crumble Froo

the celestine prophecy - an adventure.

a mate gave it to me. apparently, a few years ago, he moved out to the australian bush living pretty rough, and a combo of that and this book changed everything for him.

so he gave it to me.

aaaaaaaaaaaand it's starting to really really affect the way i think and the way im viewing my life. it's intriguing and kinda scary but im loving this book.