What book are you reading atm??

shuridunno

Tym wrote: »

I have. It's absolutley awful. Cringeworthy, horrible characters, anticlimatic and just horrible reasoning for some things. A certain change in a battle was just awful reasoning.

Yeah, found it a bit strange, that's why the sequel has been sitting on the window for over a year...

Fratton Fred

Guards Guards a Terry Pratchett discworld book.

KittyeeTrix

Half way through the first book of the Hunger Games Trilogy.....
Enjoying it very much...:)

shuridunno

KittyeeTrix wrote: »

Half way through the first book of the Hunger Games Trilogy.....
Enjoying it very much...:)

I couldn't put it down, read them all in a week, just couldn't stop.:)

Mr Benevolent

The Walled Orchard by Tom Holt and Frost on my Moustache by Tim Moore.

Also, Masturbation for Beginners.

daigo75

Peopleware. Non fiction, written over 20 years ago and still actual.

Shryke

Pickin up White Jazz by Ellroy tomorrow to finish up the LA Quartet. I have not read a better crime writer and I find it difficult to think I will.

ScumLord

ScumLord wrote: »

Going on past experience watch the TV show first and then get more detail from the book. So many people say the film/show didn't live up to the book, so you might as well enjoy the TV show and move onto the better book. If you do it the other way around you may be disappointed by the TV show.

Good point.. And I liked reading the book while having an image of the characters and places in my head.

eviltwin wrote: »

Halfway through book 1 at the moment and love it. Totally different to the sort of book I normally pick and I wouldn't have looked twice at it only for the fact I love the tv show. Really surprised at how easy it is to read, as a women I thought it would be very much catered to men but its got some really good female characters in it. Looking forward to getting through the series.

Yea I almost always read autobiographies over the last couple of years. Fell out of love with fiction a bit. I'm hoping the rest of this series can keep me gripped.

ibarelycare

Reading American Psycho at the moment. Fascinating book, I adore the way it's written. It's very gruesome but I love the blasé way he speaks about everything.

I don't know what to read next. Might read Fifty Shades of Grey after the "recommendations" here Also want to read World War Z, and am considering the Hunger Games, and Games of Thrones series. I would love to get into a good series because I get so involved in books that I hate when I finish them!

coffee_cake

ibarelycare wrote: »

Reading American Psycho at the moment. Fascinating book, I adore the way it's written. It's very gruesome but I love the blasé way he speaks about everything.

I don't know what to read next. Might read Fifty Shades of Grey after the "recommendations" here Also want to read World War Z, and am considering the Hunger Games, and Games of Thrones series. I would love to get into a good series because I get so involved in books that I hate when I finish them!

if you want a good long series, there's wheel of time :pac:

can recommend kate elliot crown of stars also

Mr_Spaceman

I'm reading a couple at the moment.

Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler (there was also a movie starring Paul Giamatti a year or so ago as well)

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Both are genuinely two of the best books I've ever read. Absolutely superb.

JohnMearsheimer

I'm reading The Cider House Rules by John Irving at the moment. I bought the book back in 2007 and read about 200 pages and gave up on it. Not finishing it has been bugging me for years but I'm sticking with it. It's better than I remembered it to be.

ibarelycare

So I downloaded Fifty Shades of Grey last night...eh what the hell? It's awful. It reads exactly like the Twilight books. The characters are all unlikeable and unbelievable. Ana's character in particular is pathetic (how many times does she say "oh my"? Who speaks like that?!) and it's just completely cringeworthy. I got fed up about 60 pages in and then just flicked through til I got to one of the infamous sex scenes.

Anyway avoid this drivel at all costs unless you want your IQ to diminish by a few points. Annoyed I actually paid for it :mad:

Nodin

ibarelycare wrote: »

So I downloaded Fifty Shades of Grey last night...eh what the hell? It's awful. It reads exactly like the Twilight books. .........

Indeedy.

The Fifty Shades trilogy was developed from a Twilightfan fiction originally titled Master of the Universe and published episodically on fan-fiction websites under the pen name "Snowqueens Icedragon." The piece featured characters named after Stephenie Meyer's characters in Twilight, Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. After comments concerning the sexual nature of the material, James removed the story from the fan-fiction websites and published it on her own website, FiftyShades.com. Later she rewrote Master of the Universe as an original piece, with the principal characters renamed Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele and removed it from her website prior to publication.[6] Meyer commented on the series, saying "that's really not my genre, not my thing ... Good on her — she's doing well. That's great!"[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_Shades_of_Grey

ibarelycare

Yeah I really should have looked into it more instead of just believing the hype :pac:

ibarelycare

ibarelycare wrote: »

So I downloaded Fifty Shades of Grey last night...eh what the hell? It's awful. It reads exactly like the Twilight books. The characters are all unlikeable and unbelievable. Ana's character in particular is pathetic (how many times does she say "oh my"? Who speaks like that?!) and it's just completely cringeworthy. I got fed up about 60 pages in and then just flicked through til I got to one of the infamous sex scenes.

Anyway avoid this drivel at all costs unless you want your IQ to diminish by a few points. Annoyed I actually paid for it :mad:

Oh god, I came home to my mam's house this evening to discover she's engrossed in the second book of this series. My mother, the total prude. I complained to her about the standard of writing and the characters. She just smiled and said she's enjoying it. Oh god why? I feel dirty now

Daisy M

This is going to be a thread I have to read from start to finish and hopefully I will pick up a few new reads on the way. I am reading book 5 of the zombie fallout series, its actually book 6 as there was a book 3.5 but whatever its a great series. I am seriously addicted to zombie books at the moment, I have a kindle which makes it all the easier to get new material. Any other zombie book fans out there???

skylight1987

The latest Ruth Rendell Inspector Wexford case . Its ok, wouldnt keep you up all night , kinda helps me drift off actually but a nice read all the same

aaronjumper

Just finished Contact Harvest. Will probably start on the Dracula book next.

WatchWolf

Pet Semetary by Stephen King.

I began reading it with the impression it was going to be some cheesy cat-zombie story but goddamn I was wrong.

It's very disturbing and not for the reasons you might think! I highly recommend it!

Washington Irving

Game Of Thrones series. Don't have the patience to wait for the third TV series, so I'll just read on

hairyprincess

Just finished Fifty Shades of Grey last night and I'm a quarter way through, the second book Fifty Shades Darker. They are brilliant!! I'm totally engrossed in them, poor kids are neglected at this stage!!

I'm wondering though have many men read the books, or are they solely in the 'mummy porn' niche?

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I'm reading the Flashman series by George Macdonald Fraser at the moment. Couldn't recommend them highly enough.

Paco Rodriguez

I had to stop reading 'Tour de Force'.....I just cant read biographies unless theyre military memoirs.
So Im onto tthe third of a trilogy by Johan Theorin called The Quarry.
Its a crime novel with a supernatural background story. I really like his writing. Because its translated from Swedish its easy to read English. Not one of these books that the author his flinging his vocabulary skills at you.

py2006

WatchWolf wrote: »

Pet Semetary by Stephen King.

I began reading it with the impression it was going to be some cheesy cat-zombie story but goddamn I was wrong.

It's very disturbing and not for the reasons you might think! I highly recommend it!

That was the first grown up book I read. I went from Enid Blyton to Roald Dahl to Pet Semetary!! :eek:

OakeyDokey

Also started 50 Shades of Grey, only 10% through and don't know what I think yet. Easy enough to read but a tad dreary so I hope it picks up.

boomtown123

Fifty Shade of Grey.

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katie piper beautiful

hairyprincess

OakeyDokey wrote: »

Also started 50 Shades of Grey, only 10% through and don't know what I think yet. Easy enough to read but a tad dreary so I hope it picks up.

Oh it definitely picks up! By about 20% or thereabouts :pac:

BIG BAD JOHN

"Down Under" by Bill Bryson. I picked it up for €1 at a coffee morning in Rathgar Methodist Church. I always enjoy his stuff. It's well-researched and often very funny. As the name suggests, this book is his take on Australia.