What Are You Reading?

CTYIgirl wrote: »

I am so annoyed at the ending of Allegiant, it kills me. I understand why it happened, and it was damn brave, but no. IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

The ending killed me as well! It's a real stab in the heart! Very well written though and I just felt it was one of those books were even though that's not how you wanted it to end, you just feel it was right or something! I loved it anyways!

What are you planning on reading next?

Bazinga_N wrote: »

The ending killed me as well! It's a real stab in the heart! Very well written though and I just felt it was one of those books were even though that's not how you wanted it to end, you just feel it was right or something! I loved it anyways!

What are you planning on reading next?

My sister got her hands on an ARC of the next Sarah Rees Brennan book (I'm rather upset she got one and I didn't, she hasn't even read the series) so possibly that. Or going through the pile of ebooks I bought, because I won a €100 amazon giftcard, so I went shopping.

What's your FYP about Aragneer?

Aragneer wrote: »

I am writing about the Southern gothic sub-genre in No Country for Old Men and To Kill a Mockingbird. I am thinking of doing the subject of gender (as women are back up characters in NCfOM and mains in TKaM) but I can't work out a thesis topic...

Any ideas or advice? :P I'm a little panicked by it even though I love what I'm doing :P

I'm a bad one to be asking for advice :P

I do actually show a clip of TKaM to my kids when we're talking about disease. The bit where I always thought that was such a powerful symbol, even though he was a good man he couldn't save everybody. Nobody can.

I'm on a reading binge lately and am currently reading Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, I've been meaning to read something by him for ages after hearing such good things. One of my habits,when reading a book, is to look up quotes by the author, partly to decide if I want to read more and partly because I just really love reading quotes. This guy, I really just need some medium to express how blown away I am. I think there's a cobwebbed quotes thread lying around somewhere but this will do fine.

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

''Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”

“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.”

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”

“Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”

I actually had like three times this many quotes but I went back and removed some so as to avoid making an essay out of the whole thing. So good though, off to read his entire works now...

Just finished "The Man In The High Castle" by Philip K. Dick.
It's a really interesting what if?/alternate history novel.
The "what if?" scenario being a world where the Axis powers won WWII.

Dick does a really good job of creating a believable American society with the Japanese as the ruling class. The Cold War being a stand off between The Reich and Empire rather than the Yanks and the Russians. The central point of the story being a book being published describing a society where the allies won the war and the events set in motion by the books release. The Nazis and The Japs waging an invisible war on the streets of San Francisco

There's this whole commentary on antiques and art and how people pay vast amounts of money on things based on the "historcity" of them. I.e age, brands. And how essentially its meaningless and stupid.


Really good read.

Mad about you by Sinead Moriarty

Just reading The Hobbit and how I haven't read it before I do not know..

Find a job probably. :pac:

Just finished Filth by Irvine Welsh.
Grim is not even the word.
I need a hug now.

iamanengine wrote: »

Currently reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It's theeee best!

I love the film. Is the book even better?

Picked up a book while waiting on a bus in Galway the other day.
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Pretty standard Sci-fi; using futuristic settings to comment on contempary society .
Follows a colonist from Mercury as they trek through the galaxy from planet to terraformed planet with the occasional terraformed asteroid thrown in.

Reminds me a lot of Asimov's Empire series, pretty derivative stuff but some of the imagery in it is beautiful; been having science-boners for days.

There's this two page description of sunrise on mercury in the first chapter that is just fupping sexy.

Well worth a read if you like sci-fI.

I'm actually finding the reviews of 'Go Set A Watchman' a bit disturbing.

I think I just have to buy and read it though.

LoonyLovegood wrote: »

I nearly bought Go Set A Watchman today. I want to read it, but it seems very dodgy how it was 'uncovered'.

What do you mean?

Planning on picking up a copy tomorrow!!

LoonyLovegood wrote: »

I nearly bought Go Set A Watchman today. I want to read it, but it seems very dodgy how it was 'uncovered'.

Sounds a bit dodgy alright. I'd say $$ were flashing in the eyes of the person who found that manuscript.

I have to read it though. I haven't been this interested in a book in years. Slight sense of foreboding though. Difficult to describe my feeling about it.. I shall go for the Dutch word 'spannend'. :pac:

Everly Crooked Valedictorian wrote: »

Bam, First post on this forum! I'm reading "The Death of WCW: 10th Anniversary Edition" by Bryan Alvarez. It's a Wrestling book (Yep, I'm one of those guys) about World Championship Wrestling and tells the tale of their inception, how they overtook the WWF (now WWE) in a ratings war and nearly put them out of business and through bad decisions still managed to fumble it all and go out of business in 2001.

I have virtually non interest in wrestling, but this sounds like a really interesting book and I may pick it up.



Heard a review for this Harper Lee book that just said "it's a bit meh. Just go and read TKaM."

Having never read TKaM, would y'all recommend it? I've always sort of kept it in the Catcher in the Rye, Jane Eyre, etc pile of "great literature" that I just can't be arsed investigating.

TKaM is a book that I read every summer. (I'm actually due to read it around now) Atticus has been in my top list for boys if I ever have kids for years, thanks to it.