What Are You Reading?

Insect Overlord · 19-01-2009 3:53pm

I've about 50 pages to finish in the Inferno, but I've already started to read Dubliners by James Joyce. Was supposed to study it in English last year, only read a small fraction of the stories...

eVeNtInE · 19-01-2009 10:09pm

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Crumble Froo · 19-01-2009 10:21pm

thebigcheese22 wrote: »

Just started to re-read the Master and Margarita and just forgot how brilliant it is!!!

Anyone else read and love this book??

no. i've not really heard of it as a book before, but i do love a song of the same title, so i can only imagine that it's a reference to the book. what's the book about?

Fad · 19-01-2009 10:23pm

Re-reading the John Peel auto/biography (Margrave of the Marshes), when I think of a dead celebrity I'd like to have met, its him, he has a sense of humour, had such an impact on the music that we listen to today...............Gah I wish I met him, I went to see Muse in Wembley Stadium Zane Lowe was doing a DJ set, and he played some sample of him in the middle of some song, was ridiculously cool.

(Reading some of the other possible titles for the book, "How's Your Flow" "Jesus Wasn't made of Fish" and my personal favourite "A History Of The Iodine Trade 1847-1902")

Limerick Dude · 20-01-2009 12:26pm

Grahamo999 wrote: »

Haha, my bad! So is the Night-time one good?!!!

Yeah its a really good read, very unique in the way that it is written, from the perspective of the boy.

pepsicokeacola · 22-01-2009 5:50pm

geography book, ah i love the desert biome and horrible history(well actually i think its called horrible science or future, its like an offshoot of the horrible history book) ah i love them, was reading what the world will look like in years to come.

a prediction we will all live in massive skycraping apartments, in ireland tho i somehow doubt that

misslt · 22-01-2009 10:53pm

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?

pepsicokeacola · 22-01-2009 11:43pm

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?

ah nostaliga. nice book, bit boring at times but good.

thusspakeblixa · 23-01-2009 12:04am

I'm now reading
God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
and
The Egyptian Book Of The Dead
Both are awesome.

cautioner · 24-01-2009 1:36am

I. NEED. LITERATURE.

I got 3 books for Christmas and since then haven't read for pleasure at all. I saw a review of a pop-science neurology book in the Times that looked really good but it wasn't in Eason's when I was :mad:

Crumble Froo · 24-01-2009 2:16pm

well, im nearly finished my four books that were supposed to last me a couple of months, in less than a week.

i really need to get a job. and now, i also need to get a library card for sydney.

Censorsh!t · 07-02-2009 9:01pm

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.

Really not as bad as i expected. In fact, I like it.

cautioner · 08-02-2009 2:41am

Current wishlist:

The Kingdom of Infinite Space - Raymond Tallis.

Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England - Steve Jones.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky.

Need moneyz

EmoMatt15 · 08-02-2009 3:58pm

Misery by Stephen King

Piste · 08-02-2009 4:24pm

Lately all I have time to read are school textbooks

RHRN · 08-02-2009 4:27pm

EmoMatt15 wrote: »

Misery by Stephen King

First Stephen King book I ever read, still love it.

I'm reading:
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
Anathem - Neal Stephenson

EmoMatt15 · 08-02-2009 7:09pm

RHRN wrote: »

First Stephen King book I ever read, still love it.

Its my first Stephen King book too, and so far its excellent!

Aisling(",) · 08-02-2009 7:12pm

Accidents of Nature by Harriet McBryde johnson

phasers · 08-02-2009 8:40pm

Charlie Brooker's Screenburn

Bought it on Saturday and I'm glued. I've done no homework this weekend as a result, but it's so worth it.

Nightwish · 08-02-2009 9:26pm

I'm currently re-reading the Twilight series. I cant help it. I'm completely smitten

Aisling(",) · 08-02-2009 9:55pm

Nightwish wrote: »

I'm currently re-reading the Twilight series. I cant help it. I'm completely smitten

oh aye!
jacob or edward?

EmoMatt15 · 08-02-2009 10:35pm

Aisling(",) wrote: »

jacob or edward?

I prefer Jasper!! lol

Nightwish · 08-02-2009 11:09pm

T-shirt wearing member of Team Edward

Jesus Juice · 08-02-2009 11:22pm

Im reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy and Rose Madder by Stephen King and a biography of Ho Chi Minh weirdly!!

cautioner · 08-02-2009 11:25pm

Jesus Juice wrote: »

Im reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy and Rose Madder by Stephen King and a biography of Ho Chi Minh weirdly!!

Best book I've read in months.

Jesus Juice · 08-02-2009 11:25pm

Nightwish wrote: »

T-shirt wearing member of Team Edward

Ah get out,get out!!!!:pac:

Neverwhere · 08-02-2009 11:25pm

haha funny.

I'm on Checkmate....the last of the twilight series.

All I can say about it?Load of CRAP! Series is awful. My problem is once I've started reading a series like it, I have to continue....even if its crap, I just want to know what happens in the end.

Waste of my precious time though. (Maybe thats why its taken me so long to read.....)

Piste · 08-02-2009 11:26pm

Isn't the last book called new moon or something? Not checkmate anyway.

Jesus Juice · 08-02-2009 11:27pm

cautioner wrote: »

Best book I've read in months.

Yeah, definitely!not one for the kids though!!:eek:

cautioner · 08-02-2009 11:29pm

Neverwhere wrote: »

haha funny.

I'm on Checkmate....the last of the twilight series.

All I can say about it?Load of CRAP! Series is awful. My problem is once I've started reading a series like it, I have to continue....even if its crap, I just want to know what happens in the end.

Waste of my precious time though. (Maybe thats why its taken me so long to read.....)

That's exactly what happened to me - me then-girlfriend was mad into those books and convinced me to get them. I always have to finish a series too, sucks balls money-wise.

Nightwish · 08-02-2009 11:31pm

Piste wrote: »

Isn't the last book called new moon or something? Not checkmate anyway.

Twilight->New Moon->Eclipse->Breaking Dawn

Fad · 08-02-2009 11:33pm

Nightwish wrote: »

I'm currently re-reading the Twilight series. I cant help it. I'm completely smitten

And I thought Nightwish was cool...........

Mushy · 08-02-2009 11:34pm

Reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell..interesting stories in it, I like his stuff.

Nightwish · 08-02-2009 11:34pm

I was never cool :eek:

Neverwhere · 08-02-2009 11:34pm

haha cautioner...yeah i know it does suck. HOw fake is the love?

And yes....yes i did get teh name of the book wrong....just goes to show how much I care. xD

Fad · 08-02-2009 11:36pm

Nightwish wrote: »

I was never cool :eek:

thought

banshee_bones · 08-02-2009 11:36pm

george orwell : inside the whale and other essays

Insect Overlord · 09-02-2009 1:22am

Neverwhere wrote: »

I'm on Checkmate....the last of the twilight series.

I think Checkmate is the last book in the Noughts & Crosses trilogy.

Mushy · 09-02-2009 6:40pm

Jurgen Habermas: Toward a Rational Society: The Student Protest Movement

Tis for college project. Based on the topic of the project, its actually very good from what I've read so far. Yay for skepticism and No to Fee's:D

DenMan · 09-02-2009 9:41pm

The Godfather by Mario Puzzo. I had put it away for a little while and am now back to it. Really love it.

Neverwhere · 09-02-2009 11:42pm

An File wrote: »

I think Checkmate is the last book in the Noughts & Crosses trilogy.

that my friend, was my mistake...very true.

And let me say....Noughts and Crosses WAS a good series....

Queen-Mise · 10-02-2009 12:34am

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity
A book about Rousseau & Hobbes
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
The first book of a series by David Farland

I am always reading more than one book, and can never remember authors or titles, I would have to go get the books to know :pac::pac:

Crumble Froo · 10-02-2009 1:50am

dubliners by james joyce.

trying to psyche myself up for ulysses.

cautioner · 10-02-2009 8:43pm

Neverwhere wrote: »

haha cautioner...yeah i know it does suck. HOw fake is the love?

And yes....yes i did get teh name of the book wrong....just goes to show how much I care. xD

I persuaded a friend (penisless, obviously) to buy the books from me today, managed to salvage €20 and perhaps a smidgeon of male self-esteem :pac:

cautioner · 16-02-2009 1:02am

... not even a smidgeon then? Darn.

Fad · 16-02-2009 1:10am

I'm reading "Flow, My Tears, the Policeman Said"-Philip K. Dick

Heggy · 17-02-2009 12:09am

Just finished War of the Worlds.

I just started reading The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. He seems to have lot of famous books that I haven't read.

Fad · 17-02-2009 1:05am

Heggy wrote: »

Just finished War of the Worlds.

I just started reading The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. He seems to have lot of famous books that I haven't read.

Im gonna skip the one Blade Runners based on, Valis is meant to be good.

Our Friends from Frolix 8 is brilliant, nerdiest title ever though!

Heggy · 17-02-2009 1:37am

The title of the one Blade Runner is based on is pretty nerdy too,
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". It sounds a whole lot more profound though.

Futurism · 19-02-2009 12:00am

I'm reading:

The Fellowship of the Ring - So far,fantastic.
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins. Not far enough into it yet but liking it more than The God Delusion.

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