If this is allready a thread forgive me.
So what are you currently reading?
I'm reading Stephen Kings Dark Tower III:THE WASTE LANDS
This series is epic and proves that KING is in the same league as J.R.R Tolkien, C.S Lewis and L. Frank Baum.
If this is allready a thread forgive me.
So what are you currently reading?
I'm reading Stephen Kings Dark Tower III:THE WASTE LANDS
This series is epic and proves that KING is in the same league as J.R.R Tolkien, C.S Lewis and L. Frank Baum.
Gothic! The Original Dark Tales
(Mystery/story book, 250 pages I think)
(It's in my locker in school, sorry)
David McCullough's 1776. I've been in a history nerd mood, lately.
Good book, though. He really creates the atmosphere of the war well.
David McCullough's 1776. I've been in a history nerd mood, lately.
Good book, though. He really creates the atmosphere of the war well.
Which war is it do you know? I've been looking for a good war book to read, do you reccomend this story as a good history story?
The book is labeled "1776". What war do YOU think it is?
And yes, I recommend it. It's wonderfully well-written.
Oh my bad, I didnt know what the 1776 was refering to.
Ill definatly see if I can find it, thanks.
Garth Nix's Across the Wall and other short stories, Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boy's and American Gods, Queen's Theif, Heart's Blood, Prince Umbra, and a few others.
Lucretia's Dreams. I don't really care for this kind of history but I need to get through this class to finish a degree requirement. Couldn't come at a worse time either (the teacher said this is the "par for a history course in reading" and I'm swamped with MIC/PHY/ECN work).
Chronicles of Narnia..just finished The Horse and his Boy…
That was then, this is now by S.E. Hilton, one of the best books
A Simple Plan by Scott Smith and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Red by Ted Dekker.
Its the second book in The Circle Trilogy.
Red by Ted Dekker.
Its the second book in The Circle Trilogy.
I remember hearing mix reviews on those books, would you reccomend them?
Forever Odd, second book in the Odd series by Dean Koontz, and also One Door Away From Heaven by the same author, both are amazing, i definitely recommend them.
Stephan King's The Stand, about 1200 pages long and I'm almost on page 100. I tried to read it last year, but thought it was really boring. It doesn't seem that boring this time around but maybe that's in comparison to the book I tried to read before it, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Sooooooo boring after about page 90. And if anyone cares, I read Don Quixote last year and I highly recommend it.
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…Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Abosolutely loved it. I read it last year and I'd say it was right behing Don Quixote as my favorite book i read last year.
@Kairouseki:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Sooooooo boring after about page 90.
Huh thats funny, Cause i read that book in one sitting, all 608 pages and i was spell bound the entiere time
Right now im atleast trying to read the da vinci code, Great story and im dying to find out whats next But im just to restless to read right now, So that Tom Hanks movie is looking mighty tempting right about now:ninja:
The Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Salinger
This is my second time reading it. This time for a school project. I forgot how good it was.
Crime and Punishment boring? Bah! I have read that book twice. I can't say the same about many books.
Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. I have been in mood for sci-fi for a while. This one seems less… preachy than other Heinlein's books what I have read. Although preachiness is sorta the reason why Heinlein is fun to read.
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Da zing! http://apforums.net/showthread.php?t=5767&highlight=book. Not the first thread for the subject, and probably not the last.
A Simple Plan by Scott Smith and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
I've read A Simple Plan long time ago, it was pretty nice, but some characters I found annoying.
And Wolfwood, the da vinchi movie sucks, it was the first time only I actually fell asleep when I was in a cinema.
I'm reading Out by Natsuo Kirino right now, and it's damn good and exciting. The setting is in the underworld of tokyo you could say, with the poor living, loan sharks and yakuza. It's very nice to read after you play Yakuza2 like im doing now. ^^
I'm also reading Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami (my favourite author), since it's only a collection of short stories I take some breaks from it.
And I tried reading that Djingis Khan book by Conn Iggulden, but it hasnt really captured my intrest so far so it has to wait until I'm done reading everything else.
I'm leaning towards books.
Going through Oliver Twist for the first time. I've been in a real Dickens frenzy for the past couple of months and I'm loving every bit of it. Oliver doesn't really seem to be matching up to stuff like Great Expectations or Hard Times, but it's definitely incredibly fun.
Also just went through The Life of Pi, which was… Inspiring in its own way.
Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. I have been in mood for sci-fi for a while. This one seems less… preachy than other Heinlein's books what I have read. Although preachiness is sorta the reason why Heinlein is fun to read.
Hey, that's my favourite out of all of Heinlein's works. He's really done some truly terrible stuff, but Stranger in a Strange Land is what continues to lend him credence as a writer in my eyes.
Crime and Punishment boring? Bah! I have read that book twice. I can't say the same about many books.
Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. I have been in mood for sci-fi for a while. This one seems less… preachy than other Heinlein's books what I have read. Although preachiness is sorta the reason why Heinlein is fun to read.
Edit:
Da zing! http://apforums.net/showthread.php?t=5767&highlight=book. Not the first thread for the subject, and probably not the last.
That's weird, I searched for a thread like this and I could not find a thing.
i am so far in the mood to read some philosophy books…last 1 i read was " hector ;his search after luck" orso...was to low for my taste..i rly like some more difficult or harder to understand lecture ...
does some1 here have a good book which could fit my taste??
(so far i haven`t found a book which was rly that appealing ,just want to try some lecture where you have to think about) hope some1 here know a good offer....
Try either: Paradise Lost or Beowulf
Deaf Like Me & Mother Father Deaf
(gee, I wonder what type of degree I'M studying for)
In terms of pure entertainment though? None currently :P
I just finished reading "You Gotta Have Wa - When Two Cultures Collide on the Baseball Diamond" by Robert Whiting, about Japanese baseball in the 1980s and the Gaijin who played there.
Gaijin means outsider right?
Usually, foreighner.
I'm reading 1984 by George Orwell. Still torwards the beginning. but still pretty interesting.
I'm trying to manage three books at the moment…
Man in the High Castle
Oil!
and No Country for Old Men. Which I've already read but just going through it again because I like it.
Each are pretty awesome in their own way, I'd reccommend them all.
I liked the movie No Country For Old Men so I guess I should pick up the book.
I'm currently reading Dark Life by Michael Ray Taylor.
It might be a boring science-y book for some. But I actually find it quite interesting even though I've only started reading it a few days ago.
I'm reading Homer's "The Odyssey" for Classical studies, but I'm also in middle of reading both "Rose Madder" and "Dreamcatcher," both by Stephen King. : )
More than halfway over with James Clavell's Shogun.
very good read.
I heard that shogun is a very big and very thick book, is that true?
@Mog:
Hey, that's my favourite out of all of Heinlein's works.
I finished it up last night. Definitely good but The Moon is a Harsh Mistress will still stay as my favourite by Heinlein (but why there isn't a movie based on it? A helluva movie it would be). I guess Stranger was just too otherworldly for me.
Yeah, if not anything else, Life of Pi can at least be an inspiring story (and there's a movie in making based on it, thank you very much).
I haven't actually been reading Man in the High Castle but I have been listening it. I'm fan of audiobooks and have a big collection of Dick's novels on my computers. So far High Castle has been good alright so I guess I too would recommend it.
Patrick Süskind's Perfume.
It's really good if the fact that pretty much the whole book is about odours and perfumes doesn't bother you.
No Country for Old Men. Which I've already read but just going through it again because I like it.
I've had some of McCarthy's books stashed in my room for a good while (including that one), but never really got the chance to work up the nerve to actually start reading that one.
I did read The Crossing, which was so… heavy I'm almost hesitant to jump into that head again. Considering how much I liked the movie, though, I really should at least get cracking on No Country…
I finished it up last night. Definitely good but The Moon is a Harsh Mistress will still stay as my favourite by Heinlein (but why there isn't a movie based on it? A helluva movie it would be).
Well, I'd plead guilty to not actually having read that one yet, but now you definitely got me curious. I think my dad has it shelved somewhere so if I can find it….
Yeah, if not anything else, Life of Pi can at least be an inspiring story (and there's a movie in making based on it, thank you very much).
Really? Wow. It'll be incredibly hard to pull off, but if they do it just right it could be fantastic. I kind of hope they won't go for a CGI tiger, though… But then they almost definitely will.
@Mog:
I've had some of McCarthy's books stashed in my room for a good while (including that one), but never really got the chance to work up the nerve to actually start reading that one.
I did read The Crossing, which was so… heavy I'm almost hesitant to jump into that head again. Considering how much I liked the movie, though, I really should at least get cracking on No Country…
The biggest thing to get over is his style of writing dialogue, it requires a great deal of concentration when your reading through a long conversation.
Well, it wasn't so much a stylistic or textual kind of heavy for me, but the themes and the atmosphere… Man that was gloomy stuff.
I still really liked it, though, and I'm pretty convinced I'll like No Country too, but I'll have to give myself a little push to get going.
More than halfway over with James Clavell's Shogun.
very good read.
Oh man, the ending in that book is fucked up I screamed out loud actually. You'll see when you get there.
I need to discipline myself into reading more…maybe i'll try an hour or two a day.
Oh man, the ending in that book is fucked up I screamed out loud actually. You'll see when you get there.
Is it as bad as Albert Camus' "The Stranger" or Junichiro Tanizaki's "Quicksand"? Cause if it is . . . . . I'm not touching it.
Is it as bad as Albert Camus' "The Stranger" or Junichiro Tanizaki's "Quicksand"? Cause if it is . . . . . I'm not touching it.
Havnt read any of those. It's not a bad ending just a real mind bender, a great plot twist.
And Wolfwood, the da vinchi movie sucks, it was the first time only I actually fell asleep when I was in a cinema.
Impossible!:shocked: Its Tom Hanks for gods sake, with the exception of Cast away the general rule of thumb rule Tom Hanks is always awesome has never steered me wrong. I have to see it to belive it.
Havnt read any of those. It's not a bad ending just a real mind bender, a great plot twist.
Ah.
Well . . . . . . I'm not sure I recommend those two books then. They're considered classics (the former is considered mandatory reading if you're studying existentialism), but they are the type of book that makes you want to hurl them across the room as hard as you can.
Currently reading The Hobbit, Robinson Crusoe ('on hiatus'), Magaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, The Female Eunich by Germaine Greer and have yet to start Mother Courge and her Children.
Have to read about half a dozen books for English Lit A level(though the first two mentioned are personal reads). It's a bit awkward reading consistently for me though, I always find I might get into the story and start reading a couple of chapters for a few weeks on a sort of 'burst period' then stop reading for a while(which makes it even more annoying when it's work-related).
Have to say, when I heard that The Handmaid's Tale was supposedly 'sci-fi' I had my doubts, but it's quite an amazing read. The Female Eunich however…it's pretty hard to 'get into' but once you get to the punchy stuff then it becomes interesting.
A cookie to anyone who knows which movement these books are involved in.
Well for me im re-reading eldest so as to get a refresh on the story before i read Brisinger who knows when
Both books are written by Christopher Paolini.
Wheel of Time series- Crown of Swords, I am really having trouble through this one. It seems to be the worst out of the whole saga for me and if I don't read I won't be ready for "Memory of Light"
lot's of books i've never even heard of, I'm trying to finish this damn king book that way I can start reading book 4 of the dark tower series.
@Mog:
Really? Wow. It'll be incredibly hard to pull off, but if they do it just right it could be fantastic. I kind of hope they won't go for a CGI tiger, though… But then they almost definitely will.
Shyamalan was originally supposed to direct it, then Jeunet (the director of Amélie) was supposed to do it and now… I'm not actually sure who will direct it but I believe they are still very much planning of making the movie.
Now I'm reading Old Man's War by John Scalzi. Another sci-fi. It's surprisingly entertaining even though it sounded like a cheap Starship Trooper/Forever War knockoff.