What are you reading... Now...

[Brodie]

I'm in the middle of a cluster-buster of books:

High Fidelity - Scary good, considering its written how men think....
A Brief History Of Time - Stephen Hawking, baby
A Prayer For Owen Meany - Hahaha, Simon Birch.
War Of The Worlds - So...wait...Tom who?

[Anarky]

High Fidelity - Scary good, considering its written how men think....

One of the worst books I've ever read. Usually the book is better than the movie, and this time the movie was way better than the book.

War Of The Worlds - So...wait...Tom who?

Great book.

What am I reading?

Outsiders (the most recent issue): mindboggling, Brainiac
This thread: sort of new
"Media Control" - Noam Chomsky: Great book about how media influences us
"Winterkrieg in Tibet" - Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Dead boring and very comlicated, but I have to read it.

[damnhooligan]

"In Praise of Nepotism" by Adam Bellow, historical non-fiction about family enterprises.

I'm one of those folks that reads one book at a time, but I usually plow through them within a couple days or so. And thanks for reminding me that I really need to throw down a couple hundred bucks on new reading material.

[KROW]

"The Cleric Quintet" by R.A. Salvatore, a collection of five novels about a cleric named Cadderly and his friends Danica and two dwarves named Ivan and Pikel Bouldershoulder. It's over 1,000 pages long and it's very good.

[Brodie]

I disagree about High Fidelity being bad, I read a lot, and it reads way better than a lot of stephen king books. I just like the first person view into a dude's psyche who thinks an awful lot like every man ever.

Just something I can relate to.

It's a lot like Chuck Palahniuks work, just less prolific and masochistic.

I just finished Palahniuk's 'Haunted'm and have Invisible Monsters to read too.

[malignant]

I just got done reading The War of the Worlds......yeah, great book.


Currently reading - Deep Freeze.

[raphael_is_cool]

Currently reading:

The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum
Blast from the Past by Ben Elton

[TMNT571]

I disagree about High Fidelity being bad, I read a lot, and it reads way better than a lot of stephen king books. I just like the first person view into a dude's psyche who thinks an awful lot like every man ever.

Just something I can relate to.

It's a lot like Chuck Palahniuks work, just less prolific and masochistic.

I just finished Palahniuk's 'Haunted'm and have Invisible Monsters to read too.

Yea you need to finish Invisible Monster up bitch.

Any way.
Just finished the Trilogy by Will Christopher Baer.

Kiss Me, Judas
Penny Dreadful
Hells Half Acre

I recommend to anyone and everyone.

Now I kind of have a stack of books that I'm not sure where to start.

American gods by Nei Gaiman
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Pattern recognition by William Gibson

[FireFly]

right now im reading

NOVELS
star wars NJO the unifying force

comics
MK spider-man
DareDevil
uncanny x-men
ASM
TNA
amazing fantasy
arana
batman
JSA

[IceFlash78]

I just finished a couple of books...

Shadows by John Saul
Where the Red Fern Grow by...the name esacapes me...
This Was Then, This Is Now... by S.E. Hilton (sp?)

[DrSpengler]

My comic shop restocked it's back issues of Swamp Thing volume 2 (virtually the entire series) and I've been scrambling to read them as fast as I can (before other people start buying them).

I've been reading about 15 issues a week and I'm at #80 right now. God damn, these are comic books at their finest.

[tekcop]

Some AP psychology study books, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams, and re-reading Lords of Chaos.

[Hannah]

Uh... I just read Inkheart.




...........man i feel dumb T-T

[Peanut]

"The Cleric Quintet" by R.A. Salvatore, a collection of five novels about a cleric named Cadderly and his friends Danica and two dwarves named Ivan and Pikel Bouldershoulder. It's over 1,000 pages long and it's very good.

Those are awesome books. I read through them about 2 years ago.

[ThirdMarioBro]

...This thread.

:lol:

Okay okay...Star Wars: The Cestus Deception

[Voltron]

Batman-No Man's Land.

I heard good things about it, so I had to pick it up.

[Brodie]

American Psycho
Superheroes & Philosophy: Truth, Justice and the Socratic Way

[verminator_x]

life of christiane f.

[KROW]

Those are awesome books. I read through them about 2 years ago.
Indeed they are. I started "Quintet" after filling my head with all the awesome Drizzt adventures, which took a good chunk of time. After this I intend to read Salvatore's "The Highwayman."

[Sewer Bull]

life of christiane f.

The one from Bahnhof Zoo?

My present book - Joris-Karl Huysmans - "Against the Grain" aka "A rebours".

[DrSpengler]

Just picked up some reprints of the old EC Tales From the Crypt comics. Good stuff.

[verminator_x]

yup the bahnhof zoo.

[Anarky]

"Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo - Christiane F." is an awesome book. Sort of makes you really sad, but yet lets you cheer for Christiane.

Did you know that she was an actress for a while and is currently living off social aid. Kind of sad...

[verminator_x]

no, i didnt. that is sad, i mean after all the movie and the book of her life, was a big commercial sucsess. she must be at least in her late 40s now.

the music soundtrack from the movie is beautiful and sad, i like the part when david bowie steps in. he lived in berlin at the same time, and the albums low and heroes were inspired by the book about christiane f.

did not know that she was an actress, well she was very pretty so i could understand.

[Anarky]

I found her IMDB-entry (http://imdb.com/name/nm0271574/) and this picture of her. She really was pretty. Everyone should read that book, it's really good.

http://christianef.blig.ig.com.br/imagens/a1.jpg

[verminator_x]

she looks like an angel, she is today 45 years old or 46.
her boy friend or best friend detlef does anyone know if he still alive.

the book should be school material, everyone in the ages of 13 and up, and who goes to school must read it.

[Anarky]

And Babsi (Babette D.) was actually the daughter of a very famous pianist as well as the youngest drug victim of Berlin.

And there are way worse pictures of her... especially the ones from the time depicted in the book.

Detlef is currently living in Berlin, works as a mailman for parcels, has wife and children and has been clean for a very long time.

Have you seen the movie too?

EDIT: That is her today. 43 years old, living in Berlin Spandau.

http://hem.bredband.net/b112579/christiane/images/Christiane_denmark.jpg

EDIT 2: And the actress who played Christane F. in the movie was probably the best casting-thing German moviemakers ever made.

http://www.kleinedingen.nl/diary/pictures/christif.jpg

[verminator_x]

seen the movie just once, but i have read the book at least 10 times.
thanks for the info, havent seen any new photos of christiane.
its nice to hear that things has gone well with detlef.

[lambofun]

Just picked up some reprints of the old EC Tales From the Crypt comics. Good stuff.

I use to be scared of the crypt keeper that would pop up in the beginning of Tales from the Crypt on HBO. Good show after I started not running away everytime the show began. lol

I just found a weird site to TOTC http://www.geocities.com/imb210/

[Brodie]

Fastfood Nation

[Anarky]

its nice to hear that things has gone well with detlef.

Talking about Detlef. He says that his relationship with Christiane was a pure drug-relationship, no love involved. He's probably right...

[Zachatello00]

I'm reading the Revenge of the Sith novel. It supplements the movie very well, making it even better.

[cowabunga14]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Artobiography by Kevin Eastman-This is my second time readin' the book. Its intrestin' to see Kevin's concept sketches and other various artwork. The thumbnails really get my attention. Its intrestin' to see what Peter and Kevin had to do for the process of makin' a comic book.

The Tonuge: A Creative Force by Charles Capps-This is a very profound book. I like the biblical nature of it. The Scriptures in the book really go with what a particular chapter is about.

Ok comic books:
Army of Darkness
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Spider-Man
X-Men

[KROW]

I recently took a break from my R.A. Salvatore novel to read the TPB collection of DC Comics' Space Ghost. Holy Hell, was that a good read. Dark, brooding, entertaining. The story was well in its place and the art was excellent; a perfect follow for Alex Ross' cover pieces.

A very nice breather from my usual epic reads.

[cowabunga14]

I also readin' The Journey Home by Edward Abbey. That's a great book. I really like how Abbey describes his experince in the west. He travels to various west coast states and he's tryin' to get to Home, Pennsylvania. I don't wanna give too much away. A comic book I forgot to list is Marvel Milestones. That's a great one. I like how the classic comics that are collected in there are ones that I don't have. It was intrestin' to read about Spider-Man's black costume and Iron Man's origin.

[Raphael29]

That would be Star Wars : Revenge of the Sith for the 3rd time.

[Zachatello00]

That would be Star Wars : Revenge of the Sith for the 3rd time.
Very good choice!

[JaffleMan]

Just starting reading the dark tower series by Stephen King. Midway through the second book.

[Brodie]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass.

Weird as hell.

[Mandi-chan]

Right now I'm reading:

War of the Worlds (loving it, but like the 2005 movie a littl bit better)

Crimson City (interesting futuristic story about vamps, were-wolves, and humans sharing the city of Angles!)

[Barkworm]

I've just finished Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Now, that was some good reading.

[Ra]

I had to read that for English. It funny, even though it has been around for about 500 years, but it's still funny

[damnhooligan]

I'm in the process of polishing off a couple light reading books my mother-in-law sent me. They're a bit too cutesy for my tastes, so I think I'll need to combat them with a heavy dose of Mervyn Peake.

Portuguese Irregular Verbs by Alexander Mccall Smith
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

[cqb101]

Just finished reading Stephen Kings Carrie for like the fifth time. Now I'm reading "Going After Cacciato" by Tim O'Brien. It's slow but good.

[Anarky]

I'm reading "Militärmusik" (military music) by Wladimir Kaminer. He's a jewish russian who lived in the CCCP in his youth. He wasn't exactly good at anything apart from story-telling. So he tells us his stories as a child, a rocker and a young soldier back in the day. It is very entertaining and well written.

[Hannah]

I'm startign to read Sabriel...

[Voltron]

I'm reading The Kite Runner. It's about a young boy in 1970's Afghanistan. It's absolutely fantastic thus far. I recommend it.

[Leonardo_]

At the moment I am reading the series of Wolfgang Hohlbein "Chronik der Unsterblichen" = "Chronicle of the immortals".
It's about a vampire and very interesting.

[The Stryker]

Captain Underpants

Intriging

[Lord Nightwalker]

I just finished reading "the Historian" by Elizabeth Kostovo. Very good read. Now I'm reading the Zombie Survival guide again.

[Anarky]

I'm currently on "Die Stümper" (The losers) by Andreas Niedermann. A book about a former author without success who works in a steel factory at the moment. He meets a director who is rather successful and that director wants the author to write for him.

Andreas Niedermann is one of my favourite authors, he writes very down to earth and his characters are very credible, and they always come out of everyone's everday life. So basically your coworker could be a main character of one of his books.

[Voltron]

I'm reading "Kindred." Quite possibly the worst book ever written. Never read it. Ever.

[Anarky]

At the moment I am reading the series of Wolfgang Hohlbein "Chronik der Unsterblichen" = "Chronicle of the immortals".
It's about a vampire and very interesting.

Do you know the comic that goes with the book(s)? I myself am not a big fan of Hohlbein, infact, I can't stand fantasy as a whole, so I wouldn't know if there was more then one book.

Anyhow, the cover to that book looks rather good, and it's not too expensive.

http://coverscans.com/scans/Jano/sm_20041010_152708.jpg
Click to enlarge (http://coverscans.com/scans/Jano/lg_20041010_152708.jpg)

[Leonardo_]

The cover of my book looks not the same like yours.

I don't know the comix, I only borrowed it from my best friend :) and there are 8 books alltoghether.

[Mars-Chan]

Let's see here...

1) "Riding Lessons" by Sarah Gruen (Her first book. Must say I'm quite impressed with her romance novel)
2) "Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire" ---GREAT book! AWESOME BOOOK!!! Rent it, read it, enjoy it!!
3) Anne Rice--- "Interview with the Vampire" and "The Vampire Armand"
4) "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5) "Midnight Louie's Pet Detectives" by Carole Nelson Douglas (Stories told from the animal's point of veiw)
6) "Grace for the Moment" Max Lucado

[Voltron]

"Saturday" by Ian McEwan. I think the guy is a schizophrenic. He writes all over the place.

[ThirdMarioBro]

2) "Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire" ---GREAT book! AWESOME BOOOK!!! Rent it, read it, enjoy it!!

Oh hell yeah, now THAT is a book worth reading.

[Voltron]

"The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night" I believe it's called? I didn't pay much attention to the title. These books just get worse and worse... :dead:

[Cerpin Taxt]

I just finished reading V for Vendetta. It's one of the best graphic novels I've ever read.

[Space Lieutenant Josh]

"Your Perfect Right"... I need to be more assertive.

[Serp]

Book- The Odyssey

[Sewer Bull]

I just finished reading V for Vendetta. It's one of the best graphic novels I've ever read.

V for Vendetta is truly remarkable. This is the work of Alan Moore that I value the most.

[hazlov2004]

a still forest pool it`s good book and it is worth reading

[Brodie]

Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas
The Da Vinci Code

[Jaf]

Books :
Brecht - Writings on Theatre; essential for it's view on the artist involvment in society
Blaise Cendrars - Complete Poems; the guy rocks, period.

Comics :
Kid Koala - Nufonia Must Fall; a whole lotta comix fun from the world's best turnablist
Enki Bilal - Le Sommeil du Monstre & 32 Décembre; graphic storytelling at his best. Can't wait for the trilogy's final chapter to come out (in about five years :cry: )

My present book - Joris-Karl Huysmans - "Against the Grain" aka "A rebours".Des heures et des heures de plaisir décadent... Ever read «Là-bas?» I just love the chapter on the art of playing the bells. :D

[cowabunga14]

I recently picked up The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells from my school library. This one looks like it'll be a good read.

[Brodie]

Graphic Style by Heller and Chwast
7 Essentials of Graphic Design by Goodman
Signs of Life: Readings on pop culture for writers by Solomon
All of those for school

Make Love * The Bruce Campbell Way
Hellbound Heart (AKA Hellraiser) (done)
Fear & loathing in las Vegas

[Hannurdock]

I'm reading Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice. Slowly. Verrrrry slowly. LOL!

Hannurdock

[cowabunga14]

Make Love * The Bruce Campbell Way


I'd like to get my hands on that one. I heard that Make Love is an excellent read. Did you gets yours signed by Bruce?

[Kid Icarus]

Eldest, part two of Paolini's Inheritance thingy. Good book, so far, although Nintendogs distracted me for a couple of weeks.

[OA]

Just started reading the latest Harry Potter...

[Anarky]

"Chinese Whispers" by Peter May. It's really good, but don't be scared by the first couple of pages (which sort of are softporno-like). It's about a Policeman who lives with an american woman and is the father of her child. And he is going to be the "Police hero" on the news. But, at the moment, there's someone on the streets, imitating Jack the Ripper... in Beijing. Things get worse when Li Yan (the policeman) finds out that the "Beijing Ripper" seems to hold a grudge against the "police hero".

[Sewer Bull]

Des heures et des heures de plaisir décadent... Ever read «Là-bas?» I just love the chapter on the art of playing the bells. :D

Not yet. I'll probably have to read that one on www.gutenberg.org. Tho' I hate reading from the display:dead:

Or better I come to France to buy it.

[verminator_x]

acid house by irvine welsh

[IceFlash78]

I just finished reading Faulkner's "The Bear"

Soon, I"ll be starting Shakespeare's "The Tempest"

I also picked up this novel called "Deathworld" Sounds intruging although I haven't had the time to read it yet.

[KROW]

"The Once and Future King" by T.H. White. Amazing interpretation of life. I've been meaning to read this for a long time, and am glad I have the chance.

[Anarky]

"Do Androids dream of electric sheep" by Philip K. Dick. A book, set after World War Terminus, telling us the story of a Blade Runner called Rick Deckard, who has to "retire" androids loose on a dying earth. The only problem is, that the Voigt-Kampff scale, the only way to identify androids, is not effective on androids with a Nexus-6 brain.

Now, six of those Nexus-6 are loose...

[verminator_x]

the fifth woman by Henning Mankell. the tv movie of the fifth woman is brilliant.

[Kid A]

Atlantis by Stephen King. It is set in the 1960s and deals with problems of several persons, wich are shown in the single chapter. Each chapter is made up differently, but there are several cross reference for all chapters have dealings with the others.

[Anarky]

These days, I'm reading "A clockwork orange" by Anthony Burgess. It's all about a quite intelligent young guy called Alex, living in some not-too-distant future, leading a small gang and eventually getting caught. He gets this special treatment that keeps him from doing "evil" things.

The book mainly deals with the question if man should have the choice to be good or evil, or if he must be good. Very interesting, I'd say.

[cqb101]

These days, I'm reading "A clockwork orange" by Anthony Burgess. It's all about a quite intelligent young guy called Alex, living in some not-too-distant future, leading a small gang and eventually getting caught. He gets this special treatment that keeps him from doing "evil" things.

The book mainly deals with the question if man should have the choice to be good or evil, or if he must be good. Very interesting, I'd say.

The movie is one of the greatest movies of all time. I still need to read the book.

[Anarky]

The book is actually a lot better. You get to see Alex from a more personal side, since he's the one narrating and he comments on everything and not just on the bits he does in the movie. You get to understand that Alex is actually way more intelligent than you'd think and there's none of these sexual symbols everywhere, which I often thought very misplaced in the movie.

The only negative thing is the almost excessive use of Nadsat throughout the book. Sure, you'll get to understand it after a couple of chapters, but before that it's a real fight to actually get into the book.

[cowabunga14]

I recently finished The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. It was mandatory for English but it was worth it. I liked how the author used lots of figurative language and how she made it semi-autobiographical. The vignettes were intrestin' and especially the ones that told about different charcters, friends, places, and families in Esperanza's (the main character's) point of view. I recommend this book to anyone that is intrested in figurative language and/or semi-autobiographies.

[Sewer Bull]

"100 bullets".

[Anarky]

"100 bullets".

Is it any good? I saw it in the shop today and wondered whether it was good or not. It looked really odd, but you know... limited resources and everything.

[Sewer Bull]

Well... time will show. I'm not on my knees yet. Quite "Sin City"-esque, but lacks "SC" greatness.

I think it's one of those comics you can read once but you don't actually need to purchase. Several minutes in comic store (before they banish you outta there because of "illegal free reading" P) or a good friend who collects comics and is always willing to lend them (that's how I got "100 bullets" :D) should be enough.

[Snowkat]

What am I reading now? The Warriors Saga by Erin Hunter I'm on the 4th book, not sure if there are any others after that becasue my library only has up to the 4th, but they're really interesting and fun to read! They're about a orange tabby cat Rusty who joins a clan of wild cats who live in the forest, it's like a Soap Op. drama cat style :D

[IceFlash78]

I started Deathworld, it's pretty decent. Its a collection of three novellas about this person named Jason dinAlt. The first Novella is about his exploits trying to solve the feud between the colonists and the planet Prryus, who due to magnified PSI power, is a death world. Everything, and i mean, EVERYTHING is deadly to the colonists. Even the grass!

[Blondus]

The Shadow over Innsmouth by Howard Pillips Lovecraft... It is.. unsettling... Oh, who am I kidding? Its horrifying. And I love it!

Also reading Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett.

..and Tillykke med dagen by Jens Bjørneboe.

and some TMNT comics.

an then :sleep:

[Anarky]

Okay, I have now finished "A clockwork orange" and I must say that the book is a lot better than the movie. The movie is fine, but all those phallic objects seem to be just a cheap way of getting attention, as is the set of the Korova Milkbar. They just seem misplaced and forced. And they're simply there to disgust and not to add. Also, the movie lacks the last scene of the book which is really good, Alex finally growing up and all that.

Amen.
And all that call.

[verminator_x]

1001 films you must see before you die. a movie bible for every film freak.

[Peanut]

The Hunter's Blades Trilogy Book III: The Two Swords

[Barkworm]

William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing

[Jo269976]

The Rising

[Anarky]

What's "The rising"?

[Jo269976]

It's about a zombie apocalypse, but the zombies can drive, talk and shoot guns and one man must make it from.. i forget but some far place to save his son, it's quite good considering the zombies swear and stuff :P

[Anarky]

A couple of nights ago, The master of Cosmos (http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/member.php?u=447) and Mr. lazy Tech-supporter (http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/member.php?u=960) and I were talking about Godzilla and how awesome he is. I mean, what other green monster can breathe radioactive flames and fight robots that just grow for no reason at all (not even its creator knew that the robot was able to do that)? Anyways, we had lots of fun and because I had to find out the English titles of some of the movies, I needed to get my Godzilla Handbook. And because I love that book so much, I'm reading it again.

The book, written by a German fella called Gernot Gricksch and he collected all sorts of info on the monsters and movies. For example, I learned that Gigan is 65 Meters tall, weighs 25,000 tons and is able to shoot deadly rays from his forehead. If that isn't awesome I don't know what is. Also, Gricksch has a very funny way of writing.

Now, I don't know if this book is available in English, but I sure hope so and I recommend the book to any lover of "Big G".

I wish you all a happy Roar! (http://www.godzillatemple.com/hidden/zilla4.wav)

[cowabunga14]

I recently picked up The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells at my school library. This book sounds pretty intrestin' and I read like the first five pages of it. I'm really intrugied by Wells' view of Martins and how they would react if they invaded Earth. This is the longer version cuz it has an afterword by Isaac Asimov. That tells how Mars rotates on its axis and has all this mathematical stuff. The cover has white on it as opposed to the black on that's shorter and has less pictures on both covers. I'm pointin' out the differences if anyone has read the book and if they know there's two versions or they don't. I'll hafta scan the cover some time. I recommend this book to anyone that needs to feed they're sci fi addiction or just wants to read about Martians invadin' Earth.

[Brodie]

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Fibromyalgia For Dummies
Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouak

[Barkworm]

William Shakespeare - Othello, The Moor of Venice
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol - Diary of a Madman
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes from Underground
Arthur Schnitzler - Lieutenant Gustl
Osamu Tezuka - Adolf

[BlueSonnet]

I've mostly been having a stab at research books, namely Angels: the endangered species and a small book on the Tarot pack. Gotta look at a few more i should think, for a seperate essay that needs to be carried out. Yikes.

Comics wise i've mostly been reading the odd batman book along with the all new Tenchi Muyo graphic novels by Viz. I've otherwise been gettting into the gunsmith cats manga.

[Barkworm]

Hans Magnus Enzensberger - The Sinking of the "Titanic"

[Raven]

for somthing different, I started the screw tape letters.

[Star Wolf]

I've read a lot of what has already been posted, but for the moment I'm enjoying a series of books entitled the WorldWar Series, four books in all, then the aftermath series.

They're about an alternative history in World War II beginning in mid-1942, so things are just heating up, when aliens invade with superior technology intent on enslaving the planet for their race. This forces the once-at-odds nations of the world to unite, though reluctauntly, and battle them.

[Peanut]

Perfect Dark Zero: Initial Vector

[verminator_x]

henning mankell - the fifth women

[Mandi-chan]

At the moment I'm reading "Battle Royal" (the original novel, not the manga adaption), and I'm really enjoying it.

[verminator_x]

henning mankells - før frosten

[Blondus]

The picture of dorian gray by Oscar Wilde... Good book.

[DrSpengler]

Vampire Hunter D.

Good book. Only 5 chapters in and it's alreay deviated quite a bit from the movie version.

[BartAllen]

Vampire Hunter D.

Good book. Only 5 chapters in and it's alreay deviated quite a bit from the movie version.
the third book is due out soon. or did it just come out? i need to get it. I have the first two.

edit, book 3 is due out january 11th, its called demon death chase.

[DrSpengler]

the third book is due out soon. or did it just come out? i need to get it. I have the first two.

edit, book 3 is due out january 11th, its called demon death chase.

I bought book 1 and 2 at the same time. I'm about halfway through book 1 (I read one chapter a night before bed as a means to get sleepy).

Thanks for the heads-up on book 3.

Do you know which book Bloodlust was based on? Or was it a completely original adventure?

[BartAllen]

I bought book 1 and 2 at the same time. I'm about halfway through book 1 (I read one chapter a night before bed as a means to get sleepy).

Thanks for the heads-up on book 3.

Do you know which book Bloodlust was based on? Or was it a completely original adventure?
blood lust is based on the next book coming up. demon death chase.

[DrSpengler]

Awesome, thanks.

[BartAllen]

Awesome, thanks. Im going to go to the GMU store to buy the book. i cant stand going to my local store anymore.

[Barkworm]

I just finished Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things". Beast read in a while.

[Sewer Bull]

"Western", written by Jean Van Hamme and drawn by Grzegorz Rosinski. Yes, the guys who made "Thorgal" as well.;)

[verminator_x]

henning mankell - mannen som log

[Brodie]

Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese, by Mike Nelson, AKA Mike from MST3k

[Kid A]

I'm about finishing Terry Pratchett's "Rolling Stones". It is a funny book that makes a lot fun of stereotypes about rock music, also my favourite character from the Disc World is in a main role: the Death, wo has an identity crisis and suddenly disappears.

[Barkworm]

I've finished the "Chronicles of Narnia" last week. The ending of "The Last Battle" was kind of... macabre.

[Anarky]

I finished "Das Parfum" (the perfume) by Patrick Süskind the other day. Quite sick, but very well written and probably the weirdes ending ever. If you want a good, interesting and sick read, then go for it. This one, for a change, is also available in English.

It's about this guy, Jean Baptiste Grenouille, who lives in 18t century france. And he was a sick bastard. He had a very, very good nose though, which he used to become a parfumeur and he was steadily looking for the best perfume in the world, which just happened to be the scent of women...

[Barkworm]

I got to read this before the movie comes out.

[Anarky]

I got to read this before the movie comes out.
Movie? Tell me that it's not the Germans who're making this.... please.

[Barkworm]

Well, they are. Would you prefer an American adaptation?!

[Anarky]

Well, they are. Would you prefer an American adaptation?!
Actually, I wouldn't want to see any adaption, but the Germans have the amazing talent to screw everything up in a movie. Dürrenmatt's "Versprechen" (The pledge) was terrible with that Jan Josef Liefers-guy. Nothing was right and it butchered the book (a 2 out of 20 when I'm in a really good mood). Then there was "The Pledge" with Nicholson which was quite good (I'd give it a 6 out of 10) and so I hoped that they're maybe doing it as a US-production, so there might be a chance of another 6 out of 10.

Like Sarah Kuttner (German VJane on MTV) said on her show: "Germany's a third-world country when it comes to making movies."

[Barkworm]

Tom Tykwer is directing it. I loved "Lola" so I guess this is a good thing. Besides, Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman are in it. It seems to be a pretty big project.

[Anarky]

Yeah, Lola was pretty good, but I didn't like any of his other movies (not that I've seen them all, but I've seen like four others). I think I'll be waiting for the DVD. Germans have managed to screw everything up in the past (movie-wise) and I have lost just about any faith in them.

Oh, and that horrible Harfouch-woman is in it? Well, crap...

[Cascadia]

it is pretty controversal in terms of today's society...
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if you must know what I am reading.....studying for my evolution midterm
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taking a study break in reading entitled Science in popular culture....it is quite interesting. Our favorite green heroes are briefly mentioned in the book.
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Nada at the moment...

[cowabunga14]

I went to my local comics shop today and bought a book called Sidewalk Bump by Dan Moynihan and six other artists/writers. This is a skateboardin' anthology that has a few short comics, some poems, general art, and some vignettes that reflect the authors when they got into skateboardin'. This book has a wide variety of artwork and styles of writin'. Two of the comics in the book that stick out to me are "Cats Like to Skate" and "Skate and Create." The first one basically has a cat on a skateboard and reasons why he's exicted about it. The second one is told from an old man's of view of when he got his skateboard quickly after high school graduation. He customized the board to his heart's content and skated around with excitement. At the end of the comic, the old man asks himself why he stopped skatin' as if he had vivid memories of it.

I really like the creativity and humor in this book. The illustrations are amazing and I got this book for a cheap price. If anybody here skates, then I recommend this book for its cartoony style of the sport. I think this book'll get me motivated so I'll try new things on my skateboard. I also recommend for people who are intrested in humorous comics and wanna laugh even though they might not skateboard or used to skateboard when they were little.

[The Clerk]

Now I'm reading "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" By Tucker Max. Funny.

[Kid A]

The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde. It is really strange, there is some charakter from a book who emigrates to a book that has never been written because she wants to rescue some other charakter but is haunted by some SpecOps out of somewhere ...

[Anarky]

"Letters from a nut" by Ted L. Nancy. It's a compilation of letters said Mr. Nancy wrote to various important people (including the king of some african country) asking the darndest things. An example: He writes to a casino in Vegas, asking whether he was allowed to play wearing his lucky suit, which is a crawfish-costume. It's hilarious, mainly because of the people's answers.

[Hannah]

Today I found the book Until Angels Close My Eyes on the shelf in homeroom.
I read it by the end of the day...
It was so sad. =(

[Cascadia]

nothing....researching for information about Japan's education system.

[damnhooligan]

Sci Freak, if you're not reading anything, why are you bothering to post? This place would be flooded with messages if people simply posted each time they WEREN'T reading something.

Also, as not to sh*t up the thread, I've been piling through Edith Hamilton's Mythology, for about the 10th time in my lifetime. The copy I have is on it's last leg.

[Raph's Girl]

Currently reading "Katherine" by Anya Seton. It's a historical romance novel about Katherine Swynford and her love for John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. Good book...mostly reading it cuz it's about my ancestors...Im descended from Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt. :D

[Jo269976]

Currently Im reading

"A Nightmare On Elm Street: Suffer The Children"

It's a pretty damn good book and Freddy's back and badder than ever, the plot is basically the same, bunch of kids want money so they test a dream drug, Freddy catches them and boom bodies everywhere! I'll admit some of the deaths are just gross... the way i like 'em! :P :lol:

[Barkworm]

Last thing I read was "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" by Tennessee Williams. I plan to get "Streetcar" soon.

[R-iZZy]

I think I'm going to start reading the first volume of the Usagi Yojimbo series. Thanks to eBay, I've got all of volume one... and for just $80! YAY!

Anyway, let me get started on this... I'm on the issue where he works with Leo (#10).

[Anarky]

I just finished a book called "Darum nerven Japaner" (That's why the japanese are annoying) by a german living in Tokyo called Christoph Neumann. It's hilarious and sort of scary. He tells us stuff like the japanese's work ethics and their uniformed definition of fun. Also, what they do when they're out clubbing. And I found out that I probably won't last long in Japan.

And now I'm starting on "Barry Trotter and the shameless parody" by Michael Gerber. After all the bad fan fiction, I needed something that was really bad and yet funny. They should make a movie of that... R-rated.

[Sewer Bull]

I think I'm going to start reading the first volume of the Usagi Yojimbo series. Thanks to eBay, I've got all of volume one... and for just $80! YAY!

Anyway, let me get started on this... I'm on the issue where he works with Leo (#10).

The first volume of "UY"? You mean "The Ronin"? But Leonardo appeared in "The Wanderer's Road" which is the third volume, afaik.

EDIT: Duh, you probably meant issues 1-38, published by "Fantagraphics Books", right? My bad. I mistook "volumes" with "books" :|

[R-iZZy]

The first volume of "UY"? You mean "The Ronin"? But Leonardo appeared in "The Wanderer's Road" which is the third volume, afaik.

EDIT: Duh, you probably meant issues 1-38, published by "Fantagraphics Books", right? My bad. I mistook "volumes" with "books" :|
:lol: It's cool, you knew what I meant in the end of things.

And BOOOOO! I was lead to believe Leo would be a big part of this issue... he was only involved in the little side-story at the ends.

[Sewer Bull]

:lol: It's cool, you knew what I meant in the end of things.

And BOOOOO! I was lead to believe Leo would be a big part of this issue... he was only involved in the little side-story at the ends.

Yeah, I thought you bought "The Ronin" for $80 - that'd be rather high price but considering it was published in 1987... but yeah, 80 bucks for 38 issues looks like a fair price to me.

And if you want to see more TMNT in UY - try to hunt down "Shades of Green" - Volume 2, Issues 1, 2 and 3 (or "Shades of Death" book from 1997) - TMNT part is much more significant in this 60-page long story.

[R-iZZy]

Thanks! I'll be looking more for that series. That's the volume that was published under Mirage Studios, right?

[cowabunga14]

Today, I finished raedin' One Fat Summer by Robert Lipsyte. This book was great and very easy to understand. It's about a kid named Bobby Marks who does yard work and mows the lawn for a guy named Dr. Kahn. The story takes place in the '50s and it has a lot of action and the plot is very easy to follow. I won't give too much away, but some of the characters are Joanie, Jim Smith, Willie Rumson, Marty (Bobby's Dad), and Pete Marino.

My English class recently started Romeo and Juliet and I read the longest speech in the book today cuz the teacher is havin' us read it aloud. The book is gettin' really good and I'm glad I can sorta understand Old English cuz that's what Shakespeare used when he wrote it.

[discordiatookie]

just now i'm reading Lord of the Rings for the first time - pretty awesome methinks, about half way through the first book - why did they miss Tom(?) Bombadil out of the movie - this dude is nuts!

i'm also going through a Robert Kirkman phase at the moment - just bought Invincible tpbs 1 - 5 and issues 25 - 30 yesterday! halfway through book four already, this guy is magic!

[Barkworm]

Erich Kästner - Anna Louise and Anton

[Peanut]

Just bought and am now in the process of reading "The Zombie Survival Guide" by Max Brooks. Niiiiice!

[GK Punk]

I bought a copy of Alice's adventures in Wonderland as well as Through the Looking Glass today. I haven't started it yet, but I am definetley planing to tonight.

Alice in Wonderland is greatness.

[The Stryker]

Eddie G's Autobiography....it even has CM PUNK IN IT!! AH!!

[GK Punk]

I still need to pick that up, let me know how it is!

[Hannah]

I bought a copy of Alice's adventures in Wonderland as well as Through the Looking Glass today. I haven't started it yet, but I am definetley planing to tonight.

Alice in Wonderland is greatness.
Yay! For my book report in English I did Through the Looking Glass. I had to lie to be able to do it, though, because you're not supposed to do books you have already read.

But we're not really supposed to do kids books either. >>

[Sewer Bull]

"And the Ass Saw the Angel" by Nick Cave.

Me so emo ><

[Lady Venus]

Right now I'm reading "The Andalite Chronicles" BY KA Applegate. I'm at the part of the story when the Yeerk in Loren's head is dieing.

[Anarky]

Hah, the Animorphs. I used to read those books, but when I got to about 28, I ran out of money and couldn't buy them anymore. I regret it somehow, but I moved on. I like the concept though, with all the secret identity stuff and Tobias being a Nothlit and all that.

Anyways, I'm reading "The Traveller" by John Twelve Hawks, the mysterious author of the upcoming trilogy about a Harlequin named Maya who has to protect Gabriel Corrigan, a Traveller who may or may not have the ability to leave this world and enter a sort of astral plane, from the Tabula who want to use Gabe's talent for world domination.

And it's really, really good.

[Kid Icarus]

You missed out on the best part of the series then, Anarky.

Later on, towards the end, they get revealed to the Yeerks and start recruting random kids, most of them hadicapped. The series ended with Rachel crashing the Blade Ship into the Pool Ship, blowing the entire thing up and ending the invasion of Earth. Always knew she'd do something stupid like that.

[Lady Venus]

Hah, the Animorphs. I used to read those books, but when I got to about 28, I ran out of money and couldn't buy them anymore. I regret it somehow, but I moved on. I like the concept though, with all the secret identity stuff and Tobias being a Nothlit and all that.

I have read book # 1 thru 54. This is my second time reading "The Andalite Chronicles". I love this cuz it tell you who Tobias is parents is.

[Ryona]

I'm currently reading a very helpful book titled...

Guidance From The Darkness: The Transforming Power of the Divine Feminine in Difficult Times

[Lady Venus]

I finished reading "The Andalite Chronicles" now I'm reading "The Eldest".

[Jo269976]

A Series Of Unfortunate Events #3: The Wide Window, i wanna finish them all again in time for Friday October 13, Unfortunate Events # 13: The End! :D

[Lady Venus]

The First Journey By: K A Applegate.

[Cascadia]

Tales of Old Japan, which are original stories about the culture in Japan before the 1900s.

[cowabunga14]

I finished reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It was required reading for English and my English final will be on that book. I just hope I do good on it. The book was pretty good and I enjoyed even though it got kinda confusing. It was great to end the school year with a masterpiece of a book.

[Cascadia]

To Kill a Mockingbird is very good...I read it as a Sophomore in high school. It is set in the south and deals with America's thoughts on people's color issues in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

[Lady Venus]

Just finished "Eragon" for the 3 time and gunna start read "Petshop of Horrors" Vol. 1

[Jo Dawn]

I just finished 'Never Let Me Go' by Kazuo Ishiguro and am just starting on The DaVinci Code (at long last! I've had it forever, hehe).


By the way, anyone looking for a good read should check out 'The Kite Runner'. Good stuff. :) Also, the author of The Notebook among other books has written one with his brother. The name alludes at this moment, but I shall find it out for you all soon. It is also very quite good.

[verminator_x]

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

[The Janitor]

Just started reading The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde.

[Jo Dawn]

The Devil Wears Prada. I loooove it. Gotta see the movie now!! (Though I heard it is watered down in terms of evilness. Oh well. ;) :) )

[Spitfire]

I've been reading "The Maxx" I love this comic it's very weird and totally awesome. I bought all the trade paper backs since I only had the first 8 issues and never got around to finding the others.

[Jo Dawn]

I finished 'The Devil Wears Prada' and am now on Bergdorf Blondes. Heh, mindless reading but I love it. Y'all need a bit of that every so often. *nods*

[KROW]

Heh, mindless reading but I love it. Y'all need a bit of that every so often. *nods*
Heh, yeah. I just check my local newspaper for that.

[BartAllen]

Make Love the Bruce Campbell way.

[Storm]

Right now, I'm reading "Treasure Island", the only one, so it's got the poem in it :D I love this book.

Next: who knows...

[愛]

Just finished reading MacBeth. Badass story.

[KROW]

"The Promise of the Witch-King" by R.A. Salvatore. I got this book when it got published but needed to finish another novel before eagerly opening this one. So far, it doesn't disappoint, and I'm only on Chapter I. As if the author isn't credible enough, the prelude on its own is good incentive to check this out. From page one it hits hard and puts you right into the action.

[cowabunga14]

A book I recently is The Tongue - A Creative Force by Charles Capps. I read this book last year and its just as profound and powerful as I remember. It hasn't lost its appeal, so that's good.

Another tongue book I'm reading is Hung by the Tongue by Francis P. Martin. "A study of the words of your mouth presenting in serious simplicity the truth of: What you say is what you get," That's what the tagline on the cover reads.

In terms of graphic novels, I'm reading Eessential Wolverine Volume 4. It collects Wolverine #70-90 which are reprinted in black and white. It features characters such as Gambit, Sauron, Lady Deathstrike, Nightcrawler, Deadpool, and Sabertooth. I think I'll eventually get another Marvel graphic novel after I finish this one.

[KROW]

In terms of graphic novels, I'm reading Eessential Wolverine Volume 4. It collects Wolverine #70-90 which are reprinted in black and white.
Whoa, dude. I just bought that today. I've been waiting months for it to get published, seeing as how I have Vols. 1-3 already. As soon as I saw it I snatched it.

[Jester]

The internet based script by Kevin Smith, "Superman: Lives"
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/superman-lives-script.html

So far...not amused.

[cowabunga14]

Whoa, dude. I just bought that today. I've been waiting months for it to get published, seeing as how I have Vols. 1-3 already. As soon as I saw it I snatched it.

Coincidence? I think not. I bought my copy at the beginning of the month. I was gonna buy a book on horror movies instead, but the images were quite disturbing and it was more costly. Since I saw Volume 4 in Marvel Previews, that gave me an idea of when it was coming out.

[Raph's Girl]

Currently reading Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle... the first book in a 4 book saga about...Boudica! :evilgrin:

Im looking for the last 2 books in the series...I really want em...I love anything to do with the Roman times.

Also will soon be getting Kushiel's Scion. The 4th book in the series (I actually thought it ended after the 3rd but this is the 1st one of a new trillogy). I love the Kushiel saga!

Next year tho... ah next year... I can't wait for Raven of Avalon (the newest book in Marion Zimmer Bradley and Diane L. Paxton's Avalon series) to come out! Altho I don't know where Boudica fits in with King Arthur (that's who it's about.. Boudica).

[Lady Venus]

Tokyo Mew Mew A La Mode

[discordiatookie]

Lord of the rings : return of the king

and currently working my way through all the TMNT back issues - right now i'm on vol 1 #39 - 2nd part of Heddon and McWeeney's horrid trilogy of the boys....

[Lady Venus]

Shaman King Vol. 1

[Jo269976]

The Zombie Survival Guide, then I'm gonna read Resident Evil: Archives.

[Lady Venus]

I have read Shaman King Vol. 1,2,3,4, and 6.

[cowabunga14]

The Journey Home which is a book that I should've finished a long time ago. :ohwell: Hey, at least I'll have another chance to do just that.

[Lady Venus]

Ranma 1/2 vol. 6 and 7

[Jo Dawn]

Being on vacation, I'm actually having time to read! So I'm reading 'Snow Flower and the Secret Fan'.

So far, it's a facinating look into the rituals and lives of 19th century China and the women living at that time.

[cowabunga14]

In my English class, we're reading Macbeth, which is pretty good so far. We started Act III today and that's getting interesting. I was satisfied with Romeo and Juliet when I read that in ninth grade, so hopefully this'll turn out to be just as good.

[Jo Dawn]

Ahh, yes, the Bard. Excellent reading all around. Macbeth is no exception. I love Shakespeare. Have you gone through his sonnets? Very good, as usual.

[cowabunga14]

I remeber reading a lot of his sonnets in ninth grade, which were very good like you said. They were as enjoyable as I remember them being.

[KROW]

Macbeth is excellent; much better than Romeo and Juliet. There's more depth to the characters.

[Ra]

^^ I agree completely. Remorse, voilence, decapitations...so much better than emo kids :D

Speaking of Shakespear, I just read "The Twelfth Night", a small play that he wrote. Absolutly hilerious stuff! :lol: (I, of corse, was reading the "No Fear Shakespare!" version, with a complete English translation inside XD). I must say, it is a nice change of scenery from McBeth. There are so many webs of suduction cast that just about everyone gets caught up in one thing or another :lol:

[Jo Dawn]

Finished 'Snow Flower' a few days ago, and read most of Running With Scissors yesterday.

[discordiatookie]

Lisey's Story by Stephen King...

just started it today, am on page 67, its pretty good!!!!

[Jo Dawn]

Ooh, I wanted that! I'll have to pick it up next time I see it on sale.

Steven King is always good. Cell was awesome. If you haven't read that, go read it!

[KROW]

I got that the other day, as well. I haven't had much time to read it, since I'm still heavily into another novel. But, it sounds very interesting from the info on the dust jacket. Cell I haven't read yet, either, nor Buick 8, or even the tail end of the Dark Tower series.

However, I do have them, and I do intend to read them, but most likely I'll get around to it when I'm 50.

[discordiatookie]

believe me when i say that i am a MASSIVE stephen king fan... more his books than his movies (they always seem kinda lame, just dont translate that well on the screen, although there are a few classics - green mile, stand by me, misery, shawshank redemption, the shining, etc)

looking at the books list on his latest (lisey's story - im on page 113 now!!) i've read them all (and own) except from : cycle of the werewolf, danse macabre, and on writing...

my favourites are the dark tower series (especially bk 4, wizard and glass), hearts in atlantis, the stand, and the two with peter straub - the talisman and black house... if i could only read them books for the rest of my life i would not be sad...

i cannot wait for the comic based on the dark tower to be released, man i hope its amazing!!!

[Storm Wolf]

Ahh, yes, the Bard. Excellent reading all around. Macbeth is no exception. I love Shakespeare. Have you gone through his sonnets? Very good, as usual.

Ditto here. I used to go to the shakespear festivial in orlando to watch the plays. I saw...the Tempest, Hamlet, and MacBeth....unfortunatly I missed the Taming of the Shrew.

I did, however, see and read Cyrano De Bergerac. I liked it quite a bit.


Lets see....what I'm reading now? a bit of everything I can suffer. I need reading glasses so I can only read a few pages at a time.

Most recently I'm reading the new Harry Potter book...and i just got the new Halo book...and a novel seris about wolves/shapeshifters. So hopefully I'll pick it up soon.

[Jo Dawn]

Ditto here. I used to go to the shakespear festivial in orlando to watch the plays. I saw...the Tempest, Hamlet, and MacBeth....unfortunatly I missed the Taming of the Shrew.

I did, however, see and read Cyrano De Bergerac. I liked it quite a bit.


Most recently I'm reading the new Harry Potter book...and i just got the new Halo book...and a novel seris about wolves/shapeshifters. So hopefully I'll pick it up soon.

Ahh, good ol' HP. Always a winner. :)

Cyrano De Bergerac. Lovely. I love it. If you ever see any of the movies, go for the one that was made, I think, in the 30's. It's in black and white, and is wonderfully done. It's my favorite.

I'm on the Steven King's 'Lisey's Story'. Though I still have a few chapters left of 'Running With Scissors'.

[discordiatookie]

finished Lisey's Story last night, was very awesome, classic king! even added a wee thing in my sig afterwards... dunno what i'll pick up next, probably either neil gaiman's anansi boys or his new one (which i think is lotsa short stories)...

[discordiatookie]

I know i done the last post but that was like, weeks ago!

right now i'm working through the Sandman collection (again!) Right now i'm on A Game of You (book 5) Gaiman rocks!

oh, i also picked up this month's Playboy magazine today. I know, i know, perv! haha but there's a new Stephen King short in it called Willa and i just couldnt resist. Haven't read it yet, but Playboy is NOT what i was expecting! (its actually rather classy, thousands of articles and hardly any scud! i mean, WTF?!) it was kinda emabarrasing buying it though:goofygri:

[Anarky]

Playboy is actually one of the better magazines. And it has quite a lot of informants working for it, so it has good up-to-date stories. The people at my newspaper read it religiously, because they have the newest news on stars and trends in a man's world. And the Playboy-people are damn good researchers too.

[Lady Venus]

Eragon again fer the 4 times.

[Jo Dawn]

Yesterday (yes, yesterday, as in JUST yesterday) I read the entirety of The Book of Bright Ideas.

It was a good read, albiet sad.

[Venom Symbiote]

I'm currently reading through the "Everworld" series by K.A. Applegate. Really awesome little saga, I guess for a 'young adult' (i.e. probably late teenage) reading age. As in, the writing style is fairly simple, but the content itself is pretty...hardcore. Nothing too graphic, but definitely wouldn't want to have a middle-schooler or someone dealing with it.

It's kind of an interesting take on mythology, all the Greek/Egyptian/Norse/Roman/Mayan gods creating this kind of alternate universe, taking a section of humanity with them and abandoning the real world. A group of average kids from Chicago get drawn in there to close the gateway or some crap, it's actually pretty good reading.

Written by the same lady as that old Animorphs kid's series.

[MadPirateBunny]

Obsidian Butterfly by Laurel Hamilton.
ANITA BLAKE ROCKS!

[discordiatookie]

The Zombie Survival Guide, (complete protection from the living dead) by Max Brooks. It's the abridged version, which i got free with a magazine. I really wanna buy the proper book now, and i'm only like, 20 pages in...

[Death's Head]

I'm reading Wolverine: Weapon X. It's a paperback novel adaption of an actual story arc that occured within Wolverine's life. It's deemed a "modern day Frankenstein tale" or something similar.

[cowabunga14]

My English class recently started reading Night by Elie Wiesel. I thought I would completely have no interest in the book when I received it, but it kinda grew on me. I'm glad the book won a Nobel Peace Prize, even though its about 110 pages long. Seeing as it has to do with World War II, it'll probably more intense than I expect it to be. As long as its good, I'll read it.

[Time Mistress]

I've got so many books on my shelf it's not funny. But then I work in a bookstore.

Zorro by Isabel Allende
Rowan Hood series by Nancy Springer
The Story of the Phantom by Lee Falk
Harry Potter 6 (gotta finish before the last one comes out)
Huntress: Darknight Daughter trade paperback

Hopefully I can finish most of that this month.

[Jo Dawn]

Hurry with HP6!! Hehe. I finished that one in less than a day. I couldn't put it down! Same with the 5th one. My friend and I shared a copy, as we were on vacation when it came out. She read it first, then passed it on to me, and we both read it in less than a day.

I can't wait for 7.

And, um... I'm reading The Memory Keeper's Daughter right now.

[Warhorse]

I'm contemplating on reading Tolkeins Silmarillion. People say it's a difficult piece. Has anyone read the book? Is it difficult?

[Lady Venus]

This is the last book I read twice.

http://www.booksrevisited.com/booksrev/images/items/275x1000/1591825393.jpg

[discordiatookie]

Congratulations, you have just met the Aberdeen Soccer Casuals by Dan Rivers....

its about one man's account of the football violence he was a part of from 1983 to 1989. its all true incidents, some of its funny, some of its scary, most of its just mental. aberdeen in the 80's was said to be the hardest firm during the 80s in scotland and was the first to bring the 'casual' side to football violence (instead of skinheads and 'scarfers' ((people in their team colours)) the casuals wore very trendy and expensive clothes, seemingly.) i aint a football hooligan, nor will i ever will be, but this is a great book! most probably cos most of its based in and around aberdeen, near places i grew up (and my work was even mentioned in it a couple of times!!)

[comet_an_me]

Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy, by Douglas Adams, one of the best books ever written i think.

[Lady Venus]

I just read Full Metal Alchemist Vol. 8

[Spider]

http://www.kosmologika.net/Blackholes/Illustrated_Brief_History_of_Time.jpg

[KROW]

After finishing R.A. Salvatore's "Promise of the Witch King," which was very good, I began on his novel, "The Highwayman." So far, it's great; religious intones, a Zorro/Robin Hood-like character, and not so many fantasy species (ex. elves, fairies, etc.) make it a nice breather from the usual.

[MadPirateBunny]

R.A. Salvatore rocks! Wrote him a letter once and he replied but that was years ago and heck if I know where the letter is now. Oh and I met him at a book signing thingy like 3 years ago. I didn't have his latest at the time but I did have two paperback copies of Sojourn {YAY DRIZZT!} which I took and he signed both, one which I sent my friend in Iraq.

[Lady Venus]

Full Metal Alchemist: Valley of the White Petal

[Rooish]

Gone With the Wind. It's actually really good.

[discordiatookie]

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist. Its a Victorian adventure, and i'm only half way through the second chapter. Its a beast of a debut novel in around 800 pages, but thats the way I like em! I like how the characters are all intertwined, and it hasn't doddled on action so far. (Although i've just reached the 100 page mark) so only time'll tell!

[Jo Dawn]

Just finished 'The Tenth Circle' by Jodi Picoult. Riveting read.

[discordiatookie]

Just finished 'The Tenth Circle' by Jodi Picoult. Riveting read.

Jodi Picoult eh? My mam and my fiancee are mad for her, I dunno how many of her books passed hands between them! She actually done a signing in Aberdeen, which my mam went to (karen couldn't as she was working) so my mam got her a signed book aswell! yep, i'm pretty lucky that they get along :D as for me, I aint read any of them, although I always said I would, just never got round to it. I quite liked the look of that one about the comic book artist (the name escapes me.)

My mam was actually a big influence on me being a reader, she would take us to the library at least once a week to pick up books, and was forever giving me her books to read. We went through pretty much the whole Stephen King back catalogue together (although she never read the Dark Tower, but I love it!), visiting bookstores and what not, and buying a couple each, taking them home, reading them, then swapping. it was pretty cool having someone to discuss them with, as most of my mates were into football, or music or whatever. (with the exception of Duda, as big a King fan as me! everytime we meet for a pint, all we talk about is the dark Tower, reverting to the speech used in them books...) And now, my fiancee Karen, she's a total bookworm aswell, so thats great too!!!

[Jo Dawn]

Jodi Picoult eh? My mam and my fiancee are mad for her, I dunno how many of her books passed hands between them! She actually done a signing in Aberdeen, which my mam went to (karen couldn't as she was working) so my mam got her a signed book aswell! yep, i'm pretty lucky that they get along :D as for me, I aint read any of them, although I always said I would, just never got round to it. I quite liked the look of that one about the comic book artist (the name escapes me.)

The Tenth Circle. ;)

Unless she has another one about a comic book artist! Hehe.

My mam was actually a big influence on me being a reader, she would take us to the library at least once a week to pick up books, and was forever giving me her books to read. We went through pretty much the whole Stephen King back catalogue together (although she never read the Dark Tower, but I love it!), visiting bookstores and what not, and buying a couple each, taking them home, reading them, then swapping. it was pretty cool having someone to discuss them with, as most of my mates were into football, or music or whatever. (with the exception of Duda, as big a King fan as me! everytime we meet for a pint, all we talk about is the dark Tower, reverting to the speech used in them books...) And now, my fiancee Karen, she's a total bookworm aswell, so thats great too!!!

Yeah, we were lucky like that, too. I read TONS when I was little... and still do now. I love it. We were always at the library.

[Peanut]

I just finished reading through Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince again. These damn books depress me!

[SeaThreePeeO]

I recently finished Terry Pratchett's Hogfather. At the same time I was reading it a mini drama based on the book was being shown. So there was I feverishly reading and then watching just what I had read on the tv. Freaky indeed.

At the moment I don't get a lot of spare time to read, but I hope the next one will be another Discworld novel

[Raph's Girl]

Currently reading:

The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry. Just think Da Vinci code or Da Vinci Legacy minus Da Vinci and with a secret code in Templar Knights stuff and you get the idea of the story.

The Treasure of Khan by Clive and Dirk Cussler. The latest book in the Dirk Pitt adventure series. :evilgrin:

I recently finished reading "Jesus Christ Out of Egypt" by Ann Rice. I generally don't read any Ann Rice stuff cuz Im not into Vampires (Im more into her sister's werewolf saga). But I like reading biblical history stuff and this one was pretty good. It's the first book in a series about the life of Jesus. The first one starts out when he's 7 and ends when he's 8. It was pretty good.

[cowabunga14]

I finished The Journey Home for my book report in English, which I think went well.

In the same class, we've started reading The Chosen by Chaim Potok. It's about two friends that are Jewish and tells how they interact and go through things in life. The author was/is a Jew, so that's a connection he has with a lot of the books he wrote.

[Jo Dawn]

Just finished The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger. Gooood stuff, that.

It's not my copy, but I think I'm going to buy it.

[Nightwatcher]

I am reading Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

I didn't really "get" the movie so I decided to read the book. While it has some funny parts...I don't think I really "get" the book either.

[Daunt]

I just polished off the The Grey King by Susan Cooper and am about to move on to Silver on the Tree.

The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper is one of my favorite series of all time. :) I think I've read & reread it a million times over.

Soon, the latest sex-trash novel by Laurel K Hamilton will be out on paperback and I can scoop that up. >_(\ ::hides face:: Oh the shame!

[That Matt Guy]

Finally caved in a picked up a copy of Watchmen, and just finished it yesterday. A really sobering story.

[GK Punk]

"I shouldn't even be doing this!" by Bob Newhart. The man is a comic genius. any fan of his needs to pick this up, and I mean now.

[Jo Dawn]

Ah, I wanted to read that. I'll have to check it out soon. Right now I'm reading 'Three Weeks With My Brother' by Nicholas and Micah Sparks.

[GK Punk]

The Newhart book has been a great read so far, so many hillarious stories in it. It almost reads like a stand up bit in a few parts. I'm sure you'll really dig it if you get around to picking a copy up.

[cowabunga14]

My English class recently started Lord of the Flies, which is a book that I read before in eighth grade. I'm glad to be reading it again because I know more about it seeing as I've read it before and I'll probably enjoy it just as much.

[Jo Dawn]

Ahh, that's some good stuff right there.

[Leonardo's_Girl]

Esscence of Ninjutsu: The Nine Traditions by Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi
Instructing the Martial Arts by Charles Ralph Heck, Jr.

I know, for a year I've been wanting to join the martial arts, and that may possibly happen this upcoming summer.

[KROW]

After collecting dust on my bookcase, I've finally opened "Eragon." I saw the film when it premiered and I gotta say that the book is definitely better -- and I'm only on page 110 thus far.

By the way, "Highwayman" was great. Fantasy fans that don't want to read about all that bupkis about elves and fairies should pick this up and give it a read.

[Spike Spiegel]

A JLU trade paperback and the first 20 issues of the original Teen Titans series.

[Swany]

Vegan Virgin Valentine.

I need to crack open "the lost boy" as well. "A child called it" was so sad.

[Spike Spiegel]

"The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography" by Sidney Poitier

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f257/tallulahbankhead/movie%20stars/sidneypoitier.jpg

Really good so far, I'd recommend it to ANYONE.

[Death's Head]

I am currently reading the second volume of "Will Eisner's The Spirit Archives".

[Jo Dawn]

Vegan Virgin Valentine.

I need to crack open "the lost boy" as well. "A child called it" was so sad.

It's all a good read. Sad, yes, but good. I think I have them all except the last one...

[Ra]

Eh, I'm reading manga. I've read as many books as I can get my hands on, but honestly I haven't read anything that isn't a comic or an actual book without pretty pictures in over a year now. Right now I'm reading the first volume of "Dragon Knights". It's a pretty good read, actually. Very stylized as well... *shuts up before she infects the thread with manga*

[Swany]

Just finished Someone Like you by Sarah Dessen. It such a sad sweet book. Gutted to find out the movie "How to deal" is crap. Movies based on books are never very good though.