View Full Version : What are you reading... RIGHT NOW?
Elhaym van Houten
05-13-2006, 12:35 PM
I'm currently back to Martha Grimes.
It's funny how she manages to make the inevitable repetitions in the elements of her storylines still interesting, keeping one rooted til the end....
Variations on a few themes, it is.
The best books I've read so far where "The Old Silent" and "The Five Bells and Bladebone"...
I spend a great deal of time on the train, going to work...this week it was three books, wonder what'll be next
Lance Alvein
05-13-2006, 06:30 PM
I finished American Gods, and now I'm reading "Dissention: Ravnica Cycle Book III" by cory j. Herndon. It's good so far :p
Locke
05-15-2006, 12:52 PM
Reading both Plato's Republic and Noam Chompsky - Necessary Illusions right now. Both very interesting philosophical works :)
SeymourGuado
05-19-2006, 11:31 PM
I dont read much which is suprising given i want to be a writer, however I was just checking the background of The Cure classic "Charlotte sometimes" and was pleasently surprised by the book that inspired it.
I may even read it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Sometimes_%28book%29
Yuffie
05-27-2006, 06:08 AM
Finally got round to finishing "Alice in Wonderland" and "through the looking glass" and got left just thinking...whaaaa...?
Seriously it's an entertaining and fun book but does it make any sense? At all?? :rofl:
Either way I still like it. :spin:
Galthol
05-31-2006, 12:46 AM
Local Bookstore had a big sale
The Book of Werewolves Sabine Baring Gould
Hilter's Scientists John Cornwell
The Preacher (Trade comic Vol 1&2) Various
The Encyclopieda of 19th Centuary Warfare Bryon Farwell
Genesis of the Grail Kings. Laurence Gardner.
*Note about that last one. Its going to be an interesing read. Its a new age book that takes about the Cloning of Adam and Eve, the Anti-Grav science of the pyramid pharaohs, and Active Longevity and the Star Fire magic of Eden. All that for $5, who needs the comdedy channel when you have stuff like this to read.
Locke
06-01-2006, 11:05 AM
Well, I finished the Plato's Republic part of my Philosophy course, now I'm on to Henry David Thoreau's Walden: Life in the Woods. Both quite interesting if you have a philosophical slant on things :)
PRIEST
06-01-2006, 11:43 AM
The Dune chronicles.... on the third of six books........the novels in the middle just seem like filler, Herbert showed his mastery of the science fiction spirit only in the first and last.
Yuffie
06-02-2006, 05:38 AM
The da vinci code is bugging me no end recently! It's everywhere!! And because I haven't read it I don't have a clue what all the fuss is about! :rofl:
I got concerned when I saw the da vinci code video game...
Locke
06-02-2006, 11:58 AM
Movie wasn't too bad though :) (imo)
Still reading Walden; or, Life in the Woods by HDT.
Provost
06-08-2006, 05:05 PM
Right NOW in time I am reading the infamous 5 word story ... think I'll make it begining to current before going insane?
Locke
06-08-2006, 05:07 PM
You work in the same department as me, you already insane ;)
Still reading Walden; or, Life in the Woods
Galthol
06-09-2006, 12:10 AM
Now reading "The Goon" Tradepaperbacks, now thats some funny stuff. "KNIFE TO THE EYE!"
Yuffie
06-09-2006, 09:37 AM
An old book I got as a kid about budgies. :D
Did you know that the budgerigar is so called from the aboriginee (spelling?) words "bet cherry gah" meaning, "Good to eat". :)
MizuiroHime
06-09-2006, 09:33 PM
"Winesburg,Ohio"
"The Celestial Railroad"
--Good books so far^-^
FlashFirer
06-10-2006, 01:28 PM
"Hard Times", by Charles Dickens. Rox =O
Provost
06-10-2006, 11:16 PM
Currently not reading a book, but I am reading the World Cup highlights and match setups for tomorrow. (Dont know why I am reading the highlights ... I have seen every match so far *shrugs*)
Locke
06-12-2006, 12:31 PM
Well, picked up Journey Into The Void by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Good book :D
Blade Tanaka
06-14-2006, 11:01 AM
I've read a few of their series. (A Dragon Lance Trilogy, and the Deathgate Series which was several books long.) I like them.
The most recent Book I've read was Winnie the Pooh, I actualy quite enjoyed the book. It was a quick and easy read too. It was anly 160 pages I think. I'd like to read some more if I could find them.
There's somthing else I've been meaning to read, but I can't remeber what it is at the momonet.
Locke
06-19-2006, 11:41 AM
Finished my course this morning, so now I can put away Plato and Thoreau for a bit and then pick back up Noam Chompsky -> Necessary Illusions
Galthol
07-18-2006, 12:54 PM
Cant let this thread die out now can we?
Currently reading "The Mammoth Book of War Correspondents" Its cover war reportage (thats a word right? Yeah it is) From the Battle of Balacalva (Charge of the Light Brigade) to Chechnya.
Pezito
07-18-2006, 03:28 PM
Currently reading : nothing.
Blame the Nintendo DS ! :D
Locke
07-18-2006, 04:14 PM
Well, just finished Song of Sussanah by Steven King... an interesting read, that's for sure. Moved on to Dissension, book 3 in the Ravnica series of MTG books. Good so far :)
Mangachaos
07-19-2006, 04:44 AM
Heh... as far I know.. the reading always changes... I´m still reading the dbz-books now and then.. but I´ll also read other mangas... like ragnarrok and rebirth... korean manga is somewhat odd though... well... almost forgot yugi-oh and ranma ½ ... in the swedish version I got in the drawings made by the readers there... I got my drawings on the no 9 book of ranma, swedish version... it´s alright though... I made a copy, almost like the one
from the book just in case... the ones I sended in are lost forever... rest in peace my sweet drawings... -_- ops.. sorry... got carried away there.. didn´t mean to get off topics...
Yuffie
07-19-2006, 05:52 AM
Books about the English legal system in preparation for a course I may take.
:zzz:
Locke
07-21-2006, 09:17 AM
Finished Dissention, now I'm reading Scar Tissue, Anthony Kiedis's biography. Quite a good read :D
SeymourGuado
07-21-2006, 09:20 AM
Books about the English legal system in preparation for a course I may take.
:zzz:What is in the books? Blank pages? Knowing my our system like I do...that's all that should be there hehe
I am reading all about the Tintin comic books by Herge on wiki. Am a fan of Tintin so thought I should check out where it all came about etc:)
Yuffie
07-21-2006, 10:00 AM
Hehe, actually it does repeatedly say that the legal system is full of contradictions. :rofl:
But sure sounds smarter than reading tintin. :p
SeymourGuado
07-21-2006, 12:47 PM
Don't be too surehttp://forums.rpgamers.net/images/smilies/biggrin.gif. Tintin is a monumental piece of literature/comic :) The Tv series was also beautifully done. I don't just read it, I analyze and study the story and how it was written, I do afterall want to make a novel:)
Currently reading the undersides of my eyelids. Good read.
Yuffie
07-21-2006, 05:27 PM
I always thought tintin was suffering slightly from male pattern baldness...
And he must've recently had a growth spurt because his trousers are always too short. :D
Locke
07-24-2006, 07:33 AM
I'm currently reading Necessary Illusions by Noam Chompsky once again. Damn smart guy, Noam Chompsky, Damn smart.
SeymourGuado
07-24-2006, 02:10 PM
I always thought tintin was suffering slightly from male pattern baldness...
And he must've recently had a growth spurt because his trousers are always too short. :DHis age is a mystery also, some believing he is in his teens to his 30's. I think it was actually because Herge couldn't be arsed drawing his hair.
The seconds have been ticking by since your life began.....seriously yuffie if you never heard of this song get it...ub40 rocks
Yuffie
07-24-2006, 02:38 PM
It sounds familiar...is it a tune you hear much?
All that because I can't be bothered to look it up and download it. :p
I guess I always thought he was about 30...
...What about Asterix and Obelix? They have moustaches and look pretty old...
Am I dwelling on this too much now? :rofl:
SeymourGuado
07-24-2006, 02:41 PM
I am a bit drunk, I cannot really sart pming here there every...ahh i will om you.
thats pm you.http://forums.rpgamers.net/images/smilies/biglaugh.gif
Yuffie
07-24-2006, 03:19 PM
I am a bit drunk, I cannot really sart pming here there every...ahh i will om you.
thats pm you.http://forums.rpgamers.net/images/smilies/biglaugh.gif
You're a bit drunk? Really? I'd never have guessed. :rofl:
:drunk:
SeymourGuado
07-24-2006, 03:22 PM
normally you wouldn't because normally I am not normal (and would bother chabging the sp mistakes) and I am glad for that since normal is not what I find interesting If all books were normal, we would find no surpris ein them and wou;ldn't bother reading? Do you not agree?
To recap, being unnormal should be the new normal , but if it became the normal I would rather be the formerhttp://forums.rpgamers.net/images/smilies/wink.gif
Locke
07-24-2006, 03:26 PM
...What about Asterix and Obelix? They have moustaches and look pretty old...
Am I dwelling on this too much now? :rofl:
Nope, Asterix and Obelix are both older, since they were goth's fighting the Roman Empire they would be at the least grown men. Quite interesting stories though :D (ironically, I hadn't thought about them in years until about a week ago when a buddy brought them up. I gotta try and find some of those books again :p
Yuffie
07-24-2006, 03:44 PM
We used to have them in the school library...but only in French.
My french never improved so quickly! :rofl:
SeymourGuado
07-25-2006, 01:45 AM
That reminds me actually of how useless my french education was....all them lessons and books and my french is as poor now as it was in 1994. I can ask to go to the cinema now thoughhttp://forums.rpgamers.net/images/smilies/knockedout.gif
Locke
07-25-2006, 02:19 PM
We used to have them in the school library...but only in French.
My french never improved so quickly! :rofl:
My dad actually has a few of them in English, and he even managed to track down a couple of the cartoons in English. Never seen them in English anywheres else though... always french.
As to my core french from school... yeah, pretty useless. I can say Je suis un chapeau though :p (My uncle told me to use that as an icebreaker on a trip to Montreal I went on in grade 9, it's stuck with me since :p) Now I can read it, but god help the person that tries to speak it to me and expects me to understand what their saying.
Yuffie
07-25-2006, 06:04 PM
I have an old CD-i game about Asterix and Obelix...it's still fun. :D
Pezito
07-26-2006, 03:23 PM
I'd say you guys were just bad students ! :D I've learned German at school and it's certainly as useless to me (and unused ^^) now as French is to you... However I can still understand a few words and make very basic sentences... Nothing impressive but it's still there, in a corner of my head.
And I never got to learn it with funny comic strips, mind you ! XD
Anyway - like it or not, english is one of the most used languages world wide, so it's better to use it well. ^^
*wonders if coming thunder will blow his computer up*
Yuffie
07-26-2006, 03:37 PM
I enjoyed French! :p
I was quite good at it at them time...but if I went to france and had to explain something I'd get the message across but with terrible grammar and words missing.
Just like with my English sometimes! :D
Locke
07-28-2006, 11:09 AM
Yeah, I can get my point accross as well, just not very correct. I miss words, it'
d be more along the lines of "Beer is where? Drunk" :p
Something like that, anyways
Currently reading the first book in the Ice Age Cycle of MTG books :D
PRIEST
07-29-2006, 09:04 AM
Re-reading the Lord of the Rings, has anyone learned Elven?
Blade Tanaka
07-29-2006, 11:38 AM
I bought and read .hack//AIbuster2 a few days ago. It was full of a buch of shorts about other important .hack characters. It was good.
No PREIST I don't know Elven...
Galthol
07-29-2006, 01:11 PM
Re-reading the Lord of the Rings, has anyone learned Elven?
I tried for a while, but couldnt get the grammer, If you pick up a copy of the Sillimarion there is an English-Quenya diconary at the back.
Locke
07-30-2006, 07:49 PM
I tried picking it up for a while too, couldn't get the hang of it.
Yuffie
07-31-2006, 05:32 AM
I can't help thinking that learning elven is the definition of geek. :p
And if they learn klingon as well then there's no hope! :amazed:
SeymourGuado
07-31-2006, 07:57 AM
And if they learn klingon as well then there's no hope! :amazed:I am a trekky and hear in some places you can even get a qualification in it, but what would be the point....silly ppl:)
as a kid i did memorize a piece of klingon though....."the enterprise is under attack" http://forums.rpgamers.net/images/smilies/embarassedlaugh.gif
Locke
07-31-2006, 10:48 AM
I used to know a few phrases, but now all I remember is what a Bat'leth is :p (booyeah to a huge assed bladed thing)
Haven't watched the show in years though....
Finished the Magic: The Gathering book I was reading on Sunday at work, was a slow shift so I read the whole book start to finish :p
PRIEST
07-31-2006, 11:10 AM
Yuffie, there is nothing wrong with being a Geek.
I've picked up some klingon, from watching Star Trek too, only what I know is of the more colorful variety. I even know a Romulan curse. But in keeping with the thread; I have probalby read about 30 Star Trek books.
I am a Trekie, and a Techie... and I love it.
Locke
07-31-2006, 11:44 AM
Yuffie, there is nothing wrong with being a Geek.
On the contrary Priest, it all depends on circumstances. Most places I go I would probly have people trying to pick fights with me if I was a geek. I know a ton of geeky things, and was one in junior high... but I wouldn't classify myself as a geek. I do to many things that geeks (using the stereotypical geek as a standard) would never do, or would not be able to do.... I live my life to have fun with whatever I'm doing, and I have an insatiable thirst for knowledge, so I read all I can, learn all I can, and just try to have fun... That doesn't mean that I'm a geek...
To go back to on topic.... I need to find another book to read. Lance, you got anything at your place I haven't read yet?
SeymourGuado
07-31-2006, 11:52 AM
I would have to say live and let live with geeks. I think on one hand it is great they specialise in something and that is different, sometimes fun, on the otherhand going to far into a fictional thing like learning the klingon language is just silly. It is intended for the characters and toa dd authenticity to the star trek Universe, not for someone to come along and learn it literally because it serves no purpose:)
Galthol
07-31-2006, 12:21 PM
currenly reading "The Complete Idiots Guide to Learning Latin" you know just as something to do, think it doesn't serve a purpose... I already know how to fill out a pescription pad, (not for the drugs, but the other stuff, you no once daily, 3 hours after eating etc.)
Locke
07-31-2006, 12:48 PM
currenly reading "The Complete Idiots Guide to Learning Latin" you know just as something to do, think it doesn't serve a purpose... I already know how to fill out a pescription pad, (not for the drugs, but the other stuff, you no once daily, 3 hours after eating etc.)While latin might be dead, it's at least a language that's... well, real. You can actually read books in Latin that were written ages and ages ago. Now Klingon... I'm sorry, but Klingon is just useless. Might be able to insult someone and them not know it, but I could do the same with most people just by using words they don't understand :p
Yuffie
07-31-2006, 01:06 PM
Hehe, I think I may have started something here... :evilgrin:
I sat next to someone I'd call a "geek" at work the other day...he talked me through his entire comic book idea...including having himself as the hero...and his alter ego as a villain. Time went even slower that shift...
Another obsession that bugs me sometimes is when people try so hard to be like their celebrity idols that they don't have a personality. I've never even really had a celebrity idol. :rofl:
Locke
07-31-2006, 01:48 PM
I can't really say I did either. I mean, the ninja turtles when I was little, but they're a cartoon, not real people (though I guess in the movies they were real people in turtle suits... but meh, that wasn't what I looked up to).
As to time going slow.... that's what you get for not taking a book to read or cd's to listen to :p
Yuffie
07-31-2006, 06:10 PM
Hehe, we're not allowed to take books or music.
We're not really even meant to talk to each other, but he had those yummy mingles chocolate things. :p
We're supposed to just keep watching the screen... :(
"Great Expectations" Charles Dickens. -___- I'm definately not reading for leisure.
Locke
08-01-2006, 08:44 AM
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Picked it up from Lance, good so far :D
PRIEST
08-06-2006, 03:27 PM
I just got throught the Apendixes in The Lord of the Rings, I think you need an education in languages to understand some of it.
Locke
08-07-2006, 09:31 AM
I would have to say that I think American God's is probably one of the best books I've ever read. If anyone hasn't read it, pick it up somewheres and read it. I was quite pleased with it :D
Just finished "Animal Farm" George Orwell. It was a pretty good book I would give it a 4.8. http://forums.rpgamers.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
Galthol
08-07-2006, 11:57 PM
I would have to say that I think American God's is probably one of the best books I've ever read. If anyone hasn't read it, pick it up somewheres and read it. I was quite pleased with it :D
Look in to reading the sandman comicbooks as well. You should enjoy them, Neil Gaiman is a genius.
Mangachaos
08-08-2006, 10:55 PM
The Tintinbooks that were mentioned earlier... i have also read them... in fact I was a member of a club called the Tintin adventure club... and got the book every month.. that was... uh.. twenty years ago I think... the series really old.. but lives on as long as we think Tintin and Haddock is funny and entertaining...
also not to forget.. the Lucky Luke series... also a good book to read from time to time...
Locke
08-09-2006, 09:55 AM
Just finished "Animal Farm" George Orwell. It was a pretty good book I would give it a 4.8. http://forums.rpgamers.net/images/smilies/smile.gifThat is an awesome book :D
That is an awesome book :DI like it also, I liked it even more when I found out that it had a deeper meaning. In that it was about Soviet Russian communism. But I think that's the reason that it was picked for me to read. Now I'm reading Lord of the Flies, it's kind blah :P. Not the most intresting thing in the world. ^^
BAMAToNE
08-11-2006, 03:36 PM
I like it also, I liked it even more when I found out that it had a deeper meaning. In that it was about Soviet Russian communism. But I think that's the reason that it was picked for me to read. Now I'm reading Lord of the Flies, it's kind blah :P. Not the most intresting thing in the world. ^^Oh yeah, another thumbs up from me about Animal Farm.
But I found Lord of the Flies to be very boring. Bleh.
Yuffie
08-11-2006, 05:58 PM
Back on the law books. They're starting to get more interesting the more I learn about the law though so that's a good sign!
I've been meaning to read animal farm for years...I just hear random information about it from different people and it sounds pretty unique. :p
As for lord of the flies...also sounds familiar...like the kind of book you're meant to read for a school exam.
Galthol
08-12-2006, 02:04 PM
Picked up American Psycho. I have only read the first few pages so far, and I have come to realise somthing, I hate Bateman, but its a good kinda of hate.
Locke
08-13-2006, 02:25 PM
Started reading the Da Vinci Code. Pretty good so far :D
PRIEST
08-14-2006, 09:47 PM
Look in to reading the sandman comicbooks as well. You should enjoy them, Neil Gaiman is a genius.I will second that, as Galthol had me read some once, and I still mention them positivly to people.
Lance Alvein
08-15-2006, 07:57 AM
Currently reading "City of Splendors" by Ed Greenwood & Elaine Cunningham.
It's pretty good so far
MojoPin
08-18-2006, 07:13 AM
I just got throught the Apendixes in The Lord of the Rings, I think you need an education in languages to understand some of it.The appendices at the end of ROTK aren't that bad.. I actually rather like most of that. Try reading The Silmarillion, now that's brain-numbing time. LOL
Right now I'm working my way through something much lighter, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. I have never read them before but thought I'd give them a try, and so far they're pretty good. I had to force myself to finish a couple of the earlier volumes but it's picked up considerably in the second half of the series. I've only got one book left now. The "plots" are absurd, of course, but the narrator's frank & conversational delivery is hilarious.
As soon as that's done I have to, HAVE to re-read something Harry Potter... haven't even picked up one of those since, I think, April or May -- this summer has just been crazy hectic -- and I'm going through seeeeeeerious withdrawals. :D
Um, and I am an adult, despite what my recent reading titles may seem to indicate. hehe
jetblue
09-07-2006, 02:01 AM
i rarely read comics but i found some gems. Scarlet Traces by dark horse comics and Scarlet Traces:the great game are fantastic. There about after the martians invaded great britain from war of the worlds and how the martian technology made england the only superpower left on earth. Scarlet traces (only 1 volume)happens some years after the invasion,the great game happens in around the 1930's when great britan is still fighting the martians on mars!(volumes 1 thru 4,)
Also entertaining and newer story line is War of the Worlds Second Wave by boom!studios. Up to vol.5 now. Happening around our century and in america after the first martian invasion failed and new cylinders start to fall from the sky with reinforcements immune to the virus that killed the first wave
forgot to mention if anyone wants to see them pm me and il up the ones you want to see to a file shareing service like you send it or filefactory. Cause most comic stores dont stock them and the first scarlet traces is a few years old. Hard to find
Mangachaos
09-08-2006, 03:14 PM
another thing I read (when they come out that is) is Shonen Jump... I´m a total manga-fan.. but not too serious...^^ I wish I had the One Piece comics though... but since the anime has gotten past the books... it might not be neccissary to read them.. when having the anime at stake too...:D
btw our shonen is much shorter then the rest... they just don´t get it... we have around 200 pages.. I know America has 300+ and Japan 400 or was it more... hm... that makes me a bit pissed...-_-
Yuffie
09-08-2006, 03:51 PM
Well I'm WAITING to read a reply email from my landlord...Mr Bob "I read all my emails and reply immediately" Leydon!
I emailed to let him know how the building work was going and that he has an important letter...but if he wants to ignore a letter about price increases from his energy suppliers so be it. He pays for it, not us. ;)
Galthol
09-12-2006, 12:12 PM
i rarely read comics but i found some gems. Scarlet Traces by dark horse comics and Scarlet Traces:the great game are fantastic. There about after the martians invaded great britain from war of the worlds and how the martian technology made england the only superpower left on earth. Scarlet traces (only 1 volume)happens some years after the invasion,the great game happens in around the 1930's when great britan is still fighting the martians on mars!(volumes 1 thru 4,)
Huh I have the "The War of the Worlds" by the same guys, it is a very nice book. As to what I am reading, I picked up some more Lovecraft books.
Locke
09-14-2006, 09:06 AM
Just finished reading "The Dark Tower", book seven in Steven Kings Dark Tower/Gunslinger series.
I would need to say that I am not too impressed. It started out not too badly, but more and more apparent was that SK was just tired of the series and wanted to close it off. The amount of literary cop-outs that I read throughout the book was mind-numbing...
To sum it up, the book was probably the worst written Steven King book that I've ever read, but I still couldn't put it down because it's the final book of 7, and I didn't want to leave the series off without finishing it.
All told, I don't think I'll ever read another SK book (well, any new ones. There's still some old ones that I'll pick up and reread).
Blade Tanaka
09-27-2006, 12:58 PM
Recently I was reading, the original "Brohter's Grim" fairy tales. They're told much better in their original morbid sense. A lot of "hack of his head" sort of things. However I kinda droped it off some time ago. Maybe I should pick it up again when I go home...
Locke
09-27-2006, 01:09 PM
Reading through 1984 once again. Quite the interesting book :)
Blade Tanaka
10-10-2006, 12:56 PM
I'm about to embark on a historical book called "Freedom Riders." It's for my "Contemperary" (Modern) history class. It's about a few busses of African Americans (To be pollitcaly correct) And whites (Cause I'm white and I don't care) who went to test if all the civil rights of North Americans had been speard and enforced in South america. It should be interesting.
Lance Alvein
10-10-2006, 03:13 PM
I'm currently reading "Time Spiral" by Scott McGough. It's the newest Magic the Gathering book... seems like it should be good so far :p
Yuffie
10-13-2006, 02:21 PM
I went on a book shopping binge today and picked up:
The picture of dorian grey
Peter Pan
Edgar Allen Poe stories
Gulliver's travels
Grimm's fairy tales
All things I've been meaning to read but never got around to!
Then as fate would have it they were all on offer at the uni bookshop for £2 each. Bargain! :D
Now I just have to find time to read them...
Locke
12-05-2006, 07:51 PM
Currently I'm reading through Scar Tissue, the biography of Anthony Kiedis (lead singer of the chili peppers). Tisn't that bad at all.
SeymourGuado
12-05-2006, 08:12 PM
I have been reading alot of stuff online from Wiki mainly. Been reading up Quantum Mind theory, quantum mechanics, Out of body expereriences, astral projection, mind and brain seperate theory (which I strongly agree with).
But like always I also find time for trivia and othe rgame related facts. Turns out FFXII got a 40/40 from famitsu but I willd ecide that for myself soon.
Locke
12-05-2006, 08:14 PM
I'd put it pretty far up there too.
And to go to the point of the thread. Seymour, check out indiadaily.com and then click on technology. It's all theories pretty much, but I think you might find it interesting.
SeymourGuado
12-05-2006, 10:31 PM
An ok site. Is bookmarked. I really should find the time to read some Stephen Hawking books too.
Locke
12-10-2006, 12:51 PM
Finished Scar Tissue, now I'm reading The Dark Corridor by Jay Bennet. Interesting so far
Galthol
12-10-2006, 05:53 PM
Now reading... Dracula. Haven't read it before, saw it in a used bookstore and thought I would pick it up. Suprise Suprise it's really good, really really good. Though from what I hear the rest of Stokers stuff isn't that good, has anybody read anything of his.
Next up Moby Dick
Blade Tanaka
12-17-2006, 04:29 PM
Well right now I'm about half way through "Black Hawk Down" It's a really good read.
Lance Alvein
02-08-2007, 02:57 PM
I'm currently rereading Shogun... finished the newest magic book in less than 24 hours too... I really shouldn't read that fast :p
The Dragon Master
02-10-2007, 11:49 PM
Not reading anything interesting except textbooks right now...but I have been reading off-and-on an interesting *political* book by Michael Savage "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder".
Secret
03-18-2007, 03:06 AM
Currently I am stuck on "Birches" by Robert Frost. Forgive me, I am lame to most.
Blade Tanaka
05-26-2007, 02:41 PM
I think I'm going to start reading Treasure Island soon...
Galthol
06-13-2007, 05:35 PM
"My Fathers Son" by Farley Mowatt
Geosgaeno
06-14-2007, 04:29 AM
the football fixtures in England are out for next season, so im just having a read who everyone got, thats all, cant be bothered with a book
pikatsu
06-15-2007, 02:38 PM
I'm about to start reading "World War: In the Balance", alt history by Harry Turtledove.
Blank
06-22-2007, 08:52 PM
Microserfs.. Douglas Copeland.
Similar to Murakami's books, only.. American. And techie. =D
bjp4444
06-25-2007, 08:14 AM
...reading the time traveller's wife. good stuff!
pikatsu
06-25-2007, 03:48 PM
World War: In the Balance, by Harry Turtledove.
WWII is raging, the destiny of the world hangs in balance... Then, from the sky, the Race descends upon Earth.
Yah, alien invasion during WWII. Great thus far.
Geosgaeno
06-25-2007, 05:53 PM
the scripts to the League of Gentleman tv series, its amazingly funny, dont even need to watch the program to have a laugh...
Autobiography of Malcom X. Hmm, a good read. It's for summer reading but it's still pretty good. My only problem is that it's beaten to death in the book about how negroes were not treated fairly. I think it says "negro" more than 5 times per page.
Blade Tanaka
02-20-2008, 09:05 AM
Having finished High school a few weeks ago, I've gotten back into the Ender's Game Series. I've re-read Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Shadow of the Hegemon. I'm currently re-reading Speaker for the Dead.
Blade Tanaka
02-25-2008, 09:07 AM
Still reading that series, but I'm now reading Speaker for the Dead.
Cyrano de Hero
02-26-2008, 03:55 PM
"The Magic of Thinking Big" by David Schwartz, Ph.D. I used to think self-improvement books were really fruity but my friend recommended it to me and it's actually making me more confident and see things in a different perspective.
Blade Tanaka
02-26-2008, 10:00 PM
Intresting... I've never read a self-improvment book before.
Finished with "Speaker for the Dead" Next book is "Xenocide."
pikatsu
02-28-2008, 12:56 PM
Really nasty book, in a good way, "Xenocide".
Charon
03-02-2008, 05:57 AM
Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell. It's set in 2000 B.C. and features old Gods, druids, priests, sorcerors and muchos gore! You know you love it. :)
Blade Tanaka
03-06-2008, 11:27 AM
Now I am, or have been for a time, reading Xenocide.
M.H.A.Q.S.
03-06-2008, 04:06 PM
Memoirs from Higiyama... The story of Hiroshima Nagasaki's bad day
Charon
04-01-2008, 10:50 AM
Finished "The Venus Conspiracy" by Michael Cordy, moving rapidly onto "The Crime Code" by the same author.
bjp4444
04-01-2008, 11:10 AM
....just finished towing jehovah. okay, but not great by any means. one of those books you read once and then never pick up again.
the collected bone is next, followed by the invention of morel, operation red jericho, and likely, i hope they serve beer in hell.
and, of course, i'm sure textbooks do not count.
also recently finished: rollback, linger ahwile
BAMAToNE
04-01-2008, 09:35 PM
Just finished 10 Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You: (But Can't, Because He Needs the Job) (http://www.amazon.com/Things-Your-Minister-Wants-Tell/dp/0312363796/).
Now reading 1984... for the first time!
I WANT TO READ THAT BOOK!
But I've been getting a subscription to Nylon Magazine, and that's all I've been reading. That does not count all the mandatory reading stuff in school. :P
Zedie9
04-05-2009, 12:03 AM
Right now I'm reading The Day After Tomorrow, and no, it has nothing to do with the world freeze movie. :roll:
bjp4444
02-10-2010, 08:52 AM
I just got through the Y: The Last Man series of graphic novels. I enjoyed myself, but the ending left me a bittersweet taste in my mouth, and I have no clue why.
In any case, it was pretty good.
MizuiroHime
02-10-2010, 10:07 AM
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