What are you reading?

[IJ.]

Recently read the original "Around the World in 80 days" by Jules Verne, was good once you got used to the archaic language.

 

[ERA]

Just finished Life of Pi.

Now:
Slaughterhouse-Five.

 

[Yellow 13]

Supramania.

 

[Poodles]

Tanya: yeah, gotta read em in hardcover or you get ONE read through the paperback before they fall apart. Really sucks, but the books are worth it.

 

[7MGTEsup]

I heartily recomend reading this

 

[Big Wang Bandit]

Supramania.

That book is fucking stupid.


I read To Kill a Mocking Bird today and yesterday.

 

[DsBetterHalf]

Tanya: you should try the Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher. They are a fantasy series, about a modern day wizard that lives in Chicago, and they are AWESOME!

Waiting on Doward to finish The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson, so I can read it. In the meantime, I will either finish reading a paranormal romance book my mom gave me, Kiss of Fury, or start plowing my way through The Aeneid by Virgil.

Talk about eclectic reading tastes, eh? LOL

 

[starscream5000]

Terry Goodkind's "Soul of the Fire". Fifth book in the Sword of Truth Series.

 

[rtrdpenguin]

The Foundation Trilogy by Issac Asimov

It's amazing how much sci-fi stuff is heavily based off of these books.

 

[shaeff]

I am reading "What are you reading?":icon_razz

 

[DreamerTheresa]

Now:
Slaughterhouse-Five.

I really dig Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse Five changed my view on death.

"He's not really dead, he's just in a bad moment."

I read To Kill a Mocking Bird today and yesterday.

I hated the ever living hell out of that damn book.

 

[Doward]

Laura reads more than God. I swear it!

Read any of Jim Butcher's work - HIGHLY entertaining!

I'm reading Well of Ascension, as Laura stated. I'm a James Patterson fan as well, and read a boatload of his work while in the County Motel

 

[Tanya]

Tanya: you should try the Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher. They are a fantasy series, about a modern day wizard that lives in Chicago, and they are AWESOME!

I used to watch the TV series on Sci-Fi, then it stopped being played

 

[simpsons7s]

I am currently on a chilton for toyota trucks, I have decided to read through antique chiltons, hayes or other old car manuals I come accross, I also enjoy technical manuals and engineering books with focus on mechanics.

 

[starscream5000]

Ever read any Forgotten Realms books? I have just about EVERY one ever published and have read most except for a handfull that are in series that are still not completed yet. I have a 6' tall, 5 shelf bookcase overflowing with nothing but Forgotten Realms books, some are quite rare.

Out of all of the authors I've read from in the Fantasy category, I'd say the current author, Terry Goodkind, is better than any other I've read from thusfar hands down, even better than Ed Greenwood or R.A. Salvatore. I plan on reading the Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan next.

 

[TopSecret]

I read anything and everything and have most of the King and Koontz books here as well, have to say though I felt cheated with the ending of the Gunslinger series

Hahaha, I felt that way at first too about the last Dark Tower book but the more I think about it the better I like that ending :biglaugh:

I thought Sergey Lukyanenkos "Night Watch" was pretty good. Different but good, now I just have "Day Watch" and "Twilight Watch" left.

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

Currently reading Atlas Shrugged (should be required reading IMHO).

If you like fantasy, read the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.

There was a hilarious summary of that book I'll see if I can find again.

Last thing I read was 1984 which I finished last week.
Now it will be textbooks.

 

[DreamerTheresa]

I got about 50 pages through Atlas Shrugged before I wanted to kill myself. Rand is EXTREMELY EXTREMELY ridiculously verbose. I imagine she could probably have cut the book by 70% and the story and point would still be there.

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

Yea I noticed that about a paragraph into that book.
Someone should fix that.

 

[Keros]

I've been reading The God Dilusion for quite some time now. Richard Dawkin's does a muilti pronged attack every few pages, which sometimes throws me for a loop and I have to go back and review things so that I understand the concepts he's throwing. It's not an easy read, for sure.

I'm also quickly working my way through The Last Lecture. Quickly being a relative term, of course, lol.

I'm a slow reader... it took me a few days to read The Road.