Dread Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 I'm currently picking up The Physics of Superheroes chapter by chapter but I wanted to mention that Bill Bryson's autobiography "Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" is fucking brilliantly funny and I"m only one chapter in. I also just finished Stephen King's "Cell" and it's got to be the best thing he's written in over a decade. He went downhill after Needful Things with very few moments that come up for air but this book was great. Probably has something to do with the fact that it's only 350 pages (1/3 the regular page count). What are YOU reading? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 As mentioned on the last episode of The Show, I'm almost done with Trouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler. Not the best collection of short stories / novellas I've ever read (some of the endings are clichéd), but I forgive any bumps in the road because these stories are from early in his career (before he became a novelist). The plan is to read Casino Royal by Ian Fleming next, which I started once before but put down for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 I'm about to re-read the last Harry Potter book, since the next one comes out in like 2 weeks, and I don't remember most of what happened. Other than that I'm not reading anything right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drqshadow Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 I've been working my way through "Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner" for a good long while now. It's an interesting look at the pains that crew went to to create such an immersive world on film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragernok2002 Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 I am reading Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay and when I get a chance the new John Connolly book Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holacik Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 I'm about to do reread '1984' One of my all all time favs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 I am reading Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay and when I get a chance the new John Connolly book After watching the first episode of Dexter, I picked this novel up from the library. Liked what I read, but didn't have the time to finish it (which is the story of my life when it comes to books). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James D. Posted July 9, 2007 Report Share Posted July 9, 2007 Just finished the fifth hardback collection of Superman/Batman, "Enemies Among Us". I really enjoyed it because I thought it was a great look at just how far Batman and Supes will go to save the world and each other. The final page is just awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Marv Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 I just finished "Promise of the Witch-King" and "Road of the Patriarch," both by R.A Salvatore. I love Salvatore. It's the literary equivalent of an action movie. His battle descriptions are wonderful. I don't know how I felt about the end of the Sellsword trilogy, because I liked Entreri. Hopefully there's some more interaction with Drizzt for him in the future. Currently reading Robert Graves' "I, Claudius." It started out slow but is picking up. But I love Ancient Rome, so my tolerance for long-windedness here is exceedingly high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinmaru Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 After seeing it name-dropped (sort of) in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, I started reading Hyperion by Dan Simmons. It's fantastic and has pulled me into its world as well as any book I've read in a long time. Once I'm finished with that, I'll be reading Lolita for The Modern Reader's Paradigm over on the Oratory. I've also got Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House waiting to be read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted July 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 Once I'm finished with that, I'll be reading Lolita for The Modern Reader's Paradigm over on the Oratory. I've also got Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House waiting to be read. Both are brilliant! If you like Dan Simmons, try "Carrion Comfort" which has to be the best vampire novel ever written next to I Am Legend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 Bringing this thread back to life since I was about to make a new one and found this one. I read through all of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books, and just ordered Just Another Judgment Day which is book 9 in the Nightside series by Simon R. Green. Also reading Warcraft Archive which is the first 4 books set in the Warcraft universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 About a week ago I read F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted January 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 Finished "The Summer I Died" by Ryan C. Thomas yesterday and started Mother and Father's Italian Association by Thomas F Monteleone. It's a collection of said column from over twenty years in several magazines. Hilarious and insightful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyle Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 Steinbeck's "East of Eden". This a FAT book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erin B. Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 The Science of Sherlock Holmes by E.J. Wagner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 For class? Lu Xun's short story collection Diary of a Madman. On my own? Considering reading through American Gods or Neverwhere sometime soonish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 Gods is my favorite book. So much goodness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 Gods is excellent, but I'm partial to Neverwhere, myself. I'm reading The Writer's Tale by Russell T Davies, because I'm a sad, sad fanboy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted January 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 American Gods is easily Gaiman's best written prose. It diverts unnecessarily a little bit but as a mythology nerd I loved it dearly. One of the few books I've read into oblivion. My tattered copy of it and the Stand are around here somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 Does anything eat bankers? by Andy Zaltzman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 I've already read 2 books this year, which I'm quietly proud of, hehehe. 3 weeks off work will do that though Good to Great: Why some companies make the leap and some don't - Jim Collins Moneyball: The art of winning an unfair game - Michael Lewis Both books appeal to my interest of the contrarian approach to things. I have never really been in to baseball, but Moneyball I finished in about 9hrs of reading over 3 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 I just finished (well a few weeks ago) Flowers for Algernon. Oh, And Im am also reading Lucky Man, I heavily recomend it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erin B. Posted January 11, 2009 Report Share Posted January 11, 2009 I Love Female Orgasm: An Extraordinary Orgasm Guide by Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller. (Yes it is a real book). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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