What are you currently Reading? (5 Viewers)

[jhakka]

Across the Face of the World by Russel Kirkpatrick.

 

[sycotakangel]

right in the middle of 'memoirs of a geisha'...wanted to finish it b4 the movie...its slow in the beginning but picks up gradually...and i cant say its completely mind-blowing, but i also find myself wantin to pick it up whenever im not doin anything majorly important....
just wonderin if anyone's read 'million little pieces'??? i heard its really really good...just wonderin wots if abt, and whether its worth it to buy...
gonna start 'davinci code' afta 'memoirs...' coz i havnt read da vinci code yet. i know, SHOCKING. lol

i've just finished reading 'memoirs of a geisha' [also due to the fact i wanted 2 finish it b4 the movie]
i thought it was okay but i was expecting something a bit more emotional and tear-jerking, you know what i mean?
still good though, not great

read the da vince code just before that, liked it alot
got confused with all the french words etc. everywhere but i thought it was really interesting
now just wondering what facts in the book is true and what isn't...

 

[^CoSMic DoRiS^^]

for school i'm reading cloudstreet by tim winton (loving it) the handmaid's tale by margaret atwood - again - (loving it) and dune by frank herbert (hating, hating, hating it!!). also am reading terry pratchett's new novel thud! - it's really good. and i havent liked the Watch-centric stories in the past, but Vimes is really a champ in this one.

 

[Katie123]

reading 2 books atm the davinci code n white thorn

 

[Diddimz]

Put down the Di Vinci Code, biggest piece of rubbish you will read

Just started another of Ludlum's books, Janson Directive, great read

 

[Katie123]

Put down the Di Vinci Code, biggest piece of rubbish you will read

thanks for that but i think i will decide for myself what is rubbish and what is a good read. its taken me this long to read it because i didnt want to read it with all the hype going on about it.

 

[sarevok]

Put down the Di Vinci Code, biggest piece of rubbish you will read

Agreed. A substandard piece of trashy popular-fiction. I've no idea how it has managed to garner such a large following.

 

[kami]

Looking for Jake and other stories by China Mieville. I've heard absolutely fantastic things about one of the short stories inside: The Tain, so I'm quite excited to read it.

 

[nwatts]

I'm reading a few at the moment -

• Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson, very good. Funny, and informative. It's a great beginners guide to linguistics and the English language, aided by the usual anecdotal flair of Bryson. Great Christmas present.
• Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis, as part four of the Narnia series. Thusfar I'm not a fan of this series at all, i find it lacking imagination, lacking in proper description and in control over language - in comparing children's literature, I rate Potter higher than Narnia. However, this is so far the best of the lot, and I hope they pick up.
• The First Casualty by Ben Elton is the last of the bundle I'm reading at the moment. He's a great author, and this is something of a turn in style, as it's not the funny and frenetic novel I know from Elton. It is, however, very good and mature in its writing - a crime novel set in WWI, which is used as a fairly philosophical portrait for questions on morality and such. Can't wait to finish this one.

 

[mYstiKaL_rOse]

atm i'm reading "retire young, retire rich" by robert. t. kiyosaki...its got some really good advice on how to use your money to maximise profit and retire young and rich....

 

[paper cup]

I'm reading a few at the moment -

• Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson, very good. Funny, and informative. It's a great beginners guide to linguistics and the English language, aided by the usual anecdotal flair of Bryson. Great Christmas present.
• Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis, as part four of the Narnia series. Thusfar I'm not a fan of this series at all, i find it lacking imagination, lacking in proper description and in control over language - in comparing children's literature, I rate Potter higher than Narnia. However, this is so far the best of the lot, and I hope they pick up.
• The First Casualty by Ben Elton is the last of the bundle I'm reading at the moment. He's a great author, and this is something of a turn in style, as it's not the funny and frenetic novel I know from Elton. It is, however, very good and mature in its writing - a crime novel set in WWI, which is used as a fairly philosophical portrait for questions on morality and such. Can't wait to finish this one.

I found Narnia magical when I was young, but I haven't read them for ages so, I've forgotten the plot - but you do have to realise that CS Lewis was writing, how many decades ago? When the world wasn't as commercialised - and JK Rowling has special editors to ensure her work is catchy and attractive to certain age groups, i.e. all of them?

I was reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides but it's so long.
I finished Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palanuik yesterday though.

 

[nwatts]

I found Narnia magical when I was young, but I haven't read them for ages so, I've forgotten the plot - but you do have to realise that CS Lewis was writing, how many decades ago? When the world wasn't as commercialised - and JK Rowling has special editors to ensure her work is catchy and attractive to certain age groups, i.e. all of them?

I do realise Lewis wrote in a very different time, as I do when reading a lot of older work, but it doesn't save it from ultimate mediocrity. From a series of books that people boast as "imaginative masterpieces" I expected to much more.

I was reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides but it's so long.

Oh, Middlesex is great. Probably one of my favourite books of all time! Eugenides is such a great writer. See The Virgin Suicides - it's a lot shorter, and very good.

 

[sikeveo]

Just finished ~5 James Bond Novels.

 

[rnitya_25]

im currently reading the Count of Monte Cristo, its absolutely blissful. I saw the movie a few days back, that was really really good, the french version with subtitles. i reccommend anyone to watch the film then read the book. its truly gold.

 

[hiphophooray123]

some book about sigmund freud put together by his daughter, a collection of his essays, 'the question of lay analysis' is really well done.

 

[illodous]

I decided to go with a classic..

Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd.

Evocative, littered with Christian allusions and fragranced with magic realism.
Difficult language but genuinely satisfying. Full of passion and slow courtship.

 

[!! CaR`JiE !!]

I just finished reading "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown.

Gonna watch the movie of it out next May 19th 2006

 

[rnitya_25]

I just finished reading "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown.

Gonna watch the movie of it out next May 19th 2006

ooooh can;t wait till it comes out!!

 

[gosh]

ive just started reading the Da Vinci Code. should finish it before the movie comes out

 

[withoutaface]

Mort - Terry Pratchett