What Are You Reading? - Page 109

Solumina · 06-09-2010, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Lord Wotton

I keep picking this up in bookshops and then putting it down again. I would love to hear thoughts about it.

I kept waiting for it to pick up, it always felt like the action was just around the corner. Then the climax came and went in the span of about two paragraphs. I liked the style that the book was written in and I did get a wonderful feel for the characters but there was just so much build up and no real release. Kind of like tantric sex without ever achieving orgasm.

Angelic Dissonance · 06-10-2010, 01:32 AM

Now reading Graceling, by Kristin Cashore. Like it so far... I have been too busy sleeping through sickness the last couple days to read. However, dreaming makes up for it.

Did I just use 'bacon' as a verb..? ...Maybe....

Skye Jules · 06-11-2010, 06:16 PM

I'm reading ******, which is not as disturbing as I thought it was going to be. I mean, it's not 100% pleasant, but it's not American Psycho disturbing.

Gemini666 · 06-11-2010, 11:00 PM

Just finished reading Dante's Inferno. It was a good book, I love the poetic irony he uses in some of the punishments for different sins. Now I have to read Paradise and Purgatory, which will probably not happen for a while. Still though, if anyone's interested and hasn't read it I suggest they do so.

Angelic Dissonance · 06-12-2010, 12:31 AM

Dante's Inferno was awesome. I said as soon as I returned it, "I just KNOW that someone is going to make a video game out of this, the settings are perfect". Sure enough... of course, the game has NOTHING to do with the book(from what I hear). I want to see the anime.
Has anyone read 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimmage'? I couldn't get very far past the second canto....

Lady Starrlight · 06-12-2010, 12:32 AM

I just finished Brother Odd and started back into my Dragonlance collection
again last night.

M.Valdemar · 06-15-2010, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Lady Starrlight

I just finished Brother Odd and started back into my Dragonlance collection
again last night.

Did you like it?
My 2nd Koontz book - thought it was kind of predictable though.

By Dragonlance do you mean the Chronicles, absolute re-read classic Chronicles?

TheFeatheredÆtheling · 06-16-2010, 01:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Angelic Dissonance

Has anyone read 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimmage'? I couldn't get very far past the second canto....

I actually have an 1888 copy of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimmage". It's dissappointingly tiny but has three quarter binding and marbled paper covers ~ a very beautiful book. Like you mentioned though, it's a very tough read, and I have yet to get through it.

HumanePain · 06-16-2010, 03:09 PM

My daughter just got Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith. I am soooo reading that, after I finish Ozzy's autobiography.

drewsilla · 06-16-2010, 04:55 PM

I just finished Little Women and Werewolves. Surprisingly enjoyable, to say the least.

Monday Morning Tea · 06-17-2010, 05:51 AM

I just realized the third part of a series I really enjoyed, Shadowrise by Tad Williams was realesed about 3 months ago. I thought it was coming out on July for some weird reason.

And anyway, now I'm re-reading the first 2 parts, Shadowmarch and Shadowplay, because I basically forgot what happened and need to refresh my memory.

korinna5555 · 06-19-2010, 11:35 AM

War and Peace, by Tolstoy.
Also re-reading The Child-Thief, by Brom. It's a retelling of Peter Pan.. I love Peter Pan stories.

Pineapple_Juice · 06-19-2010, 09:27 PM

Reading the first Jim Butcher book someone lent me. I can't remember what it's called.

PS-I always wished I could sit through War and Peace. I'm jealous of you, Kor.

DarkestSunrise · 06-19-2010, 11:09 PM

Thanks to this thread I have some additions to my plan-to-read list. I'm currently reading "Pretty Little Dirty." It's by Amanda Bowden. Picked it up at a book-fair not expecting anything much but to pass some time and I'm loving it.

Damn good story of best-friends growing into themselves amongst artists, drugs, sex & punk rock shows.

Dama de los Cuervos · 06-20-2010, 01:28 AM

I just started Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series *again.* There is so much information there I feel I need to reread them to take book twelve in the proper context.

MissCheyenne · 06-20-2010, 11:00 AM

I'm about half way through A Game of Thrones and then I have War & Peace to start myself. I also have Kamikaze Girls to finish.

DA1 · 06-22-2010, 07:03 AM

The Screwtape Letters - C. S. Lewis

Saya · 06-25-2010, 11:01 PM

Finished R@pe: Sex, Violence, History. FINALLY. A really good read, I learned a lot and I'm definitely going to be using it as a reference book from here on, but I think I'm done with books that deal with r@pe for a while, and I'm still not over Push or A Thousand Sisters. I need something fluffy, so I'm reading Dead Until Dark.

Saya · 06-27-2010, 10:03 PM

Yeah, couldn't finish it. Wasn't on the edge of my seat to find out what Mary Sue Sookie would wear in the next chapter.

I forgot I didn't finish Oryx And Crake! So I'm back to that now.

Odineye · 06-27-2010, 10:17 PM

This thread

HumanePain · 06-28-2010, 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Dama de los Cuervos

I just started Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series *again.* There is so much information there I feel I need to reread them to take book twelve in the proper context.

I have heard good reviews about it, I am going to have to start reading the series.

Lady Sorrow · 06-28-2010, 08:06 AM

the bachman books by stephen king. (collection of his earlier works)

Vlh · 06-28-2010, 02:43 PM

******. Before that, The Vampire Chronicles.

Cat Man · 06-29-2010, 10:58 AM

Dracula, but not because I've jumped on the Vampire bandwagon, its just a very enjoyable read. Also some Schopenhauer, and a bit of Orwell.

Saya · 07-04-2010, 05:41 PM

Finished Oryx And Crake, alright but not as good as Year Of The Flood. Which is a good thing I guess, the third book will probably be even better.

Reading Jane Slayre :3