What Are You Reading Now?

[Typhus]

Yes Man by Danny Wallace.

Very funny stuff.

[Otter]

I'm slowly reading "The Eight" by Catherine Neville. It's much more boring than I had anticipated, yet I feel compelled to finish it.I recently read Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers." Interesting, but not as great a read as The Tipping Point or Blink.

[Rhoda]

Yes Man by Danny Wallace.

Very funny stuff.

I agree with you there, been reading that since college, so annoyed the film made a pig's ear of the book. You should definitely look at Join Me if you haven't already.

[Typhus]

Yes Man by Danny Wallace.

Very funny stuff.

I agree with you there, been reading that since college, so annoyed the film made a pig's ear of the book. You should definitely look at Join Me if you haven't already.

I just got that for my brother actually.

I can't wait to read it.

[Wanted Assailant]

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[ToyMachine]

I recently read Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers." Interesting, but not as great a read as The Tipping Point or Blink.

I agree. My English professor is good friends with him and I've met him twice. A really interesting man.

[palaric2]

I just finishing reading "the man in the high castle

 

a good read must said,is one of those books to read from time to time

[Omnia sunt Communia]

Time to spice things up a little.

 

Has anybody ever started reading a book, but had to stop half-way for some reason or another?

 

I was reading Maneater by Thomas Emson and I just had to put the book down forever about half-way through. The sexual content of the story were becoming overbearing, it was like it was written by a horny 13 year-old. Every character was having sex dreams about the other, the first thing anybody would think upon meeting another character would be how they felt in bed.

 

Another one was The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. It was an interesting concept, and the first couple of chapters were really good. But after the main character is transported to our world; I had to put it down. It was such a cliche twist that I became bored of it quickly.

[Pat]

I just started watching the movie of Of Mice and Men, and so far, I'm loving it.

 

I'm going to try and check it out from the library after I finish with Lisey's Storey.

[Jordy.]

Time to spice things up a little.

 

Has anybody ever started reading a book, but had to stop half-way for some reason or another?

 

I was reading Maneater by Thomas Emson and I just had to put the book down forever about half-way through. The sexual content of the story were becoming overbearing, it was like it was written by a horny 13 year-old. Every character was having sex dreams about the other, the first thing anybody would think upon meeting another character would be how they felt in bed.

 

Another one was The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. It was an interesting concept, and the first couple of chapters were really good. But after the main character is transported to our world; I had to put it down. It was such a cliche twist that I became bored of it quickly.

Richard Laymon books are full of sex and dirty happenings.

 

They're brilliant

[greebo-man]

Yes Man by Danny Wallace.

Very funny stuff.

I agree with you there, been reading that since college, so annoyed the film made a pig's ear of the book. You should definitely look at Join Me if you haven't already.

He's got another one, hasn't he?

 

Friends like these or something...

 

Anybody know if that's any good?

Yes man was f*cking sick, read that before Join me, which turned out to be funny, but nowhere near the standard set to me by Yes man.

 

I can remember one quote...

 

 

"Danny, just eat your fish, and f*ck off."

I quietly ate my fish, and then off I f*cked.

 

 

So awesome.

 

Anyway, in my cold war book, Joey's just imposed a blockade on Berlin. Getting tense now...

[Wanted Assailant]

 

Time to spice things up a little.

 

Has anybody ever started reading a book, but had to stop half-way for some reason or another?

 

 

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[4 Bagger]

I'm currently reading 'Holes' by Louis Sachar. It's a bit of a child's book but I seem to be enjoying it. I've also watched the movie and I'm comparing it with the book.

[Don Garcia aka NjNakedSnake]

Just finished Watchmen #2. Good, Good, Great is all I can say.

 

Love the characters, love the story.

[Lochie_old]

Books I want to get my hands around;

 

Of Mice and Men

Watchmen

The Great Gatsby

 

Any opinions on them? (been a few for the first two)

[Rebel]

I finished reading Nineteen Minuets by Jodi Picoult. It took me a little while to read since I was pretty busy, but I have to say its the second book I've read by her and I loved it. I don't know what I love more, the fact that she researches quite well with the story and its kind of based off of real life events or the fact the court proceedings in it at the end get me hooked.

[major underscore]

Two days ago I finished "Crime and punishment" by Dostoyevsky.

 

Now I've started on another book by D., "The idiot".

 

Actually I was a bit surprised that the books aren't more "difficult", or "heavy" if you will, to read. Not bad picks, I think, if you don't mind going through 600 pages of eccentric Russian characters going off on extensive rants about their pasts and getting depressed about the state of people in St. Petersburg.

[Don Garcia aka NjNakedSnake]

Of Mice and Men

Watchmen

The Great Gatsby

Read all 3.

 

Mice and Men was good, the ending was the best part for me.

 

Watchmen, well, it kicks a whole 'lotta ass.

 

Gatsby, pretty dull. The car accident was real good though.

[[SM]CJZera]

Found "The Black Cat" From Allan Poe in a book sale for 100 local money, wich is like 23 of them to make a dollar

Pretty... old, but nice

[GTASIX]

I'm currently reading 'Holes' by Louis Sachar. It's a bit of a child's book but I seem to be enjoying it. I've also watched the movie and I'm comparing it with the book.

We had to read that in school. But we never finished it.

[Lethal Nizzle]

Just finished reading Hurrican Gold, by Charlie Higson. The fourth out of five book out of the Young Bond franchise. Great read.

[Chickstick]

He's got another one, hasn't he?

Friends like these or something...

Anybody know if that's any good?

Very good, and well worth getting. If you like Danny Wallace I'd recommend Dave Gorman as well, particularly America Unchained in which he travels round America without stopping at any chain stores. The two may have done a book together now that I think of it.

 

I'm currently reading a big collection of Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected, some of them are average at best but every so often there's an awesome little story which actually does have an ending you don't see coming.

[Rhoda]

Very good, and well worth getting. If you like Danny Wallace I'd recommend Dave Gorman as well, particularly America Unchained in which he travels round America without stopping at any chain stores. The two may have done a book together now that I think of it.

Yeah, they both wrote "Are You Dave Gorman?" I believe, where he was looking for anyone else called Dave Gorman. Wallace and Gorman lived together at one point, sharing a flat in London. They share that unique "boy project" humour.

[Lochie_old]

Hey, I'm curious if any of you guys read those Redwall books during your childhood? I think they were by a Brian but I can't remember his last name. The books were sort-of fantasy/medieval with humans replaced by rodents/cuddly-cute creatures.

 

They were definitely my favourite series when growing up.

[Don Garcia aka NjNakedSnake]

Just finished Watchmen #3. Still loving it, and still getting increasingly excited for the movie.

[Attorney General]

 

The Great Gatsby

 

Any opinions on them? (been a few for the first two)

Pick it up.

 

It's far about as far from dull as any book I've read. Personally, I'd say it's tempo is more serene than dull. But the mounting suspense throughout should have you finished with the book in a few days or less. I read it in a day.

 

The attention to detail is what grabbed me when I read this for the first time. You get a sense of what it really felt like to be on Long Island in the roaring 20's in the midst of wealthy aristocrats, bootleggers and materialistic socialites. Of course, this is what all writers try to achieve when penning a novel. But this book, more than almost all the others I've read, encapsulated the essence of it's time.

 

I read a list not too long ago that had it as the second best novel of the 20th century after Ulysses. And though both of them are outstanding, I prefer the Gatsby. So yeah, I'd say if you have the time, it's worth a read for sure.

[Abel.]

1984, just started it.

[Stefan.]

We started reading First They Killed My Father last week in English. We're only read about 15 pages together as a class (we stop and start to look at the various moral aspects of the story) and tomorrow, when i have time, I'll be starting to read it by myself. It's basically about a now 30-something year old Cambodian-American discussing her memories of when the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia.

[Lochie_old]

Has anyone noticed that Mario Puzo's writing style draws heavily on giving even the most least-important characters a name, a background and a story? I've always found this far more interesting and it gets me more drawn into the story.

[Omnia sunt Communia]

1984, just started it.

Same here.

 

I've just reached Part II of the story (8 chapters and 105 pages in). The story is really intriguing and inspiring. I defiantly recommend you read on.