Thread: What are you reading?

Originally Posted by NameUsedBefore

RAND political and military policy papers.

You have my deepest sympathy.... ;-p

i finished roots a week or so ago, and i just read you suck by christopher moore and galapagos by kurt vonnegutt. . . . .

"When and Where I Enter" by Paula Giddings.

Black women's history. Fun. Not that I don't applaud any kind of historical effort by any ethnicity or race, but the only reason I'm reading this is because I was told to


(And by "read" I mean skim through frantically as I have a paper due on it by Friday)

Grim Lands: The Best of Robert E Howard Vol. 2
If you like great storytelling then Howard is your man...No one does it better.

I am going out and getting the book to that new Natalie Portman/Scarlett Johansen (sp?) movie. My mom just finished it and said it was phenom. She finished it in a day and a half because she couldn't put it down.

I just finished reading "The Darkest Night" by Gena Showalter. Very interesting setting- modern day with the old Greek gods being real. There are immortal Warriors/Dark Lords who had opened Pandora's box, and the gods cursed them to each carry one of the evil spirits from the box inside them. This book is about Violence/Maddox. It starts out quite paranormal, but by the end turns into a sexy, mushy romance. I give it 4 out of 5 stars. I predicted the end, but the sex is hot!

currently re-reading the cider house rules by john irving-- best writer on the planet, for my money. . . .

Brother Odd - Dean Koontz

This is book 3 of the series. I'm really enjoying Koontz moving away from the total horror genre. He writes some fantatstic books, and this less gory aspect really works for him.

Originally Posted by EastCoastBronco

Grim Lands: The Best of Robert E Howard Vol. 2
If you like great storytelling then Howard is your man...No one does it better.

I've never actually read Howard (except for one of the books that's available online, forget which... ) but probably should, since it seems everyone I know does sooner or later. I think Arnies movies may have ruined him for me; the literary Conan seems, from my few impressions, to be a lot more savvy than the film version, not so much a "barbarian" as uncultured, but perfectly capable of solving a problem with his wits rather than his brawn.

But mainly I should probably read Howard because the only NEW Robert Jordan books I can ever read are his revisit to Conan. Playing with the idea of re-reading The Eye of the World, which I'd lost for a long time, now that I finally have it in hardcover. In the mean time I've mainly been reading Saberhagen, who apparently has a new series with a new take on Ancient Greece and its pantheon (as opposed to the take in the Swords trilogy; in the end we never do get much indication of Saberhagens thoughts on religion, past or present.... )

I had a lot of time to read the past week and a half.. too many hours spent at the airport......gotta love business travel.

I really enjoyed The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.....one of the best books i've read in quite some time.

I also read The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly ......this was very good too... well written and hard to put down.

These are the only books I would recommend to someone that I read from my recent reads. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

Originally Posted by BOSSHOGG30

I had a lot of time to read the past week and a half.. too many hours spent at the airport......gotta love business travel.

I really enjoyed The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.....one of the best books i've read in quite some time.

I also read The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly ......this was very good too... well written and hard to put down.

These are the only books I would recommend to someone that I read from my recent reads. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

The Book of Lost Things sounds a lot like the Talisman and the Black House, Stephen King and Peter Straub's collaborations.

I'm not reading anything right now because all of my stuff is packed! But I just finished Atonement a little bit ago...MUCH better than the movie.

As soon as I go home I plan on heading to the library. William Faulkner has been calling my name for a couple of weeks...

The Everything Dreams Book By Trish and Rob MacGregor

Interesting how dreams can be picked apart to mean so much more than you would think. I always looked at a dream of falling like, maybe I tripped??!! These people can basically put something in your life at odds or a fear of losing someone....

It is interesting to read but making my dreams a lot more work to me!

i just read i am legend by richard matheson (yea, the movie got me interested-- i'm a sucker for vampire books). . . flippin' waste-- the most disappointing book i've read in a long time. . .


luckily i've got another christopher moore book (dirty job) sitting on the shelf which should more than make up for it. . .

Just started re-reading the Star Wars series by Timothy Zahn...He's a great sci-fi writer and does a lot of justice to the Star Wars universe...