Thread: What are you reading?

Originally Posted by AGap

ok, after some more consideration this really is pretty inappropriate. I saw the post and that's just what came to mind. it says more about me than you Gem. Again, my apologies

So you like **** in your ass?

I'm reading a zombie series - Slow Burn. It's typical zombie stuff but the writing is pretty decent. Story is good. It was a cheapy .99 cent buy from amazon that ended up being pretty decent. One of my issues with it is that he has four books in the series and each book feeds off the last - so basically to know the ending of the story you have to get all four books but all four only cost me $6 so...

Did anyone read G_Money's book? I still need to get it.

Originally Posted by GEM

So you like **** in your ass?

at some level maybe

Other than my very boring textbooks, I am reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep which is required reading for the philosophy class I'm taking. I am not liking philosophy very much.

I have a habit of collecting old or autographed books.

Recently, I bought autographed books by Mike Lee, Jim DeMint, and Donald Rumsfeld.

Originally Posted by aberdien

I have a kindle and I like it but there are certain books that have cool covers that I want to be able to see sitting on my shelf. Also since I have to write buttloads of papers with buttloads of citations it's a lot easier to have physical copies of books to use.

why do you write so much?

Originally Posted by orangenblue420

I'm reading a zombie series - Slow Burn. It's typical zombie stuff but the writing is pretty decent. Story is good. It was a cheapy .99 cent buy from amazon that ended up being pretty decent. One of my issues with it is that he has four books in the series and each book feeds off the last - so basically to know the ending of the story you have to get all four books but all four only cost me $6 so...

so I am curious, how was that transaction even made, or did you just give the cashier a penny and let him or her keep the change?

Originally Posted by GEM

Some smut trilogy. Not sure how I got into this shit, but it's along the lines of 50 Shades shit. Probably because of waiting on Rise of the Governor of the Walking Dead novels.

I've been reading some Janet Evanovich. She writes some funny stuff. Currently on book 4 of her 21 book Stephanie Plum storyline.

Still need to steal Doctor Sleep from my mom...she's taking too damn long and I want to read the damn thing.

My wife loves Janet Evanovich as lightweight pure fun stuff. She sometimes has to stop reading for a bit because she can't stop herself laughing over something or other she read

Quick read.

"The Man in the Woods" is a short, sinister story about a man named Christopher who walks through dark woods to find an isolated house surrounded by trees, "the forest only barely held back by the stone wall, edging as close to it as possible, pushing, as Christopher had felt since the day before, crowding up and embracing the little stone house in horrid possession."

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Quick read.

Short stories piss me off - I always think there should be more to it

Im reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Excellent read so far - One thing I love about road trips with men who cant stand letting anyone else drive - I get to read and read and read

If I read in a car, I'd puke all over the place

I usually have a couple of books on the go at the same time -

On my Kindle i will have an easy read novel, just started Scott Jurek's Eat and Run.

Then i tend to have a more academic text book (usually) to do with social work theory in hard copy - right now i am reading "Assessing Disorganised Attachment" by David Shemmings

I've been reading a biography of Thomas Cranmer by Diarmaid Mccullough. Every once in a while I still make myself read something serious, and this is very well written. Cranmer was Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII and Edward VI before being burned as a heretic by Queen Mary. He was the engineer of Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon, so I guess her daughter had a legit beef with him - apart from that whole restoring Roman Catholicism thing.

Anyways, he wrote the Book of Common Prayer, which is kind of the keystone of Anglicanism, and was essentially the theological brains behind the early English Reformation. He shows up a lot in period novels and TV shows like "The Tudors", but always as a supporting character. He is kind of a big deal in his own right

James Rollins' The Eye of God currently.