The "What book are you reading" thread

[Dalamar13]

Frankly I am kinda surprised that this thread doesn't already exist.

Maybe there is a reason for that though. >_>

Anyway

I am currently read "Krondor: The Betrayal" book 1 in The Riftwar Legacy by Raymond E. Fiest. I just finished the Riftwar Saga by Fiest and am now trying to read all of his books in chronological order. (Story wise, not as they were released)

Let's see if this thread will live or die.

[Zach Williams]

I'm reading Broken Sky books in order, 7 books, it'll take me awhile. I'm suprised to even be atatched to a book. :sweat:

[Mike Spartz]

I am currently reading The Good Earth by Pearl S Black.

When I'm done, I'll be readed a signed copy of Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clake.

[Eddie G.]

Just finished Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, funny stuff.

[True Noir]

I'm reading "The Bean Trees" by Barbara Kingsolver for English class.

[JohnCrichton]

"Carrion Comfort" by the greatest writer I've ever experienced, Dan Simmons.

[Youko Recca]

Diary by Chuck Palahniuk.

[RD!]

Taking a Palahniuk break to read the Dark Tower series.

[Cool Blue]

I'm about to start the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I've seen the movie with Jack Nicholson, Danny Devito and Christopher Lloyd along with some others. Let me just it's phenominal and I'll start the book. I would really suggest watching the movie and I'm sure it got Jack Nicholson an Oscar.

[Czar Gato]

Just finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (great book, btw), and now I'm finishing A Walk in the Woods. Up next on my list are A Confederacy of Dunces and Gulag: A History.

[Phantasm]

I'm reading "The Bean Trees" by Barbara Kingsolver for English class.
I read that for Eng class too last year and can easily say that I enioyed it thoroughly. Likable characters and colorful narrative.

I just finished reading Nicholas Sparks' 'A Walk To Remember'.

This book is amazing stuff! Simple plot, simple language and simple characters yet it does become one extraordinary piece of romance writing. A tender,bittersweet love story. And it's written by a GUY?!:eek: :ack:

[Dalamar13]

heh, just finished Krondor: The Betrayal and am now starting "Krondor: The Assasins" by Fiest.

[ToOn~g@l]

Loamhedge. The sixteenth book, I believe, of the Redwall series. Good book, almost done too.

[guinaevere]

Just finished The Secret Pilgrim by John Le Carre and now am starting The Russia House (same author). I've read all his cold war books about a hundred times each, but they're just so amazing.

Spying is normality taken to extremes. Spying is waiting.
--John Le Carre
The Russia House

[Kury Wagner]

I am currently re-reading the Harry Potter books for the millionth time (okay, so not the millionth, but :p ) I'm almost through the first (started on Friday) and I'm taking my time to look for clues and stuff. Anything to make the time between now and '06 go faster! :anime:

[Cool Blue]

Soon after I finish One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest I'll start the book A Clockwork Orange, a book based off one of the top movies of all time. It's a sci fi book with much conrtroversy about the book and the movie of it's content. From what i've heard i'd recomend this book to anybody even if you're not a science fiction fan because it isnt like major sci fi book. Just brain washing and a future setting so cruddy I dont think it differs from ours a whole lot.

[Caffeine King]

A Clockwork Orange, a book based off one of the top movies of all time.
That's an amazingly great movie! :D :)

I'm currently reading Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None :)

[RD!]

I was under the impression that Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange came before Kubrick's movie.

[DarkAngel]

Just finished Dracula. Now I'm dying to see the 1992 movie again. Not sure what I'll read next.

[randomguy]

I was under the impression that Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange came before Kubrick's movie.It did.

Cool Blue, I'm glad to hear you're reading Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. The Nicholson movie is fantastic, but the original book is a cut above the film. One of my favorites.

I just got finished with one of the stupidest experiments in my life, which was trying to juggle four books at once. Instead of blasting through one quickly and thoroughly as I usually do, I winded up taking forever to read four, not giving any of them the attention they deserved. Anyhow, I just completed Colin Powell's memoir (My American Journey), Steve Moore's absolutely, absurdly excellent Nightswim, Kinky Friedman's hilariously-titled 'Scuse Me While I Whip This Out, and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, which I've been intending to read for at least five years and finally got around to. Good books all.

In the interest of honesty, I'll confess that Nightswim is a play, not a novel. But I think it counts. Don't you?

[guinaevere]

I know what ya mean, randomguy. I don't do well trying to read more than one at a time. Case in point, I just finished I, Robot early this morning, and completely forgot about mentioning it the other day. :sweat:


I read it back in I dunno, 5th or 6th grade, but managed to remember none of it. Glad to have reread it.

[pabcool]

just finished C.S. Lewis' "Screwtape Letters" and am now concerned with "Martin The Warrior" by Brian Jaques. In addition, our new English books, "Animal Farm" and "The Giver" are set to be given soon. Hefty load.

[Dalamar13]

Animal Farm is one of my all-time favorite books.

You'll enjoy it.

[Matt-a-Tastic]

I'm Reading though the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order series I'm trying to read though the whole 19 Novel and 2 Novella series

I've been reading them for a week and I'm currently half way though the first book, which is quite good concidering the print is tiny and its failly book

I'm also reading McBeth for English, Nearlly finished it

[UberMonkey]

Finished Halo: The Fall of Reach last week, working on C.S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters now.

[purplehairedwonder]

I just finished reading the first two books of the Tales of the Otori series: Across the Nightingale Floor and Grass for His Pillow. I have a hold on the third one at the library: Brilliance of the Moon.

I'm in the middle of Tanequil by Terry Brooks (second in the High Druid of Shannara series).

I also have hold at the library on Rackety Tam, the newest Redwall book.

Oh, and we're starting As I Lay Dying in Academic Reading this week.

[Dalamar13]

I am now starting "Krondor: Tear of the Gods" book three in the Riftwar Legacy series.

The Riftwar Legacy series isn't nearly as good as the Riftwar Saga or the Serpentwar Saga but it sheds a little more light onto the world of Midkemia.

[Cool Blue]

It did.

Cool Blue, I'm glad to hear you're reading Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. The Nicholson movie is fantastic, but the original book is a cut above the film. One of my favorites.

I just got finished with one of the stupidest experiments in my life, which was trying to juggle four books at once. Instead of blasting through one quickly and thoroughly as I usually do, I winded up taking forever to read four, not giving any of them the attention they deserved. Anyhow, I just completed Colin Powell's memoir (My American Journey), Steve Moore's absolutely, absurdly excellent Nightswim, Kinky Friedman's hilariously-titled 'Scuse Me While I Whip This Out, and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, which I've been intending to read for at least five years and finally got around to. Good books all.

In the interest of honesty, I'll confess that Nightswim is a play, not a novel. But I think it counts. Don't you? hehe, I forget. the movie was based off the book. my mistake:sweat:

[Eddie G.]

just finished C.S. Lewis' "Screwtape Letters" and am now concerned with "Martin The Warrior" by Brian Jaques. In addition, our new English books, "Animal Farm" and "The Giver" are set to be given soon. Hefty load.The Giver and Animal Farm are light reading but both very enjoyable. The Giver is also at a very simple reading level, I think I read it when I was nine or ten.

[Erundur]

I'm currently reading "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown and I must say what an amazing book, if you guys don't know this but "Angels and Demons" is the prequel to "The Da Vinci Code" and I must give this author credit, this guy is able to take non-fictional ideas and make a great story out of it. A must read for all Suspense readers :) :anime:

[Damien]

I was reading Batman: Hush Vol. 1 & 2, if that counts.

I'm now finally reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

[Cool Blue]

I was reading Batman: Hush Vol. 1 & 2, if that counts.

I'm now finally reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Yea, I'd say those Batman books count. Both volumes are really good I'd say so myself, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a great movie although I cant say I've read the book.

[Tash]

Brave New world by some weird-looking guy. I've been trying to preach this stuff to people for years, then I find this book (which has the same messages), and now I feel like I've wasted my life. -_-

[The Penguin]

I was reading Batman: Hush Vol. 1 & 2, if that counts.Does that cover the entire story? I was always going to read that and never did.

[cross blues]

Ender's Game. it is a hard book to put down. I read 80 pages last night.

[Good Ol' Batmanuel!]

"Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers" by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor.

Then there'll be the sequels "Better Than Life" and "The Last Human." I don't have the fourth one yet.

[Kury Wagner]

I'm now finally reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
I just got that from the library, I'm planning on reading it this weekend. Why I'm telling you this, I don't know. . . I'll go now. . .

[Good Ol' Batmanuel!]

All this talk of Charlie Bucket's adventures reminds me that I want to read the Chocolate Factory and Great Glass Elevator books again. After all, I haven't done so since, oh...1987. :p

[RD!]

The Giver and Animal Farm are light reading but both very enjoyable. The Giver is also at a very simple reading level, I think I read it when I was nine or ten.

And oddly enough it's one of the most impactful books I've ever read. Plus it introduced me to the wonderful world of pretentious unclear endings.

Ender's Game. it is a hard book to put down. I read 80 pages last night.Have fun with that. Personally I enjoyed Ender's Shadow tons more (could be because I read it first) but it was still a great book. The next, Speaker for the Dead is also a great book and then well... the series sort of swallows some acid. But God is the Shadow series great.

[devon rehab]

I have not gotten any new books lately but I'm re-reading Harry Turtledove's Settling Accounts: Return Engagement. I love alternate history stories and so far of Turltedove's books I've read How Few Remain, the Great War trilogy, and the American Empire trilogy.

[Phantasm]

Just finished Dracula. Now I'm dying to see the 1992 movie again. Not sure what I'll read next.
The Bram Stoker one right!? That book is mesmerizingly creepy! And yes, after reading it I am dying to see the film as well!:)

[mikestorm]

Interestingly enough, the very last book I read was L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. I had just finished Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by gregory Maguire whichI really liked, and wanted to reaffirm my memory of Oz.

I am about to start Angels and Demons, which was the book before The Da Vinci Code which I read a few months ago.

[Damien]

Penguin, yes, those two volumes cover that particular story arc, although I believe they recently brought Hush back.

Also, just about halfway done with Charlie and Co. Pretty good so far, and nothing much yet as far as drastic changes between book and film.

[Dalamar13]

I am now onto Raymond E. Fiest's Serpentwar Saga.

Currently reading,"Shadow of a Dark Queen" book 1 in the series.


Also I am reading,"Ethics for the New Millenium" by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

An interesting read.