What book are you reading?

RYEzupSF

Enkidu wrote:

RYEzupSF wrote:

Slam by Nick Hornby. I love that guy.

Nick Hornby is god.

Yes. He is. Hilarious god.

tinkerbell

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

None Too Fragile.

I just finished reading this. It was ok but nothing new really.

Staggering Genius

Catch-22

genevieve

Half Broke Horses. By Jeanette Walls. Im enjoying it. People said it wasnt as good as Glass Castle but I think its a good read. Very entertaining.

PilateOfTheStorm

tinkerbell wrote:

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

None Too Fragile.

I just finished reading this. It was ok but nothing new really.

I got this and read it a few months ago. I thought it was ok too - not much new except a few details etc.
i got an updated version that was up to this year - but after 98, the next 13 years of PJ's career are summed up in like 2 chapters? Really poor IMO, especially since it was meant to be a "Specially Updated for PJ's 20th Anniversary"

and LOTS of editing errors - misquotes and stuff.

but because I love PJ, I found it interesting

PilateOfTheStorm

Just finished Unless by Carol Shields - need to get more of her stuff, have read some short stories and Unless blew me away. She's great, writes so beautifully and fantastically.
Took me over 3 months to read the book though - stopping and starting because of exams and bs like that. no time for reading.

Started reading The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai - starts off stunningly, his description and characterisation is wonderful and I'm only up to chapter 3

LukinFan

The newest Bloody Jack book - got an advanced copy - and I'm loving it!

http://www.amazon.com/Mark-Golden-Drago ... pd_sim_b_8

he.who.forgets

Staggering Genius wrote:

Catch-22

I cannot stand that book.

electronblue

A Song Apart

jervin007

I'm reading "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" and I must say I am 250 pages into it and am bored out of my mind. Someone please tell me that its worth finishing!!

I have no idea how this was an international best seller.

Newch91

jervin007 wrote:

I'm reading "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" and I must say I am 250 pages into it and am bored out of my mind. Someone please tell me that its worth finishing!!

I have no idea how this was an international best seller.

Isn't a movie being made of the book also?

whispering hands

jervin007 wrote:

I'm reading "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" and I must say I am 250 pages into it and am bored out of my mind. Someone please tell me that its worth finishing!!

I have no idea how this was an international best seller.

Keep reading.. it is sorta slow til a out 2/3rds in..I thought it was worth plowing through..

whispering hands

I have just started The Last Jihad by Joel C. Lawerence. Good so far, but I'm only 100 pgs in.. so..

jervin007

Newch91 wrote:

jervin007 wrote:

I'm reading "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" and I must say I am 250 pages into it and am bored out of my mind. Someone please tell me that its worth finishing!!

I have no idea how this was an international best seller.

Isn't a movie being made of the book also?

The international movie was already made and supposedly its fantastic. American version comes out this christmas with Daniel Craig and directed by David Fincher (Fight Club, Social Network, etc.).

jervin007

whispering hands wrote:

jervin007 wrote:

I'm reading "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" and I must say I am 250 pages into it and am bored out of my mind. Someone please tell me that its worth finishing!!

I have no idea how this was an international best seller.

Keep reading.. it is sorta slow til a out 2/3rds in..I thought it was worth plowing through..

Thanks. I am about to start Part 3, so hopefully it starts picking up.

rrivers

Fifthelement wrote:

Last week I read Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion and The Rise of Endymion all by Dan Simmons. Absolutely fantastic, all of them. Although I have to admit that a lot of the science stuff went right over my head :ugeek: Despite that, it didn't detract from my enjoyment of the story in any way whatsoever

Currently reading The Hollow Man also by Dan Simmons.

I read "The Terror" by Simmons and enjoyed it.

Reading now: "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan

jmurray

Just finished "Ghost Rider" by Neil Peart. Somebody made me read it, but good stuff none the less.

iamica

I'm reading Dune...I'm only about 100 pages into it and I'm bored out of my mind, and I think the main character's a jerk. Should I continue?

Newch91

jervin007 wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

jervin007 wrote:

I'm reading "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" and I must say I am 250 pages into it and am bored out of my mind. Someone please tell me that its worth finishing!!

I have no idea how this was an international best seller.

Isn't a movie being made of the book also?

The international movie was already made and supposedly its fantastic. American version comes out this christmas with Daniel Craig and directed by David Fincher (Fight Club, Social Network, etc.).

Hmm...with Fincher, it has a shot at being really good.

VinylGirl

rrivers wrote:

Fifthelement wrote:

Last week I read Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion and The Rise of Endymion all by Dan Simmons. Absolutely fantastic, all of them. Although I have to admit that a lot of the science stuff went right over my head :ugeek: Despite that, it didn't detract from my enjoyment of the story in any way whatsoever

Currently reading The Hollow Man also by Dan Simmons.

I read "The Terror" by Simmons and enjoyed it.

Reading now: "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan

Just finished 'Goon Squad'. It was good, but I had higher expectations, with all the hype. It jumps around in time, so pay attn to the characters. You may think they are insignificant, but some of them pop up later on in the book. Enjoy it!

Just started "Evening's Empire" by Bill Flannigan. About 30 pages in and I'm diggin it already

peacegirl

Kara Goucher's Running for Women
Trying to keep my motivation up while dealing with and trying to get rid of shin splints :x

rrivers

VinylGirl wrote:

rrivers wrote:

Fifthelement wrote:

Last week I read Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion and The Rise of Endymion all by Dan Simmons. Absolutely fantastic, all of them. Although I have to admit that a lot of the science stuff went right over my head :ugeek: Despite that, it didn't detract from my enjoyment of the story in any way whatsoever

Currently reading The Hollow Man also by Dan Simmons.

I read "The Terror" by Simmons and enjoyed it.

Reading now: "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan

Just finished 'Goon Squad'. It was good, but I had higher expectations, with all the hype. It jumps around in time, so pay attn to the characters. You may think they are insignificant, but some of them pop up later on in the book. Enjoy it!

Just started "Evening's Empire" by Bill Flannigan. About 30 pages in and I'm diggin it already

Yeah I'm enjoying "Goon Squad" but it is frustrating. Not because it jumps around so much but a few times there were very interesting characters/situations going on and then it ends and the next chapter is a completely different person/time. Then I'll get interested in that and the next chapter is a huge jump. It's actually more like a book of short stories.

Pledge My Grievance

Angels & Demons/Dan Brown

The Crooked Heart

I just finished The Glass Castle and just started Plainsong by Kent Heruf.

VinylGirl

rrivers wrote:

Yeah I'm enjoying "Goon Squad" but it is frustrating. Not because it jumps around so much but a few times there were very interesting characters/situations going on and then it ends and the next chapter is a completely different person/time. Then I'll get interested in that and the next chapter is a huge jump. It's actually more like a book of short stories.

I know what you mean. As the book goes on,it does go back to most of the characters, just at different points in their lives, but not all of them. It does get frustrating, because it pulls you in, and then wham! The chapter ends and you don't know what happens!

Newch91

I just started Jason's book, "This All Encompassing Trip", the other day. Enjoying it so far.

cbrunelle783

I finished The Reading Promise, everyone should read that it's great. Now I'm reading The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman which is very much like her other books.

smarchee

Saboteurs: Wiebo Lugwig's War Against Big Oil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiebo_Ludwig

Byrnzie

'Epitaph of a Small Winner', aka 'The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas' - Machado De Assis




“I am a deceased writer not in the sense of one who has written and is now deceased, but in the sense of one who has died and is now writing.” So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian. Though the grave has given Cubas the distance to examine his rather undistinguished life, it has not dampened his sense of humor. In the tradition of Laurence Stern’s Tristram Shamdy, Epitaph of a Small Winner is one of the wittiest self-portraits in literary history.

"Epitaph of a Small Winner is probably one of those thrillingly original, radically skeptical books that will always impress readers with the force of private discovery."--From the foreword by Susan Sontag

"Machado de Assis was a literary force, transcending nationality and language, comparable certainly to Flaubert, Hardy, or James...Epitaph of a Small Winner is clearly one of those books which we call definitive. It is there, complete, done: a study of ironic disillusionment couched in the most delicate suavity of despair..."--The New York Times Book Review

"No satirist, not even Swift, is less merciful in his exposure of the pretentiousness and the hypocrisy that lurk in the average good man and woman. Machado, in his deceptively amiable way, is terrifying."--The New Republic

"A masterpiece of Epicurean irony."--The New York Times

samjam

I plan to start Water for Elephants today as I hear so many great things about it.