What book are you reading?

dreamsincolor

I'm almost done with "Running With Scissors" - which is pretty messed up in my opinion, but very captivating. Next I'm reading the metafictional novel "Bad Twin" by Gary Troop - the last novel he wrote before disappearing on Oceanic Flight 815...

chiquimonkey

just read 'the mercury visions of louis daguerre', nice read, i liked the details in the descriptions

Ms. Haiku

dreamsincolor wrote:

I'm almost done with "Running With Scissors" - which is pretty messed up in my opinion, but very captivating. Next I'm reading the metafictional novel "Bad Twin" by Gary Troop - the last novel he wrote before disappearing on Oceanic Flight 815...

Running with Scissors was the first memoir I read that I didn't trust the author was telling the truth. The way the doctor told fortunes almost made me throw up. That is a messed up book. I wouldn't try to stop someone from reading it because so many people liked it, but I wouldn't recommend it either. The time reading that book could be spent reading something where the truth or fiction didn't flow like waves throughout the book.

dreamsincolor

Ms. Haiku wrote:

Running with Scissors was the first memoir I read that I didn't trust the author was telling the truth. The way the doctor told fortunes almost made me throw up. That is a messed up book. I wouldn't try to stop someone from reading it because so many people liked it, but I wouldn't recommend it either. The time reading that book could be spent reading something where the truth or fiction didn't flow like waves throughout the book.

Yeah it's fairly unbelievable. I read on wikipedia that the doctor's family is suing the author for defamation of character. I'm reading it because I heard it was good, and the movie should be coming out soon - also I've been able to read it extremely quickly, so not much time wasted - I'm enjoying it in some sick kind of way.

I really meant to be reading fiction because it had taken me a while to get through the People's History of the the US (excellent, excellent book) - but then I read a historical narrative and this memoir - that's why I'm moving on the metafictional book next.

jocelyn

I insist that all you literary types (and not) read the book The Ruins. Brand new book by Scott Smith (also wrote A Simple Plan).

That. Book. Was. Fucking. Scary. It gets inside your head. But don't misunderstand me, it is not a horror book. Not really. It's more about the horrible places peoples' minds travel and the things they do.

Read it. Read it. Read. It.

genevieve

Just read "Life of Pi".
What a cool book, very entertaing though at times disturbing.

Am starting "Hollow chocolate bunnies of the apocaplyse"
Sounds interesting. Hubbie said it wasnt bad. Borrowed it off a friend.

azwyldcats

I HIGHLY recommend that anyone who loves a good novel about crime, drugs, violence with excellent dialogue go out, find, and immediately read Six Bad Things by Charlie Huston, it is a fcuking awesome read.

Soujiro_Seta

I just finished copping free (which i won at a show)

It really wasnt a great book it was ok but id have been pissed off if i actually paid money for it.

decides2dream

catefrances wrote:

don't say that.
i have to read it for uni this semester and you make it sound dull and boring.

i love, love, love madame bovary! one of my all-time fave books! it's not a difficult read at all. and it most certainly is NOT dull or boring. seriously. i am amazed to read such comments in relation to gustav flaubert's classic. sooo good! i'd reread it now if i didn't have a pile *this high* of books i have yet to get to. now if someone said it would take a long time to get thru anna karenina, that i could see. still a great, absolutely brilliant book...but long! madame bovary is not along book at all, a pretty easy read, and just a damn fine story. enjoy!

AmentsChick

I'm just about finished with The Lovely Bones. It has taken me FOREVER to get through this book. It is way too emotionally draining. I can only read a chapter or two at a time.

MFC1978

A Room with a View

decides2dream

AmentsChick wrote:

I'm just about finished with The Lovely Bones. It has taken me FOREVER to get through this book. It is way too emotionally draining. I can only read a chapter or two at a time.

i loved that story. yes, very sad/tragic...but good! funny, i flew thru it in 2 evenings. haha. seems, as ever, my tastes run counter to most here. eh well.

whoever mentioned girl with a pearl earring...brilliant! i love the painting, so it was such a cool premise for a novel. good stuff.

BetterRadio

The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

Very enlightening.

danika_bookworm

I'm reading Stones From The River by Ursula Hegi. I've never really looked at the title until I read this thread, I just devoured the book right away when I saw it on the store shelf.

MrFadedGlory

Reading Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and its all Small Stuff...because I have issues. Before that I read Velocity by Koontz and I recommend it.

rrivers

BackwardsBlues1 wrote:

I'm reading Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the west.

great use of language in there.

I bought that book yesterday! We just got back from a trip to New York and tried, unsuccessfully to get tickets to the Broadway show. (Well, we could have got them if we wanted to pay $275 a piece for them!!!) I am currently reading Brimstone by Preston and Child and loving it. It was the perfect book to read while traveling to and in New York because it is set there and it was really fun to walk the streets they mention there. I have stayed away from their books because I did not enjoy the movie "Relic" and it has always left a bad taste in my mouth but this book drew me in. They are great writers and I am going to try to catch up with what I have been missing. But as soon as I am finished I am going straight to Wicked!

I am also looking forward to reading The Ruins. I think I will wait for paperback because I have a stack of books to get through that I bought with gift certificates for my birthday.

Ms. Haiku

I'm still reading Gilead, almost done. I started Emotional Intelligence which was all the rage a few years ago. I recently rebought some books acupuncture "Between Heaven and Earth" and "The Web that Has no Weaver." I want to view my summer allergies from this perspective. I used to have these books, but then I gave them to the library.

Inkdaub

I am reading...

Declare - Powers
The Confessor - Silva
The Thin Man - Hammett

sadprofessor

Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me - Richard Farina

Hitch-Hiker

I am currently re-reading Dune. Amazing novel.