What book are you reading?

PearlJamaholic

finished the dark tower and the ending wasnt as bad as i thought it would be but i cant help feeling roland had a much better story than the one we got. roland is one of my all time favorite characters and his story was no where near as epic or great as what it should have been.

reading the 5th harry potter book now.

Brisk.

The Fellowship Of The Ring.

gregkitefan

Game Six.

MK1980

The man who would be king & other stories - Kipling

skippybrew

PearlJamaholic wrote:

finished the dark tower and the ending wasnt as bad as i thought it would be but i cant help feeling roland had a much better story than the one we got. roland is one of my all time favorite characters and his story was no where near as epic or great as what it should have been.

I just recently finished The Dark Tower too... I agree, it could have been better, but I do think the ending was pretty appropriate. Altogether, I think this story meant so much to Stephen King, personally, that he sort of forgot about his audience and wrote it just for himself - which I can actually appreciate on an artistic level...

Now I'm reading The Great Shark Hunt, a collection of articles and essays by Hunter S. Thompson. It is dedicated "To Richard Milhous Nixon, who never let me down." :twisted: Fuckin love HST.

Nowhere Man

I just recently bought Hunter S. Thompson's "Hell's Angels" looking forward to reading it.

Enkidu

I just finished the Tammy Wynette biography and it was good, really sad - I didn't know much about her except she sang "Stand By Your Man."

tybird

Enkidu wrote:

I just finished the Tammy Wynette biography and it was good, really sad - I didn't know much about her except she sang "Stand By Your Man."

A hair-dresser from Alabama.....prior to the singing correct??


I'm currently reading "1491"....it's a description of what the Americas were like prior to Chris landing in the area.

Enkidu

tybird wrote:

Enkidu wrote:

I just finished the Tammy Wynette biography and it was good, really sad - I didn't know much about her except she sang "Stand By Your Man."

A hair-dresser from Alabama.....prior to the singing correct??


I'm currently reading "1491"....it's a description of what the Americas were like prior to Chris landing in the area.

Yep, she was a hairdresser. I'm listening to D-I-V-O-R-C-E right now. It's so weird.

1491 sounds great.

Johnnyguitarwatson

George Carlin : Last words

Horos

Dragons of the Hourglass Mage - Margaret Weis

Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - HST

catefrances

finally under the dome has come back into the library. so thats what im reading.


dohhhhhhme.

bren_cocol

I am reading : DEL AMOR Y OTROS DEMONIOS by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

One Song Glory

Mark Z. Danielewski -- Only Revolutions

Basically, it's one story told from two perspectives and you have to read 8 pages going from front to back, then flip the book over, turn it upside down and read 8 pages going from back to front in order to make sense of the first 8 pages. To understand either version of the book, you need to read them both in parallel in 8-page segments.There is some text written right side up and some written upside down on each page, so they eventually meet in the middle and then overlap from cover to cover.

The book has two front covers, two title pages, etc., making it entirely circular. When you get to the "end", it pretty much invites you to start over, reading it in the opposite direction from which you read it the first time. There's also a running list along the margins of historical events and obscure references to things that happened on particular dates along a timeline going back about 150 years and reaching 50 years into the future.

It's an extremely avant-garde typographic experiment and I'm loving every page of it, even though I'm certain I could never fully understand it.

Digital Twilight

Just finished;

Post Office - Charles Bukowski
Animal Farm - George Orwell

Gonna start;

A Storm Of Swords - George R.R. Martin

catefrances

finished the dome. i do so love stephen kings non horror... as i class this book to be.

am now reading steppenwolf - hermann hesse.

Byrnzie

Digital Twilight wrote:

Just finished;

Post Office - Charles Bukowski

'It began as a mistake'. :P

Byrnzie

Wild Grass: Three Portraits of Change in Modern China
Ian Johnson

Byrnzie

Horos wrote:

Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey

I started this but didn't finish it. It's not an easy read. I still wanna finish it at some point though.

Nastasja

Still reading Shantaram from Gregory Roberts, still good
otherwise :
Atmospheric Sciences
and
The Five Senses by Michel Serres