What book are you reading?

Newch91

rrivers wrote:

catefrances wrote:

Enkidu wrote:

I agree. I didn't read Dickens until I was at least 30. I was shocked - who knew? David Copperfield is fab and Great Expectations is amazing, too.

and what was it that made you read dickens?

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The power of Oprah.

Enkidu

catefrances wrote:

Enkidu wrote:

vant0037 wrote:

"David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens

Why, oh why haven't I been reading Dickens all these years? This is truly a wonderful book and I'm only about 240 pages in. Fantastic. A+ recommendation.

I agree. I didn't read Dickens until I was at least 30. I was shocked - who knew? David Copperfield is fab and Great Expectations is amazing, too.

and what was it that made you read dickens?

For me it was a friend who said "What's wrong with you, you never read Dickens?" And he pointed out they were mostly (I guess) written serialized so the chapters would end and you'd have to wait a day (a week?) to read the next chapter. So they were exciting. Like I said to my daughter, you have to get past the old fashioned language, but once you do that... (she doesn't believe me).

Bleak House and Oliver Twist were not my favorites. I adore Great Expectations. I liked Dombey and Son too.

vant0037

catefrances wrote:

Enkidu wrote:

vant0037 wrote:

"David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens

Why, oh why haven't I been reading Dickens all these years? This is truly a wonderful book and I'm only about 240 pages in. Fantastic. A+ recommendation.

I agree. I didn't read Dickens until I was at least 30. I was shocked - who knew? David Copperfield is fab and Great Expectations is amazing, too.

and what was it that made you read dickens?

I'm not sure to be honest; I had read other books where "David Copperfield" was mentioned, but nothing in particular. It doesn't take much for me to pick up anything by "classic" authors and I had never read Dickens, so that plus my interest in that particular book made it an easy choice.

Highly recommended so far.

catefrances

thanx everybody for the feedback.

ive managed to hold off from reading dickens.. his books never seemed to jump out at me past the whole theyre classics thing.. which with me isnt necessarily a good enough reason. anyhoo a month or so ago i was reading an article on dickens it mentioned a statue of him that is in one of our parks and i thoguht a little weird then i went on to read of hiss apparent affinity with australia... which made the statue make more sense. and being australian i found it all very interesting.. especially considering he never managed to make it down here.. its so very far away. anyhoo i thought hmmmm maybe.. then last week i was watching the tv and they were talking about dickens and someone said great expectations wasnt that difficult a read. i decided perhaps i should give him a go... and so i will.. but maybe not bleak house.. i heard its B-O-R-I-N-G.

javis el errante

La Mecanique du Coeur, by Mathias Malzieu, translated into Spanish by Vincec Tuser Mayoral

gunter1976

Zerostrata, Andersen Prunty

stargirl69

We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shiver

F Me In The Brain

catefrances wrote:

thanx everybody for the feedback.

ive managed to hold off from reading dickens.. his books never seemed to jump out at me past the whole theyre classics thing.. which with me isnt necessarily a good enough reason. anyhoo a month or so ago i was reading an article on dickens it mentioned a statue of him that is in one of our parks and i thoguht a little weird then i went on to read of hiss apparent affinity with australia... which made the statue make more sense. and being australian i found it all very interesting.. especially considering he never managed to make it down here.. its so very far away. anyhoo i thought hmmmm maybe.. then last week i was watching the tv and they were talking about dickens and someone said great expectations wasnt that difficult a read. i decided perhaps i should give him a go... and so i will.. but maybe not bleak house.. i heard its B-O-R-I-N-G.

It is!

I liked many but Bleak House was poor!

F Me In The Brain

photogirlliz wrote:

I just finished the last book of The Hunger Games trilogy. I'm about to start Ghosts of Mississippi?

I read those recently as well. I was shocked to find I liked them. I read Twilight before the first movie came out to see what the buzz was about (I like how some books will hook a bunch of non-readers into becoming readers so I try to check them out) and I quickly saw how Twilight was just never going to work for me. Not for a 30-40 year old guy!
But Hunger Games was actually pretty cool. Just enough Sci-Fi and Action/Intrigue to offset the background love story. Interested to see the movies.

rrivers

F Me In The Brain wrote:

photogirlliz wrote:

I just finished the last book of The Hunger Games trilogy. I'm about to start Ghosts of Mississippi?

I read those recently as well. I was shocked to find I liked them. I read Twilight before the first movie came out to see what the buzz was about (I like how some books will hook a bunch of non-readers into becoming readers so I try to check them out) and I quickly saw how Twilight was just never going to work for me. Not for a 30-40 year old guy!
But Hunger Games was actually pretty cool. Just enough Sci-Fi and Action/Intrigue to offset the background love story. Interested to see the movies.

Yeah that's what I did with Twilight. I struggled to get through the first book and there was no way I was reading more.

I read the first Hunger Games and enjoyed it, but haven't had a desire to read more.

Byrnzie

Rimbaud In Java - The Lost Voyage



In 'A Season in Hell', at the age of eighteen, the French poet Arthur Rimbaud predicted the rest of his life: 'My day is done; I'm leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs; lost climes will tan my skin.' Three years later, in 1876, he joined the Royal Army of the Dutch Indies as an infantryman and sailed for Java, where he promptly deserted and fled into the jungle. It was the most enigmatic passage in his life crowded with puzzles and contrarieties.

In the first book devoted to Rimbaud's lost voyage to Asia, the novelist and critic Jamie James reviews everything that is known about the episode; from there, he imaginatively spirals into a reconstruction of what the poet must have seen and informed speculation about what he might have done, vividly recreating life in nineteenth-century Java along the way. Rimbaud in Java concludes with an inquiry into what the Orient represented in the poet's imagination, with a scandalous, amusing history of French orientalism. James' surprising book is a richly concentrated blend of biography, criticism and thought-travel, which brings into sharp focus this brief encounter between a great writer and a vanished world.

Indifference71

F Me In The Brain wrote:

photogirlliz wrote:

I just finished the last book of The Hunger Games trilogy. I'm about to start Ghosts of Mississippi?

I read those recently as well. I was shocked to find I liked them. I read Twilight before the first movie came out to see what the buzz was about (I like how some books will hook a bunch of non-readers into becoming readers so I try to check them out) and I quickly saw how Twilight was just never going to work for me. Not for a 30-40 year old guy!
But Hunger Games was actually pretty cool. Just enough Sci-Fi and Action/Intrigue to offset the background love story. Interested to see the movies.

Same here with the hunger games. Just finished the last book on Wednesday. Looking forward to the first movie...

gunter1976

gunter1976 wrote:

Zerostrata, Andersen Prunty

Anyone up for an unusual, yet surprising and definitely strange read should give this (author) a try. The imagination takes flight!

gunter1976

Broken Summers by Henry Rollins

Cradles Broken Glass

I just started "One Day." I like it so far, it varies in time and setting as far as I can tell. Right now it is in the late 80's and I dig it.

brianlux

gunter1976 wrote:

Broken Summers by Henry Rollins

:thumbup:

I start Rollin's Smile, You're Traveling recently. Totally loving it and already believe it will be my favorite Henry Rollins book thus far.

Smile!

gunter1976

brianlux wrote:

I start Rollin's Smile, You're Traveling recently. Totally loving it and already believe it will be my favorite Henry Rollins book thus far.

Broken Summers is the second book by Henry Rollins that I picked up (well, downloaded in this case). I only read (and enjoyed) Get in the Van before. Although his writings are generally a bit on the sarcastic, misanthropic side of things, I can definitely relate to or appreciate most of it. Still, that mainly concerns his tour experiences I guess, since I am not (or - having attended his spoken word performances for about four or five times - no longer) that big of a fan regarding his traveling observations, which I consider a bit superficial.

That said, enjoy your day!

ComeToTX

Rabbit Factory - Larry Brown

catefrances

gunter1976 wrote:

brianlux wrote:

I start Rollin's Smile, You're Traveling recently. Totally loving it and already believe it will be my favorite Henry Rollins book thus far.

Broken Summers is the second book by Henry Rollins that I picked up (well, downloaded in this case). I only read (and enjoyed) Get in the Van before. Although his writings are generally a bit on the sarcastic, misanthropic side of things, I can definitely relate to or appreciate most of it. Still, that mainly concerns his tour experiences I guess, since I am not (or - having attended his spoken word performances for about four or five times - no longer) that big of a fan regarding his traveling observations, which I consider a bit superficial.

That said, enjoy your day!

get in the van is for me the one that got away.

tybird

"The Hunter in the Woods" by Robert McCammon