What book are you reading?

he.who.forgets

F Me In The Brain wrote:

eeriepadave wrote:

I haven't read anything in awhile (I go on spurts with reading). Was however thinking of starting The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series and or The Hunger Games series as well. I enjoyed both movies and heard the books are decent.

Very different reads.
I enjoyed both but one is light and quick (Hunger Games) and the other is serious and while page turning, will take a bit more time to get through. (Dragon)
If I could only have read one of those series it would have to be Dragon. At times mysterious, pulse pounding, disgusting and rewarding - most things you could ask for in a read.
Enjoy them both!

I've read both the Dragon Tattoo and Played with Fire, and finally got around to checking out Kicked the Hornets Nest. Enjoyed the first two a lot and looking forward to tackling the third this weekend.

gunter1976

Think I will go with Winter Dreams, by F. S. Fitzgerald

gunter1976

The End of War, John Horgan

youthfulzombie

Recently finished Timeless (last book in the Parasol Protectorate series) and Discount Armageddon (1st book of InCryptid series), now on to Book 29 of the In Death series before I get on to A Dance with Dragons.
Somehow, 90% of what I read is from various series.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/youthfulzombie

Who Princess

youthfulzombie wrote:

Recently finished Timeless (last book in the Parasol Protectorate series) and Discount Armageddon (1st book of InCryptid series), now on to Book 29 of the In Death series before I get on to A Dance with Dragons.
Somehow, 90% of what I read is from various series.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/youthfulzombie

I'm on librarything too. Great way to keep track of your to-read list.

youthfulzombie

Who Princess wrote:

I'm on librarything too. Great way to keep track of your to-read list.

yeah but I'm OCD about it, I have every book I've read since about 1998 listed and tracked in order, in my senile moments I have to check Librarything to see if I already own/have read something.

afroannnie

Just finished up The Case of the Frozen Addicts. Next up..World War Z.

Byrnzie

The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang




The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II is a bestselling 1997 non-fiction book written by Iris Chang about the 1937–1938 Nanking Massacre, the massacre and atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army after it captured Nanjing, then capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It describes the events leading up to the Nanking Massacre and the atrocities that were committed. The book presents the view that the Japanese government has not done enough to redress the atrocities. It is one of the first major English-language books to introduce the Nanking Massacre to Western and Eastern readers alike, and has been translated into several languages.

Who Princess

Byrnzie wrote:

The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang




The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II is a bestselling 1997 non-fiction book written by Iris Chang about the 1937–1938 Nanking Massacre, the massacre and atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army after it captured Nanjing, then capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It describes the events leading up to the Nanking Massacre and the atrocities that were committed. The book presents the view that the Japanese government has not done enough to redress the atrocities. It is one of the first major English-language books to introduce the Nanking Massacre to Western and Eastern readers alike, and has been translated into several languages.

I read that a few years ago. Brutal and appalling.

marcos

The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice. She is very talented and always hoped that someone would do something good about the wolf mythology as nobody in Hollywood seems to know how to handle it. I'm a hundred pages in and love it so far.

Byrnzie

Who Princess wrote:

Byrnzie wrote:

The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang




The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II is a bestselling 1997 non-fiction book written by Iris Chang about the 1937–1938 Nanking Massacre, the massacre and atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army after it captured Nanjing, then capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It describes the events leading up to the Nanking Massacre and the atrocities that were committed. The book presents the view that the Japanese government has not done enough to redress the atrocities. It is one of the first major English-language books to introduce the Nanking Massacre to Western and Eastern readers alike, and has been translated into several languages.

I read that a few years ago. Brutal and appalling.

I visited the massacre memorial in Nanjing last week. Not sure why I never got around to reading this book before.
I remember reading a bit about this when I was younger in a book about possession, of all things.

Who Princess

Just finished In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson. A cast of characters that would be far-fetched if this were fiction.

Carey

Sawyer wrote:

Hunger Games.....it rules

oona left

"Room" by Emma Donoghue.

My aunt recommended it. She said she hadn't been so emotionally affected by a book in years. I'm seventy pages in, and I can see why!

cubBEE_girl

vant0037 wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

Not reading these now, but today, my favorite English professor from school said he was downsizing his book collection at home and gave me these three Jack Kerouac books:

Tristessa
Doctor Sax
The Subterraneans

He knows I have a huge interest in Kerouac. I can't wait for the semester to be over and dig into these books. I also have a couple of his poetry books that I'm also looking forward to reading.

Doctor Sax is awesome! Some fantastic passages in that one...

Three of favorites! Enjoy!

cubBEE_girl

The Project Management Body of Knowledge... :? :yawn:

Newch91

cubBEE_girl wrote:

vant0037 wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

Not reading these now, but today, my favorite English professor from school said he was downsizing his book collection at home and gave me these three Jack Kerouac books:

Tristessa
Doctor Sax
The Subterraneans

He knows I have a huge interest in Kerouac. I can't wait for the semester to be over and dig into these books. I also have a couple of his poetry books that I'm also looking forward to reading.

Doctor Sax is awesome! Some fantastic passages in that one...

Three of favorites! Enjoy!

Thank you to both of you!

dimitrispearljam

pinokio and 3 pigs today..

Byrnzie

Public Enemies - Dueling Writers Take on Each Other and the World

Bernard-Henri Lévy & Michel Houellebecq



The international publishing sensation - two brilliant, controversial authors confront each other and their enemies in an unforgettable exchange of letters.

In one corner, Bernard-Henri Lévy, creator of the classic Barbarism with a Human Face, dismissed by the media as a wealthy, self-promoting, arrogant do-gooder. In the other, Michel Houellebecq, bestselling author of The Elementary Particles, widely derided as a sex-obsessed racist and misogynist. What began as a secret correspondence between bitter enemies evolved into a remarkable joint personal meditation by France’s premier literary and political live wires. An instant international bestseller, Public Enemies has now been translated into English for all lovers of superb insights, scandalous opinions, and iconoclastic ideas.

In wicked, wide-ranging, and freewheeling letters, the two self-described “whipping boys” debate whether they crave disgrace or secretly have an insane desire to please. Lévy extols heroism in the face of tyranny; Houellebecq sees himself as one who would “fight little and badly.” Lévy says “life does not ‘live’” unless he can write; Houellebecq bemoans work as leaving him in such “a state of nervous exhaustion that it takes several bottles of alcohol to get out.” There are also touching and intimate exchanges on the existence of God and about their own families.

Dazzling, delightful, and provocative, Public Enemies is a death match between literary lions, remarkable men who find common ground, confident that, in the end (as Lévy puts it), “it is we who will come out on top.”

Nastasja

The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty