What book are you reading?

intodeep

stargirl69 wrote:

The first Shades of Gray book :roll: The trilogy forced on me by my friend as must reads.
The worst writing I have ever read,if I have to read that girl exclaiming 'Holy Crap' once more I will scream. All her virginal like inexperience sex talk started of as fun to read but half way through book one it is getting a wee bit boring ....

However .... the male character is voyeuristically fascinating and it is his character that is keeping me hooked to this trash that I can't put down :oops:

This is an at home read only though,not a book I'd want to leave lying around at work or on the bus.It would seem weird reading soft porn in public,no matter how badly written it is :?

This reminded me of an interview with Felicia Day. She likes to read a lot of urban fantasy/romance novels and she said how some of them were good but the book covers alone were entirely too embarressing to read in public.

This is why a few years ago her greatest investment was in a kindle No one knows what you are reading and there are no book covers to tell the tale

catefrances

intodeep wrote:

This reminded me of an interview with Felicia Day. She likes to read a lot of urban fantasy/romance novels and she said how some of them were good but the book covers alone were entirely too embarressing to read in public.

This is why a few years ago her greatest investment was in a kindle No one knows what you are reading and there are no book covers to tell the tale

who cares who sees what you read?... especially strangers in the public arena.

its like when they gave the harry potter books adult covers(aside from that being a shameless money generator). either own what it is youre reading or dont read it. simple.

stargirl69

intodeep wrote:

stargirl69 wrote:

The first Shades of Gray book :roll: The trilogy forced on me by my friend as must reads.
The worst writing I have ever read,if I have to read that girl exclaiming 'Holy Crap' once more I will scream. All her virginal like inexperience sex talk started of as fun to read but half way through book one it is getting a wee bit boring ....

However .... the male character is voyeuristically fascinating and it is his character that is keeping me hooked to this trash that I can't put down :oops:

This is an at home read only though,not a book I'd want to leave lying around at work or on the bus.It would seem weird reading soft porn in public,no matter how badly written it is :?

This reminded me of an interview with Felicia Day. She likes to read a lot of urban fantasy/romance novels and she said how some of them were good but the book covers alone were entirely too embarressing to read in public.

This is why a few years ago her greatest investment was in a kindle No one knows what you are reading and there are no book covers to tell the tale

Oh I'm not at all embarrassed to be seen reading it in public,it's more incase there should be any ... eh ... reaction of a physical nature reading it

Anyway gave up half way through,it really was shittily written pap :fp:

Byrnzie

Trickster Makes This World: How the Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture - Lewis Hyde



'Picasso disrupted the World around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. That is the Trickster spirit: playful, mischievous, subversive, amoral. Tricksters are a great bother to have around, but paradoxically they are also indispensable heroes of culture, because our World - with it's complexity and ambiguity, it's beauty and it's dirt - is Tricksters creation, and the work is not yet finished.'

In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories—Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others—and then holds them up against the lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Twelve years after its first publication, Trickster Makes This World—authoritative in its scholarship, loose-limbed in its style—has taken its place among the great works of modern cultural criticism.

BLACK35

Seal Team Six - Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper

catefrances

a feast of crows - george r r martin.

Dissidentman

This All Encompassing Trip

Nastasja

La suite francaise - Irene Nemirovski

SD48277

The Forty Rules of Love, by Elif Shafak

smarchee

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.

The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron.

After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever.

titchinello

skagboys by Irvine Welsh.

its the prequal to Trainspotting, for those that don't know.

stargirl69

titchinello wrote:

skagboys by Irvine Welsh.

its the prequal to Trainspotting, for those that don't know.

Are you enjoying it? I only got half way through it before I had just had enough of the language in it,it got so sickening to read.
Yet have read all his other books,I do wonder if this was published just as a wee financial top up for him.

I am reading James Yorkston It's Lovely To Be Here - The Touring Diaries of a Scottish Gent ... brilliant.

Nastasja

Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins

Mamasan23

I've been reading GRRM's A Dance With Dragons for months now. I'm normally a very fast reader, but I think knowing that book 6 isn't out yet is making me afraid to finish it!

xavier mcdaniel

Just started "The Glory of our Times", Lawrence Ritter's oral history book about baseball in the early 20th century.

F Me In The Brain

Mamasan23 wrote:

I've been reading GRRM's A Dance With Dragons for months now. I'm normally a very fast reader, but I think knowing that book 6 isn't out yet is making me afraid to finish it!

Unfortunately at current pacing book 6 wont be out for another few years at least. (However if they continue to make TV versions he will have to pick it up eventually.)

Halfway through this one, if anyone is a fan of historical fiction and you dont know who Cornwell is 'you better axe somebody.'

Mamasan23

F Me In The Brain wrote:

Mamasan23 wrote:

I've been reading GRRM's A Dance With Dragons for months now. I'm normally a very fast reader, but I think knowing that book 6 isn't out yet is making me afraid to finish it!

Unfortunately at current pacing book 6 wont be out for another few years at least. (However if they continue to make TV versions he will have to pick it up eventually.)

Yeah I know :( I need to just finish it and get over it already. My one friend finished it recently, called me, and with the saddest voice I've ever heard in my life said he's never been so devastated and that he didn't know if he could go on without more Song of Ice and Fire to read

F Me In The Brain

Mamasan23 wrote:

Yeah I know :( I need to just finish it and get over it already. My one friend finished it recently, called me, and with the saddest voice I've ever heard in my life said he's never been so devastated and that he didn't know if he could go on without more Song of Ice and Fire to read

I read the first 2 in a row between 2nd and 3rd publishing date and then when the 3rd came out I read that. Read 1,2 & 3 again when 4 came out and all 4 again prior the 5th one. Exhausting to think I will read 5 big ass books prior to the next one. I do this for a few reasons -- 1) as many of us do, I read too many damn books w/convoluted story lines to remember what t he hell happens when the next one comes out year(s) later.....and 2) I love being in the world that GRRM created. Gives me a reason to go and live there for an extended period of time and really enjoy the latest book.

vant0037

A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers.

Dave Eggers is my favorite author. If you haven't read him, do it. Brilliant.

rrivers

catefrances wrote:

intodeep wrote:

This reminded me of an interview with Felicia Day. She likes to read a lot of urban fantasy/romance novels and she said how some of them were good but the book covers alone were entirely too embarressing to read in public.

This is why a few years ago her greatest investment was in a kindle No one knows what you are reading and there are no book covers to tell the tale

who cares who sees what you read?... especially strangers in the public arena.

its like when they gave the harry potter books adult covers(aside from that being a shameless money generator). either own what it is youre reading or dont read it. simple.

Harry Potter books are very well written. I don't know that I would call them children's books, but if they must be labeled I guess. I don't recall seeing many children's books 800 pages long. I read them, but don't consider myself a big fan. They do deserve props and should not be lumped in with Twilight, 50 Shades, or Dan Brown.

Just finished "Gone Girl". Definitely not a children's book!