What book are you reading?

eddiec

JPPJ84

dankind said:

One of the rare cases where I liked the movie better. They made the right decision ending after the first part I think. I found the 2nd part in Phantasia unbearable 

dankind

JPPJ84 said:

dankind said:

One of the rare cases where I liked the movie better. They made the right decision ending after the first part I think. I found the 2nd part in Phantasia unbearable 

The movie is neat to look at, but the acting and script are horrible. I don't mind the book. I'm re-reading it now because I seem to remember a few messed up parts in it, and I just want to screen it before giving it to the kids.

I mean, they read The Lord of the Rings, and that has a dark army firing the severed heads of their foes at their foes, so this is probably fine. But reading it as an adult, I'm enjoying the metatextuality a lot more than I did as an adolescent.

eeriepadave

eeriepadave said:

looking forward to reading this novel from Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers)....

Finished this a few days ago. Very weird, but pretty good. It was like 240 pages but each chapter was no more than 3 pages so and easy read. Didn't really hook me in but I enjoyed it.

a5pj

Finished the Institute, good read, but not Kings best compared to some of his other stuff.
I think House of Leaves is up next

dankind

xavier mcdaniel

I just started this book about baseball cards.

https://waxpackbook.com/

what dreams

F Me In The Brain said:

Me too! Love it and this author generally. Thank you for reminding me to get off my phone and read a book!

Pap

I'm still reading Kafka's Amerika, but came here to say that the whole Coronavirus situation reminds me of Saramago's Blindness and Cronin's The Passage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5fssiLXZqQ

Malroth

Two at a time.

dankind

Malroth said:

Two at a time.

Livin’ the dream!

Pap

dankind said:

Malroth said:

Two at a time.

Livin’ the dream!

Pap

Malroth said: Two at a time.

Same here. Along with Kafka's Amerika, I've just started:

Malroth

dankind said:

Malroth said:

Two at a time.

Livin’ the dream!

One in the bedroom, one in the bathroom (I might have to start ripping out the pages to wipe)

Life is beautiful.

JPPJ84

The latest book in The Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovich. Love the humor and the sheer wackiness of the stories

Spiritual_Chaos

dankind

eeriepadave

Forgot I had this book, Cats V Conniff, and never started it. Frank Conniff (from MST3K) wrote this a few years ago about his cats. Short, cute, funny easy read.

Hobbes

F Me In The Brain

Great book ^^°

riotgrl

Pap

National Emergency Library

PJ_Soul

I am very appropriately reading The Plague by Albert Camus. This has long been a favorite of mine, and I figured this was a good time to do another reread.

And kind of as a deliberate anxiety soother, I am reading the Little House on the Prairie series, lol. It is a nice, simple, pleasant read that evokes no strong emotion other than perhaps mild nostalgia - good to pick up and read a few chapters when I want to withdraw from thinking about present times.

deadendp

PJ_Soul said:

I am very appropriately reading The Plague by Albert Camus. This has long been a favorite of mine, and I figured this was a good time to do another reread.

And kind of as a deliberate anxiety soother, I am reading the Little House on the Prairie series, lol. It is a nice, simple, pleasant read that evokes no strong emotion other than perhaps mild nostalgia - good to pick up and read a few chapters when I want to withdraw from thinking about present times.

I might just dust off my daughter's collection.  (Or have her do it because she is 16 and her room is, well, that of a typical 16 year old.)  Good idea!  

The best thing I remember about the LHOTP collection is when K was in the 1st grade, we would get her books on CD from the library to listen to before bed.  She would go to bed around 8:30, but lights had to be out at 9.  I went to give a check at 10:30 and found these eyes looking back at me.  She tried closing them real quick, but didn't work.  "K!  Why are you still awake?"  "Mom, there was a bad winter storm and they couldn't find their way back to the house and I just had to listen!"  We decided that particular book was probably not the best for her to listen to before bed.  

23scidoo

The last book of this great trilogy..

brianlux

Having watched the film version of "Master and Commander" recently, I thought I might enjoy the Patrick O'Brian book.  But sampling it by reading a few paragraphs, I wasn't thrilled with the writing.  So instead, I picked up C.S. Forester's Beat to Quarters and found the writing much more to my liking.  I just finished the book and liked it a lot- so much so that I'm thinking I'd like to read all 11 of the Hornblower series.  Good read!

erebus

That’s too bad Brian
I really enjoyed the entire O’Brian series
I will have to give the Hornblower series a go

currently working through Wilbur Smith’s novels
 

brianlux

erebus said:

That’s too bad Brian
I really enjoyed the entire O’Brian series
I will have to give the Hornblower series a go

currently working through Wilbur Smith’s novels
 

Hmm, good to know, thanks.  Maybe I was too hasty in my judgement.  The O'Brian's do seem well liked.  Might have to give him a try again after I get through the Foresters. 

Speaking of, I started with Beat to Quarters because it was the first one he wrote.  But now I will read the rest in chronological order as per Hornblower the character himself.  The series as printed by Back Bay Books has them numbered on the spine in that order, which goes like this:

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

Lieutenant Hornblower

Hornblower and the Hotspur

Hornblower During the Crisis

Hornblower and the Atropos

Beat to Quarters

Ship of the Line

Flying Colours

Commodore Hornblower

Lord Hornblower

Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies

JPPJ84

Hey Brian, have you ever read Robert Merle‘s Fortune de France series? If you like history then I think you will enjoy these

Pap

The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors we are cast adrift; neither teaching, nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms reflecting all possible futures. Books are lighthouses erected in the dark sea of time. ~ Jeffrey Robbins (Gargoyles)