What book are you reading?

Mel1979

Now onto 'Choke' by Chuck Palahniuk

answers are fatal

Hiroshima
By: John Heresy

rrivers

Now reading "Manhunt: the 12-day chase for Lincoln's killer". It's written like a novel and is really good so far.

smithnic

Mel1979 wrote:

Now onto 'Choke' by Chuck Palahniuk

Palahniuk is one of my favorites! That's probably right of there with his best.

catefrances

Ms. Haiku wrote:

Atonement by Ian McEwan. I read it a few years ago, but the language is sinking into me more this time. I'm reading it again because the movie is coming out. I'm becoming a James McAvoy fan, and I would like to see the movie, but I want to refresh my memory with the book. A lot of moments, but somehow there are spaces between the moments. They are not spaces for breathing, and they add an edge. Maybe that's why I didn't get into the writing. More description than dialogue. Excellent description nonetheless.

i hate when they make films of books i really enjoyed. :(

re: your comment ms. haiku about its screenplay friendliness.
i think considering the book was about Briony's misinterpretation of something seen and the consequences of that, the detail within the book was a deliberate device to show how sometimes, it really is ALL in the details.

xavier mcdaniel

I just finished a book on the 1967 Toronto Maple Leafs, which discusses the team and what happened with the franchise in the years following.

catefrances

darkness visible - william styron

somebodyelsessky2020

101 sexual positions - max von dong

Ms. Haiku

catefrances wrote:

i hate when they make films of books i really enjoyed. :(

re: your comment ms. haiku about its screenplay friendliness.
i think considering the book was about Briony's misinterpretation of something seen and the consequences of that, the detail within the book was a deliberate device to show how sometimes, it really is ALL in the details.

Well, just like last time, the beginning is bogging me down. I finished it the first time. However, this time I decided to go on to another book. I tried to reread it so I can see how it relates to the movie. I skipped around to the important parts, and remembered some stuff. The middle is really the meat of the passionate writing. The beginning is alright, and sets the story, but the middle is where I was actually interested in the book. Not this time, I have to go on to something because the beginning just doesn't interest me. I didn't like the ending. All these strings of stories and new strings created. It's like a new writer wrote the ending.

soulsinging

bee season- myla goldberg

Math

somebodyelse'ssky wrote:

101 sexual positions - max von dong

I'm waiting on the movie for this one.

The Brooklyn Follies - P. Auster

Linda

Marisha Pessl's debut novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

lgt

Finished Antonia Evans' biography of Mary Queen of Scots and started Brick Lane by Monica Ali... although not really getting into it.

rrivers

Linda wrote:

Marisha Pessl's debut novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

That is a novel? I saw it but thought it was about Physicis and passed on it. I have heard good things about it.

Linda

rrivers wrote:

That is a novel? I saw it but thought it was about Physicis and passed on it. I have heard good things about it.

i thought so either, but its a nice novel, its a talented girl that Marisha Pessl.

Ms. Haiku

Heat by Bill Buford. As a vegetarian I'm getting a little disheartened how affluence is associated with incredible amounts of meat at meals (not news, I know), and how superstar chefs are supporting the health problems in this country.

chinobaeza

I'm reading the biography of Winston Churchill by Geoffrey Best

catefrances

touched with fire: manic depressive illness and the artistic temperament - kay redfield jamison.

Anon

Yes, Your Teen is Crazy!

Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind

Michael J. Bradley

rrivers

Ms. Haiku wrote:

Heat by Bill Buford. As a vegetarian I'm getting a little disheartened how affluence is associated with incredible amounts of meat at meals (not news, I know), and how superstar chefs are supporting the health problems in this country.

Superstar chefs support the health problems in this country? Ha!

Obi Once

Reading the Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide for the 2nd time, very amusing.

nuffingman

Some book by Sam Bourne, can't remember the name.

surfanddestroy

Dean Koontz: Forever Odd.

Heineken Helen

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Call-Wild-Guy-Grieve/dp/0340898240

Just finished that one... it's absolutely fantastic and everyone should read it. It's fucking hilarious in parts and very educational in others and just a very heart warming.

nuffingman

Heineken Helen wrote:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Call-Wild-Guy-Grieve/dp/0340898240

Just finished that one... it's absolutely fantastic and everyone should read it. It's fucking hilarious in parts and very educational in others and just a very heart warming.

There have been a few good reviews of this. Think I'll have to look out for it.

Heineken Helen

nuffingman wrote:

There have been a few good reviews of this. Think I'll have to look out for it.

seriously do... there were just so many 'awwww' points. Especially his gradual bonding with the dog

nuffingman

Heineken Helen wrote:

seriously do... there were just so many 'awwww' points. Especially his gradual bonding with the dog

Actually that sounds quite perverted :eek:

Heineken Helen

nuffingman wrote:

Actually that sounds quite perverted :eek:

Yep, it does... but honestly, the dog was the funniest part of the book... quite a character.

Binaural

Anybody ever read any Bill Bryson? I read an extract out of The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and it had me in stitches. Whats his writing like?

catefrances

Binaural wrote:

Anybody ever read any Bill Bryson? I read an extract out of The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and it had me in stitches. Whats his writing like?

yes. i read made in america. gave me a little more insight into the american language.