Thread: What are you reading?

Originally Posted by mysterious dreamer

I'm reading "Crime and punishment". Last reads where Hamlet and Outsider.

How is it so far?

It took me over 5 weeks to read that book. One of my three major assignments that semester was three months late. Good thing my professor didn't turn sour until the next year.

Right now I'm in the middle of the third book in a trilogy by Francine Rivers. The first two I couldn't put down. This one goes back and revisits a character that sort of dropped off and I became distracted and haven't been reading it. I should finish it so I can return it to its owner.

I'm also working on "Beyond the Wall, and Other Tales of the Abhorsen" by Garth Nix. I love Garth Nix. They should make a movie out of "Sabriel" but they'd just as likely butcher it (and send it through the 9th gate...)

Next on my list is either another Rivers book or another Ted Dekker book, probably "Saint." I still need to read Master and Margarita and Fathers and Children. Meh.

"A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

The beginning was so far the most enjoyable.

Originally Posted by Amethyst Star

How is it so far?

It took me over 5 weeks to read that book. One of my three major assignments that semester was three months late. Good thing my professor didn't turn sour until the next year.

Right now I'm in the middle of the third book in a trilogy by Francine Rivers. The first two I couldn't put down. This one goes back and revisits a character that sort of dropped off and I became distracted and haven't been reading it. I should finish it so I can return it to its owner.

I'm also working on "Beyond the Wall, and Other Tales of the Abhorsen" by Garth Nix. I love Garth Nix. They should make a movie out of "Sabriel" but they'd just as likely butcher it (and send it through the 9th gate...)

Next on my list is either another Rivers book or another Ted Dekker book, probably "Saint." I still need to read Master and Margarita and Fathers and Children. Meh.

I read more than 200 pages in about 2 weeks, around 300 left. It's been really interesting so far.

Originally Posted by Amethyst Star

How is it so far? It took me over....

Hey, you're writing a book aren't you? Are you finished?

Originally Posted by lagunagirl

Hey, you're writing a book aren't you? Are you finished?

Um, no. I have a number of works in progress, but their progress is slow. I keep intending to sit down and make myself write, but it just hasn't happened yet. I need another November

(But I'll keep you informed!)

• Just started Marshall McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy. I get the feeling this one will have scribbles all over the place before I'm through with it.
  
• Also recently started on The Complete Works, Selected Letters of Arthur Rimbaud--I had no idea the man had two middle names. Thank you public library! I really like that the poems are in both French and English. I'm anxious to get a ways into this one so I can start in onThe Time Of the Assassins by Henry Miller, a study on Rimbaud.
  
• And, intermittently, some random little book called Meditations on the Earth, compiled by Holly Hughes.

Slawter by Darren Shan

The Dark Side of Nowhere by Neal Shusterman

still waiting (with great anticipation) for Lunatic and Elyon by Ted Dekker to come out in summer

I'm still trying to finish the Darkest Evening of the Year... but, I listened to the entire Chronicles of Narnia, as well as Eldest: The Inheritance, and now Brisingr. It's very good so far, but I don't know if it's $35.00 good lol

Also reading Showdown and Chaos (both by Ted Dekker)

Lord of the Flies for school
Not really my kind of book.

Red (yet another Ted Dekker)

The Time Machine.

It's pretty good so far, kind of fast paced though..

American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Most childish book I've read in awhile. Umimpressive so far.

Enjoyed Camus' The Outsider far more.

I always have more than one book I read at a time, though sometimes I put it aside for quite some time.

His Dark Materials - The Amber Spyglass
The Chronicles of Narnia (yes yes, more than one book :p)
Shardik (it's been some times since I last picked it up)
Silmarillion (same as Shardik)

I also have several online comics that I read.

Phoenix Requiem
Altermeta
BlackBlood Alliance
unnamed comic by ShadowUmbre
Lackadaisy Cats
LFG Comic
Purgatory Tower
Dreamless
Shivae
TwoKinds
Twelve Dragons
Ethos
Naruto
Deadman Wonderland
Black Tapestries
Sinfest

Other than that I also read stories from time to time that I find on various forums etc.

Seems I have plenty of stuff to read.

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

I just finished "The Taking" by Dean Koontz and it was awesome!

I guess now I can finish another book I started by him... I was half-way through it when I started The Taking lol

How about y'all?

I just finished the latest Odd Thomas book by Dean Koontz (Odd Hours)...I read it in 2 days

I bought this from Border's a few days ago.
Makes me happy in the pants (and everywhere else).

When men become gods(mormon polygamist warren jeffs..and his cult of fear)101 people you wont meet in heaven and the great Artie Langs,Too fat to fish

The stand by Stephen King

Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower 4)_S.King
and The Power of Silence_C.Castaneda

Morrigan

EVE The Empyrean Age by Tony Gonzales

only read a little over 200 pages of it so far, but its good.

Erich Fromm's Escape From Freedom...good but the going is slow so far.
Robert Lowell's Notebook 1967-68..for relaxation.

the web

thoughts

I'm nearing the end of Frank Herbert's last Dune book, Chapterhouse Dune. I'll miss the Atreides and the Bene Gesserit when it's over, but not enough to read his son's drek.

I also recently finished the comic book adaptation of Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show, which was a damned impressive translation of a long, complex novel full of bizarre and abstract entities and settings into twelve issues of graphical goodness.