What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Wolfshead]

Originally posted by Frodorocks
I'm currently reading TTT and Treasure Island. Treasure Island has a good storyline, but Stevenson's writing stlye's a little bland for my taste.

Have you see The Muppet Treasure Island? A great film, not as good as A Muppet Christmas Carol, but still great.

 

[Jesse]

Right now I'm reading "The Fellowship of the Ring". My mom has the original 1967 version with the map included in the back.

 

[Wolfshead]

Originally posted by FoolOfATook
I didn't think Harris's style was exceptional, but it wasn't too offensive.

I didn't find it offensive, his style just didn't interest me for some reason. I couldn't say why.

 

[Frodorocks]

I have seen muppet Treasure Island.

 

[Thorin]

Originally posted by Arvedui
Currently, I am reading 'The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two'
(And to believe I once thought the Silmarillion was hard, wow).
Still, I will recommend it to all who haven't read it yet.

Isn't the "Fall of Gondolin" a fantastic chapter? What a hair-raising adventure that is!

I am reading a book called "The Outfit" which details the rise of gangsterism in Chicago from the early century to today. I've read alot on the New York mob, but I was not fully informed on the Chicago mob. It is amazing how they controlled the White House from Franklin Roosevelt to Kennedy. The Truman presidency was so mob-connected it is incredible. Very corrupt politics back in the 30s and 40s all the way to the top. It is a great read.

Just finished "The Summons" by John Grisham as well. It was pretty good as far as Grisham goes, but it ain't like reading a good Stephen King novel or a Tom Clancy thriller.

 

[Jon]

just finished Pelerandra by CS Lewis, and im reading LotR (only the second time!), Escape from Khatmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson (its a light hearted kinda fantasy-travel ish book); and im about to start South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami, which I`ve read before but i love.

also i like reading graphic novels: Ive just finished Ghostworld by Daniel Clowes (I think) - which is fantastic - and a graphic version of Guards Guards! by Terry Pratchett (cant remember the guy who actually drew the book). also want to start The Blue Lotus by Herge.

also in college as im doing english lit. i have to read books for it so im supposed to be reading Othello, Pride and Prejudice, The Color Purple, not to mention some poems..

so hmmm i think im reading a lot. actually, until i wrote this list i hadnt realised how much im reading. its quite impressive really..

 

[Jon]

also forgot to mention another book - CS Lewis collected Essays and Stories - which im reading but not, like, cover to cover

 

[FoolOfATook]

Wow, another English Major. Does the C.S. Lewis essay collection include any of his literature essays? I think that "On Stories" is pretty brillant.

 

[Jon]

yes it does, i liked it too. i think the book pretty much contains all his essays.
have you read `the dark tower` by the same author?

english major? actually im not doing that yet. what we call `college` here (UK) is the stage just before `college` in the US.
What you call college we call university (or uni for short). so what im doing now is trying to get to university (or college as you call it).

i might do an english `major` if i get to uni, but im not sure yet.

 

[FoolOfATook]

I thought you people spoke English over there...

I'm actually a student in both a college and a university. In America, a university is made up of several colleges, so I'm a student of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, in North Carolina State University.

When you get to university, you definitely should major in English. Because English Majors rule.

I haven't read "The Dark Tower" yet, but I'm planning to. I'm going to read Lewis's Space Trilogy over Spring Break, and after that I'm going to try to read "Dark Tower" and some of his other fiction.

 

[FREEDOM!]

I have to read "the miracle Worker" for english. I hate it.

 

[Elbereth]

I'm currently reading "The Lays of Beleriand"

 

[Wolfshead]

Originally posted by FREEDOM!
I have to read "the miracle Worker" for english. I hate it.

We had to watch the film of that about 3 or 4 years ago, in black and white. The words I shall use to describe it are, not and good.

 

[Zale]

Right now I'm on "A Shadow On The Glass", by Iain Irvine. I'll go through the whole quartet ("The View From The Mirror") and then I'll read "Chronicles Of The Raven" by James Barclay.

 

[FoolOfATook]

Hoom. My grand plans to spend Spring Break reading C.S. Lewis fell apart when I picked up a paperback copy of Stephen King's Dreamcatcher at the grocery store on Monday. I've been tearing through that for the past few days. It's not bad at all. Not as good as, say The Stand, but better than a lot of his novels (The Tommyknockers, The Dark Half, Cujo) No idea what I'll read next.

 

[Flame of Udûn]

Just finished The Silmarillion. Am now reading The Silver Hand by Stephen Lawhead, then Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan. I am also reading Deucalion, Day of the Triffids, Castle of Otranto, Frankenstein and Turn of the Screw for school.
Oh, and I read The Interplanetary Trilogy and Till we have Faces by Lewis a few weeks ago.

 

[Rhiannon]

Right now I'm reading Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde, the sequal to The Eyre Affair, and loving it. Also reading vol. I of Manchester's The Last Lion (biography of Winston Churchill), which is very interesting but slow-going, as well as kinda-sorta reading The Kin: Suth's Story by Peter Dickinson and Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee (meaning I started them, but haven't picked up either one in the past few days because I got distracted by other things).

I just finished reading The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer last night, and The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon a few days ago.

I also read three Daredevil trade paperbacks that my brother brought home with him, but I forget which ones.

 

[e.Blackstar]

I am reading (again) Magic Steps by Tamora Pierce

I will have to re-read The two princesses of Barreme(sp) for book report

 

[Rhiannon]

I will have to re-read The two princesses of Barreme(sp) for book report

I think it's Bamarre, but I'm too lazy to go check. I didn't like it as well as some of her other books.

I'm still slogging through The Last Lion; after a brief sabbatical I made fifty pages of headway in the car yesterday. No progress on Suth's Story or Biting the Sun, but I've started Black Swan, White Rave, a short story anthology, and The Friendly Persuasion, by Jessamyn West. I also read a couple of fluffy chick-lit mysteries, which my ego will not allow me to name, and finished Lost in a Good Book.

 

[legolasismine]

I'm reading:
Two Princesses Of Bamerre
The Two Towers
The Diary Of Cleopatra the 7th
The Diary Of Amber Billows
The Holecost(sp?)