What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Thindraug_2]

Now I'm reading Be Good Lady and The Fellow ship of the ring Going to start reading Fever 1?87

 

[Ol'gaffer]

I've just finished reading Interview With A Vampire
and The Vampire Lestat and I'm now starting Blackwood Farm

 

[Thindraug_2]

'Interview With A Vampire' Is a good movie how's the book?

 

[Ol'gaffer]

The movie was also great but the book is better. Go look at the movie thread, we're talking about it there.

 

[FoolOfATook]

Now it's the usual suspects in poetry (Eliot, Auden, Yeats, Keats, Donne), plus Stephen King short stories, from Night Shift and Skeleton Crew, plus a little bit of short fiction by Hawthorne and Poe, to supplement the King reading.

 

[Eliot]

Wow. 1984 was so good. I loved it. I'm starting Treasure Island by R. L. Stevenson. It won't take too long to finish that, then I'll start The Two Towers.

 

[Gil-Galad]

Now I'm reading "In Cool Blood"by Truman Capote.I would say it a very interesting book,I do like Truman Capote's style of describing things and acts.

 

[Lantarion]

I'm reading a Finnish classic, called Tulitikkuja lainaamassa, which tells about how a pair of guys get drunk and lost on the way to borrow some matches. Well, not quite, but that's the rough of it. The name means 'In the Process of Borrowing Matchsticks".
Not that anybody here is ever going to read it; just wanted to mention it!

 

[Elendil3119]

Right now I'm reading Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. It is a much deeper book than most novels, and is one of my newest fav. books.

 

[33Peregrin]

I am reading HP, for the sisxth time. I haven't read it since I read LOTR four times, but have decided to read it again. Just to see.

I am also reading The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman, pretty good.

I am also reading the Sil again (kind of) I was about half way through ist when my evil brother got rotten banana juice and peices all over it. I need to get another copy before I forget what I have read so far.

I just started The Great Gatsby for my English class.

Even with all of this..... I am longing to reread LOTR. It's all I want to do, everything reminds me of it.
My parents want me to 'take a break.'
I probably won't read it till a lot later this year....
I have only read it once this year so far.

 

[Rhiannon]

I loved The Amber Spyglass, but by the third book in the trilogy the plot got submerged under Pullman's very anti-religious views, and I couldn't enjoy it.

This week I read my first mystery in a while, A Grave Talent by Laurie R. King; all right, but I didn't like it nearly as much at her Mary Russell books- and last night I finished The Darkangel, by Meredith Ann Price (I think). Wow. That was one of the most awesome books I've read in a while. I started the second book in the trilogy, A Gathering of Gargoyles is afternoon and so far it to is awesome.

 

[Wolfshead]

Originally posted by Rhiannon
I loved The Amber Spyglass, but by the third book in the trilogy the plot got submerged under Pullman's very anti-religious views, and I couldn't enjoy it

That is a great book, I loved it - so moving at the end, with Will and Lyra. I've gotta say that almost reduced me to tears, and that's quite something - I'm 16 and a guy.

I liked his religious opinions, I do think we could be better off without religion (anyone seen The Second Coming? Done by ITV, examined what life would be like if the aforementioned event happened now. Ended up with religion being ended). I might read The Amber Spyglass again sometime soon - I'm older now, and I'll be able to examine his views more

 

[Rhiannon]

I would have loved it, only I kind of felt like he abandoned the plot in order to make his religious points. As it was I felt attacked. It's perfectly all right for people to dislike religion, but I think Pullman takes it to extremes. In interviews he's said some pretty offensive things about Christianity, and he seems to particularly hate CS Lewis. That's OK, Robin McKinley doesn't like CS Lewis either, but Pullman is just so...I don't know, rabid about it. I loved His Dark Material up until that last book, though. I need to go back and read the first two.

I finished The Pearl of the Soul of the World, the last book of the Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce last now. Wow. Excellent trilogy. The ending was one of those bitter sweet things, and I didn't want a bitter sweet ending, so I am purging the last two chapters from my memory and replacing them with 'and everyone lived happily ever after'.

 

[Eliot]

In the midst of The Two Towers, and also reading The Gladiator: The Secret History of Rome's Warrior Slaves by Alan Baker.

 

[Devushka]

Even though an elementary book, one I enjoy rereading often: Holes, by Louis Sachar. Wanted to get through it another time, also, before the movie came out.

Also Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Taming of the Shrew.

Oh, and also trying to manage Fellowship of the Ring.

 

[Thomas Baggins]

Oh About a trillion books at the moment LOTR, ROTK being one of them alos i'm reading Caterbury tales too, *wicked hard to understand.* Anyway to many more to list so that's all I'll say.

 

[FREEDOM!]

I'm reading the newest Left Behind book now.

 

[Rhiannon]

Yesterday I finished Watership Down in the car right before we hit the Alabama state line (and then I found a ten dollar bill in the rest stop parking lot). Great book- the awful animated movie traumatized me when I was little, so I put off reading it for a long time, and I had trouble getting in to it at the beginning- it took 100 pages for me to be interested in what happened to the rabbits- but I was very involved by the end. Also 'hrududu' is now a permanent part of my vocabulary. I brought something like 20 books on this trip with me (you never know what you're going to want to read) and I think next up I'll tackle A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin, which also has a slow start- last time I started it but got distracted 20 pages in.

 

[Eliot]

I just finished Book Three of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (the first half of TTT ). It took me a while because I was busy, but I'll eventually finish it.

Before I read Book Four, I'm going to finish The Gladiator: The Secret History of Rome's Warrior Slaves by Alan Baker. From what I heard from my brother (who read it), it's really interesting.

 

[*Lady Arwen*]

I'm almost done with The Seventh Tower: Above the Veil, its a really good collection.