What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Inderjit S]

Wondering if anyone has read Margaret Atwwods The Handmaids Tale. A very good book but as far as dystopian books go it's no 1984. Also Mario Puzo's The Godfather is a classic..plus it has no part 3.

 

[Rhiannon]

I read The Handmaid's Tale in AP Lit and really enjoyed it, (though dystopian lit isn't really my thing- I tend to get depressed). I liked Atwood's The Blind Assassin much more (it's the only other thing I've read by her so far).

 

[Wolfshead]

I wonder if we're gonna get an influx of people tomorrow saying that they're reading Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix? I'll get in first and I say I'm reading it. Well, not yet, it won't arrive until tomorrow, but come tomorrow I will be. I'm having to temporarily suspend my reading of Enemy Of God by Bernard Cornwell to accomodate it

 

[Luthien Tunivel]

This is an easy question; Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix of course! The Silmarillion has been put on hold for a while due to the new book, and also due to the fact that it is boring me to death.

 

[FoolOfATook]

Having now made it through Harry Potter V twice, I'm reading Michael Lewis' book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. It's an absolutely fascinating study of the changing approaches to the general manager position in baseball.

 

[Rhiannon]

I didn't get to start HP5 for three whole days because my sister got it first, but I'm now halfway through it and enjoying it very much. While I was waiting I started One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which I am also halfway through and loving. It's my first magical realism. Must...have..more...

HP first, though.

 

[Elendil3119]

I'm currently re-reading UT, just started BoLT2, and I'm also reading On the Incarnation by Basil of Caesarea.

 

[Jesse]

I am currently reading the July/August edition of the Sierra magazine. It's the bi-monthly magazine of the Sierra Club.

 

[Eliot]

I'm in the middle of a few books:

Mein Kampf (My Struggle) by Adolf Hitler. On a scale of 1-10, I'd give it a 9.

The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underword in the Shaping of Modern America by Gus Russo. I'm still in the Prologue, because I haven't had much time to work through this book.

And, The Guns Of The South by Harry Turtledove. So far, it's really good!

 

[FoolOfATook]

Dude, between quoting Hitler in your sig, and giving rave reviews to his book, you're really begining to freak me out. Seriously. This is NOT cool.

Majorly NOT cool.

 

[Rhiannon]

And, The Guns Of The South by Harry Turtledove. So far, it's really good!

One of my brother's favorites. Eventually I'll get around to reading it.

Finished HP5, enjoyed it very much, though dangit, I liked that person...

I'm trying to decide if I should get enveloped in One Hundred Years of Solitude again, or start on Neil Gaiman's American Gods, which is the July discussion for my reading group (speaking of, I saw Gaiman on the History channel the other day. It was a plate o' shrimp moment. It was a special on comic book heroes- really interesting).

And I am savoring the latest issue of The Readerville Journal, the best literary magazine out there.

 

[Idril]

Well after the mammoth task of HP5 - which I enjoyed, I'm on to something a bit lighter it's called 'The Big O: How to Have Them, Give Them, and Keep Them Coming' by Lou Paget. Excellent read and funny too.

 

[Eliot]

Originally posted by FoolOfATook
Dude, between quoting Hitler in your sig, and giving rave reviews to his book, you're really begining to freak me out. Seriously. This is NOT cool.

Majorly NOT cool.

Hey "dude", it's not like I'm a neo-Nazi or anything. I just thought it was a kinda cool qoute, and I just think his book is interesting (though probably half of it is just pure baloney).

 

[Elendil3119]

I'm reading three books right now:

On the Holy Spirit, by St. Basil
The Space Trilogy, C.S. Lewis
BoLT2

 

[Lady Legolas]

Hi all. Right now I reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phinix.

 

[Feanorian]

Eliot how is Mein Kampf? I am considering reading that after I finish The Communist Manifesto.

 

[Manveru]

I'm near the middle of LotR (I'm reading chapter 5 of TTT: 'The White Rider'). It's my third time reading LotR (but first in English)...IT's amazing as always!!!

 

[Eliot]

Originally posted by Feanorian
Eliot how is Mein Kampf? I am considering reading that after I finish The Communist Manifesto.

It can be a little boring at times, but it can also be VERY interesting. I'm taking a small break from it to read The Guns Of The South by Harry Turtledove.

 

[Rhiannon]

I started Neil Gaiman's American Gods. Holy cow. FoaT, you were right- I've zoomed through the first 200 pages and I'm wishing I remembered my mythology better.

I'm taking a trip over the 4th of July, and now I have to decide what books to take, other than American Gods. Right now I'm thinking-

-Emma by Jane Austen
-Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
-Winter Rose by Patricia McKillip
-The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
-One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
and
-Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody

(Eliot, I thought the Scottish flag was green)

 

[FoolOfATook]

. Holy cow. FoaT, you were right-

It happens every once in a great while.

Lately I've been reading and re-reading The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll and The Beatles Anthology- which is sort of the group's collective autobiography.