What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Lantarion]

BORING??? You think 'Lord of the Flies' is BORING?? I wonder if we're talking about the same book here.. The one I read has constantly growing tension, death, insecurity, danger, overiding themes of human nature and evil, and a diabolical undertone..
But hey, to each their own..
Finduilas, it is absolutely worth a read, it is an extremely subtle and powerful work of fiction.. IMO that is (I should know, my class spent about thre months concentrating solely on that book ).

 

[Beleg]

Lord of the Flies certainly isn't a boring book!

I seriously was nauseated and extremely exhausted when I finished the book [I read it when I was about 11]. It's a strange and wonderful book, extremely terrifying in its own way.

I agree with Lantarion in his assessment of Lord of the Flies. Even putting aside its social and cultural impact and moral value, it's an extremely powerful tale in itself, the story is captivating.

My next books, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking glass.

Aye, Paltrow is beautiful.

 

[Rhiannon]

I didn't see Gwyneth Paltrow's film of Emma--Paltrow scares me She's so...skeletal....no really! As my brother says, she looks like she should be wandering the streets at night saying 'Braaaaaiiiinsss'.

Still reading Rurouni Kenshin. I love Rurouni Kenshin. This week was a terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week, so I haven't had the time or the brain cells to read anything but manga (and that I only get to read in the bathroom). The era Kenshin is set in is a fascinating one--if you saw The Last Samurai, Kenshin is set some four or five years afterwards, and from the opposite side. And it features a girl who runs a kendo school and whales on people with sticks. That's awesome

 

[Ol'gaffer]

BORING??? You think 'Lord of the Flies' is BORING?? I wonder if we're talking about the same book here.. The one I read has constantly growing tension, death, insecurity, danger, overiding themes of human nature and evil, and a diabolical undertone..
But hey, to each their own..
Finduilas, it is absolutely worth a read, it is an extremely subtle and powerful work of fiction.. IMO that is (I should know, my class spent about thre months concentrating solely on that book ).

ach! und wi watched the movie! don't forget! supplied by the ever great Gaffer!

 

[Dengen-Goroth]

Moved onto 'Tropic of Capricorn' by Henry Miller. Picked it up via strong suggestions, has anyone read any of Miller's work?

 

[Starflower]

moved on to 'Man from Mundania' by Piers Anthony. One of the many books that I have but never gotten around to reading, it's ok, but I'm getting tired of Xanth books and the endless puns.. i have read through the entire series, bar a couple of out-of-print ones. I much prefer his other writing, the Apprentice Adept series and the Mode series which are more sci-fi than fantasy. but as I'm deseprately trying to accommodate my existing library I am banned from buying any more until we move...so re-reading old ones for the next few months

 

[Niniel]

Just started reading the first book (Eye of the World) of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. So far I don't really like it, but I haven't got further than page 10, so I suppose I should read on.

 

[Inderjit S]

OMG, Ulysses was CRAP. Utter tosh...a waste of time...what the hell is Joyce going on about? I can only assume it is something that 70 year old university professers understand....and huzzah for them. What is the point of writing such a nonsensical book. My god, it put me off reading for a day, which is a long time.

Emma was nice, not the best book I've ever read, but still pretty good..I hope P&P is better....read The Odyssey...nice tale, not as good as the Iliad, but it explains some of the things from the Iliad....reading 'Three men in a boat'...supposed to be one of the funniest books ever...let's see if it beats Catch-22 or Don Quixote. Also look forward to readin Gargantua and Pantragruel....looks funny.

 

[Finduilas]

For Ulysses...haven't got far enough yet to express a complete opinion...haven't reached the end yet!
So far it seems interesting though I cannot see the point Joyce is making...but that's usually in the end too...

Ah...Emma...as I said, loved it.
And come on, what about Paltrow? She's not skinny, she's elegant!!!
One of my favourites.

Still remember the influance of Catch-22...great books don't remain unnoticed....

Oh, soon will read that famous Lord of the Flies!
And I was also thinking of Shogun...Gosh, why should good books be so enormous!

 

[Inderjit S]

'Three Men In a Boat' was funny....not as great as Catch-22 though. Also read 'Crime and Punishment', which was a great book, but no 'The Brothers Karamazov'.

Just started 'Pride and Prejudice'.

 

[Rhiannon]

Niniel, do yourself a favor and stop now. Forcing yourself through the first book is not worth it, especially since the series takes a complete nose-dive around book six. Neeee-ppffffttth.

No, I'm not bitter towards Robert Jordan. Not bitter at all the *bleep*

And come on, what about Paltrow? She's not skinny, she's elegant!!!

Yeah. And she named her daughter 'Apple'. *flinch*

Now that I've read all four volumes of Rurouni Kenshin that are available in the US, my life has no meaning. Well, it won't have any meaning once I finish watching the last three episodes of the Tokyo story arc. Unless I go shell out some serious cash to get the six DVDs of the Kyoto story arc. It's a shame I didn't get into Kenshin while I was still in Japan.

 

[Talierin]

OMG I have so many books out from the library right now it isn't even funny. I polished off The Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix for the 3rd time this afternoon, love love love it. Then I was off to Grim Tuesday by Nix again, the sequel to Mister Monday, it's excellent as well. Before that I read all the Griffin & Sabine books by Nick Bantock again, in preparation for the final book, which fricking needs to come in at the library soon. Plus I'm *still* reading Dune which is very long but interesting. After I finish those it's onward to Messenger by Lois Lowry, *finally* the end to The Giver series, and Robota, by Doug Chiang, and some other various books by Nick Bantock, The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, the Merlin books by err, I forgot, Artemis Fowl, Dragonology, and then a bunch of art and wwii books :|

 

[Ol'gaffer]

I've started to read The Illiad and the Odyssey again, after watching Troy I was simply just so inspired to read them again.

 

[Beleg]

re-attacking Lord of the Flies.

Will also think of re-reading P and P.

 

[Finduilas]

After I finish those it's onward to Messenger by Lois Lowry, *finally* the end to The Giver series, and Robota, by Doug Chiang, and some other various books by Nick Bantock, The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, the Merlin books by err, I forgot, Artemis Fowl, Dragonology, and then a bunch of art and wwii books :|

Artemis Fowl you say....any good reading?
I've heard of it...somehting like "the bad-equivalent" of Harry Poter?
But never received recommendations from somebody who actually read it.

 

[Clark Griswold]

Ishmael - by Daniel Quinn

 

[aguthasil]

I'm re-reading Lord of the Rings. I need some new books, though, I need something else to read. not that LOTR isn't good to read, but it's my third time reading them, i need something new.

 

[Talierin]

Artemis Fowl you say....any good reading?
I've heard of it...somehting like "the bad-equivalent" of Harry Poter?
But never received recommendations from somebody who actually read it.

It's more like the sillier equivalent of HP. I rather like it, it's kinda stupid but oddly funny. But it's been awhile since I've read the first book, the one I got out now is the second book, and I haven't started it yet. I'll let you know.

 

[Inderjit S]

Pride and Prejudice was a nice book...but not the best. I don't like classic English lit. much....Tom Jones was good, Vanity Fair too, Robinson Crusoe was o-k, D.H Lawrence and Joseph Conrad are not exactly my favourites, though I do like Dickens. Eng lit is not match for Russia lit., Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Gogol, Lermontov, Pushkin, Solzhenistyn....*drools*

 

[Inderjit S]

Wuthering Heights was a fantastic, brilliant, beautiful books...most of the characters in it were maniacs....which suits me just fine, the crazier the better whether he be a Yossarian or Raskolnikov or a complete Karamazovian like Heathcliff or a savage with a fetish for Shakespeare, trapped in a soma induced utopian-dystopian future or the hapless Josef K.

Emma and P&P were good books but, IMO, a tad "dry"

"Look it's that hot hottie duke of Kent"
"Huzzah, I must marry him"
"Yes, you must so you can fall in love with him only for him to dump me for some perfidious little woman from Derbyshire"
"Huzzah! And to think you were in love with that silly little farmboy. I'm you're good friend, but if you married him then well....I couldn't visit you it would be beneath me, instead I will set you up with a whole host of morons"

The female characters are odious and annoying, if they had a fetish for homicide or bigamy then they may have been a tad more interesting.

Started 'A Tale of Two cities' by Dickens.