What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Rhiannon]

I'm reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss. Ha-ha! Other people do freak out when they see someone misusing an apostrophe! It's y'all, not ya'll!

 

[Lantarion]

Hey I've heard of that author! I read an article where it said that the increasing interest in reinstating Latin as a subject in British schools is supported by many linguists and authors, among them this Lynne Truss. That book sounds quite interesting too, I should check that out.

 

[Kementari]

ely i feel i should warn you my sister was forced to read "Catcher in the Rye" at school and she absoutly hated it, she couldnt finnish it. I tried reading it too (because she insisted it was so bad) i found its doesnt stay on topic (the auther really trails off alot) and its hard to figure out whats going on. Some people might like that style, its like a diary just though id give my two cents worth

 

[Saermegil]

I know this is slighlty off topic, but are any of you reading any good Horror books? I want to order some in time for my holiday abroad.

On my list I have :
Ghost Sory- Staub
The Shrinking Man- Matheson(?)

 

[Rhiannon]

Hey I've heard of that author! I read an article where it said that the increasing interest in reinstating Latin as a subject in British schools is supported by many linguists and authors, among them this Lynne Truss. That book sounds quite interesting too, I should check that out.

It's great fun. I'm enjoying it immensely

 

[Finduilas]

ely i feel i should warn you my sister was forced to read "Catcher in the Rye" at school and she absoutly hated it, she couldnt finnish it. I tried reading it too (because she insisted it was so bad) i found its doesnt stay on topic (the auther really trails off alot) and its hard to figure out whats going on. Some people might like that style, its like a diary just though id give my two cents worth

Yes, didn't quite like it too...

As for horror books, well, I have a collection of Stephen King's works. Bag of Bones and Firestarter are my favourites.
Oh, also Hearts in Atlantics.

 

[Beleg]

Catcher In the Rye is among my absolute favorite books! I'd recommend anything by Salinger, but If you are looking for a tightly knitted, deeply plotted book then Catcher in The Rye isn't for you.


As for horror,

I'd recommend Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite as well as the Call of Cuthulu [Sp?] by Lovecraft.

 

[Saermegil]

Thanks people. I've read most of King, including the books you recomend. Although I think I will order the Lovecraft book as I have heard a lot about him but have yet to read one of his books.

 

[Wolfshead]

I've finished my exams and left school now (which is nice ). So I reckon I can afford to start reading again. So at 2.30am today after getting bored on the internet I began reading Waylander by David Gemmell. I can't get enough of Gemmell's heroic fantasy, and I can tell from this synopsis that Waylander's going to be a cracker!

The Drenai King is dead - murdered by a ruthless assassin. Enemy troops swarm into Drenai lands. Their orders are simple - kill every man, woman and child.

But there is hope.

Stalked by men who act like beasts and beasts that walk like men, the warrior Waylander must journey into the shadow-haunted lands of the Nadir to find the legendary Armour of Bronze. With this he can turn the tide. But can he be trusted? For he is Waylander the Slayer. The traitor who killed the King...

 

[Beleg]

Weren't you going to start A song of Ice and Fire saga? Thats a cracker of series!

 

[ely]

ely i feel i should warn you my sister was forced to read "Catcher in the Rye" at school and she absoutly hated it, she couldnt finnish it. I tried reading it too (because she insisted it was so bad) i found its doesnt stay on topic (the auther really trails off alot) and its hard to figure out whats going on. Some people might like that style, its like a diary just though id give my two cents worth

Thanks for the warning but I actually like these kind of writing styles that jump or trail off.

 

[Wolfshead]

Weren't you going to start A song of Ice and Fire saga? Thats a cracker of series!

I did, and I finished it in about 4 days Now I'm waiting for the second book to arrive in the library for me. It was incredibly good, and that book was the reason I gave up reading until after the exams - I was distracted too much! Although there was possibly too much incest for my liking...

 

[Beleg]

Incest is the need of the plot though, I personally didn't find it excessive, it fit just fine with the way Martin had woven the story; and it is a fantasy afterall.

Who is your favorite character?

I personally favour Bran, Jon and Arya.

 

[Inderjit S]

Well...given that I have read some of the books mentioned in the previous page and somebody did mention how long they took to read the book, then I will give some of my times for the books mentioned.

War and Peace-Two days.
Anna Karenina-One day and a bit, started it at night and finished it by the next night.
The Illiad-One day-skipped a lot of Hektor's funeral though, that part was boring.
The Odyssey-Well, it took me about three hours maybe four to read this.

War and Peace could easily be read in a day, you just have to find the time and patience.

Er...and what is with this anti-incest rubbish? Incest makes books incestring...sorry had to include stupid joke in my post, it's a matter of principle. But incest, though at time disturbing is actually, if you look at it, quite funny when you are reading about it happening to some morons in a book, if you are a total nutcase that is.

I also need to read the 'Catcher of the Rye'-sounds like a great book.

Eugh, I envy you craig, having finished your exams, mine have yet to start and they take place in the middle of Euro 2004 And I still don't understand how the hell your revise for John Keats and I cannot be b-o-t-h-e-r-e-d to fastidiously recite all the reforms and screw-up's of the idiotic tsar's....

 

[Wolfshead]

The incest was vital to the plot, but it's not every day you come across a major book which actually has it included at all...

Who is your favorite character?

Jon, easily. Then it was Eddard, and Bran before he suffered his accident. I was amazed he managed to get away with killing Eddard! Not many people can pull off killing the main character... Sansa and Catelyn annoyed me. Sansa for her annoying snobbery, and Catelyn for her treatment of Jon. Daenerys I was indifferent to - I found myself wishing they'd get back to someone more interesting, where the action was! And I suppose Arya was alright, but there's only so much of a lost child running round a city I can take at once And why have I just gone into an essay there...?

What about the second book - how does it rank with the first?

Eugh, I envy you craig, having finished your exams, mine have yet to start and they take place in the middle of Euro 2004

That's unlucky. Are you sitting A-levels? I'd welcome a break to have looked at something like the Tsars - they focus far too much on Hitler here. It's as if they're trying to breed a new world order

 

[Beleg]

I was amazed he managed to get away with killing Eddard!

Killing Eddard's nothing, Martin possesses a penchance of axking his main characters, Eddard is just the first on a pretty long list of decayed character who in their own time and tale were pretty essential to the story. But even with their chopping and hacking the story moves amazingly well, getting better and better as we progress.

What about the second book - how does it rank with the first?

The second book is better, most people are of the opinion that as we progress the story just gets better and better. The book has it all, wars, battles, dragons [but not in the way you might think], betrayal, cunning, Tyrion Lannister, some more incest, Dany gets in the thick of things [Atleast in her part], Jon gets to do intresting things; very good book.

I agree with you, I hated the stupid Sansa and her knights, didn't hate Catelyn as much as her but the Tully sisters came might close.

 

[Wolfshead]

Sounds rather good. I look forward to getting it But I can't believe I missed Tyrion Lannister off my list! He's my favourite living character along with Jon now. Such a funny guy/dwarf

 

[Supernita]

Yay a thread about books in general, I like that. I can't believe I didn't find this until tonight, it looks like it's been around for awhile.

Currently I am reading Two Towers, but must admit I've been taking a few breaks to read others. Sometimes I go through a book in a day, but most often than not, I can rarely find the time to read for more than a few minutes at a time, so it takes me several months. I started reading One Hundred Years of Solitude a few weeks ago. I've read a few chapters and it seems interesting, although I haven't really gotten into it. I have a few chapters of Gulliver's Travels to read still, which is actually a very interesting book. I usually have several books on the go, but I recently just finished some non-fictions so I have to figure out which books I want to get into next.

 

[greypilgrim]

I haven't read a book in over a year now...currently reading old Maxim magizenes

 

[Wolfshead]

I haven't read a book in over a year now...currently reading old Maxim magizenes

Haha Methinks you probably ought to find a book