What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Aulë]

Book 8 of The Wheel of Time (The Path of Daggers) by Robert Jordan.
A brilliant series!

 

[greypilgrim]

-the Bible is always a good read...

 

[King Aragorn]

The Visitation by Frank Peretti. Maybe LOTR next, or maybe the biography of J.R.R. Tolkien.

 

[Dark_Glamdring]

"la Eneida" by Virgilio:
One of the post-trojan War stories, besides "The Odissey"

 

[King Aragorn]

I had to read the Odyssey and the Eineid for my English class this year when we were studying mythology.

 

[King Aragorn]

About to begin reading J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter.

 

[Rhiannon]

I didn't like The Visitation nearly as much as I liked some of Peretti's other books--especially The Oath and Piercing the Darkness.

I'm reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves still, as well as So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading by Sara Nelson (yay, someone else who freely admits to being a 'low brow' reader), and The Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O'Shea. I have had a borrowed copy sitting in my room for almost two years now, and I am finally reading it before I meet the owner (an internet friend) in person next week. I really wish that I had in on tape, read by an Irishman, because I think being able to hear the accent would add a lot to it. The first one hundred pages were slow (I had read them before, and then got sick and sidetracked into other books), but things have picked up now.

 

[King Aragorn]

I think that once I'm done with the biography of Tolkien, I will begin reading The Oath by Peretti. That is one of his best books ever!

 

[LegolasLuver]

Hm well I have to say for the second time I'm reading Lord of the Rings again, of course a friend has pointed out another fantasy book that's seems to be intresting it's called Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

 

[Beleg]

I'll definately recommend A Game of Thrones to anyone who's over a certain age.


I just finished a series by J.V.Jones. Am reading Cryptonimicon by Neal Stephenson and The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles Finney. Great books both of them.

 

[Inderjit S]

Well, I have read a few books since I last posted, off the top of my head, they include Thomas Mann's Dr Faustus, which was o.k, if over-fastidious and at times tepid, I cannot wait to read The Magic Mountain and Buddenbrooks, his two most famous works, I have also read Laclos's 'Dangerous Liasons' which was brilliant, 'The Grapes of Wrath' which was superb, a lot better then 'Of Mice and Men', Ford's 'The Good Soldier', which was o.k, and I am currently reading 'Madame Bovary'.

 

[Niirewen]

Has anyone read the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon? I think it's technically romance, though it could probably be fantasy, or maybe fiction. Anyway, my mom really likes them, so I read the first one. At first I didn't like it, but it grew on me. Has anyone else read them? If so, what did you think?

 

[33Peregrin]

I am actually reading The Lord of the Rings, for my seventh time. It's my yearly reading. But actually, for the first time, I actually feel a little bad for reading it again when there are so many other things to read. Oh well... I have the rest of the summer.

 

[Rhiannon]

I know several people that are addicted to them, Niri--I skimmed through half of one once (which turned out to be some ways along in the series, I think), and thought it was all right--entertaining, but not brilliant.

 

[King Aragorn]

Or maybe I'll read The Silmarillion...

 

[Saermegil]

If you havent read the Sil so far, you absolutely MUST read it.

 

[Supernita]

Ooooh I can't wait to read the Sil. I'm so excited. But I still have the rest of LOTR to read first. I bought another book a few days ago, it's called "The Sense of Being Stared At." It's non-fiction, kind of a scientific book I think. I saw it on tv the other day, on some talkshow. It sounds pretty cool, it's about that "sense" people get sometimes when the phone rings, or when someone you know walks around the corner. You know sometimes when you "know" who's phoning like the second the phone rings. And no I don't mean cuz of caller-id. Anyways, I think I'll wait awhile to read that, but it sounds interesting anyways.

 

[faila]

I'll definately recommend A Game of Thrones to anyone who's over a certain age.


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Game of THrones is awesome but um seriously if it was a movie it would be nc-17...be carefull when reading it....it had incest..and prostitution and other things.

 

[Beleg]

You are correct, faila. Shae, Cesei, Sansa.......

 

[Saermegil]

Today I bought :
The Lord Of The Flies-Golding
The Day of the Jackal-Forsyth
The Talisman-Straub&King
The Gunslinger-King
Invisible Monsters-Palahniuk(Fight Club guy).

As for "adult" literature, has anyone read "11 Minutes" by Coelho? That was pretty adult but excellent book.