What are you currently reading?

[Jay]

Callie suggested "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini. I am about 40 pages in but I fear the novel will be filled with terrible sadness. :(

[Callie]

I'm reading Harry Potter right now (the first one), because Jay and I made a deal :lol

The Kite Runner is a sad book at times, but I felt that there were times in that book that were absolutely beautiful. Capturing the human spirit in so many ways... I cried out of joy and sadness with that book. VERY touching! :up

[mkwdood]

I'm working on Lord of The Rings:Fellowship of the Rings.
BIG book. Son gave it to me for Christmas.
But they were showing the movies on tnt for a week and I got hooked. I do still want the dvds at some point, but think I will work my way through the books first. There is just so much taken for granted in the movies.
*although I do love watching legolas

[OnMyLunchBreak]

The latest in George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire: A Feast for Crows.

Outside of the LoTR they are by far the best fantasy books I have ever read.

[Dennis]

Just finished Crichton's latest, "Next". I liked it. One thing about his novels is that I always learn something. Not only that, but he can make subjects that I'd never even have interest in, fun and exciting.

This book is about genetic research and transgenic creatures and all that.

[Synnamin]

I am reading Death Gets A Time Out by Aylet Waldman

[Callie]

Cardiothoracic Imaging.

YAY! :down

[Kraziladi]

The threads here at Fun Spot. :veryfunny

[cowchpotaytoe]

"Gulliver's Travels".... Kill me now.

[RubenIZMyne]

lol cowch - so whom do you like, the Brobdignags or the Hounhyms :veryfunny

I am currently reading Wicked

[cowchpotaytoe]

lol cowch - so whom do you like, the Brobdignags or the Hounhyms :veryfunny

I am currently reading Wicked

The saddest part is that I understood every word you said and my favorites were the Houyhnhnms because the hospitability and acceptance that their society exudes births in Gulliver a new-found appreciation for a society unlike that of his beloved England.

^ WHOA. I can't believe that even came out of me.

[Acfan]

Vanity Fair... very interesting but still :yawn for sheer length.

[Catt]

Just finished Crichton's latest, "Next". I liked it. One thing about his novels is that I always learn something. Not only that, but he can make subjects that I'd never even have interest in, fun and exciting.

This book is about genetic research and transgenic creatures and all that.

Have you read his book "State of Fear"? I have it, but haven't read it yet.

[Jay]

I am currently reading "Ice Station" by Matt Reilly as suggested by Catt.

[Catt]

I'm reading "Ice Hunt" by James Rollins.

[Erika]

I haven't picked up a book in months :( Sad, last thing I read: VBulletin manual...boring

[mamaoboyz]

Sadly most of what I read are romance novels...*sigh*...yeah...I'm hopeless...Every once in a while I will read a book if the movie looks like it will be good...Chronicles of Narnia & Memoirs of a Geisha are the "movie" books I read this last year...(in addition of course to the estimated 150 romance books I read a year :lol ...I just love happy, mushy endings..:love )

[Synnamin]

Bah,Bah Blacksheep by Aylete Waldman

[OnMyLunchBreak]

I just finished A Feast for Crows and now I’m dying for the next book – he left so many plot lines up in the air. Waiting for Dance of Dragons AND HP and the Deathly Hallows…going to be a looooong spring and summer. *taps foot impatiently*

Not sure what I’m going to read next. I need to start studying for my LSAT so maybe I’ll read my Kaplan material. :S

[imogen]

Bridge to Terabithia

[Acfan]

Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere

[Synnamin]

Joanna's Husband And David's Wife

[Jay]

Yesterday I bought "Fast Food Nation - The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser. I quickly scanned the chapter on a beef processing plant. :eek

[Callie]

GREAT book Jay! I read it, and I stopped eating Fast Food for three years! :faint

If you know me... you know that's the impossible!

Be ready to be completely grossed out and have to put the book down at a few points.

[Jay]

I am currently reading "Map of Bones" by James Rollins as recommended by Catt.

[Catt]

I recommended the author - James Rollins - to Jay. I haven't read Map of Bones yet, but know I will!! Love his other books.

[Synnamin]

The Cat Who Turned Off And On.

[Jay]

A big box arrived from Amazon.ca yesterday. I bought the 6 other paperback novels by James Rollins. So much to read and so little time. :(

[OnMyLunchBreak]

Good luck with those Jay.

I finally picked up Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. I was quite put off by the movie but the book is crazy good! :speechless

[Callie]

I put aside Harry Potter to read the new book from one of my favorite authors, Sophie Kinsella.

It's called Shopaholic and Baby. I LOVE these books! They're so funny. It just came out on Tuesday, and I guarantee I'll be done with it by the weekend.

[Jay]

I put aside Harry Potter to read the new book from one of my favorite authors, Sophie Kinsella. :eek

How could you? :D

[Callie]

I love her books so much Jay! Please... understand :D

[kungfuhippie]

I finally picked up Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. I was quite put off by the movie but the book is crazy good! :speechless
That movie was truly awful!!!

[toque]

I just read Tracy Chevalier's Girl With a Pearl Earring. I couldn't put it down, took me about five hours and I finished at 3 am. :lol It was really, really good, the mood of the novel stuck with me for a full day.

I'm about to pick up Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible.

[Callie]

Really Linda? Hmmm...

I'll have to go and pick up The Girl with the Pearl Earring.

[toque]

Yeah, I found it engrossing... it has historical significance for me however, and made more interesting that it is set in Holland and refers to the dutch painter Vermeer.

I haven't seen the film, but judging from the book, which is mostly the thoughts of the protaganist, I think the film would be dullish. Good book, though. :)

[Jay]

Yesterday I bought "Fast Food Nation - The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser. I quickly scanned the chapter on a beef processing plant. :eek

I started this book yesterday. :faint

[Catt]

Total Control by David Baldacci

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780446604840&itm=1

[Synnamin]

Weekend

[Davis]

A few days ago I finished reading "1984". And I loved it! I thought it was a fantastic read with such an interesting perspective. I admit the ending had me thinking (Metaphorical? Reality? Whats Orwell trying to say?) but I loved the book entirely.

Closely after finishing that book, I began reading "A Clockwork Orange" and to be honest, I really cant get into it. I like the idea of the novel, but the made up lingo and slang is a little annoying.

Additionally, has anyone read the Introduction to the new version of "A Clockwork Orange" where the author writes a forward to the book and explanation of the re-print. He comes off as precocious and a jerk in my opinion. :lol It was actually really funny. Anyone read that?

[angeleyes]

i just finished the second Odd Thomas book by Dean Koontz. i am waiting for the third to come out in paperback. it is called Brother Odd.

[toque]

Just finished Kingsolver's "The Poisonwood Bible"... and this book, coupled with The Bean Trees, has left me a born again Kingsolivian. I adore her voice, her sensitivity, her wit and wisdom.

You could make a great thematic comparitive essay of this novel and Mistry's "A Fine Balance"; from the factual political backgrounds of each novel and the question of justice and balance... But mostly, the way each author manages effectively to coax you gently you right into the heart of the Congo and India, so that when you leave, you leave changed.

"The Poisonwood Bible", for me especially, voiced a lot of what I have felt about many things, but have never been able to put into words.... I'm slightly jealous. :lol

[RubenIZMyne]

Wills Trusts and Estates

a real snoozer :sleep

[OnMyLunchBreak]

*Hands Ruben an espresso*

I just finished John Krakauer's Into Thin Air. Second time reading it for me but it had been about 5 years. It's just one of those books that really sticks with you, the setting, drama, everything. So much triumph and yet so much needless loss. And...in a weird way...makes me want to climb mountains. :shrug

[alexandra]

Finished 1984 by George Orwell a little while ago (which I borrowed from Davis). This book is amazing and possibally by favorite book. If you haven't already read this....where have you been? loved it.

[OnMyLunchBreak]

Finished 1984 by George Orwell a little while ago (which I borrowed from Davis). This book is amazing and possibally by favorite book. If you haven't already read this....where have you been? loved it.

If I could look back and pick the moment when I took a deep breath and switched my meta-philosophical position on the world it would be shortly after reading 1984 when I was studying abroad in Dublin (c. 2002).

Up to that point, I was a staunch Objectivist – perhaps as a result of reading too much Ayn Rand at too young an age and perhaps because seeing things in black and white, good and bad, certain and uncertain is a common fallacy of youth. Reading 1984 was, at first take, a perfect solidification of that world view. Winston was an objectivist hero that, even without societal support, was able to shirk the totalitarian bonds that limited his human freedom and self-expression. O’Brien, Big Brother, Double Speak were all unequivocally bad things which should be abolished.

But then you get to the end of the book and Winston has been overcome – there is no hero salvation here, simply brute force overcoming the individual.

In conjunction with reading 1984 my professor had us reading Richard Rorty’s Contingency, Irony and Solidarity. Richard Rorty is a blasphemous philosopher who works hard to show that the notions of truth, certainty, right and absolutes (and the concepts we attach to them) are little more that fragile human concoctions that can be blown away with enough majority support.

At first, I was incensed that Rorty could say such things or that anyone could believe them. But if you look at 1984, its outcome, its tactics for overcoming the stubborn human claims of knowledge, you realize that these things are indeed very fragile and perhaps more like habits than actual metaphysically existent “things.”

After reading 1984 and Rorty my world was shocked to the core. I gave up so much certainty I felt that I had worked so hard to find. And yet, as Rorty showed me a way to sympathize and even root for O’Brien, I realized a great deal more. Winston, it seems, is of a time past when idea were held on to with stubborn zeal as a way to cope and because they didn’t know better. We have moved beyond such tenacity and, even though it can often create great confusion and a lack of control (the antithesis of O’Brien), have come to a place where every strong position can, should be and will be questioned.

I now consider myself a post-pragmatist who, especially when it comes to things like “truth,” or “right,” realize that these things do not exist independently of me somewhere out in the world. They are merely social constructions that we all agree with or don’t, at which point they change.

My point to this is simply to declare that 1984 holds a special, although perhaps strange, place in my heart. I’m glad that you enjoyed it alexandra.

[Jay]

I am more than halfway through "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser. One particular paragraph had me :puke

"Cochineal extract (also known as carmine or carminic acid) is made from the desiccated bodies of female Dactylopius coccus Costa, a small insect harvested mainly in Peru and the Canary Islands. The bug feeds on red cactus beries, and colour from the berries accumulates in the females and their unhatched larvae. The insects are collected, dried, and ground into a pigment. It takes about 70,000 of them to produce a pound of carmine, which is used to make processed foods look pink, red, or purple. Some strawberry yoghurt gets its colour from carmine, and so do many frozen fruit bars, sweets and fruit fillings, and Ocean Spray pink-grapefruit juice drink."

[haplo]

through wolf's eyes

[OnMyLunchBreak]

I'm reading The Human Stain by Philip Roth. Brilliant book for the first 2/3rds but the last bit is getting quite boring. :(

[Callie]

I'm reading The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama...

I'm REALLY enjoying this book... and I'm a republican :lol

[Catt]

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

[litning angel]

I am currently reading Zodiac by robert graysmith

[OnMyLunchBreak]

Re-reading Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy to prepare for the release of the Golden Compass movie in December! :woo

The first book is awesome, the second book is okay, but, if I remember correctly, by the time you get to the third book things are pretty out of whack and unenjoyable. :(

[sharkbball]

Mad Magizene :lol

[Callie]

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. It's an amazing book that I haven't been able to put down.

I like to read stories about people struggling in life, and overcoming obstacles. If you enjoy "Oprah Club" books, or anything about struggle - you'll really really love this book! :up It's a true story too!

A review on the book:
Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In The Glass Castle, Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents--Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father. To call the elder Walls's childrearing style laissez faire would be putting it mildly. As Rose Mary and Rex, motivated by whims and paranoia, uprooted their kids time and again, the youngsters (Walls, her brother and two sisters) were left largely to their own devices. But while Rex and Rose Mary firmly believed children learned best from their own mistakes, they themselves never seemed to do so, repeating the same disastrous patterns that eventually landed them on the streets. Walls describes in fascinating detail what it was to be a child in this family, from the embarrassing (wearing shoes held together with safety pins; using markers to color her skin in an effort to camouflage holes in her pants) to the horrific (being told, after a creepy uncle pleasured himself in close proximity, that sexual assault is a crime of perception; and being pimped by her father at a bar). Though Walls has well earned the right to complain, at no point does she play the victim. In fact, Walls' removed, nonjudgmental stance is initially startling, since many of the circumstances she describes could be categorized as abusive (and unquestioningly neglectful). But on the contrary, Walls respects her parents' knack for making hardships feel like adventures, and her love for them--despite their overwhelming self-absorption--resonates from cover to cover.

[imogen]

The complete tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe

[HBJosephBH]

1st To Die

and my psychology text book

and my anthropology one

everybody should read reginas song because thats a good book

[imogen]

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

[HBJennBH]

While They're at War by Kristin Henderson:)

[OnMyLunchBreak]

I bought Winds of War by Herman Wouk last week and decided to start reading it. Well, re-reading it as I read it years ago and loved it.

I always find it interesting to read the same book at different points in my life because it always changes the way I see the characters and who I sympathize with - like now I find myself more understanding of the parents than of the crazy, impulsive kids. :lol

[HBJennBH]

I bought Winds of War by Herman Wouk last week and decided to start reading it. Well, re-reading it as I read it years ago and loved it.

I always find it interesting to read the same book at different points in my life because it always changes the way I see the characters and who I sympathize with - like now I find myself more understanding of the parents than of the crazy, impulsive kids. :lol

LOL I never thought to do that actaully! I have a TON of books here, I really like the true life crime ones I guess.... I finished "While They're at War" last night, and started reading "Under the Bridge" by Rebecca Godfrey. So far so good with the book. I was actually just looking for more books today lol I love reading, and I wish that my kids enjoyed it as much as I did. Oh well, maybe when they get older. When I was young I dind't like to read either, so maybe it is something you enjoy more as you get older.

[Catt]

I read Winds of War years ago and loved it. I rented the ABC mini-series Winds of War and War and Remembrance last summer and thoroughy enjoyed both.

[Dinahann]

I finished My French Whore by Gene Wilder the other day. It's his first work of fiction, set during WWI. It's a short book, almost more of a novella. Sweet and whimsical; worth a read, although he compared himself to Hemingway in the afterward, which I thought was a tad ambitious. If Wilder were 30 years younger he could play the lead character in the movie.

[Will]

Has anyone read any of the Jane Haddam books? She's my Mythology professor and we asked her what her books are like and she doesn't like to talk about them so just wondering. :)

[babydoll]

I'm reading Rosie O'Donnell's new book, Celebrity Detox, and if you're a Rosie fan, or enjoyed watching her on "The View" at all, be sure to pick it up. It's chock full of interesting behind the scenes info about her hosting her talk shows and just about her life in general. I'm enjoying it. Not a huge Rosie fan, but it's still good! :)

[Jay]

I just ordered "Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling" by Bret Hart. I have heard many interviews with Bret and he always came across as intelligent, thoughtful and articulate. This book should be a great read.

Review from Amazon:
Book Description
In his own words, Bret Hart’s honest, perceptive, startling account of his life in and out of the pro wrestling ring.

The sixth-born son of the pro wrestling dynasty founded by Stu Hart and his elegant wife, Helen, Bret Hart is a Canadian icon. As a teenager, he could have been an amateur wrestling Olympic contender, but instead he turned to the family business, climbing into the ring for his dad’s western circuit, Stampede Wrestling. From his early twenties until he retired at 43, Hart kept an audio diary, recording stories of the wrestling life, the relentless travel, the practical jokes, the sex and drugs, and the real rivalries (as opposed to the staged ones). The result is an intimate, no-holds-barred account that will keep readers, not just wrestling fans, riveted.

Hart achieved superstardom in pink tights, and won multiple wrestling belts in multiple territories, for both the WWF (now the WWE) and WCW. But he also paid the price in betrayals (most famously by Vince McMahon, a man he had served loyally); in tragic deaths, including the loss of his brother Owen, who died when a stunt went terribly wrong; and in his own massive stroke, most likely resulting from a concussion he received in the ring, and from which, with the spirit of a true champion, he has battled back.

Widely considered by his peers as one of the business’s best technicians and workers, Hart describes pro wrestling as part dancing, part acting, and part dangerous physical pursuit. He is proud that in all his years in the ring he never seriously hurt a single wrestler, yet did his utmost to deliver to his fans an experience as credible as it was exciting. He also records the incredible toll the business takes on its workhorses: he estimates that twenty or more of the wrestlers he was regularly matched with have died young, weakened by their own coping mechanisms, namely drugs, alcohol, and steroids. That toll included his own brother-in-law, Davey Boy Smith. No one has ever written about wrestling like Bret Hart. No one has ever lived a life like Bret Hart’s.

For as long as I can remember, my world was filled with liars and bullshitters, losers and pretenders, but I also saw the good side of pro wrestling. To me there is something bordering on beautiful about a brotherhood of big tough men who pretended to hurt one another for a living instead of actually doing it. Any idiot can hurt someone.—from Hitman

[Jay]

Re-reading Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy to prepare for the release of the Golden Compass movie in December! :woo

The first book is awesome, the second book is okay, but, if I remember correctly, by the time you get to the third book things are pretty out of whack and unenjoyable. :(

Ack, really? I was planning on checking out the trilogy. The movie previews looks good, though.

[reedification]

I'm currently reading the Book Of Seth from Jane Roberts.. kinda spiritual and change our perceptions of our life and our reality.. :)

[OnMyLunchBreak]

Ack, really? I was planning on checking out the trilogy. The movie previews looks good, though.

Well, it wasn't as bad as I remember and Drew (who read them with me) actually liked the third book the best so...what do I know? :lol

I say read them - even if you just read the first - great book! :up

I'm currently reading The Good War by Studs Terkel - collection of stories about WWII from veterans. Pretty eye opening stuff! :)

[tumtitum]

I'm reading Stupid History by Leland Gregory

[Dennis]

Right now I'm in just starting on "Rant" by Chuck Palahniuk.

I'm also reading "Empire" by Orson Scott Card.

And for variety I've got "No Man's Land" by G.M. Ford waiting in the wings.

[Jay]

This afternoon I ordered Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy from Amazon.ca.

[Will]

I'm reading Christmas Cookie Murder, lol.

[RubenIZMyne]

Real Estate & Finance Law

Hey don't knock it - it's a real page turner :rofl

[Riddle]

Kite Runner.

IT's such an amazing book.

I love it.

[Hal]

Real Estate & Finance Law

Hey don't knock it - it's a real page turner :rofl

I was gonna major in Real Estate but I want out, hopefully I can change to Graphic design or music.

I'm currently reading the Bible :star

[Davis]

Have completed "Fifth Business" and "A Streetcar Named Desire" and am mid-way through "Catch-22".

I own "His Dark Materials", although I loved the first book, I seem to remember finding the second and third 'kiddyish' :lol. I do plan on re-reading them though; since it's been a few years.

[Erika]

I am currently reading Rudy Giuliani's 'Leadership' --- I have owned it for a couple of years and I had the great fortune of meeting him and having him autograph it, but just never had the time to pick it up. With all the election news, I figured, let's see what he has to say.

I was a big fan of his from his days as a US Attorney when he went after the Mafia, but I'm not sold on him as a US President. Hopefully this will shed some more light for me.

Camille: Why in HELL are you taking that course :rofl I would sooner take Federal Taxation again :lol

[Will]

Kite Runner.

IT's such an amazing book.

I love it.

I agree! And I think it's coming out as a movie now too.

[Riddle]

I agree! And I think it's coming out as a movie now too.

OMG no way! I hope they don't ruin it though.

Even though the book is usually better I hope the movie is good too.

I'm about 60 pages away from the end. I love it a lot.

[Erika]

The movie is going to be released really soon guys - check out this thread:
http://www.tvfunspot.com/forums/showthread.php?p=66419#post66419

Opens Friday!

[Riddle]

So I just finished Kite Runner.

Oh Man. That book left me with so many different emotions. I'm so bummed I finished.

One of the best books I have EVER read.

It's making me look forward to the movie.

But nothing can top this AMAZING book.

By far one of my favorites.

[actr]

textbooks................finals SUX

[mkwdood]

project specifications - currently up to 287 pges. and changing daily

[Jay]

Instead of ordering from Amazon, I bought Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" from Chapters today. My shoulder still hurts from lugging that 800 page book home. :(

[Jay]

Correction, "His Dark Materials" is 930 pages. :eek

[Acfan]

I'm reading 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. My first self-help type book. I usually stay away from this genre because I'm a bit suggestible. :lol

[Synnamin]

For Better Or Worse Collections

[Will]

Now I'm reading "Jingle Bell bark" It's another Christmas book with a corny title, BUT, it takes place in my CT, so I had to read it.

[Riddle]

I'm now reading "End Game."

It's actually a very good book.

Oh I did finish this other one that is the modern day "Catcher in the rye" It was ok.

But Not as good as I thought it would be.

[Jay]

I am more than half way through "Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10" by Marcus Luttrell.

Here is a short desription from Amazon:

Book Description
The battle raged ten thousand feet up in Afghanistans Hindu Kush Mountains. Four US Navy SEALs in a fight to the death against 150 armed Taliban warriors. Despite wiping out half the Taliban force, it all ended as the worst day in the history of the SEALs: three of the four dead, eight more killed when the rescue helicopter was hit and destroyed by an Al Qaeda rocket grenade. Now, two years later, in the summer of 2007, hear the spellbinding, first-hand account by the SEAL who survived. It is a heartbreaking, yet inspiring story of heroism, courage, and sacrificewritten by the only man who lived to tell the tale.

About the Author
Petty Officer Marcus Luttrell joined the United States Navy in March of 1999 and became a combat-trained Navy SEAL in January, 2002. After serving in Baghdad, he was deployed to Afghanistan in the Spring of 2005. Patrick Robinson is known for his best-selling US Navy-based novels and his autobiography of Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward, One Hundred Days, was an international best-seller. He lives in England and spends his summers in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where he and Luttrell wrote Lone Survivor.

[Davis]

Correction, "His Dark Materials" is 930 pages. :eek
Yes, but I believe that would be all three novels in one, no? I mean, Harry Potter would be almost 2700 pages if that happened.

As for what I am currently reading, it's sadly for school, and it's called "Things Fall Apart" and I find it lacking a plot line, and a lot of fluff. Plus, it does not have my interest. Oh well...

[Jay]

Yes, Davis, all three volumes are in one book.

[OnMyLunchBreak]

I'm reading The Big Book of Conspiracies. It's a collection of stories about the most well-known conspiracy theories out there in comic book format. I love it! But then, I'm a sucker for wild speculation about the secret world order!

[Will]

I'm reading Slaughterhouse-Five for my novel class and I have to read to chapter 5 for tomorrow and I haven't even finished chapter 2 yet, lol.

[Davis]

I'm reading Slaughterhouse-Five for my novel class and I have to read to chapter 5 for tomorrow and I haven't even finished chapter 2 yet, lol.
All the other classes in my grade ready Slaughterhouse Five!! :(

Our teacher decided to allow us to read random books instead. I hear it's a great read! Tell me what you think, Will. Enjoy.

[Riddle]

I'm currently Reading Twilight.

People tell me it's a good book and what I have read so far it is.

[nanaurey]

Right now I just started "The Pilot's Wife" by Anita Shreve. It is a Oprah Book Club book, which I normally don't read, but my neice sent it to me and said it is very good. So far, so good, so we will see. :)

[stepan]

I just started reading Dean Koontz "Velocity"....read the first firt 8 chapters at Barnes and Noble's the other day during my break and had to buy it. i'll let you know what I think of it since I haven't realy iiked many of koontz's other books.

[Catt]

"Watchers" is the only Koontz book that I really enjoyed.

I'm reading "Fatal" by Michael Palmer.

[mkwdood]

I'm working my way through the Women's Murder Club books by James Patterson and friends.

[Will]

All the other classes in my grade ready Slaughterhouse Five!! :(

Our teacher decided to allow us to read random books instead. I hear it's a great read! Tell me what you think, Will. Enjoy.

It was a pretty odd book. I mean it was okay, but the main character was pathetic and wussy and he "time traveled" and visited aliens. It was okay though.

[nawlinsgal]

Right now I'm reading Motor Mouth by Janet Evanovich while I wait for Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich to come in the mail..I love all her Stephanie Plum books.

[VCAL]

Currently I am reading "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". Every page is so moist with fact and description of time and place. The character development is exceptional and find it hard to believe it was written in the 1940's. The active voice goes between the author and the main character Francie.

[OnMyLunchBreak]

Tree is one of my all time favorite books VCAL! It is a beatiful story and, you are right, very well-written.

[Will]

The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar, really good book so far.

[Jay]

I am about ready to begin reading "Judas Strain" by James Rollins.

[Davis]

"Othello" by none other than Bill himself.

[Catt]

Goliath by Steve Alten

He is one of my favorite authors and has recently been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease.

http://www.stevealten.com/

[Jay]

"Treasure of Khan" by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler.

[imogen]

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

[toque]

Reading A Wrinkle in Time by L'engle with my kids.

[RubenIZMyne]

I am now reading Pleasure by Eric Jerome Dickey just came out today.

[Jay]

I went to Chapters today and picked up "The Malice Box" by Martin Langfield. Here's a blurb from Amazon.ca:

Book Description
Seven trials, seven keys, seven days ... one chance to save the world
When Robert Reckliss is sent a copper puzzle box accompanied by a cryptic note, he has no idea his life is about to be transformed. That night, an acquaintance kills himself; the following day, an old friend reveals a terrorist threat that could wipe the Western world from the face of the planet. And the responsibility for hunting down this weapon, this Malice Box, lies with Robert. The weapon is primed to explode in seven days and Robert must undergo the quest in order to track down the keys vital to prevent detonation.

About the Author
Martin Langfield is the former East Coast bureau chief of Reuters in New York.

[Catt]

Sounds interesting, but all I need is another new book right now. ;)

I had just started "Map of Bones" by James Rollins, but switched to "The Mediterranean Caper" by Clive Cussler. Someone suggested I read his Dirk Pitt series.

[toque]

All of our Calvin and Hobbeses are out... whenever we're sick they just are the thing to pass the time.

[Jay]

I had just started "Map of Bones" by James Rollins, but switched to "The Mediterranean Caper" by Clive Cussler. Someone suggested I read his Dirk Pitt series.
That person is brilliant. :lol

[Uthe]

:lol I feel like such a loser, but I am JUST NOW starting to read the Harry Potter books! I tried to when I was younger, but reading just didn't interest me as much - I was more interested in video games, :lol. But now I'm practically obsessed. I'm almost done with the first book, which I started yesterday, and will be moving on to the second book shortly! They are pretty much amazing. :)

[Jay]

Better late than never, Uthe! :yay The HP novels are fabulous.

[Catt]

Don't feel bad!! I just read them last summer and waiting for the last in paperback soon.

[Catt]

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[alexandra]

I'm reading the Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare right now. Its quite an interesting play, however I think my favorite Shakespeare play is Macbeth.

[Will]

Shakespeare is awful. I had a class on it and I could never understand anything going on.

We had to read Blindness for my Novel class. Quite a bad book.

[Catt]

So glad I'm of an age and just get to read for my own pleasure. :)

[RubenIZMyne]

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[Will]

I just started reading
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today.

But I am most excited that my favorite Author is coming out with a new book for a series she hasn't written a book for in about 2 years!!
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Very funny mystery series. I recommend them to mystery loves!

[Catt]

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[toque]

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This isn't a children's book, and yet it is. Really, it's for everyone, I guess.

The first paragraph:

"Mama says that change is God's way of showing us a tender miracle, kinda like the chocolate inside a Tootsie Pop. Grandma Birdy says hogwash; change is no good, and always comes in threes, like plane crashes and natural disasters. It was after Weenie ate the giant Cheeto that my life began to fall apart. No, wait. This story starts way before the dreaded Cheeto incident. Yes, way before that. Like when I was born. Precision."

An excellent first novel for Suzanne Crowley!

[Dreigha]

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and if im tired of reading or my eyes get tired I put this one on lol

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[HMatre]

Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka

[Davis]

The Taming of the Shrew is the worst of Shakespeare's plays EVER. :lol

I much preferred Othello and Macbeth. The Shrew rivals the likes of Romeo and Juliet as my least favorite Shakespearean play. Julius Ceasar is in between. Oh well, it's for school...

[Catt]

The 1967 movie with Liz Taylor and Richard Burton was fun, but I never enjoyed reading Shrew.

Macbeth was always my favorite.

[alexandra]

Macbeth is my favorite as well :up


Right now Im reading a novel called Reailtyland, which looks at different experiences people had at Disneyworld and some behind the scenes stuff. I :love Disney haha

[Jay]

I'm feeling ambitious so I'm starting to read "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman.

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Here's the description from Amazon:

From Amazon.com
Some books improve with age--the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman's heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel, The Golden Compass, a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults. The protagonist of this complex fantasy is young Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford University. But it quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own--nor is her world. For one thing, people there each have a personal daemon, the manifestation of their souls in animal form. For another, hers is a universe in which science, theology, and magic are closely allied:
As for what experimental theology was, Lyra had no more idea than the urchins. She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. Probably the stars had daemons just as humans did, and experimental theology involved talking to them.
Not that Lyra spends much time worrying about it; what she likes best is "clambering over the College roofs with Roger the kitchen boy who was her particular friend, to spit plum stones on the heads of passing Scholars or to hoot like owls outside a window where a tutorial was going on, or racing through the narrow streets, or stealing apples from the market, or waging war." But Lyra's carefree existence changes forever when she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, first prevent an assassination attempt against her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel, and then overhear a secret discussion about a mysterious entity known as Dust. Soon she and Pan are swept up in a dangerous game involving disappearing children, a beautiful woman with a golden monkey daemon, a trip to the far north, and a set of allies ranging from "gyptians" to witches to an armor-clad polar bear.
In The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman has written a masterpiece that transcends genre. It is a children's book that will appeal to adults, a fantasy novel that will charm even the most hardened realist. Best of all, the author doesn't speak down to his audience, nor does he pull his punches; there is genuine terror in this book, and heartbreak, betrayal, and loss. There is also love, loyalty, and an abiding morality that infuses the story but never overwhelms it. This is one of those rare novels that one wishes would never end. Fortunately, its sequel, The Subtle Knife, will help put off that inevitability for a while longer. --Alix Wilber --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Publishers Weekly
If Pullman's imagination dazzled in the Victorian thrillers that culminated with The Tin Princess, in this first volume of a fantasy trilogy it is nothing short of breathtaking. Here Earth is one of only five planets in the solar system, every human has a daemon (the soul embodied as an animal familiar) and, in a time similar to our late 19th century, Oxford scholars and agents of the supreme Calvinist Church are in a race to unleash the power that will enable them to cross the bridge to a parallel universe. The story line has all the hallmarks of a myth: brought up ignorant of her true identity, 11-year-old Lyra goes on a quest from East Anglia to the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate Roger and her imprisoned uncle, Lord Asriel. Deceptions and treacheries threaten at every turn, and she is not yet certain how to read the mysterious truth-telling instrument that is her only guide. After escaping from the charming and sinister Mrs. Coulter, she joins a group of "gyptians" in search of their children, who, like Roger, have been spirited away by Mrs. Coulter's henchmen, the Gobblers. Along the way Lyra is guided by friendly witches and attacked by malevolent ones, aided by an armored polar bear and a Texan balloonist, and nearly made a victim of the Gobblers' cruel experiments. As always, Pullman is a master at combining impeccable characterizations and seamless plotting, maintaining a crackling pace to create scene upon scene of almost unbearable tension. This glittering gem will leave readers of all ages eagerly awaiting the next installment of Lyra's adventures. 100,000 first printing; $250,000 ad/promo. Ages 10-up.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

[kungfuhippie]

I read the Golden Compass a couple of months ago. I haven't read the second or third books yet. Hope you enjoy it, Jay.

I just picked up a copy of Paul Quarrington's King Leary which won the CBC's 'Canada Reads' competition as well as the Leacock medal for humour.

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I will start reading it when I'm camping this weekend.

[Synnamin]

The Sleeping Doll By Jeffery Deaver and The Watchmen by Alan Moore. Will, I didn't know you read cozy mysteries. I read a few myself. I love Diane Mott Davison, Leslie Meier and a few others.

[Ladytex]

I just finished the first three Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer and have the fourth on pre-order.

Dreigha, how was that Nora Roberts book? I'm debating getting into that series of hers ...

[sharkbball]

Right Now, Im reading Ladytex's post. Before that I red Jays and KungFus post and let me tell you, Jay should get the Pultzer for his delightful review of the "Golden Compass!"

[Jay]

:lol shark!

[steelerette]

Dreigha, how was that Nora Roberts book? I'm debating getting into that series of hers ...

Nora Roberts' Blood Brothers was excellent! So was the second book in the trilogy, The Hollow.

If you like Nora Roberts, you will love her alter ego, J. D. Robb, and the Lieutenant Eve Dallas series of books. I absolutely love them.

[Ladytex]

Thanks, I'll have to check those out!

[nawlinsgal]

I'm reading Sugar Daddy by Lisa Kleypas right now..my daughter works at the Rite Aid Pharmacy and every 3 months they dump books which means they tear off the cover and throw them in the trash..so I get to go and grab myself a huge box of books whenever the time comes around. They are all the top books that came out during the past 3-6 months plus some romance novels thrown in too..so Sugar Daddy is from the box and the first book I grabbed when I closed my eyes and dug in to pick..I'm not buying any new books until Jackie Collins new book goes to paperback.



Entertaining chronicle of Liberty Jones's rise from the trailer park to life in a Texas mansion. The daughter of a Hispanic father (who dies during Liberty's childhood) and a white mother, Liberty pines for the hunky bad boy Hardy Cates while mom Diana has another daughter, Carrington, and scores the occasional windfall to keep the famil afloat. After Diana is killed in a traffic accident, Liberty raises Carrington, gets a beauty school scholarship and lands a gig at an exclusive Houston salon. There she meets investment mogul Churchill Travis, who takes a paternal shine to her. A horse-riding accident puts Churchill in a wheelchair, and he hires Liberty to be his personal assistant, with the catch that both sisters have to live with him. Churchill's oldest son, Gage, immediately distrusts Liberty, and their vicious bickering, as romance readers know, can lead to only one thing. Things get messy once Hardy, now rich, reappears and a Travis family secret is revealed. Though Liberty's plight and redemption are straight out of the soaps and the prose has its trite moments, Kleypas's many readers will root for Liberty, a fiery and likable underdog.

[Ladytex]

how lucky you are, nawlinsgal! I'd love to get a hold of those books! The one you're reading sounds good and trashy, lol ...

[songbird]

the last book i read Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

[steelerette]

Last night, I just finished reading Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber. It was pretty good. Not as good as her Cedar Cove series, in my opinion.

[Davis]

Nothing. :( Sadly enough, I am currently not reading any books. I am too addicted to the visual media that is Television, Movies, and best of all, TV FunSpot. :lol I don't even have enough time to research news and all that nonsense on the internet anymore.

[Jay]

One of my co-workers lent me "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel.

[Catt]

Just finished "Vixon 03" by Clive Cussler

And now reading "Bungalow 2" by Danielle Steel

[Acfan]

Just started with The Tipping Point.

[Ladytex]

Tomorrow, as soon as it's delivered, I'll be reading Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

[Riddle]

Tomorrow, as soon as it's delivered, I'll be reading Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

Speaking of that. My friend is at the book party right now and is standing in line for it at midnight. Crazy people for BOOKS. :lol

[Ladytex]

LOL, I don't do the standing in line thing .. I just pre-order from Amazon for Release Day Delivery

[Callie]

What's the book about Ladytex?

[Ladytex]

Hi Callie, it's the fourth book in the Twilight trilogy. It's about this high school girl that falls in love with a classmate that happens to be a vampire. Her best friend is a werewolf, who hates vampires.

[nyuguy]

I just started ... and am almost done with ... the Fellowship of the Rings

I've never read it before, or seen the movie b/c I refuse to watch a movie b4 I read the book. Better than I thought it was going to be. I give it an A- (which is a good grade for my scale, I'm really harsh with books....)

[toque]

Glad you're enjoying it nyuguy! They only get better and better. :)

I've never read the Terry Brooks Shannara series, so I'm giving them a go. And I'm reading "Underground to Canada" with the kids... as soon as hubby finishes one of the "Dear Canada" series books with them.

[Aaron]

Right Now I'm reading Odd Hours by Dean Koontz. And In my honest opinion, I think there's going to be a fifth one. I love the Odd Thomas series. Mainly for the endings since they're always so powerful.

[toque]

I've never read the Terry Brooks Shannara series

These are easy, fun reading books, but the most blatant rip off of The Lord of the Rings I have EVER read. There is a Gandalf character (Allanon) who comes give the hobbit characters, Frodo (Shea) and his stalwart sidekick Sam (Flick) the news that they need to escape immediately and he'll meet them elsewhere... there they discover they need to get a sword (the ring) and only Shea can wield the sword of power against the Dark Lord Brona (Saramon). They pass through forest with moving trees, have a couple of elves dwarves and men to help out the company and even have to go through a mountain pass (The Hall of Kings) where the dead do not allow the living to pass. :lol In there they met a creature of the abyss, and battled it. Oh, and at Paranor, Gandalf... I mean, Allanon, fought one of the dark winged creatures that have been tracking Shea (ringwraiths) and fell into a firey pit with it. He survives of course.

Just read a bit and Flick and Allanon are surveying the Dark Lord's kingdom. The sky is covered in dark clouds over his kingdom and it's starting to move as the Dark Lord's people are coming for war. Sound familiar? Flick just asked Allanon if there is any hope. :rofl

[Riddle]

So I should be reading my two summer reading books but I can't seem to get to them.

About a Boy
and
A thousands splendid suns

[alexandra]

I'm just about finished Fahrenheit 451, its a pretty good book and I recommend to anyone who likes dystopian novels.

[Jay]

I finished "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel last night. I didn't like the ending. Here is a review from Amazon.ca.

Product Description
Amazon.ca Canadian Essential
Yann Martel's second novel, Life of Pi, appeared in Canada in 2001 to enthusiastic reviews and moderate sales. A year later, it came out of nowhere to win the Booker Prize and became an international publishing phenomenon (and Amazon.ca's first blockbuster). In a wonderful display of storytelling verve, Martel takes a distinctly unpromising premise--a "story that will make you believe in God" about a boy trapped on a lifeboat with an enormous tiger--and pulls it off with complete and winning confidence.

Amazon.ca
Serious novels about young boys being drawn closer to God while trapped on lifeboats with dangerous wild animals ought to be impossible. Life of Pi, Yann Martel's second novel, proves they're not. Its plot stretches the limits of credibility into new and exciting shapes, and the fact that Martel has made his materials into an enchanting story is almost unbelievable. Martel's Pi is Piscine Molitor Patel, a boy from Pondicherry, one of the few Indian towns to be colonized by France. Pi is an intelligent, unusual child: he has a scientific turn of mind but is also a practising Hindu, Moslem, and Christian. Pi's family runs a large zoo, but they decide to sell their animals to zoos in the United States and emigrate to Canada. Crossing the Pacific (with their animals), they're shipwrecked halfway between China and Midway. Pi survives, only to find himself sharing a lifeboat with an injured zebra, a spotted hyena, an orangutan, and Richard Parker--an immense Bengal tiger.
Most of these animals are doomed, but Pi and Richard Parker cling to life, establishing a tacit order on the lifeboat. Martel handles this part of the story perfectly: one would expect Life of Pi to become cute, or perhaps preachy, but it is neither. Life on the boat proceeds in strict accordance with the rules of ecology and territorialism, and the interdependence of the passengers is both believable and absorbing. Life of Pi is a superb novel, both for its story and for its rich examinations of religion, isolation, and love. If this is an indication of what is to come, we can expect great things from Yann Martel. --Jack Illingworth

[OnMyLunchBreak]

I'm reading It' All Over but the Shouting: An Oral History by Jim Walsh - it's about the Replacements (who are one of the truly great bands of all time IMHO). The book is actually more of a collection of short anticdotes from the band themselves, the people that worked with them, their fans and people who didn't like them. Sort of a neat format and lots of great pictures if you are into early '80s, pre-grunge, bad-ass rock/punk at all. Which, seriously, how can you not be? ;-)

[Jay]

I'm reading "An Apple A Day" by Joe Schwarcz. The chapters are short and concise, between 7 to 12 pages each.

Book Description
Eat salmon. It's full of good omega-3 fats. Don't eat salmon. It's full of PCBs and mercury. Eat more veggies. They're full of good antioxidants. Don't eat more veggies. The pesticides will give you cancer.
Forget your dinner jacket and put on your lab coat: you have to be a nutritional scientist these days before you sit down to eat - which is why we need Dr. Joe Schwarcz, the expert who's famous for connecting chemistry to everyday life. In An Apple a Day, he's taken his thorough knowledge of food chemistry, applied it to today's top food fears, trends and questions, and leavened it with his trademark lighthearted approach. The result is both an entertaining revelation of the miracles of science happening in our bodies every time we bite into a morsel of food, and a telling exploration of the myths, claims and misconceptions surrounding our obsession with diets, nutrition and weight.

Looking first at how food affects our health, Dr. Joe examines what's in tomatoes, soy and broccoli that can keep us healthy and how the hundreds of compounds in a single food react when they hit our bodies. Then he investigates how we manipulate our food supply, delving into the science of food additives and what benefits we might realize from adding bacteria to certain foods. He clears up the confusion about contaminants, examining everything from pesticide residues, remnants of antibiotics, the dreaded trans fats and chemicals that may leach from cookware. And he takes a studied look at the science of calories and weighs in on popular diets.

An Apple a Day is a must-read book for anyone who looks forward to digesting the truth about what we eat.

About the Author
Joe Schwarcz is director of McGill University's Office for Science and Society. He teaches courses on nutrition and the applications of chemistry to everyday life. His informative and entertaining public lectures range from nutritional controversies to the chemistry of love. Schwarcz has received numerous awards, including the Royal Society of Canada's McNeil Award, and is the only non-American to win the American Chemical Society's prestigious Grady-Stack Award. He is the author of five titles, including Let Them Eat Flax. He was also the chief consultant for the blockbuster titles Foods That Harm, Foods That Heal and The Healing Power of Vitamins, Minerals and Herbs. A regular guest on Daily Planet, CBC, CTV and TVO, and the host of a weekly radio show on CFRB in Toronto and CJAD in Montreal, Schwarcz also writes a weekly column for The Gazette (Montreal). He lives in Montreal.

[Acfan]

Interesting Jay! Tell us what you discover please! :lol

[Miralia]

the book of lies by brad meltzer

here is a description from his website

In Chapter Four of the Bible, Cain kills Abel. It is the world's most famous murder. But the Bible is silent about one key detail: the weapon Cain used to kill his brother. That weapon is still lost to history.

In 1932, Mitchell Siegel was killed by three gunshots to his chest. While mourning, his son dreamed of a bulletproof man and created the world's greatest hero: Superman. And like Cain's murder weapon, the gun used in this unsolved murder has never been found.

[coksy]

I'm reading the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. Love it!! :up

[Aaron]

I'm reading: "The Seven People you Meet in Heaven." By Mitch Albom. After reading "Tuesdays with Morrie", I absolutely love his work. He has some very powerful passages and I am a huge fan of his officially.

[emmanewf]

Currently reading 4th book in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon called "Drums of Autumn". There are 6 (maybe 7?) books in the series, each one anywhere from 800 -1200 pages long... I will NEVER finish! Good thing they are interesting!

[Aaron]

Right now I'm reading Strangers by Dean Koontz.
Odd Thomas was absolutely wonderful

[Synnamin]

I am reading Catering To Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson

[Callie]

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

Soooooo amazingly good!

[nanaurey]

I am a suspense/thriller type book reader. Right now I am reading "Bones to
Ashes" by Kathy Reichs. I am about 1/2 done. It is pretty good but not one that I can't put down. Aaron, one of my favorite authors is Dean Koontz. Both books you mentioned were REALLY Good! I belong to an online Book Swap club that is really easy and all you pay is postage to whomever has requested the book. If anyone is interested give me a holler and I will send the website. :)

[Riddle]

I just finished two books within 2 days.

My heartbeat was meh.

The Geography Club. Amazing.

We were assigned a topic for english and must read books on that topic.

[Jay]

I made a deal with a friend at work. She is to read "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". I am to read "The Sword in the Stone" by Terence Hanbury White. I am about 25 pages into my book. My friend liked "Philosopher's Stone" so much, she now intends to read the entire HP series. :yay

[Callie]

I made a deal with a friend at work. She is to read "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". I am to read "The Sword in the Stone" by Terence Hanbury White. I am about 25 pages into my book. My friend liked "Philosopher's Stone" so much, she now intends to read the entire HP series. :yay

You're pretty good at getting people to do that! ;)

[Jay]

:lol

I am also trying to introduce HP to my neigbour's two young girls. Have you read any more HP novels, Callie?

[Riddle]

I am loving all the books I have been reading.

This one by far has hit all my emotions of Anger, happiness, Laughter, Sadness, Old Memories, Family. all of it.

I love it to death.

The perks of being a wallflower. :)

[Callie]

:lol

I am also trying to introduce HP to my neigbour's two young girls. Have you read any more HP novels, Callie?

All of them :love

[kungfuhippie]

Jay, you're a Harry Potter evangelist!

[GaGirl]

Im currently reading "Cell" by Stephen King





THERE'S A REASON CELL RHYMES WITH HELL

On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140,
most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine,
is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. Clay's feeling good about the future.

That changes in a hurry......

The cause of the devastation is
a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse,
And the delivery method is a cell phone.

EVERYONES CELL PHONE.

Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him
suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization's darkest age,
surrounded by chaos, carnage, and
a human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature...
and then begins to evolve.


There are one hundred and ninety three million cell phones in the United States alone.
Who doesnt have one?
Stephen King's utterly gripping, gory, and fascinating novel
doesnt just ask the question "Can you hear me now?"
It answers it with a vengeance.






It is really weird. Im LOVIN it!

I am planning to start the Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harrias,
the books responsible for the HBO Series "True Blood", when I finish this one.

[Jay]

Jay, you're a Harry Potter evangelist!I am! :lol

[GaGirl]

I own & have read ALL the Harry Potter books as well!
I love them! I hate that the series is ended!
I want MORE!

[OnMyLunchBreak]

Just finished Bad Dirt and Close Range, both by Annie Proulx. They are collections of short stories about the modern American West, specifically Wyoming. (Close Range contains the story Brokeback Mountain.)

Maybe it is because I grew up not far from the Colorado/Wyoming border but these stories really spoke to me and I cherished each one. I think, though, that Ms. Proulx's mastery of character and sense of place, done with simple, spartan language, is the key. Good reads if you are looking for something quick but interesting!

[Catt]

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

[Jay]

:yay

You will love that book, Catt.

[Catt]

I should have said I'm reading it again....it's been a long time and I don't remember all the details. And yes I did love it. :)

[Synnamin]

I am about to start An American Wife. I have heard nothing but good things about this novel so I am excited to read it.

[GaGirl]

http://www.listal.com/image/productsus/200/0441008534/books/-dead-until-dark-charlaine-harris.jpg


Dead Until Dark
(The first book in the Sookie Stackhouse series)
by Charlaine Harris

Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress
in small-town Louisiana.
Until the vampire of her dreams
walks into her life-
and one of her coworkers checks out....

Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend isn't such a bright idea.

A fun, fast, funny, and wonderfully intriguing blend of
vampire and mystery that's hard to put down,
and should not be missed. (Susan Sizemore)


I just finished this book, & Id highly recommend it!
I really enjoyed it.
These are the books
that the new HBO series,
"True Blood" is based off of.

Now Im starting a Duma Key by Stephen King

[nyuguy]

I'm reading 26 different books at once to prepare for my colloquium (a 2 hour conversation with 3 faculty members surrounding a topic and discusses the topics within your 26 books) Right now i'm on Plato's republic and Wilde's Picture of Dorian Grey

[Acfan]

I'm reading 26 different books at once

:eek

Good luck with your colloquium Nyu! I'm sure you'll rock it!

[Jay]

I made a deal with a co-worker and so I just went to Chapters and bought "Anna Karenina" by Tolstoy. :faint

[Catt]

WOW!! :eek A very ambitious read. Good luck.

[Jay]

I know! What was I thinking? My co-worker has to read all 7 Harry Potter books and I have to read Tolstoy. She has already finished 3. I haven't started yet. :shootme

[GaGirl]

Hey just curious......
Anyone up for a Harry Potter Trivia Chat Next?
(after Disney Movies that is)

I already have the questions & some are from the books ;)

[nyuguy]

I would hope all would be from the books! If so, I'm down!

[GaGirl]

If youve read the books you cant go wrong ;)

[Jay]

Great idea Ga! I'm in for HP trivia.

[OnMyLunchBreak]

I made a deal with a co-worker and so I just went to Chapters and bought "Anna Karenina" by Tolstoy. :faint

I liked the first half then the story just died for me...I don't think I ever actually finished it. One of my life goals is to read War and Peace - mabe once I retire. :lol

I'm reading The Orientalist right now. It describes some very interesting pre and post WWI history from the near east and Germany in relation to a Jewish author trying to pass himself off as a Muslim prince!

[toque]

That sounds interesting, Omlb!

I just read a book called Rover by JAckie French. My kids and I had gotten about half way through and I decided to finish it before I continued reading it to them. I'm glad I did! Though it's considered to be a children's book, it's pretty harsh material for kids... It seemed innocent enough; a girl and her dog that go on an adventure because they are kidnapped by vikings. But there are too many violent scenes of slaughter of the girls' village and rape... Later the vikings head for North America and one of the vikings groups take the North American native women and children captive and put them in cages because "they didn't bring women, so they took some to use." Ugh. I'll be talking to the library about having this shelved with children's books. My daughter who is 8, for example, could easily read it, but it's way too much for her in subject.

That said, I recommend it for older kids... 14 and up?, because it gives a solid realistic account of life was like for a viking and what it was like to be one of their slaves.

[Acfan]

Just done with Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

[Jptopmodel]

I just got finished reading "Nineteen Eighty-four" by George Orwell, and I must say one of the message boards I have been to is just like that book.

[Acfan]

Just done with Book 3 of Twilight. On to book 4. It's really addicting!

[GaGirl]

Im currently reading book 3 in the Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire Mystery series! By Charlaine Harris
Loving this series too!! I suggest them to anyone who is enjoying the True Blood series on HBO.

[coksy]

Just done with Book 3 of Twilight. On to book 4. It's really addicting!

Book 4 was my favorite of the entire series!!!! I'm sure you'll love it. :)

Im currently reading book 3 in the Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire Mystery series! By Charlaine Harris
Loving this series too!! I suggest them to anyone who is enjoying the True Blood series on HBO.

Sounds interesting. I might check this series next. But not for a while though.

I'm currently reading the second book out of seven of the Rachel Morgan series (also known as The Hollows), by Kim Harrison. It is set during our time, but in an alternate reality where witches, vampires, werewolves, pixies and other such creatures coexist with humans. I find it extremely interesting. :up

[TvTwin]

I'm reading the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer

[Synnamin]

I am not going to say because you people will laugh at me!!!

[Hal]

Wilde's Picture of Dorian Grey

That's one of the only books I liked in high school. :yay

[Hal]

I am not going to say because you people will laugh at me!!!

Aww come on :( I submitted a video to save the polar bears in Antarctica, admitted that I weighed 331 pounds last May, and constantly make a fool of myself on this site. And they LOVE me! :D... Well except AcFan who insists on keeping that IM log from Project Delta... if you are currently reading that IM log, I promise not to laugh... maybe cry... but not laugh... :(

[Davis]

Yeah Synnamin, don't worry about everyone laughing at you, because they are already laughing at me:

:lol I admitted to reading and loving the book called "Stuff White People Like"!!

[Synnamin]

Okay,okay, once a year sometime in December I pull out a series of books. I have been reading them since I was 15 and bedridden with really bad asthma and it's become a tradition. Are you ready???? I am reading "Seeds of Yesterday" by V.C. Andrews. It's the final book in the "Flowers in the Attic" series. I always read the prequel first.
Yes, her books are trashy and I make up for it by reading real lit but every once in awhile I pull out a V.C. Book. Now I don't read the latter ones that have been written in the last 10 years or so and I do know that she herself was dead so she did not write the conclusion to many of her series but still I can't help myself!
Heck I am such a reader that I will pull out many books from my youth and re read them. My only issues is that I have to read certain books at certain times of the year. Now you all know my terrible secret and can laugh at me!:blush

[Synnamin]

Live From New York. It's a book about the history of Saturday Night Live

[Synnamin]

13 Reasons Why. It's a YA book but it was recomended by Amazon and it's really good.

[Hal]

Synnamin, you must be either crazy smart or super woman. There's no way I could read a whole book a day :eek

[Synnamin]

I actually do read a book a day when I get in my crazy book reading mood but I must confess I didn't finish Live From New York. I had read it before and when my books arrived from Amazon I started on the new one last night around 7. I am just about done with it and am hoping to start Wake tonight sometime. If I like Wake I am going to by the sequel on the tenth of Feb.

[kungfuhippie]

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By John Hodgman, Daily Show "expert" and PC from "I'm a Mac" ad campaign. Hilarious. Crying-from-laughing-hysterical.

[Bambi]

I believe Synn. I can read a book in one day also if it holds my attention. Most of Stephen Kings books, I've read in one day. His longer books like the Stand and It, took me two days. When I start a book that hooks me immediatly, I just can't stop reading!

I'm reading "Australia for Dummies" right now. To get prepared for my daughter being there for 4 weeks!!

[Hal]

I've read Carrie and Cujo by Stephen King in Highschool, it's really some of the only few books I've ever read for fun, but it took me atleast a week to a month to read each. I also started Langoliers by him as well in this "Four Past Midnight" Series he had, Junior year of high school. But I never finished it. I bought it to read the book version of "Secret Window"

[Synnamin]

Bambi.Hal, I love the old Stephan King books like The Stand and It. I think the last really good book he wrote was Bag Of Bones. I do like his short story books though. I kinda feel the same about Anne Rice. i love her old books.

I finished Wake. It was pretty good but it seemd more like a pilot for a TV show. It set up the next set books really. Right now I am reading "An Ice Cold Grave" by Charlain Harris. As you know she wrote all the Sookie books. This is a new series with only three books. I have only read the second book and this one but I like the main character Harper a lot. She was srtuck by lightening when she was fifteen and she is able to tell how someone died and to find bodies. It's really good.

[nanaurey]

It is very easy for me to read a book a day also, if I'm feeling well. I love to read and think I have read all of Stephen King's books. He is one of my favorite authors, but I have been branching out seeking new Authors and have found several I love. Right now I am reading "Final Sins" by Michael Prescott. It is a great thriller/suspense book. I think this is about my 3rd day reading it but it is just because I have not been feeling well so sleeping a lot. :) I will have to try reading Charlain Harris books Synnamin because you made it sound so good.

[Jay]

Sigh, I wish I could read as fast as all of you. I am only 1/4 into "Anna Karenina".

[spikeman]

I am a pretty fast reader too when i get into a book a finished the last harry potter in a day (literly the whole day though :lol) but just finished reading the city of amber for the second time yesterday (cant wait to see the movie) and finished throwing stones today throwing stones is a great book if you like sports its about an indiana basketball team in 1924 and the main characters brother died in ww1 so hes trying to make his parents feel better by trying to lead his high school team to the state championship hes a freshman in the book it by Kristi Collier its a great read :)

[Synnamin]

Nana~I think you will really like them. They are different.

[nanaurey]

Thanks Synnamin, I am going to go online to our branch library and have some held for me. Any you can suggest to start with?? Would appreciate the heads up. :)
Spike, you are just like your nana and love to read, I am very happy about that. I think I got you started on the Harry Potter Books before you were reading. I know we got them on tape so you could listen to them when you came and stayed with us.

[MaxxFisher]

I just finished reading books 4-7 of the True Blood books. We just got them last Wednesday

[Synnamin]

Nana*~If you want to start with the Harper Connelly series the first book in that is "Grave Sight" I have never read that one yet. I started with the second book "Grave Surprise". It's the only one our library has!

[nanaurey]

Thanks again Syn! I got all 3 of the books today from the library and have the 1st one 1/2 read already. lol It is really good and I love the 2 main people....Harper and Tolliver. I hope to start the 2nd one tomorrow. :)

[Synnamin]

Yay! I am glad you are enjoying them!

[actr]

colbert i am america and so are you

[alexandra]

Right now I am reading one of Ellen degeneres books called The Funny Thing is...

[Bond Girl IT]

I'm reading a book called "The Last Days of Dogtown" by Anita Diamant. It's a pretty good book, so far. I'm only on the second page.

[Synnamin]

I am reading Dead As A Doornail it's the 5th Sookie Stackhouse book.

[Callie]

I'm currently reading "They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan"

From Publishers Weekly:
"Raised by Sudan's Dinka tribe, the Deng brothers and their cousin Benjamin were all under the age of seven when they left their homes after terrifying attacks on their villages during the Sudanese civil war. In 2001, the three were relocated to the U.S. from Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp as part of an international refugee relief program. Arriving in this country, they immediately began to fill composition books with the memoirs of chaos and culture shock collected here. Well written, often poetic essays by Benson, Alepho and Benjamin, who are now San Diego residents in their mid-20s, are arranged in alternating chapters and recall their childhood experiences, their treacherous trek and their education in the camp ("People were learning under trees"). Other pieces remember the rampant disease and famine among refugees, and the tremendous hardship of day-to-day living ("Refugee life was like being devoured by wild animals"). When the boys arrived in America, Benson, upon seeing a Wal-Mart for the first time, remarked, "This is like a king's palace." Although some readers may wish for more commentary on what life in America is like for these transplants, this collection is moving in its depictions of unbelievable courage."

[Jay]

Sounds interesting Callie, unfortunately I can't start any more books. :( I already have 3 in progress.

[cricket]

I'm reading Good Grief by Lolly Winston

About a young widow and it is really quite funny considering the topic!

I love reading and have many, many books on my need to read list.

[cricket]

I'm reading a book called "The Last Days of Dogtown" by Anita Diamant. It's a pretty good book, so far. I'm only on the second page.

:rofl Let me know how the third page is!!!

[Bond Girl IT]

:rofl Let me know how the third page is!!!

Definitely! :up

[RebelOne]

I am reading Breaking Dawn, I will most likely finish it tomorrow so I will need to get another book for Sunday.

[BlueInk]

I am currently reading Barbara Walters Memoir, Audtion. I had viewed the Oprah show that she was a guest on regarding the book. She really has had an amazing career. I am about half way through the book. Currently, at the part with her torrid little affair with a married man, who happened to be of a different race, when that was not cool. That Barbara, she does not disappoint!

[toque]

Blue Ink, I'm not usually one to read memoirs, but that book looks really interesting. I watched an interview with her on The Hour with George Stroumboulopolis and now I really want to read it.

And :welcome2 to the Funspot!

[BlueInk]

Blue Ink, I'm not usually one to read memoirs, but that book looks really interesting. I watched an interview with her on The Hour with George Stroumboulopolis and now I really want to read it.

And :welcome2 to the Funspot!


Thanks, for the welcome! It really is an interesting book. Barbara, really was a pioneer in her field. She has had some interesting interviews. She also gives her opinion on the folks that she has interviewed. It is a good read. I recommend it!

[Synnamin]

I am just about done with Definitley Dead by Charlain Harris.

[Synnamin]

I can't remember the name of the Charlain Harris Sookie book I am reading but it's the second to last! lol!

[nanaurey]

Right now I am back to reading James Patterson. I thought I had read every one of his books, but so far have missed 2. I just finished "Roses are Red" and now reading the sequel "Violets are Blue". Don't know how I let those 2 get past me. :) Thanks to you Syn, Charlain Harris is now one of my favorite authors!

[Synnamin]

Yay nana! Glad you enjoyed her.:) I like James Patterson but I have to say I have not read a new novel by him in years.

[Acfan]

Not yet started, but I just got myself a complete set of Agatha Christie books, granted on ebook, but still. I get to read all the books I couldn't find before!! :woo

[nanaurey]

Acfan, which e-book reader do you have? My sister got the "Kindle" from Amazon for Christmas and she loves it. I am asking for one for my birthday! LOL Hers is really cool! :)

[Jay]

What's a Kindle?

[Synnamin]

AC~I am an Agatha Christie fan! One of my faves is Then There Were None (Also known as Ten Little Indians)

[Acfan]

Jay, a Kindle (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00154JDAI). :love Unfortunately, last time I checked, it's not available outside US. :(

I just have my ebook on my pc Nana and use Adobe and Microsoft readers.

Syn, my favorite's Death in the Nile. As I look at the list, I think the book that got me hooked was The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. I'm not 100% positive since it was a long time ago. Will be rereading it soon to find out :D

[nanaurey]

Acfan, where did you get your e-book online? As far as the books go do they have a good selection to choose from? Also, thanks for answering Jay's question, I was going to but just got on now and it had been answered. :)