What Are You Reading Lately ?

[JABBATHERIDGE]

Currently I'm reading the new James Patterson thriller novel The 6th Target from the Women's Murder Club series.

I'm planning to buy the new volume of Essential Spider-Man from Marvel though and a load of other Spidey graphic novels

 

[KitFisto]

The Hobbit.

 

[shaun-o]

"Children of Hurin" and after that the new Chuck Palahniuk book "Rant" comes out on Tuesday.

 

[PosterBoyKelly]

Barefoot Gen, sad and addictive. If you want to know what it was like from the POV of an innocent victim of the atom bomb, it's a must, regardless of your political stance on anything.

 

[Agent0028]

Um, how far back are we going? I just finished Jack DuBrul's Charon's Landing last night and started Jasper Fforde's The Fourth Bear: A Nursury Crime. The other books I've read in the last couple weeks are Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz, Storm Front by Jim Butcher, Raising Atlantis by Thomas Greanias, and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters. As for Graphic novels I started The Long Halloween yesterday, and Ultimate Fantastic Four: God War before that. I also bought Ms. Marvel: Best of the Best, and Captain America: Red Menace which I'll be getting to sometime in the next week or so while I have some time off school. And then there's all my textbooks and the DSM, but you don't really want to know all those.

 

[gbtv01]

Stephen King's The Shining

 

[pixletwin]

The Brothers Karamazov is one of my all-time favorite books. I actually just finished Gogol's Dead Souls. Thats a good one too.

 

[Boba Fett]

A stack of comic books on my coffee table.

 

[KrisSolo]

Being dyslexic, I've adopted the stance that reading rots your mind. Watching TV, it's fundamental!

Dude, I'm blind, literally. If I can still manage to read (albeit a little slower than most... ) you have no excuses...

 

[hairlesswookiee]

"Children of Hurin" and after that the new Chuck Palahniuk book "Rant" comes out on Tuesday.

got that one on preorder!!!

 

[Alice Adrenochrome]

Barefoot Gen, sad and addictive. If you want to know what it was like from the POV of an innocent victim of the atom bomb, it's a must, regardless of your political stance on anything.

I read the first 2 parts of the Manga trilogy like 5 or 6 years ago, and it really got to me. I'll never forget that. Still couldn't get my hands on the last part though. Hard to get here in EU.

 

[Wetanut]

Just recently finished the Tremeraire trilogy and His Dark Materials trilogy (which has the Golden Compass -- movie to be released in December). Have started re-reading the HP series in prep for the #7 in July.

 

[JABBATHERIDGE]

I really feel sorry for people who can't or choose not to read and I'm not saying that in a condescending way.

My G/F whom I love dearly, doesn't really get the whole reading thing and although she loves movies and TV and is a well educated woman, never reads for pleasure, which is something I just don't understand.

I guess because her mom is blind she may never have seen her parents read novels when she was growing up or something.

Personally if I lost my sight (god forbid) one of the things I'd miss the most is being able to read graphic novels and books.

I'd have to get the audio CD's.

 

[Darthrazz]

This thread.


Seriously, just got done with HYPERION... Creepy stuff.

 

[Darth Caedus]

Stephen King's The Shining

That's one wacky ass book. Never really been freaked out by a book, but that did it. You should read IT after that, for the total freaky package.

Currently I'm just reading school textbooks Hopefully when school lets out I'm going to go for Children of Hurin.

 

[PosterBoyKelly]

I read the first 2 parts of the Manga trilogy like 5 or 6 years ago, and it really got to me. I'll never forget that. Still couldn't get my hands on the last part though. Hard to get here in EU.

Actually there are 10 parts! I think, in English, there are only 6 parts translated. Last Gasp was putting it out, but I think something happened and they were stopped from putting out the last chunk, I really don't know the details. Anyway, really good read.

 

[Batty]

I really feel sorry for people who can't or choose not to read and I'm not saying that in a condescending way.

My G/F whom I love dearly, doesn't really get the whole reading thing and although she loves movies and TV and is a well educated woman, never reads for pleasure, which is something I just don't understand.

I totally understand what you're saying. I have some friends who never read books. I always feel like they're missing out on something.

I give credit to one book for giving me my love of reading - Ben Bova's Exiled From Earth. I read it back around 1975 when I was a kid. I loved it and was hooked from that point on.

And my parents always encouraged me to read. We were going to book stores all the time.

 

[DarkArtist81]

I'm reading a few books at the moment.... Outbound Flight by Timothy Zahn, The Drawing of the Three by Steven King, and Choke by Chuck Palahniuk.

Been reading the last two for a while now, off and on...

And I agree Batty... Wish more people read novels. I have to credit Heir to the Empire and Jurassic Park for getting me hooked.

 

[carbo-fation]

Um, how far back are we going? I just finished Jack DuBrul's Charon's Landing last night and started Jasper Fforde's The Fourth Bear: A Nursury Crime. The other books I've read in the last couple weeks are Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz, Storm Front by Jim Butcher, Raising Atlantis by Thomas Greanias, and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters. As for Graphic novels I started The Long Halloween yesterday, and Ultimate Fantastic Four: God War before that. I also bought Ms. Marvel: Best of the Best, and Captain America: Red Menace which I'll be getting to sometime in the next week or so while I have some time off school. And then there's all my textbooks and the DSM, but you don't really want to know all those.

That's a huge list! Which one of these would you recommend? And could you also mention what kind of genre these books belong to? Thanks.

 

[Kabukiman]

Star Trek Enterprise: The Good That Men Do