Post a book you're reading

Post Reply New Topic

some Rumi..I love Rumi.He's my best friend I hope to meet someday.

When you've finished it, you should read Illuminatus! to get your sanity back. And there's not many times that can be said.
(aside - I listened to 2112 for the first time in a very long time the other day - first time I'd heard it since reading AS - ye Gods and little piglets! I always did want to join the Temple of Syrinx and play with computers. )

Finished To Hell and Back, which was very good - now on to Leviathan (Scott Westerfeld) which is a children's book about a steampunk Great War. The setting is unoriginal but well-realised, the plot is an acceptable shade of mediocre and the pictures are good, but the profanity filter on the text is atrocious, all swearing Bowdlerised into tragically "funny" phrases; loada frakkin' hraka. Really kills it, sadly.

I am re-reading The Dice Man. The first few chapters of it make me think it's actually better than I remember it, and I remember it being awesome.

"Calvin and Hobbes - Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat"

Brilliant book so far.

Right now, I'm reading The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. I think it's pretty good. So far, The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock is my favorite. It makes me think of a lovelorn man, driven to death by love (hearing "mermaids singing", he jumped into the harbor, therfore killing himself), which is the kind of tragedy that I like. Tragedies involving madness or a lovelorn man...

I'm also planning to read 5 or 6 other books, but I don't know what they are, as I'm getting them at a book fair.

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens and Matter by Iain M. Banks.

Inferno by Dante, and going to read Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, both for school.

For leisure reading, I am actually looking for some history/historical related novels, does anyone have any books that they have loved that they would like to share?

The Losers volume 1 and 2 Pretty good but not normally my sort of thing.

Secret Six: Unhinged Lived up to my expectations of it. Kinda gruesome at times though.

I thought I could try a little Michael Crichton, so I had my mother order Jurassic Park for Christmas. Anxious to see what it was like, I checked it out from the school library. Despite the lack of serious characterization and some dated science (*cough*scaly velociraptors), the book is a real page-turner!

Finished Leviathan (as per above), and despite its predictability and the annoying language filter I'll get the next one. Now reading Vampire Invaders: Choose Your Own Adventure 118 it is exactly as bad as it sounds. I remember the CYOA series with great nostalgia. Next up The Hound of Ulster, Rosemary Sutcliff. Should be a step up. I liked The Eagle of the Ninth and its sequels.

The Hound of Ulster was good, very readable retelling. Then Dragon Slayer (also Rosemary Sutcliff), the same for Beowulf. Beowulf isn't as interesting a story, though the bit with the sleeping dragon is strangely familiar. At any rate, still better than the horrifically bad animated version that was on telly last night, yikes. Then Empty World, John Christopher, a somewhat-cosy catastrophe 'bout uberplague megadecimating the world. It finished abruptly and without resolution, hum ho.

Next up, I dunno, got some terribly worthy candidates (Animal Farm, Ivan Denisovich, something about growing up Jewish in Nazi Germany, that sort of thing) and a bazillion Le Carrés still to go.

Night Flight, St. X. In translation, I fear. S'alright.

I've been doing my book-reading blog lately, and I have found four books that are worthy of a 10/10 score so far, out of...has to be over a hundred books read and reviewed over the past year and a half in three separate book-reading blogs.

They are:

*Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling

*I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett

*Monster, volume 4 by Naoki Urasawa

*Doctor Who: The Ancestor Cell by Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole


And other books that I have ranked highly (9/10 or higher) over the past year and a half include:

*The rest of the Monster manga series by Naoki Urasawa

*Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

*The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

*The Vorkosigan Saga books by Lois McMaster Bujold

*Mogworld by Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw

*Bleak House by Charles Dickens

*Wild Cards book 1, edited by George RR Martin

*House of Cards by Michael Dobbs

*Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling

*Doctor Who: Beautiful Chaos by Gary Russell

*Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale, The Final Chapter by Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook

Marie Antoinette biography and journals of Sylvia Plath.

I'm reading Beyond the Personality by the Implicate Technology Centre. It looks like something published by a cult, but is actually a rather brilliant secular guide to enlightenment.