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Anyone reading any good books? I just finished Animal Farm by George Orwell. (I'm a big fan of Orwell.)

War and Peace. Normally I love reading but this one is killing me. And I have this stupid rule: f I start a book, I can't start a different one until I finish the first. I doomed myself with that one.

Sailor Destron wrote:Anyone reading any good books? I just finished Animal Farm by George Orwell. (I'm a big fan of Orwell.)

I love Animal Farm. Some kids I know hate that book though. Right now, I'm reading "To Kill a Mockingbird".

Trying to get through Nuklear Age by Brian Clevinger for I think the third time.

I'm getting F. Paul Wilson's latest Repairman Jack book from the library today. It's on hold.

Cheetron wrote:War and Peace. Normally I love reading but this one is killing me. And I have this stupid rule: f I start a book, I can't start a different one until I finish the first. I doomed myself with that one.

Oh MAN I know what you're saying. The only book I never finished was back in high school when we had to read _Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_. F***ing Stephen Daedalus and his obtuse pretentiousness. Mind you, I'd made it through _Moby Dick_ and lived to tell, but I could NOT do Joyce.

In grad school I took a whole course in modernist literature as an act of penance. Forced through both _Ulysses_ and _Finnegan's Wake_.

No 'fun' reading right now: have two medieval/masculinity books to read I need to write reviews for. Dammit--where's a 'vomit' emoticon when you need one?!

HK

I'm currently reading a pdf translation of Full Metal Panic: The End of Day by Day part 2. I would wait for Tokyopop to release their translation if it wasnt for the fact that their release has dissappeared from all release lists for no apparent reason .

I don't know what I'll read after that maybe The Bourne Identity (which the film only shares the charachters and the title).

hellkitty wrote:

Cheetron wrote:War and Peace. Normally I love reading but this one is killing me. And I have this stupid rule: f I start a book, I can't start a different one until I finish the first. I doomed myself with that one.

Oh MAN I know what you're saying. The only book I never finished was back in high school when we had to read _Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_. F***ing Stephen Daedalus and his obtuse pretentiousness. Mind you, I'd made it through _Moby Dick_ and lived to tell, but I could NOT do Joyce.

In grad school I took a whole course in modernist literature as an act of penance. Forced through both _Ulysses_ and _Finnegan's Wake_.

No 'fun' reading right now: have two medieval/masculinity books to read I need to write reviews for. Dammit--where's a 'vomit' emoticon when you need one?!

HK

I really really hate to say this but I had a better time trudging through Walden by Thoreau. I'm just glad I don't have to back there again.

sniper_samurai wrote:
I don't know what I'll read after that maybe The Bourne Identity (which the film only shares the charachters and the title).

The Bourne Identity is a good book. I liked it better than the movie.

I'm reading a fantasy novel by Lawrence Watt-Evans, called Dragon Weather. it's my all time favorite novel, this is my 4th read through. If you have the chance to read it, do so. You will not be disappointed.

Sailor Destron wrote:Anyone reading any good books? I just finished Animal Farm by George Orwell. (I'm a big fan of Orwell.)

I've seen the cartoon, it was good, didn't read it as book yet.

At the moment I'm reading Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka, it's not bad for one of the earliest SW novels, but not too great for nowadays SW standard.

Just started the book 1 of the Bounty Hunter Wars: The Mandalorian Armor. Came real close to stopping when I first picked it up but it won me over after a second shot at it. Really enjoying it now.

I'm trying to break into reading Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien. It's as hard to get into as it was when I read The Silmarillion and Lord of the Rings.

I really need to read another book. The last book I read was Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling by Bret Hart last year. Such a great book though.

I probably won't read another one until I find one of Bobby Heenan's books

Currently i am steaming my way through Star wars new jedi order Vector prime by R.A. Salvatore its the first apperance of the Yuuzhan Vong and i gotta say its a good book very interesting then after that i have just got myself the Darth bane Rule of two by Drew Karpyshyn read the first one hope this one holds up

Currently I am reading The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett, being a discworld fan & all.

I recommend reading the Zombie Survival Guide. I know its name has gone around a few times, but it really is worth it. I haven't gotten to World War Z yet.

omega wing wrote:Currently i am steaming my way through Star wars new jedi order Vector prime by R.A. Salvatore its the first apperance of the Yuuzhan Vong and i gotta say its a good book very interesting then after that i have just got myself the Darth bane Rule of two by Drew Karpyshyn read the first one hope this one holds up

That one is good. I recently just finished the New Jedi Order series and really enjoyed it.

Boba the Fett wrote:

omega wing wrote:Currently i am steaming my way through Star wars new jedi order Vector prime by R.A. Salvatore its the first apperance of the Yuuzhan Vong and i gotta say its a good book very interesting then after that i have just got myself the Darth bane Rule of two by Drew Karpyshyn read the first one hope this one holds up

That one is good. I recently just finished the New Jedi Order series and really enjoyed it.

Ditto. It was a very good series; I just ordered the Swarm War trilogy, and plan on continuing with the Legacy of the Force after that.

Hey SD! I been readin a couple books.

In school we just finnished a book called Running out of Time. I recomend it!

At home I'm just Skimming through Sam Walton's Made in America, but am Reading Twilight. It's actualy quite decent.

Not so much what I'm reading right now, but a couple "big name" recommendations here.

Although Dean Koontz's stuff is usaully too formulaic and the love themes too sugary for me to truly be entertained, The Taking was actually quite good. Quite good in fact that I don't remember ever wanting to read a book so much aside from the Zombie Survival Guide.

Stephen King's Dreamcatcher was quite good, too. I'm not usually a forget-the-movie-read-the-book type of guy, but forget the movie. Read the book.

About 24 assorted history books for my capstone big@$$ paper.

Halo wrote:About 24 assorted history books for my capstone big@$$ paper.

And what is the topic of said capstone biga** paper?

Curiosity killed the hellkitty.

HK

I'm finishing Raymond E. Feist's Silverthorn, a reread from my teen years. I also just finished The Celestine Prophecy, although I still need to finish writing my reaction to it (I keep a writing journal for particular works.)

I also recently finished rereading Good Omens (best writing team 3\/4R!)

And at one point a few weeks ago, I was in the middle of all three of these books, plus a fourth!

I forgot to mention that I;m in the middle of teaching The Canterbury Tales, too: Prologue, Nun's Priest's, Pardoner's, and Wife of Bath's tales.

Lorekeeper wrote:I'm finishing Raymond E. Feist's Silverthorn, a reread from my teen years. I also just finished The Celestine Prophecy, although I still need to finish writing my reaction to it (I keep a writing journal for particular works.)

I started doing this last year. I wrote every book I read for fun, and a paragraph or two of what I thought about it. I initially just wanted to track exactly how much reading I did, but it's interesting to track the phases I've gone through--sometimes I feel like non-fiction, sometimes only a pulpy Mike Hammer type novel will do. It's not 'deep' like yours probably is, but it's kinda fun.

Also because I don't have any friends to have a real reading group with. I suck.

I forgot to mention that I;m in the middle of teaching The Canterbury Tales, too: Prologue, Nun's Priest's, Pardoner's, and Wife of Bath's tales.

What?! How can you pass up all those fart jokes in the Miller's Tale?

I'm teaching Chretien's Arthurian Romances. I used to teach a fantasy novel (Lian Hearn's Across the Nightingale Floor) but I went into a snit last Fall about teaching college students with a frickin' YOUNG ADULT title like they're too stupid to handle like, y'know, real words.

HK, apparently, I misjudged them.