What are you reading right now?

adidasss · 07-30-2008, 03:05 AM

The wizard of Earthsea - Usula K. Le Guin

Some light fantasy reading. Me likes fantasy.

savannah · 07-30-2008, 10:00 PM

currently i have goin:

cold mountain by charles frazer
a walk in the woods : rediscovering america on the appalachian trail
he's just not that into you

SATCHMO · 07-31-2008, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by wolverinewolfweiselpigeon

Just started The DaVinci Code. Is it as good as I am hoping?

Its a really fun book as long as you continue to remind yourself that its fiction and you don't get caught up in all the conspiracy theories.

adidasss · 07-31-2008, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

The wizard of Earthsea - Usula K. Le Guin

Some light fantasy reading. Me likes fantasy.

Well that was a fun read. A little short maybe but very well done. (: I have the next book in the series but have decided to mix it up a little by starting The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay, the Pulitzer winning novel from the author of Wonder boys (which was made into a movie with Michael Douglas and Tom Cruise's wife whose name escapes me), Michael Chabon.

lucifer_sam · 08-01-2008, 11:22 PM

Ah, I'm rereading Lord of the Rings. The last time I hadn't seen the movies, and now that I think about it, it befuddles me how well they follow the books.

adidasss · 08-02-2008, 05:39 AM

Um...yeah, apart from the whole Aragorn and Arwen fiasco...:|

jackhammer · 08-05-2008, 02:01 PM

Jeffery Archer-A Prison Diary Volume One : Hell.

anticipation · 08-07-2008, 12:38 PM

I'm reading On The Road by Jack Kerouac for school, and for pleasure it's been The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem and The Eye of The Sybyl by Phillip K. ****.

right-track · 08-07-2008, 01:03 PM

Not reading anything at the moment, but have for the hols a choice between;

Pies and Prejudice (In Search of the North) by Stuart Maconie.
'My name is Stuart Maconie, and I am from the North Of England. Some time ago, I was standing in my kitchen, rustling up a Sunday brunch for some very hungover, very Northern mates who were 'down' for the weekend. One of them was helping me out and, recipe book in hand, asked "where are the sun-dried tomatoes?" "They're behind the cappuccino maker," I replied. Silence fell. We slowly met each other's gaze. We did not say anything. We did not need to. Each read the other's unspoken thought: we had become those kinds of people, the kind of people who had sun-dried tomatoes and cappuccino makers, the kind of people who did Sunday brunch. In other words: southerners.' A northerner in exile, stateless and confused, hearing rumours of Harvey Nichols in Leeds and Maseratis in Wilmslow, Stuart goes in search of The North. Delving into his own past, it is a riotously funny journey in search of where the cliches end and the truth begins.

He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower, the Bigg Market in Newcastle to the daffodil-laden Lake District in search of his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of Scousers, Scallies, pie-eating Woolly-backs, topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, Yorkshire nationalists and brothers in southern exile.

United States of Hysteria by Anne Dixey
Ever wondered what it would be like to live the American dream? When British writer Anne Dixey moves to the States with her young family, she's looking forward to a new life in the nation's capital. Behind the white picket fences of suburbia, the sun always shines, perfect soccer moms bake endless cookies and everyone has a God. But beneath the surface, she finds a strange, alien country, terrorised after 9/11 and living in fear of anthrax scares, school shootings and random murder.

This is her fascinating, moving and funny story of an outsider in America during extraordinary times.

Renegade (The lives and times of Marc E Smith)
Self explanatory.

or,

John Peel (A life in music)
...again.

jackhammer · 08-07-2008, 01:51 PM

Stuart Maconie for sure. Noice.

07-30-2008, 03:05 AM	#561 (permalink)
adidasss Slavic gay sauce Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Abu Dhabi Posts: 7,993	The wizard of Earthsea - Usula K. Le Guin Some light fantasy reading. Me likes fantasy. __________________ “Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle. Last.fm

07-30-2008, 10:00 PM	#562 (permalink)
savannah afrocentric Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: texas Posts: 753	currently i have goin: cold mountain by charles frazer a walk in the woods : rediscovering america on the appalachian trail he's just not that into you __________________ i changed my mind; i changed my mind;now i'm feeling different all that time, wasted i wish i was a little more delicate i wish my i wish my i wish my i wish my i wish my name was clementine - sarah jaffe

08-01-2008, 11:22 PM	#565 (permalink)
lucifer_sam Unrepentant Ass-Mod Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3,921	Ah, I'm rereading Lord of the Rings. The last time I hadn't seen the movies, and now that I think about it, it befuddles me how well they follow the books. __________________ first.am

08-02-2008, 05:39 AM	#566 (permalink)
adidasss Slavic gay sauce Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Abu Dhabi Posts: 7,993	Um...yeah, apart from the whole Aragorn and Arwen fiasco...:\| __________________ “Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle. Last.fm

08-05-2008, 02:01 PM	#567 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Jeffery Archer-A Prison Diary Volume One : Hell. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

08-07-2008, 12:38 PM	#568 (permalink)
anticipation Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 3,565	I'm reading On The Road by Jack Kerouac for school, and for pleasure it's been The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem and The Eye of The Sybyl by Phillip K. ****.

08-07-2008, 01:03 PM	#569 (permalink)
right-track Atchin' Akai Join Date: May 2005 Location: Unamerica Posts: 8,723	Not reading anything at the moment, but have for the hols a choice between; Pies and Prejudice (In Search of the North) by Stuart Maconie. 'My name is Stuart Maconie, and I am from the North Of England. Some time ago, I was standing in my kitchen, rustling up a Sunday brunch for some very hungover, very Northern mates who were 'down' for the weekend. One of them was helping me out and, recipe book in hand, asked "where are the sun-dried tomatoes?" "They're behind the cappuccino maker," I replied. Silence fell. We slowly met each other's gaze. We did not say anything. We did not need to. Each read the other's unspoken thought: we had become those kinds of people, the kind of people who had sun-dried tomatoes and cappuccino makers, the kind of people who did Sunday brunch. In other words: southerners.' A northerner in exile, stateless and confused, hearing rumours of Harvey Nichols in Leeds and Maseratis in Wilmslow, Stuart goes in search of The North. Delving into his own past, it is a riotously funny journey in search of where the cliches end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower, the Bigg Market in Newcastle to the daffodil-laden Lake District in search of his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of Scousers, Scallies, pie-eating Woolly-backs, topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, Yorkshire nationalists and brothers in southern exile. United States of Hysteria by Anne Dixey Ever wondered what it would be like to live the American dream? When British writer Anne Dixey moves to the States with her young family, she's looking forward to a new life in the nation's capital. Behind the white picket fences of suburbia, the sun always shines, perfect soccer moms bake endless cookies and everyone has a God. But beneath the surface, she finds a strange, alien country, terrorised after 9/11 and living in fear of anthrax scares, school shootings and random murder. This is her fascinating, moving and funny story of an outsider in America during extraordinary times. Renegade (The lives and times of Marc E Smith) Self explanatory. or, John Peel (A life in music) ...again.

08-07-2008, 01:51 PM	#570 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Stuart Maconie for sure. Noice. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”