What are you reading right now?

Inuzuka Skysword · 10-25-2008, 07:10 PM

Yeah, I never understood the hype of any of those Harry Potter, Twilight Series stuff. They need to get kids to read the classics young so that they don't waste their time on that stuff.

Duke Of Slander · 10-25-2008, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by sleepy jack

No I'd definitely say it was absolute trash. It was like an even shallower harry potter without the wands and with even less in-depth characters.

Thank you. There was no depth to those characters at all.

And right now I'm rereading Vonnegut's Galapagos.

Wifey Boozer · 10-25-2008, 07:41 PM

I never got into any of the "magic" series. I always thought they were really stupid, and everyone condemned me for this in elementary and middle school. Then this past summer I was in this little, private owned bookstore checking out some Ogden Nash they had on the porch... and I went in to pay for it, and a 50 year old woman was talking about how much she loved the Twilight series as she was checking out with Eclipse or whatever it's called out of that **** of a series.

But uh. I just finished Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook (collected essays, short stories, and other pieces) previously unpublished, by Bukowski. Now I'm on Post Office. I get to do my English project on it. Chhyeah boy.

FaSho · 10-25-2008, 07:49 PM

Well, Harry Potter wasn't THAT good either...

Wifey Boozer · 10-25-2008, 07:57 PM

That's what we're saying, yeah. Haha.

MegaHassan · 10-26-2008, 12:20 AM

I just read Paolini's Eldest. Now I'm reading CS Friedman's Crown of Shadows

Fruitonica · 10-26-2008, 03:34 AM

After finishing the Illiad I was inspired to have another read of Illium by Dan Simmons, and I can say that I'm much more impressed on this go through. I don't think I was old enough to really appreciate first time round.
It's a brilliant book, boundlessly inventive, intelligent and highly conceptual Science Fiction.
The basic premise is a modern historian has been resurrected by Zeus to observe the battle of troy and make sure it follows the course of history.

I'm definitely going to grab the sequel.

FaSho · 10-26-2008, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by MegaHassan

I just read Paolini's Eldest. Now I'm reading CS Friedman's Crown of Shadows

I really liked Eragon and Eldest when they came out, but there was such a gap between their release and the new book's, that I had to reread ELdest, and I realized how bad it was.

Inuzuka Skysword · 10-28-2008, 05:21 PM

I am reading Julius Caesar by Shakespeare and We the Living by Ayn Rand.

ProggyMan · 10-29-2008, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by FaSho

I really liked Eragon and Eldest when they came out, but there was such a gap between their release and the new book's, that I had to reread ELdest, and I realized how bad it was.

The plot=Star Wars except The Force=Dragons/Magic, The Varden=The Rebellion, Galbatorix=Palpatine, Morzan=Darth Vader etc.

10-25-2008, 07:41 PM	#803 (permalink)
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Inuzuka Skysword Existential Egoist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 1,468	Yeah, I never understood the hype of any of those Harry Potter, Twilight Series stuff. They need to get kids to read the classics young so that they don't waste their time on that stuff.

10-26-2008, 03:34 AM	#807 (permalink)
Fruitonica Pale and Wan Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Aus Posts: 917	After finishing the Illiad I was inspired to have another read of Illium by Dan Simmons, and I can say that I'm much more impressed on this go through. I don't think I was old enough to really appreciate first time round. It's a brilliant book, boundlessly inventive, intelligent and highly conceptual Science Fiction. The basic premise is a modern historian has been resurrected by Zeus to observe the battle of troy and make sure it follows the course of history. I'm definitely going to grab the sequel.

10-28-2008, 05:21 PM	#809 (permalink)
Inuzuka Skysword Existential Egoist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 1,468	I am reading Julius Caesar by Shakespeare and We the Living by Ayn Rand.