Whatcha Readin'?

Wow, I can't believe that nobody has posted any books here. What is everybody reading? I just got done reading The Water Method Man by John Irving. It's a little older, but one of his best, in my opinion. I don't know what to read next. Any suggestions?

I like true crime, I am reading Anne rule:Last Dance,Last chance.After I finish that I will be reading Forever Odd by Dean Koontz

Am reading Matila, and also Horace McCoy's Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. Read Matilda for something light.

I'm reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley for school. It's not one of the mandatory books, I've chosen to do my dissertation on dystopian literature (after reading 1984) so I'm reading up my other choices. :)

I just finished Robin Hobb's "Fool's Errand." I'm moving on to the next in the trilogy now. This is the first book I've read of hers, and I can't decide if I really like her writing or not yet.

I'm reading Monster by Walter Dean Myers for my Young Adult English class. For my own personal reading I'm reading Bag of Bones by Stephen King.

I read some books by Robin Hobb. I also had trouble deciding if I liked her. I like fantasy, and I have to say that most fantasy writers can't write worth crap... I thought she was above average, but... still not great.

I'm all into Ayn Rand right now. Finished "The Fountainhead" and am about done with "Atlas Shrugged".

I'm reading She Flew the Coop, a novel concerning life, death, sex and recipes in Limoges, Louisiana by Michael Lee West. It is an amusing and humorous book about small town life.

I really liked Confederacy Of Dunces.

I just got Steven King "The cell" I can't wait to start on it.

Just moved on to The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood.

I just finished reading "The Plague" by Albert Camus, and am reading "A Clockwork Orange" by Burgess now.

Wow, some of you are reading great books! Ayn Rand is a genius, if her books are a little hard to get through sometimes, and I think "Bag of Bones" is King's best, after "Hearts in Atlantis." And I've wanted to read "Brave New World" and "A Clockwork Orange" for ages. I actually got most of the way through "A Clockwork Orange" in the bookstore, but then I quit going to chess club with my friend. (He played chess, and I read books. I read "Trainspotting" that way.)

I just finished a collection of novellas, titled "Transgressions," edited by Ed McBain that had new novellas by authors such as Stephen King and Joyce Carol Oates. Right now, I'm reading "They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967" by David Maraniss. I'm extremely interested in the Vietnam war at the moment, and this is an excellent book.

hi all, thought I would share this-- You post your used paper back books, and then get others in return- like a huge book swap.

how it works--
you join- post at least 9 books for trade by using the ISBN - then you get 3 credits just for joining you then find 3 books you like, any books (there are a ton) and the people that listed them send them.... once you use your first 3 credits, you get more by either sending a book you posted when requested, 1:1 ratio - or you can buy more credits for about 2.50 -- so you can get unlimited books for either 2.50 or just trade for free.. I love it so far- I love to read and read way too fast, so books dont last, and I cant afford to go buy new ones every week, this works well.

AND - when you refer someone and they post 9 books not only do they get the 3 credits for 3 books but YOU get 1 credit as a thanks!

hope yall like it!

www.paperback swap.com

I just finished Eoin Colfer latest Artemis Fowl book, 'The Lost Colony'. Good, fun, fast read with characters you care about. Continuing to slog through 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel'. It's good but ponderous. After I finish that I'm going to catch up on Jim Butcher's Dresden Files: 'Dead Beat' and 'Proven Guilty'

I'm slowly working through Hunter S. Thompson's The Great Shark Hunt, a collection of articles and excerpts spanning his career up to that point (1979). It's pretty hit or miss. I might put it back on the shelf for later and start on something else.

I just finished Gore Vidal's Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace and was somewhat underwhelmed. It's an extended rant on the media's pisspoor reporting on Tim McVeigh, mostly. Vidal is a great writer so it was easy to keep reading, but it left me hungry for something more substantive when I was done. Why I picked up Thompson afterwards, then, I have no idea!

Has anyone read Burgess' 1985? It's not what you think. Right now, I am reading Isabel Allendes "My Invented Country" and "People Before Profit" by Charles Derber.

Nothing at the moment, just finished "The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap".
Next I'm going to start on the Dune novels. Well, the ones before and after 'Dune' itself, that is.

I am forcing myself to read "The House of The Seven Gables" even though I hate Hawthorne.

Pushing my way through the Rule of Four.

Just finished "Directed by Stephen Spielberg" - awesome book about the technical choices Spielberg makes to drive the narrative in his movies (e.g. 49% of all shots in ET are at or below child height).

Now launching into Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events. Now that the last one has been published, I can safely work my way through them.

Amy Tan, The Opposite of Fate. These are essays, and it turns out she is way funnier than her novels indicate. She also had a fascinating childhood.

I just finished "My Invented Country" AND "People Before Profit." PBP gave me some great ideas of what can be done now and reiterated some stuff I already knew. Now I'm reading "The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concernened Scientists." Maybe I'll read some Soros on the side...

I'm currently reading Doctor Who: Love and War, and Das Boot, in between reading university stuff. I've just finished Wholeness and the Implicate order, which is half and half between being science and philosophy, and I'd thoroughly recommend that to anyone interested in the nature of reality (not because it gives any definite answers about that, but because it provides some fascinating theories, plausibly argued). I'm thinking of starting another Stephen King book, too. Possibly It.

I started reading Rachel Pollack's Godmother Night and a Jean Genet book, but I stopped after reading 100pp. They're just too literarily dense. I will need to read them again at a later time. I'll just read Harry Crews' Gospel Singer or Katherine Dunn's Geek Love.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

"Priestes of the White" by Trudi Canavan.. I feel like a kid again, she is an amazing writer...

"Warriors, Fire and Ice" by Erin Hunter. Second book in a series by this author. The series follows four clans of cats and their trials of trying to survive in the wild. Its been a lot of fun reading the stories so far.

"Warriors, Forest of Secrets" by Erin Hunter. Third book in the series. I'm hooked now. :)~

I'm reading The Bondmaid by Catherine Lim..looks pretty good so far.

Desirée by Anne-Marie Selinko; one of my favourite books of all times and Geisha by Lisa Dalby; it's an anthropological survey into Japanese culture and specifically the geisha figure and what it means in the soceity - it's fantastic.

The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry. I'm told it's a DaVinci Code clone.

Currently reading Thud (to keep up to date with the Discworld series). After that, I'll be moving onto Between a Rock and a Hard Place, although not got much time to read in all honesty at the moment :(

I am re-reading Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

I'm reading The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn..very interesting look at life in the former Soviet Union-well, in an elite prison, anyway. Very readable introduction to Solzhenitsyn's work.

I'm reading A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. I wasn't sure what to expect with it and the language used in it is just strange and confusing to me. *lol*

I am reading Orhan Pamuk's "Yeni Hayat" (finnish translation by Tuula Kojo). It have been a slow although rewarding process.

Godless by Ann Coulter

I'm now onto Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman.

I'm currently reading Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. I'll keep you posted on how I liked it.

PopCo. Before that it was Neurotica.

Started on the Santaroga Barrier yesterday.

Virtual Unrealities, best short stories by Alfred Bester

I'm on The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. I've actually read 2 books between now and my last post, but didn't want to spam the board. :P

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

I'm on Good Omens, but I'm near the end.