What book are you reading?

by **The Rich Port** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:30 am

The Truth and Light wrote:
The Rich Port wrote:The Tale Of Genji by Lady Murasaki.

I might as well just read Murasaki's Diary, because it sounds a thousand times more interesting than any fiction she may have written.

The first novel ever is always something of an experiment.

I love experiments, but her personal life sounds very compelling, is what I meant to say. It's like if Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen were written in the 1100's.

by **Magnum Ultra** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:47 am

sigmar's heirs, a guide to the empire

by **Stattr** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:04 pm

now reading

"Matched"

By Ally Condie

by **Genivaria** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:08 pm

What book are you reading?

by **Mad hatters in jeans** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:19 pm

Genivaria wrote:
What book are you reading?

i doubt anyone will understand.

myself yet another murder mystery nov, meh needs to be darker!

by **Lackadaisical2** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:24 pm

Just finished reading "City at World's End" an interesting little sci-fi novel written at the start of the cold war.

You can get it free here: http://www.manybooks.net/titles/hamilto ... dsend.html

(as far as I know there is no extant copyright on it)

I always find it interesting the ways in which we've surpassed some of the expectations expressed in old sci-fi works.

by **Kalaspia-Shimarata** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:26 am

I do not read books

by **The Cat-Tribe** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:24 am

A while ago, I finished Neal Stephenson's Reamde: A Novel. Like all of the works of Neal Stephenson, it was simply wonderful. Although it was as long, it was a much easier read than some of Stephenson's last few novels (which I recommend despite the challenge some of them pose).

Just finished Tim Powers's On Stranger Tides; Richard K. Morgan's The Cold Commands, and The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates (Ralph Ketchum ed., Signet Classics 2003).

I highly recommend the works of Tim Powers and Richard Morgan.

Now reading Lee Child's The Affair (A Reacher Novel), Colson Whitehead's Zone One: A Novel, and History of Economic Thought: A Critical Perspective by E. K. Hunt and Mark Lautzenheiser (3rd ed. 2011).

by **The Truth and Light** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:36 am

The Rich Port wrote:
The Truth and Light wrote:The first novel ever is always something of an experiment.

I love experiments, but her personal life sounds very compelling, is what I meant to say. It's like if Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen were written in the 1100's.

Agreed, her personal life is no doubt very compelling.

by **Demirysis** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 12:18 pm

"The Winter of Our Discontent" by John Steinbeck. I gotta admit though, I'm struggling to get through it.

by **Izzyshipper** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 12:27 pm

Kalaspia-Shimarata wrote:I do not read books

Then why post? However you should try to, once you get into it you'll be amazed.

Anyway, The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

by **Gettysburg11** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:28 pm

Izzyshipper wrote:
Kalaspia-Shimarata wrote:I do not read books

Then why post? However you should try to, once you get into it you'll be amazed.

Anyway, The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

Funny, I'm reading that in school right now. Do you think it's any good? I'm sort of on the fence...

by **Fedeledland** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:22 pm

Ugh, going exceedingly slowly on Inheritance. Only around 30% by now.

Izzyshipper wrote:
Kalaspia-Shimarata wrote:I do not read books

Then why post? However you should try to, once you get into it you'll be amazed.

I so much agree with you, Izzyshipper.

by **Rhodmhire** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:31 pm

Don Quixote because I got it for free on my e-reader and thought why not.

After this I really just want to read something by Machiavelli for the hell of it, unless I decide to download Verne's 20,000 Leagues for free after finishing Quixote, which I'll probably end up doing instead to get some more leyendo in for less dinero.

After that, though, I've got a date with The Prince.

by **Rhodmhire** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:33 pm

Gettysburg11 wrote:
Izzyshipper wrote:
Then why post? However you should try to, once you get into it you'll be amazed.

Anyway, The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

Funny, I'm reading that in school right now. Do you think it's any good? I'm sort of on the fence...

Just about anything read collectively in school is horrible in contrast with reading it on your own time out of your own desire.

I don't think you can really have a good opinion of a book until you've read it again outside of the classroom. Analysis and guided classroom commentary is great and all, but I just feel like it gets too slowed down, muddled with details, and sometimes overly analyzed in the classroom.

Also it's work, school work, and oh if I had a nickel for every kid including myself who hates all types of assignments, even and especially reading assignments.

by **Lackadaisical2** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 12:08 am

Kalaspia-Shimarata wrote:I do not read books

I doubt anyone is surprised.

The Cat-Tribe wrote:A while ago, I finished Neal Stephenson's Reamde: A Novel. Like all of the works of Neal Stephenson, it was simply wonderful. Although it was as long, it was a much easier read than some of Stephenson's last few novels (which I recommend despite the challenge some of them pose).

Ew, another Neal Stephenson fan.

by **Nanatsu no Tsuki** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:38 pm

Varney the Vampyre, Of Human Bondage, Japanese Fairytales, re-reading Dracula and perusing La Confession de Talleyrand, and Chroniques de Galadrie.

I love my e-reader!

by **Unan Mafall** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:54 pm

Presently reading The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe. After this, I'll probably re-read 1001 Arabian Nights, as I recently got a new copy.

by **Hipsteria** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:38 pm

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. I love him so, so very much. Also started Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

by **Severania** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:46 pm

Farenheit 451

by **Gallade** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:19 am

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, I don't see what all the hype is about.

by **Natty Narwhal** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 10:25 am

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:Varney the Vampyre, Of Human Bondage, Japanese Fairytales, re-reading Dracula and perusing La Confession de Talleyrand, and Chroniques de Galadrie.

I love my e-reader!

Are e-readers really that great...? I've always been skeptical of them. I'm sort of a traditionalist when it comes to reading.

by **Lackadaisical2** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:25 pm

Natty Narwhal wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:Varney the Vampyre, Of Human Bondage, Japanese Fairytales, re-reading Dracula and perusing La Confession de Talleyrand, and Chroniques de Galadrie.

I love my e-reader!

Are e-readers really that great...? I've always been skeptical of them. I'm sort of a traditionalist when it comes to reading.

I QQ at the majority of my personal 'library' being digital. Nothing so beautiful as a bookcase stacked up with books.

But yeah, just finished Interface by Neil Stephenson and J. Frederick George. Started on Objectivism by Leonard Peikoff and The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card.

Good listens on both accounts thus far.

by **Oterro** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:41 pm

I'm rereading for like the fortieth time, LotR. Because I have literally nothing.

I was going to read Moby Dick, again, but my copy...Disintegrated.

So I'm ordering a new one and a copy of The Prince in the Scarlet Robe, by Michael Moorcock.

by **Lackadaisical2** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:43 pm

Oterro wrote:I'm rereading for like the fortieth time, LotR. Because I have literally nothing.

I was going to read Moby Dick, again, but my copy...Disintegrated.

So I'm ordering a new one and a copy of The Prince in the Scarlet Robe, by Michael Moorcock.

Go to the library bro.

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