Spoilers What Book Are You Reading?

[rendevouspoo]

Just finished the Millennium trilogy and I must say that I very much enjoyed it. Any recommendations based on the trilogy?


I just started 11/22/63 by King.

 

[Zeke D]

You may find this strange, but I read four books at a time. I usually read a non fiction book, a series novel, a light novella and some sort of anthology. I make sure I read a minimum of two hours a day. Currently I am reading:

Fort Pillow by Harry Turtledove.
Just finished up the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanly Robinson.
I'm on book two of the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich.
Instead of an anthology, I am reading Dress Your Family in Courderoy and Denim by David Sedaris.

 

[wvuwhat]

"Killing Pablo" I'm about 30 pages in and it's awesome so far.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Monday Mornings by Sanjay Gupta

Every time surgeons operate, they're betting their skills are better than the brain tumor, the faulty heart valve, the fractured femur. Sometimes, they're wrong. At Chelsea General, surgeons answer for bad outcomes at the Morbidity and Mortality conference, known as M & M. This extraordinary peek behind the curtain into what is considered the most secretive meeting in all of medicine is the back drop for the entire book.

Monday Mornings, by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, follows the lives of five surgeons at Chelsea General as they push the limits of their abilities and confront their personal and professional failings, often in front of their peers at M & M. It is on Monday mornings that reflection and introspection occurs, usually in private. It is Monday Mornings that provides a unique look at the real method in which surgeons learn - through their mistakes. It is Monday Mornings when, if you're lucky, you have a chance at redemption.

http://www.amazon.com/Monday-Mornings-Novel-Sanjay-Gupta/dp/0446583855


They are making into a TV show.

That sounds really interesting; I must look out for it.

Just finished the Millennium trilogy and I must say that I very much enjoyed it. Any recommendations based on the trilogy?

The Millenium trilogy was excellent; I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it; in fact, it was a series that I literally couldn't put down.

You may find this strange, but I read four books at a time. I usually read a non fiction book, a series novel, a light novella and some sort of anthology. I make sure I read a minimum of two hours a day. Currently I am reading:

Fort Pillow by Harry Turtledove.
Just finished up the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanly Robinson.
I'm on book two of the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich.
Instead of an anthology, I am reading Dress Your Family in Courderoy and Denim by David Sedaris.

Actually, I often do something quite similar. I find I tend to read a number of different books (and different sorts of books) simultaneously.

At the moment, I'm re-reading "Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel.

 

[AhmedFaisal]

Babylon 5: Legions of Fire Trilogy. Finally getting around to that after all these years and Perry Rhodan: Neo. A relaunch of the classic SciFi Saga.

 

[ender land]

 

[Zeke D]

Actually, I often do something quite similar. I find I tend to read a number of different books (and different sorts of books) simultaneously.

My wife is the weird one. She only reads one book at a time!

 

[millerj123]

This weekend I finished Suzanne Collin's "Catching Fire" and "Mockingjay". It was interesting to see how she played the whole situation out. I'll have to try and catch the movies at some point.

 

[ucfgrad93]

I am currently reading on my Kindle...

 

[Huntn]

This weekend I finished Suzanne Collin's "Catching Fire" and "Mockingjay". It was interesting to see how she played the whole situation out. I'll have to try and catch the movies at some point.

The second book based on the situation the star of the story found herself, brought me down a bit, but then it recovered. I'll be renting Hunger Games in August.

 

[millerj123]

The second book based on the situation the star of the story found herself, brought me down a bit, but then it recovered. I'll be renting Hunger Games in August.

Yeah, well, all the descriptions I read described it as a dystopian society. Having kids compete to kill each other, yep, pretty happy.

At some point, I'll rent all of them.

 

[gibbz]

 

[Scrapula]

I just finished The Yard, which is set in London just after the Jack the Ripper killings. It is book one of what is to be a new series. It was excellent.

I'm currently reading A Land More Kind Than Home which is sad with one of those creepy Christian churches set in a southern US village/community. The church pastor is creepy.

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Currently I’m reading ‘The Night Circus’ by Erin Morgenstern which is based on both fiction and nonfiction. So far it is interesting to read.

Just downloaded that to my iPad. Will be starting tomorrow.

 

[token787]

I'm reading Abraham Lincoln:Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith. Good so far. One should be able to separate fact and fiction if you read it.

 

[Mr. Retrofire]

Peter Høeg
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow [Hardcover]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Miss-Smillas-Feeling-Snow-Peter/dp/0002713330
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[Scepticalscribe]

Peter Høeg
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow [Hardcover]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Miss-Smillas-Feeling-Snow-Peter/dp/0002713330
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That is a great book - especially the first two thirds; it is unusual enough for a male writer to be able to create a complex, multi-layered, female protagonist with any accuracy - but Peter Hoeg managed it with Miss Smilla. None of his other books were as good, to my mind, though Borderliners was strangely disturbing, and, I am told, was quite controversial when released in his native Denmark.

 

[Starfighter]

I'm reading De dömdas ö (The island of the doomed) by Stig Dagerman. It's about a few people with heavy psychological burdens who end up on an island with strange creatures and other frightening things. It's interesting in many ways, it was very intense and extreme for it's time and Stigs future suicide is between the lines.

 

[Mr. Retrofire]

...though Borderliners was strangely disturbing, and, I am told, was quite controversial when released in his native Denmark.

Interesting.

 

[Huntn]

Yeah, well, all the descriptions I read described it as a dystopian society. Having kids compete to kill each other, yep, pretty happy.

At some point, I'll rent all of them.

It was not the fact that they were in the Arena, it was the fact that in the Second book, she found herself spoiler>in the Arena again <end spoiler.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

"To Kill A Mocking-Bird" by Harper Lee.

 

[twietee]

"To Kill A Mocking-Bird" by Harper Lee.

It's not so well known around here, so can I ask you if the book can be read by let's say 9-10 year-old?
I've stumbled across the movie some time ago and besides that I personally enjoyed it greatly, thought that the story is perfectly made for kids. I never read the book though.

 

[pachyderm]

It's not so well known around here, so can I ask you if the book can be read by let's say 9-10 year-old?
I've stumbled across the movie some time ago and besides that I personally enjoyed it greatly, thought that the story is perfectly made for kids. I never read the book though.

probably meant for someone a little older. but it isn't filthy. race relations are/were a pretty mature subject matter at one time. in the states anyway.
great novel.

 

[Huntn]

It's not so well known around here, so can I ask you if the book can be read by let's say 9-10 year-old?
I've stumbled across the movie some time ago and besides that I personally enjoyed it greatly, thought that the story is perfectly made for kids. I never read the book though.

For others not familiar, it's a tremendous book and movie set in the U.S. South of the 1930s seen through the eyes of a white child with a lawyer father who defends a black man accused of sexually assaulting a white woman. The primary theme has to do with culture and race relations. It won the Pulitzer prize.

Could a 10 year old read it? It's been a while but it's written through the eyes of a child so would they enjoy it? I'd say depends on the child. My impression is that normally you don't want 10 year olds, regardless of how vague it is, thinking about assault/sexual assault unless you want to start answering questions.

 

[twietee]

Could a 10 year old read it? It's been a while but it's written through the eyes of a child so would they enjoy it? I'd say depends on the child. My impression is that normally you don't want 10 year olds, regardless of how vague it is, thinking about assault/sexual assault unless you want to start answering questions.

Thank's Pachyderm and Huntn! Very much appreciated. I thought it could be a kind of Tom Sawyer + Huck Finn adventure, playing on different layers, some hidden inbetween the lines for children. But well, I can't remember at what age I read those books myself.

 

[2020mike]

The Killer by Jack Elgos