Spoilers What Book Are You Reading?

[harrisondavies]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_5 like Mac OS X; en-gb) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8L1 Safari/6533.18.5)

I'm technically not reading a book, but I am writing one. It's the first book of several planned, about a boy who must embrace his destiny to save his family, friends, and the planet.

It's called, The Aduramis Chronicles -Er'ath- Destiny of the Wulf

I can technically say I'm reading it as I have just re-read chapters 1-10 to edit them.

 

[skittles90623]

The Little Red Book-Harvey Penick

 

[Scepticalscribe]

"Cod" - by Mark Kurlansky

 

[MacDawg]

Reading Lee Child's series of Jack Reacher books while I wait for the next Michael Connelly book, The Drop to be released in November

 

[Macky-Mac]

today I'll finish reading "The Silence of the Rain" by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza

 

[rdowns]

Reading "Hard News" by Jeffrey Deaver. Enjoy his books so much, I'm catching up on all his early stuff.

Next up, Betrayed by Robert Tanenbaum. Love his Butch Karp series.

 

[AAPLaday]

Anybody on here have any experience with John Le Carres Karla trilogy. Want to find something else to move onto after im finished with John Rebus

 

[ucfgrad93]

Powering the Future. It is free on the Kindle through the end of today I believe.

 

[Macky-Mac]

Anybody on here have any experience with John Le Carres Karla trilogy. Want to find something else to move onto after im finished with John Rebus

Just re-read "Smiley's People" while on a recent trip and enjoyed it again (and I wonder how many times I've read it ). Obviously, I'm gonna recommend the series to you

 

[AAPLaday]

Just re-read "Smiley's People" while on a recent trip and enjoyed it again (and I wonder how many times I've read it ). Obviously, I'm gonna recommend the series to you

Cheers. Will give Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy a go once i finish Hide & Seek (Ian Rankin)

 

[chrmjenkins]

I'm reading a Feast for Crows for the second time. I re-read the first four A Song of Ice and Fire Books since A Dance with Dragons came out the 12th. As you can tell, I fell a little behind.

 

[Paulywauly]

working my way through Iain M Banks Culture novels, currently reading Use of Weapons. Great author i recommend him

 

[erickkoch]

Economics in One Lesson - by Henry Hazlitt.

Economics seems so complicated and I have a short attention span so this book is perfect. It's a kind of "libertarian" view of economics espoused by Ron Paul types so I'm trying to understand where they're coming from.

 

[dmr727]

My wife sends books to my Kindle on a regular basis, and every time I turn the thing on it's like Christmas, or having a birthday. Anyway, the latest book I've pulled off the list is Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.

My commute to work involves a five hour airplane ride, and I thought this would be an easy way to kill the time. I wasn't wrong, and it ended up being a lot better and well researched than I would have imagined. It won't win any awards, but it was definitely meatier than I figured it'd be.

 

[(marc)]

The Castle by Kafka. Loving it

 

[hulugu]

"Cod" - by Mark Kurlansky

How's is that?

My wife sends books to my Kindle on a regular basis, and every time I turn the thing on it's like Christmas, or having a birthday. Anyway, the latest book I've pulled off the list is Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter....

That's nice of her. You know they're making a movie out of "...Vampire Hunter?"

I'm reading "Let the Great World Spin" by Colum McCann. It's good, but to really enjoy the book, I think you have to see the documentary "Man on Wire" about Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between the WTC towers.

 

[Huntn]

Just finished Honor Harrington: Field of Dishonor, the 4th book in this series- David Weber has created some good reading if you like SciFi.

 

[Lone Deranger]

Right now I'm reading through the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, just got done with The Fellowship of the Ring a couple days ago. It's kind of annoying though because I have already seen the movies, so I always know what is going to happen. These books would have a ton of suspense if I didn't know exactly how it was going to turn out, so that kind of takes away from it a little bit, but I am still really enjoying them.

Hehehe, only in the very broadest of terms do you know what's going to happen. The movies were crude in the extreme compared to the nuance, wisdom and splendour of the books. So much was changed (butchered) that it's more of a poorly remembered adaptation rather than an accurate representation of the tale.
Glad to hear you picked up the books though. The majority of people who've seen the films simply won't bother with the books, thinking there's nothing more to it, thus sadly never experiencing the much more refined and intellectual story telling abilities of Tolkien.

Take your time though, don't feel the need to race through the books to get to the parts you are familiar with. There is a huge amount of depth and ancient history and subtly in Tolkien's work. It can take quite a few readings to really understand and appreciate the deeper motives. PJ certainly missed all of it.

 

[dmr727]

That's nice of her. You know they're making a movie out of "...Vampire Hunter?"

No I didn't - heh! It'll be interesting to see how they do it.

PJ certainly missed all of it.

I'm of the opinion that Jackson understood what it took to make the movies a commercial success, and that meant sacrificing a lot of what made the books great in exchange for a more widespread appeal. I love the books, and I completely agree that there's so much more there than in the movies. But IMO, 95% of a typical movie going audience does not have the patience for a read like Tolkien's, and a faithful adaptation would have been a commercial failure. I think both the movies and the books can be appreciated on their own merits.

 

[B777Forevar]

S*** my dad says

 

[Highcroft]

After reading "World War Z," I've decided to pick up "The Good War" and have started reading that.

 

[Rowf]

The Castle by Kafka. Loving it

If you haven't read Metamorphosis by Kafka give it a go, an old one but a good one, as the saying goes.

Just finished American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis, which I thought went right over the top at about the halfway mark, I was wondering how it became a bestseller with it's almost puerile attempts to disgust the reader until I reached the concluding fifty pages (yes, even in my civilised disgust I had to keep reading to make sure it was as bad as I thought it was )
When I turned the final page I realised what had made it such an essential read of it's time.
A very cleverly written book.

Just beginning Self-Made Man - Poppy Z Brite.

 

[Lone Deranger]

I'm of the opinion that Jackson understood what it took to make the movies a commercial success, and that meant sacrificing a lot of what made the books great in exchange for a more widespread appeal. I love the books, and I completely agree that there's so much more there than in the movies. But IMO, 95% of a typical movie going audience does not have the patience for a read like Tolkien's, and a faithful adaptation would have been a commercial failure. I think both the movies and the books can be appreciated on their own merits.

Indeed, the majority of the Hollywood movie audiences do not have the patience (or dare I say intellectual acuity) to appreciate the professor's writing to it's fullest extend.

But it's more what PJ and his writing team (especially Philipa Boyens) said in all the 'making of' footage that convinced me they understood very little of the deeper currents running through Tolkien's writing.

 

[dmr727]

But it's more what PJ and his writing team (especially Philipa Boyens) said in all the 'making of' footage that convinced me they understood very little of the deeper currents running through Tolkien's writing.

Ah, I see. I never saw any of the 'making of' footage, but that would make sense.

 

[davidinva]

Just finished "Idiot America" by Charlie Pierce.