What Are You Reading Now?

[Cloak38]

Besides this post!

What book are you reading now?

I'm finishing up The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabron.

 

[bluespoke]

Just picked up Billy by Pamela Stephenson.

(Billy Connolly through the eyes of his wife)

 

[Scabbers]

That was good

I'm finishing up The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabron.

I especially liked the comic book character of the librarian who was turned into a Moth superheroine. Her name was "Lo," which was also one of Humbert-Humbert's nicknames for Lolita, and Nabokov was a lepidopterist. I wonder if Chabon meant it as a little 'homage' to Vlad N?

Right this minute I'm reading (don't laugh) Pride and Prejudice! Gotta save time for the canon, right?

 

[JaymesBlond007]

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

-Nietzsche

Psych sucks...

 

[Cloak38]

Whoops...that should be Michael Chabon...

 

[lovetoread]

I just picked up Susan Mallery's Married for a Month and am almost done. Its a good romance. Not the greatest ever wrote,but it is really a good read.

I am also re-reading the Montana Mavericks series,I love the way the stories mesh,although written by so many different people. I am on the Cowboy Cop one now.

 

[seXieleXie]

i'm working on two books right now. "me talk pretty one day" is a collection of essays by david sedaris, a columnist for the new yorker. it's hilarious.

i'm also rereading "one hundred years of solitude" by gabriel garcía márquez. it's one of my favorite books.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Depends on what you mean...

I've started several books and left the bookmark in them, so if you count them, i'm currently reading every book I own, from Stephen King to Boomer Esiason. Realistically, I'm reading The Hobbit which you've probably all read already. I saw the movie and was inspired to go and read the books.

 

[daughter]

recently read

No Longer At Ease by Chinua Achebe and

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danicat

I'd like to read something by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez. I have read some reviews about the celebrated author, but I don't know his work. Recommendations appreciated.

Peace,

daughter

 

[girl]

Darkspell - Katharine Kerr
Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice (rereading, in anticipation of the movie)

girl

 

[April]

Earlier this week I finished Merrick by Anne Rice. I was a little disappointed. It wasn't very good. I wonder if she's run out of things to say in the series.
Right now, I'm reading Fool Moon by Jim Butcher. Light reading, but enjoyable. I don't know what to start next. I have a lot of books waiting, but I need to catch up on my magazines. Who knows.

 

[Jellybeangirl]

I've just finished Flesh & Blood by Jonathon Kellerman and am starting

diary of a manhatten call girl by Tracy Quan

 

[Thomas Paine]

Re: recently read

I'd like to read something by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez. I have read some reviews about the celebrated author, but I don't know his work. Recommendations appreciated.

The aforementioned "One Hundred Years of Solitude," hands down. A magical, magnificent book. Second choice, "Love in the Time of Cholera."

As for me:

"Three Pillars of Zen" - Phillip Kapleau Roshi

(and)

"Basket Case" - Carl Hiaasen

OK, so I like a little variety....

 

[Azwed]

I just finished LOTR recently. I have read it twice now but the first time was when i was 9 or 10.

I am reading Black Hawk Down now.

 

[cymbidia]

I'm just finishing an incredibly eloquent and vivid novel of the biblical Dinah by Anita Diamant called The Red Tent.

Next on my list and bumped to the top by Risia, is a light little read called The Bonds of Love : Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problems of Domination by Jessica Benjamin.

After that i think i'll have to do a brain-soothing and nostalgic romp through Dick and Jane. Or something.



For all you out there who are tired of Anne Rice writing the same book over and over and over, try an author by the name of Laurell K. Hamilton and he Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. Be sure you read them in the order they were written for maximum effect. There're like, 7 or 8 or 10 of them by now. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/103-8361629-1794242

 

[KillerMuffin]

The New Webster's Grammar Guide. I was reading about participles. Fascinating stuff.

I'm going to go read some pornography next. Then I may begin lecturi- er, discussing grammar for a bit. Along with punctuation, how not to use the ..., and the perennial favorite show! don't tell! It's like a stripper, you wanna be shown, not told, right? Well, don't comma splice when you do it, baby!

I'm thinking about getting into the Oxford Companion to the English Language. They have tons of stuff on participles. That and infinitives.

 

[Rhys]

I'd have to second the Laurel K Hamilton series as well...

I just finished Anne McCaffrey's The Skies Of Pern

 

[Basia]

The Eye of the Dragon by Stephen King.

 

[Rubyfruit]

cym, just finished The Red Tent. I loved it.

Lexie, I love David Sedaris. He's fucking hysterical. I read another book of his too, but I can't think of the title offhand. I will have to put One Hundred Years of Solitude on my reading list. I really enjoyed Love in the Time of Cholera.

I am currently reading "the best of literotica.com," which I am enjoying quite a bit.

 

[ChaoticSerenity]

I just finished Aztec Autum a few minutes ago, It was decent, but it's predisesor Aztec was far better.

 

[April]

I just finished Anne McCaffrey's The Skies Of Pern

What?! Shit, another one? *madly scrambling to go find it*