Does anyone here read for entertainment?

[killersheep]

Just wondering if I'm alone in this, I know Von Milash is reading the Bible, I'm reading Book 3 of His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman. Other books I've read this year are Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), His Dark Materials books 1 and 2 (The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife also by Pullman of course), The Silmarillion (JRR Tolkien), Invisible Monsters (Chuck Palahniuk), The Art of War (Sun Tzu), The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli), The Illuminatis! Trilogy (Robert Shea and Robert Anton) and some random secret society books earlier in the year.

Anyone else?

Find yourself a copy of "A Winter's Tale" by Marc Halperin. Make that a priority. It's a fantasy novel that takes place in 19th century New York City. It's absolutely brilliant. Either of Khalid Houseini books, "The Kite Runner" or "Thousand Splendid Suns" are great. If you like treasure hunter stories and historical fiction, check out any of the William Martin book, like "Bay Bay" or "The Lost Constitution." As a New Englander, I have special appreciation for those books, but I think anybody would enjoy them.

Looks like I owe you some rep, almost done with the book I'm reading I look for A Winter's Tale.

[CFH]

I just picked up War of the World by Niall Ferguson, I'll probably start reading it between semesters when I actually have some free time.

Currently reading "Boxing's Greatest Workouts" by Gary Todd


Just finnished two days ago "Wrath of a Mad God" book three of the Darkwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist

I used to love reading Feist when I was younger.

[OumaFan]

Reading a book called The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay. A fantasy novel, they're pretty hit or miss for me, but this one seems pretty good. George Martin's the best fantasy novelist to me, most of it I don't really get into. I actually liked Phillip Pullman's first two books in that series but for some reason never got around to the third one, which I guess is a bit odd now that I think about it.

Don't get to read that much. Usually have a lot of reading for school anyway but this semester's ridiculous, have this insane professor that does things like, for example this week, give me two four hundred plus page books on Monday and tells me to have a review of them ready by the next monday. If he thinks I'm reading these word for word he's out to lunch.

[killersheep]

Reading a book called The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay. A fantasy novel, they're pretty hit or miss for me, but this one seems pretty good. George Martin's the best fantasy novelist to me, most of it I don't really get into. I actually liked Phillip Pullman's first two books in that series but for some reason never got around to the third one, which I guess is a bit odd now that I think about it.

Don't get to read that much. Usually have a lot of reading for school anyway but this semester's ridiculous, have this insane professor that does things like, for example this week, give me two four hundred plus page books on Monday and tells me to have a review of them ready by the next monday. If he thinks I'm reading these word for word he's out to lunch.

Jesus man, that's cruel and unusual.

[Mar]

My youngest son is on this harry potter kick all of the sudden of which i know nothing about. His mama goes out and gets him the latest potter book so guess who has to proof read it to make sure there's no tits and shit in it ?? Yup me so during my commute that's what i'm doing reading harry potter.

[killersheep]

My youngest son is on this harry potter kick all of the sudden of which i know nothing about. His mama goes out and gets him the latest potter book so guess who has to proof read it to make sure there's no tits and shit in it ?? Yup me so during my commute that's what i'm doing reading harry potter.

I read the series, it's clean. A little violent in the last two books depending on your values and the age of your kid. The issue of death does come up, no tits or fuckin though.

[amat]

I don't read books much, most of my reading is done in newspapers and magazines, I want to be a journalist so that is the stuff that benefits me the most. My favorite works of literature are magazine articles, National Geographic has some GREAT ones sometimes where you have people who have dedicated years of their life for single stories and they write about them in Nat Geo and it makes for fascinating stuff almost regardless of the topic.

Also, I get laughed at for this, but I have to library database where I read a lot of articles from and I like to read the articles from the previous month's Playboy a lot, online, no pictures most of the time. Weird I know, but I do. In fact, Playboy writers are some of the best in the nation imo, they had an EXCELLENT story on Andre Berto probably the best I've seen written on him when he was blowing up Youtube.

I also read an article about how Playboy is the favorite magazine among Braile readers. Imagine that? Weird I know but the writing is great.