What are you reading?

[OumaFan]

Assuming you read I guess

Me:

Postwar by Tony Judt.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

One fiction, one non, usually what I do unless I'm bogged down with school shit. BTW the answer "this thread" isn't very original.

[Manuel "Chubby" Medina]

Im about to start reading Hamlet by The one and only Shakespeare
But the best books I ever read where The Cirque Du Freak books by Darren Shan, its a series of about 11-12 books its about vampires and stuff they are really good I think they came from the UK.
Should check em out some time.

[leftylee]

Im about to start reading Hamlet by The one and only Shakespeare
But the best books I ever read where The Cirque Du Freak books by Darren Shan, its a series of about 11-12 books its about vampires and stuff they are really good I think they came from the UK.
Should check em out some time.

Funny you say that. Yeah Darren Shan is a UK author. The lad who sits next to me in English class is obsessed with him. He has a shitload of his his vampire books etc and loves reading them. He always tells me to pick one up. I keep meaning too.

And you're about to start Hamlet too I'm over halfway through it bro. I have an exam on it in May/June.

[yvonne]

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[Andre]

Just started reading a Geneoligists book about the bloodlines of the holy grail blah blah blah.
It has a number of faimily trees that trace back people (some royal bloodlines from the house of Steward etc from the present right back to the three children of Jesus and Mary Magdaline and back further. It has the history of everyone involved set out in dates all in factual historic notes.
It also covers the kings and church leaders,popes etc of each time and their own intent upon the outcome of their own work linking events, wars between churches and states including how the Christian pilosophy has evolved by these people and events.
Tough read, but I hope theres a few gems to be dug up.

[El Kabong]

I'm reading something Andre may find a little interesting it's called "The Secret History of The World: As Laid Down By The Secret Societies" by Mark Booth...it's not conscpiracy based like it may sound but rather it attempts to explain religious views and texts. Mark Booth is apparently big into Rosicrucianism.

I don't like the book a bunch, infact I've debated stopping that book and reading "The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe" By Robert S. Gottfried...I've also got a couple books on the Crusades that I want to read.


The last few books I read that I really liked were "A World Lit Only By Fire" By William Manchester, "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI" By Brian Burrough (set to be a movie in 2009 starring Christian Bale and Johnny Depp), "The Last Duel" by Eric Jager (Set to be a movie directed by Scorsese), and "Under The Black Flag: The Romance and The Reality of Life Among Pirates" by David Cordingly.

[Gandalf]

I'm rereading the Peter Cook collection "Tragically I was an only twin". It's really good. Afunny, funny man was Mr Cook. I'm usually having to do a lot of reading for my study, but I'm doing my essay now, so it's more a case of flicking through the books for appropriate quotes and ideas. No proper reading there though.

[CGM]

never heard of those books, OumaFan

Myself, I tend not to pick up on new literature unless I get a hot tip from a friend.

I like to prowl the dollar bins at used bookstores for good novels.

Nothing at the moment, but I read Redemption by Leon Uris a while back. Call it historical fiction, primarily it's about the Irish "troubles" , and sympathetic to the Catholic perspective. A sequel to the book "Trinity".

[OumaFan]

One's just a history of Europe since 1945. The other's well kind of hard to explain I guess especially cause I'm not that far into it.

[killersheep]

I'm reading the 5th book of the Artemis Fowl series "The Lost Colony"

Don't judge me.

[OumaFan]

I looked it up on Amazon

"A juvenile James Bond in fairy land"

[Kel]

Any spare time at all I'm on here, don't really have time for books at the moment.

[Mikkel_K]

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Really liked that book when I read it a few years ago, and I'm usually not even remotely interested in comic books or the like. But Chabon is a good writer.

Have been reading a lot lately, actually. Somehow it is just connected to the christmas/holiday period for me - the time where staying indoors makes sense, and you actually have the time to do it. Besides a couple of Danish books, I've managed to make it through Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road', Daniel Kehlmann's 'Measuring the World' and Haruki Murakami's 'A Wild Sheep Chase' during the past few weeks. The first one I bought while travelling for christmas, the other two I got as presents. All three very different, but all of them infinitely recommendable.

Also, for the last 12 months or so, I've been reading Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe trilogy on and off, and Lay of the Land is the unfinished book on my desk these days. Really impressed by these books, but somehow it just works for me to not read them too fast.

Hmm, it sounds like I pretty much love everything I read, but that certainly would be far from true. However, I've become pretty good at only picking up things, I'm likely to enjoy. Also, there is a pretty good chance I wont read a single book before summer - sometimes that happens.

[leftylee]

Hamlet by William Shakespeare.

Got to read it for college.

My last book I read for enjoyment was "The boy in the striped pijamas" for the second time. Awesome book.