What book are you reading these days?

[rob47]

I'm reading China Mieville's 'The Scar", part 2 of his series which began with "PERDIDO STREET STATION".

I recommend it highly to anyone who likes dark/weird fiction.  this guy is a creative genius, beleive me you will be hooked once you start.

Start with the first one: Perdido S S

What dark books do you guys read?

[pianonut]

well, my daughter is reading the giver (i think that's the title).  WHY do they give this type of book to 5th graders?  definately a big brother theme there.  dr. jekyl and mr. hyde is on my sons reading list for the summer.

reading the newspaper is dark enough for me.  and, nightscapes stories.

just cleaned out my sons room.  his books were: 'secrets of a ninja warrior,' 'war of the worlds,' 'backyard ballistics.'  need i go further.

[ted]

I haven't been reading anywhere near enough lately. I have finished Aleister Crowley's autobiography and I am rereading the complete ghost stories of M.R. James. I am also working my way through an anthology of New Zealand short stories. I've been pretty slack lately though - too much music - my wife reads ten times as many books as I do.

[Waldszenen]

The Da Vinci Code (yeah yeah not very original) and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables.

[wintervind]

20th century non-fiction

[greyrune]

The Tiger in the Well, by Philip Pullman.  Unfortunately disapointing after the His Dark Materials trilogy.  If you guys haven't read that do it now!!

The Da Vinci Code (yeah yeah not very original) and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables.

Was a shame about the Da Vinci Code i thought it'd be awsome after all the hype but after a wicked intro it just kind of faded out, at least i thought so.  Hope you enjoy it though.  How do you read two books at the same time i've never been able to do that, i always find it so much more fun to get properly involved in just one.

[dave santino]

"Swann's Way" by Marcel Proust, part 1 of "In Search of Lost Time". Considered reading it in the original French, but I'm gonna read the English first so that I know more of the oxymorons etc. Still, the greatest novel of the 20th Century, can't go far wrong with that!!

[Tash]

my uni tutorial readings. how exciting does that sound.

i've found that i can't read fiction books anymore. if i am reading something then it's most probably a biography on a composer or some aspect of music.

[Lance Morrison]

Ulysses (Joyce) ....my love and my nemesis

[rob47]

Ulysses....my love and my nemesis

the first great book.

Have you noticed that "Easy Rider"the movie from the 60's?70's? has many parallels with this great book?  Back in high school  i did a project comparing them...many movies do though.  'O brother..." is the obvious one, but there are other's where one can find parallels.  High Noon maybe?

[Ziggy]

Madame Bovary

I usually love books like that, but this ones not really doing it for me. I still plan on finishing it though.


Whats your favorite book?
Mine is David Copperfield.

[TheHammer]

Currently reading "Letters" by Dostoevsky, who is btw my favourite 19th century writer, so for my favourite book goes "The Brother Karamasov". On the other hand, one can perhaps not have one favourite... (thinking of Goethe, Balzac, Shakespeare, Joyce of course, Dante, I just love the classics).

Also reading "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley, which is kind of entertaining, I have to admit (reading it in school)...

Oh, and from time to time I rather stare at than read in "Critique of pure reason" by Kant. I would not recommend it, get you a summary. Long sentences...bah.

And I concur on Madame Bovary, it is rather boring. Flaubert generally doesn't do it for me.
I ordered the whole "À la recherche du temps perdu" in French, which turned out a mistake... it's like 2500 pages I am still too afraid to start reading it (got it 6 months ago).

[jim_24601]

It pains me to admit that the last book to be opened (not counting music books) here is a ... comic book. (Calling it a graphic novel doesn't make it much better*). It's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. I suppose if there's any author whose work deserves to be called a graphic novel it's Alan Moore.

Before that it was The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius. In translation, I hasten to add. Before that I'm not sure. I don't read nearly enough these days.

(*)There's a graphic novel adaptation of Mort by Terry Pratchett. Pratchett is generally well-disposed towards adaptations of his work (unless by American movie studios who say things like "Mort is a great concept, love it, but can we just sorta lose the DEATH angle, we think it's a bit depressing, y'know") so there wasn't any trouble getting his approval ... except "What's this graphic novel crap about? It's just a big comic, isn't it? Why not just tell it like it is?" So the book went out, with MORT. The Big Comic emblazoned across the cover in huge letters.

[solange]

You should read "An Equal Music", by Vikram Seth. He also wrote A Suitable Boy, but I haven't read that yet (if anyone has, tell me what it is like).

An Equal Music is a really nice, beautiful story. My English teacher reccomended it to me.

[Daevren]

My english teacher also once recommended that book. But I never read it.

Now I am reading Ring by Stephen Baxter. Kind of hard SF but very imaginative. I think 5 million years of time pass by in the book.

[Derek]

I just finished Aldous Huxley's Island and am now reading Dracula by Bram Stoker, after which I intend to read Frankenstien by Mary Shelley. Haha.

[Floristan]

I just finished "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger.  Ugh!  If you like sappy "love conquers all" novels, this is for you.  The "all" that gets conquered here is time travel.  Need I say more?  

Now I'm reading "The Russian Debutante's Handbook" by Gary Shteyngart.  Most amusing!  Second generation Russian/U.S. immigrant.  Everything that can go wrong does, to the reader's delight! 

[m1469]

The Physics of Sound  -Richard E Berg and David G Stork

Effortless Mastery -Kenny Werner


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[klavierkonzerte]

my managment information system book my final is tomorow

[haydn]

I'm reading a book called 'Flicka'.
It's about horses ! 

[Mozartian]

uuhh too many..
"Don Quixote," Cervantes;
"Bleak House," Dickens;
"The Lives of the Great Composers," Harold Schonberg;
...and then random Agatha Christie mysteries I pick up at the library (Poirot RULES).
Good stuff. 

[Torp]

Dr. Suess...Horton Hears a Who

[rhapsody in orange]

"The Elder Gods" by David and Leigh Eddings. Not my cup of tea actually.. don't usually read fantasy novels.