What are you reading?

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  • captainfantastic94
    captainfantastic94 Posts: 1,745 Member
    1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

    I LOVE LOVE LOVE this book, read norwegian wood next
  • captainfantastic94
    captainfantastic94 Posts: 1,745 Member
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    Pretty interesting premise
  • KosmosKitten
    KosmosKitten Posts: 10,476 Member
    This.
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    Check out "the adventure zone" podcast if you like the fantasy stuff! Any terry prachett or gaiman for you?

    I second this!! I just finished it up last week and it was really, really good. I liked it so much I supported the show by buying a Taako shirt, lol. :D
  • JeepHair77
    JeepHair77 Posts: 1,291 Member
    "Intensity" by Dean Koontz. I started it about 20 years ago and got bored, so I didn't finish it. My Dad has been hassling me about that ever since because he thinks it's the greatest book ever, so I finally picked it back up this week and started over.

    It's not boring me this time, but it's not the greatest book ever, either.
  • captainfantastic94
    captainfantastic94 Posts: 1,745 Member
    This.
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    Check out "the adventure zone" podcast if you like the fantasy stuff! Any terry prachett or gaiman for you?

    I second this!! I just finished it up last week and it was really, really good. I liked it so much I supported the show by buying a Taako shirt, lol. :D

    I love it, i want to find a magnus shirt to work out it, im on the eleventh hour story now
  • denversillygoose
    denversillygoose Posts: 708 Member
    JeepHair77 wrote: »
    "Intensity" by Dean Koontz. I started it about 20 years ago and got bored, so I didn't finish it. My Dad has been hassling me about that ever since because he thinks it's the greatest book ever, so I finally picked it back up this week and started over.

    It's not boring me this time, but it's not the greatest book ever, either.

    I can't believe you thought this was boring! This book had me in a sweat the entire time. If this is boring, then I would really love your recommendations for thrillers. Please?
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  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    Has anyone read "Ill Will" by Dan Chaon? So dark and creepy.
  • sw33tp3a1
    sw33tp3a1 Posts: 5,065 Member
    Has anyone read "Ill Will" by Dan Chaon? So dark and creepy.

    No.... But now I'm intrigued
  • JeepHair77
    JeepHair77 Posts: 1,291 Member
    JeepHair77 wrote: »
    "Intensity" by Dean Koontz. I started it about 20 years ago and got bored, so I didn't finish it. My Dad has been hassling me about that ever since because he thinks it's the greatest book ever, so I finally picked it back up this week and started over.

    It's not boring me this time, but it's not the greatest book ever, either.

    I can't believe you thought this was boring! This book had me in a sweat the entire time. If this is boring, then I would really love your recommendations for thrillers. Please?

    LOL! I can't explain why younger me was bored - I think it was more to do with the writing style than the story. The story is definitely an edge-of-your-set kind of thing, but the characters just don't do anything for me. If I think your main character is contrived and stupid, I don't really care if a psycho killer guts her, y'know?

    I have heard the movie was good, though. It's rare for the movie to be better than the book, but once in a while, an actor gives a character a little something that the author just couldn't. I'll probably watch this one after I finish he book.
  • WanderingRivers
    WanderingRivers Posts: 612 Member
    Flash fan fic.
  • KosmosKitten
    KosmosKitten Posts: 10,476 Member
    edited September 2017
    This.
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    Check out "the adventure zone" podcast if you like the fantasy stuff! Any terry prachett or gaiman for you?

    I second this!! I just finished it up last week and it was really, really good. I liked it so much I supported the show by buying a Taako shirt, lol. :D

    I love it, i want to find a magnus shirt to work out it, im on the eleventh hour story now

    I really wish they'd put one up with Merle on it with the flowers in his beard and his Extreme Teen Bible. Just a warning, be prepared for onion ninjas toward the end of the campaign. I'm not an emotional person, but I bawled at the end.

    Just sayin'.
  • Mark_Joseph
    Mark_Joseph Posts: 101 Member
    Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill
  • rickmillercpil
    rickmillercpil Posts: 18 Member
    Y Is For Yesterday by Sue Grafton, Making Money by Terry Pratchett, The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and one of the Inspector Morse books I can't name just now. Can you say "short attention span?"
  • spyro88
    spyro88 Posts: 472 Member
    I'm reading Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy. It's amazing :)
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 6,002 Member
    In My Own Way by Alan Watts...
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

    I bought a used hardbound copy of this for a dollar.
    I'm looking at it right now. It just sits on an end table in our family room.
    Great author with great cover art.

    I believe the cover art is by a gentleman by the name of Chip Kidd; he's the best in the business.
  • captainfantastic94
    captainfantastic94 Posts: 1,745 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

    I bought a used hardbound copy of this for a dollar.
    I'm looking at it right now. It just sits on an end table in our family room.
    Great author with great cover art.

    I believe the cover art is by a gentleman by the name of Chip Kidd; he's the best in the business.

    Read it now
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  • captainfantastic94
    captainfantastic94 Posts: 1,745 Member
    People magazine

    Any hot gossip?
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

    I bought a used hardbound copy of this for a dollar.
    I'm looking at it right now. It just sits on an end table in our family room.
    Great author with great cover art.

    I believe the cover art is by a gentleman by the name of Chip Kidd; he's the best in the business.

    Read it now

    it's on the hit parade; it's the only Murakami book that I haven't read
  • captainfantastic94
    captainfantastic94 Posts: 1,745 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

    I bought a used hardbound copy of this for a dollar.
    I'm looking at it right now. It just sits on an end table in our family room.
    Great author with great cover art.

    I believe the cover art is by a gentleman by the name of Chip Kidd; he's the best in the business.

    Read it now

    it's on the hit parade; it's the only Murakami book that I haven't read

    My buddy was like "read this" and i was like "no" then when the b&n staff told me to read it i figured i should give it a shot
  • jenready
    jenready Posts: 2,658 Member
    slessofme wrote: »
    Finally getting around to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

    I just picked up that book this weekend so I can finally read it.
  • captainfantastic94
    captainfantastic94 Posts: 1,745 Member
    jenready wrote: »
    slessofme wrote: »
    Finally getting around to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

    I just picked up that book this weekend so I can finally read it.

    Its dense, but good
  • slessofme
    slessofme Posts: 7,740 Member
    jenready wrote: »
    slessofme wrote: »
    Finally getting around to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

    I just picked up that book this weekend so I can finally read it.

    Its dense, but good

    Dense is a good way to describe it.
  • magster4isu
    magster4isu Posts: 632 Member
    I just finished watching Black Sails and it put me in the mood to read Treasure Island.
  • bluestocking06
    bluestocking06 Posts: 66 Member
    Just finished The Handmaid's Tale and have now started the princess diarist and anne of green gables. (I just watched Anne with an E on Netflix and I never read them as a kid, so I'm weirdly excited about it)

    Also for the kindle vs book conversation, I'll say it takes getting used to, but I went to the Peace Corps and there was just no way I was going to be able to take all the books I would need to keep me reading for the 2 plus years, and now I love it. Mostly for convience factor. I also LOVE the overdrive app, which lets me borrow books from the library instantly on my kindle. It's saved me so much time/money in the past few years. (Only book I bought was the cursed child, which.... I want my 20 dollars back)
  • captainfantastic94
    captainfantastic94 Posts: 1,745 Member
    Just finished The Handmaid's Tale and have now started the princess diarist and anne of green gables. (I just watched Anne with an E on Netflix and I never read them as a kid, so I'm weirdly excited about it)

    Also for the kindle vs book conversation, I'll say it takes getting used to, but I went to the Peace Corps and there was just no way I was going to be able to take all the books I would need to keep me reading for the 2 plus years, and now I love it. Mostly for convience factor. I also LOVE the overdrive app, which lets me borrow books from the library instantly on my kindle. It's saved me so much time/money in the past few years. (Only book I bought was the cursed child, which.... I want my 20 dollars back)

    Thank you for bringing up a free kindle book app, also i love my kindle, also how did you like the ha dmaid's tale?
  • Derpy_Hooves
    Derpy_Hooves Posts: 234 Member
    I just started the first of ten (?) Camilla Lackberg books. So far so good!