What book(s) are you currently reading?

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  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    High Intensity Training by Mike Mentzer, and ASOIAF.
  • MelC2564
    MelC2564 Posts: 182 Member
    Reading World War Z for the third time! SO WELL WRITTEN!
  • ThinWhiteDuchess
    ThinWhiteDuchess Posts: 28 Member
    I personally love Cormac McCarthy - just finished "The Road", which I found absolutely beautiful. I'm also reading the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, good for a laugh. If you feel like something intelligent and deep, along with stunning language, try Vladimir Nabokov. Or, if you love the English language and feel like a good scare, try M. R. James horror stories. :smile:
  • GdeVries
    GdeVries Posts: 232 Member
    'The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair' by Joel ****er

    I'd never heard of it, but my hubs brought it home. So the first 20 pages or so were about a writer that has writer's block, and I'm just thinking man I hope the next 400 pages aren't about his stupid writers block. Long story short.... it's really good! Not going to give anything away but WOW!

    Apparently it's a best seller. It's good.

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/international-best-seller-truth-harry-662372
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10611852/Harry-Quebert-The-French-thriller-that-has-taken-the-world-by-storm.html
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I have three words of advice:

    Read "Gone Girl"

    It's an amazing book with twists and turns, and there is a movie to be released this year! :)

    Just finished that. Brilliant book. I love that author.
    I disagree vehemently.

    Read Rebecca if you like that kind of thing. At least you'll be reading the original and not a poorly disguised plagiarism. And I was genuiniely surprised at the ending of Rebecca. I saw the twist in Gone Girl coming from the first chapter, not to mention the terrible, nonexistent character development. I couldn't bring myself to give a crap what happened to any of them.

    But it was a quick, easy read, I guess. I've heard they're making major changes for the movie, which can only be a good thing.
  • slocyclist
    slocyclist Posts: 95
    I am an audiobook kind of girl. Currently listening to 'A Princess of Mars' by Edgar Rice Burroughs

    I read all of the John Carter books a couple of years ago before the movie came out. I don't know why I didn't read them as a kid, as I read a lot of ERB's other books.
  • sixout
    sixout Posts: 3,128 Member
    I'm re-reading The Road.
  • RyansReacher
    RyansReacher Posts: 22
    Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
  • Inner_Goddess
    Inner_Goddess Posts: 1,146 Member
    The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
  • paleonutripal
    paleonutripal Posts: 2
    Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
    Philebus by Plato
  • finallylean
    finallylean Posts: 553 Member
    Don't have time to read. I rather wait for the movie.
  • Merlin813
    Merlin813 Posts: 21 Member
    Just finished a new sci-fi title - "2312" from Kim Stanley Robinson
  • becca_no1
    becca_no1 Posts: 2
    The fault in our stars by John Green, just brilliant!
  • MagJam2004
    MagJam2004 Posts: 651 Member
    Don't have time to read. I rather wait for the movie.

    Shun the unbeliever!! shuuuuuunnnnnnnn!
  • Cruvas
    Cruvas Posts: 4
    (1) Beowulf A Student Edition edited by George Jack
    (2) Hindu Law and Judicature
    (3) Listening to Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
    upcoming:
    (1) Will listen to The Secret Life of Words (From the Great Courses)

    ....yeah um this is my 'fun' reading lol, at least this list has Wizard's First Rule in it :tongue: Any earlier and you would of just seen "How To Teach Yourself Old English" "Teach Yourself Philology" and "The I.N.A. Heroes Autobiographies." As my husband is found of saying my definition of a "FUN" read isn't normal.

    Recommend: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert in the translation of Eleanor Marx Aveling
  • Jenni129
    Jenni129 Posts: 692 Member
    I have three words of advice:

    Read "Gone Girl"

    It's an amazing book with twists and turns, and there is a movie to be released this year! :)

    Just finished that. Brilliant book. I love that author.

    Read that one and recommend it to my friends all the time. I can't wait to see the movie!!! :flowerforyou:
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,281 Member
    Don't have time to read. I rather wait for the movie.

    IMO, it's harder to find time to watch a movie - you have to have around 2 solid hours, because who watches a movie in parts and you have to be where a TV or cinema is.

    Books you can read almost anywhere and you can read in installments - much easier to fit in to life time wise.

    But I guess we all find time for things we want to spend time on.
  • Mello_Rello
    Mello_Rello Posts: 421 Member
    Demon Camp and I Am Second.
  • LoveLaroo
    LoveLaroo Posts: 215
    The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg...highly recommend for those struggling to make exercise a habit!
  • autumn_skye
    autumn_skye Posts: 156 Member
    "The Reason I Jump" I am reading it for the second time. It is a quick easy read that I recommend EVERYONE should read
  • bepeejaye
    bepeejaye Posts: 775 Member
    Re-reading Vince Flynn and Brad Thor :smile:
  • nothingman_82
    nothingman_82 Posts: 15
    Just started the first book in The Dresden Files series.
  • laleonadr
    laleonadr Posts: 47 Member
    Steve Jobs
  • Zdehni
    Zdehni Posts: 67 Member
    1984
  • lucyloutoo
    lucyloutoo Posts: 522 Member
    Unseen Karin slaughter
  • sammniamii
    sammniamii Posts: 669 Member
    The Entropy Effect by Vonda N McIntyre (old book)
  • timidunicorn
    timidunicorn Posts: 8 Member
    house of leaves by mark z. danielewski.
    this is my third time reading it.
    it's such a good book.
  • welloiledmachine
    welloiledmachine Posts: 1,147 Member
    Just started reading Grain Brain and don't want to put it down. Is an eye opener as was Wheat Belly. I have Monuments Men waiting on the sideline.

    The Fault in our Stars is next. 5 star rating with 9000+ reviews
  • lucyloutoo
    lucyloutoo Posts: 522 Member
    house of leaves by mark z. danielewski.
    this is my third time reading it.
    it's such a good book.

    I was a little let down, either due to the book itself or my high expectations of it...can't decide which!
  • kangakev
    kangakev Posts: 2,430 Member
    No highway in the Sky by Neville Shute (saw the dvd of it recently)

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