What book are you reading now

[peapod]

We do this every so often....

Right now I am reading the curious incident of the dog in the night time.
Its a inventive little book from the back cover:

Christopher John Francis boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched and he detests the color yellow.
This improbable story of christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighbourhood dog makes for one the most captivating, unusual, novel.

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: What book are you rea

Generation of Swine. I started it (again) after we got the news about Hunter Thompson.

 

[Gonzo]

I always have about three books on the go. "Life Of Pi" which is a winner of the Man Booker Prize by Yann Martel , "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" which is laugh out loud funny and a little disturbing by Al Franken, and, just to see what the hype is about, "The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown.

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

Like Gonzo, I generally have more than one book on the go; I pick them up/put them down according to mood. Right now they are:
"If Not Now, When", by Primo Levi (A story about Russian and Polish Jews fighting back during the holacaust)
"In the footsteps of Alexander the Great", by Michael Wood (self explanatory)
"Beowulf", by some long dead Anglo-Saxons.

Also like Gonzo, I read "the DaVinci Code" 'just to see what the hype was about'. Let's just say I'm still none the wiser, having wasted several precious hours of my life, hours which I can never get back, Brown, you complete and utter f*cking moron!!!! ...aahhh, breath out, and relax ...

 

[Girl82]

Haha, I usually have a few books on the go too, but I find if I do that I usually don't finish a few of them. So now I'm trying to focus on just one at a time, plus I'm too busy with school to read more than one! Text books may count as a few books

 

[Reverend Blair]

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Ah, text books. My favourite is from 1942. It's called "Maintenance and Repair of Modern Farm Equipment and Small Engines."

It's come in oddly useful over the years.

 

[missile]

Just finished Noir by K.W.Jeter. Imagine a future where thoise who download music,etc off the Web are hunted down,slain and part of their brain is collected and given back to the copywright holder,and a little something called a Full Prince Charles[had to be read to be believed!]

 

[Girl82]

Re: RE: What book are you rea

Ah, text books. My favourite is from 1942. It's called "Maintenance and Repair of Modern Farm Equipment and Small Engines."

It's come in oddly useful over the years.

Knowledge of engines and such comes in very handy!!

 

[Reverend Blair]

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Especially the stuff that was modern in 1942. When you read the book you begin to wonder how any farmer from that era managed to hang on to any of their fingers and toes.

 

[peapod]

"Life Of Pi" you know I found it kind of a let down, maybe it was the hype, it was okay tho.

 

[Twila]

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Cube Route - Peirs Anthony

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is being made into a movie. Can you believe that? God, I hope it's good.

 

[Gonzo]

I'll bring my towel to the movie. Loved all the books, even "Mostley Harmless". The best book title ever was "So Long and Thanks For All the Fish".

 

[galianomama]

Also like Gonzo, I read "the DaVinci Code" 'just to see what the hype was about'. Let's just say I'm still none the wiser, having wasted several precious hours of my life, hours which I can never get back, Brown, you complete and utter f*cking moron!!!! ...aahhh, breath out, and relax ...

hey henry - my husband is reading the davinci code and says it's not a great read. i haven't read it yet, but he isn't impressed. he had no idea it was a big hit, etc., i had bought it for him at christmas.

i think he would probably agree with you though! 8O

 

[peapod]

Well my favorite book is still thomas wolfe "of time and the river" in fact I have all his books, I read them over and over again and ehm...I love Moby Dick...

 

[galianomama]

and ehm...I love Moby Dick...

that's 'cause it reminds you of your dad. 8O

 

[peapod]

hahahahahha...well should have seen him yesterday...he and ma were over visiting and I put on that bullet train from the lonely planet CD... 8O 8O man we started dancing around the room.....my dads underwear was showing above his jeans(I cannot believe he still wears them 8O ) and he was dancing around and looked like one of them rapsa gangsta 8O 8O 8O ...hes got some good moves tho

PS...I will convey your message to him....

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

Also like Gonzo, I read "the DaVinci Code" 'just to see what the hype was about'. Let's just say I'm still none the wiser, having wasted several precious hours of my life, hours which I can never get back, Brown, you complete and utter f*cking moron!!!! ...aahhh, breath out, and relax ...

hey henry - my husband is reading the davinci code and says it's not a great read. i haven't read it yet, but he isn't impressed. he had no idea it was a big hit, etc., i had bought it for him at christmas.

i think he would probably agree with you though! 8O

In my view Brown didn't so much "write" the book as "google" it - he seems to have cobbled together a page or so of other people's potentially interesting ideas, and then concocted a watery thin plot to bulk them out into a whole book. But don't let me put you off.

 

[galianomama]

yeah, i read a little of it, but was no overly impressed.

 

[galianomama]

my dads underwear was showing above his jeans(I cannot believe he still wears them

ummm pea, i think that's a little too much info for this forum. i know none of you wear underwear, but do you have to tell the world? :twisted:

mind you, i am sure if we surveyed the westcoast population, about 90% go gonzo all year round. 8O

 

[Foreign_girl]

I'm reading A series of unfortunated events