What book/books are you reading right now?

[Faustus]

Just wondering, kinda like the what are you listening to right no thread but slower.

Me: "The Best of H.P. Lovecraft Boodcurdling tales of horror and the macabre"

I mentioned to a co worker I'd never read any Lovecraft and the next game he just said here ya go you can have this. So I just started tonight.

[yoda313]

Hello,

Still finishing "Return of the King" (paperback from pre movie time). I started with the Hobbit last year and finally got to the last chapter (Gray Haven) in the last book.

What took so long??? I've been reading it at lunch at work for like 15 min every other day or so.

Kevin

---I think the movies did a fair job of translating Tolkien to the big screen. If you watch the commentary on the extended editions the director and writers explain why scenes/characters were changed or dropped, pretty understandable with a series that large! ---

[Faustus]

Hello,

Still finishing "Return of the King" (paperback from pre movie time). I started with the Hobbit last year and finally got to the last chapter (Gray Haven) in the last book.

What took so long??? I've been reading it at lunch at work for like 15 min every other day or so.

Kevin

---I think the movies did a fair job of translating Tolkien to the big screen. If you watch the commentary on the extended editions the director and writers explain why scenes/characters were changed or dropped, pretty understandable with a series that large! ---

More power to ya, for some reason I can't read Tokien, he just bores me, even when the story is good and or a classic.

[yoda313]

Hello,

Maybe because it's English!!

Kevin

--ducks for cover from all the brits on the website!! (nothing personal, I love the books it just might not be for everyone as flaystus stated)---

EDIT -- I'm also reading SPHERE by Micheal Chricton at night. Excellent book. I watched the movie starring Dustin Hoffman years ago and have it on tape. I got the book at a used book sale and finally picked it up a month or two ago. It's quite good and the film adaptation was right on th e mark. Highly recommended!

P.S. I've read Jurrasic Park and The Lost World by Chrichton and was suprised at what was kept and changed. Like how in the book Dr Grant LIKED kids!!!

[northcat_8]

Still reading "The Art of War" and "When Pride Still Mattered".

[Capmaster]

I'm on book 34 of the 38 original Executioner series books by Don Pendleton.

[offline]

I love LoveCraft and especially enjoyed his stories
on hypnos. Tolkein is great; I've read most of his
fictional works several times. Michael Crichton is
good but he ran out of steam after the Coma series imo.

Never read Pendleton but his books look like
a good read. I enjoy a good crime novel and
love the classic and modern styles.

The Art of War is a classic but
Bushido: The Way of the Samurai is much better
as a philosophical approach to life imo.

I used to read a grear deal but these days I feel
too tired when I get the time. This sees me watching
movies instead .

[Blazey]

I'm still reading the Pokey Little Puppy.

[yoda313]

I'm still reading the Pokey Little Puppy.

Hello,



Did you get past the classic "See spot run"????

Kevin

[Capmaster]

Michael Crichton is
good but he ran out of steam after the Coma series imo

Don't you mean Robin Cook?

[pacmania_2001]

I'm reading white papers and case studies on city wide wireless networks. Yay!

After the next 2 weeks though I am going to start reading Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham and also the Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick.

[smearbrick1]

Just finished "The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower" by Stephen King... good series. Not a great ending, but it's all about the journey not the destination.

Next up... Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

[yoda313]

Hello,

Next up... Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

DON'T do it!! For all that's good and decent DON'T read that book!

I had to read that in my Sci Fi class I took in High School (yes there was such a thing! ). That was horrible. Disgusting too.

Kevin

[Faustus]

I read Cats Cradle not to long ago for the first time and loved it. Never read Slaughterhouse though.

[offline]

@ Capmaster

opps.. I meant Emergency Room. Robin Cook was enjoyable as well.


Cats Cradle is possibly Vonnegut's best (and scary) but I always had a fond
spot for Player Piano. Like you yoda313, I never got into Slaughterhouse Five. All that switching back and forth between and within timelines, the aliens wanting to watch sex and the revisited assination left me saying WTF?

hi de ho

Thanks to this thread I'm now re-reading The Legion of the Damned by Sven Hassel - may fav. war author.

[housepig]

right now, detouring into Dark Tower VII, while in the middle of The Emporer and the Wolf : The Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune.

also re-perusing Sleazoid Express looking for good exploitation flicks to track down.

[thecoalman]

Not reading anything in particular right now.... I've read most S.K. books but his recent ones have bored me.

Any J. Michener fans? I would suggest Texas Flaystus, I'm sure that would be right up you alley. If your unfamiliar Michner takes fictional characters and places them in a factual setting, most of his books will span century's if not more. Usually they start out with the original inhabitants many ceturies ago and work there way up to when he published it. Two others I would suggest is Chesapeake & Journey, Journey if you like shorter books. Unfortunatley I'm running out of Michner books to read

[northcat_8]

I really liked the book "Under the Bleachers" by Seamore Butts. It cracked me up

<um...alright...I'll go sit in the corner now >

[yoda313]

Hello,

I just finished the main part of "Return of the King".

Excellent story. The whole Lord of the Rings series is superb. I think Peter Jackson did a terrific job of doing the ending for KING after reading the actual text.

I will be starting the Appendixes shortly.

Kevin

[bazooka]

Star Trek:Imzadi.

[yoda313]

Star Trek:Imzadi.

Hello,

Good book!

Have you read Q in law???? Very funny.

Kevin

[bazooka]

Good book!

Have you read Q in law???? Very funny.

No on Q in law.

I have read imazdi about four times. I am rereading it.

I also have the sequel book.

The Triangle - Imazdi II.

In the triangle, Worf and Deanna Troi are a couple.

[Doramius]

I'm reading the MYST series again for like the 5th time. Love the series. I read them through in chronological order and play the games with the strategy guide to get through them in a couple hours. I've already preordered MYST 4. I can't wait for it. MYST is awesome.

[Guest]

Dr.Gee's Big Book of PAP Smears.

[smearbrick1]

"The Pop-Up Guide To Human Anatomy."

[Doramius]

Hands On Guides to Prostitution.

[yoda313]

Hello,

Advanced Post whoring 301!

Kevin

[bazooka]

Hello,

Advanced Post whoring 301!

Kevin

Professor Indolikaa Khan is a master and very good teacher.

[Doramius]

Touch & Feel: Female Anatomy

[sacajaweeda]

Splinter Of The Mind's Eye