Last Book You Read

[Drunk muser]

might have been done before.
So, what was the last book you read?

Mine was, 'Pote min pas monos sto taxidromio' by Stelios Kouloglou. It was about whether there can be love in a communist country. Nice one, I'd recommend it but I don't think it's been translated into English.

[Matthew]

i am currently reading - Max Barry - Jennifer Government, it's a great book

[oxnoe]

Right now im reading Oryx and Crake, from margaret atwood and l'ecume des jours from boris vian. Both really strange.

[Coffeebug]

I just finished reading Annie Proulx - Close Range (Wyoming Stories) It was an excellent read and I highly recommend it. I'm now reading If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor, which isn't as good, but its still pretty absorbing, which is the main thing.

[inn]

Last read: The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks :)

[elby]

The Wasp factory, what a novel!
The last book I read was one that came free with a magazine, a summer read.
I'm about a quarter of the way through Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky, but am having a break from it, I'm finding it very difficult to read.
I've just started to read Bleak House by Dickens.

[inn]

It got mentioned in some other thread so I thought I'd check it out, v wierd but good. I brought another novel by Banks today, Espedair street, and also another chuck palahniuk novel, Invisible monsters

[daniela]

ive started reading the master and marghertia:D well a couple of weeks ago when i was on a coach i read the first two chapters, havnt got round to any more reading since!

[Mort]

Last read The Lost Continent - Terry Pratchett... for the 5th time
Now reading Pyramids - Terry Pratchett, for the second time.

[Celtic Rose]

Currently reading Wyrd Sisters and Clockwork Orange.

[Superfuzz_Bigmuff]

High Society - Ben Elton

[Nancuk]

High Society - Ben Elton

I just finished that too. It's the last Ben Elton book I had to read, and one of the best, I rekon.

[Nikora]

Right now I'm slowly making my way through the Wheel of Time books (Robert Jordan)veerrrry slowly.........

[Mullin]

I have ben reading IT for like....for ever! It is taking me AGES! I just dont have time to read anymore :(

[Megalomaniac]

Last read:

One for the Money by Janet Evanovich.

Now reading:

Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich.

[i_love_flea]

the truth, terry pratchett

[Bjorny]

Cryptonomicon. Neal Stephenson

[kev]

ben elton dead famous.

[gia]

Hyperspace by Michio Kaku

[Hoppipolla]

You Don't Know Me, David Klass.

Now Reading: Warehouse by Keith Gray.

[reaper]

am reading the knight by gene wolfe

[CommunistOlga]

Stephen King - Wizard and Glass (book four in the Dark Tower series).

Now reading: Stephen King - Wolves of Callha (book five of the Dark Tower series).

I'm actually being logical for once :D

[the pearl guy]

touching the void-joe simpson. urge anyone to read it, tis class

[theimpressiveclergyman]

Just finished Brick Lane- rather good. :happy:
Also reading Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.

[Cheesy Grin]

I think mine was Stark - Ben Elton again what a guy. But I'd reccomend Gridlock or Popcorn to anyone who likes his work.

Getting Inside the Muscle Museum off a friend on tuesday, Anyone know if its as good as i want it to Be (which is very)

[debasemasonsgrog]

I'm currently reading "Fowl Play" by Scott Capurro.

[BlackStar]

Last book I read was Northern Lights
Currnet book I'm reading is The Subtle Knife. Brilliant books

[Niffil]

I think it was "Blade Runner - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Phillip K. Dick. And after reading it I really asked myself this question. Kinda interesting.

[philter]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
I've stolen this book from my friend's flat yesterday :cool:
Oh my Tomas, Tereza, and Sabina.
If I had a boyfriend like Tomas, who would I be---Tereza or Sabina...
That's the question...

[Gem]

'Join me' by Danny Wallace
and
'How to lose friends and alliante people' by Toby Young

Rawr.

[Princess of Everything]

The last book I read was Deception Point by Dan Brown
Currently reading The Empty Space by Peter Brook

[C]

'SALOMS LOT !!! it was exellent :happy:

[Mallowe]

The Fog, James Herbert.

Excellent! :happy:

[many years of feeling dead]

might have been done before.
So, what was the last book you read?

Mine was, 'Pote min pas monos sto taxidromio' by Stelios Kouloglou. It was about whether there can be love in a communist country. Nice one, I'd recommend it but I don't think it's been translated into English.
the last book i read was care s/nvq level 2

[TisWas]

Stupid White men, it's ok but is hard to tell how much is accurate seeing has Michael Moore has been critised heavely for including false facts and basing is arguements on them. Some bit's a i totaly agree with, but then there would be bits where he was simply being a hypocrite. One example is in the section where he decides to emulate Ghandi, but comes up with the best way to solve the Northern Ireland conflict by ethnic clensing!! Fine make it humorous in parts bot for this section he based all of it on ethnic clensing and not a single wise productive comment. Of course it shouldn't be Northern Ireland it should just be Ireland. But it aint gonna be given up by the British even if the Prostestants did convert. He then goes onto slate the Protestant faith because it isn't like the faith he follows of just having one leader.

Over rated book, but worth reading.

[Black tangled heart]

Albert Camus "The Plague"

I can't stand Michael Moore btw. ;)

[Hoppipolla]

Last read: Warehouse by Keith Gray
Reading: Creepers by Keith Gray
Next Read: Looking For JJ by Anne Cassidy OR Malarkey by Keith Gray (depends on if my order for Malarkey comes in quickly or not)

[Jette]

started in to the nines by janet evanovich few hours ago, the nineth volume of the stephanie plum series. i love those books

[Hoppipolla]

Michael Moore is so incrediby biased, and it's very annoying, but I've still managed to develop a liking for him.

[Nikora]

Eye of the World - Robert Jordan

now onto book 2........

[Hoppipolla]

Eye of the World - Robert Jordan

now onto book 2........

Also Robert Jordan?

Has anyone heard of/read a Keith Gray book?

[Nikora]

Also Robert Jordan?

Has anyone heard of/read a Keith Gray book?
Yes, the Wheel of Time series
and sorry I've only heard of him, haven't read any of his books

[TisWas]

Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. Like it alot starts of good but has alot of sillyness that i hated in Bored of the Rings. The good thing though it was constricted to a few sentences here and there in the book, Bored of the rings was an entire book of sillyness. But once the story gets going and the imagination of Douglas Adams sets in it becomes a brillaint book. Can't wait to read the other books in the series. Only problem is the publishers over pricing them.

[Eternally Missed]

Last Book: La sombra del viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (I really recommend it, it has been translated into English).

Commentary of the book (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/002-6927463-7108036)

Now reading: Wuthering Heights... ups... maybe I should have buyed it in spanish instead of english.

Next Book: I don't know, I have L'Étrangere by Camus... to say the truth... I have more than 10 books waiting to be readed...

[Noodles]

Recently read the Run Diary, The Master and Margarita and I just finished Chopper. I only started it yesterday. :(

[JoBear]

The Anti Social Family by Michele Barrett and Mary McIntosh. Excellent marxist feminist theorists who aren't actually over the top, mostly on the ideology surrounding family/marriage/domestic labour that has subordinated women. It was for academic purposes but I really enjoyed it.

[Hoppipolla]

Yes, the Wheel of Time series
and sorry I've only heard of him, haven't read any of his books

It's a bit more my age than yours I guess. Seems even juvenile for moi at times, therefore I'd say it's aimed at an even lower target. :unsure: Oh well. :happy:

[*glam*]

ETA Hoffmann: Murr's memories

[€ngel]

The Holcroft Pact - Robert Ludlum. What a struggle... :(

[i_love_flea]

I'm reading 'bullet points' by Mark Watson. I am really enjoying it. :happy:

[Hysterical Cat]

Eye of the World - Robert Jordan

now onto book 2........

Stick with 'em Yasdnil, it's quite a sizable series but it's worth it.

Bit gutted about book 11 - I thought it was due out in Jan/Feb 2005, but just found out it's not being published until October :mad:

[Hysterical Cat]

I've run out of books to read, can't afford new books and i'm too lazy to go to the library :'(

so i'm rereading Methuselah's Children by Robert A Heinlein

[inn]

Still rereading high fidelity by Nick Hornby (a little behind on reading lately) and hehe I'm loving it all over again :)

[Superfuzz_Bigmuff]

A Drink With Shane MacGowan by Shane MacGowan and his bitch. Strange.

[FUCKmeUPtheARSE]

The last book I read was "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" by Lynne Truss.

It is good :)

[challis]

i just finished fear and loathing in las vegas by Hunter s thompson and have now started harry potter. But i await the dark tower finising book...thats gonna be sooo good!

[Jette]

ira levin's a kiss before dying. i havent yet finished it though

[Drunk muser]

im reading Guards!Guards!.
oh, and The catcher in the rye for the 3rd time, for school. :indiff:

[fiona_j]

Re-reading Harry Potter 4 and Albert Camus's The Plague (or La Peste as is it's original title).

Before that was a book called Self Defence by someone I can't remember. Its a crime novel thingy.

Next on the list is the IgNobel Prizes. Sounds interesting!

fi x

[LikelyLass]

Finished Alex Garland's The Coma

I'm kinda disspointed to be honest :(

[How To Be Dead]

Interesting read.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v26/thiefoftime/Picture50.jpg

[sned]

i just finished fear and loathing in las vegas by Hunter s thompson and have now started harry potter. But i await the dark tower finising book...thats gonna be sooo good!


yeah i also just finished Fear and Loathing. Have you seen the film? it has johnny depp in it!

its so funny. the mental images i had while reading it were quite disturbing :$

i think there's like a sequel or something.

now im trying to read 1984 by George Orwell... i find it hard to get into books though - i stick to magazines!

[Nikora]

Interesting read.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v26/thiefoftime/Picture50.jpg
I've actually heard it to be so, I just need to get my hands on a copy, been meaning to read it for some time

[Hysterical Cat]

The last book I read was "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" by Lynne Truss.

It is good :)

Ohhh that's such a book I want!

I hate people who can't get punctuation correct!

I want that book!

[CommunistOlga]

Ohhh that's such a book I want!

I hate people who can't get punctuation correct!

I want that book!
I want it too.
I saw it on sale when I was on holiday, I'm such a twit, I should have bought it :(

[Pearl]

Bridget Jones' Diary. What a huge pile of cack.

[challis]

yeah i also just finished Fear and Loathing. Have you seen the film? it has johnny depp in it!

its so funny. the mental images i had while reading it were quite disturbing :$

i think there's like a sequel or something.

now im trying to read 1984 by George Orwell... i find it hard to get into books though - i stick to magazines!

Yeah the film is cool but not as good as the book. There isn't a direct sequel but i think there's a book called the rum diaries thats also by hunter s thomson.
I just finished harry potter 1st book and am about to read this

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0340827211.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

came out today :D

[ava]

the last book i read was "jij, jij en jij"
the story really touched me

[Drakijn]

"retribution" by jilliane hoffman.

good book but it made me feel a bit sick sometimes :unsure: i'm never gonna read a book during lunch again :p

[Hoppipolla]

I want it too.
I saw it on sale when I was on holiday, I'm such a twit, I should have bought it :(

My brother has it. I read the first chapter or so a year ago(ish) and thought I'd come back to it when I'd more time on my hands, and less books on my list. I've only two books to get through before I'm free to read it... So hurrah. will do good for my english exam too... or so my parents will be forced believe.

[evora]

i'm ending the reading of "great myths of the XX century" by jorge livraga, a writer from argentina/italia. its about different points of view of those great myths: equality - endless progress- neo-racionalism - nazi - democracia - marxism...

[CommunistOlga]

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0340827211.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

:eek:

!

I really need to get that...
*Sigh*
My sister promised to get me a copy, but something tells me it'll be months yet :indiff: I need my tower, darnit...

[Nikora]

Yet another series of books I keep meaning to read :stunned: my list is growing.......*sigh*

[suki]

I had to read How the Other Half Lives for my history class.

[challis]

:eek:

!

I really need to get that...
*Sigh*
My sister promised to get me a copy, but something tells me it'll be months yet :indiff: I need my tower, darnit...


60 pages in and it is soooooooooooo good :cool: get it from amazon.....

[CommunistOlga]

60 pages in and it is soooooooooooo good :cool: get it from amazon.....
Oh, that's where my sis is getting it from. I'd order it myself, but postage takes around a month and costs a bitch... But I might just get my copy on the 8th of October if I'm lucky.
*Crosses fingers*
So it's good, eh?
I've seen info on it, and one site said it was over 800 pages long!
If that's true, I'll spend an hour whooping and cheering. I adore it when books are big, then they actually stand a chance of lasting at least a week :LOL:

[challis]

Oh, that's where my sis is getting it from. I'd order it myself, but postage takes around a month and costs a bitch... But I might just get my copy on the 8th of October if I'm lucky.
*Crosses fingers*
So it's good, eh?
I've seen info on it, and one site said it was over 800 pages long!
If that's true, I'll spend an hour whooping and cheering. I adore it when books are big, then they actually stand a chance of lasting at least a week :LOL:


the books massive....about 800 or so pages i think.hard back so i look really intelligent sitting on the train to work.
Its started off at quite a quick pace and it hasn't really slowed down after 60 odd pages......it seems a little more horror than the usual dark tower books.

[rigor mortiz]

breakfast of champions - kurt vonnegut

all hail kilgore trout! :D

i'm currently reading george orwelle's "burmese days." thanks, les!

[a320]

last book was stupif white men by michael moore

now reading

llove & death, the murder of kurt cobain :p

[philter]

These days I don't read books, I don't see any movies, I don't do anything. I think I'm becoming a fool... The only thing I do is some online games. Silly! What should I do? :'( The Unbearable Lightness of Being is my last book I read a month ago. For a month I didn't even read the weekly film magazine I've always read for over 5 years.

[challis]

i just finished the last dark tower book.....everyone that likes fantasy should read it.... :cool:

[Bewilders]

i have just finished reading "inside the muscle museum" by ben myers about muse for the 5th time now. well done ben for making the first biography book and a good one!!! :rolleyes:

[the pearl guy]

just started "the beckoning silence" by joe simpson... gripping book. must read

[Freddy]

The Edge Chronicles, any body read them? They are pretty good! :)

[Grapevine]

I didn't read much for a little while, but currently its Bill Bryson "Neither here nor there" pretty good so far.

[Muser_Hullabaloser]

The last book I read was IT by Stephen King.

http://www.hopefulwriter.co.uk/bookshelf/it86x140.jpg


I hate that fucking clown. :eek:

http://www.electricferret.com/battle/contenders/pennywise_1.jpg

He's scary shit :eek: :$

[Ullalume]

Girlfriend in a coma and I'm Not Scared. I wasn't sure what to think about Girlfriend in a coma...it was good and bad at the same time i thought...a bit strange. Not too bad though. I'm not scared i thought was great...until the end..which i suppose was great in its own way..but it annoyed the hell out of me 'cos you don't know what happens!

[Mort]

The Truth for about the 5th time
Now reading The Hogfather for about the 9th.

[Fux]

Mr.Bump was my last book. I was sorting stuff out in the shed and found about 15 of Roger Hargreaves' Mr. Men books. brings me back to childhood.

moving on from childrens books, I'm thinking of reading Prozac Nation next.



http://www.electricferret.com/battle/contenders/pennywise_1.jpg



ARGHHH ugly fuck! I hate him. if my mate saw that, she'd probably crap her daks..she had nightmares. haha

[klothkat]

Last book was Dark Secrets by Martin Amis. DIdn't like it much...... :indiff:

Currently reading Gorky Park by Martin Cruz-Smith. :)

[UnintendedSober]

Dude Where's My Country - Michael Moore
Funny and Slags Bush off. What more could you need.

[Freddy]

One of my favourite series of books is Artemis Fowl

[Nikora]

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy (and other stories), Tim Burton

Yes it's a book.....

[Steven_K]

been reading the S.D Perry, Resident Evil novels, up to "City of the Dead" at the moment

[blank]

i just finished reading Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo, it was so amazing but Birdsong is still the best book I've ever read.

[Bexie]

Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli. So beautiful. My aunt nicked it off me lol :rolleyes:

[Oratorio]

Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli. So beautiful. My aunt nicked it off me lol :rolleyes:

I bought that ages ago and ihaven't read it. Come to think of it, where the hell did I put it! :stunned: :confused: :unsure:

[Llama]

educating peter - BOLLOCKS.

[because]

Join Me!

[incubism]

Tess of the d'Urbervilles..just beautiful! :happy:

reading Hemingway - The Sun also Rises now..extremely boring! :indiff:

[kobain]

Bladerunner.
a.k.a: Do androids dream of electric sheep?

[Mikhail Gorbachev]

The Golden Dawn guide to Enochian Magick.

Wahey.

[SacredSilence]

I`m nearing the end of "The Amber Spyglass" which is is the last in a trilogy by Phillip Pullman and are referred to as his "dark materials"...Good read if you have an opinion on religion (from both sides of the coin) ..

*Iek* ..Made em sound pants now..But they`re really good books if you get what they`re about ;)

[shackadeema]

The last book i read was, Heavier than Heaven, the biography of Kurt Cobain.
It was really good and it had things i never knew about him.

[moment41]

Just finished High Rise by J.G Ballard. Strange, no unnecessary repetition or 'explaining' chapters and overall very good. Reads like a deranged, intelligent soap opera, if you're into that type of thing.

[Ness]

I last read Great Expectations, which was quite good, but I'm reading David Copperfield at the moment and I love it. :D

[contemplation]

I've just finished the blackadder script book, BlackAdder ~ the Whole Damn Dynasty, and now I'm onto Trading Reality

[Mort]

The Golems Eye - Jonathan Stroud

now back onto Men At rms - Terry Pratchett

[Black Velvet]

It hasn't really got a title, it goes about a girl that lost her mother and gets in the wrong world after it

[theimpressiveclergyman]

A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

[SacredSilence]

It hasn't really got a title, it goes about a girl that lost her mother and gets in the wrong world after it

Are you talking about the books i`ve just finished reading? They`re a Trilogy by Phillip Pullman..."The Northern Lights"...The Subtle Knife" and "The Amber Spyglass" ....Is the girl called Lyra and the people have Daemons etc?

They were kewl books :D ...Hope you read them in the right order otherwise they won`t make sense =/

[philter]

I last read Great Expectations, which was quite good, but I'm reading David Copperfield at the moment and I love it. :D
Chapter 1. I was born.

:)

[philter]

A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
I've given up finishing that book.
Every single line was too long for me...
:(
I guess you have great perseverance.

[theimpressiveclergyman]

I've given up finishing that book.
Every single line was too long for me...
:(
I guess you have great perseverance.
Easier if you've seen the film.
The book's rather more disturbing though.

[SacredSilence]

Easier if you've seen the film.
The book's rather more disturbing though.


The film bored me o_O

[greatbigsquirrel]

my parent's mail- just ran to get it.
ooops, you meant book. lol
i hated bridget jones diary. i thought it was so boring and silly i didn't even bother to finish it. :indiff:

books-
hyperspace-Kaku. find myself pausing to digest it. it's a great feeling to know some people stop to think of the same odd stuff as i do. not only that, they get PAID to do it. awesome. :happy:

all of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy books- douglas adams. i loved these books! so funny.
and what they were doing when they learned to fly was classic. :LOL:

the 7th dark tower book!!!!!!!- i love stephen king man.
i read this book in 3 DAYS!!
i've read most of king's books.

that's been the last month or so's reading.
SO SPEAKETH THE SQUIRREL-ETH. ETH. um...*cough cough*

[Ness]

Chapter 1. I was born.

:)
:LOL: Heheh I know. It's great. Dickens is such a legend.
Edit : lol I just saw that on your bio!! :LOL: funny.

[ghetto_game]

.

[elby]

I read Bob Dylan's biography, the communist manifesto and On the Road by Jack Kerouac at the same time, I'm reading "North and South" at the moment for school, it sucks so badly, it really does.

Nice choice of books!

[ghetto_game]

.

[Ullalume]

'i'm not scared' It was rather good. I'm reading Blindness at the moment which has had an ok start.

[Magdalena]

Some strange book called "Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett.

[incubism]

Hemingway - The Sun also Rises

not what I expected..quite boring even..

[philter]

:LOL: Heheh I know. It's great. Dickens is such a legend.
Edit : lol I just saw that on your bio!! :LOL: funny.
Yep I really like him. lol.
The first line of Great Expectations is funnier --- My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. :LOL:

[elby]

:D Thank you! I'm going to read Dylans autobiography "Chronicles" next, my girlfriend bought it for me on our one year anniversary. What about you?

Nothing as interesting I'm afraid.
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Bleak House by Charles Dickens

and also a load of theoretical books on American culture in the 1950s.

[tisoy]

Just finished reading, 'A crying shame - Renate Dorrenstein' quite good besides the fact I had to write 2 essays on it

[greatbigsquirrel]

i'm reading an underground education by richard zacks...
a book i have laying around the house that i've read a few times.
have to read something, and i haven't got a car to get me henceforth to the library.
anyone read the stainless steel rat books?
i love them!
it's classic sci-fi, yet amzingly funny.
i couldn't even make it halfway through the first chapter without having to pause and laugh for a few minutes.

[Princess of Everything]

I just finished reading Glue by Irvine Welsh and it was great! I love all his books anyway but I love how he brings in all the characters and events from other books he's written. Incredible. And it made me cry.

[Magdalena]

Finally finished "Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett, it's so strange.
And the ending...would make an interesting film though.

[ava]

last book i read was: the shining from stephen king, i enjoyed it but it's not that special

now i'm reading "raadselkind" free translation misterychild, about an autistic child, it's very emotional

[greatbigsquirrel]

there's only been maybe one or two books that have made me come close to crying...
i was really depressed and read the black cat by poe, and that made me close, only cause i still got really emotional over people killing cats...
and heavier than heaven almost made me cry. buuut, as an emotionally messed up person, i don't cry over books.
no offense to people that do.

[kira hrochova]

Arthur C. Clarke- Space Oddyssey 2010

[greatbigsquirrel]

(8) spaaace deeeementia in your eyes and peeeeace will arise, and tear us apart.....(8)

actually, i wrote a song last ngiht based around the disease of space dementia.... not like muse's.

AACK!!! I NEED SOME NEW BOOKS! i should hazard the trip to the library.

[Superfuzz_Bigmuff]

Dark Debts by Karen Hall, I think. Feel free to correct me.

[inn]

Last read Espedair street by Iain Banks

[Magdalena]

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, god how disappointing.

[greatbigsquirrel]

i agree. :indiff:
that's one of the few books i put down out of sheer disgust.

i'm almost done with "christine" by stephen king

[RainbowInYourJailCell]

i'm in the middle of 'the book, the film, the t-shirt'. it's very good :)

[RudeGurl]

"Moon : Life and Death of a Rock Legend" - Tony Fletcher

Best...damn...book.. EVER! i don't think anyone lived a cooler life than moon the loon

[hysteriac123]

just finished: trainspotting by irvine welsh :)

[greatbigsquirrel]

oh my god. was the book as freaky as the movie?
that dead baby freaked me right the hell out.

although it was kind of funny when he swam into the toilet to get the suppository.

[challis]

harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban

[SacredSilence]

just finished: trainspotting by irvine welsh :)


I`ve not read the book but the film rocks :D

I must read that sometime...

[Shinybiscuit]

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Again. Oh....I'm so sad.

[hysteriac123]

I`ve not read the book but the film rocks :D

I must read that sometime...


i want to see the film!!! ..maybe this weekend :rolleyes:

[philter]

just finished: trainspotting by irvine welsh :)
Irvine Welsh is so popular and famous, but why not Alexander Trocchi who wrote Young Adam? Has anyone ever read Young Adam?

[SacredSilence]

i want to see the film!!! ..maybe this weekend :rolleyes:


hehe i have it on dvd ;) :D

[hysteriac123]

hehe i have it on dvd ;) :D

i don't even have a video player.. and the DVDplayer only works sometimes :$ .. gotta hope some one else wants to watch films with me :D

[Oli]

Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, reading "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Nietzsche at the moment. Well, trying to.

[greatbigsquirrel]

forgot to mention i finished "prodigal summer" by barbara kingsolver.

thinking of her, read poisonwood bible if you haven't. great, great book.

kingsolver seems a little preoccupied with sex in her books though. :confused:

[SacredSilence]

i don't even have a video player.. and the DVDplayer only works sometimes :$ .. gotta hope some one else wants to watch films with me :D


Awww...I would...But u live too far away :(

[glasskite]

I've just finished reading Angels and Demons, and the Da Vinci Code. Both by Dan Brown. I'm liking the man's stuff.

[philter]

A short story called "The Muse" by Anthony Burgess.
The title attracted my attention.
If it attracts yours aswell, read it, you'll never regret.
It's a story about the journey backwards through time to the middle ages.
The main character goes to that time era in order to find whether it's true or not that Shakespeare wrote those famous works we know nowadays.
The result he finally gets is interesting and funny... somehow.

[hysteriac123]

Awww...I would...But u live too far away :(

thnxs anyway :) :p .. i'm gonna watch it next weekend :D , i found someone ;)

[greatbigsquirrel]

i just finishyed some book about the beauty of history and fashion trends and something like that.
and it was pretty cool.
i just can't remeber the title right now. :LOL:

[greatbigsquirrel]

Nemesis: the death star- richard miller

pretty cool.
worth the read.
gives a possible explanation to the periodical nature of mass extinctions.
BOOM! S'plosions... :LOL:

[shackadeema]

troy- adele geras


its a really good book and iv read it before, its one of my faveorites.

[Princess of Everything]

I finished The Marabou Stork Nightmares the other day and I have a few pages left of The Acid House. I looooooooove Irvine Welsh.

[philter]

Amelie Nothomb - Cosmetique de l'ennemi.
Small, cute, juicy-looking book.
But contrary to my expectation, it was handling a quite nasty and embarrassing circumstance.
Even though it seemed obvious that the writer tried to give a sort of rude awakening at the end of the book, the plot was quite predictable. I guess that's why I was not as impressed as I expected.
If you are delayed over an hour at the airport, try this book.


http://image.libro.co.kr/book_img/4754/0100005436474_00.jpg

[*glam*]

i know that name has she written any other books?

[philter]

Yes... quite many.
Hygiène de l'Assassin

Le Sabotage Amoureux

Les Combustibles

Les Catilinaires

Péplum

L'existence de Dieu

Attentat

Mercure

Stupeur et Tremblements

Le mystère par excellence

Brillant comme une casserole

Métaphysique des tubes

Sans Nom

Aspirine

Cosmétique de l'ennemi

Robert des noms propres

Antéchrista

[greatbigsquirrel]

pigs in heaven- barbara kingsolver.

doesn't move quite as well as some of her other books, but still kinda entertaining.

[philter]

Shakespeare - one of Gallimard's Decouvertes series.
Umm I'm still wondering if Shakespeare actually existed or not. Haha
Nice illustrations, cool materials.
;)


http://image.libro.co.kr/book_img/1002/250660_8972593184.jpg

[Sneebs]

Number 10, by Sue Townsend. Prime Minister Edward Clare goes round Britain in drag to try and get to know the average person, along with the policeman who stands outside his front door.

Also, I read Oryx and Crake, which is just fantastic and deserves a mention :)

[Keope Claus]

misery by stephen king, now reading the shining

[Sketch]

misery by stephen king, now reading the shining

Hmm, I heard the movie adaption of the shining was really creepy, how's the book?

[Sketch]

Last read 'The Palace of Tears', now reading 'The Four Temperaments', and going to read either 'Wuthering Heights' or 'Life of Pi' :D I'm a bookworm.

Has anyone read 'The Black Sword Trilogy' by JV Jones?

[greatbigsquirrel]

Hmm, I heard the movie adaption of the shining was really creepy, how's the book?

best version is the kubrick version. i don't care if king didn't like it. it is perfection.

Why some like it hot: food, genes, and cultural diversity by gary paul newman.
fast paced and very very interesting.
i think it's kind of amusing that there might finally be an answer to why i adore and crave kosher food so much. lol
i don't know my polish or welsh family members, so i would never know traditonal food, but i find it interesting it's probably more healthy for me than what's healthy for my siblings or parents.

[rockchik]

The Graft by Martina Cole, twas excellent!!!! i started it y'day n finished it earlier this evening, just couldnt put it down

[Saaz]

1984, George Orwell
Pretty damn good

[philter]

best version is the kubrick version. i don't care if king didn't like it. it is perfection.

Why some like it hot: food, genes, and cultural diversity by gary paul newman.
fast paced and very very interesting.
i think it's kind of amusing that there might finally be an answer to why i adore and crave kosher food so much. lol
i don't know my polish or welsh family members, so i would never know traditonal food, but i find it interesting it's probably more healthy for me than what's healthy for my siblings or parents.
off topic: what a cool sig.

http://www.artchive.com/graphics/selfport.jpg

[Ribcage]

....and going to read either 'Wuthering Heights' or 'Life of Pi' .....

both great books :)

last book i read wsa called the genesis code :)

[SacredSilence]

I`ve nearly finished reading "The Dark" by James Herbert...

When it`s finished i have to read Charlie & The Chocolate factory cos my lil one got it for me for christmas and he`s dying for me to read it bless :D

[greatbigsquirrel]

off topic: what a cool sig.

http://www.artchive.com/graphics/selfport.jpg

someone stole my sig and turned it in to something else!?
unthinkable. lol
hell, mine was just a cob job on paint with some pics i had in my computer.
i was bored.

[Magdalena]

Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code
Forgot the author - Der Proffessor [Alright. Strange ending.]
Forgot the author - Ein Funke Leben [Biography of a teenager with cancer who has 2 years to live. Very sad.]

[itstentotwelve]

well, i'm reading the hitchhiker's guide to the universe (picked the 'trilogy in four parts' for 6 bucks, ah what a steal. last actually book i've read was the curious incident of the dog at night-time (which was quite sad), and the other book i am reading is sherlock holmes....the book i should be reading for school is 'the plague.'

[itstentotwelve]

both great books :)

last book i read wsa called the genesis code :)
i agree! i can't believe how good wuthering heights actually was.


pfff, the da vinci code had a crap ending.

[Keope Claus]

Hmm, I heard the movie adaption of the shining was really creepy, how's the book?
seems quite creepy but i'm stii at chapter 3 part 1, i aint got time to read now

[Eve]

I'm re-reading 'Sybil' by Flora Rheta Schreiber (written mid-60's). It's about a woman with Multiple Personality Syndrome (MPS), she had 16 different persona's (!). Intriguing and very touching book. True story. Highly recommended!

[oxymoron]

1984, George Orwell
Pretty damn good

I'm gunna read that one next.... i've heard its a good en!...
I'm reading "One flew over the cuckoos nest" at the moment.... hmmmm interesting....

[Superfuzz_Bigmuff]

The Body by Steven King.

[Sephoraxxx]

Also just finished 'Brick Lane' - great book with insight to a community i didn't know much about.

Before that was George Orwell's '1984' - if dystopian novels is your thing.

I'm gonna start Catch 22 no...been meaning to for ages.

[Ribcage]

I'm re-reading 'Sybil' by Flora Rheta Schreiber (written mid-60's). It's about a woman with Multiple Personality Syndrome (MPS), she had 16 different persona's (!). Intriguing and very touching book. True story. Highly recommended!

thats one of my all time favourite books. it caused quite a murmur amongst the lireracy world did it not?

[Eve]

thats one of my all time favourite books. it caused quite a murmur amongst the lireracy world did it not?
It did indeed. After the book was published, over 40.000 new cases of MPD were diagnosed, prior to the publication there were hardly any. Nowadays it's not even clear whether or not it's an actual illness or 'simply' a self-protection-system of the patient who devised imaginary friends to protect him/herself from the evil outside world.

And about Sybil: some doctors/physicians/psychologists think her doctor (Cornelia Wilbur) devised all of Sybil's multiple personalities herself. I don't know what to think of it.... I can hardly believe it's not real, having read the book, but I'm not a psychologist of course...

[ok_computer]

mullisch - siegfried

[Murray]

The Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper

Absolutely hilarious!

[SacredSilence]

I'm re-reading 'Sybil' by Flora Rheta Schreiber (written mid-60's). It's about a woman with Multiple Personality Syndrome (MPS), she had 16 different persona's (!). Intriguing and very touching book. True story. Highly recommended!


Have you seen the film of this?? It`s excellent..I`ve not read the book...But will look for it!

[tjej]

Enduring Love - Ian McEwan. (sp?) Fantastic. I read it in a day. I really couldn't put it down.

[Ribcage]

And about Sybil: some doctors/physicians/psychologists think her doctor (Cornelia Wilbur) devised all of Sybil's multiple personalities herself. I don't know what to think of it.... I can hardly believe it's not real, having read the book, but I'm not a psychologist of course...

oh yes I read about that too and like yourself I wasn't sure what too believe. For someone to have suffered as much as sybil I want to believe that those "imaginary friends" were real and that they somehow helped her get on wiht her life. If her doctor did make it up then that really does make one wonder.

[Pajoon]

Enduring Love - Ian McEwan. (sp?) Fantastic. I read it in a day. I really couldn't put it down.

I made a topic about that, but no-one replied so I assumed I was the only one with good taste. Anyway, last book I read was The Dirt by Tommy Lee :happy:

[elby]

I read Enduring Love for AS English.
It was ok, I'm sure, however, that I would have preferred it if it hadn't been forced on me!

Just read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.

Just begun to read the new Patricia Cornwell novel, 'Trace'.
The first non-university related book I have read for a long, long time.
I'm so happy!

[sheep1989]

Has anyone read 'The looking glass wars' by Frank Beddor?
Or 'across the Nightingale floor', 'Grass For His pillow' &'Brilliance of the moon' by Lian Hearn?

[Sketch]

both great books :)

last book i read wsa called the genesis code :)

Finished both of them. Both very good, 'Life of Pi' really made me sad though :'( It isn't a true story though, is it?

[Blisster]

I just finished reading slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. Why haven't anybody told me what a good author he is? The only reason I gave it a go was that i read somewhere that he was Douglas Adams' (Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy) favourite author. Loved it.

[Decades]

Albert Camus' "The Outsider", short, but with a lot of meaning...

[Ribcage]

Finished both of them. Both very good, 'Life of Pi' really made me sad though :'( It isn't a true story though, is it?

I loved it :) it was so so humourous and poignant and and so many words to describe it and no it wasnt a true story :)

[inn]

I finished Espediar Street by Iain banks, and I have now randomly started Soul music by Terry Prattchet

[greatbigsquirrel]

did anyone ever read the hank the cowdog series?
i used to love that back in the day.
might have been easy reads, but they made me laugh so hard. :LOL:
i mean, come ON, the stuttering vulture made it all worthwhile.

[Fux]

Children's Questions and Answers.

Really, it was interesting. I learnt about the 'Elephant Man'.

[Sketch]

I loved it :) it was so so humourous and poignant and and so many words to describe it and no it wasnt a true story :)

yeh, it was excellent. I especially loved the end bit when he's being questioned by the two men, and keeps on asking for cookies. :D

[Ullalume]

The last book i completely read was The facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios by Yann Martel, which had some very good stories in it...expecially the title story. However there have been books i was reading before that which i have yet to have finished, they include Blindness by jose saramago (i think) Self by Yann Martel, The Motorcycle Diaries- che guevara, Life after God -douglas coupland, Vernon God Little - DBC pierre and Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami (which i've picked up again now i've finished the helsinki one).

[Ullalume]

I loved it :) it was so so humourous and poignant and and so many words to describe it and no it wasnt a true story :)
that bit with the boot made me laugh.

[Ullalume]

Has anyone read 'The looking glass wars' by Frank Beddor?
Or 'across the Nightingale floor', 'Grass For His pillow' &'Brilliance of the moon' by Lian Hearn?
I've read across the nightingale floor which i thought was great, and i have grass for his pillow, i started it, but put it down and haven't picked it back up.

[Magdalena]

What girls learn - karen someone or the other.
Story about two daughers whose mother gets cancer & dies. So sad :(

[ummagumma]

Last Book I read was The Shining, then i was just spending a little time looking through my autobiography of Monty Python and I am now reading 'Salems Lot.....

:D

[greatbigsquirrel]

:p
been forgetting to come on here and post. lol

i finished the elegant universe by brian greene.
fills in a few holes from hyperspace, but not as laugh out loud funny as hyperspace. ;)

i'm going to read some stainless steel rat books now.
workign on stainless steel rat joins the circus, but it's not really as good as the other books i've read of the series.
this one's kind of jumpy.


......
you know, maybe people are right. i am a sci-fi nerd. *wails pitifully*

[BelleAmie]

1984, George Orwell
Pretty damn good

The Greatest Book Ever Written, in my opinion. As a pessimistic cynic, I was delighted to find a book that doesn't have a sentimental happy-ever-after but still manages to satisfy. :rolleyes: :happy:

Has anyone read Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre? It's basically a 21st century version of Catcher in The Rye - and in the words of the Vernon himself, it "fucken rocks" :D

[That Little Animal]

Last "book" I read was the script for Pulp Fiction. Not much of apiece of art, but I had never read a script before so it was quite an experience.

Anyone read The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch? I want to know if it's worth buying..

[greatbigsquirrel]

i just got done with The Stailess Steel Rat Joins the Circus by harry harrison.
not as good as the others in my opinion.
the dialogue and writing was very choppy, and it wasn't as funny as the others.

[Ullalume]

The Greatest Book Ever Written, in my opinion. As a pessimistic cynic, I was delighted to find a book that doesn't have a sentimental happy-ever-after but still manages to satisfy. :rolleyes: :happy:

Has anyone read Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre? It's basically a 21st century version of Catcher in The Rye - and in the words of the Vernon himself, it "fucken rocks" :D
I started Vernon God Little after my cousin said it was the best book he had ever read. I can't stand the way he spells Fucken. I've put it down for now, i couldn't get into it, after i've read Kafka on the shore i might pick it up but i've got about 3 other books to read aswell.

[Sonny Jim]

I just started reading THE WISHLIST by eoin colfer the guy who wrote artemis fowl. So far is areally good book.

[theimpressiveclergyman]

Just finished Girlfriend In A Coma by Douglas Coupland- good stuff.
Plus you can play Spot the Smiths References. :happy:

[Ullalume]

Just finished Girlfriend In A Coma by Douglas Coupland- good stuff.
Plus you can play Spot the Smiths References. :happy:
Not bad, not great.

[Wibbly Wibby]

Do graphic novels count? If so, Marvels by Alex Ross. If not, ooh... Wuthering Heights.

[lottie2002]

i'm at this moment reading 'a tale of two cities' from Charles Dickens... minor note here: it's for English class, i would've never picked a book like this just for fun, i don't like it at all :indiff: ... too bad, i'm at page 60-something, and there are 140 pages in this version (i have to have it read before this friday, and also have made a report about it :indiff: )... why do i have it then? because i didn't feel any need for pushing through 20 people who were all pushing in a space of 1.5 square meter to get the thinnest book possible, so i reached through them, grabbed the first book i could feel, and took it... stupid me :indiff:

if this doesn't count, then the last thing i 'read' was a book about Finland ;) ... the last real readingbook i read was 'Rico's vleugels' (Rico's wings), for Dutch class, but i actually enjoyed that one :happy:

[Magdalena]

At the moment, I'm reading 'Pearl' by Frank Delaney. It's quite disturbing and a bit depressing.

[Jook]

Since X-Mas:

Battle Royale
Are You Dave Gorman?
Join Me
Googlewhack Adventure
The first two Adrian Mole books

[Larsen B]

I am currently reading, in no particular order...

Goodfellas - Nicolas Pillegi
Burmese Days - George Orwell
Gulag, A History Of The Soviet Camps - Anne Applebaum

I also have a load of books waiting to be read, I really must stop going into Music Zone and buying cheap books until I've read the ones I have...

[SacredSilence]

Just finished Fluke by Stephen King..

Now reading "A series Of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket

[Keys]

Just finished Fluke by Stephen King..

Now reading "A series Of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket
Structure in fives - henry mintzberg

i would recommend this book to anyone who wants to stab pins in their eyes :D

[Shinybiscuit]

Kidnapped by R.L Stevenson

Come on, the oldies are the goodies!

[MONKEH]

not the end of the world - christopher brookmyre (methinks that be his last name)

murders, explosions, facial scarring, atheism (apparently it's bad), bad hair, blood, sex, christian evangelical terrorists, porn, milita, and a scottish bloke.

all jolly good fun.

i'm going to start another one of his books tonight 'quite ugly one morning' apparently it features a corpse chopped up like beef. yay!

[Matchoo]

I re read "Atonement" by Ian McEwan just because it's an amazing book, and am not reading "Saturday" by Ian McEwan as well...

[Rocky Raccoon]

I'm reading The Stupidest Angel right now.

[philter]

I'm reading Harry Potter 5...Harry just kissed Cho...hee

[Ribcage]

Finished Sickened by Julie Gregory

Now reading The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

[azima]

just finished prozac nation - elizabeth wurtzel

now reading the rum diary - hunter s thompson

Xxx

[Kathryn]

Lord of the Flies - for my GCSE lit exam! The crappest ending ever written!

[Magdalena]

Song of Kali by Dan Simmons.
(read the German version called Goettin des Todes.)
Freakkkky >_<

[Ribcage]

Lord of the Flies - for my GCSE lit exam! The crappest ending ever written!

Really? Why do you not like the ending?

[|Cypher|]

Of Mice And Men, good read that. :)

GCSE English, good 4-5 years ago. :LOL:

[Kathryn]

Really? Why do you not like the ending?

Its rubbish - they could at least burn him and then get rescued!

[Coffeebug]

Of Mice And Men, good read that. :)

GCSE English, good 4-5 years ago. :LOL:

Hehehe.. not much of a fan of reading then, huh?

(Spoilers)
Lord of the Flies was slightly uncomfortable reading for me at school, because I'd just developed epilepsy, and then I had to sit in a class full of people and discuss why they beat the epileptic kid to death :$

[progmetalfan]

In the process of readin America: The Book. The Daily Show writers and Jon Stewart are THE BEST. Such a funny book and great to read since I have to do so much serious reading every week for courses at university. Even if do like to do that reading as well, but isn't nearly as funny. :p

[Josh]

I am currently reading Mort by Terry Pratchett, very good writer...good fantasy stuff. :cool:

The last book i read was this Samuri thingy book which was really intresting. :happy: :cool:

[Drunk muser]

http://board.muse.mu/showthread.php?t=7593

[Argeiphontes]

nope...and as i was explaining to someone the other day, i have been in the 14th chapter of the Iliad for the past 2 years.

[Josh]

http://board.muse.mu/showthread.php?t=7593Oop my fault for not useing search...i'm such a n000000b!
Well balls!
A mod will have to delete it then. ;)
Thanks by the way.

[Drunk muser]

Oop my fault for not useing search...i'm such a n000000b!
Well balls!
A mod will have to delete it then. ;)
Thanks by the way.
Well, the poll wasnt here when I posted the link.
Anyway.

[Sid]

Im reading generation x by somebody who i cant remember the name of

[Krazy Cat]

I don't like reading, I can't seem to concentrate and end up reading the same line over and over.

Best book I have read was Nemisis - Shaun Hudson.

Book I'm trying to read at the moment is The UnDutchables.

[incubism]

Book I'm trying to read at the moment is The UnDutchables.

haha you are?! niiiice :LOL: leanred anything facinating yet? ;)

I´m reading The Dubliners at the moment

[Ktk]

I'm on the last few chapters of the Da Vinci code :cool:

[Kathryn]

Just finished Lord of the Flies - was shite and had a terrible ending.

Also what time of man would write about lots of little boys running around naked with no parental interferance :rolleyes:

[Argeiphontes]

I don't like reading, I can't seem to concentrate and end up reading the same line over and over.

i do this too. do you find sometimes you read like the white spaces between the letters rather than the words?

[Ktk]

i do this too. do you find sometimes you read like the white spaces between the letters rather than the words?

Umm... :confused:

[Kathryn]

Ignore this!

[Allure]

To Kill a Mockingbird. Couldn't get into it until the eleventh chapter. It's simply because it's a school assignment and we're required to read. I think I'll pick this up again in the summer for the ten hour flights.

[kira hrochova]

I'm just finishing-Hubert Selby Jr, Requiem for a dream
briliant one

[spiteface]

the time travellers wife- audrey niffenegger..brilliant*

now im reading slaughter house 5