Does anybody Read? What are you reading now...

[byakugan]

So yeah...Does anybody read anymore? quote harold ramis as egon.."print is dead"... but i read quite a bit. So what are you reading, the author, genre..maybe a brief synopsis.

i just read the his dark materials trilogy...and i am currently reading a book called The Children Hospital, by Chris Adrian..

"A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. inside assailed my mysterious forces doctors and nurses are left to remember the world they've lost and imagine one to come.
at the center a young med student finds herself gifted with strange powers and a frightening destiny."

[Stevil]

I like reading if I have a good book, but I can never find one that sparks my interest. I have a few that I would like to buy, but I'm going to have to wait till after christmas. I really like the disinformation books. I would like to read the ones on religion, but haven't gotten a chance to yet.
I would also like to buy the "American Psycho" book and possibly the "I Am Legend" book, though I think I'll see the movie first.
I was thinking about writing my own book sometime, but I don't know. I have a few ideas, but no motivation. I tried writing one last year but only got a chapter done before it began to turn horrible. I think it was about some kid getting stuck in another dimension and then these fish headed people began to do all sorts of shit that didn't make sense and I was going to end the book with his head exploding, but I couldn't think of anything to add in between the first chapter and the last one.

I do most of my reading on wikipedia. It's free, and I can look up any topic I want.

[Darksage]

The only books I've read lately were books for college... Frank O'Hara's selected poems, Diane di Prima's selected poems (Pieces of a Song), an Andy Warhol book, and non-school related, Twilight/New Moon by stephenie meyer and Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural ihstory in the age of Discovery

[byakugan]

i run into that problem as well. i like my textbooks and assigned reading. I keep them. But i always try to have one non-fiction/difficult read and then like a fantasy/fiction going. even if they live on the back of the toilet or someplace random to where i can only read a couple pages a day.

[Exodi]

The last book I read was "I Am Legend", a few weeks ago.

Yeh, I was looking up the movie and found that it was based off a book, so I decided to read it.

I also decided that I have a thing for post-apocalyptic literature....so I'm gonna start looking into that.

[Oblivious]

Airborn, a weird book. I finished Harry Potter last week.

[Darksage]

I also decided that I have a thing for post-apocalyptic literature....so I'm gonna start looking into that.
THE BOOK OF REVELATION.

lol


Oh i forgot to mention... i read forum posts :)

[Oblivious]

Just now I noticed this, but Darksage, what is your Avatar supposed to symbolize? Music? I know there's stringed instruments in there.

[Darksage]

Its a piano and violin.

~back on topic

[Atem]

I just finished reading the book called "The Outsiders."

First book I've read in yearsssssss and it was a good one too. >.>

[byakugan]

who was it by, what was it about.

[Atem]

Look it up. >.>

[byakugan]

s. e. hinton?

[Atem]

Yeah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsiders_%28novel%29

[byakugan]

we had to read it in high school..ponyboy heh...

[Atem]

Haha I liked it. It was kinda sad though.
Did you see the movie?

[byakugan]

no..i heard francis ford coppola directed it but i never saw it.. kinda before my time i guess. there are a lot of people in it.

[Oblivious]

I just finished Airborn in four days. :o

[byakugan]

I am now reading...The island of the sequined love nun by christopher moore.

It is about a drunken loser pilot. And illegal kidney trading in south china. Really funny.

[Oblivious]

Reading Skybreaker, Sequel to Airborn.

[Darksage]

Eclipse, by Stephenie Meyer. My Christmas present :p 600 pages.. this should last me the weekend

[Ereos]

The newspaper

[byakugan]

evening standard? my favorite paper comes from london...The Financial Times

[Oblivious]

Eclipse, by Stephenie Meyer. My Christmas present :p 600 pages.. this should last me the weekend

New Moon, Twilight, and Eclispe, all Godly books.

[Ereos]

evening standard? my favorite paper comes from london...The Financial Times

yeah cos it a pretty decent broadsheet type newspaper

Reading a porn mag Lawlz!!

[WaterSleeps]

How about The Black Company series by Glen Cook:
----->An epic fantasy series about a band of mercenaries known as The Black Company.
This series contains
Books of the North:
1)The Black Company (May 1984)
2)Shadows Linger (October 1984)
3)The White Rose (April 1985)
Barrowlands:
4)The Silver Spike (September 1989)
Books of the South:
5)Shadow Games (June 1989)
6)Dreams of Steel (April 1990)
Books of the Glittering Stone:
7)Bleak Seasons (April 1996)
8)She Is the Darkness (September 1997)
9)Water Sleeps (March 1999) <--------thus my username =)
10)Soldiers Live (July 2000)

Not Yet Published:
11)A Pitiless Rain (TBA)[2]
12)Port of Shadows (TBA)[2

He also has other series :
Garrett P.I.
Dread Empire
Instrumentalities of the Night
Starfishers
..... and other stand alone novels



Enjoy =)

[byakugan]

David McCullough: The greater Journey about American artist and writers as ex-patriots in Paris

and Bossypants by Tina Fey...I am an SNL/30 rock fan and the stuff about how they pick and write sketches was very interesting

[Raiziel]

theres are three series tht im really into now...

1.) Cassandra Palmer series by Karen Chance
-touch the dark
-claimed by shadow
-embrace the darkness
-curse the dawn
- ((too be released)) ..... hunt the moon
Cassandra Palmer is a clairvoyant. She can see visions of the future as well as communicate with the spirits of the dead. These unusual gifts make her make her attractive to both the dead and the undead. Ghosts recognise that Cassandra is one of the rare people who can actually see them so they love to talk to her and all in all they are fairly harmless. However undead vampires are not so harmless. Ever since she was a child Cassie had been forced to work for Tony, a ruthless vampire Mafioso. She managed to escape from him three years ago but has been on the run ever since. When he finds her and sends his vampire thugs to kill her she is forced to turn to the Vampire senate for protection. Raised by vampires from childhood she knows that vampires are not motivated to act out of kindness. They will definitely want something in return but what will it be and is it something that she is willing to give? While she is meeting with the senate, a rogue vampire launches an assignation attempt on the senate’s members and it becomes clear to Cassie that the vampires have problems of their own. In fact the whole magical world is on the brink of war with itself due to the Pythia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythia) (a powerful seer and the Guardian of Time) being on her deathbed and the official heir to her powers being mysteriously missing. Every faction of magical being, light or dark, appears to be jostling for position at this time of upheaval and every one wants control of the Pythia and her powers. As Cassie starts to have powerful visions of the past, it becomes apparent that her powers are changing. As one of the heirs to the Pythia she seems to be acquiring her new skills as power leaches out of the old Pythia. Cassie has enough knowledge of vampire ways to know that if she was attractive to them as a clairvoyant, as a potential Pythia they will never let her go….

2.) the mortal instruments by Cassandra Clare
-city of bones
The main characters, Clary Fray and Simon Lewis, are at a club where Clary witnesses a murder by a group of teens, and is shocked that Simon and the club's security guard, cannot see the culprit— a boy called Jace, who claims that the boy he killed was a demon. The next day, Jace offers to take Clary to meet his tutor, but before she can do so, she receives a distressing phone call from her mother. She returns home to find her mother missing, the apartment trashed, and a monstrous creature, a Ravener demon, lying in wait for her.
-city of ashes
-city of glass
-city of fallen angels(side series)
-city of lost souls ( side series)
- city of heavenly fire (side series)


3.) the infernal devices by Cassandra Clare
-clockwork angel
This series takes place in Victorian England, ten years after the peace treaties between the demon-fighting Shadowhunters and Downworlders (vampires, fairies, werewolves, and warlocks) was signed. As Shadowhunters consider themselves superior or purer than Downworlders or demons, they may have no qualms about killing either. The first book in The Infernal Devices is entitled Clockwork Angel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Infernal_Devices#Clockwork_Angel) and begins the story of Tessa, an orphaned teenage girl who discovers she is an Eidolon, or shape-changer, with unique powers. But these new-found abilities plunge her into a world she never knew existed, and she will have to learn to master them if she wants to find her brother, and to do this she will have to forge an alliance with some Shadowhunters if she wants to survive in this dangerous world. Many of the family names of the shadow hunters used in the first series are introduced in this series. Another character, Magnus Bane, the High Warlock of Brooklyn, plays a part in this Victorian England series. 145 years later, he is a part of the Mortal Instrument series.
- ((too be released)) clockwork prince

William "Will" Herondale: Seventeen-year-old Will is the sort of young man nice Victorian girls are warned against. He drinks, gambles, and enjoys the company of ladies of questionable virtue—at least, as much as he enjoys anything. Will hates everyone and everything, with the possible exception of Jem, and even that's in some doubt. Charlotte despairs of keeping him alive past the age of nineteen. When he finds himself oddly drawn to Tessa, his friends begin to hope that the Downworlder girl will prove Will's unlikely salvation—but as Tessa grows closer to the bleak secret that makes his life a prison, danger threatens to destroy them both if she ever finds out the truth.
Theresa "Tessa" Gray: Tessa has spent the first sixteen years of her life being overprotected by her aunt after the death of her parents in a carriage accident. She lives almost all her life in books, dreaming of having the kind of adventures the heroines she reads about do—until she is forced to travel from New York to London when her brother Nathaniel goes missing and only a pair of mysterious—and sinister—women called the Dark Sisters seem to know where he might have gone. The Shadowhunters of the London Institute may be Tessa's only hope of finding Nate, but their mysterious world of demons and Downworlders holds many dangers for her—especially when she realizes she might be more a part of it than she'd thought. Tessa is tall and has brown hair and gray-blue eyes.
James "Jem" Carstairs: Brought up in the Institute in Shanghai, Jem's parents were killed by a demon who allowed Jem to live—but with a terrible price to be paid. Frail and silver-haired, Jem seems an unlikely demon-killer, but his skills and swift intelligence make him a formidable foe. He finds a kindred spirit in Tessa as both of them feel they are torn between two worlds, neither belonging completely to one or to the other. As Jem's affection for her grows, will Will have to hurt the only person in his life he's ever seemed to care about?



thts about it for now

[laughingbard]

I am currently reading Sophie's World. Well planning to. A friend recommended it to me. It is a book about a girl who begins to begins receiving letters that contain philosophical questions such as who are you and where does the world come from. The book follows her journey to answer these questions.

I just finished reading The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. I beleive it is the final book featuring Hercule Poirot, a short Belgian detective who was created by Agatha Christie. This is in the same series as Murder on the Orient Express. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is by far my favorite murder mystery novel. Agatha Christie will literally leave you guessing to the very end.

[Superoni]

Right now I'm reading Simon R. Green's 'Hawk & Fisher' (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/simon-r-green/swords-of-haven.htm)series, part of The Forest Kingdom universe.

THEY'RE LOVERS.
THEY'RE PARTNERS.
THEY'RE COPS.
They're the battle-scarred crimebusters of a neverending urban war.... Hawk rules the streets by battle-axe. Fisher cracks down on outlaws with sword and dagger. Their merciless beat is the sinister city misnamed Haven - a dark and violent town with spell-casters, demons, and thieves. A place where money will buy anything... except justice.

[stargirl20]

Im reading Murder: short and sweet stories. The book is a collection of all the literary authors who wrote murder mystery.

Authors:
Agatha Christie
Arthur Conan Doyle
Dorothy Sayers
Ruth Rendell
Ellery Queen
Donald E. Westlake
John Updike
Roald Dahl
C.S. Forester
Edgar Allan Poe
Lawrence Dunsany

The next books I wanted to read:
Kissed by an Angel (Elizabeth Chandler)
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party (M.T. Anderson)
Vampire Diaries, the third one
Demonglass
The Mermaid's Mirror
The Clockwork Angel: prequel to the City of Bones
The Siren
and many more....

[rohitodorito]

Right now I'm reading two books in particular:
The Lost World by Michael Crichton
The Legend of Drizzt: The Crystal Shard by RA Salvatoire

I'll probably finish both books in a few hours so I'm hoping to get the Drizzt book beforehand