Which book are you currently reading?

[Joey D]

I just started the Game of Thrones since I figured I ought to read the books after watching the TV show. It's a pretty easy read and it looks like the TV show, at least season 1, stayed true enough to the book.

At work on my downtime I'm reading Why Hospitals Should Fly by John J. Nance. Gives a pretty unique perspective on patient safety and the quality of their care. I know our administration had read it as part of their "change in culture" they want to go through so I figured I'd pick it up and see what I could learn from it too. Plus it makes me look like I'm doing something productive on my downtime at work.

 

[W3H5]

I just started the Game of Thrones

I've got a copy of that my sister left here for me. I didn't know it was a TV show! I'll perhaps read it after I've finished Second Foundation which, even half way into the first chapter, is shaping up better than Foundation and Empire.

 

[Lissa]

I just started the Game of Thrones since I figured I ought to read the books after watching the TV show. It's a pretty easy read and it looks like the TV show, at least season 1, stayed true enough to the book.
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Series two has a couple of changes from the second book, A Clash Of Kings. I just wish George R R Martin would get his finger out and finish the series!

 

[Diego440]

So far it's as lame as the movie was. I'm already about 3/4s into it, so I don't think I'll drop it until I finish it.

 

[Anghammarad]

Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman

It's OK so far.

 

[35mm]

Back to Murakami I am:

Haruki Murakami - Kafka On The Shore​

 

[masterrawad]

 

[prisonermonkeys]

XO by Jeffery Deaver.

It's pretty good so far. It has to do with the cult of celebrity, the psychology of stalkers and the politics of a police invesitgation that uses fringe sciences.

I'm just dreading the inevitable twist. Deaver loves springing surprises on his readers, but sometimes he takes things too far and he has produced some horrible novels as a result.

 

[toymdngn]

Just started The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. This will be my 4th time through this book in the last 6 months.

I guess you could say it's a good book...

 

[Hollow]

I started reading 50 shades of grey just to see what the hype is all about. My sister already had bought it so I downloaded it off of her account for nothing.

I'm not much of a reader but out of curiosity I sometimes read the overhyped ones, and this book is just a shame. When Stephanie Meyer got famous for Twilight with her horrendous writing style and book content, I thought it can't get any worse, at least it won't get as famous as Twilight. 50 shades of grey has worse writing, an 8th grader can do better. It's just a wastage of paper, whenever Mr. Grey shows up in the book, the girl keeps describing how beautiful he is for 5-9 pages, every single time.

This is being turned into a movie as well.

 

[Diego440]

I just started the Game of Thrones

I've got a copy of that my sister left here for me. I didn't know it was a TV show!

I'm not in the mood to wait 6+ months for Season 3, so I just started it as well. First book, at least:

 

[livemusic]

^I'll wait. The story isn't finished anyway.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

I started reading 50 shades of grey just to see what the hype is all about. My sister already had bought it so I downloaded it off of her account for nothing.

I'm not much of a reader but out of curiosity I sometimes read the overhyped ones, and this book is just a shame. When Stephanie Meyer got famous for Twilight with her horrendous writing style and book content, I thought it can't get any worse, at least it won't get as famous as Twilight. 50 shades of grey has worse writing, an 8th grader can do better. It's just a wastage of paper, whenever Mr. Grey shows up in the book, the girl keeps describing how beautiful he is for 5-9 pages, every single time.

This is being turned into a movie as well.

The literary style in 50 Shades is pretty terrible. Just treat it like an instruction manual. My wife is certainly very keen that I read it.

I've just finished reading Ready Player One, which was tremendous. But then as a life-long geek knocking on the door of 40, it's kinda playing right into my ballpark.

 

[toymdngn]

I've just finished reading Ready Player One, which was tremendous. But then as a life-long geek knocking on the door of 40, it's kinda playing right into my ballpark.

I don't have that in my ebook collection, but my aunt just recently loaded the audiobook version of it on to my ipod. Seeing as I just recently finished listening to Turn Coat by Jim Butcher (I've now read that book twice and listened to it twice... James Marsters does a wonderful job reading those books) and you are the fifth person I've heard rave about the book, I think I'll turn it on today.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

So, I finished 50 Shades. It's definitely not a PG-13 book. Which is a bit of a shame for it, because the writing style certainly is. The repetition of phrases "compressed his/her mouth into a hard line" throughout the story becomes like someone jabbing you with a fork. The story is pure fantasy, skipping over so many aspects of real life that it's scarcely credible. Strangely, the sex parts of it are the least cringe-inducing to read. And there's quite a few of them. It's worth reading, because loads of people are talking about it, and it's a leap into the mainstream for a taboo/underground world. But Dickens it ain't.

Queued for reading next is Leviathan Wakes: Book One of the Expanse series. My literary journey is nothing if not varied.

 

[Mac K]

And

 

[Caz]

Just started reading the Hannibal series this morning. About 100 pages into red dragon now.
I haven't seen silence of the lambs in at least ten years, passed out after a bucket of beer in the theatre for Hannibal. So the series should be fairly fresh.

 

[GTMail]

Well just finished Locked On by Tom Clancy. It is the latest book in his series that dates back to 1987(?). It was a great read but I was expecting more from Clancy. It's a must if you follow that series though.

 

[toymdngn]

Finished listening to Ready Player One. Awesome book! 👍

 

[Public'sTwin]

• Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics - GWF Hegel
• Writing and Difference - Jacques Derrida
• Less Than Nothing - Slavoj Zizek
• random essays on Jacques Lacan
• Phaedrus
• Dialectic of Enlightenment - Adorno + Horkheimer
• Cyber Six (really good!)
• The complete works of [the Marquis] de Sade
• The End of Modernity - Gianni Vattimo
• Madness & Cinema - ?? can't remember

I need some fiction recommendations, though - de Sade and Cyber6 are literally the only things I have going on fiction-wise. Suggestions?

 

[lbsf1]

I have just bought "Men Who Stare at Goats", only read a couple of pages at the moment cause I'm trying to save it for an 8 hour flight I have in a months time.

The book is non fiction and is about the various weird experiments the US Intelligence used during the late cold war, on the power of the human mind. One of them was the belief they could kill goats just by staring at them, hence the title.

 

[W3H5]

If the movie is anything to go by it should be a good book.

 

[lbsf1]

If the movie is anything to go by it should be a good book.

From what people have told me its abit more non fiction than the film is, however I have never seen the film so can't compare myself. From the first pages though it seems brilliant.

 

[Caz]

Started and finished red dragon yesterday. Very good book.
150 pages into silence of the lambs now.

If you have not read this series, I highly recommend it.

Edit: lambs is finished. Now to start Hannibal.
I figured the series would take me around 2 weeks to finish. Read red dragon in it's entirety yesterday and silence of the lambs today. At this rate ill be done by Friday. These books ate serious page turners!

 

[prisonermonkeys]

When Stephanie Meyer got famous for Twilight with her horrendous writing style and book content, I thought it can't get any worse, at least it won't get as famous as Twilight. 50 shades of grey has worse writing, an 8th grader can do better.

Fifty Shades of Grey actually started its life as ... Twilight fan-ficition called "Master of the Universe". It was originally pulled from the site that hosted it because of its BDSM themes. It was then rewritten with original characters, and became Fifty Shades of Grey. I can only explain this phenomenon as mankind having broken.

Although with talk of a film adaptation in the works, Bret Easton Ellis - the guy who wrote American Psycho - has publicly said that he wants to write the screenplay.

 

[lemansfanatic]

More like 50 shades of bored housewives

 

[PureAwesomeness]

Reading this:

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. Very interesting.

 

[toymdngn]

Reading this:Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. Very interesting.

I just happen to have "Blink" and "The Tipping Point" in my ebook collection. I'll check those out.

 

[AMCNUT]

Consumer Guide 1981 New Cars: The Complete New Car Guide.

50 cents at a yard sale - it's quite interesting.

 

[Caz]

Finished Hannibal and Hannibal rising.
Great series, but after four books still some very key elements that need to be fleshed out.
I would love a book from the end of rising to the beginning of red dragon. Maybe even two.

I have the fifth in the story of Frankenstein as written by Dean Koontz but need to read something quick and easy to flushed the four Hannibal books out of my head.