Books you are reading right now

[Kyle B]

Reading Lovely Bones at the suggestion of a coworker first few pages and i've already cried WTF?!

I read part of Lovely Bones a few years ago. Although I was well aware that it was a chic book, I decided to check it out. I thought it was very good during the first half, but eventually just lost interest and eventually stopped reading it.

I started 'Crime and Punishment" but I can't do it. 40 pages was enough for me.
Too many Russian names, everything blurred together like my wedding day.
So I got a hard cover version of Clive barker's 'Cabal' off eBay for 5 bucks total!
Now that college football is over for a few weeks I can start reading it.

I attempted to read "War and Peace" by Tolstoy but gave up after 100 pages. Russian literature can be so difficult with all the characters, the names, and parallel plot lines. I've began reading some of Chekhov's stuff which I have found very enjoyable.

yes, i i love how it was worded as a child might have told the story. its not often i start a book and cant put it down till i finish it but that was one of them. it just amazed me what that kid went through and came out alive

i`m thinking about going to get the other one "the lost boy". i heard its not as good as "the child called it" but i still want to read it. i might actually stop off at the library on my way home tomarrow and pick it up

Yea, I read the two books that you and SouthofHeaven mentioned. "The Lost Boy" is about Pelzer's experience after he is taken away from his home and put into foster homes. "A Man Named Dave" is about Pelzer's life after being released from the foster system and getting married etc.

To tell you the truth, I don't really like the direction that David Pelzer took with his later books. He's since written a self-help book that I heard was garbage. While I have the utmost sympathy for what he went through, I think he's a professional sufferer and exploits his situation.

 

[Jessica]

still reading Brisingr. enjoying it

 

[Zorak]

I started 'Crime and Punishment" but I can't do it. 40 pages was enough for me.
Too many Russian names, everything blurred together like my wedding day.
So I got a hard cover version of Clive barker's 'Cabal' off eBay for 5 bucks total!
Now that college football is over for a few weeks I can start reading it.

It's not an easy read I agree. But I found it a fantastic book none the less.

A more modern translation can be easier, more because of structure than lexis.

 

[Jessica]

Eldest

 

[boombala]

Puttering About in a Small Land by Philip K. Dick (his pre sci/fi novel).

Kind of ho hum, actually.

 

[Abcinthia]

Attonement- Ian McEwan

 

[darkcgi]

Advanced Character Animation with Blender 3D

 

[Jessica]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

 

[Abcinthia]

Reading Lovely Bones at the suggestion of a coworker first few pages and i've already cried WTF?!

I love that book. It's so beautifully written.

 

[Azazel]

Advanced Character Animation with Blender 3D

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[Burntblood]

I'm on page 71 of 'Cabal' - Clive Barker

 

[darkcgi]

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Damn it man. LOL

 

[Thornless]

Currently rereading 'Shattered' by Dick Francis, he writes a lot of murder/mystery fiction... generally has a tie to steeple chasing somehow.

 

[Jessica]

among the enemy

 

[Jessica]

Among the hidden

 

[Kyle B]

Catch-22

 

[boombala]

Picked up "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, after putting it down half way thru it because I was crying too much. Not an easy read but he's my favorite author.

 

[Jessica]

Half Blood Prince

 

[USF Sam]

Just finished World War Z.

Restarting Art of Seduction by Robert Greene. Same guy that wrote 48 Laws of Power, which was good.
I started it before and thumbed threw it, but a friend is reading it and I figured I should too so I can discuss it with her.

 

[Jessica]

The Journey