Books you are reading right now

[pjbleek]

Art of War...very interesting history behind it....(have yet to get to the meat of the book just quite yet)

 

[Ryder]

 

[acctnt shan]

How did y'all like the Hunger Games? I thought it was decent.

I really liked it, and originally thought it was a super original idea for a book... until my friend told me about Battle Royale...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/

"[FONT=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act."[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]Apparently it's quite blatantly a copy-cat. For example, the "cornucopia" idea is taken almost exactly from that movie.

I still like the book a lot, it just sort of diminished my opinion of its creativity.[/FONT]

 

[Zorak]

I really liked it, and originally thought it was a super original idea for a book... until my friend told me about Battle Royale...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/

"In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act."

Apparently it's quite blatantly a copy-cat. For example, the "cornucopia" idea is taken almost exactly from that movie.

I still like the book a lot, it just sort of diminished my opinion of its creativity.

I've seen and read Battle Royale. It's good.

I've not read The Hunger Games, don't have much interest to do so. I read the wikipedia synopsis and there do seem to be a lot of similarities.

 

[Kyle B]

I really liked it, and originally thought it was a super original idea for a book... until my friend told me about Battle Royale...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/

"In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act."

Apparently it's quite blatantly a copy-cat. For example, the "cornucopia" idea is taken almost exactly from that movie.

I still like the book a lot, it just sort of diminished my opinion of its creativity.

Oh wow, that's interesting. I didn't really think it was completely original to begin with, I thought the whole thing was similar to the gladiator games. I liked it nonetheless. I don't see myself reading the other two books though.

 

[acctnt shan]

Oh wow, that's interesting. I didn't really think it was completely original to begin with, I thought the whole thing was similar to the gladiator games. I liked it nonetheless. I don't see myself reading the other two books though.

Well, in terms of originality, I meant the whole "forcing young kids to battle to the death as a means of government control" aspect. Obviously the general "battle to the death" aspect itself is quite un-original.

 

[Abcinthia]

oh I didn't realise The Hunger Games was excatly like Battle Royale. That's one of my favourite books of all time.

I'll probably get around to reading The Hunger Games at some point though.

 

[jassilem]

 

[Abcinthia]

About 1/3rd through Wizard And Glass by Stephen King and about to start The Devotion Of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

 

[freakofnature]

I recently bought the Heaven trilogy by Ted Dekker so I ought to be starting that in the near future.

 

[satinbutterfly]

Just finished Hunger Games and starting on Catching Fire today. Hunger Games was decent for me, but not really amazing or stellar. I probably won't read the series again.

 

[boombala]

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams play

 

[acctnt shan]

Just finished Hunger Games and starting on Catching Fire today. Hunger Games was decent for me, but not really amazing or stellar. I probably won't read the series again.

But you'll come see the movie with me, right?

 

[Abcinthia]

I'm nearly finished The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino. Going to start Into The Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes.

 

[darkcgi]

Official Guide to Skyrim

 

[satinbutterfly]

But you'll come see the movie with me, right?

Wouldn't miss it for the world.

 

[eyhh]

I am currently reading "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by: Bill Bryson. Highly recommended.

 

[HK]

I am currently reading "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by: Bill Bryson. Highly recommended.

Ah I love Bill Bryson, I've read A Walk In The Woods several times

 

[satinbutterfly]

Finished book 3 of the Hunger Games last night. Going to start a new one today but no idea what.

 

[Mercury]

Ann Rule - Small Sacrifices - Based on the true story of Diane Downs here in my home state of Oregon ... it's really interesting and a good read.