Books you are reading right now

[KLD1019]

I heard the sex scene is really badly written in 50 shades of grey

scene!? add an S to that! theres LOADS of sex scenes LOL

I'm trying to give it the benefit of the doubt so far I've read the first one, where it turns out she's a virgin and he's a sex demon, so he takes her virginity. At length. It's not like, the worst thing I've ever read, but I'm hoping it gets more raunchy later on when she's less virginal and innocent.


Also, I wish she'd stop talking about her 'inner goddess' all the fucking time.

i dont know about more raunchy. they're not hard core sex books. just exactly what they (critics) have described it, "mommy porn". it was enough to get me worked up LOL they dont go in depth of the "red room of pain". she changes him for the better.

and i like her inner goddess and inner conscience! the two make her 'innocent' personality better

 

[acctnt shan]

I found it easy to immerse myself in it. I missed reading about Jon, Dany, Bran, Arya and Tyrion. I had more issues with book 4, but that too had its appeal. I liked how Sansa, Jamie, Cersie were fleshed out.
I am dreading the time I will have book 5 finished too and have to wait for good ol' Mr. Martin to get another book out LoL

I loved how book 4 totally changed my perspective on Jamie.

And this weekend, book 5 FINALLY grabbed me... yayy Dany!

 

[itsmeJonB]

Really into the series on HBO so I decided to start the first book of A Song of Ice and Fire, A Game of Thrones.
Currently about 106 pages in

 

[Jezzebelle]

"Let's Pretend This Never Happened" Jenny Lawson

 

[boombala]

The Long Home by William Gay

There are so many characters, I'm not sure who's who but he includes a lot of sentences that crack me up. "It sounds like he's missin a face card or two....." "Everybody knows she's about half a bubble off a plumb..." Story takes place in Tennessee in the 1940s. Gay is a southern author and this is his first novel.

 

[Abcinthia]

I'm reading:

The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas (1/5 way through and hating it so far. Just seems to be overhyped and deliberately provocative for the sake of being provocative)
One Day - David Nicholls (2/3 finsihed and really enjoying it so far)
Eleanor of Aquitaine - Marion Meade (I've just read the preface so no real opinion either way).

 

[satinbutterfly]

Cast in Silence by Michelle Sagara (Book 5 of the Chronicles of Elantra)

 

[itsmeJonB]

Am I the only one who can read only one book at a time?
Id be really confused if I started reading a book part way through another

 

[satinbutterfly]

Am I the only one who can read only one book at a time?
Id be really confused if I started reading a book part way through another

I prefer not to read more than one book at a time, and generally I do not. Occasionally I'll read an informational type book while reading a fiction book, but not very often.

 

[Abcinthia]

I usually read 2-3 books at the same time. Occassionally creeping into higher numbers but then I panic and get confused.

One will usually be non-fiction History so it's easy to distinguish it from the fiction. If I'm reading more than one fiction book it will be in a different genre and always by different authors. I won't start a new book until I'm a certain amount into the previous book (it varies depending on the book size).

It never confuses me because it's all different writing styles, plots and I'm in different places in each story.

 

[HK]

The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas (1/5 way through and hating it so far. Just seems to be overhyped and deliberately provocative for the sake of being provocative)

I thought it had a promising start, but after the initial interest it just meanders away. I finished because I don't like not finishing books, but I won't be reading it again.

One Day - David Nicholls (2/3 finsihed and really enjoying it so far)

This, I didn't think I was enjoying much until I finished it and then couldn't stop thinking about it.

 

[Abcinthia]

I've finished One Day now and I have enjoyed it. I love the idea of taking one day in someone's life and seeing what happens on it during 20 years. And the writing style was great.


I'm probably going to finish The Slap because I don't like leaving books either but it's really not my cup of tea. I think the general plot (the slap of an unruly child and exploring the aftermath) is an interesting idea. Sadly, the author had to pad the plot out with unlikable, selfish, hate-filled characters; graphic sex scenes and tons of racism.

 

[Abcinthia]

Song of Susannah - Stephen King

Prey - Michael Crichton

 

[Minderella]

About to start Delirium-Lauren Oliver.

Going to read it with 3 other friends, we decided to start a mini book club type thing after having read The Hunger Game Trilogy at about the same time, and had a blast talking about it. So thought this would be something neat to continue.

 

[KLD1019]

Im on book 2 of The Body Finder series, The diary of the Dead. They're a really good read! Grabbed my attention immediately! Unlike the Uglies series i was reading! I didnt even bother to finish that series! Finishing book 2 was painful enough! BORED.TO.TEARS!! I DO NOT recommend that series to anyone!

 

[Springsteen]

England managers : The Toughest Job in Football, by Brian Glanville.

It was ok as football books go, but wasn't anything truly eye opening. It's useful if you don't know much about older England managers but if you're a true football aficionado then you can skip it. In truth it kinda skims over the earlier years (where England teams were picked by a board of selectors rather than the manager - and the part where Winterbottom changes this is quite good) and to a point this adds to the books rushed feeling. It probably would have been better with 100 more pages. At times Glanville interjects with personal opinion, and while this can be good in that it takes away from the usual nod and smile feel of this type of book, it also is a negative in that some of the opinions can be quite scathing. This isn't totally up to date and it actually ends in mid 2007, before Steve McClaren didn't qualify for the 2008 European Championships. For a writer with Glanville's repuation, it is quite underwhelming, but as an actual book it's ok.

 

[Minor Axis]

Recently finished a Life on the Other Side by psychic Sylvia Browne. A discussion regarding the subject matter and Ms Browne is located in a dedicated thread in the Religious forum.

Just finished Honor Among Enemies, the 6th in the Honor Harrington space combat series, the perpetual conflict between the Royal Manticoran Navy and the People's Republic of Haven.

After being kicked out of the RMN, in a spectacular duel with an enemy and while the war with the "Peeps" continues unabated, Lady Harrington is given the chance to captain a Q Ship, a heavily armed freighter whose mission is to take down pirates raiding Manticore cargo vessels. Her by-chance encounters with Peep war ships is explosive...

This book is not as awesome as the previous books, but it is still a good read. I've got the next book "In Enemy Hands" where she becomes a prisoner of war. Fingers crossed it's good...



Currently reading Ghosts Among Us by psychic James Van Praagh. Next on my list is Catching Fire, the 2nd of the Hunger Games trilogy...

 

[Darrell]

NO ANGEL: My harrowing undercover journey to the inner circle of the Hells Angels. By Jay Dobyns, ATF.

 

[Abcinthia]

How to lose friends and alienate people - Toby Young.

I'm not sure if I like it yet.

 

[Jezzebelle]

NO ANGEL: My harrowing undercover journey to the inner circle of the Hells Angels. By Jay Dobyns, ATF.

I know some HA... very cool guys
In fact I made one come kill a scary spider for me last week