[The Dominion of BigRedCat]

I am finishing up Gore Vidal's "Creation". It's my second time through it. I last read it several years ago.

[Mikitivity]

Sadly I believe the last book I read was the Harry Potter book or perhaps Wicked (the story that inspired the Broadway musical). I tend to read so many comic books, that I rarely enjoy a real novel.

[Baranxtu]

Hey, there's nothing bad about Wicked! It's a nice read


The last book I read cover to cover was "4.50 From Paddington", finally in English. You gotta love 'em Brits

Before that, I read "The Commitment" by Dan Savage, both out of reverence for the author in general and more specifically for my Facharbeit.

[Lawtonia]

The last book I read was "This Other Eden" by Ben Elton. Currently Reading "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams :thrpt:

[The Dominion of BigRedCat]

Re-reading the "Illiad". It really is amazing. The human condition never really changes.

[Groot Gouda]

Last month or so:

Gridlock (Ben Elton), because I last read that 10 years or so ago for my English literature list at school. Quite funny.

Going Postal (Terry Pratchett). Just read Pratchett. Great stories, extremely funny, yet a serious or even dark undertone. Laugh and think.

Currently reading Thud! by Pratchett. See above.

For the summer holiday I've bought the Illiad & Odyssee and the Aeneas to read.

Got some interest in books from this: http://www.reducedshakespeare.com/videos/books.ram

[Jonquiere-Tadoussac]

I'm in the middle of Brave New World. Before that, it was Dune. Second time through each.

Apart from that, I've been reading a few different books for my French Western Canadian Lit class.

[Antrium]

To Kill A Mockingbird, for English class. The last book I read by choice was Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

[Mikitivity]

Groot GoudaMar 13 2006, 02:32 PM Last month or so:

Gridlock (Ben Elton), because I last read that 10 years or so ago for my English literature list at school. Quite funny.

Going Postal (Terry Pratchett). Just read Pratchett. Great stories, extremely funny, yet a serious or even dark undertone. Laugh and think.

Currently reading Thud! by Pratchett. See above.

For the summer holiday I've bought the Illiad & Odyssee and the Aeneas to read.

Got some interest in books from this: http://www.reducedshakespeare.com/videos/books.ram [/quote]
Pratchett totally rocks!

[Eisophca]

I'm currently reading Animal Farm. Before that I read Nineteen Eighty-Four. (both by same author, double bind)

[Baranxtu]

The Book I'm about to begin with:
"A Thin Dark Line" by Tami Hoag, recommended to me by a friend

Books I plan to re-read:
"The Blind Assassin" by Margaret Atwood
"Wicked" by Gregory Maguire
a hilarious book I let someone read and finally got back after, like, 6 months or so, and thanks for nothing, you unreliable best friend, but the title of which I dare not mention because we do have minors here

Books I should have read, like, yesterday:
"Der Steppenwolf" by Hermann Hesse (blegh, like, seriously, do NOT read it)

[Jonquiere-Tadoussac]

CeoranaMar 13 2006, 06:24 PM Before that I read Nineteen Eighty-Four. [/quote]
My absolute favorite. We should bring IngSoc to NS (see how that plays against IndSov!)

[Keeslandia]

Currently in "The Possessed" by Dostoevsky. He does the best mind narratives ever.

[Jonquiere-Tadoussac]

As long as we're on the topic of books, I was wondering...

Has anyone here actually read Jennifer Government or any of Max Barry's other books? Can't say I have... can't say I'd even heard of them before I was intro'd to NS.

[Antrium]

Let's bring back some Off-Topic topics from the dead, shall we?

The last books I've read were volumes 1-3 of Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I started out not liking them very much, but now I'm far into it enough that I'm starting to really enjoy them. I like Stephen King.

[Saidercray]

I read Norman Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead". Before that, I read "Snow falling on Cedars" by David Guterson.
SfoC was fine once I understood how the author mixed different plots from different years, at TNatD, I haven't already read enough to judge it.

[Embolalia]

Carl Hiaasen's Nature Girl, which I thought didn't quite live up to his usual standard. I am also currently "reading" A Tale of Two Cities for English class.

[Nimali]

i dont think ive read anythign by choice recently- its all school stuff atm. i am really into the prachett stuf atm- discworld totally rocks.

[Federalist]

I recently finished The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Excellent book. Also I recently read a book called The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick for one of my Foreign Policy classes. It was a very intresting book.

[Gnejs]

At the moment im reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. Very nice reading. Before that I think it was a re-reading of the classic Bret Easton-Ellis book Glamorama.

[Enn]

Currently working my way through a collected works of HP Lovecraft. The Color out of Space is the most terrifying thing I've ever experienced.

My previous book was Terry Pratchett's Witches Abroad, from the Discworld series. Very funny.

[Gnejs]

Have you read Houellebecqs book about HP Lovecraft? I've heard great things about it.

[Embolalia]

Just finished up Tim Dorsey's Hurricane Punch. It was great.

[New Silly]

Three Nights In Havana by Robert Wright

(Highly recommended for anyone into politics, amd social order. Basically, those lacking social contact.)

[Malabra]

I read Heart of Darkess.

Mehhh...