What Book Are You Reading? - Part VIII

I’ve heard of that, It’s supposed to be quite good. I’ve been reading other books lately, haven’t had time…

I’m kinda reading three books at once right now (well, I just finished one of them): The Book Thief, The Hunger Games and The Sword in the Stone.

The Book Thief (Markus Zusak) is a great read, it’s a story of a young girl living in Nazi Germany. What’s interesting about is that it is told from the perspective of Death. I like it, mostly because of Death’s attitude. He’s not the standard ‘evil’ death so much as more like a tired office worker. He’s tired of his job and wishes he didn’t have to do it(He says that war, instead of being death’s best friend, is more like a demanding new boss.). Anyway, a great read, it won a bunch of rewards, look it up.

The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) is also quite good. It’s one of those books that you can’t put down, so you read late into the night. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic N.A and the only civilization left is a Rich upper class capital surrounded by various middle-to-lower class districts that serve the capital. Each year, to keep the districts in line, the Captial holds an event called ‘The Hunger Games’. Pretty much, two kids are sent from each district and fight to the death with the other kids. They treat it like a sporting event and it’s kinda like the whole roman gladiators thing, but instead of and arena it’s in a jungle and televised to the nation. The book is pretty much about a girl who’s forced to take part in them. Another good read, won some award, read it.

I’ll assume most people know about the Sword and the Stone, I haven’t gotten very far but people tell me it’s good.

I also thought I should mention that I recently finished J.R.R Tolkien’s The Lord of The Rings. That, I must say, was a great read.

One final thing, has anybody here (in the topic?) ever read ‘The Road’? If so, did you like it? Was it a worthwhile read?

reading Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
my comments thus far: extremely sporadic & incredibly emotional
very well written and moving…so far :sly:

next is Siddhartha by Herman Hesse!
excited for that

I read it this summer, and I found the pace hard to get used to. Other than that, I’m glad I read it, although it didn’t make me go through any enlightenment or anything like that as the person who suggested me the book claimed.

I’m reading Metamorphoses by Ovid.

Cool, I’m really looking forward to getting my hands on the new one.

That’s my favourite book of all time, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve read it.

it was a great read :content: a bit easier to read than i’m used to but very good,

The Book Thief… that sounds really good

I just started “A General’s Life: An Autobiography By General Of The Army Omar N. Bradley and Clay Blair”
it is, an the title suggests, an autobiography of Gen. Bradley :tongue: but the bulk of the book was actually “written” (he uses the term “compile”)by Clay Blair, due to the Generals poor health at the end of his life.

(For those of you who don’t know who General Bradley is, he was the commanding General of the US Army for the bulk of Americas involvement in WW2, he was also the General who took Sicily for the Allies and was the the commander of “First Army” at the time It invaded Normandy [D-Day] )

just finished the sublime American Gods, starting on Johnny Got His Gun.

Right now I’m about halfway through Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie.

Just finished The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan. Can’t spell If you like Greek Myth and fantasy definitely a book for you. But you might wanna read the whole Percy Jackson series first because that’s like five books and the rest of the Hero’s of Olympus books will be released one per year. (yeah, this if the first so it’s gonna be long). But I totally love it and can’t stop imagining. /me will probably reread all of Percy Jackson soon

At the moment I’m reading ‘The Legend of Nightfall’ by Mickey Zucker Reichert, but if I can get my hands on Terry Pratchett’s newest book, ‘I Shall Wear Midnight’ I’m gonna switch to that immediatly. Not that Nightfall is a bad book, I love it but I’m just a crazy Pratchett fan.

“The way of the Weasel” by Scott Adams, the writer of the Dilbert comics. He essentially explains how to be a successful business weasel, using comics to illustrate his points. He’s hilarious.

i just started reading the story of b again, its great.

i wanna read all the harry potters again though and then watch all the movies!

Ah, I just saw Harry Potter 7 part 1, I need to read the series again. I may have read it at least seven times through already, but I can’t get over how awesome that series is.

I’m reading Mary Karr’s memoir, Lit. She has an interesting story to tell.

Astral Dynamics by Robert bruce

Ahh, Scott Adams, one of the funniest authors I know.

Also, does anyone have major problems with the Harry Potter books, or more so J.K Rowling’s (frequented) dues ex machinas?

No. They were mainly written for kids (and we mostly all read them when we were kids) so most of the stuff is kept simple. Though she tries to get a bit more complex in the last few due to her growing audience.

Funny, my dad’s reading that book!

Anyhow, I’m currently reading “The Lion, the Witch, and the wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis. I own the entire Chronicles of Narnia series so I plan on reading it.

I have the whole series too! But I have to reread that one for a class <3 But I’ve seen the movie so much that I don’t wanna reread it’s longness. :sad:

But I love Tumnas!

Well, I began (and finished) a book on my 11 day hiatus.

I’m assuming most of you have heard of the Percy Jackson series? I mean, it was awesome. If you haven’t heard of it, then hear of it.
The books are a little childish, but they’re funny and good.

The first series ended, Rick Riordan started a direct sequel series, The Heroes of Olympus
The first book, the only one out in that series, is called “The Lost Hero”

Basically, this book adds in the Roman aspects of everything and follows the rise of the Giants who were created by Gaea after the first Titan War.

This series follows Jason, Leo, and Piper, three heroes all snatched by Camp Half Blood at the age of 15… Jason is the boyfriend of Piper and best friends with Leo except the problem is… his entire memory was wiped out to help the quest.

VERY good book, a bit more mature than the last series. Obviously he’s following the original fan base (which I perfectly fit into)

Oh… and instead of the short-ish 300 some pages, it’s more like 500 some pages. Quite a bit longer

/me is a slow reader, possibly has mild dyslexia… ends up switching lines and words when reading… can never find his place even mid-sentence


tl;dr If you’ve read Percy Jackson, read this immediately. (Well, if you liked it)

Well i am currently reading Dracula by Bram Stoker. so far its been a good read but im not to far yet bout 75 pages. the weird thing i found out is that their used to be a real guy in Transylvania named Dracula. he had his own castle but wasn’t a vampire. he was a very scary person though. he scared the crap out of his enemy’s by shoving lubed up trees basically in through the butt when they were still alive an put it into the ground. he did this to over 1000 people and he outlined the trail to his castle with them. this happened a long time ago. he wasn’t a nice person.