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Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue August 12, 2014 7:57 pm
by Alex
LoathedVermin72 wrote:I read the Blue is the Warmest Color graphic novel last night. It was quite good, which made the movie seem even worse (and I already hated it).
[requisite godzilla reference post]
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed August 13, 2014 3:12 pm
by bune
I'm about 3/4 of the way through Freedom (TM) and it's pissing me off. To the point of it's affecting my mood when I'm not reading it. I'm going to have to finish it soon just so I can be in a better mood.
The interesting thing about the first book is how it
- Spoiler: show
- completely changes tact on you about 7/8 of the way through. It changes who the good/bad guys are in a complete 180 and you're left wondering what exactly is going on. It was well done because it was so out of left field. The second book has some rote moments where you know exactly what's going to happen when it happens but it does manage to surprise every now and then.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed August 13, 2014 3:24 pm
by EJ
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat August 16, 2014 4:51 pm
by epilogue
FINALLY finished The Goldfinch. I really don't see what all the fuss is about.
Anyway, now I'm on to Lolita.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun August 17, 2014 7:15 pm
by LoathedVermin72
durdencommatyler wrote:Anyway, now I'm on to Lolita.
This opinion is nothing new, but that book is amazing. Nabokov's prose is second to none.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun August 17, 2014 7:17 pm
by epilogue
LoathedVermin72 wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:Anyway, now I'm on to Lolita.
This opinion is nothing new, but that book is amazing. Nabokov's prose is second to none.
I bought it and started reading it about 15 years ago. But I never finished it. Then it got shoved away with some old books in my parents house. Then they split and I thought I'd lost it. But I found it this past spring in a box in my dad's apartment.
Super excited to get back to it. Of course, I started from the beginning. But so far I'm loving it. Only about 40 pages in.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue September 09, 2014 7:40 pm
by epilogue
Stone Mattress: Nine Stories by Margaret Atwood.
This doesn't come out until the 16th. But somehow my local neighborhood used bookstore had a first edition hardback available on the used shelf. So, of course I picked it up! Loving it so far, but just cracked the first story.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed September 10, 2014 10:52 pm
by Bob Loblaw
LoathedVermin72 wrote:I read the Blue is the Warmest Color graphic novel last night. It was quite good, which made the movie seem even worse (and I already hated it).
That movie was awesome.
I'm reading Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri September 19, 2014 10:43 pm
by epilogue
The Stand - Stephen King
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat September 20, 2014 3:09 am
by Bob Loblaw
I just finished reading Stephen King's On Writing!
I'm now reading Norman Mailer's The Fight and Olivia Laing's The Trip To Echo Spring.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat September 20, 2014 9:15 am
by William Bloke
durdencommatyler wrote:
The Stand - Stephen King
I really enjoyed that book. It is however a good example of how King can write a great, interesting, long story only to concoct less satisfactory endings within the final 50 pages.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat September 20, 2014 9:19 am
by William Bloke
Had a good day on Thursday with a package from Amazon containing books from 2 of my favourite authors.
Denis Lehane's 'The Drop' and Lee Child's 'Personal'. Now to just be able to find the time to do a bit of actual reading.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat September 20, 2014 12:53 pm
by The Argonaut
Varis wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:
The Stand - Stephen King
I really enjoyed that book. It is however a good example of how King can write a great, interesting, long story only to concoct less satisfactory endings within the final 50 pages.
ding ding ding
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat September 20, 2014 1:41 pm
by epilogue
Bob Loblaw wrote:I just finished reading Stephen King's On Writing!
Man, I LOVE that book.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat September 20, 2014 1:41 pm
by epilogue
Bob Loblaw wrote:I just finished reading Stephen King's On Writing!
Man, I LOVE that book.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat September 20, 2014 1:44 pm
by epilogue
The Argonaut wrote:Varis wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:
The Stand - Stephen King
I really enjoyed that book. It is however a good example of how King can write a great, interesting, long story only to concoct less satisfactory endings within the final 50 pages.
ding ding ding
Interesting. I thought this was one of the few ending that people liked...
Anyway, I saw the tv mini-series long, long ago. I remember not loving the ending of that. But it's been so long that I really don't remember many specifics of the story beyond the set up. And Flagg.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun September 21, 2014 2:25 pm
by Dscans
Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue September 23, 2014 1:47 am
by Bob Loblaw
durdencommatyler wrote:Bob Loblaw wrote:I just finished reading Stephen King's On Writing!
Man, I LOVE that book.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue October 07, 2014 11:52 pm
by Bammer
I just finished Gone Girl over the weekend.
Creepy.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed October 15, 2014 3:53 pm
by dimejinky99
Bringing down the house-Ben Mezrick
How a group of students from MIT took Vegas for millions.
