Books you're reading now...or then...

c00per said:
I refuse to be a part of the current Twilight fad:p It sounds like its a book for highschool kids.
Am I missing something here? I mean, a vampire story set around kids at school? With added highschool drama? It hardly sounds like a basis for good literature, it just doesn't appeal to me in the slightest. I honestly want to know what I'm missing, I mean it must be quite good if you reserved the second copy at the local library, so what is it about it that you liked? :)
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The highscool kids /romance stuff was tough to get through, but the story was well written. What I liked was the well written part (i.e. word choice and sentence structure seemed polished). The 'take' on the vampires was original, their powers and the motivations; it was different from any other way I've seen them portrayed.
The first half/three-quarters of the book is so-so, but when the start getting chased by the 'bad' vampire (iow, the action kicks up), then the story gets better.
My wife's co-worker has read them and he said that the story doesn't really get good until the 3rd book. I'd put the 1st one on par with the 1st Harry Potter book; but more from a feminine point of view.
 
jerrinfla said:
Last one I read is "Harbingers". I've read them all since "The Tomb" and I am astonished that Wilson can keep the storyline going for so long with so many twists and turns. Of course, I might just be easily amused. lol
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Harbingers is the one I'd missed, there's two more out that are after that (Bloodlines & By The Sword). They've stopped becoming all-in-one-book stories now, too. So there's no clear cut end or the story at the end of the book.
Wait until you read Bloodlines and find out what the 'bad' guys are doing to concentrate their "bloodlines" :eek: :barf:
 
iggy pop :open up and bleed , Paul Trynka
From counterculture to Cyberculture , Fred turner
A People's History Of The United States, Howard Zinn
The hacker Crackdown, forgot the author right now.
 
OwenM said:
am about to start David Baldacci's Stone Cold.
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Didn't realize when I posted that three weeks ago that the book had been out for awhile. Got the next in the series, Divine Justice on the way home from work this morning, which picks up where Stone Cold left off-actually I think the first chapter is the same as the last chapter in the previous book:confused:
Maybe there was a preview in the other one...don't know 'cause I gave it to my dad. Anyway, when I opened the book a few minutes ago and started reading, I thought I'd mistakenly bought something I already had!
Sometimes I do that.
 
Psychopomp said:
First up is A World Undone by G. J. Meyer, and then World War 1, the African Front, by Edward Paice. It caught my eye because I've read a lot about the Western front, Russia and the south, but not a whole lot about Africa. Should be interesting.
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Psychopomp, if you want to read about the African front, I HIGHLY recommend My Reminiscences of East Africa by von Lettow-Vorbeck. Not only is it great since it's an amazing primary source from THE horse's mouth, he has a very entertaining, flowing writing style, some of his hand drawn maps are included, as well as some amazing sketches by one of his aide-de-camps.
 
lizardman_u said:
I finished Atlas Shrugged a month ago, and wish I had read it 20 years earlier (but I may not have had the attention span to weather the dry parts 20 years ago)
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It was a pretty quick read, until that 80 page monologue near the end. that almost killed me - no good place to stop. You get the feeling that alot more of the powers-that-be should have read this thing...
 
I got an eBook for Christmas and one of the books that came pre-loaded on it for free was A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Princess_of_Mars). I started reading just because it was there but I must say that it has really drawn me in. A great story! :thumbup:
 
Currently reading "50/50." It is an autobiography by Dean Karnazes about his adventures of running 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days.

Every time I read a auto/biography by a sports figure I always swear I will never read another. Athletes should stick to what they are good at and usually, writing isn't it. But I always fold. Worst book I have ever read was written by Dennis Rodman (don't know what I was smoking when I picked that one up).
 
Re-re-reading Ian Fleming's Dr. No and just finished From Russia With Love
Also reading and enjoying Dogs Never Lie About Love

(Mark, just popped over from the snowfall thread and why aren't you outdoors in that 70 degree weather? I'm either reading or shoveling the last two weeks. Thanks for the reminder about the John Carter series by Burroughs. I think there may be about 12 books in that series...)
Steve
 
markksr said:
And guess what?
It's a trilogy.

Just started #2, The Gods of Mars...
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Finished #2 and am almost done with #3, The Warlord of Mars.

Great stories! Quick, light reads packed with chivalry and swordfighting... on Mars!
 
almost finished with "American Rifle-a biography ". a history of the evolution of the AMERICAN rifle/rifleman. great book for you history/military buffs. oh yeah, author is ALEXANDER ROSE.
 
Presently reading, "Quiet Strength", Tony Dungy's autobiography. Up next, "Marley & Me", which was a gift to me from ImGatMan. (Thanks, Buddy!)
 
I'm almost done with Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men. I have not seen the movie. I just finished his latest book, The Road. I recommend both. He's a great writer. One of his books won the National Book Award. Both of the books I mention here are definitely guy books. Lots of brutality.
 
Currently reading Big Boy Rules by Steve Fainaru ( Job research related )

Just finished two books, A Walk in the Woods, and I'm a Stranger Here Myself, both by Bill Bryson. His work is great, and has humor in just the right places.
 
I think Bryson's THE LOST CONTINENT is the funniest book I ever read - I'm not sure whether you have to be a Midwesterner or have lived there to get it, but I couldn't stop laughing.
 
I just picked up Lost Continent and will be reading it after finishing Big Boy Rules. Bryson is the only author I have read that makes me laugh out loud when I read his books.
 
jerrinfla said:
I've read all of his books except for the newest one and "The Darkest Night". I'm a bit miffed over the plethora of books he's pumped out without completing his Frankenstein trilogy. Some of his books I haven't cared for, but so many of them are so riveting I can't resist giving anything he writes a try. So far my favorite book by Koontz is Intensity, but I am really chomping at the bit waiting for him to finish his darned trilogy.
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Just finished "The darkest night" ended quickly, reading Winter Moon right now
not sure what to think of that one yet, about 1/4 way in.

And I think there must be a 5th in the series for Odd Thomas from the way
they ended the last book?

G2
 
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