What are you reading now?

[Jersey Girl]

Trinity.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

HAVANA by Stephen Hunter.

Books of his that I've already read: The Day Before Midnight, Point of Impact, Dirty White Boys, Black Light, Time to Hunt, Hot Springs, and Pale Horse Coming.

 

[justAndy]

...

The Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake.

 

[Chaplin]

Pillars of Creation by Terry Goodkind

 

[Pariah]

Angels and Demons, Dan Brown

I picked it up the same day that the Cardinals went into conclave--the extact event during which the book takes place. Weird coincidence; I didn't know that about the book going in.

I'm about 3/4 done. It's really good!

 

[thirty-two]

Police Accountability: The Role of Citizen Oversight

 

[Pariah]

Police Accountability: The Role of Citizen Oversight

ooo-that ones a real page turner. It's got a great twist at the end you won't see coming.

 

[thirty-two]

ooo-that ones a real page turner. It's got a great twist at the end you won't see coming.

oh goodie, then you can write my paper on it

 

[CQ]

I haven't read anything other than Dr. Seuss, Mercer Mayer, etc, for such a long time! So I decided to be a total bum this Saturday afternoon and read. Ok, so I chose a very easy reading book. Mostly because who knows when I'll sit down and read again! So I wanted something I could read cover to cover before dinner. I read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I figure I want to go see the movie, so I should give the book a quick read before then. Man I love that book!!!!!!

 

[thirty-two]

Kaplan's study guide thing for taking your GRE.

I thought I was done with this crap around SAT time!

 

[justAndy]

...

"An Anthropoligist on Mars" by Dr. Sacks. True tales of people with a variety of strange neurological problems - losing color sight and all memory of color, losing the ability to understand emotional content in others speech, idiot savants, gifted autistics and more. I like how he takes the clinicals facts and adds the story of the humanity of theses people and how they cope and compensate for their damage.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

Just finished The World is Flat and am starting Why Globalization Works and Kremlin Rising.

Also bought Rule of Four and The Historian at Costco this weekend. Halfway through The Historian...and really enjoying it so far, though it is much different than what I normally read.

 

[Pariah]

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

It's sort of like the DaVinci code, only they're discovering that Dracula (the historical Dracula--Valde Tepes) is still alive today.

It's a really good read so far.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

It's sort of like the DaVinci code, only they're discovering that Dracula (the historical Dracula--Valde Tepes) is still alive today.

It's a really good read so far.

Wow. How far are you into it? I am at the part where they got to the conference in Budapest.

Did you finish Freakonomics?

 

[Pariah]

I just started it. The girl has discovered the letter, and the father has taken her on a number of trips with him and explained what happened to his mentor and some of his own brushes with..."oddities."

 

[Pariah]

Did you finish Freakonomics?

I got bored with it so I've been picking it up here and there, but I haven't read it straight through.

It's interesting, but not completely engaging like I thought it would be.

 

[Mike Olbinski]

Just finished The Bourne Identity...pretty good read, and almost COMPLETELY opposite what the movie was about...it's not even close.

Reading the new Harry Potter now.

Mike

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Just finished The Bourne Identity...pretty good read, and almost COMPLETELY opposite what the movie was about...it's not even close.

Actually it is the movie that is completely different from the book. Which is why I usually try and read a book before it's changed by Hollywood.

 

[Mike Olbinski]

Actually it is the movie that is completely different from the book. Which is why I usually try and read a book before it's changed by Hollywood.

Well, duh, lol...I knew that...but the book is still opposite of the movie

The book was so good, but the Bourne movies are good as well...

But you hear people getting so upset about the LotR movies being adapted with changes from the original text....this movie absolultely destroyed Ludlum's story...

Mike

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Well, duh, lol...I knew that...but the book is still opposite of the movie

The book was so good, but the Bourne movies are good as well...

But you hear people getting so upset about the LotR movies being adapted with changes from the original text....this movie absolultely destroyed Ludlum's story...

Mike

I was only saying it the way I did because the books came first.

The movies have gone so far from the books that they are Bourne movies in name only.

 

[jf-08]

Servant of the Shard - by R. A. Salvatore

Kafka on the Shore - by Haruki Murakami

 

[Pariah]

Haruki Murakami

I've heard this guy is an amazing author, but haven't picked him up yet. How do you like this one?

 

[jf-08]

I've heard this guy is an amazing author, but haven't picked him up yet. How do you like this one?

I just started Kafka and haven't developed an opinion about it yet. I am probably going to finish Servant of the Shard first then pick of Kafka again.

I finished Wind-Up Bird Chronicle a while back, also by him. It was kind of hard to follow along - it was a surreal novel with alot of weird characters. But I enjoyed it. He is a good story teller. The theme that he has so far is that people let things happen to them. I don't know if this is prevalent in Japanese culture, but it is kind of against what my beliefs are. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle really reminds alot of Albert Camus' L’étranger, The Stranger, in an ecclectic sense, and has a similar tale telling. Toru, the main character remids me of a Japanese version of Meursault.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

I just started it. The girl has discovered the letter, and the father has taken her on a number of trips with him and explained what happened to his mentor and some of his own brushes with..."oddities."

Finished it last night...pretty good book, IMO.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

I read The Rule of Four this weekend. It was more focused on friendships and stuff than on the actual riddles, but it was still pretty good.