what are you reading?

[faith]

I'm reading "Smart Executives and Why they Fail", "Corporate Communication", "Financial Accounting 11th edition", and "Learn Business Japanese"...

 

[Susan]

"Resumes for Dummies"

 

[flowersofnight]

Reading:
Confucius - The Analects
Joyce Tyldesley - Judgement of the Pharaoh

and currently working on and off in:
Donald McQuarrie - Physical Chemistry: A Molecular Approach

And today I went to a book sale and I got:
John Farley - The Spontaneous Generation Controversy From Descartes to Oparin
Bertrand Russell - Icarus: or, The future of science
Leonard Krieger - An Essay on the Theory of Enlightened Despotism

 

[holylampposts]

John Farley - The Spontaneous Generation Controversy From Descartes to Oparin

This one sounds interesting, but there's nothing about it on Amazon or Barnes and Noble. :/

 

[Homunculus]

I read the first chapter of Trinity Blood: Reborn on the Mars 1 but had to stop because of school work. So I read a book about North Korea's history and it's realations with America, China and South Korea instead. Pretty interessting ~

 

[Hinata Akiama]

I'm reading The Vampire Armand, and I love it a lot.

 

[Kyuketsuki]

I'm reading The Vampire Armand, and I love it a lot.

I approve.

We've got an Anne Rice thread around here somewhere- if you're really interested in the series, you might want to look it up and read it a bit.



I just finished reading Memnoch the Devil for the second time. It's made me all serious now. >.> Hell, now I might dredge up the old thread- I've got a few questions! XD

 

[Susan]

Man, I still haven't been able to hit the bookstore for the Vampire Lestat and the Queen of the Damned.

Anyways, I'm now reading volume 3 of Transmetropolitan. Awesome!

 

[Eville Von Random]

I'm reading Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice.

 

[Halvorc]

I saw Harry Potter-based fanfictions that were over 2000 and even 3000 pages, on fanfiction.net.

 

[Einherjer]

i'm reading mpd psycho, angel sanctuary, and welcome to the nhk

 

[colorsofromance]

Call me a nerd but my family and I went shopping and I went on a little book spree for myself..

Ones I have to read for school (I only had to read 3 but..) :

1. Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
3. Hiroshima by John Hersey
4. Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
5. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Ones I WANT to read :

1. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
2. Tales from 1001 Nights by (name I can't read)
3. The Death of Ivan Ilych and other stories by Tolstoy
4. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo <- For MM.
5. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes <- Father's fav.
6. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alghieri
7. The Kings and Queens of England by Ian Crofton

I'm planning to read them all by the end of summer, wish me luck XD My parents want me to read Anna Kerinina (sp?) too, but its huge!

Gosh the Martian Chronicles is good, I fully reccomend it. Ray Bradbury is good.

 

[Halvorc]

I liked the first part of Les Misérables. The story of Jean Valjean's redemption is touching. But the second half was pretty boring to me. As for Ray Bradbury, I got boooored of his writing so much !

 

[tashabot]

I've gotten some great reading suggestions from this thread! My library card is going to be getting quite a workout.

I love reading. I'm currently rereading Anne McCaffrey's Pern series. I just finished rereading both of the Ender's Game series and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (by Orson Scott Card and Douglas Adams, respectively). I reread a lot of things because I'm too broke to buy new books and to spend the gas to go to the library often. >.< However, I'm going to check out a ton of new books next time I go, thanks to you guys.

I am a huge Harry Potter geek, however, and after Pern I'm going to be rereading the first six books in order in preparation for the last book's release next month. *excited* I'm such a geek, I'm going to a midnight release party and everything.

 

[NiGHTS]

I'm currently reading HP Lovecraft's - Shadow over Innsmouth. It's a great book, in line with the Cthulu Mythos ^^

BTW, if you happen to have the Call of Cthulu Game, it's based on the book I'm reading xD

 

[Kyuketsuki]

As for Ray Bradbury, I got boooored of his writing so much !

I don't like bradbury either. I had to read "dandelion wine" by him for school and, my god, I never thought I'd ever come across a book with no plot or substance in it, but I did. There's no story, nothing going on, nothing. It's all "I'm at my grandparent's house for the summer. It's hot out, so we went to the ice shed. They always bring the ice at around 3pm. I'm going to go to the movies tonight. Wow, this was the best summer ever. THE END"

That's it. That's the whole book in a nutshell. There's nothing to it- no plot, no point, and no resolution because there is nothing to resolve.

I also read some martian book by him, and it was just as boring. At least there was some minor action going on and people died or something, but it was just as stupid, virtually plotless, and pointless as dandelion wine.

What a waste of my life.

 

[colorsofromance]

^ I've never read that one before.

But gooooosh I loved The Martian Chronicles....

....but then again, I am a big Isaac Asimov fan, so maybe I just liked the Martian Chronicles because it was that sort of kind of science fiction. ^^

 

[Kyuketsuki]

^ Maybe that's what I read was the martian chronicles. I couldn't remember the name. I only remembered dandelion wine because we had to go over it in class. After reading stuff by Robin Mckinley and Anne Rice, his books are like eating ancient cardboard. I don't know why he's famous. XD

 

[Susan]

So I've been reading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. It bugs me because I KNOW there's a story here. But I have to wade through all this useless DETAIL and over-explaining muck to get to it. It used to be fun in his older books. but this time he tried a bit TOO hard.

I really wanna hit the bookstore this weekend for the next Vampire Chronicles books. I need a break.

 

[Kyuketsuki]

^ WHOO! Which one are you going in for?????!