What Are You Reading, Again?

[CivCynic]

In my English class, we have to read No Promises in the Wind by Irene Hunt. Not a bad book, but I wouldn't recommend it.

As a book of my choice, I am also reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I feel that I don't have to say any more than that.

 

[M37]

H.G. Wells War of the worlds - I'm about half way thu it.

 

[Sims2789]

Angela's Ashes as an independent reading assignment for English.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I just started "the devil of nanking" by Mo Hayder. I've been captured and I'm only on page 21.

 

[Richard Cribb]

Ingar Sletten Kolloen: Hamsun Svermeren (2003).
Ingar Sletten Kolloen: Hamsun Erobreren (2004).

I don't know if there are any English titles for those, perhaps Hamsun - The Dreamer and Hamsun - The Conqueror?

Anyway Sletten Kolloen has written two books about Knut Hamsun (the Norwegian author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920).

This two volume biography is IMHO excellent, which is a bit surprising considering they are written by that annoying little butterball Kolloen.
It is in fact one of the best works about Hamsun and well worth reading.

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

I just finished Moving Pictures, a discworld book.

You can't go wrong with Terry Pratchett.

 

[thetrooper]

This two volume biography is IMHO excellent, which is a bit surprising considering they are written by that annoying little butterball Kolloen.
It is in fact one of the best works about Hamsun and well worth reading.

So you don't like Kolloen. I took a quick glance and he seems to be thorough about his references. If I'm not much mistaken - certain letters were released for this work.

 

[Richard Cribb]

So you don't like Kolloen. I took a quick glance and he seems to be thorough about his references. If I'm not much mistaken - certain letters were released for this work.

I see him around here from time to time and he sometimes puts up quite an tiresome appearence. I also didn't care much for his biography about Tor Jonsson.
But this one is quite good and the research is quite thorough. Actually he had a whole team and as we all should know collective efforts can be a very good idea, I can just refer to the work I recommended in this very thread. Besides he does quite a convincing job in showing what an unpleasant person Hamsun really was.
Congrats on your new avatar, by the way. It's quite stylish.

 

[thetrooper]

Hamsun - unpleasant person, never heard that

The man was a lunatic, a brilliant lunatic though.

About my new avatar, It's good thanks to Mistfit.

And comparing our sigs luceafarul - I need to change mine.

 

[LLXerxes]

The Last king ~~ Michael Curtis Ford

A book about Mithridates the Great of Pontus.

 

[shortguy]

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. It's a very good book, and, although the subject is quite serious, some of the portions so far have been absolutely hilarious.

 

[Babbler]

The Eternal Frontier (Tim Flannary) - A history of the North American continent since the fall of dinosaur.

The Fabric of the Cosmos (Brian Greene) - An account on physicists' struggle to understand space and time.

 

[CenturionV]

Slowly reading Star Trek: Errand of Fury by Kevin Ryan.

And The Bible By God.

I'm afraid I'm not much of a book reader, short informative articles are more my style.

I hope to soon try and finish reading my unabridged josephus again, that was a great book but I only finished about a quarter of it, and it was hard on the wrist, so heavy.....

 

[OrpheusPrime]

Secrets of the Kingdom - Gerald Posner

Its objective'ish for the first quarter of a book but then seems to develop into a sort of jewish rant against how the Saudi's.. You could read the really eye-opening part in the book-store. Read chapters 1 and 2.

 

[cgannon64]

The Brothers Karamasov has been extremely slow going with all the work I've had, but I'm 50 or so pages from the finish. It has been excellent - the kind of book I know I have to read every year or two. Next I have:

Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas, which I've already read about 100 pages of, but need to read again from the beginning;
Waiting for Godot, which I am reading purely on its reputation as existentialist and good and so on;
Pygmalion, because I do enjoy George Bernard Shaw to an extent;
and Slapstick, by Vonnegut, cuz I love him and nearly every time I see a book of his I haven't read, I pick it up.

 

[Arachnaphobia]

The Last Continent, Terry Pratchett, only about 50 pages to go.

 

[Joeb WK]

Dune- Frank Herbert.

 

[Hakim]

Just started Free World - Why a crisis of the West reveals the opportunity of our time by Timothy Garton Ash.

 

[FredLC]

Dune- Frank Herbert.

So am I. Weird, two people from the same forum reading this same old book at the same time... This must be some strange Bene Gesserit trick!

(Just finished Orwell's 1984, for the record).

Regards .

 

[Yoda Power]

I'm just reading my biology homework before my exam

So am I. Weird, two people from the same forum reading this same old book at the same time... This must be some strange Bene Gesserit trick!

Well it is a pretty popular book, so I'm not that surprised. If it was an unknown book it would be funny.