Books You're Reading At The Moment?

Phresh Phob · **Posted:** January 9th, 2009, 11:14 pm

I read the news and current event articles almost daily. However, it's rare I pick up a novel for my own leisure. Currently, I am reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair for my English class (it's about Chicago slaughterhouses in the early 20th century).

Adbot · **Posted:** January 9th, 2009, 11:14 pm

blethorskite · **Posted:** January 10th, 2009, 6:45 am

Just finished The Kite Runner - real slow goin until the last 100 pages and then a very moving story of personal friendship and loss.

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** January 10th, 2009, 6:02 pm

blethorskite wrote:

Just finished The Kite Runner - real slow goin until the last 100 pages and then a very moving story of personal friendship and loss.

Kite Runner is SUCH a good book. You might like A Thousand Splendid Suns also.

I'm reading DUNE right now. Such a classic. I've been meaning to read it, but I've never been able to get past the first few chapters. Now that I've actually put time into it, it's really really really good.

Matthew · **Posted:** January 11th, 2009, 6:32 pm

i just started reading the Harry Potters over

Rune Beast0 · **Posted:** January 11th, 2009, 6:42 pm

Mushroom Queen wrote:

blethorskite wrote:

Just finished The Kite Runner - real slow goin until the last 100 pages and then a very moving story of personal friendship and loss.

Kite Runner is SUCH a good book.

Yes, I definitely agree. I preferred A Thousand Splendid Suns, but The Kite Runner was great too.

Right now I am rereading Thunderhead by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Not my favorite book they have ever written, but it's still pretty good. (and it makes me want to be an archaeologist)

Chief Snake · **Posted:** January 12th, 2009, 5:07 am

When I was in primary school roughly 6 to 8 years ago I read the His Dark Materials series and loved it, so I took Northern Lights with me (the first book in the series) when I went on holiday a week ago (I got back today). I never actually expected myself to read it, but took it just in case I had some time to kill and was in the mood - having not read a book for leisure in years. :oops:

I finished it in three days and, having not brought The Subtle Knife with me, needed something else to read. After embarrassingly searching several book stores I bought Twilight (I felt like an obsessed teenage girl), read that in another three days, and I've been looking for the next books in the series since finishing it. Unfortunately it appears I've no chance of getting my hands on them until at least the 26th when all the book stores receive them. But I can read The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass in the mean time.

It does intrigue me though how interested I've suddenly become in reading again after having not done for so long. I suppose it just takes a good book.

Incidentally Twilight was fantastic (though I really am just a sappy teen at heart) and Northern Lights was just as gripping as it was the first time.

Adbot · **Posted:** January 12th, 2009, 5:07 am

blethorskite · **Posted:** January 13th, 2009, 12:10 pm

Chief Snake wrote:

When I was in primary school roughly 6 to 8 years ago I read the His Dark Materials series and loved it, so I took Northern Lights with me (the first book in the series) when I went on holiday a week ago (I got back today). I never actually expected myself to read it, but took it just in case I had some time to kill and was in the mood - having not read a book for leisure in years. :oops:

I finished it in three days and, having not brought The Subtle Knife with me, needed something else to read. After embarrassingly searching several book stores I bought Twilight (I felt like an obsessed teenage girl), read that in another three days, and I've been looking for the next books in the series since finishing it. Unfortunately it appears I've no chance of getting my hands on them until at least the 26th when all the book stores receive them. But I can read The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass in the mean time.

It does intrigue me though how interested I've suddenly become in reading again after having not done for so long. I suppose it just takes a good book.

Incidentally Twilight was fantastic (though I really am just a sappy teen at heart) and Northern Lights was just as gripping as it was the first time.

Yeh, Pullman's Dark Materials are a great read, my favourite of the three being The Subtle Knife. The Twilight series is on my bookshelf to read when I get time as my girlfriend has just finished reading them. She got through all four in a week - just couldn't put them down. There's four books so I'm surprised you have to wait for the next one - amazon has them at a reduced price. And there's an internet copy of a fifth book availlabe which Meyer has allowed free to people after a copy was leaked online.

Seeing as both Mushroom Queen & Rune Beast recommend A Thousand Splendid Suns I'll order a copy and put that on my shelf to read over the next month or so. I'm half way through A Clockwork Orange at the moment.