Are you readng any books currently?

Veggie Eater · **Posted:** March 10th, 2009, 4:34 pm

blethorskite wrote:

Just finished the graphic novel Maus. Both are great works from 'new journalism' and highly evocative.

I've read Maus too. Was very interesting.

I'm almost done reading the book Johnny Got His Gun. I think this book is amazing. It's about a World War 1 soldier that gets severely injured in battle yet gets to the hospital in time so he's still alive. However, his face is basically a crater in his head. His eyes, nose, ears, and mouth/jaw are all gone. He breathes through a tube from his throat. Both his arms and his legs get cut off. However, he has a full functioning brain so he is trapped inside of his own mind unable to communicate to the world.
It's a very anti-war novel and it really does make you think about things. To any Metallica fans out there, the song "One" is about the book.
I recommend it to all of you, even if you are pro-war. My boyfriend loves the book yet still wants to join the military.. He's weird.

Here's the music video to the Metallica song "One" it has clips from the movie, and does an amazing job describing the book

Adbot · **Posted:** March 10th, 2009, 4:34 pm

Rune Beast0 · **Posted:** March 10th, 2009, 4:50 pm

@Veggie: I've been looking for that book in the library but it's always taken out.

I'm rereading Grave Peril by Jim Butcher for about the third or fourth time.

power crazy · **Posted:** March 10th, 2009, 8:54 pm

Currently reading "Angels and Demons" which is the book that comes before "The Da Vinci Code."

It's real good so far. should finish it in a few days.

Duke Juker · RSBandB Donor since 07/01/2010

We just finished 1984 in class and are moving on to Brave New World.

patrick · **Posted:** March 11th, 2009, 2:55 pm

I'm reading Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at the moment; it's pretty darn good...

whitedragon · **Posted:** March 12th, 2009, 8:57 am

No I wish i did

. All the books in the school library that are anygood I've read or are not worth reading.

Any suggestions though would be great.

Adbot · **Posted:** March 12th, 2009, 8:57 am

blethorskite · **Posted:** March 12th, 2009, 12:40 pm

Mushroom Queen wrote:

blethorskite wrote:

Have you read Persepolis? It's kind of in the same category.

Not yet, but a friend also mentioned this last week so I'll make a point of getting to read it.

Matthew · **Posted:** March 12th, 2009, 6:25 pm

To Kill A Mockingbird and Our Town the play for school. I'm really enjoying To Kill a Mockingbird. Also my girlfriend and I are having a race to see who can finish the Twilight Seeries the fastest. I'm on the first she's on the 3rd lol

Brad · **Posted:** March 15th, 2009, 11:20 am

Bought 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy (same guy who wrote 'No Country For Old Men') on Saturday and read it in one sitting on Saturday afternoon. Brilliant book, the ending was a little lackluster compared to the rest but it was still amazing.

Fanaticism · **Posted:** March 15th, 2009, 12:38 pm

I am actually reading a book... which is rare... I'm on book 2 right now but its called Dragons of a Lost Star... The next one I have to read is Dragons of a Vanished Moon... They are part of the dragonlance books which have 241212587128951798257192591275982175981 books all together

Stats1122 · **Posted:** March 15th, 2009, 4:39 pm

i just finished "The Lost Years of Merlin" it was a really good book

Jess · **Posted:** March 15th, 2009, 5:23 pm

My friend bought the Watchmen book and she's reading it then giving it to me...So I'll be reading that tomorrow or Tuesday!

blethorskite · **Posted:** March 16th, 2009, 8:54 am

Brad wrote:

Bought 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy (same guy who wrote 'No Country For Old Men') on Saturday and read it in one sitting on Saturday afternoon. Brilliant book, the ending was a little lackluster compared to the rest but it was still amazing.

I read that book last summer in one sitting as well. Gripping read.

King Kulla · **Posted:** March 19th, 2009, 10:15 am

Not at the moment, but I'll be completely honest; I did spend a good week re-reading the HP septology... :oops:

blethorskite · **Posted:** March 30th, 2009, 9:43 am

Just read Betrayal at Falador.

Vastly dissapointing. It's not just that it's badly written, which it is, completely lacking in narrative structure and descriptive imagery and far too formal concerning language and syntactical style, but it's often just innacurate when attempting to link into the game. It seems to have been written for 12 year olds (no insult meant to those of that age or younger who do read challenging books - I'm making a huge generalisation here). The author appears to have only a minimum understanding of Runescape.

A very boring, all too often silly narrative. A shame.