What you reading? Your fav books? The book thread

[kaasupoltin]

I "have to" read Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray and analyse it, it's a school thing. So has anyone read this book, is it any good? Never read anything from Wilde, altough I've heard about his history and what happened to him..

[Rocksteady]

I "have to" read Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray and analyse it, it's a school thing. So has anyone read this book, is it any good? Never read anything from Wilde, altough I've heard about his history and what happened to him..

I read it about a year ago. It's rather interesting, the use of language is very "elegant" and basically everything Lord Henry Wotton says is quotable. Although it has it's bad parts, there are places where it drags a lot one towards the end is particularly annoying. Luckily it's not a long book.

[Miss Carousel]

I "have to" read Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray and analyse it, it's a school thing. So has anyone read this book, is it any good? Never read anything from Wilde, altough I've heard about his history and what happened to him..

I had to do that in high school as well, and I found I had a lot of material to work with even though it wasn't long.

Um, it's a good book, I guess. And as Rocksteady said though, it dragged in some places, like the middle.

[Albert S Miller]

Just read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, I thought it was a great book!

Great movie as well.

[cotis]

Just read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, I thought it was a great book!

Great movie as well.

It is! We're watching it in class, they changed somethings which made me disappointed (McMurphy's arrival with the black boys trying to 'get his temperature', the fishing trip took another meaning, Chief isn't the main character, etc.)

ut a good movie nonetheless.

[AxlsMainMan]

Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse

[pilferk]

Jim Butcher's Dresden files books (on book 2) now.

Amber and Iron by Margaret Weis

[Rocksteady]

I'm currently reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman, so far pretty good.

[Genesis]

People still read King? Shocking.

Last book I read: The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini. Very very good.

YES

His last book "Duma Key" Was phenomenal. I know he got a lot of flack for "The Cell" and "Lisey's Story" but Duma was an excellent, amazing read.

i'm really really looking forward to the new Dennis Lehane novel which is a historical epic about the boston police strike in 1918, "The Given Day" which comes out tuesday.

Lehane 's "Mystic River" is my favorite book ever. and his Kenzie-Gennaro detective series was fantastic

I just recently read Lehane's 'Sacred' and it's got a whole page of GN'R references. Kenzie pretending he's Matt Sorum.

[GnFnR87]

People still read King? Shocking.

Last book I read: The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini. Very very good.

YES

His last book "Duma Key" Was phenomenal. I know he got a lot of flack for "The Cell" and "Lisey's Story" but Duma was an excellent, amazing read.

i'm really really looking forward to the new Dennis Lehane novel which is a historical epic about the boston police strike in 1918, "The Given Day" which comes out tuesday.

Lehane 's "Mystic River" is my favorite book ever. and his Kenzie-Gennaro detective series was fantastic

I just recently read Lehane's 'Sacred' and it's got a whole page of GN'R references. Kenzie pretending he's Matt Sorum.

lol yeah that was hilarious!!. my favorite of that series is probably Darkness Take My Hand, although Gone Baby Gone was awesome.

i read in a recent interview that he will probably never go back to the Kenzie-Gennaro series.. he just isnt in the right "place" anymore mentally to write another book with them in it. 

[gilee7]

I'm currently reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman, so far pretty good.

Oh, I love that book!!! The spin-off, Anansi Boys, was decent, but nowhere near on par with American Gods.

[AxlsMainMan]

Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot

 

[ben9785]

I'm going through some of the original James Bond novels by Ian Fleming at the moment. Classic stories and a very good writer.

[Genesis]

i read in a recent interview that he will probably never go back to the Kenzie-Gennaro series.. he just isnt in the right "place" anymore mentally to write another book with them in it. 

Well actually, what he said was that he doesn't have a Kenzie-Gennaro kind of plot at the moment and he won't shoe horn them into any story just for the sake of it. When he gets the right plot for them, he'll put out another Kenzie-Gennaro book. I kind of respect that. I rather have a well written novel with a good plot if they're in it than a half baked one.

[GnFnR87]

i read in a recent interview that he will probably never go back to the Kenzie-Gennaro series.. he just isnt in the right "place" anymore mentally to write another book with them in it. 

Well actually, what he said was that he doesn't have a Kenzie-Gennaro kind of plot at the moment and he won't shoe horn them into any story just for the sake of it. When he gets the right plot for them, he'll put out another Kenzie-Gennaro book. I kind of respect that. I rather have a well written novel with a good plot if they're in it than a half baked one.

i wish you were right, but i think the whole "not having the right plot" thing is from an older interview. here is the new interview from early september of this year with USA today.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-09-03-fall-books-lehane_N.htm

(towards the bottom)

He knows what he won't do: write another whodunit about the two private eyes, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, in his first five novels, which include Gone Baby Gone. "They were written from a young man's perspective. I left Patrick when I was 33 and he was 33. I've tried, but his voice won't come."



lets hope he changes his mind and tries again lol

[Genesis]

i read in a recent interview that he will probably never go back to the Kenzie-Gennaro series.. he just isnt in the right "place" anymore mentally to write another book with them in it. 

Well actually, what he said was that he doesn't have a Kenzie-Gennaro kind of plot at the moment and he won't shoe horn them into any story just for the sake of it. When he gets the right plot for them, he'll put out another Kenzie-Gennaro book. I kind of respect that. I rather have a well written novel with a good plot if they're in it than a half baked one.

i wish you were right, but i think the whole "not having the right plot" thing is from an older interview. here is the new interview from early september of this year with USA today.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-09-03-fall-books-lehane_N.htm

(towards the bottom)

He knows what he won't do: write another whodunit about the two private eyes, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, in his first five novels, which include Gone Baby Gone. "They were written from a young man's perspective. I left Patrick when I was 33 and he was 33. I've tried, but his voice won't come."



lets hope he changes his mind and tries again lol

Noooooooooooooooooooo!

[AxlsMainMan]

Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Really enjoying both.

[GnFnR87]

gonna start Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon soon.

 a nice quick read over thanksgiving break   

[The Estranged MrFlashbax]

started reading Dean Koontz's 'Velocity' while I was waiting on the line to the listening party today. Really good stuff. Kinda reminds of the movie Se7en. You get out of work to find a letter on your windshield saying if you don't take this note to the police and get them involved within 6 hours, a lovely blond schoolteacher will die. If you do, an elderly woman who's involved in charity work will die. What do you do? toss it away as a joke, of course. But the next day a lovely blond school teacher turns up beaten and choked to death by her own pantyhose. And sure enough, when you get out of work, there's another similar note, but this time the deadline's 5 hours. And so on and so forth. I'm really looking forward to getting through this book, i just need to find some time.

[Rocksteady]

Started 1984 yesterday...