What you reading? Your fav books? The book thread

[Vicious Wishes]

I just finally got around to reading an autobiograpy by some guy I'm sure no one on this board has ever heard of: Slash.    I really enjoyed hearing about his childhood and teenage years. I wish I had been smoking pot and having sex as early as 13!!! The stuff about Axl and GnR only succeeded in making me either angry or depressed. However, speedballing sounds like a hell of a lot of fun! LOL.

Also read Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill, Stephen King's son. Interesting premise, and the book was entertaining and fast-paced, but it lacked the great character-development that makes King's novels so memorable. It was one of those books that I think would make a better movie.

I'm reading heart shaped box right now. So far I like it.

[lennonisgod]

I'm about halfway thru "Under The Dome". I only ever read one Stephen King book before. This one is over 1100 pages long, but i just want to keep going and see what happens next. Interesting concept and i feel by now (600 pages in) that i really know the characters. Not sure how it's gonna turn out, but i'm sure the next 500 pages have plenty of strange shit waiting for me.

I just bought 'Under the Dome.'  I'm still reading my way through 'The Stand' and I think I'm about 800 pages through it. I tend to read a few books at a time and just finished 'Carrie' and 'Salem's Lot'. I also finished the first Dark Tower book a couple of weeks ago... which was AMAZING. The Borders near me is going out of business (maybe they all are?) and everything is 20%-50% off. I've bought a lot of books in the last couple weeks. Let us know how 'Under the Dome' was whenever you finish it.

[kaasupoltin]

I'm reading Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose.. great piece of history, I like his style. Band Of Brothers is a great choice too.

[Vicious Wishes]

Dexter by Design--It was alright. A little disturbing though, when he was 'grooming' his step-son for his lifestyle.

[DEAD HORSE]

Since this is the book' (thread), I wanted to let all the literature fiction reader know that  I just released a literature fiction book on Amazon and barnes and noble.
The name of the book is "The Last Poem of Schetzzer"

Here is the description from Amazon
Product Description

The agony of tragedy, the truth of love, the sincerity of beauty, questions without answers, and prophetic poetries are all common elements in The Last Poem of Schetzzer. Schetzzer is an average but complicated man who writes poetry that reveals a defeated attitude, preventing him from living a strong, confident life. His poems involve a kind of prophecy and a higher power that exists inside him that he doesn't realize until later in his journey.

He travels far to find the key to how he should live his life to the fullest. It is during his travels that he meets a man who strangely reminds him of himself. This mysterious man teaches him the strength of will and the healing powers, using animal behaviors as examples. He shows Schetzzer the aspects of how to survive and makes him realize that a simple thought can become a belief and that a written word can determine his reality. It also forces him to begin to really live his life to the fullest instead of just watching it pass him by. The last poem represents a spiritual search, an end to an outdated world that had been trapped inside of him.


http://www.amazon.com/Last-Poem-Schetzzer-Experience-Change/dp/144019565X/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

[Lady Ashba]

Sounds like powerful stuff! Congrats on your release 

[Lady Ashba]

Btw, this is extremely embarrassing but I do have a lot of free time right now and I just finished reading the whole Harry Potter collection 

[Albert S Miller]

Btw, this is extremely embarrassing but I do have a lot of free time right now and I just finished reading the whole Harry Potter collection 

Don't be embarassed, read what you like, you must have enjoyed it .

[Lady Ashba]

I surely did, thanks Right now I'm reading Twilight. Have to admit is better than I thought

[svdv22]

I think I''m going to watch twilight soon, just to what that hype's all about..
I'm not reading the book, I'm not that patient (I like books though - I'm just not that much into the vampire stuff lol)

[Lady Ashba]

I think I''m going to watch twilight soon, just to what that hype's all about..
I'm not reading the book, I'm not that patient (I like books though - I'm just not that much into the vampire stuff lol)

I just finished the book and also watched the movie... They are not bad, I've seen/read worse things. I get what you mean, but for me when there's a movie based on a book I prefer to do both things so I can compare and make my own conclusions. Otherwise you might miss the little details.

[svdv22]

I know what you mean, but like I said I don't think I'm going to like twilight so it's a bit too much of a read just to compare.
But I did with perfume, both Dan Brown's and probably some others too

I still want to see 'in the name of the rose' (by Umberto Eco). The book was great, curious about the movie

[journey]

Since this is the book' (thread), I wanted to let all the literature fiction reader know that  I just released a literature fiction book on Amazon and barnes and noble.
The name of the book is "The Last Poem of Schetzzer"

Here is the description from Amazon
Product Description

The agony of tragedy, the truth of love, the sincerity of beauty, questions without answers, and prophetic poetries are all common elements in The Last Poem of Schetzzer. Schetzzer is an average but complicated man who writes poetry that reveals a defeated attitude, preventing him from living a strong, confident life. His poems involve a kind of prophecy and a higher power that exists inside him that he doesn't realize until later in his journey.

He travels far to find the key to how he should live his life to the fullest. It is during his travels that he meets a man who strangely reminds him of himself. This mysterious man teaches him the strength of will and the healing powers, using animal behaviors as examples. He shows Schetzzer the aspects of how to survive and makes him realize that a simple thought can become a belief and that a written word can determine his reality. It also forces him to begin to really live his life to the fullest instead of just watching it pass him by. The last poem represents a spiritual search, an end to an outdated world that had been trapped inside of him.


http://www.amazon.com/Last-Poem-Schetzzer-Experience-Change/dp/144019565X/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

Congratulations. It sounds motivational.

Btw, this is extremely embarrassing but I do have a lot of free time right now and I just finished reading the whole Harry Potter collection 

That's impressive. I've seen most of the movies. The books on the other hand, I get exhausted just looking at them.


Currently reading Anton Chekhov's short stories. Just finished The Man in a Case and The Lady with the Dog.  Good stuff.

[Lady Ashba]

The Harry Potter books... well... you can get bored after a while cos they are meant for kids after all.

Right now I'm about to start with New Moon (let's see how the story continues), and I got this other one called The Deceiver, by Frederick Forsyth.

[Gunner80]

The Harry Potter books... well... you can get bored after a while cos they are meant for kids after all.

Right now I'm about to start with New Moon (let's see how the story continues), and I got this other one called The Deceiver, by Frederick Forsyth.

You went from kids to teen, awesome.

[Lady Ashba]

Hahaha what do you know, I'm growing up!

[Katie.B]

Firstly, I feel that Twilight novels are the biggest pile of shit I have ever come across, they are also badly written. However, I have not read all of them which I am ashamed of because in order to criticise them more accurately and further explain why they are a bag of shit I should have done
Harry Potter - You've gotta love it. I also feel it's a part of my childhood, so have a little soft spot for the books.
I am a total geek when it comes to literature, The Catcher in the Rye is my all time favourite book,
and I just finished reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles, (for the first time!) and bawled my eyes out at the end of it, which I rarely do.

[Lady Ashba]

Certainly Stephenie Meyer is no Shakespeare... They are just books for entertaining, not one of them will become classics of literature! I say take them for what they are... 

[Annie]

When I read the TWILIGHT books they almost put me under some sort of spell. It was alot of fun. I'm trying to read the latest 2 Vampire diaries books by Liz Smith, but they are a little harder to get into. I love the Vampire Diaries show. I did read the latest Jackie Collins novel, POOR LITTLE BITCH GIRL. I love Jackie Collins novels, they are no literary masterpieces, but the woman has story talent. My fav book from TWILIGHT was MIDNIGHT SUN, I really wish Stephenie would publish it.
I just entered an essay contest to be on the OPRAH Winfrey show to talk about TWILIGHT and how it impacted my life.It would be cool to win. We'll see. If I do get to go on the show, I will have no problem telling the world how much I love THIS I LOVE, even thought TWILIGHT and GNR are 2 completely separate universes    In my essay, I did discuss how that FOR ME, TIL captured the essence of Edward's love for Bella.

I never liked Harry Potter. I fell asleep in all of the movies, even on Omnimax. I did really like the Harry Potter exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry last year. It took all of my self control to not touch Robert Pattinson's Cedric Diggory
costume.

Has anybody here read the books that the TRU-Blood series was based on?

[Katie.B]

Certainly Stephenie Meyer is no Shakespeare... They are just books for entertaining, not one of them will become classics of literature! I say take them for what they are... 

Reminds me, I hate Shakespeare as well