Author Topic: What are you reading? (Read 205278 times)

Linlingrl · « **Reply #240 on:** January 11, 2008, 03:16:13 AM »

Sister of the Traveling Pants by Anne Brashaw.

Levin · « **Reply #241 on:** January 11, 2008, 04:21:44 AM »

The Handy Weather Answer Book by Walter A. Lyons
I have to read it for Science Bowl. Ugh. Well, it's better than the geology textbook I read. It's actually somewhat interesting.

SomethingWild · « **Reply #242 on:** January 11, 2008, 03:34:11 PM »

I'm writing my research proposal on Swift's Gulliver's Travels, so I'll have to re-read it.

Aioros · « **Reply #243 on:** January 22, 2008, 02:03:49 AM »

Finished reading Watchmen last weekend. It was brilliant.

Currently reading some Cable & Deadpool issues.

sousora · « **Reply #244 on:** January 22, 2008, 02:56:34 AM »

Ender's Game at the moment, although I just finished the first Dexter novel

Shinora · « **Reply #245 on:** January 22, 2008, 07:49:51 AM »

clannad, i guess this counts since its a visual novel...
man this thing has got me addicted -_-

ctz · « **Reply #246 on:** January 22, 2008, 11:08:37 PM »

Children of Húrin by JRR Tolkien & Son

Finally had time to start the newest book from the Middle-Earth. There's not so much to read though, after two chapters I've almost read two thirds of the book. Big margins and illustrations made it look thicker.

The story seems to be nice. Too bad it's been years I read The Silmarillion and the other books about these times in Middle-Earth. Hard to remember the big picture

shadowstar · « **Reply #247 on:** January 24, 2008, 04:19:51 PM »

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse
by Robert Rankin

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Humpty Dumpty is the first of Toy City's upper crust to sleep with the fishes. Boiled alive in his own swimming pool. A nasty fate, but maybe not as nasty as Little Boy Blue's, with his own shepherd's crook thrust a long way into a place where the sun does not shine.

Bill Winkie the P.I. has gone missing, and his hard-drinking teddybear sidekick Eddie takes up the case. Down these mean streets a bear must go. He needs a hand, though--two hands, owing to a lack of opposable thumbs--and reluctantly teams up with "gormster" country boy Jack, who foolishly thinks he can make his fortune in Toy City.

Of course the police, jolly bouncy rubber policemen who are sadistic at heart, object to interfering freelances. So does the mystery assassin, who seems to be a curvaceous woman in a kinky rubber outfit--death on high heels. Even kindly old Mother Goose, madame of the Toy City brothel, gets her neck wrung before she can talk, and Eddie is in serious danger of losing his very stuffing.

Fast, demented, fairytale-noir action, filled with gruesomely silly deaths, self-referential thriller gags, and the true meanings of those nursery rhymes whose royalties made Humpty and the rest so rich.

<3

daigong · « **Reply #248 on:** February 15, 2008, 09:02:15 AM »

I'm reading Mario Party DS instruction booklet.

Hakai · « **Reply #249 on:** February 15, 2008, 11:14:28 AM »

Clay feet by Terry Pratchet

Katchoo · « **Reply #250 on:** February 25, 2008, 12:00:33 AM »

I finished "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand

Asmodai · « **Reply #251 on:** February 25, 2008, 02:18:31 AM »

I've decided to restart the Harry Potter series from the beginning. It'll be interested to see how much more I pick up on in a second read-through.

Tuffty · « **Reply #252 on:** February 25, 2008, 08:44:36 PM »

Troy : Lord Of The Silver Bow - by David Gemmell

Got if for my b-day. Sounds right up my alley!

SomethingWild · « **Reply #253 on:** February 25, 2008, 10:36:06 PM »

Finished Shelley's Frankenstein.. Going to read Gaskell - North and South..

Yes, I arrived in the 19th century..

Hakai · « **Reply #254 on:** February 27, 2008, 12:04:53 AM »

Interesting times - Terry Pratchet

Yes. I really like Terry Pratchet and yes, I read quite fast.

StreakInTheSky · « **Reply #255 on:** February 27, 2008, 12:30:38 AM »

What happened to the "what it is" section? >:|

I used to read quite a bit back in my last couple years of high school so I started this thread, but haven't read anything of interest besides a few manga in like 2 years... o_o

wtf happened... I also have a bunch of books I bought and haven't read and is now just collecting dust...

Now I just skim through some articles and excerpts from books about Japanese language and culture for a class. At least I'm actually looking at the text for this class. >_>

arun.yothin · « **Reply #256 on:** February 27, 2008, 01:19:57 AM »

I was readin' fool for a bit, but now I've slowed down a lot and I have a lot of books collecting dust too. I got done with No Country for Old Men and I'm in the fourth TPB of 100 Bullets and I started Day by Day Armageddon a little while ago. I was reading a few pages of The Romance of Lust

at a time, but haven't gone back to it in a bit.

A1 · « **Reply #257 on:** March 17, 2008, 02:09:53 AM »

The Warriors by Sol Yurick

mini*wheat · « **Reply #258 on:** March 17, 2008, 02:29:10 AM »

Quote from: wordsworth on January 22, 2008, 02:03:49 AM

Currently reading some Cable & Deadpool issues.

YES. I'm working my way through that series as well.

I'm also working through DC's Countdown every week. It's FINALLY moving somewhere. Geez.

shadowstar · « **Reply #259 on:** March 17, 2008, 05:01:31 AM »

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After the sudden death of his wife Jo, author Mike Noonan is plagued by writer's block, with his dreams haunted by the summer house he shared with her, he reluctantly decides to return to the isolated lakeside retreat.

There he finds his once beloved town in the grip of the powerful millionaire Max Devore, who twists this small community to his own purpose, attempting to take his young granddaughter away from her widowed young mother. As Mike becomes drawn into their struggle he falls in love with both of them and is further drawn into the mystery of this ghostly town.