What's been your latest read?

[Aesir23]

Cirque Du Freak of the Darren Shan saga, getting the next 3 books of the series tomorrow. Damn, I wish the books were longer.

I also read The Two Swords of the Legend of Drizzt saga by R.A. Salvatore.

 

[BigG520]

Rommel as a military commander. JUST started so I cant say good or bad, but the like 8 pages I read held my interest.

 

[Madaxeman101]

I read the graphic novel amory wars volume 2 last night it was pretty good

 

[Agent Larkin]

The Rivan Codex by David and Leigh Eddings was my most recent read. However Im currently going through The Bear and The Dragon" by Tom Clancy for the fourth time.

 

[Gincairn]

Where do I start?

I've just finished the Iron Man Movie adaptation by Peter David
I'm currently readying;
Heroes - Saving Charlie
Unseen academicals - Terry Pratchett
The Invisible Man - H G Wells
Necrophenia - Robert Rankin
As you do - Richard Hammond
Ronans Rescue - James Bibby

I think that's about it at the moment, yes that list is current and I tend to read a bit from one each day or rather I'll dip into one and then another the next day and so on, almost enough for one book per day.

 

[VeX1le]

Brother Odd by Dean KOONTZ (Hey i like it)

 

[Sir Strange Of The House Lycan]

Mortal engines by Phillip Reeve
Good book with excellent premise.

 

[Mongodyr]

I'm currently reading The Shadow Over Innsmouth, by H. P. Lovecraft.
Always wanted to read it, just never got to it.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

The Beach by Alex Garland.

Again.

Absolutely brilliant, one of my favorite books.

 

[Riobux]

The Night Flyer by Stephen King from a collection of his short stories in a book called Nightmares And Dreamscapes.

 

[Ace of Spades]

I'm currently reading Crime and Punishment for my Continental Literature Class.

 

[Spekter068]

Im the exact same way as your sister with fiction, i start to read it then say to myself "wait this is all made up pffftt what garbage" and i stop.

Currently reading FM 90-3 and FMI 3-34-119.

dude, you took my profile pic man! What the hell!

O.T. I'm currently in the middle of "War of the Worlds" and when I finish than in god knows when, due to the fact that I read every once a month or so, I'm going to read "1984". Just because I'm crazy like that

You're going to find "1984" difficult to put down. I know I did. If you enjoy it, read "Animal Farm," also by George Orwell.

O.T. I started "Dante's Inferno" yesterday, and I'm also reading "Alive," which is the story of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashes in the Andes. It's pretty freaky.

 

[Schlorgan]

I was reading "Congo" by Micheal Crichton, and only got half-way before I had to take it back to the library today.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

I'm reading The Quiet War by Paul McAuley and rereading The Illuminatus Trilogy.

 

[nightwolf667]

Aaaanyway. Other than that, I'm sorry for the poor guy reading the Divine Comedy (honestly, it's like reading the 14th century phonebook. You'd think that the guy would put people in afterlife that lived more than three blocks away from him...). Take it from me, it's cool to say that you've read it, but it's only worth it if you're writing a disseration on the birth of European languages. Also, you can lie about it and nobody will check because they are also lying about it.

I just want you to know, I'm going to give this to my Professor who teaches two of the Divine Comedies as part of a myths course for freshman that includes Gilgamesh, the Illiad, the Odessey, and that other one that was written years after the Illiad and the Odessey that said the Trojans escaped and founded Rome. I never remember it's name. He'll get a kick out of this.

As for the Divine Comedies, Inferno is the only one that is remotely interesting out of the three.

And as for what I'm reading? As a Lit major taking too many upper division courses, I read too many things.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Anne Dillard
Your Name is Renee, Ruth Kap Hartz's Story as a Hidden Child in Nazi Occupied France by Stephenie Cretzmeyer
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
Several books full of contemporary poetry that I doubt anyone here but me is interested in.
And a Thesaurus because I'm taking a poetry writing class and language, the meaning of words, and learning new ones is fun. Like a phobia of the Pope. Funny.

No time for pleasure reading though...

 

[breadlord]

Fahrenheit 451, what i have to read for English class, in a unit about why people do stuff that seems retarded when you really think about it and the fact that people always "piggyback" on other peoples ideas.

 

[Rock 'n' Soul]

"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

 

[More Fun To Compute]

I just want you to know, I'm going to give this to my Professor who teaches two of the Divine Comedies as part of a myths course for freshman that includes Gilgamesh, the Illiad, the Odessey, and that other one that was written years after the Illiad and the Odessey that said the Trojans escaped and founded Rome. I never remember it's name. He'll get a kick out of this.

As for the Divine Comedies, Inferno is the only one that is remotely interesting out of the three.

I've never tried to read the divine comedy but this made me think of Philip K Dick's Valis where he wrote about someone, maybe himself, only really understanding Dante when he was waiting in a Dentist's waiting room with severe toothache.