What book are you currently reading?

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DERANGEDMILK

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 1:54 AM

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Originally posted by Aerin:
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

I never had to read it in high school, so it never occurred to me to do so until I saw the movie version on PBS. It's one of the few classics I've read that I really like.

Do you like the work of the other Bronte sisters? I'm not a huge fan (barely made my way to the end of Wuthering Heights) but I thought Jane Eyre was alright.

I just finished Ender's Game and now I'm reading Folk of the Fringe, also by Orson Scott Card, for my U.S. Religion class. Ender's Game was for fun though, and man was it fun!
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REGINAROADIE

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 2:22 AM

Right now, I'm listening to the audiobook for DON QUIXOTE. Even though it kind of runs on a bit (I'm on disc 9 of a 35 disc audiobook), I'm really getting into it. I can see why it's considered one of the great tomes of literature.

And on my docket of books to read, I have HAUNTED by Chuck Palahniuk, FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS by Ernest Hemingway, THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA by Phillip Roth, IN COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote and the entire DARK TOWER series by Stephen King. And I'm flirting with getting the audiobook for Stephen Colbert's book I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!), even though the last thing I need is another book to read. I don't have that much space left on my iPod. Although, I wouldn't mind listening to NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN by Cormac McCarthy (my new fave author) and I AM LEGEND by Dick Matheson, in prep for the movies coming out.

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JOSSISAGOD

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 2:29 AM

I'm currently reading, Star Wars Legacy of The Force: Inferno.

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JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

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RICKKER

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 2:30 AM

Right now on the third book of George RR Martin's
song of ice and fire series. A Storm of Swords. Some friends in my D&D group got me onto it. Definetly one of the best fantacy series ever.

ZEROKIRYU

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 2:36 AM

Trinity Blood: Reborn On The Mars Vol.1 - Sunao Yoshida

Full Metal Panic! Vol.1 - Shouji Gatou

The Interruption Of Everything - Terry McMillan

Addicted - Zane (For the 10th time)

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FINN MAC CUMHAL

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 2:57 AM

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Heather.

Dr. Heather is an Oxford educated Historian of European Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, which makes him an expert on the question of fall of the Western Roman Empire. I’m half way through his book and so far he makes a very convincing case for the Fall of Rome due to external influences.

Also, I have the new Terry Brook's book on order.

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Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

TPAGE

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 4:06 AM

May I make a suggestion? If anyone is having trouble finding time to read try DailyLit.com

It is amazing just how many books you can at once if they are all delivered in small doses... I highly recommend this site.

Admittedly, it can be a strain on the eyes since it is on the computer, however you can print it out if you want.

Almost all of the classics are free and most others are $5 but I find it much easier than lugging a book around or listening to an audiobook (I don't concentrate as well).

Check it out!

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PLATONIST

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 4:20 AM

For my own pleasure:

"Serenity Found" more essays on the Firefly Verse
highly recommended if you enjoyed, "Finding Serenity"

K:The Art Of Love by Hong Ying

With my students:

"The Last Mimzy" by Henry Kuttner

EMBERS

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 5:12 AM

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Originally posted by yinyang:
Grave Peril - Jim Butcher

I just love Jim Butcher's Dresden series....

but I'm currently reading:
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
(as well as a LOT of comic books)

SHADESIREN

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 5:46 AM

Currently indulging the most recent Dresden File, White Night. SUCH a Dresden fangirl at this point. I've never had a crush on a character from a book before. It's wierd.

Also reading 100 Malicious Little Mysteries. It's a pretty cool older book by Asimov and a whole buncha other people. One of those two so-so stories to one really good story to one kinda stupid story kinda books.

Lastly I have a book with a Dresden Short story in it to read as soon as I finish White Night (Which should be sometime tomorrow morning, I expect :P).

Song of Ice and Fire (and all of Martin's other books - the ones HE wrote himself, not the Wild Card ones) are abdo-freakin'-lutely AWESOME. Technically, I kinda had a crush on Royd Eris from Nightflyers, but then, Michael Praed played him in the (bad) movie version, so I can't count that as an actual crush on Royd himself lol.

Loved I am Legend, my mom was a big Charleton Heston fan, so I grew up watching Omega Man, I'm eager to see if they get the story more like the book in this incarnation, the book is really cool.

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