What are you reading? (#3 or whatever)

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Dracula from Bram Stocker. Had nothing to read and no time to go at the library, so I'm re-reading it again 😀
 
I started Dracula like three years ago but still haven't finished it. Recently finished reading The Sanctuary by Ted Dekker and am about to start The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
 
Doppelgang
Doppelgang
Its probably best to start with something like dracula then come to the more modern vampire stuff, as otherwise it is difficult to appreciate it in its own right
Just finished The Hunger Games, I'm now re-reading both "the Great Gatsby" and "The Order of the Phoenix"
 
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I've read Hunger Games and Catching Fire but still haven't brought myself to read Mockingjay. I love Great Gatsby. Such a good book.
Doppelgang
Doppelgang
All I remember of the great gatsby was the unique atmosphere of the book, thats one I may re-read sometime though I very rarely read a novel a second time :D
Grant by Jean Edward Smith. An excellent book so far. I've always wanted to learn more about the American Civil War but really knew nothing about it prior to reading. Smith has a very entertaining prose and I loved reading Eisenhower (my favorite President) by him before this.

Grant is a tremendously interesting figure, and one of the most fascinating generals I've ever learned about.
 
I am reading the 7th volume of Giacomo Casanova's memoirs. He had a tremendously interesting and varied life.

He wrote 12 all together. And I can see why people started calling great lovers "Casanova" after him. 🙂
 
I'm reading Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige.

So far its not so bad. I do like the whole spin of Dorothy being the bad guy and the wicked witches being the good ones, etc. But its pretty much your typical YA novel so far. It's totally put me in the mood to watch The Wizard of Oz now 🙂
 
Reading through the Sharpe series (by Bernard Cornwell) in chronological order.
It starts off in 1800's India and goes through Trafalgar, and the Napoleonic war up to Waterloo in 1815 and beyond.

It's a really good read. 🙂
 
I'm switching between Wonder by R. J. Palacio and In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court by Brittney Griner.

I'm really enjoying both. The first is a sweet YA novel that I wish I had read when I was a young teen. And the second is a coming of age story about a gay female basketball star who ended up playing at a very strict and homophobic Baptist college.
 
I fell in love with Jennifer E. Smith's novels recently, especially "the statistical probability of love at first sight".

I'm currently reading all of John Green's books. So far, none of them has touched me as much as "The Fault In Our Stars", but some had potential.
 
Woodcutters by Thomas bernhard. It is kind of an internal monologue of the writer as he accepts an invitation to a dinner party of people in the Austrian art scene that he has been avoiding because he despises them so much. It's incredibly humorous (in a black humor, mocking kind of way) and very "intellectual" for lack of a better word. It's a great thinking man's book and it offers some interesting things to think about. I highly recommend it. Bernhard is considered one of the greatest writers (especially in German) of the last 60-70 years.
 
I have just finished reading Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre. Its not what you might think it is, its not too philosophical or anything. Its more just a normal novel about a philosopher, rather than specifically a philosophical novel.

A great book I read not long ago that got me back into reading after a year or two in the doldrums 😀 was Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. It is a deeply insightful story on how true love struggles to find a place in this materialistic modern world.
 
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JK Rowling's "The Casual Vacancy" which right now feels more like the casual WHY? to me. I'll try to finish it but it's so tedious and the characters utterly repulsive most of them that it feels like a tough job.
 
thetopher
thetopher
Agreed. I hated that book!
Oh that stinks T!

I'm reading Paris in the 20th Century by Jules Verne, which is pretty unimpressive except for all the inventions he imagined that we really have now. Also Mrs. Dalloway, which I haven't been able to get into at all and end up reading a couple pages at a time.
 
Taake
Taake
I've had the same problem with Mrs Dalloway
I'm almost finished "Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House" by Peter Baker, which has been fantastic so far. I'm pretty selective with the novels I read but I love political books...most of the time. The trick is sifting through the partisan bullshit (which is incredibly difficult at times) and not just pick up some wildly conservative or liberal piece that doesn't even try to understand the events it's discussing. I hate that.

Baker doesn't do that at all. He's fair to Bush, and while more critical of Cheney, I think that's balanced and deserved. He's incredibly detailed and goes through every notable event of the Bush presidency, with particular emphasis on Iraq. Seriously, if you're looking for a fair and comprehensive account of Bush and Iraq, this is for you. He covers everything in great detail, from the initial discussions to invade through all the important on-the-ground moments and turning points (up to the end of Bush's time in the White House of course). You really get a tremendous sense of Bush the man, how lonely he was, a president who genuinely believed he was doing the right thing, and you see the toll it took on him when it became apparent that his vision was failing. Really good book.
 
I am in the middle of a YA series actually. It's a set of 19 books that are all fairy tales re-told.

This past week I read "The Storyteller's Daughter" which was a retelling of Arabian Nights. Then "Beauty Sleep" which was, shockingly Sleeping Beauty. Then "Snow", Snow White.

Am currently on "Midnight Pearls" which is The Little Mermaid.

I've enjoyed them all so far.
 
Just finished "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

That book was intense.

Going to start "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by Neil Gaiman tomorrow.

Been looking forward to that one for a while.

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"The Wolf's Hour" by Robert McCammon, about a British secret agent who just happens to be a werewolf (This is a re-read of a book that I had years ago, but never got to finish)

and

"Monster Hunter: Legion," fourth in Larry Correia's "Monster Hunter" series, which is about a group of professional demon/vampire hunters, sort of like Buffy with bullets.
 
wickedtiger86 said:
Just finished "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

That book was intense.
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I LOVE that book. Read it in high school and was not at all prepared for what it was but fell in instant love. It is intense though 🙂

I'm reading "The Master and Margarita" by Bulgakov now and it's frickin' hilarious in a way only Russian's can be. Just finished book 1 and look forwards to book 2 a lot 😀
 
wickedtiger86
wickedtiger86
Hundred Years was great. It has been sticking with me since I read it. :)
Let's see... right now I'm reading "God Stalk" by P.C. Hodgell. It's a fantasy novel I loved when I was a teenager, so now I'm re-reading it. I'm also reading another fantasy book, "The Wizard's Mask" by Ed Greenwood.

Soon I intend to start reading "Against the Day" by Thomas Pynchon. I may not make it out alive.
 
I am reading "The Lions of Al-Rassan" by Guy Gavriel Kay. It's an intensely intricate fantasy. I have liked all of his books that I have read so far and this one looks to be another great one.

Also reading "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen. I like a little romance from time to time. And the humor is always good. 🙂
 
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