Currently Reading (Take 2)- Page 9

[MotorTink]

Posted: 8/13/09 at 9:22am

In the past two weeks I have read:

Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell - I like the overall message and theme the author puts out but it, in my opinion, got a little too repetative and boring. Plus, reading an entire chapter on plane crashes while on a plane...not usually a good thing, lol.

Inherit the Wind - Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee - Why it has taken me this long to read the play I have no idea, but I greatly enjoyed it. Quick read but I found it very moving.

New Moon & Eclipse - I finally gave in, and well now have become obsessed. It was hard to get through New Moon at first but by mid book it had me hooked, and then Eclipse I just ate up. Not really fond of the writing style per say, and honestly, Bella annoys the crap outta me, but I have been taken by the overall world.

and now I'm onto The Time Traveler's Wife like a lot of you.

[Ariella]

Posted: 8/13/09 at 12:06pm

Colleen - I loved Franny and Zooey!

Currently reading Kafka on the Shore.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 9/1/09 at 11:14am

Just finished MAINLY ON DIRECTING by Arthur Laurents. Very engrossing.

Now reading SONG OF THE LARK by Willa Cather--another one of her sublimely written tales.

[clever name]

Posted: 9/1/09 at 11:19am

I'm reading PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES but I'm not sure if I'm going to finish it.
Yeah, I get it.it's Pride and Prejudice...and Zombies.

[xxnewgirlxx]

Posted: 9/1/09 at 11:43am

I'm now reading Wally Lamb's "The Hour I First Believed". I love his books and so far, this is no exception. I'm completely engrossed.

[Blair]

Posted: 9/1/09 at 11:49am

I'm about 200 pages into The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I'm really enjoying it so far.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 9/1/09 at 11:49am

I'm reading some trashy novel about some woman who's ex-husband stole their kid and is trying to make her look like the town drunk so she won't get custody. I think it's called The Second Silence or something.

re: Wally Lamb....I loved "She's Come Undone" but it took me 3 tries to get into "I Know This Much Is True". Once I finally got into it I liked it though.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/1/09 at 11:49am

My post on this seems to have vanished, so here it is again:

Just finished Philip K. Dick's VALIS, pretty good but my patience with religious questing gets thin pretty quickly. Especially when the religious questing gets as wacky as it does in VALIS.

Starting Pynchon's INHERENT VICE. Enjoyable so far.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 9/1/09 at 9:48pm

This week I read Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera. I really liked it. Now I'm reading Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis and Immortality by Kundera.

[EVIE]

Posted: 9/2/09 at 3:36pm

The Exorcist.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 9/2/09 at 3:43pm

Good girl!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/2/09 at 3:52pm

Just started Tony Horwitz's "A Voyage Long and Strange."

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 9/2/09 at 10:42pm

I'm reading three books and dividing my time between them

[uncageg]

Posted: 9/3/09 at 12:27am

Just finished "Tweaked - A Crystal Meth Memoir" by Patrick Moore. Given to me to read by a friend. I am thinking he thought I would like it because I have read 4 of Augusten Burroughs' books.

Michael Musto says..."Observant, funny, and harrowing, Tweaked is an eye-opening, fasten-your-seatbelts ride in and out of the depths of meth madness."

I'm not sure what book he read. While reading this book (It took me about 3 or 4 weeks to get through it and it was only 200+ pages) Augusten Burroughs kept running through my mind. And I kept thinking that he was running through Mr. Moore's mind also. But Mr. Burroughs does it better in my opinion. A hard book to get through. A bit disjointed, random and just all over the place.

[Plum]

Posted: 9/3/09 at 12:35am

Still The Confusion. I WILL FINISH IT ONE DAY DAMMIT.

I'm also almost halfway through Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Hebrew, which I'm pretty proud of.

[Weez]

Posted: 9/3/09 at 3:45am

I just read The Enemy by Charlie Higson. My life is complete. I'm now going to bash my way through Brigands MC by Robert Muchamore and Lisey's Story by Stephen King, and I'll be back on the Judy Blume back catalogue by Monday.

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 9/14/09 at 3:20pm

Is this the one?

[StockardFan]

Posted: 9/14/09 at 3:22pm

I just finished a book called Dismantled. I can't remember the author's first name and I already returned it to the library, but her last name is McMahon. It was very intriguing!

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 9/14/09 at 3:25pm

God bless you. haha (since I said the title wrong in the other thread. Oops )

Updated On: 9/14/09 at 03:25 PM

[roquat]

Posted: 9/14/09 at 3:40pm

Just finished SPADE AND ARCHER by Joe Gores, a prequel to THE MALTESE FALCON which almost surpasses it in quality--it provides a very convincing backstory for Spade, Effie Perrine, and Miles Archer, showing the genesis of the Spade/Archer partnership (dissolved by Archer's murder in the second chapter of FALCON)

Also recently finished a Maria Callas biography by Anne Edwards--it was engrossing, but a little too much dimestore psychological "insight" imposed by the biographer (who seems both too sympathetic AND too judgmental toward her subject). You know the drill--"perhaps Maria did this in order to secure the love of the father she had never really known", etc., etc. Just tell me what HAPPENED...

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/14/09 at 3:46pm

I recently read Silver Shoes and loved it. It really left me wanting more.

Now, I'm about to finish The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Though it was a little slow in the beginning, after the first 100 pages or so, it takes off! Sort of a combination of Festen and Silence of the Lambs with a dash of The Firm.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 9/15/09 at 1:24pm

I have this problem with starting a book...getting a few chapters in....get bored....stop reading....pick up a new one (repeat). I need to stop that.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 9/15/09 at 1:44pm

Mister Matt, who is the author of the Dragon Tattoo book? That sounds really good!

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 9/15/09 at 1:49pm

I'm not Mister Matt (Obviously ) but the author is Stieg Larsson

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/15/09 at 4:29pm

spider's right! The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the first part of Stieg Larsson's trilogy, which become a HUGE sensation in Europe and has recently found its way to the US. I'd never heard of it until my partner showed up this summer and told me I had to read it. The second book, entitled The Girl Who Played With Fire, has just been released here though the entire trilogy as well as a feature film of the first book have long since been out in Europe. Unfortunately, there are no recent plans for distribution of the film in the US as I'm sure Hollywood wants to bastardize its own treatment, but I am dying to see it!