BOO-URNS- November and Im reading...

I suck - I'm still reading Blindness...

P.S. - When should we post a poll for next months book?

Should we hold up a little bit?

I'm reading the scarlet letter for school and actually liking it.

[QUOTE=Barca Boy;1078513]Its November in mainland Europe and Im about to start I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Ive heard only great things about this book and Ive already enjoyed Stir Of Echoes and What Dreams May Come so it should be a good one.
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I'm not sure what your feelings are on graphic novels, but i was at the bookstore the other day and i found a I am Legend graphic novel. i haven't started it yet, but the drawings look awesome

I am reading Cell by Stephen King.
Not that far into it but enjoying it so far.

[QUOTE=PGoutis01;1078516]I suck - I'm still reading Blindness...[/QUOTE]
Me too! :grouphug: Well, I'm still reading [I]Blindness[/I] I won't admit to sucking.

I started [I]Blood Meridian[/I] too but then I stopped. I'm about a hundred pages in and it took me two weeks to get there because every time I sat down to read it I ended up nodding off.

I'm also reading the amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay.

[QUOTE=Vendetta;1078581]Me too! :grouphug: Well, I'm still reading [I]Blindness[/I] I won't admit to sucking.

I started [I]Blood Meridian[/I] too but then I stopped. I'm about a hundred pages in and it took me two weeks to get there because every time I sat down to read it I ended up nodding off.[/QUOTE]
I was surprised about enjoying that book. But sometimes it's a bit of a bore.

I'm reading Nick Hornby's new young adult novel Slam. The way the narrator addresses the reader is grating so far. Next up is The Mistress's Daughter, a memoir by A M Homes.

Derek, let me know how you like it. That's been on my list forever, and I keep forgetting to start it. I'm finishing Bloodline by F. Paul Wilson (the Repairman Jack series) and am gearing up for either The Fighter or Heartsick, too late for Blindness I think.

[QUOTE=seanink;]I am reading Cell by Stephen King.
Not that far into it but enjoying it so far.[/QUOTE]

I'm a huge King fan, but I was bitterly disappointed by Cell. Anyone else have a similar experience, without giving anything away for seanink?

Wickerkat- So far so good with I am Legend, I will let you know more when I finish it.

Dan- I love Stephen King and if I ever hear you say anything bad about him again I will kick you in the nuts! JK
Cell was pure shit. I enjoyed the first 50 pages then it just went downhill. Apart from the Dark Tower 7 I havent enjoyed his stuff the last few years but I still buy them just in case he surprises me.

[QUOTE=Barca Boy;1079734]Dan- I love Stephen King and if I ever hear you say anything bad about him again I will kick you in the nuts! JK
Cell was pure shit. I enjoyed the first 50 pages then it just went downhill. Apart from the Dark Tower 7 I havent enjoyed his stuff the last few years but I still buy them just in case he surprises me.[/QUOTE]

Yeah Cell's going down.
I am a huge King fan as well and have got to agree completely that he isn't telling them as well as he used too.

a farewell to arms.

I've read all his other major stuff, weird that this one I saved for last. I can't believe it's better than For Whom the Bell tolls.

I'm reading Great Apes -Will Self.........
.......also short stories of Franz Kafka in the Penal Colony.

Currently reading: [I]Tiger Lily[/I] by Shaunna Singh Baldwin

[QUOTE=LeHaHi;1078570]I'm reading the scarlet letter for school and actually liking it.[/QUOTE]

I was supposed to read this in September. From what I read, which was only a little bit, it wasn't good. The only reason I was enjoying myself is because I was picturing the superfluous narration as intentional and therefore satirical, which made the whole thing really funny to me. Oh, and I'm convinced Chillingworth is a super-villain.

I don't know if it counts as a book, but it has pages, text and covers, so I guess it does. I'm reading "Grindhouse - The Sleaze-Filled Saga of an Exploitation Double Feature" Has everything in it, Rodriguez's original script, interviews, cool details and on-set info from the movie. This is just to fill the weekend until I get my new package from Amazon. It's due on Monday, and I'll probably start the week with Monica Drake's Clowngirl.

Wickerkat- I finished I am Legend and I loved it. I had gotten disillusioned with horror until I read this. To call it outright Horror wouldnt be fair. I wont tell you any spoilers and I would highly recomend it.

Up next is Lamb by Christopher Moore. Recomended most notably by Scribbling Des and Mc Muddle.

The Green Mile

I've seen it probably three dozen time so I decided to read it. Turns out they did an amazing job with the movie because it seems to go hand in hand with the book. Usually I can only find that with short stories.

[QUOTE=Vendetta;1078581]Me too! :grouphug: Well, I'm still reading [I]Blindness[/I] I won't admit to sucking.

I started [I]Blood Meridian[/I] too but then I stopped. I'm about a hundred pages in and it took me two weeks to get there because every time I sat down to read it I ended up nodding off.[/QUOTE]Blindness is just taking me a long time because of those long ass paragraphs. I have 5 minutes before I have to do something - I can not make it through a paragraph in time... I don't know. I love the book but I'm having a hard time picking it up for short burst of reading. I'm only grabbing it when I have a half hour or more to waste - which isn't often.

[QUOTE=Barca Boy;1079734]Wickerkat- So far so good with I am Legend, I will let you know more when I finish it.

Dan- I love Stephen King and if I ever hear you say anything bad about him again I will kick you in the nuts! JK
Cell was pure shit. I enjoyed the first 50 pages then it just went downhill. Apart from the Dark Tower 7 I havent enjoyed his stuff the last few years but I still buy them just in case he surprises me.[/QUOTE]What do you recommend from King? I don't think that I would like the whole Dark Tower stuff. I've read Salem's Lot and thought it was pretty good. I really liked Carrie. And I just bought The Shining because that looked awesome when I was reading random pages from it at the book store.

I finally finished [I]A Scanner Darkly[/I], which was a great read. Now I'll be starting [I]Lullabies for Little Criminals[/I], which I've been told is a good quick read.

Oh, and Derek, me and Rachel have decided to have a Steven King summer. I'll be taking recommendations as to where I start.

All these books sound good, I need to go to libary..... I've been wanting to read A Scanner Darkly

I'm reading Catch-22 for the first time, and Survivor again because I have to a collage for english and Survivor was the first one that came to mind so.... I better find some magazines with payphones, flowers, and crashing airplanes!

[QUOTE=labelleza;1081020]All these books sound good, I need to go to libary..... I've been wanting to read A Scanner Darkly

I'm reading Catch-22 for the first time, and Survivor again because I have to a collage for english and Survivor was the first one that came to mind so.... I better find some magazines with payphones, flowers, and crashing airplanes![/QUOTE]

I hope you enjoy [I]Catch 22[/I], I bought a cheap second-hand copy a few months ago but am yet to get to it. If you're wanting some opinions about it, there's a [URL=http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/community/showthread.php?t=30436&highlight=catch+22]thread[/URL] discussing it.

[QUOTE=elegantly_bitter;1081062]I hope you enjoy [I]Catch 22[/I], I bought a cheap second-hand copy a few months ago but am yet to get to it. If you're wanting some opinions about it, there's a [URL=http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/community/showthread.php?t=30436&highlight=catch+22]thread[/URL] discussing it.[/QUOTE]

Thanks Bitter!

Interesting to see, since I'm one of those weirdos that pretty much ALWAYS loves the things they FORCE me to read at school. To Kill A Mockingbird, stuff by Shakespeare, stuff by Homer, I always end up loving it. Not right away maybe, but by the end, I always have to get more by the author or buy the book....

I think you have to be in the mood for certain books, like the first time I read something by Nick Sparks, I literaly cried for [I]hours[/I] and [I]hours[/I], I just [I]could not stop[/I]. I mean, for the first time since I was 10 and my grandmother died, I cried myself to sleep. My mom thought someone died, I was gasping for air like I was 6 (and I'm not the kind of girl that cries an awful lot). About a month later, I read it again and thought, "This is stupid."

I am having a hard time getting into Catch-22 though, but I think that's mostly on me, because I haven't been able to concentrate lately.

For future Stephen King fans, the best way to go is start at his early stuff. If you need a list you can get bibliographies for thousands of writers at [url]www.fantatsicfiction.co.uk[/url] Thats the website I use all the time. I tell you what PGoutis and elegantly bitter, if you are starting to enjoy Stephen King let me know and I can send ye some of my spare copies, all it will cost me is the postage and I will be sending out stuff for Xmas anyways.

That's an amazing website, had no idea it exists

I think Im finally going to give in and read [I]Garp[/I].

I just finished Syrup by Maxx Barry, and Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.

Now I'm on Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut

[QUOTE=Barca Boy;1081206]For future Stephen King fans, the best way to go is start at his early stuff. If you need a list you can get bibliographies for thousands of writers at [url]www.fantatsicfiction.co.uk[/url] Thats the website I use all the time. I tell you what PGoutis and elegantly bitter, if you are starting to enjoy Stephen King let me know and I can send ye some of my spare copies, all it will cost me is the postage and I will be sending out stuff for Xmas anyways.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the website! It will come in handy. Sorry to disappoint you though, I won't ever be reading Stephen King. The only works of his that I've enjoyed are [u]The Green Mile[/u]. I'm not really into genre fiction that much.

Anyway, just finished re-reading [u]The Powerbook[/u] by Jeanette Winterson. I'd highly recommend it.

[QUOTE=Reginald;1081594]I just finished Syrup by Maxx Barry[/QUOTE]

That's a good one.

I'm reading [I]The Tesseract[/I] by Alex Garland.

I just finished [url=http://www.amazon.com/Nothings-Sacred-Lewis-Black/dp/0689876475]Nothing's Sacred[/url], I'm a fan of Lewis Black so I found it entertaining.

Now I'm reading [url=http://www.amazon.com/Hotel-Babylon-Imogen-Edwards-Jones/dp/B000BNPG78/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-1838388-6380400?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194225156&sr=1-1]Hotel Babylon[/url]. I'm about 20 pages in, it keeps my interest.

I FINALLY finished Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan, stupid school.

Anyway, I just started the Harry Potter heptalogy, but I'm having trouble getting over the 3rd grade reading level, I'm so used to books along the lines of Michael Crichton and non-fiction science popularization books.

My wife loves them and wants me to read them so she can talk to me about them, so I'm giving it a whirl. I think she's on the fourth book in like two weeks.

[QUOTE=Barca Boy;1081206]For future Stephen King fans, the best way to go is start at his early stuff. If you need a list you can get bibliographies for thousands of writers at [url]www.fantatsicfiction.co.uk[/url] Thats the website I use all the time. I tell you what PGoutis and elegantly bitter, if you are starting to enjoy Stephen King let me know and I can send ye some of my spare copies, all it will cost me is the postage and I will be sending out stuff for Xmas anyways.[/QUOTE]

Well - I read Carrie a long time ago. I really thought it was a great book.

I read Salem's Lot when I was maybe 14. So like 14 years ago. I thought it was ok.

And maybe a year ago I read Dolores Clairborne. I thought it was ok also. Nothing special...

I just recently have been wondering about him again. So I bought The Shining and Cell.

That site is really cool. I've been checking it out for like half an hour now.

[QUOTE=PGoutis01;1083037]So I bought The Shining and [B][I]Cell[/I][/B].[/QUOTE]

you wasted your money.

[QUOTE=bearchaser;1083041]you wasted your money.[/QUOTE]

Well it [I]was [/I]a bargain book. I think it was like 6 bucks or something for the hardcover. So it's not a total waste if I hate it.

[QUOTE=PGoutis01;1083037]Well - I read Carrie a long time ago. I really thought it was a great book.

I read Salem's Lot when I was maybe 14. So like 14 years ago. I thought it was ok.

And maybe a year ago I read Dolores Clairborne. I thought it was ok also. Nothing special...

I just recently have been wondering about him again. So I bought The Shining and Cell.

That site is really cool. I've been checking it out for like half an hour now. :p[/QUOTE]

The Shining is good while Cell was terrible. If you need more Stephen King advice there are lots of his fans around here.

I just started [I]Crooked Little Vein[/I]...it's already got me hooked. Really funny and interesting stuff.

Im taking a break from Lamb and have started The Devils Mambo by Jerry Rodriguez.

For whatever it's worth, if somebody wants to get into Stephen King I recommend some of his short story collections. Different Seasons, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, and Everything's Eventual to name a few. The Shining is classic though and you can't go wrong there. However, I too agree with the sentiment that Cell sucked ass. I'm interested to see how his new novel Duma Key will be.

I just read The Sandman vol. 1: Preludes and nocturnes and now I'm into vol. 2: The Doll's House.

Im about to start Naive Super by Erlend Loe, some Norwegian guys first book in Englsih. Its just under 200 pages so even if its crap it wont take too much time.

Reading Survivor at the moment,then i'm gonna read The Wasp Factory,i bought it about 5 mouths ago and still have not got round to reading it.I read The Shining a bit ago pretty good apart from the animal hedges.

i just started The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through
the Wine World

it's hilarious, and i recommend it to anyone who considers themselves a foodie or wine person

[QUOTE=Barca Boy;1087703]Im about to start Naive Super by Erlend Loe, some Norwegian guys first book in Englsih. Its just under 200 pages so even if its crap it wont take too much time.[/QUOTE]

Finished Naive Super and it was enjoyable. Im starting Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis next.

I'm about 60 pages into The Monkey Wrench Gang, and in the bathroom I have Pink Floyd: Through the Eyes of their fans, friends and foes. Usually I hate biography books, but this one's actually quite entertaining, it's like a scrapbook of articles and interviews.

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[QUOTE=Barca Boy;1078513]Its November in mainland Europe and Im about to start I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Ive heard only great things about this book and Ive already enjoyed Stir Of Echoes and What Dreams May Come so it should be a good one.[/QUOTE]

i loved stir of echoes. the book was amazing, the movie was quite good.

i am legend looks like it will be a fucking-a mazing movie and i never got around to the book. ill pick up the mass market paperback this weekend maybe and fly through it. a hundred and sixty pages will probably take me three and a half hours and i intend on reading the book before seeing the movie: i almost always enjoy the reads over the picts and seeing the movie first usually destroys the read

thanks for the recommend
kabol

[QUOTE=PGoutis01;1083037]Well - I read Carrie a long time ago. I really thought it was a great book.

I read Salem's Lot when I was maybe 14. So like 14 years ago. I thought it was ok.

And maybe a year ago I read Dolores Clairborne. I thought it was ok also. Nothing special...

I just recently have been wondering about him again. So I bought The Shining and Cell.[/QUOTE]

my brother in law swears by dreamcatcher, as the perfect book

my woman suggests misery as the scariest book every written, at least when she read it as a kid. she says the scariest part is when she hobbles him. crack. jesus.

i enjoyed the dark half and carrie and tommyknockers was okay. nightmares and dreamscapes held my interest all of the way through. im sure there were a few more that i fingered from a sister about a decade back. the thing i hate most is that most of his actual prose is shite. The body, a short story recommended here a few years ago as being the perfect, quissential short story for cultists to read, not to mention the progeny of the badass movie lean on me, well, that phenom holds to it just terrible prose. i stopped at the third page right after the boy was described as skipping along as he "whistled prettily". at that, i was done. out. but the stories are usually very good. he has a great imagination.
-kabol

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Now reading [I]The Gum Thief[/I] by Douglas Coupland.

[QUOTE=Barca Boy;1090360]Finished Naive Super and it was enjoyable. Im starting Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis next.[/QUOTE]

Im done with Crooked Little Vein and I found it enjoyable. I will be surely reading more of his.
Im going to read Pomona Queen by Kem Nunn recomended by Morey.

I'm reading [I]Middlemarch[/I] which I got in this super-bargainous set-of-two along with [I]Possession[/I] by AS Byatt. Vintage are doing these "Twins" where they get one all-time classic and one modern classic of similar themes, give them a fancy new cover, wrap them in cellophane and sell the pair for £7.99, less on Amazon and way less if you take advantage of the buy one, get one half-price offer they had at Borders recently.

[url]http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/vintage/vintageclassics/twins.htm[/url]

I bought the Love pair (swoon) and the Lies pair.

I'm also re-reading my old Sweet Valley University books. That Elizabeth is working undercover in a Hooters-style establishment. She's keeping it a secret from her boyfriend Tom Watts but his best friend Danny has some old school friends visiting soon...wonder where they'll feel like visiting?