What book(s) are you reading now?

[cardero]

Watchmen

Author: Alan Moore
Artist: Dave Gibbons
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: DC Comics (April 1, 1995)
ISBN-13: 978-0930289232

The story concerns a group called the Crimebusters and a plot to kill and discredit them. Moore's characterization is as sophisticated as any novel's. Importantly the costumes do not get in the way of the storytelling; rather they allow Moore to investigate issues of power and control--indeed it was Watchmen, and to a lesser extent Dark Knight, that propelled the comic genre forward, making "adult" comics a reality. The artwork of Gibbons (best known for 2000AD's Rogue Trooper and DC's Green Lantern) is very fine too, echoing Moore's paranoid mood perfectly throughout. Packed with symbolism, some of the overlying themes (arms control, nuclear threat, vigilantes) have dated but the intelligent social and political commentary, the structure of the story itself, its intertextuality (chapters appended with excerpts from other "works" and "studies" on Moore's characters, or with excerpts from another comic book being read by a child within the story), the finepace of the writing and its humanity mean that Watchmen more than stands up--it keeps its crown as the best the genre has yet produced.

I am going to see the movie March 11, so if I start today, taking a chapter a day, I should finish the last page while I am standing at the ticket box.

 

[Quagmire]

I'm rereading the Silmarillion and the Lord of the Rings..

I just started re-reading the Ring Trilogy too, Meg (also picked up a copy of the Simarillion).

 

[misanthropic_clown]

I've just picked up a copy of To Kill A Mockingbird. I remember reading it for English a while ago. I remember it being good, but I imagine I might get more out of it this time round since I'm not being forced to read it!

 

[Quagmire]

I just started re-reading the Ring Trilogy too, Meg (also picked up a copy of the Simarillion).

Sometimes you just have to put aside all the tragic, negative, and probably mostly accurate depictions of the human experience and get back in touch with your inner hobbit.

 

[Quagmire]

I've just picked up a copy of To Kill A Mockingbird. I remember reading it for English a while ago. I remember it being good, but I imagine I might get more out of it this time round since I'm not being forced to read it!

Never read the book but the movie was great. :yes:

 

[cardero]

Title: House Of Mystery
Publisher: DC/Vertigo
Paperback: 128 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1401220792

Matthew Sturges, writer of the Eisner-nominated JACK OF FABLES, and his JACK co-writer Bill Willingham, proudly unlock the doors to the HOUSE OF MYSTERY, a series that reinvents a classic DC Comics comic. HOUSE OF MYSTERY focuses on five characters trapped in a supernatural bar, trying to solve the mystery of how and why they're imprisoned there. Each one has a terrible past they'd like to forget, and with no books, newspapers or TV allowed in the House, they face an eternity of boredom. But stories become the new currency, and fortunately, the House attracts only the finest storytellers.

 

[Yes Man]

Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson.

 

[England my lionheart]

I am reading a 90 year old book called Herrings book of classical moder cookery,its strange i keep reading the recipes,the Cocktail recipes are great,every classic wine description i must be going nuts,i would have to be a millionaire to cook most of it as every other word is Truffle

 

[Kilgore Trout]

 

[Azakel]

Book of Lies

 

[Nepenthe]

Almost done with Let the Right One In. I want to see the film but the U.S. dvd apparently has some horrible translations so I have to hunt down a Canadian release.

 

[McBell]

Robert Asprin's


Phule's Company series

• Phule's Company (1990)
• Phule's Paradise (1992)
• A Phule and His Money (1999) with Peter J. Heck
• Phule Me Twice (2000) with Peter J. Heck
• No Phule Like an Old Phule (2004) with Peter J. Heck
• Phule's Errand (2006) with Peter J. Heck

 

[Guitar's Cry]

The Philosophy of Kant, Ed. by Carl Friedrich.

 

[Quagmire]

I'm on the home stretch of the Ring Trilogy for the second time.

 

[ChristineES]

I just finished Bad Girl Creek and I am starting it's sequel by Jo-Ann Mapson. I am also reading Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris. And also Wally Lamb's I Know This Much is True.

 

[rageoftyrael]

eh, you all read such formal stuff. I read a lot of fantasy and science fiction.
Currently im reading a book in the warhammer series. Um, and some other random books.... Oh, been reading a lot of garfield and calvin and hobbes.
I feel like the slow one after seeing all your informational stuff, but a lot of that stuff doesn't interest me..... Well, i guess that wicca stuff and magical stuff is interesting....im not wiccan, but i've always been interested in learning about it

 

[Quagmire]

Almost finished with Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.

I like it a lot so far; fast paced, far-fetched situations believably presented, characters who are easy to relate to, credible twists, just good writing over all.

 

[Rakhel]

Trying to read Shroud of the Thwacker by Chris Elliot

 

[no_spoon]

The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis

 

[ChristineES]

Speaking of science fiction, I just finished yet another Star Trek novel called Strike Zone, written by Peter David.
I am going to read a book from Wally Lamb next called I Know This Much is True- it is about identical twins, one of whom is schizophrenic.