What book(s) are you reading now?

[wabisabi]

Hi Rage,



Google it, he most certainly said this and we are told how Palin has so many gaffes.

All marginalized populations. I don't see what makes it such a huge gaffe.

 

[Joe_Stocks]

Hi wabisabi,

Not to get off the OP but I believe it is a gaffe when you see people as victims.

 

[cardero]

TITLE: Jonah Hex Issue #30-#44
Approx. 322 pgs
Publisher: DC Comics
Writers: Palmiotti, Gray
Artists: Various

Still a great western comic written by authentic western historians with a love for the genre. Soon to be a major motion picture.

 

[Buttercup]

Finally read The Kite Runner last week and now started on Khaled Hosseini's next novel after that, A Thousand Splendid Suns. However, I'm stuck and can't get past the first section.

 

[rageoftyrael]

If you like farout fiction, read simon r. greens john taylor series. Or it might be the nightside series. Not big books, but really cool. Just a tip for a less serious book to read.

 

[Apex]

 

[Panda]

I just finished ready Ian Irvine's "Destiny of the Dead"

 

[Kathryn]

Just finished reading "1 Dead in Attic" by Chris Rose - he is a journalist who lives in New Orleans and he has chronicled in weekly articles the emotional side of living in New Orleans the first 18 mos after Katrina hit. Wow, I couldn't put it down. I am from New Orleans and we visited there last week, and there are sections of town that are STILL absolutely devastated.

I also read an interesting book called "Vestiges of Glory" about the few remaining plantations along the River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. This book also covered the political and sociological history of that area, putting the relatively short history of plantations and slave labor into their proper historical context. That was interesting also.

 

[Smoke]

Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman.

Library Journal review:

In his first full-length novel, Gaiman, the comic-book mastermind, brings his talents to the black-and-white world of books, eschewing the darkly elegant illustrations that are a trademark of his comics. However, this journey to yet another fantastical realm is full of haunting images just the same. The story revolves around Richard Mayhew, a bumbling young businessman, who is about to discover a new side of London after helping a wounded girl named Door. He is trapped in an alternate dimension, known as London Below, or the Underground. Once he steps into it, he finds that his normal life no longer exists. The only chance of getting his old life back is to accompany Door on a dangerous mission across the Underground. Like adults stumbling through the pages of a bizarre children's story, Gaiman's likable protagonists fight off the sinister villains of this nebulous underworld. Shards of the concrete world continually pierce the surreal surroundings, as Gaiman weaves a link between the two dimensions of London. Gaiman's gift for mixing the absurd with the frightful give this novel the feeling of a bedtime story with adult sophistication. Readers will find themselves as unable to escape this tale as the characters themselves. Highly recommended.​

 

[Kathryn]

Buttercup, I saw the movie The Kite Runner and loved it. How was the book? Better, worse, different?

 

[Katzpur]

I'm reading "The Book Thief." It's actually the first book I've read in quite some time. I spend too much time here on RF to get in any time reading an actual book.

 

[fordhamgirl]

I just finished reading Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom. An amazing, quick read. I am also anxiously awaiting his new book, Have A Little Faith. I came across this YouTube video where he reads the first few pages, and his spiritual insights are truly inspiring- I thought I'd share it with you guys. Just search "mitch albom- have a little faith" on youtube, and you'll see it there take care guys!

 

[The Great Architect]

The Trial and The Castle, both by Franz Kafka, on unabridged audiobook. I am in the middle of The Trial. It's cool.

 

[Makaveli]

I recently finished "War and Peace" and "Resurrection" by Tolstoy. I am now on "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoeyevsky.

 

[s.gal83]

I had just finished a clash of kings, book 2 of song of ice and fire. I am moving on to read a storm of swords, which is book 3 of the song of ice and fire.

 

[rageoftyrael]

s.gal83, who is the author of what you are reading? sounds like something i'd be interested in.

 

[England my lionheart]

I recently finished "War and Peace" and "Resurrection" by Tolstoy. I am now on "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoeyevsky.

Phew that is some reading,great books though

 

[England my lionheart]

I've just started "The Last Templar" by Raymond Khoury,saw it at a Carboot sale and bought it for 20 pence

 

[Makaveli]

Finished "Crime and Punishment," now I'm reading "Jane Eyre" and rereading "The Great Gatsby" for an assignment. Hoping to read "A Sportsman's Journal" by Turgenev when I finish.

 

[s.gal83]

s.gal83, who is the author of what you are reading? sounds like something i'd be interested in.

The author is George R.R martin. It is a fantasy series.