Currently Reading and Book Recommendations

Currently Reading and Book Recommendations

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09/06/08 2:35 PM
needwingstofly member Joined: 04/11/08 Location: LI%2C NY Posts: 68	I'm pretty shallow minded and can't read a book that takes too much effort. Maybe that's why I loved the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer so much - they are so easy to read. She managed to make a romance book without any mention of body parts (you know - "throbbing members and all)- and it's a series I can read over and over. A couple of other interesting ones that I would suggest: Infected by Scott Sigler - the end made me extremely squirmy. And I'm not a guy. The Mount by Carol Emshwiller - makes you rethink if we really know what is best for ourselves. Arslan by M. J. Engh - creepy 'what if' book about the kind of person that could take over the u.s.
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09/06/08 3:44 PM
chewyniffler member I am Jacks Libido Joined: 09/04/08 Location: Greenville%2C SC Posts: 352	I love Chuck Palahniuk's writing. It's always so raw and impactful. My favorite by him is Invisible Monsters followed closely by Fight Club. If you like Vampires, check out Lost Souls by Poppy Brite. It has to be my fave vamp book by far. Also, Stephen King stopped fascinating me a while back, but one of his most mesmerizing was Desperation. The Harry Potter books are fun if you want a quick and easy read (I am dislexic so these are great since I read so slow!). They suck you into the world too. Good for getting lost. I'll read pretty much anything I can get my hand on, but thought I'd make a couple recommendations. Happy reading! Oh, and right now I just started Tales of a Female Nomad cuz my friend told me the main character could have been based on me. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/06/2008 02:47PM by chewyniffler.
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09/06/08 5:03 PM
Morbidpetal member Got Formaldehyde Joined: 05/15/08 Location: Monterey area%2C CA. Posts: 181	I'm reading "John Adams" by David McCullough and I have to say that I'm pretty well hooked. Read the book though before you watch the show because the show leaves a lot of the details out.
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09/07/08 3:03 PM
Chelley84 member Joined: 09/03/08 Location: Colorado Springs%2C CO Posts: 35	Morbidpetal posted: I'm reading "John Adams" by David McCullough and I have to say that I'm pretty well hooked. Read the book though before you watch the show because the show leaves a lot of the details out. I have read that and 1776. Both good books, I really like the way David McCullough writes. I own the John Adams HBO mini series on DVD and I have to tell you it was worth it! I read a lot of different stuff: fantasy, sci-fic, classics, science and history. I am currently reading: The Civil War: A Narrative - Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote. It is the 2nd book in a series of three. I was always interested to know what occurred during the civil war that they don't explain or they don't find relevant in your history textbooks. I wanted to get a better view of the people who served in the war and how the war changed them and I wanted to see what the war was really like for both sides. Really great book so far.
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09/07/08 8:25 PM
maz member Joined: 11/27/07 Posts: 89	^^ I love Shelby Foote's writing! Shiloh is a great fictional account he did about that battle. I also love his more modern stories, Love in a Dry Season comes to mind. He was interviewed extensively for the Civil War PBS series, and his storytelling was the highlight of the program. Finally picked up Darkly Dreaming Dexter and read it all in one day. I really am hooked on this story, I should've gone ahead and bought the other two books (even though they've gotten more sour reviews). Finished The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama that I strongly recommend, and just started The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia, which I'm enjoying so far, about a female automaton whose creator won't give up the key to her mechanical heart.
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09/07/08 9:40 PM
chrisgonzo member demand the impossible Joined: 08/05/08 Location: Florida Posts: 2,792	just got done re-reading Dune. I'd forgotten how good it is. Recommend it to everyone. Also Hubert Selby Jr.s Waiting Period. Last book by a sadly missed writer.
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09/08/08 3:07 AM
B13 Instant human, add tea Joined: 03/06/08 Location: Junction 9 of the M25 Posts: 2,712	I'm currently reading this: Yes, it's not particularly sophisticated reading but a. it's got horses in it (always a bonus!) and b. I'm still 'recovering' (just...) from a break up. (Apologies in advance to our lovely nin.com menfolk...) We need an 'NIN.com Singletons' thread... (hint hint)
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09/08/08 6:54 AM
lamb member Joined: 03/22/08 Location: ukraine Posts: 17	SillyPutty posted: I'm about to start Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment for my summer reading assignment for school. Should be a challenge. It's over 700 pages and the print is nearly impossible for me to read. But, I loved The Brother's Karamazov so I'm hoping this book is just as enjoyable. As far as recommendations go, The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. Best book I have ever read. The Possessed - as for me the best novel of this author, and Bulgakov's "The White Guard" and "Black snow : Theatrical Novel" are my favorites too. and recommend Eugène Ionesco - anything u can get. p.s. by the way when I read "One Hundred Years of Loneliness" by Gabriel García Márquez i've got that feeling like "...the smell of sunshine i remember sometime..." after that i stop read books Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/08/2008 07:18AM by lamb.
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09/08/08 7:15 AM
clairesuzanne member Joined: 09/06/08 Posts: 105	junkie burroughs
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09/08/08 9:17 AM
kdrcraig member fuck yeah Joined: 03/03/08 Location: Phoenixville PA Posts: 2,792	The Bourne Ultimatum
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09/08/08 8:42 AM
Lady J member Joined: 11/27/07 Location: Finland Posts: 49	I´m currently reading The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk. It´s great, I really like Pamuk´s style of writing. I´m also reading The Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm for school. Next I´m going to pick up One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I would also like to recommend The Master and Margarita by Mihail Bulgakov. Probably the best book I´ve ever read. Anything by Oscar Wilde is also worth to read.
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09/08/08 10:46 AM
Worlock77 member Joined: 09/06/08 Location: Aurora Illinois Posts: 202	Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
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09/08/08 1:39 PM
smemily member Joined: 09/03/08 Location: NM Posts: 831	Freakonomics The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World This one's much like Freakonomics. Easily read, broken into short digestable chapters, funny, smart. Profiles In Injustice: Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work Excellent primer on racial profiling, statistically supported, but an easy read. The Pro-Growth Progressive Just started this, it's excellent so far.
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09/08/08 11:06 PM
cheme525 member Joined: 09/05/08 Location: DFW Posts: 1	I'm currently reading "Collapse" by Jared Diamond. Before that I was reading "Guns, Germs, and Steel", also by Jared Diamond. Both are great books. They give you a much better appreciation of why the world is the way it is, and the real problems we face in society. I wish more people would read these books. I also just read "A Rare Breed of Love" by Jana Kohl. It's very sad, but again, another book I wish more people would read, especially people looking for a pet. Please consider adopting rather than buying from a pet store (the book's subject is a puppy mill survivor).
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09/08/08 11:25 PM
chrisgonzo member demand the impossible Joined: 08/05/08 Location: Florida Posts: 2,792	more recommendations I forgot; Crooked Little Vein - Warren Ellis The Razors Edge - W Somerset Maugham Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis Slaughtermatic - Steve Aylett The Court of the Air - Stephen Hunt
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09/09/08 12:06 AM
reidiates member %28 %29 Joined: 11/27/07 Location: Sydney Australia Posts: 26	I recommend anything by Chuck Palahniuk.
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09/09/08 4:02 AM
nitefightr69 member Joined: 09/04/08 Location: Beside you in time. Posts: 77	Currently reading : Michael Crichton's "Next" Next on the platter: 1)Star Wars: Coruscant Nights II: Streets of Shadows 2)1984 3)Choke (second time reading it) Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/09/2008 04:02AM by nitefightr69.
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09/09/08 5:47 AM
Faunadestia member Joined: 04/12/08 Posts: 355	Lady J posted: I would also like to recommend The Master and Margarita by Mihail Bulgakov. I'm currently reading The Master and Margarita. Its philosophical allegory is strongly influenced by Goethe's Faust legend, another favourite of mine.
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09/09/08 6:12 AM
DOCTOR! member professional doodler Joined: 08/17/08 Location: dc Posts: 297	currently reading : pale fire - vladimir nabokov about to read: crash , forgot the author.
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09/09/08 6:55 AM
Iamthearm member Joined: 05/09/08 Location: australia Posts: 270	Half way through Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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09/09/08 7:58 AM
chum_of_chance member Touch me babe. Joined: 08/16/08 Location: Southofdown Posts: 219	Against The Day - Thomas Pynchon. I actually prefer it to Gravity's Rainbow.
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09/09/08 4:41 PM
Acharis member The ugly one! Joined: 11/27/07 Location: Sydney Posts: 3,206	Choke was excellent (definitely not what I had expected, but I didn't know much about the story before I started) This morning, I started reading Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh
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09/10/08 12:12 AM
sonus member Domus Dulcis Domus Joined: 05/03/08 Location: Litterae Humaniures Posts: 1,732	I just finished Self-Portrait, the autobiography of Miss Gene Tierney. At the height of her career, seven years were spent in and out of mental institutions. Hideous shock treatments were administered including the cold pack. Gene wrote, "..It was the worst indignity of my confinement. ...". "I was wrapped from the neck down in icy wet bedsheets, my arms strapped to my sides. It was like being buried in a snowbank. Tears poured down my cheeks as the minutes ticked away. I couldn't move. I lost the feeling in my hands and feet. My mind was in a panic. ... I was meant to be in the cold pack for an hour. ... The doctor did release me after thirty minutes. Even in that shortened exposure, I was so shocked, so affected mentally by being enshrouded like a mummy in those chilly, clammy sheets... ." I've always enjoyed her movies and it's difficult to imagine beautiful Gene Tierney suffering like that. Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/09/2008 11:23PM by sonus.
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09/10/08 12:34 AM
GrtDstyr member CHEESE Joined: 09/04/08 Location: Behind you Posts: 195	I finished reading The Damnation game a few weeks ago and I highly reccommend it. The material will make you shiver and also somehow relate to the characters. I guess one of the oddest things about Clive Barker's writing in this book was that he doesn't lie to you the way he potrays human emotions are real not romantasized. Anyways I'm rambling I hope someone can get a good read and a good scare out of The Damnation Game
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09/11/08 9:54 AM
Mandarino member Joined: 08/15/08 Location: Idaho Posts: 67	Currently reading 'Working' by Studs Terkel.
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09/11/08 12:54 PM
forkintheeye member Joined: 08/15/08 Posts: 5,673	Yesterday I read a small collection of poems edited in the '70s, Words of Love. It just has a few poems from a handful of well-knowns - Keats, Dickinson, the Brownings, etc. - & mini-bios of each. It was sweet. Today I'm reading One Hidden Stuff by Barbara Ras. This is her second volume of poetry published in 2006 & it is refreshingly deep.
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09/12/08 12:12 AM
MRR member Joined: 04/14/08 Location: somewhere in Canada Posts: 758	Currently I'm reading The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus. It's his attempt to deal with the interplay between awareness of the absurd and suicide, and why we ought not to resort to taking our own lives when faced with the absurd. In the end I don't think I really agree with him - he romanticizes his concept of the absurd without much justification, and I think his perspective/bias undermines his logic somewhat. I'm not finished with it yet, though... After that I'm either going to take a stab at Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death or I might start writing a paper I've been mulling over in my head for a while.
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09/12/08 6:44 PM
Tanner member Enigmatic Fool Joined: 12/15/07 Location: CORNFUCK ILLINIPS Posts: 5,390	The Fourth Way : P.D. Ouspensky It's a Philosophy book written by the pupil of G.I. Gurdjieff Very thought provoking and eye opening book. For seekers of self-knowledge and awareness. From Amazon.com: The Fourth Way is the most comprehensive statement thus far published of the ideas taught by the late P.D. Ouspensky. Consisting of verbatim records of his oral teaching from 1921 to 1946, it gives a lucid explanation of the practical side of G. I. Gurdjieff's teachings, which Gurdjieff presented in the form of raw materials, Ouspensky's specific task having been to put them together as a systematic whole. Just as Tertium Organum deals with a new mode of thinking, so The Fourth Way is concerned with a new way of living. It shows a way of inner development to be followed under the ordinary conditions of life -- as distinct from the three traditional ways that call for retirement from the world: those of the fakir, the monk, and the yogi. Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/12/2008 05:44PM by Tanner.
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09/12/08 6:01 PM
eris7 member Joined: 11/27/07 Location: the middle of nowhere Posts: 431	I'm nearly finished with Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman. It's even better than I'd hoped it would be, and I have a feeling I'll read it over and over again.
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09/13/08 2:18 AM
chrisgonzo member demand the impossible Joined: 08/05/08 Location: Florida Posts: 2,792	Just got done with Something Wicked This Way Comes, for the third time. Damn, Bradbury just never gets boring!
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