Actually, I haven't read that one yet. Tell me if it's good or not. And at Rob: What's NME? And for my share of the post, I am now reading Pendragon: The Never War.
the NME is a highly capricious and judgemental weekly music magazine with such media power as to make and break bands in the same week. Sadly it has no real competitors so it's all there is.
Out of all her books I have to say I enjoyed those the most, but I haven't read either in a few years. It would be interesting to hear what you think of them. I'm reading "The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot, and the Snow Dog" by Doris Lessing. It's a future-fantasy, i think, but I'm not that far into it. I'm also trying to get through "The Elegent Universe" but it's slow going because every five pages or so I end up trying to work the physics into a story idea, and then I have to tell myself to get back to the physics and write later ;]
Just read through this thread and I'm ashamed to say that I haven't heard of many of the books / authors. Ooops! I am currently reading several books, the main one, which I should finish tonight is Maus by Art Speigelman Its a book about the holocaust.B][/B]I am also trying to read The Coffee Trader by David Liss, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (its our local book club's read this month), The Spellcoates by Diana Wynne Jones (of Howls Moving Castle fame), and lastly, but not least, The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell. I don't normally read more than a couple in any given period, but I'm a slow reader, and have been writing a bit more...and you can't write and read, so I'm lagging behind!
I've finished LOTR now - and I've started to read H G Wells 'War of the Worlds' Can't believe I've never read it before. I've decided to read as many of the important novels of Sci-fi and Fantasy as I can get hold of from libraries. So I've started with H G Wells, since he more or less originated science fiction.
just finished "andromeda strain", good premise but the ending was a cop-out and disappointing. I am so glad that the LOTR is regaining popularity. I told my kids about "The Hobbit" and they looked at me like I lost my mind.
I love the hobbit. right now I have just begun "The birth of Venus." Havent figured out what it is about yet.....will let you all know if its any good.
Interesting Times- Terry Pratchett The Last Continent- Terry Pratchett Time Out- Joe Skidmore Grim Tuesday- Garth Nix Finding Lubchenko- Michael Simmons Brother Odd- Dean Koontz Catch 22- Joseph Heller The Kiln- Nancy Butcher The Recruit- Robert Muchamore The Book Thief- Markus Zusak The first three I'm reading for the second time.
Patrick Süskind's Perfume - very readable modern classic, recently a film with Alan Rickman et al. Very enjoyable and dark story of a young child born into the stench of old Paris who has the power of hyper sensitive smell.
Hi, I'm new here. I'm Kim. I'm currently reading Magic Street, The Way Station (when I can find it...moving is a pain.), whatever my son is reading, and The Eaters of the Dead. The Way Station is very old but very very good. I'm on my 5 th reading of it. (I've read all the books we own at least 1 time, except the old old old websters unabridged dictionary from 1889 my son gave me.) We need more bookshelves to put all our books out, but we also need more books...we go through them pretty quick. (this will only make sense to someone who knows their books are the best of friends.) Be well, Kim
Currently I'm reading novels written by Charlotte Bronte, Henry Fielding and Charles Dickens. I enjoy their times. Sometimes when I feel up to it, I'll read a modern book by Douglas Clegg or an interactive novel by various authors.
Wow, impressive! I tried to read Moby Dick a few weeks ago, but I'd gotten it out of the college library, so only had it for two weeks, and I spent those two weeks with mountains homework, and never actually got to read it Oh well, I'll try again in the summer. At the moment, I'm reading the Wolves of the Calla, by Stephen King, if anyone has heard of it. It's really good, so far, and I'm ever so slightly addicted to his Dark Tower series. No idea what I'm going to do when I finish number seven.
Finished The Godfather, stared Flowers in the Attic. My user name feels a little redundant now though haha.
Currently reading: The Truelove, by Patrick O'Brian...part of the best historical series ever written. I just finished The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. Sadly I think that most of the reading world has become clinically insane to call that a masterpiece. Thin plot that goes nowhere, no punctuation....sorry, still mad I spent 10 bucks on that thing...DANG YOU OPRAH! statik
