15th!!! Blimey, there's a few instalments there, like the Famous Five with vampires. I'm intending to start on Rendezvous With Rama at some point in the next few days. Hopefully, it'll be as good as 2001: A Space Odyssey.
I'm currently immersed in The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft. Have to say, I'm mightily impressed thus far! Also, as part of my Literature work with college I'm reading Brighton Rock by Graham Greene. Not my favourite book, but it could be worse!
You should see the movie Dagon. It's based on a Lovecraft story. Think The Little Mermaid meets Resident Evil 4. I'm working on Geek Love by Katherine Dunn.
Working on a book filled with short stories and poems by Robert E. Howard. The man is a freakin' artisit.
Up until quite recently my display picture was of Cthulhu. I love all those stories and Lovecraft is my literary hero. I'm currently reading Everythings Eventual, short stories by Stephen King.
Do You really think so? I found the movie to be a little more entertaining. Don't get me wrong the book was good. I just thought it was short and i was kind of depressed it was just a straight up Vampire Story. Overall it was very entertaining. I just finished reading Fight Club by Chuck Palahinuk, which was awesome. And i am currently reading Eragon. It is taking me a while to get into Eragon, i think the hype kind of gave me a bad vibe about it, but i like it so far.
Not reading anything until finals are done, but I've got A Personal Matter by Oe, The Memoirs of a Survivor by Lessing, Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Murakami, and Snow and The Black Book by Pamuk all lined up. Later on in the summer I want to read into Mishima.
I finally convinced myself to pick up Dune by Frank Herbert. I've heard good things. I'm only about 30 pages in but it's good so far.
Just finished up The Hidden by Kathryn Mackel. It was a fairly good thriller. I'd give it 7.0/10. Just began reading The Ocean Inside by Janna McMahan and it seems decent as of so far.
Just finished Carrie by the King, and now I'm on to either Goodbye Columbus by Roth, The Tattooed Girl by Oates, or East of Eden by Steinbeck.
I'm reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (that's the final of the seven). :redface: Laugh all you want; I dont care! I'm getting really hyped about the sixth visual installment of the series, so. And if you ask me, I think Ms Rowling is a pretty good author. It's meant for kids, so of course it's not difficult, but she has perfect pace which makes the seven 700-page novels feel like quick reads. And they're nice for adults, too. Hello, ever want to escape from the real world? Perfect place to go --the wizarding world. (Besides, doesnt it make you feel better about your life? You're freaked about your job and massive list of chores; Harry's battling Voldemort.) And now that I'm older, I get some of the jokes and double entendres she placed in the books. I remember when these came out. I'd get the book at midnight sat in one place until I finished it. I dont think I even ate while I read those books. I remember my parents saying it was the calmest they'd ever seen me. I'm going to pick up Hyperion by Dan Simmons as soon as finals are over. Heard great things about it.
Audio: I finished "The Hemings of Monticello," and "Man in the Dark" by Paul Aster. (Both were good!) Currently listening to "From the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz. Magazine: Finished reading the May issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine. The other day I read 2 stories from an issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Books: I'm reading a "Goosebumps" kids book, "Welcome to Camp Nightmare," largely to get the feel for children's fiction to help me write a short story for my daughter's class. "The Purpose-Driven Life" by Rick Warren is next. I finished "The Presence" by Heather Graham and started "Eye of the Dragon" by Stephen King.
Just finished Eragon, i loved the ending. before the end i dont know, i wasn't too into it, but the end made it all better. I just started "Timeline" By Michael Crichton
Just finished Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut, and am now reading The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon. Both are/were very good.
I think that's my favorite of his. I'm almost finished with Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk. The language takes a little while to get used to, but now that I've got a feel for it, I'm flying through this book. Finally, I'll be reviewing something recent!
I was just looking to see what folks here are reading, and you mention two in particular that I've read and had very strong reactions to. Kafka's THE CASTLE was a watershed read for me, because it so dovetailed with questions and thoughts I had about the (questionable) meaning of life. I hope you have time to finish it and maybe give us your take. Kerouac's book seemed to me to be a novel I should've read many years back, but didn't. I enjoyed the freedom of Kerouac's writing style, but couldn't quite muster sufficient empathy to relate to the outcome. My son loved it, and maybe I would've too at his age. I did draw some parallels to the artistic community in NYC at the time--particularly the abstract expressionists. It seemed to me that The Beats were experimenting with ways of writing that allowed a more honest glimpse into themselves--maybe a more direct connection between their private thoughts, angst, insecurities, and so forth, and those of their particular readers. At least that was my relatively uneducated feeling about it. Today, I enjoy Murakami and Calvino, in particular--enough to return to them every chance that I can. Though, right now, I'm reading Kundera's UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING.
