What are you reading?

[Finkle 14]

The orchid thief by Susan Orlean

Marvel Westerns a collection of different western graphic novels

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I just finished to read The Hound of the Baskerville.

Conclusion: I don't like it, I feel dissapointed.

Now I'm in a conflict, wich of this 4 books should I start:

1. Yo Robot/I Robot - Isaac Asimov
2. La Sombra/The Shadow, or Der Schattenman (I don't founded the original title) - John Katzenbach
3. Las Siete Iglesias/Sedmi Kostelí - Milos Urban
4. Apocalipsis Z: Los días oscuros - Manuel Loureiro.

Depends. Of those my preference is the Asimov, the trials and tribulations of Dr. Susan Calvin. It is a set of anecdotes that show the development of Asimov's positronic robots. Leads directly into the two novels The Caves of Steel, and The Naked Sun. There is a remote tie in with the Foundation Trilogy (heavy going). Once you start reading Asimov, you may well be hooked for a while.

[Barbarossa 51]

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[Easy Bakes 253]

Finished The Vor Game friday. Lot of complicated political intreuge, Spying, counterspying,torture and space battles. great stuff , would make a wonderfull movie. Ill call Peter Jackson and have him get right on it.

Started Cetagandan today - Miles and Ivan are sent to the home world of the Cetagandan Empire ,they soon become entangled in an internal Cetagandan plot which leads to murder.

  Edited March 28, 2011 by Easy Bakes  

[EyeofMobius 27]

Currently reading:

On Evil by Terry Eagleton

So far it is really interesting looking at Evil from literary and phycological perspectives. Historical case examples are still to come.

The book is a good read so far.

[AlexE95 0]

this:

http://www.amazon.com/Phone-Losers-of-America-ebook/dp/B004E10X6M/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=books&qid=1302379445&sr=8-2

its about this guy and his 15+ years of phone pranking and phreaking.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Finished Cetaganda last week

followed by Labyrinth and Borders Of Infinity, which i finished today. All by L.M.Bujold

Since i don't have the next 2 books in the Vorksigan Saga

I will start A Deepness In the Sky by Vernor Vinge 1992 Hugo Winner all 775 pages of it.

Almost finished with Brightness Reef for evening reading.

  Edited April 13, 2011 by Easy Bakes  

[Easy Bakes 253]

Game of thrones GRR Martins classic part of which won a Hugo.

is now an HBO TV series.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/04/game-of-thrones-2/

looks interesting enough and Martin consulted and even wrote for the show.

to bad i dont get HBO.

[Easy Bakes 253]

The Essential Calvin N Hobbs

picked it up today at a school that was giveing books away.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Still slugging through Hugh Downs. Some of his articles are very thought provoking.

E.B. are you doing a general survey of Science Fiction for fun or profit?

[Easy Bakes 253]

Still slugging through Hugh Downs. Some of his articles are very thought provoking.

E.B. are you doing a general survey of Science Fiction for fun or profit?

No just cathing up to the Hugo winners.which sends me down paths of Sequils and series.

[adrcol 1]

I am really a fan of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid line. For those who do not now, it a cartoon style novel about the adventures of Greg trying to fit-in high school

It also discusses, in a funny approach, how high school could be the ultimate playground for someone and hell for someone else. Pretty much how I experienced high school as well. Top to that the ever intriguing conflict with his brother, who like other brothers really pick on their younger siblings. There are explanations as to why this occurrences happen, on one hand, the kid is exposed at a very tender age to how rough life could be but on the other, they just make it an excuse for them to pick on their brothers or sisters.

[Paulobergonci 673]

I'm reading two books, one about London and the other about California. Very interesting

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I'm reading two books, one about London and the other about California. Very interesting

Titles/authors?

[Barbarossa 51]

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[Paulobergonci 673]

A Nonny Moose

They are brazilian books, a journal called "Folha de São Paulo" made them, they are a visual guide about the city, they are very very good. Sadly its only in portuguese. But you can see them here.

http://www.submarino.com.br/busca?q=guia+visual+folha+de+sao+paulo&dep=+&x=0&y=0

They talk about every building in the city, the history, it has maps, everything, love them.

They have 400-600 pages

[Easy Bakes 253]

Finished with Brightness Reef -David Brin

Starting on Infinity's Shore book 2 of Uplift Storm trilogy-David Brin

About 1/2 way thru A Deepness In the Sky by Vernor Vinge So far a pretty good read about 2 groups of

spacefareing human cultures clashing over the 1st alien civilization discovered.

  Edited May 5, 2011 by Easy Bakes  

[LastTrueChamp 196]

I'm reading The Drawing of the Three, part two of the Dark Towers series by Stephen King.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Its Banned Books Week.

everyone read one.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/24/ellen-hopkins-anti-censorship-poem?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Its Banned Books Week.

everyone read one.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/24/ellen-hopkins-anti-censorship-poem?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

I followed the link to the poem. Just a piece of good writing opposing bad censorship. Quite good and not objectionable at all.

I think everyone who hasn't read it should read Fanny Hill (A Memoir of a Woman of Pleasure). Failing that, try Madame Bovary or Lady Chatterley's Lover or The Catcher in the Rye. All of these were banned from school libraries at one point or other. Has anyone read any of the Bowdler editions of Shakespeare? Rips the guts right out of the plays.

I hear that there is to be an expurgated edition of Mark Twain's great pair of books on life on the Mississippi. Don't people realize that the N word was in common use at that time, and that denying history is just making a statement about their own tolerance? What about Joseph Conrad's "The N of the Narcissus". Pfaugh!

None of these books are banned in Ontario.

Does anyone know if there are any books left on the Vatican Index? As far as I know, there is one, whose title escapes me at the moment.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Finished A Deepness In the Sky by Vernor Vinge

Started on The Grave Yard Book by Neil Gaiman 2009 Hugo Winner it is a childerns book though.

about 1/4 way thru Infinitys Shore.

[nathanthemayor 1,262]

In my english class, I am reading the most famous love story of all time: Can anyone guess what it is?

[Easy Bakes 253]

In my english class, I am reading the most famous love story of all time: Can anyone guess what it is?

MacBeth?

  Edited May 27, 2011 by Easy Bakes  

[nathanthemayor 1,262]

In my english class, I am reading the most famous love story of all time: Can anyone guess what it is?

MacBeth?

Nope, but the bookplay is by the same author.

Romeo and Juliet

  Edited May 27, 2011 by nathanthemayor  

[Easy Bakes 253]

In my english class, I am reading the most famous love story of all time: Can anyone guess what it is?

MacBeth?

Nope, but the bookplay is by the same author.

Romeo and Juliet

Cleopatra and Mark Antony?

[nathanthemayor 1,262]

In my english class, I am reading the most famous love story of all time: Can anyone guess what it is?

MacBeth?

Nope, but the bookplay is by the same author.

Romeo and Juliet

Cleopatra and Mark Antony?

Here is the answer(Drum roll please)...

Romeo and Juliet

[Easy Bakes 253]

I knew that.

[Shadow Assassin 336]

I'm currently reading 'The Picture of Dorian Grey' by Oscar Wilde. Quite a good read, got it on Kindle for free along with a few other classics.

It's pretty clear which way Oscar Wilde swung though, considering the amount of time he used to describe the male characters vs. the women.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

To be honest, I have been on a slow decline in book reading since my 7th grade teacher died the summer of 2005 after I brought her to tears with a response I made when she told me to stop reading in class. I was such a good student, I still earned a sizeable amount of tickets (like "gold stars" that can be redeemed for candy or trinkets), those were taken away at the end of the year when a detention-bird student complained of me charging 1 ticket per week for lones of 10 tickets. That is also a reason why I don't value money. I find savings useless so I buy food and entertainment with all money I receive (whether as wages or gifts).

What I do read is mostly magazines, comics/manga, textbooks, but especially the Web (forums, dictionaries, and encyclopedias).

[Easy Bakes 253]

Finished The Grave Yard Book by Neil Gaiman. Not a bad read a bit dark for a children's book thou.

Started Frontier of the Dark by Arthur Bertram Chandler something i pick up recently cause i like his

John Grimes storys,they were aways packaged as 2 short novels.

about 1/3 way thru Infinitys Shore.