BOOKS: What are you reading?

[MJEH89]

 

[palbert]

Thomas Penn, Winter King, Simon & Schuster, 2011: "Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England."

 

[DigitalFudge]

Can someone suggest a book for me?


I love those teenage books with that sarcastic humor although I guess at this point I am just looking for something "Witty" love that writing, it kills me. Books have made me laugh more than movies, actually.

The last book I read that I truly loved was "Go ask Alice anonymous" along with another book just like it. Both were dark, self-deprecating, and smart.


If I can find a book that has the same humor as "The Mindy Project" I will be happy

 

[pat grimshaw]

I've just finished this. It isn't as easy or as fun as his earlier ones. But he's a fabulous prose-artist. He's one of the top two gay writers this decade.

 

[MJEH89]

every once in awhile ya gotta read some frivolity...

 

[HorniLad89]

Just finished reading Excession, the fourth Culture book.



Now going to reattempt the Dexter series, picking up where I left off, the fourth book, Dexter by Design. I gave up on the series originally because the third book introduced a very silly supernatural angle which destroyed the character of Dexter for me. However, I heard that plot device has been thankfully dropped.

 

[giftart]

Really? Sounds interesting, I'm going to look it up at the library next time I go.

I've done reading The Babylon rite and yes it is quite gruesome in someway but if you read on its alittle I would say soft ending.

I am reading this now: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Birthdays-Dead-Stuart-MacBride/dp/0007344201 - Brrrrrrr

 

[zoltanspawn]

If I had the time, I would be thinking about reading Bleak House or a Charles Dickens book.

If you can't manage reading Bleak House (and I haven't) you should definitely watch the BBC miniseries. It's super excellent.

I've turned six of my friends onto it and it's universally liked.

 

[HorniLad89]

Halfway through Dexter by Design, the fourth Dexter book.

 

[MJEH89]

I want to be a comedy writer, so I have to read up on the history of it. why not go to the best..??

 

[JackinSea]

The trick to classics like BLEAK HOUSE is to listen as an UNABRIDGED audio! The Victorians read serialized versions, not the tomes we have today.

 

[purina]

I just finished Gore Vidal's "Lincoln". Now I'm on volume two of ten of "Abraham Lincoln, A History" written jointly by both of Lincoln's secretaries.

 

[Thad1527]

It's different for me, but I'm reading Where She Came From by Helen Epstein. It's a story of wartime Czechoslovakia and it's captured my interest.

More like my regular reading is this wonderful book by Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. It's delicious.

 

[HorniLad89]

Look to Windward, book five of the Culture series (though really book six as I skipped Inversions as it actually doesn't feature the Culture or any science fiction). I love me some action on an Orbital.

 

[GregKII]

I'm more of a historical fiction/biography buff myself. I'm juggling about 5 books myself, but this has completely absorbed my attention at the moment. It's amazing!

 

[maxpowr9]

Currently reading A Casual Vacancy, JK Rowling's new book. Besides the obvious fact that you can tell from Order of the Phoenix on wards that she was using a ghostwriter, the book is decent. I kind of like the premise of the revolving stories that surround a deceased politician.

 

[maxpowr9]

Doubt seriously she's using a Ghost writer- if that ever got out- she'd be ruined!

I wish I could find the article but it has been admitted that her editors had "ersatz" writing compared to her own. That is not a word you ever see in print which I why I remember it so clearly. I'm not saying they were entirely written by ghost writers [some series, especially children's books are) but, many of your favorite serial novelists use them.

 

[JackinSea]

If you guys are looking for a couple of books that are funny, but not exactly "beach reads" either, consider Graham Greene's "Our Man in Havana" (a vacuum cleaner salesman gets recruited as a spy in 50's Cuba), and Evelyn Waugh's "Scoop" (a young eager journalist is sent to cover an African conflict - that turns out not to exist!), both are excellent farces.

 

[EJMichaels]

I received a review copy of this one and just finished it. The cover (not shown) implies there will be het sex, but most of it is between men or between men and male dragons. It's not something I would have found for myself - an author I like told me about it. Fortunately, I didn't miss a fun book.

Like a Breath of Flame: Erotic Tales of Dragons
Edited by Cosmin Alexander and Cecilia Tan
Publisher: Circlet Press

Provided by publisher: Dragons are present across almost all human culture: from the classic fire-breathing and princess-coveting dragons of Western Europe to the wise and noble dragons of East Asia to the great monstrous lizards of Greek mythology to the feathered serpents of South America. But what of the sexual side of the dragon? What of sensuality at the border between earth and sky, what of the myths of kings and emperors being literally descended from dragons, what of dragons who take on human shape to learn mankind’s ways? Humans and dragons have existed side by side since nearly the beginning of time—surely their desires must have crossed at some point.

Like a Breath of Flame: Erotic Tales of Dragons contains nine short stories that explore the theme of scaled sensuality from a variety of different perspectives. In this anthology are stories of lonely mountain dragons with exotic tastes, dragons with the power to slip into their lover’s dreams, shapechanger dragons, unusual interpretations of the term “dragon rider,” dragon-as-devil and dragon-as-god… and, yes, no less than two versions of the virgin-sacrificed-to-dragon story, each with their own unique twist on the tale. These stories of serpentine sexuality are certain to delight the senses.​

 

[HorniLad89]

Hmm been a while since I posted, got through quite a few books in the last few months. I recently finished Surface Detail book eight of the Culture, been spacing my science fiction out with some classics so read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley which is completely different to any of the movie adaptations I've seen. Just finished The Gunslinger part 1 of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Really good stuff, enjoyed it immensely. Terrifying, speculative and awe-inspiring, classic King. May move on to the second book or read The Hydrogen Sonata, book nine in the Culture series next, undecided.