BOOKS: What are you reading?

[miaedu]

Les 120 journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage by Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade

 

[PrahaGold]

Finally made it a point to read 'The Beach' by Alex Garland. Mesmerizingly engaging and (fortunately) nothing like the movie.
Other than that I recently got completely addicted to anything by Agatha Christie. (Why is it only now that I find out about all these great authors?!) Read 'And Then There Were None' and was so fascinated by this woman's written words, I immediately went online and bought a whole bunch of books by her. ^^

 

[fluxxx]

Halfway to the end reading Dark Places. I love this book. Very dark and graphic. Funny thing, I have no idea that there would be a movie adaptation of this book, when I read this book, I imagine Charlize Theron as the lead character of the book. When I googled and found the news that there would be a movie and Charlize Theron will play the lead character Libby Day, it shocked me and made me happy. She'll perfect for the character.

 

[JackinSea]

Finished From Away by David Carkeet. Stranger gets mixed up in a (possible) murder, but is mistaken everywhere he goes in that small town for another guy who "disappeared" three years earlier, so he takes on that identity while police are focused on his actual one. Requires A LOT of suspension of disbelief at times, but I found the book funny.

 

[JackinSea]

Finished From Away by David Carkeet. Stranger gets mixed up in a (possible) murder, but is mistaken everywhere he goes in that small town for another guy who "disappeared" three years earlier, so he takes on that identity while police are focused on his actual one. Requires A LOT of suspension of disbelief at times, but I found the book funny.

Halfway to the end reading Dark Places. I love this book. Very dark and graphic. Funny thing, I have no idea that there would be a movie adaptation of this book, when I read this book, I imagine Charlize Theron as the lead character of the book. When I googled and found the news that there would be a movie and Charlize Theron will play the lead character Libby Day, it shocked me and made me happy. She'll perfect for the character.

I thought Libby Day was terrific! However, I skimmed through scenes without her as nothing but a boring rip-off of In Cold Blood.

 

[zoltanspawn]

Just finished Crime and Punishment.

 

[Nick96]

Busy reading Stephen King's Carrie (I've read it before butIi just love it that much) and The Exorcist (It's soooo good!! In a creepy kinda way)

 

[eddy79]

Busy reading Stephen King's Carrie (I've read it before butIi just love it that much) and The Exorcist (It's soooo good!! In a creepy kinda way)

Funnily enough I'm reading King's Misery at the moment (not for the first time). For what is essentially a two-hander, in one location for most of its length, it takes a writer of great skill to keep that interesting and tight. King manages to pull it off.

 

[Kulindahr]

I'm plowing through Robin Hobb's Rain Wild series.

 

[PrahaGold]

Funnily enough I'm reading King's Misery at the moment (not for the first time). For what is essentially a two-hander, in one location for most of its length, it takes a writer of great skill to keep that interesting and tight. King manages to pull it off.

May I join your little alliance? Currently reading 'The Shining' (my first time).
I have to be quick about it though; today my bd order 'Geisha of Gion' by Mineko Iwasaki arrived. Can't wait!

 

[eddy79]

May I join your little alliance? Currently reading 'The Shining' (my first time).
I have to be quick about it though; today my bd order 'Geisha of Gion' by Mineko Iwasaki arrived. Can't wait!

Welcome aboard! My I suggest the recent sequel to The Shining - Doctor Sleep? For my money by far the better book.

 

[buffxqui]

Since Patti Smith just announced her new autobiography M Train, I'm going to finally start reading Just Kids.

 

[PrahaGold]

Welcome aboard! My I suggest the recent sequel to The Shining - Doctor Sleep? For my money by far the better book.

Yes, I was actually planning to read this. (Dr Sleep was the initial reason I started The Shining in the first place.) But now my giant BD order arrived with Agatha's greatest works, so I probably won't be able to read it until I've finished all those. Then again, I am seriously considering waiting with Agatha until autumn. Summertime isn't really the right setting for curling up on the couch and losing yourself in murder mysteries. Let's see if I can keep my hands off...

What's Dr Sleep like, if I may ask? I have restrained from reading any excerpts, since I find that those usually spoil it somehow. But from the title I always got the impression that it has to be similar to Insomnia (another excellent mindfuck by Mr. King btw).

 

[SFLMAN]

I am reading "The Best Little Boy in the World" by Andrew Tobias. The book was published more than 25 years ago and it is apparently a classic. It is a memoir.

Check it out! It is an interesting book.

 

[zoltanspawn]

I had to stop For Whom the Bell Tolls, but not for any good reason. The reader's performance stupefied me with such a somber sameness I couldn't pay attention. It was like listening to someone sleep. Shame.

 

[buffxqui]

Just started reading "A Heaven of Words: Last Journals", by Glenway Wescott
Ed. Jerry Rosco
University of Wisconsin Press

 

[Reischfleger]

Just started reading "A Tale of Two Cities"

 

[ravenstar]

I just finished The Soldier's Wife by Australian author Pamela Hart. It was a lovely book set in 1915-16 Sydney. Descriptively it really set the scene of what Sydney was like for a young woman whose husband was away in the war. Loved it.

 

[CharlieMars]

Warrior's Rest - Christiane Rochefort

 

[zoltanspawn]

Flannery O'Connor's realistic Wise Blood.

“Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”