Does anyone read books?

[zoltanspawn]

I, also, have no interest in those genres.

They're for people who can't cope with the reality of their own existence.

They're easier for the author to manipulate the reader.

Banalities like this in a thread devoted to reading books make me snort.

 

[pat grimshaw]

I love Muriel Spark and her wonderful Protestant tartness.

I've finished with my Virginia Woolf phase.

I think Colm Toibin as the most capable of the current gay writers.

 

[jslvr05]

Does anyone annotate their books? Not for academic reasons, but just for personal reasons.

I like to do this for classic literature. It helps me understand what I am reading.

 

[pat grimshaw]

Does anyone annotate their books? Not for academic reasons, but just for personal reasons.…

Yes. It makes it quicker to find the important bits. I am sufficient of a Methodist to believe that if a book is worth reading once then it must be worth reading twice.

I did not know Colm Toibin is gay?…Muriel Spark was a Roman Catholic…

Oh Jack! Don't you pay attention when you read? Muriel Spark was a genius at irony!

 

[pat grimshaw]

Muriel Spark went over in her later years but she continued to set up Catholic characters to expose their passive 'blind faith'. Her memoirs, written in her last years, describe them as people who can’t think for themselves and of her childhood neighbours who "were made to have a lot of children by force".

 

[getoverit]

Laugh at me all you want but I just got into reading books for fun at the age of 25.

I am reading Hilary Duff's Elixir and so far it is pretty good.

 

[pat grimshaw]

…I am reading Hilary Duff's Elixir and so far it is pretty good.

What do you like most about it?

The plot, the clothes and settings? Do you like the characters? and the way they talk with each other?

Do you think Hilary is trying to persuade you to think something about them?

 

[pat grimshaw]

I started going to a gay monthly book discussion group seven years ago. I used to resent reading fiction because I felt I was wasting my time on 2nd rate pulp.

It's encouraged me to analyse books to identify pulp before picking it up. And it's told me that it's OK to abandon books half-read and to borrow books from libraries and friends.

Though I'm still conscious that reading requires more effort and concentration than watching TV

 

[pat grimshaw]

That EF Benson was such a queen! I heard he was a vicar as well.

 

[getoverit]

What do you like most about it?

The plot, the clothes and settings? Do you like the characters? and the way they talk with each other?

Do you think Hilary is trying to persuade you to think something about them?

I like the story so far a lot. It is a really easy read which is good for me since my reading level is not where it should be. It is easy to understand, that is probably what I like most.

I really like how in detail she goes when describing the main character's (Clea) dreams and nightmares that she has about the man in her photos.

Also I can relate to the main character with that she is very independent and kinda quiet at the same time - until she gets to know you of course. Also her sense of humor is like mine - sarcastic.

 

[TheFireGod]

I'm going to go to the local used bookstore and find the 4th book of the Sword of Truth series: Temple of the Winds, when I find the time to.

For now I'm rereading parts of the previous book: Blood of the Fold.

 

[miaedu]

Robert Mapplethorpe: A Biography by Patricia Morrisroe

 

[pat grimshaw]

I reckon that if I'm going to invest my time in a book I want to be repaid.

I want to get wisdom. I want to be made better. I want the author to 'stretch me' to think new things.

I know some people go to the Bible or to Shakespeare for consolation and that I go, time after time, to Virginia Woolf's Diaries.

 

[miaedu]

I reckon that if I'm going to invest my time in a book I want to be repaid.

I want to get wisdom. I want to be made better. I want the author to 'stretch me' to think new things.

I know some people go to the Bible or to Shakespeare for consolation and that I go, time after time, to Virginia Woolf's Diaries.

There are so many reasons to read including but not exclusively the ones you mention.

It's just important to read and have a balance.

 

[KnoackaboutKlown]

I'm currently reading Hex Hall. It's like Veronica Mars meets The Worst Witch meets Wicked: Witch, Curse, Spellbound, Legacy, and Resurrection meets every other Teenage witch/ boarding school/ good versus organizational evil that thinks they are doing god's work. Its pretty good. It every best cliche teens book rolled into one yet made to work on a perfectly readable level.

 

[eryk-v]

I'm always reading something during my free-time. right now I'm on Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. it's a very funny book.

 

[stuyen]

Hi!

I just finished the last of the Nightrunner books by Lynn Flewelling. It's an amazing and fun series with two gay main characters. I can recommend it to everyone who has a thing for the fantasy genre .

 

[Mrbrightside976]

You know what makes me sad? When i ask all of my friends what they are reading and every single answer is "Nothing, i hate reading." Of course that is kind of expected at my age (19), but still, i wish that people my age would put down the remote control and pick up a damn book.

I am currently reading Incendiary by Chris Cleave and The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo by Steig Larsson.

 

[Irish Queer]

I'm currently reading Dexter by Design. Have to say Dexter in the Dark was dissappointing, I felt there was no need to explain the dark passanger. This one however is back on form.

 

[giftart]

Ayone has any nice Thriller/mystery/detective book to recommend? I just finished David Hewson books and I need more.