What book are you currently reading?

[stormmaster1]

I just finished Ométra by Mario Puzo. It is really good I must say and I don't read many books. [/b]

I read quite a few Mario Puzo books a few years back. They're all pretty good, but get a little repetitive after a few. The Godfather is obviously his best, and gives so much depth to all the characters, whether major roles or bit-parts.

 

[Laetca]

(re)reading as much Agatha Christie as I possibly can. It's a weakness in me, I just love her stories

 

[RC]

Currently reading Shop Girl by Steve Martin.

Unlike his his other attempts at writing he seems to have direction and a good prose with his novel.

 

[Jimmy0]

I just started reading through the Harry Potter series again, currently half-way through #3.

 

[inakisuperyeah]

I just finished "The Analyst" by John Katzenbach. It was pretty cool with an unexpected ending. Now I'm about to start with "Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami because lots of people recommended it. Hope it's good. :blink:

 

[RC]

Finshed reading Shop Girl by Steve Martin.
It was a really good story and as a narrator he empathises with the characters really well and even though the book is quite short it's still really well told.

Just picked up The Flood by David Maine.

 

[jyp94]

I read the osterman weekend by robert ludlum about espionage etc... very good and short read

 

[shtove]

I read the osterman weekend by robert ludlum about espionage etc... very good and short read [/b]

That turned in to a good film.

Tried to read Ludlum's The Bourne Ultimatum after seeing the brilliant screen version - found it really really really shite, on every page. Except I only read about 100 pages and gave up. Guess he was going senile at that stage, or farming out his name to shite writers.

 

[Sir Speedy]

I'm currently reading "The Colour of Magic" by Terry Pratchett. I only just saw the TV series, and since I've had the book for a while I decided to read it. The humour is brilliant and the imagination of Pratchett painted brilliantly into the book.

 

[Cymro]

Currently Reading: Gavin Hensons Autobiography
About to Read: Martyn Williams Autobiography, Band of Brothers Stephen E.Ambrose

 

[Laetca]

I'm currently reading "The Colour of Magic" by Terry Pratchett. I only just saw the TV series, and since I've had the book for a while I decided to read it. The humour is brilliant and the imagination of Pratchett painted brilliantly into the book. [/b]

I've wanted to read that for quite a while now, since I would like to read the discworl novels in the order they were written in. Still waiting for that winning lottery ticket

Reading 'Funerals are Fatal'

 

[Jer1cho]

Allen Carr's easyway to stop smoking.

Changed my life.
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Dude i totally second that. I have quit now for a year and a half, all thanks to his book! I literally couldnt wait to stop as i drew near the end of the book!!! The funny thing is, he never tells you to stop while you read it, but the further you get, the more hateful you become of smoking!!!! Every one you light while reading you only light because you have to, and smoke it as fast as you can!!! Brilliant

Changed my life too, and i love being a non smoker! :cheers:

 

[Sir Speedy]

I've wanted to read that for quite a while now, since I would like to read the discworl novels in the order they were written in. Still waiting for that winning lottery ticket

[/b]

:lol: Yeh, I think I'll do the same thing aswell. How many are there? I only know two (The Hogfather which, incidentally, was also made into a two-part series a year ago). I can't see how you won't like the books though, I think it's the whole new take on fiction ("Disc"World) that makes them so popular. The characters are great in this one anyway and it's nice to see familiar British "cuss-words" being used. "Buggery" for instance. :bana:

 

[Laetca]

I'm still reading up on Douglas Adams, I have two H2G2 books to read, and I read both Dirk Gently novels. I'm halfway through the salmon of doubt, which is pretty much fragmentary so it doesn't matter if I don't read all of it.

I think I'll ask people to just get me terry pratchett books for my next birthday, that way I avoid getting Hello Kitty DVDs. Where do people get their ideas sometimes

The only problem with the discworld novels for me is that a friend keeps telling me entire character developments, like the granddaughter of death being (I forgot, a librarian? a teacher?) anyway, every now and then I think I'm getting crucial plot twists before reading the books.

For that matter, now that we're talking books here anyway, does anyoneknow a decent secondhand (yes, where you buy tatty books) site where you acn purchase books?
Other then eBay

 

[Ripper]

Terry Pratchett, specifically the Discworld Novels are awesome.

Funnily enough, reading Jingo now (The ones with the City Watch and about Death Personified - one of the greatest fictional characters of all time are the best IMO)

 

[mr.writer]

George Minois, The history of atheism

 

[RC]

I finished The Flood a couple of days ago.
A nice interesting take on how things may have gone down for noah (if it weren't a load of bull of course), and nice character relation.
It was a bit annoying jumping from character to character every chapter, as you can imagine things didn't really get that in depth. When 6 different people are telling their own version of a story, no matter how epic the tale it is, it tends to remain quite a shallow read.
I'm sure he kept it quite a short book because he couldn't take it too deep with out blaspheming. Then again, if delving into the psychee of a fictional character is blashpehmy then he is already hated in the eyes of christians and might as well have taken it the whole hog.
I just think it could have been a more interesting book if the author had balls.


Now reading:

Tom Holt - In Your Dreams

 

[Laetca]

Something similar, I'm reading Gaspar, Balthazar & Melchior, which tells the stories of the three kings who went to visit Jesus on the 6th of January. I have to read it for a course, I'll have to explain on my exam for that class what the writer did with the source material (the bits of the bible where those three dudes appear) and how he added/ommited from it.

It's enjoyable, but not very informative, considering it's pure fiction.

 

[BLR]

Something similar, I'm reading Gaspar, Balthazar & Melchior, which tells the stories of the three kings who went to visit Jesus on the 6th of January. I have to read it for a course, I'll have to explain on my exam for that class what the writer did with the source material (the bits of the bible where those three dudes appear) and how he added/ommited from it.

It's enjoyable, but not very informative, considering it's pure fiction.
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So is that a work of non-fiction?

 

[Warriors#1]

Currently working my way through a lot of Clive Cussler's books.

Reading Trojan Odyssey at the moment.