What book are you currently reading?

[Laetca]

Reading "A Hazard of Good Fortunes", the most enjoyable of four books I had to read for Realism.

I like it, it's a shame I didn't read it earlier.
Not too fond of Middlemarch, Hard Times or What maisie Knew, the first two are most definetly too dramatic for me :s

 

[sotti84]

JRR Tolkien Silmarillion for all that love the lord of the rings
The Silmarillion is J.R.R. Tolkien's tragic, operatic history of the First Age of Middle-Earth, essential background material for serious readers of the classic Lord of the Rings saga. Tolkien's work sets the standard for fantasy, and this audio version of the "Bible of Middle-Earth" does The Silmarillion justice. Martin Shaw's reading is grave and resonant, conveying all the powerful events and emotions that shaped elven and human history long before Bilbo, Frodo, Gandalf and all the rest embarked on their quests. Beginning with the Music of the Ainur, The Silmarillion tells a tale of the Elder Days, when Elves and Men became estranged by the Dark Lord Morgoth's lust for the Silmarils, pure and powerful magic jewels. Even the love between a human warrior and the daughter of the Elven king cannot defeat Morgoth, but the War of Wrath finally brings down the Dark Lord. Peace reigns until the evil Sauron recovers the Rings of Power and sets the stage for the events told in the Lord of the Rings. This is epic fantasy at its finest, thrillingly read and gloriously unabridged

 

[Cymro]

'You Can Run But You Can't Hide'

Dog the Bounty Hunter

A really interesting insight into the Bounty Hunters life!

 

[Laetca]

I started in the Silmarillion once, and I had to give after half a chapter I believe.

Cymro, aere you joking?

Currently re-reading The Undomestic Goddess.

 

[Cymro]

I started in the Silmarillion once, and I had to give after half a chapter I believe.

Cymro, aere you joking?

Currently re-reading The Undomestic Goddess. [/b]

Honest to god, I have watched his show on Sky and got quite into it, in Feburary went past his main office in Wakiki in Hawaii and now thought it would be interesting to read his autobiography, which to be fair is pretty good!

 

[Laetca]

it's an autobiography? I don't mean to be prejudiced (I am though), but from seeing ten or so minutes from that show I wouldn't have pegged him as a person to write an extensive biography.

Going through the Plum novels again, it's been some time and I forgot the clou of most of them. Maybe I'll put the copies I don't have on my wishlist

 

[rodri_arg91]

now im reading the original version of Dracula, in english (im from argentina) and it's good so far

 

[Sir Speedy]

I'm currently reading 'The Cat Who Walks Through Walls'. Very witty and enjoyable.

 

[Cymro]

it's an autobiography? I don't mean to be prejudiced (I am though), but from seeing ten or so minutes from that show I wouldn't have pegged him as a person to write an extensive biography.

Going through the Plum novels again, it's been some time and I forgot the clou of most of them. Maybe I'll put the copies I don't have on my wishlist [/b]

Its an autobiography and to be fair its well written and I enjoyed it and gave an interesting insight into himself!

 

[Sir Speedy]

<div class='quotemain'> it's an autobiography? I don't mean to be prejudiced (I am though), but from seeing ten or so minutes from that show I wouldn't have pegged him as a person to write an extensive biography.

Going through the Plum novels again, it's been some time and I forgot the clou of most of them. Maybe I'll put the copies I don't have on my wishlist [/b]

Its an autobiography and to be fair its well written and I enjoyed it and gave an interesting insight into himself!
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I think Dog was rated 30th on the TV's 50 hardest men show. He was deducted to such a low position because of his appearance, apparantly.

 

[Laetca]

Currently reading the complete and unabridged stories of Sherlock Holmes.

I'm a sucker for detective mysteries

I'll probably still like Poirot better then Holmes after reading though

 

[shtove]

Currently reading the complete and unabridged stories of Sherlock Holmes.

I'm a sucker for detective mysteries

I'll probably still like Poirot better then Holmes after reading though [/b]

Yeah, I prefer Poirot. Holmes is disappointing to read - much better on the screen. Best of the lot for insightful deductions is Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton, but he's not "shexshy" - especially after the twee US TV series.

Just read Ian McEwan's novel Amsterdam - very disappointed. Great opening line, which really sets up the story, but it loses its way in a middle class squabble. So what? The only interesting character is the dead woman, but she fades, and there's no real insight. The media loved this when it was published. Arseholes.

 

[KZNSharksFan]

Just read "Neither Here Nor There" by Bill Bryson. Extremely funny account of his travels across mainland Europe.

An excerpt from one chapter:

"Austria's a beautiful country, the problem is its full of Fu**ing Austrians"

 

[Josh_WA]

At the moment I am reading " Time Bandit" by Andy & Jonathan Hilstrand. Its written by the dude that captians the "Time Bandit" on Discovery Channel program 'deadliest Catch'.

Really good and pretty funny, its just about living life on the edge and the crazy things that can happen if you play your cards right. highly recomend it to anyone.

 

[Laetca]

Struggled through the first story in the book, and I do like Poirot better.
Still don't understand why all of a sudden teh mormons had to join in ^o)
I'll read the rest, even if it were only because it's my book, and I hate owning books I haven't read.

I should re-read 'sans famille' at some point in time, not sure how it's translated to english. I have a really old copy of it that I read to bits when I was younger.

Shtove, do you have any other detective recommendations? I can't keep re-reading Agatha Christie (even though I usually forgot after two years how the story went/ended), and even Stephanie Plum gets slightly predictable after a while (she gets kidnapped by the bad guy, who she was talking to all the time as a witness, but no one knew how he was involved, and if the bad guy is a woman, there's always some reason for her doing what she does , usually an aresehole)

 

[pennysworth]

Just started Political Philosophy by Adam Swift. It's a surprisingly good read for something that was just supposed to be briefly looked over as preparation for political science next year.

 

[shtove]

Struggled through the first story in the book, and I do like Poirot better.

Shtove, do you have any other detective recommendations? [/b]

I read one collection of Holmes, and just shrugged my shoulders - what's the big deal? I guess the way Holmes and Watson spark off each other on screen is the real attraction. Poirot on screen has that watery Englishman to insult, but I don't know if that's taken from the books.

Father Brown is the cleverest, but he doesn't have a sidekick - oh wait, in the TV series there's a feisty, not unattractive nun!

The best detective thingy ever is The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. Short novel, brings pre-war California to life: full of drugs, sex, seedy characters, obscene wealth and poverty + snappy dialogue, a good hidden ending, and you never meet the main character because ... (it's a secret). The final paragraph wraps it up with a sense of cosmic mystery. It is brilliant. The drunken author admitted that the plot doesn't really add up - but that makes it even more brilliant because it's a real story rather than an elaborate puzzle. The film version was crap because they changed the plot to allow more scenes for Lauren Bacall: she's worth it, but the original is muuuuch better.

 

[Sir Speedy]

I've just started reading another Heinlein book: Red Planet.

 

[BLR]

Finally finished my Stalin book and now onto Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.

 

[shtove]

Finally finished my Stalin book and now onto Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. [/b]

Someone else on here was reading Gibbon last year. Heavy read, but he's witty. Never been an empire like it.