What book are you reading now?

I've decided to give the Harry Potter books a read. I read the first one back when it came out and I thought it was way too childish. But after seeing a few of the movies and seeing how the stories mature as they go, I figured I'd give it another shot. I'm surprised at how much I really am enjoying it.

^ You know, I've had the exact same scenario. Read the first one when I was 13 or 14. Liked the writing, but didn't feel like it was my cup o'tea. But after the movies, I've been considering them.

BlueMaxx wrote:^ You know, I've had the exact same scenario. Read the first one when I was 13 or 14. Liked the writing, but didn't feel like it was my cup o'tea. But after the movies, I've been considering them.

I'm in the middle of the 4th one, and I gotta admit, it's been pretty fun.

superdoug wrote:
Next on my list (and just picked up this week) is American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I've never read it, and was in the middle of a couple of other books when it was the PoP! read.

Yay! I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.

Necroscope by Brian Lumley

America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam 1950-1975
by George C. Herring

Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros - I felt the need for some poetry today

superdoug wrote:
Next on my list (and just picked up this week) is American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I've never read it, and was in the middle of a couple of other books when it was the PoP! read.

Funny. I just started reading that last night as well.

Just finished SLatfatF and it really felt like a filler arc to me. Not my favorite of the Hitchhiker's series imho.

A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I want to read all the original Sherlocks, and I have them all on my iTouch so why not.

I'm getting ready to start WWZ... I figure this will be the first time I've have 2 books going at once that weren't for school.

Badass: A relentless onslaught of the toughest warlords,vikings,samurai,pirates,gunfighters, and military commanders to ever live by Ben Thompson, creator of badassoftheweek.com. Informitive and funny!

Laurell K. Hamilton's Divine Misdemeanors, I'm feeling a little naughty.

I am finishing the last book in the Twilight saga. My eyes hurt from all the eye rolling I have done through it. You can tell it has been written by a Moromon

^ I'm confused. Did you mean Mormon or moron? Or were you trying to mesh the two?

BlueMaxx wrote:^ I'm confused. Did you mean Mormon or moron? Or were you trying to mesh the two?

i think a little bit of both myself.

also i'm reading peter and sword of mercy.

Yesterday I started Pop Goes the Weasel by James Patterson. This is from his Alex Cross series and it is just as good as the rest of them are. It's a really easy read seeing that I'm half way through it already.

BlueMaxx wrote:^ I'm confused. Did you mean Mormon or moron? Or were you trying to mesh the two?

I meant Mormon but moron works too.

Making a decent dent into book 6 of Potter. Book 5 ended on such a downer. It was like the Empire Strikes Back with wizards

I am currently reading Ragnar's Claw by William King. Man, I'm loving all the Warhammer 40K stuff right now!

well I just finished re reading the Chronicals of Narnia again. I am now reading Homer's "The Iliad"

I am reading Health Care informatics.. how hawt is that?!?

flux336 wrote:

superdoug wrote:
Next on my list (and just picked up this week) is American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I've never read it, and was in the middle of a couple of other books when it was the PoP! read.

Yay! I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.

You know, that was the deepest book I've ever read. I mean, it seems fairly simple on the surface, but when you really start paying attention to what's going on, the book suddenly evolves a whole other layer, much in the way that it happens to the characters in the book. It's suddenly Gaiman's Backstage, and you're just waiting to see what happens next.

I didn't see the end of the Lakeside story until the last minute. I hope that wasn't obvious to everyone and I just missed it.

I'll have to re-read it, I know. There's a hell of a lot to absorb, and Gaiman's neat skewering of complex ideas with simple explanations makes it easy to miss a truly deep idea. I just know I missed one.

All in all, though, a great book! I've read four books by Gaiman that weren't Sandman stories, and every one of them has been an awesome experience.

Finally, while reading this, did anyone else think that this would be a great idea for an HBO series? There's so much to it that you could easily get three seasons out of it before the actual climax....

Spaced4SimonPegg wrote:I am finishing the last book in the Twilight saga. My eyes hurt from all the eye rolling I have done through it. You can tell it has been written by a Moromon

you should start on this now. At least it will make you laugh

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I just re-read Frank Beddor's "The Looking Glass Wars", and I love his take on the Alice in Wonderland storyline... It's a bit of an easy read, but well worth it.

I'm also going to re-read all my Harry Potter books, just because I can. Love them.