What book are you currently reading?

[superfluouslyme]

Chocolat-Joanne Harris
&
a bunch of self help books

Chocolat is on my to-read list. I loved the movie.

1984 by George Orwell
Northen Lights by Philip Pullman

1984 is one of my very favorite books.

I'm still trudging through A Storm of Swords. I've got about 200 pages left, then I'm on to A Feast of Crows.

 

[Subpop]

Xu Lun: A Madman's Diary and other stories. Great insight into the history of China at the beginning of 20th century.

Subpop: Czech Republic has some good funny writers, like Michal Viewegh.

Hi very_shy. I really appreciate the reply. Finding a really enjoyable book, especially a humerous one, is an amazingly uplifting thing for me.

 

[superfluouslyme]

 

[SimpleSoul]

The Road To Mecca, A play by Athol Fugard

 

[Tiercel]

 

[superfluouslyme]

 

[cowboyup]

I couldn't get into it at first, but it's getting better

 

[superfluouslyme]

This is gonna take a while.

 

[akala]

About women leaving the workforce to become stay at home mothers; it shows how much they are really sacrificing in terms of a stable income and life satisfaction after their kids leave for college. Very interesting, I think every girl should read this.

 

[this_portrait]

And this pretty soon (just bought it today):

 

[Silatuyok]

I've started Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, but I really can't stand it. I don't know what my deal is with books lately, I just can't find any newer novels that have any literary value. :idontknow:

 

[LoyalXenite]

Im reading Lord of the Rings, dont think i really need to explain what its about. Im enjoying it considerably, i have owned it for some years but never got around to reading it, i finally see what i was missing.

 

[Silatuyok]

Im reading Lord of the Rings, dont think i really need to explain what its about. Im enjoying it considerably, i have owned it for some years but never got around to reading it, i finally see what i was missing.

The books are fantastic.

 

[Roman Legion]

Plato: The Last Days of Socrates

 

[Nanita]

Plato: The Last Days of Socrates

That´s good stuff........:thumbup:


I just finished reading The Divine Matrix by Gregg Braden. It´s spectacular.

 

[Starry]

Just finished 'The Hidden Persuaders' by Vance Packard.

It details how the American advertising industry hired behavioural scientists to use psychological techniques to increase sales... With information regarding those techniques and their methods of developing them.

And now I'm reading:

 

[Niteowl]

Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die.

It's brilliant and I'm really into it at the moment. I saw the film with Roger Moore as James Bond, but I didn't like it - or I suppose I didn't "get it", as the plot of those films is always lost on me... much as I enjoy them. I read Casino Royale a few weeks ago and thought it was fantastic, but I was reluctant to start reading Live and Let Die. Knowing that Moonraker is the third in the series though, I decided to do my best to get through this second one. Now I'm actually enjoying it more than Casino Royale.

Don't get me wrong, I love the films. I'm just loving the books even more right now.

I like how every kill counts. In the films I don't get that feeling - probably because a hilarious one-liner accompanies a lot of them (for instance, my favourite - "take a giant step for mankind" in Moonraker). In the chapter I just finished reading, there was this frenzy because James Bond killed three men. There was all this talk of protection, and having to get out of town - and the warning that the villain will be after Bond "like a nest of hornets".

I'm definitely going to watch the film again when I'm done reading. I think Roger Moore was great as James Bond, but I just didn't enjoy that film (well, apart from... "sheer magnetism, darling"). I reckon I'll enjoy it once I understand the plot.

 

[Starry]

Just finished this:

It contained many interesting studies, and raised some interesting questions in my mind...

Now I'm reading this:

It details the author's idea that humans did not descend from the apes, but rather that the apes descended from the ancestors of humans...

 

[Niteowl]

Ian Fleming's Moonraker.

Live and Let Die was brilliant to the last page!

 

[paintedblue]

I'm reading the Aldous Huxley biography by Nicholas Murray. Alright so far, interesting guy that Huxley.