Darth Whoever Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Finally getting around to reading The Kite Runner - about halfway through and very good so far. I'm just very happy with myself that I've been reading more - I've finished at least six books in the last year, which is probably more than I finished in three years before that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 I read The Kite Runner at the beginning of the year. Really good book! (In fact, I need to add that to my favorite books of 2008!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kokeshi_Doll769 Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 Right now I'm re-reading the first book of the Coldfire trilogy - Black Sun Rising. It's been a year since I've read it so I figured why not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 Princep's Fury by Jim Butcher. Present from my Momma! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElfinYoda Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 The Tree Shepard's Daughter When her mother dies, fifteen-year-old Keelie Heartwood is forced to leave her beloved California to live with her nomadic father at a renaissance festival in Colorado. After arriving, Keelie finds men in tights and women in trailer trash-tight bodices roaming half-drunk, calling each other lady and lord even after closing time! Playacting the Dark Ages is an L.A. girl�€™s worst nightmare. Keelie has a plan to ditch this medieval geekland ASAP, but while she plots, strange things start happening�€â€eerie, yet familiar. When Keelie starts seeing fairies and communicating with trees, she uncovers a secret that links her to a community of elves. As Keelie tries to come to grips with her elfin roots, disaster strikes, and Keelie�€™s identity isn�€™t the only thing that�€™s threatened.One part human determination and one part elfin magic, Keelie Heartwood is a witty new heroine in a world where fantasy and reality mix with extraordinary results. Okay, being a former ren faire vendor, I must needs to read this  edit: w00t, I just placed a library hold on it  K, you need to let me know when your done reading it and how you liked it!  I finished Slaughter House Five a few days ago. I can't decide if it was pure genius or retarded. Maybe I should not have read it so close to Christmas, but I felt dead inside, like something was sucked out of me when I finished the last page. Is all his work like this?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted December 28, 2008 Author Share Posted December 28, 2008 K, you need to let me know when your done reading it and how you liked it!  I finished Slaughter House Five a few days ago. I can't decide if it was pure genius or retarded. Maybe I should not have read it so close to Christmas, but I felt dead inside, like something was sucked out of me when I finished the last page. Is all his work like this?? Done! I read it yesterday afternoon in one sitting. It wasn't great literature, and I didn't expect it to be, but it was fun... especially since we're in the middle of total weather yuck, I though it might make me jones for a ren faire, but it actually made me feel like I had attended one, which is a very nice winter treat for a faire junkie like me So, I'll order book two post haste, even if I don't get it before break is over it's such an easy, fluffy read that it'll be a nice escape from required reading. And I felt a bit like that after reading Cat's Cradle, so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElfinYoda Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 K, you need to let me know when your done reading it and how you liked it!  I finished Slaughter House Five a few days ago. I can't decide if it was pure genius or retarded. Maybe I should not have read it so close to Christmas, but I felt dead inside, like something was sucked out of me when I finished the last page. Is all his work like this?? Done! I read it yesterday afternoon in one sitting. It wasn't great literature, and I didn't expect it to be, but it was fun... especially since we're in the middle of total weather yuck, I though it might make me jones for a ren faire, but it actually made me feel like I had attended one, which is a very nice winter treat for a faire junkie like me So, I'll order book two post haste, even if I don't get it before break is over it's such an easy, fluffy read that it'll be a nice escape from required reading. And I felt a bit like that after reading Cat's Cradle, so   Oh, definitely not an award worthy piece of literature, but a fun read anyways! I read both books in one day too. Ok, good, am glad I was not the only one who is a bit befuddled by Vonnegut. I don't think I shall pick up anything else of his any time soon, or ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Malfoy Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 6 Months ago I have been getting into the Dirk Pitt Novels by Clive Cussler. I read about 5 of them when I was at sea on my off time. I asked for some and my family got me the first 6 novels! I have about 100 pages left in Iceberg I then can get onto, Vixon 03, Pacific Vortex, Deeps Six, Cyclops and Treasure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 currently half-way through Cursor's Fury by Jim Butcher. After I finished the latest one I just had to go back and reread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 aaaand onto Captain's Fury for me. Â Man, I'm a reading machine these past two weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I was reading a lot last month, but now I'm doing so many other things that my reading is falling aside. Maybe that's because the book I'm reading is SO boring. It's picking up a bit now that I'm about 2/3 through it, but man did it take awhile. Â For the record, it's Music of the Spheres, which is period fiction that takes place in the late 1700's. It's about a bunch of astronomers. There's murder and sex too though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Murder and sex, oh my! I'm currently about half-way through Neuromancer by William Gibson. It's veryvery good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghurka Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 Comparative politics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I finally hit the halfway point in Hotel New Hampshire yesterday. So far it's very bizarre and I feel really bad for the whole family, but especially Sorrow the dog. I can't imagine how the story will turn out. So far there's midgets, prostitutes, a dwarf, a deaf child, an old farting (and later taxidermied) dog, death, a bear, a fake bear, an old man named Freud, a rape, and much much more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 just... wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammurabi-Sith Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 Running for your life: By Warrick Dunn: Simply my all time favorite player and after reading this book made me appreciate him as a human being even more. Â Conqueror of Worms: By Brian Keene. Too anti-climatic for my tastes, but who knew the mountains of West Virginia could become beach front property? Â Now I am on to the Ignored by Bentley Little. So far so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the skiff guard Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 Tales from the moe. Republic - by John Derhak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 The book I am reading now is sucking up all my sleep time. I keep getting enthralled and spending an hour more than I planned reading before bed. It's Wizard's First Rule. Very cool book so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noxy Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 The Necronomicon, for ****s and giggles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishdancer2 Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 I feel so pathetic that everyone (except Cashmere, yay!) is reading books I've never heard of before. I'm currently in the process of rereading the 2nd Harry Potter book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedi Cool Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 I'm in the process of reading David McCullough's "John Adams". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 How's it going, JC? I have never anything like that, so I'm curious to learn about it. I am in the middle of Watchmen, and I must admit it's sucking me in. It took me a few chapters to get over the format, since I have never read a graphic novel before, but now that I'm into it, I'm really enjoying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 Picking up Perfume: Story of a Murderer for Antilla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted March 1, 2009 Author Share Posted March 1, 2009 I'm finally reading John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let The Right One In. This is one of the odd times where I saw the movie first... and while what they adapted for the movie they adapted quite faithfully, they left SO MUCH out. I'm only 1/4 of the way through the book, and they're already halfway through the movie's plotline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wald Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 I have about 100 pages left of Moby-Dick and am about 50 pages into 2666 by Roberto Bolano. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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