Reading anything?

[Doggett]

I'm nearly at the end of the first book !
It's taken me nearly a year...I'm hoping the plot gets a little more exciting in the second book. There's only so much singing and walking I can take before I want to scream !!!

[schmendrik]

I'm nearly at the end of the first book !
It's taken me nearly a year...I'm hoping the plot gets a little more exciting in the second book. There's only so much singing and walking I can take before I want to scream !!!

I gobbled these up when I first read them.

But even so the second book is deadly dull. The problem is the section with the talking trees called the Ents. O... M... G... that was deadly. I wanted to go out and set forest fires before I was halfway through it.

So you may want to do some skipping.

I highly recommend "Bored of the Rings".

[InformationGeek]

Continuing on in our Short Story Unit in English class, we have justed finished reading A Rose for Emily.  It was rather interesting and I see it as a story that had another hidden story within it with how it is all set up.  Also, I have just dived into The Birds as well.  I finished reading it and I thought it was pretty good, though a couple of my friends said it was too long for a short story.  Anyways, we might be able to even watch the movie once the whole class is all done reading it.

[venomx]

Bruce Lee - Jeet Kune Do

Goonies by James Kahn

Ninja Mind Control by Ashida Kim

[indianasmith]

Did someone just criticize the brilliance that is LotR???

Surely not.  I would hate to have to break out my Dwarven mace and mithril body armor . . . . . 

I finally finished King's THE DARK TOWER series.  Incredible, dark, brilliant, and also, after seven long books, NOT ENOUGH!!

There is so much about Gilead and the Gunslingers that we never know.

Great series!

[Ash]

I finally finished King's THE DARK TOWER series.  Incredible, dark, brilliant, and also, after seven long books, NOT ENOUGH!!

There is so much about Gilead and the Gunslingers that we never know.

Great series!

I started the Dark Tower series years ago and have yet to finish it.
So far I've read the first 5 books and got bogged down in "Song of Susannah" about a yer ago.
Man, that book is awful!  By far the worst of Roland's adventures in my opinion.
Still haven't finished it yet.

My all time favorite book out of that series is the one that people seemed to dislike the most: Wizard and Glass.

As for what I'm reading now...
I picked up this book for $1 at the nearby Dollar Tree.



It's a hard-boiled pulp crime novel about a porn star named Angel Dare who's shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car.
She survives and comes back for revenge.
It's pretty good so far.

[schmendrik]

As for what I'm reading now...
I picked up this book for $1 at the nearby Dollar Tree.



It's a hard-boiled pulp crime novel about a porn star named Angel Dare who's shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car.
She survives and comes back for revenge.
It's pretty good so far.

I'm not sure what the deal is with those "Hard Case Crime" books. They're new, they seem to have solicited new stories from a bunch of well-known authors, and they're deliberately packaged to look like old pulp stories whether they read that way or not.

Stephen King did one:


It's not at all a hard-boiled story. The girl on the cover ("Would She Learn the Dead Man's Secret?") is an intern at a small-town Maine newspaper, hearing a yarn from a couple of old-timers on the paper. If you like King's storytelling style even without supernatural monsters (I do), this is a decent read.

[Mr. DS]

[SkullBat308]

Just textbooks and stuff for school, I started my 4th year of university yesterday

*100th post

[Psycho Circus]

[jimmybob]

Spooky stuff.

-Jimmybob

[3mnkids]

The Golden City: A Novel~ John Twelve Hawks.. Its the third book in the fourth realm trilogy and so far its pretty good. Not as good as the traveler or the dark river though.

[The Burgomaster]

I recently finished 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA.  Decent book, but too many paragraphs describing undersea plants and creatures using long, Latin words.  Not enough danger and excitement for my taste.  I also read SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, a humorous play from the late 1700s that involves social classes and mistaken identities.  These are part of the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written collection from Easton Press.  Right now, I'm in the midst of two other Easton Press books: I'm about 40 pages into THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (one of my favorites . . . I read it several times when I was younger).  Also, I'm about 120 pages into a book of short stories by Washington Irving.  I read one of the stories every now and then when I don't feel like reading whatever novel I happen to be in the middle of.

[SkullBat308]

And for school I'm reading:
Social Problems: An Introduction to Critical Constructionism
At War With Metaphor: Media, Propaganda, and Racism In The War on Terror
Contemporary Political Issues

[Joe the Destroyer]

I'm just over 100 pages into it.  It's pretty good so far.  I've seen the movie, and so far the book is better.  Even though Ben Affleck is supposedly "da bomb" in the movie.