Reading anything?

[InformationGeek]

I've begun reading Alex Ross's Justice and DC's Infinite Crisis.  Very good comics.  I hope to get Kingdom Come and 52 soon.

[SkullBat308]

[Psycho Circus]

How are you finding that one Jesse? I thought it was one of SK's worst books.

[SkullBat308]

How are you finding that one Jesse? I thought it was one of SK's worst books.

Eh, I like it just because I'm a sucker for apocalypse or zombie stories and the idea of wiping the brain clean like a hard drive and have it reboot at our primal instinct level was pretty interesting. Definitely not his best, but far from one of his worst IMO. I found this very similar to Brian Keenes book The Rising, which is about a man trying to find his son during the apocalypse but instead of the phone thing people are possessed by demons released by government experiments with other dimensions. I just checked and Keenes was written first......

[indianasmith]

I am most of the way through Stephen King's newest book, UNDER THE DOME.  It is a very solid piece of work, as good as anything he has done in 20 years.

[3mnkids]

I am most of the way through Stephen King's newest book, UNDER THE DOME.  It is a very solid piece of work, as good as anything he has done in 20 years.

I stopped reading King for a lot of years, picked up the cell and remembered why... Maybe I will give him another shot and pick up under the dome. I read a little bit of it in a magazine and I might actually like it.

I finished horror show last night. I read a lot of books and this is the first one that I can remember that was really, really good and then lost it in the last 10 freaking pages. Instead of closing the book and saying damn, that was good all I could say was WTF! How disappointing. 

[BoyScoutKevin]

Yes.

The local library has a section dedicated to graphic novels, and I've been perusing those recently, and it surprises me how many there are out there.

Stories based . . .
. . . on film characters
"Indiana Jones"

. . . on TV characters
"Angel"
"Buffy"

Collections . . .
. . . of old comics
"Modesty Blaise"
"The Spirit"

. . . of original comics
"Disney"

Prequels to films
"Jim Henson's 'The Dark Crystal'"

Sequels to films
"Jim Henson's 'Labyrinth'"

Graphic adaptations . . .
. . . of historical events
The United States Constitution

. . .of historical personages
Nat Turner

. . . of computer games
"The Prince of Persia"
This has been made into a film and should be out in May, 2010. How close the film will be to any of the computer games, is anybody's guess.

Picture novelizations . . .
. . . of books I've read
"The Dragonlance" series

. . . of books I haven't read
"The Artemis Fowl" series

The last two are in what is known as "limbo hell," but if they ever come out, we may see "Dragonlance: the Movie" and "Artemis Fowl: the Movie." No idea how far along "Dragonlance: the Movie" is, but, at least, "Artemis Fowl: the Movie" has reached the script stage.

[Joe the Destroyer]

Finished The Shining, and started...

[InformationGeek]

I'm currently reading Crisis on Infinite Earths and for the fun of it, The Dilbert Principle.  I don't work in the business world... yet, but I do enjoy learning about the secret truths of that world.

[lester1/2jr]

http://mises.org/media.aspx?action=category&ID=139


some guy sat down and read the entirety of Ludwig Von Mises' 912 page economic treatise "Human Action" so I figure I have no choice but to listen to it.

it's sort of like 9 deaths of the ninja

[Jim H]

I started reading the Grossman translation of Don Quixote.  I think I might end up buying this.  I got it from the library and the thousand page length means it'll be tough to finish in two weeks, especially around Thanksgiving.

And, more importantly, I'm surprised at how readable this is.  It's an EXTREMELY good translation.  At least, in the way I like it to be.  It reads like modern english, but at times you can tell sentences are clunky to better mimic the original writing.  It's also genuinely funny.  I mean, I know Quixote is SUPPOSED to be funny, but my experience has been that older books that are supposedly hilarious find their humor destroyed by aging language and other impediments.  Not this one.

The storyline is incredibly modern, as well.  I'm not too far into it, but I hope I find the whole book as enjoyable as the first few chapters have been.

[indianasmith]

I just finished Stephen King's newest work, UNDER THE DOME.
The master has his mojo back.  This is one incredible work.  Just when you think the plot can't get anymore twisted . . .

[AndyC]

I just finished Stephen King's newest work, UNDER THE DOME.
The master has his mojo back.  This is one incredible work.  Just when you think the plot can't get anymore twisted . . .

I'll add that one to the list, after Michael Slade's Ripper, Frozen Beneath and Koko.

Not much time for reading, so I'm still on Koontz's Frankenstein but I highly recommend the series, and I think the final book is turning out to be the best. Koontz managed to make a subplot about a pair of psychotic artificial humanoids on a door-to-door murder spree into some really hilarious comic relief. It sounds weird, but it works surprisingly well.

[Joe the Destroyer]

Still reading HHGTTG series, but I did get a whole bunch of new books today.  I think I found one of my favorite mom n' pop stores ever.  It's a small used bookstore in Spokane proper simply called Book Traders.  The place has mountain and mountains of used books like something out of a movie, plus they give you good deals on the ones you bring in.  I took a whole bunch in and walked out with a whole bunch.  Of course, you still have to pay a small trade fee, but it's worth it, especially since paperbacks there are dirt cheap. 

Books I got:
The Policy by Bentley Little
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
Nightwing by Martin Cruz Smith
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
In the Night Room by Peter Straub
Midnight Voices by John Saul

Great place.  They even take books that are over twenty years old.  I had some paperbacks older than I am, and no other bookstore will take them.

[The Burgomaster]

Don't laugh, but I'm about 60 pages into TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES by Thomas Hardy . . . and I'm enjoying it . . .