Give a hoot, read a book

Post by **Pepperidge** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 3:33 pm

So what are you all reading right now? I'm just about finished with Happiness TM (also known as "Generica"), which is about the unfulfilling life of an editor who unwittingly publishes the ultimate self-help book which starts a series of chain reactions that may lead to the end of the world.

Dache · Post by **Dache** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 3:40 pm

I, Robot.

plasticwingsband · Post by **plasticwingsband** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 3:50 pm

I decided to re-read the Harry Potter books, and I'm about halfway through the Chamber of Secrets right now. Mainly just reading it when I have a few spare moments.

I also started re-reading Mort by Terry Pratchett last night. I'm a big fan of the Discworld series, and I need to pick up some more on my next payday. My favorite book in the Discworld series is Snall Gods.

tron 2.0 · Post by **tron 2.0** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 3:51 pm

http://tokyopop.com

WhoopA · Post by **WhoopA** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 5:13 pm

Um, your book's upside down...

All joking aside, the last book I sat down and read was Order of the Phoenix. Now I'm eagerly waiting for Halfblood Prince...

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 5:22 pm

I'm reading Da Vinci Code. I decided to see what all the hype was about. It starts off pretty exciting, but I'm only a hundred pages in since I only read it at work during lunch and lots of times I end up talking the whole time instead. Woo, run-on!

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 6:37 pm

Anything and everything by Kafka.

Post by **Delphine** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 6:52 pm

In the middle of sort of re-reading House Of Leaves. I'm going to start on Cat's Cradle sometime soon. One of those books I always meant to read and never got a chance to.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 6:58 pm

Kurt Vonneguts' Cat's Cradle? I read that for English 12 this year, you can finish the book in a few hours. I liked it though.

Post by Bo » Mon Jul 26, 2004 7:11 pm

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... 94437">The Complete Novels of Dashiell Hammett</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... ngineering Mathematics</a> at the moment.
This year I've read all the Raymond Chandler mysteries, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... 94437">all three Illuminatus! books</a>, "R" is for Ricochet, The Burglar on the Prowl, and some other mysteries I don't remember. I work in a library, so I end up reading a lot.

I read the Da Vinci code about a year ago. I think the reasons it's so popular are A) it offends Christians, and B) has really short chapters.

I highly recommend the Illuminatus! trilogy. It is totally fscked up.

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 7:57 pm

Grapes of Wrath. Required summer reading, but good stuff.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:26 pm

Did you think the Da Vinci Code was bad though? I'm sure it is overrated, but is it bad? If nothing else it has had a lot of fun facts so far.

plasticwingsband · Post by **plasticwingsband** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:29 pm

I read Cat's Cradle this past year in A.P. English. It's really good, and I liked it enough to buy it. It's definitely the best book that I've ever had to read for school.

Plus, it was either that or Catcher & The Rye. And Holden really pisses me off.

Post by Bo » Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:37 pm

Da Vinci code is entertaining; I enjoyed reading it... Although looking back, it seems really cartoonish and slightly embarrassing to claim to have read.
It does raise a good point, perhaps accidentally... pre-modern history is basically what the winners wanted it to be.

Post by **Pepperidge** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:39 pm

plasticwingsband wrote:Plus, it was either that or Catcher & The Rye. And Holden really pisses me off.

That's cuz you're a big, fat PHOOOONY.

Dache wrote:I, Robot.

plasticwingsband · Post by **plasticwingsband** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:43 pm

Pepperidge wrote: That's cuz you're a big, fat PHOOOONY.

That's what I figured.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 11:43 pm

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King.

A cowboy, a heroin addict, a crippled black woman with multiple personality system, a little boy, and a talking racoon run around blasting demons and insane humans in a post-apocalyptic world.

Seriously. Although I'm VERY annoyed now that I've discovered that Stephen King actually WROTE HIMSELF into the main storyline. Self-inserted characters NEVER work out. I stopped reading at book 3, and I'm not sure if I want to continue . . .

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:30 am

Fuck King. I didn't even like The Shining.

Post by **Popcorn** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 4:55 am

Self-inserted characters NEVER work out.

You should see Adaptation.

-wyvern · Post by **-wyvern** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:46 am

I'm reading a reccomendation from a lady at school called the lovely bones... Although by reading, I mean glancing at book with a guilty feeling that I really should be reading rather than trying to play through final fantasy 7 again. Oh well.

Post by **Popcorn** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 6:38 am

I thought Lovely Bones was freakin' awesome.

Neo Yi · Post by **Neo Yi** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 10:54 am

I reread the Harry Potter books, need to finish LoTR book, probably reread The Joy Luck Club, and I need to read the Da Vinci code to see it if is as good as people say it is.
~neo

EspioKaos · Post by **EspioKaos** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 11:19 am

I just finished reading Haruki Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase the other night. Once I actually have the time, I plan on starting another of his books, Dance Dance Dance.

Dache · Post by **Dache** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 11:44 am

Pepperidge wrote:

I have no fucking idea where anyone got the idea for the film from. It's nothing like the book. Nothing. No-thing.

Post by **Delphine** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:46 pm

I, Robot the movie's story is suggested by a novel by Isaac Asimov.