What are you reading right now?

TheBig3 · 11-27-2010, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

I like that I'm not the only person who has a bus book and a regular book, there are just some things I can't read on public transit.

This is my third try and I am absolutely determined to have it finished by end of December.

Actually, the bus book is a little more difficult to read since Shelly's writing in older modern English. I'm dodging the "What a wicked douche" look by bringing a large hardcover book on the bus. Though I'm sure I'll regret Frankenstein as I did Moby **** for trying to read it on the bus.

I own G,G,&S and haven't even started it. A buddy of mine who's used to reading things of a laborious nature (Gladwell and the like) and said he hasn't finished it after a few attempts.

TockTockTock · 11-27-2010, 11:07 AM

Reading East of Eden by John Steinbeck for the second time. Steinbeck is just amazing...

LoathsomePete · 11-27-2010, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by SATCHMO

National Geographic produced a really great documentary series based on the book, just in case you're feeling lazy. I'm sorry, that might be too much temptation for you to handle.

I'll watch the documentary regardless, help cement some of the things the book is talking about into my mind. I started watching the HBO series Rome right around the time we were learning about the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire in my history 105 class and it's really helped cement the key characters in my mind. Because I had the history in the back of my mind, it was easy to differentiate from the historical characters from the fictional ones, drawing a nice line between history and fiction.

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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

Actually, the bus book is a little more difficult to read since Shelly's writing in older modern English. I'm dodging the "What a wicked douche" look by bringing a large hardcover book on the bus. Though I'm sure I'll regret Frankenstein as I did Moby **** for trying to read it on the bus.

I own G,G,&S and haven't even started it. A buddy of mine who's used to reading things of a laborious nature (Gladwell and the link) and said he hasn't finished it after a few attempts.

Hah! I never thought of reading a hardcover book on the bus as a douchey prerequisite, in fact when I was living in Vancouver and working in the lumberyard I use to love the juxtaposition I created while reading a non-fiction science book while dressed in my dirty work clothes. I will say that there are some books I think people read in public more for attention then anything else, like the Anarchist Cookbook or Mein Kampf, or maybe I'm just a judgmental asshole.

As far as Guns, Germs & Steel is concerned the author's diction and syntax is quite friendly and easy to read, but I usually get about 200 - 300 pages in before something else catches my eye. I have a shelf full of half finished books that I play on finishing some day, a lot of them I read in between finishing one book and starting another. A perfect example is The Godfather, I started that in the summer of 2003 and read a good portion of it over the summer but put it down for something else, I think it was The Talisman, but after that was finished I picked up The Godfather again by Christmas 2003 and had it finished some time by the spring of '04. Sometimes I can just plow though a book and sometimes I need to take a break.

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 11-27-2010, 10:12 PM

I just re-read Deathly Hallows for probably the 6th or 7th time. Honestly, I don't care what anyone thinks about HP, Jo is an extremely talented writer. So much that I cry everytime I read the damn book.

I'm about to go on to the Great Gatsby now

TheBig3 · 11-27-2010, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

Hah! I never thought of reading a hardcover book on the bus as a douchey prerequisite, in fact when I was living in Vancouver and working in the lumberyard I use to love the juxtaposition I created while reading a non-fiction science book while dressed in my dirty work clothes. I will say that there are some books I think people read in public more for attention then anything else, like the Anarchist Cookbook or Mein Kampf, or maybe I'm just a judgmental asshole.

As far as Guns, Germs & Steel is concerned the author's diction and syntax is quite friendly and easy to read, but I usually get about 200 - 300 pages in before something else catches my eye. I have a shelf full of half finished books that I play on finishing some day, a lot of them I read in between finishing one book and starting another. A perfect example is The Godfather, I started that in the summer of 2003 and read a good portion of it over the summer but put it down for something else, I think it was The Talisman, but after that was finished I picked up The Godfather again by Christmas 2003 and had it finished some time by the spring of '04. Sometimes I can just plow though a book and sometimes I need to take a break.

Well see, that scene would be fine. "Alright, this guy works with his hands, I'm pretty sure he isn't an uppity, elitist dip****." I ride the bus in a tie with a laptop. They're going to think that. As for finishing books, I refuse to start new ones unless they're really bad. It can suck, but I hate leaving things unfinished.

And anyone who reads Mein Kampf or AC in public is a first-rate twaat. I'd give them the ol' Christian Bale:

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Originally Posted by Paloma

I'm about to go on to the Great Gatsby now

The Great American Novel.

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 11-28-2010, 01:02 PM

I love the way he writes so far, I don't know why everyone says it's boring.

TheFolkslave · 11-28-2010, 01:12 PM

Currently I'm reading a linguistics book for school and after that I have to read couple books about deaf also for school. No time to read anything else :/

anticipation · 11-28-2010, 01:30 PM

haute cuisine codified and expanded upon by Carême's greatest pupil.

TheBig3 · 11-28-2010, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Paloma

I love the way he writes so far, I don't know why everyone says it's boring.

Who? Fitzgerald? You're talking to people who were assigned the book and who otherwise wouldn't read beyond the back of a cereal box.

adidasss · 11-28-2010, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

OT: David Mitchell - Ghostwritten

FINALLY something good to read.

Wooooohhh...that was a great read, finished it in two days. Cloud atlas was definitely not a fluke, this man can WRITE.

On to:

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TockTockTock They/Them Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 1,914	Reading East of Eden by John Steinbeck for the second time. Steinbeck is just amazing...

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~~Sansa Stark~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Eyrie, Vale of Arryn, Westeros Posts: 3,234	I just re-read Deathly Hallows for probably the 6th or 7th time. Honestly, I don't care what anyone thinks about HP, Jo is an extremely talented writer. So much that I cry everytime I read the damn book. I'm about to go on to the Great Gatsby now

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~~Sansa Stark~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Eyrie, Vale of Arryn, Westeros Posts: 3,234	I love the way he writes so far, I don't know why everyone says it's boring.

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