What are you reading right now?

LoathsomePete · 09-10-2011, 03:52 PM

I hope you enjoy Gone Baby Gone more than I did. It's a shame too because I really liked Mystic River and Shutter Island (before they were movies </hipster>) but that one didn't do anything for me. I think I got about 200 pages before I gave up, which is also disheartening.

Paedantic Basterd · 09-11-2011, 12:39 AM

Just finished Woman on the Edge of Time, which was very good. I love a book that ends with such uncertainty and such an abrupt turn of events.

I have just begun Tom Robbins' Another Roadside Attraction, which should be interesting.

ThePhanastasio · 09-11-2011, 12:57 AM

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Originally Posted by nonsubmissivewife

Are you reading the regular version, or the uncut version?

Right now for book club we're reading this:

The movie was pretty good, so hopefully the book will be outstanding.

I'm also still wading thru Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Almost finished with book five, Wolves of the Calla. Each book just gets better and more mind boggling.

Gone Baby Gone isn't bad - my Mom had me read it, because she has a total boner for anything Dennis Lehane.

Also, Dark Tower:

They do keep getting better and better, but - I am warning you now - Book 7, the final book, will wrench out your soul. There will be an entire 200+ page section that will be so hard to read because you will be completely and utterly annihilated inside.

I've warned people of this before, and they've been like, "Psh, books don't usually hit me THAT hard. You're just sensitive," and then come to me later saying, "Jesus Christ, you were right. I still feel depressed and destroyed because of that book."

NSW · 09-11-2011, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by ThePhanastasio

Gone Baby Gone isn't bad - my Mom had me read it, because she has a total boner for anything Dennis Lehane.

Also, Dark Tower:

They do keep getting better and better, but - I am warning you now - Book 7, the final book, will wrench out your soul. There will be an entire 200+ page section that will be so hard to read because you will be completely and utterly annihilated inside.

I've warned people of this before, and they've been like, "Psh, books don't usually hit me THAT hard. You're just sensitive," and then come to me later saying, "Jesus Christ, you were right. I still feel depressed and destroyed because of that book."

You're the second person to tell me something along these lines. And I don't doubt it. It makes me terrified and excited simultaneously. I'm just about to start book 6, which appears to be shorter, so my plan is to rush through it to get to 7.

And I would never be one of the people to tell you that you were being to sensitive. Books have more power to whip my emotions up into a frenzy than any movie does.

**Janszoon** · 09-11-2011, 06:46 PM

I still have never read any of the Dark Tower books. I'll definitely have to remedy that at some point!

Howard the Duck · 09-13-2011, 11:30 PM

speechless

absolutely. mesmerising

by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Scriver

NSW · 09-14-2011, 06:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

I still have never read any of the Dark Tower books. I'll definitely have to remedy that at some point!

Yes you do! Try not to be put off by the first book...a lot of people are.

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 09-18-2011, 02:48 PM

I just finished this, it was pretty enjoyable. Not as enjoyable as the Corrections, but whatevs

jackhammer · 09-23-2011, 04:51 PM

Trainspotting's football loving little brother. All spit and venom but it seems better than the film (which I saw first and liked).

Siddi · 09-24-2011, 02:45 AM

Various manga. Like "sazan eyes". lol

09-10-2011, 03:52 PM	#3711 (permalink)
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Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	Just finished Woman on the Edge of Time, which was very good. I love a book that ends with such uncertainty and such an abrupt turn of events. I have just begun Tom Robbins' Another Roadside Attraction, which should be interesting.

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~~Sansa Stark~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Eyrie, Vale of Arryn, Westeros Posts: 3,234	I just finished this, it was pretty enjoyable. Not as enjoyable as the Corrections, but whatevs

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