What are you reading?

[XxGhOsTxReCoNxX]

Since I had just finished the Hunger Games by Suzzane Collins, I decided to make this thread! Also I kinda copied the name from Drid.(sorry) >.>

I am now reading The Hunger Games: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

[aflycon]

Different Seasons by Stephen King.

Finished The Body first (should have been third), currently reading Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. That was adapted into the best movie of all time.


You can either get busy living, or get busy dying.

[sag185]

Im currently reading the label on the back of your top.


But serously, im also reading hunger games

[Lord_Mountbatten]

Yesterday I finished The Karamazov Brothers, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Moving onto a Churchill biography (by Roy Jenkins) I read half of whilst on holiday.

[Hytro]

Reading The Infernal City by Greg Keyes

Moving on to The Leopard by Jo Nesbø (He is a Norwegian author and I will read the book in Norwegian, and the English name of the book is strange, as the real name of the book is Armored Heart, stupid Englishmen )

[vallorn]

The Road to Serfdom by FA Hayek

complex philosophy and economics is fun!

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[Skunk_Giant]

Well, I've been reading a bit of Carl Hiasan's stuff. He's brilliant. Hilarious books, but great plots at the same time. It shows how one small thing can spiral out of control.
I recently finished 'Skinny Dip' and 'Native Tongue'.
Both are great.

SD is about a guy who decides he'll push his wife off a cruise boat, and then the next day, go home to his girlfriend who he's been having an affair with. Nice guy, right?
Unfortunately for him, his wife survives. She then begins to have fun by creeping him out, instead of revealing that she is alive. The situation soon spirals out of control however, with murder attempts, corporate corruption, police, and much more, in the quest to find out why he tried kill her (as in her will, she left nothing to him).

Native Tongue was the next I read, and it lived up to the expectations I held with Skinny Dip. Native Tongue follows a number of characters, with the main character being Joe Winder, a PR man who was hired to work for The Amazing Kingdom of Thrills. The Amazing Kingdom is owned by Francis Kingsbury, not the nicest guy you'll ever meet. With a shady background, a strange habit of never forming complete sentences, and a love for nothing but money, he's not a great boss. As well as that, he's always angry, because he can't compete with Disney Land (to show his hatred for the theme park, he has a rather inappropriate tattoo of Mickey Mouse). Anyway, in an attempt to compete with Disney, Kingsbury decides to try and save an endangered species, by keeping the last of the species in his park.
But when environmental activist Molly McNamara, an old lady, hires to thugs just out of prison for petty theft to steal the animals and bring them back to her (as she doesn't want them trapped in a display box), things go bad. They go even worse when the thugs accidentally kill the animals.
To top things all off, a scientist at the park, who is supervising the animals, is found dead the next day inside the stomach of a whale.
Like Skinny Dip, this spirals out of control as well. The protagonist, Joe Winder, who is itching for a nice story, like his days as a journalist, investigates the scientist's death. Suddenly, more corporate corruption is discovered, the mafia get involved, an FBI agent gets beaten up by an old lady, and a crazy, aggressive security guard turns into a hitman of a sort after taking far too many steroids.

To add to these, there's a recurring character throughout Hiasan's novels, called Skink. In Native Tongue, we discover much more about him. We find him living in the forests, feeding off roadkill, and always wears a pink shower cap. The history you discover about him in Native Tongue is... unexpected. XD

So yeah, that's my review. Now go read.
By the way, these books, especially Skinny Dip, are not for kids. There are certain parts of the books that are definitely not suitable for all ages.

[Wildwill002]

We're meant to be reading heroes by Robert Cormier at school but i've already finished it.

My all time favourite series is and will always be the Belgariad by David Eddings

[andy25100]

The Patton biography was very good but now i'm planning to move onto Fever Crumb by Phillip Reeve

[sag185]

Skunk im now going to buy native tongue, it looks awesome.

[Sti_Jo_Lew]

I've always been a sucker for fantasy, medieval, and sci-fi books. A few of the series I
m slowly going through are The Wheel of Time, a bunch of sci-fi and fantasy series by a guy called Christopher Halt, and I'm waiting for the next Eragon book to come out so I can buy all of them, since my other books got lost when I moved.

[givemeabreak432]

The Longlight Legacy book 3 (I don't remember the name).

After that I'm gonna read The Game of Thrones.

[697134002]

[Iron_Fang]

I have read the hunger games trilogy and thousands of other books, recently LotR and the sagas of the Battle of the Fang

[Milo_Windby]

Lewis Black: Me of Little Faith
=3

[ojamamask]

We're meant to be reading heroes by Robert Cormier

same here, right now we just finished chapter 4.

[DuplicateValue]

Well yesterday I finished Leviathan by Scott Westerfield.

Spoiler! :

Though probably aimed at people a bit younger than me, it was still pretty entertaining. It's set in an alternate, steampunk-styled WW1, and follows two different protagonists - a girl posing as a boy to join the British air force, and an Austrian boy on the run from the people who killed his father, the leader of Austria.
The two sides are the Darwinists (Britain, France, etc), who use genetically-modified creatures as vehicles and weapons, and the Clankers (Germany, Austria, etc), who rely on superior machinery like "walkers" (kind of like AT-ST's from Star Wars).
The stories of the protagonists end up intertwining and all that, leading to an ending I found disappointing. But I just learned it's a trilogy, so that explains that. I suppose I'll have to read the others then.

The best book I've read in the last year though, is definitely The perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.

Spoiler! :

I didn't have high hopes when I learned the story was told entirely through diary entries, but I was ridiculously wrong. It's an amazing book, and I loved every bit of it.
If you want to know the storyline, just look here, but I really recommend just getting it and reading it.

Also, come next year, it'll be a movie starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson.

[Jake55778]

http://images.wikia.com/forgottenrealms ... _Dawn2.jpg

That is some awesome cover illustration. I'd love to have seen how it was painted.

...I have nothing of value to contribute to this thread, I just really liked that picture

[697134002]

http://images.wikia.com/forgottenrealms ... _Dawn2.jpg

That is some awesome cover illustration. I'd love to have seen how it was painted.

...I have nothing of value to contribute to this thread, I just really liked that picture

His site.

[Fuzz422365117]

I'm reading The Maze Runner by James Dashner. I'm a little bit past the middle. Great book so far I would like to recommend it to anyone that likes Hunger Games.
I would also like to recommend Runaway Twin by Peg Kehret.

[Skunk_Giant]

Skunk im now going to buy native tongue, it looks awesome.

Trust me, it is. There were a few twists that I didn't see coming too, and overall, it's pretty damn funny.

[Sti_Jo_Lew]

There is something I want to continue reading, but SOMEONE hasn't emailed it to me yet. Jokes. Take your time, make it good.

[wokka1]

Deep Secrets: The Discovery and Exploration of Lechuguilla Cave
by Stephen Reames

[Lord_Mountbatten]

Moving on to The Leopard by Jo Nesbø (He is a Norwegian author and I will read the book in Norwegian, and the English name of the book is strange, as the real name of the book is Armored Heart, stupid Englishmen )

You sure it was marketed to the English? There's a recurring American habit of changing book titles because cynical publishers think the audience won't understand.

OT: I'm looking forward to MichaelD20's newest work of literature.

[Pinmissile]

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

It's the sequel to The Name of the Wind. Fantastic book, I just love the Rothfuss' style to bits.

[wokka1]

Pinn, I read that when it came out, excellent book, can't wait for Day 3

[697134002]

I've finished the book I was reading, so I'll post what I'm reading now.

Yes, Jake, there's a new cover by the guy who made the other one. But I bought this book before the new cover came out.

[Skunk_Giant]

There is something I want to continue reading, but SOMEONE hasn't emailed it to me yet. Jokes. Take your time, make it good.

Y U RUSH MEH?!?!? XD

[UndeadJesus]

Six Sacred Stones by Matthew Reilly. It's the sex.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Reilly

[Skunk_Giant]

Win^^^

I remember finishing that the week it came out, and having to suffer the horrible wait for the next book. I suggest having the next one ready for reading, because the cliffhanger at the end will drive you mad.