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What books are you reading right now?

Discussion in 'Tilted Art, Photography, Music & Literature' started by sapiens, Aug 12, 2011.

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  1. snowy

    snowy so kawaii Staff Member

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It was free on my phone.
     
    snowy, Oct 3, 2011
    #121
  2. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    After finishing Gormenghast last night, I vowed to finish A Dance of Dragons. Fewer than 200 pages to go!
     
    Baraka_Guru, Oct 3, 2011
    #122
  3. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

    Location:
    Wolf 359
    Just read Dark Watch by Cive Cussler with Jack Du Brul. It is the 6th in Oregon File adventures according to the bibliography in the front but the first I have read. Very entertaining, the plot and action stayed plausible throughout, and now I want to read the first five in that series.
     
    Speed_Gibson, Oct 3, 2011
    #123
  4. ALISTAIR

    Alistair Eurotrash

    Location:
    Reading, UK
    Just finished Shantaram - good read, fizzled out a bit towards the end, which is always disappointing.
     
    Alistair, Oct 3, 2011
    #124
  5. CaptainBob

    CaptainBob Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Kingston, eh?
    Is this part of a series? I read Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle. Is there any of his other books I should read first before this one?

    I'm reading some old books somebody got used and gave me. I'm not entirely sure I haven't read them before. I'm currently reading Clancy's Op Center - Act of War. Next up is Cussler's Crescent Dawn.
     
    CaptainBob, Oct 3, 2011
    #125
  6. Redlemon

    Redlemon Getting Tilted

    Location:
    New England
    No, Reamde stands alone (aside from one completely insignificant callout, which you are already good for from what you have read). Note that it is entirely present-day fiction.
     
    Redlemon, Oct 4, 2011
    #126
  7. Robot Parade

    Robot Parade New Member

    I've tried reading this series a couple of times, and just couldn't get into it. Seems likely to be awesome, just can't quite get it.
     
    Robot Parade, Oct 6, 2011
    #127
  8. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    It might help to understand what it is and to try to read it for that. It's a Dickensian Gothic. Also described as a fantasy of manners. The characters are like blatant caricatures---their exaggerations form an important part of the story.

    So it's character-driven mainly, and the plot is very subdued. Though there are some classic plot elements that are entertaining. The setting is really important too. The castle itself takes on a life of its own: classically Gothic with some surrealistic highlights.

    The themes address such things as class, rank, authority, history, and tradition, as all of them are challenged to some degree.

    I particularly like the writing: elegant and often dark, with an undercurrent of humour.

    I'm not sure how far you've gotten into it, but I find that you don't quite "get it" until the third quarter of the first book.

    It's weird and wonderful.
     
    Baraka_Guru, Oct 6, 2011
    #128
  9. the_jazz

    the_jazz Accused old lady puncher

    I finished Dr. Zhivago last night - including the poetry. It wasn't what I expected it to be. I thought it would either be a post-Stalin epic criticism of the state or a love story, and it was neither. I can't actually describe what it was other than good but disjointed and intentionally confusing. I didn't really like any of the characters - I actively dislike the title character - but it still held my attention and was a good read. Too many Russian writers try to be either Tolstoy or Dostoevsky (I'm looking at you, Vasily Grossman), but Pasternak is just Pasternak - and unapologetic about it to boot.

    I'm starting Under the Poppy by Kathe Koja today. It's outside of my usual tastes, but thus far it's pretty good.
     
    the_jazz, Oct 6, 2011
    #129
  10. SuburbanZombie

    SuburbanZombie Housebroken

    Location:
    Northeast
    Finished the first Hunger Games book...working on the second one.
     
    SuburbanZombie, Oct 6, 2011
    #130
  11. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    I finally finished slogging through A Dance with Dragons.

    Now I've just started Darker Than You Think by Jack Williamson, a novel less than a third of the length at a slim 268 pages.

    It's a story about werewolves, originally published in the '40s.
     
    Baraka_Guru, Oct 7, 2011
    #131
  12. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member

    Sweetness:The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton

    I'm about halfway through and it's not nearly as scathing IMO as the critics made it out to be. It has the feel of just being very honest, telling the bad with the good.
     
    Borla, Oct 9, 2011
    #132
  13. Hektore

    Hektore Slightly Tilted

    Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. Outstanding beginning, plenty of interesting facts and anecdotes about the current state of neurobiology. Then...ugh...about 2/3 of the way in (I'm a bit past this now) starts cutting away at 'reductionism' and 'materialism' and is starting to give me the vibe that the author is trying to make room for a 'soul' of some sort. Seems like the perfect way to ruin what would otherwise have been a perfectly good book. Hopefully I'm wrong.

    I just finished Rick Perry's book 'Fed Up'. If you're worried about missing it; don't be. Not much to miss, really.
     
    Hektore, Oct 9, 2011
    #133
  14. Fangirl

    Fangirl Very Tilted

    Location:
    Arizona
    I'm not a bibliophile by any stretch...

    Right now, I'm finishing Lost In Shangri-La. It's a true 'armchair adventure' involving a sightseeing tour plane which crashes in mountainous New Guinea at the end of WWII. The sole survivors, three men and a WAC, are stranded for months enabling them to learn quite a bit about man-eating tribesmen and impenetrable jungles.
     
    Fangirl, Oct 9, 2011
    #134
  15. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    the night stalker by james swain...
     
    uncle phil, Oct 13, 2011
    #135
  16. SuburbanZombie

    SuburbanZombie Housebroken

    Location:
    Northeast
    Working on the 3rd book in the Hunger Games trilogy.

    Also started Jodi Picoult's "Send You Home" on the phone because I left my Kindle at home the other day.
     
    SuburbanZombie, Oct 13, 2011
    #136
  17. grumpyolddude

    grumpyolddude Very Tilted

    Location:
    Metro Detroit, Michigan, USA
    Pagan Christianity by Frank Viola and George Barna.
     
    grumpyolddude, Oct 13, 2011
    #137
  18. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    Baraka_Guru, Oct 13, 2011
    #138
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  19. Charlatan

    Charlatan sous les pavés, la plage

    Location:
    Temasek
    At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson.

    I really like Bryson's turns of phrase.
     
    Charlatan, Oct 14, 2011
    #139
  20. spindles

    spindles Very Tilted

    Location:
    Sydney, Australia
    spindles, Oct 14, 2011
    #140
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