what book are you reading this time? - Page 62

sidekick · #**1526** (**permalink**) Dec 20, 06

the time traveler's wife by audrey niffenberger.

SO GOOD. almost finished. couldn't put it down on the plane.

Guineveire · #**1527** (**permalink**) Dec 20, 06

I am wanting to get this Nostrodomous predictions book and this book called Phenomenon when I get payed next week.

Or do I want combat boots.

ugh decisions, decisions.

bittner · #**1528** (**permalink**) Dec 20, 06

something on exploring wiccan

sidekick · #**1529** (**permalink**) Dec 24, 06

about grace by anthony doerr

crookedking · #**1530** (**permalink**) Dec 27, 06

it took me so friggin long to read "it".

choke by chuck somethingorother.

thechix0r · #**1531** (**permalink**) Dec 27, 06

I am still on The Celestine prophecy, but I am also in the middle of "He's just not that into you"

It's been a busy christmas

ebbomega · #**1532** (**permalink**) Dec 27, 06

Celestine Prophecy is a very important book that is very horribly written. I like it but I'm glad I never paid for a copy and it really irks me that this guy has made a career for himself as a writer. While what he says in that book everybody should read (not necessarily believe), I think that anything else written by him should probably be burned.

I just finished Trainspotting. Tim, you'll be happy to hear that I've now moved back to Heretics of Dune.

thechix0r · #**1533** (**permalink**) Dec 27, 06

^^^ I feel that way about Trainspotting and I don't like the writing quality of Celestine though I think it's a remarkable story

wishbone · #**1534** (**permalink**) Dec 27, 06

just starting the ethical imagination by margaret somerville.

also bought the elementary particles by michel houllbeco or something like that.

should keep me busy for a bit

sidekick · #**1535** (**permalink**) Dec 27, 06

margaret somerville...isn't she the woman who is against gay marriage, abortion, and stem cell research?

wishbone · #**1536** (**permalink**) Dec 27, 06

probably, it's a book on ethics that looks interesting, and 10 pages in I can alreayd tell I'm going to hate it....

sidekick · #**1537** (**permalink**) Dec 27, 06

yeah, i was going to read it until i read an article by her in the globe and mail on gay marriage and how it shouldn't be allowed because marriage is for procreation and blah blah blah all those tired arguments. turned me right off.

wishbone · #**1538** (**permalink**) Dec 27, 06

i'll try struggling through it a bit more and let you know.

what about elementary particles? (these were both random grabs at your chapters tonight btw)

mojo · #**1539** (**permalink**) Dec 27, 06

children of men
by....A.J Morris i thinks.

sidekick · #**1540** (**permalink**) Dec 28, 06

Quote:

Originally Posted by wishbone

i'll try struggling through it a bit more and let you know.

what about elementary particles? (these were both random grabs at your chapters tonight btw)

i know what book you're talking about, but i don't know anything about the elementary particles.

yeah, i'm glad i read that article before grabbing somerville...it's good to read other points of views beside your own though, i guess, even if it does piss you off.

ebbomega · #**1541** (**permalink**) Dec 28, 06

Quote:

Originally Posted by thechix0r

^^^ I feel that way about Trainspotting and I don't like the writing quality of Celestine though I think it's a remarkable story

Trainspotting's a different story. The fact that it's written in the vernacular I don't think I can really consider it "horribly written". If anything, the small jaunts into the third-person where he works entirely in the formal english shows that the man is a very skilled writer. Just that the first-person bits written in the vernacular are just that. That doesn't mean it's badly written, it just means it's difficult to read for anybody who doesn't live in Scotland. Chaucer pulled this exact trick a damn near millenium ago and it became one of the most important books in the English language.

.muffy. · #**1542** (**permalink**) Dec 28, 06

I've got two on the go right now
-the gentle warrior
-zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

ebbomega · #**1543** (**permalink**) Dec 28, 06

Every single person I know that's read Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance has gotten to about the last 100 pages and given up, myself included. It's too bad too, because the first half of the book is actually really enticing.

sidekick · #**1544** (**permalink**) Dec 28, 06

^that's kinda funny because i got to about the last 100 pages and then lost the book. but i bought it again and finished it a few months later...i'll have to re-read it because it's a hard book to just jump back into. but i liked it. the ending was strange and good.

i'm reading

Things you should know by A. M. Homes

Vitamin-X · #**1545** (**permalink**) Dec 28, 06

Bolo strike (those bolo's just never give up)
The last Templar
Mechwarrior- patriot's stand

Chewy · #**1546** (**permalink**) Dec 28, 06

Clifford the big red dog

robyn · #**1547** (**permalink**) Dec 29, 06

lullaby

what's palahniuk's deal, this is awful.

bittner · #**1548** (**permalink**) Dec 29, 06

windows on the world wine 07 edition

sidekick · #**1549** (**permalink**) Dec 29, 06

Quote:

Originally Posted by robyn

lullaby

what's palahniuk's deal, this is awful.

i actually liked that one. one of the last ones of his that i have liked.

edit: i have failed you.

robyn · #**1550** (**permalink**) Dec 29, 06

Quote:

Originally Posted by sidekick

i actually liked that one. one of the last ones of his that i have liked.

edit: i have failed you.

i don't like books that appear to be about something really cool (haunted houses and spells) but are actually about something else (the authors really, reaaaally transparent bias against the media). kind of like that mel gibson movie that seemed like it was about aliens but really at the end it turns out it was about jesus.