What are you reading right now?

[lhb412]

Finished Grandfather Tales by Richard Chase
Now reading Dr. No by Ian Fleming.

[lhb412]

The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton

[lhb412]

The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum

[eabaker]

Last Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko

[The Real McCoy]

I'm about halfway through The Fellowship of the Ring right now. It's a cool book; I'm really getting into it.

[eabaker]

[MekaGojira3k]

Started re-reading Jurassic Park today.
I've finished half of it.
I forgot how much I like this book.

[MekaGojira3k]

[lhb412]

Halfway through Tales of Old Japan by A. B. Mitford

[MouthForWar]

I'm not reading this, but I felt like sharing. The giveaway on Goodreads is for a book called Chainsaw Cop Corpse. This is the synopsis.


[quote]Simon is having a bad f*cking week. When you’re a D.C. Detective, every week is a bad week, but this week has been a BAD freaking week.

For starters, some psychopath has been murdering people, stealing their body parts and smearing their corpses with peanut butter.

To make matters worse, the contract killer “Bootsâ€

[The Real McCoy]

I have a reaction in mind after reading that, but it might be way too politically incorrect.

Anyway, I'm on the last chapter of The Fellowship of the Ring. The differences between the book and movie amaze me. I still like the movie; it was pretty much as good as it needed to be, but I do like the book a little better.

[sentaison]

Faded Steel Heat by Glen Cook. The Garrett series is Dashell Hammett by way of Tokien.

[Shonokin]

[eabaker]

Star Trek The Motion Picture
A Novel By Star Trek's Creator
Gene Roddenberry
Based on the Screenplay by Harold Livingston
And the Story by Alan Dean Foster

So sayeth the cover of the book.

It's interesting. A lot more references to erections than there are in the finished movie (in that the movie doesn't have any, and the book has two so far, including Sulu's bumbling attempt to hide one), and some unexpected perspectives on human psychological/intellectual evolution.

I'm one of those rare people who really likes ST:TMP, and the novelization gives voice to a lot of things that were just implied in the movie... and at times probably better left implied.

[MekaGojira3k]

Started re-reading Jurassic Park: The Lost World

[lhb412]

Candide by Voltaire. I read a few chapters and then left it in a drawer a few years ago. I just stumbled across it and started reading again.

[MekaGojira3k]

[planetxleader]

After re-watching Hellraiser a week or so ago I wanted to delve into some Clive Barker. While I'm waiting for The Hellbound Heart to come to my library, I'm reading Mister B. Gone.

It's amazingly wonderful so far.

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

[Dr Kain]

[lhb412]

Read The Green Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang, now on One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.

[StevenScrivello]

Recently finished "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", "The Hobbit", and "Godzilla vs. the Robot Monsters", and am now on to "True Grit".

[Destroysall]

So I had some time to visit Barnes & Noble and grabbed China Mieville's "Perdido Street Station". A friend recommended me his works and I haven't read anything of his at all, so I am somewhat excited. Might start tomorrow.


Not sure if this counts, but right now I am browsing through the latest issue of Stereophile I also managed to pick up.

[eabaker]

Splitting my reading time between The Illiad and Splinter of the Mind's Eye.

[jellydonut25]

Finally finished reading (well, listening to) the LOTR trilogy.

Overall, I liked it. I think the second and third books provided far greater departures from their movie counterparts compared to the first one, but at the end of the day, the movies are honestly really well done and I personally can't see myself revisiting the books ever again (as opposed to The Hobbit...wherein I loathe the movie thus far and would rather read the book again).