What are you reading right now?

[Destroysall]

[MekaGojira3k]

[Reaper G]

[jellydonut25]

[MekaGojira3k]

I loved Shakespeare when I was actually performing it. Shakespeare in the classroom? Terrible Fail.

[Reaper G]

I enjoy the way Shakespeare's words roll off the tongue, but it isn't an easy read, I'm afraid.

[Destroysall]

[Tyler E. Martin]

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451.

[MekaGojira3k]

[Shonokin]

[jellydonut25]

Recently read
The Colorado Kid - meh. it's a quick read, and i bought it for $1, so from that perspective it's worthwhile (like something to read while waiting for an oil change, or at the doctor's or on a short plane flight) but there's just not much here...

Lisey's Story - not bad. not great but it's OK...if you enjoy The Talisman and Black House you might like it a bit more though since there is some "flipping" between worlds involved...ultimately, there was a bit too much of the made-up word stuff that King uses excellently throughout The Dark Tower and even in some of his short stories. Kind of like...too often for it to be glossed over like you KIND OF can in The Dark Tower series, but not emphatically or often enough to be the FOCAL POINT of the story like in (i think the short story he used this technique the most in is:) Everything's Eventual...it bogs the book down too much

Blaze - the LEAST 'King-ish' of the Bachman books aside from probably Roadwork (which sucked anyway). It's a quick read and it's actually a pretty good story. this is something I could see being adapted into a movie some day and I'd probably like it quite a bit. it's one of those stories that you KNOW won't have a happy ending but the depressing atmosphere is what makes it good.

currently reading "Faithful" which is a monumental disappointment...i thought it would be a retrospective. instead, it's like a day-by-day diary and that is really ruining it for me since it takes away good opportunities for some good writing and i don't give a rat's arse about the BoSox so there's not much for me to enjoy at all...it also doesn't help that only 25% of it is written by King and the other 75% is written by Stewart O'Nan who uses tons of BoSox lingo and nicknames and it's like 75% of the writing is in a different language.

[Reaper G]

Finished the play about the Dane, now the one about the Moor.

[Tyler E. Martin]

Akira Kurosawa, Something Like an Autobiography.

[canofhumdingers]

The Bourne Identity - I love the movies to death and it was the first game I played on my (then new) PS3. Just now getting around to reading the first book. I'm about 4 or 5 chapters in and it's REALLY good. It's also very interesting just how significantly different it is from the movie so far. I have to give credit to the filmakers as I think they did a very good job taking the book & retaining the plot and story while updating it to a modern setting (instead of the late 70's/early 80's, when the book takes place) and at the same time making it their own unique entity. While the book is more detailed and perhaps more engrossing (in the way that only books can be, such as really getting into the thoughts of the characters) I hesitate to use the cliched "oh the book is sooo much better than the movie." They are two distinct and very different interpretations* of the same story and are both very good in their own respects.

*I realize it's somewhat awkward to call the book an interpretation of the story when, in reality, the book itself IS the original story; but it was the best way I was able to put the thought into words. I guess I see it in a similar way to something like Robin Hood. There is the same basic story that has been presented in numerous ways by different people and each presentation can be good or bad on its own merits.

[lhb412]

[jellydonut25]

[Tyler E. Martin]

[The Shadow]

Rex Stout's Three For The Chair, another fine trio of Nero Wolfe mysteries.

[Reaper G]

[Legion]

[lhb412]

Read Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts for my class on modern drama. There are no ghosts in the play, actually it's about syphillis. Starting Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn, which does contain ghosts.

[lhb412]

Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Sometimes Zeppo by Joeseph Adomson

[Arrow]

Kenneth Oppel's trilogy - Airborn, Skybreaker, and Starclimber

[jellydonut25]

[jellydonut25]