Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[bcgirl]

Originally Posted by captkjaneway

Agree with Mr Wolf, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a bit slow to get into but it does pick up, and definitely worth perservering.

Personally slogging through Devices and Desires by P D James. Not a book to skim, the language and words are beautiful but not very condusive to a bumpy bus ride and flitting concentration.

Thanks! A few days ago,I finished the book (in one week) and can't wait for the movie, that opens tomorrow in theaters. My son started to read the paper book version. I'm so glad I found motivation here to keep reading. Did not want to miss such a great novel!
Started The Hungry Games!

[TaureanBull]

The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth...not a very gripping read, i have just read 30% so far. 1Q84 is the next one lined up...

[orlok]

Originally Posted by bcgirl

Started The Hungry Games!

Is that the one where they see how many pies they can eat? .

[Dr. Drib]

I'm currently reading "The Ressurrection," a novel by John Gardner. (This is the literary/academic writer, not the genre writer.)



Don

[melmac]

Originally Posted by bcgirl

Thanks! A few days ago,I finished the book (in one week) and can't wait for the movie, that opens tomorrow in theaters. My son started to read the paper book version. I'm so glad I found motivation here to keep reading. Did not want to miss such a great novel!
Started The Hungry Games!

The 2nd and 3rd in the Dragon Tattoo series are just as good if not better than the first as they dont have the slow hard slog at the start its just straight in to the action

[bcgirl]

Originally Posted by orlok

Is that the one where they see how many pies they can eat? .

Haha sounds like fun! I don't know, I am at part 1, chapter 6.

[bcgirl]

Originally Posted by melmac

The 2nd and 3rd in the Dragon Tattoo series are just as good if not better than the first as they dont have the slow hard slog at the start its just straight in to the action

I thought about to continue with book 2 and 3 but decided to read Hungry Games first. I definitely will read the restofthe trilogy. Yeah, the first book was quite tough to get through the first 150 pages! But soooo worth it!

[maianhvk]

Originally Posted by bcgirl

Haha sounds like fun! I don't know, I am at part 1, chapter 6.

In case you haven't realized... He was just messing with you

[missimpossible]

Finished The Scar this morning. I have a lot of thoughts. Mostly: "oh. My. God." What a brilliant book.

Read Looking for Alaska today too. It was okay. The language and writing in general was beautiful but I found the characters to be a bit of a turn-off (though the Colonel was pretty awesome). Not my favourite YA, but compared very favourably with The Disreputable History of Frankie-Landau Banks, which I truly loathed. This is a far superior (if also far from perfect) book on very, very similar themes.

Also found time to re-read Double Act and the Lottie Project out of nostalgia over the last couple of days. Thoughts are on my Goodreads (link in sig).

Now reading Snow Crash, about 80 pages in. So far, so weird.

[Bookpossum]

I have just started "Anne of Green Gables" - one of those books I never read in my distant youth so when I found it on Girlebooks I decided to give it a go.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie.

A satisfying Hercule Poirot mystery. The clues were there, but I didn't spot them!

Next: Scarborough Fair and Other Stories by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Which was an enjoyable collections of fantasy short stories. Perhaps a few most ghostly stories than I prefer, but good overall.

Next: Starburst by Frederik Pohl. The fifth from the bundle I bought in April. I was disappointed in the last one, Jem, which probably explains why it's taken me so long to get around to the next. Hopefully this one will be a lot better. First published in 1982.

[caleb72]

Originally Posted by missimpossible

Finished The Scar this morning. I have a lot of thoughts. Mostly: "oh. My. God." What a brilliant book.

Yay! Always happy to hear another fan of that book.

Now reading Snow Crash, about 80 pages in. So far, so weird.

Loved this book too. I realise it gets a pretty mixed reaction, but I found it better than Diamond Age and a fantastic introduction to Stephenson for me.

[melmac]

Originally Posted by bcgirl

I thought about to continue with book 2 and 3 but decided to read Hungry Games first. I definitely will read the restofthe trilogy. Yeah, the first book was quite tough to get through the first 150 pages! But soooo worth it!

The Hunger games is a great read too and it will be good to have it finished before the movie comes out in March

[orlok]

Originally Posted by bcgirl

I thought about to continue with book 2 and 3 but decided to read Hungry Games first. I definitely will read the restofthe trilogy. Yeah, the first book was quite tough to get through the first 150 pages! But soooo worth it!

Originally Posted by maianhvk

In case you haven't realized... He was just messing with you

Ummmm. Guilty as charged. It's the fact that you keep referring to the series as The Hungry Games .

[xg4bx]

Mecha Corps by Brett Patton. i had to get it because i don't think theres much mech based military sci-fi out there these days. its nothing life changing so far but it scratches an itch.