Or "What are you currently reading?" Post about any books/fanfic stories here.
Since I started this topic I may as well answer the question. I'm currently reading Nella Larsen's short novel Quicksand for one of my
courses.
| Author | Comment | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Drawing Blood |
Current Reads |
Lead | |
|
Posts: 8 (12/09/07 11:06 AM) |
Or "What are you currently reading?" Post about any books/fanfic stories here.
|
||
Buckwolf |
|||
|
Posts: 44 (12/09/07 11:19 AM) |
Hmm... I haven't been reading any fics lately but I guess I'd be getting back into it soon...
I have this really bad habit of doing parallel reading, so these are the books that I'm currently going through: - Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asivmov - My Friend Leonard by James Frey - Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling - Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond |
||
ChakramGoddess |
|||
|
Posts: 380 (12/09/07 12:03 PM) |
Still reading Stephen King's It. It's a monster of a book (pardon the bad pun
) -- over 1000 pages. Amazing, though.
|
||
sarinou |
|||
|
Posts: 68 (12/09/07 1:41 PM) |
The new Harry Potter
Just got it last week and I'm dying to know
how it ends...
|
||
SaraXenite |
|||
|
Posts: 13 (12/09/07 2:03 PM) |
Harry Potter and the deathly hollows --I think it's really good, this is the second time I'm reading it
|
||
Samantha Majka |
|||
|
Posts: 10 (12/09/07 2:47 PM) |
To Sarinou :
Oh...New Harry Potter...wow... We don´t have the new book Harry Potter in Czech Republic....It is so bad :-( My favourite books are - sci-fi and novels :-) I like reading magazines about space, about science, etc...:-) What is your opinion on new book Harry Potter , Sarinou???
|
||
sarinou |
|||
|
Posts: 68 (12/09/07 4:24 PM) |
What is your opinion on new book Harry Potter , Sarinou??? well Sam, I've only read 4 chapters until now but I think it's pretty good. I also had to wait a little more than the others because I wanted to wait for the portuguese translation so I know how you feel...
and honey bee : I cannot believe we're even reading the same book...really, I'm starting to freak out
|
||
mischiefgoddess |
|||
|
Posts: 97 (12/10/07 1:31 AM) |
Guys wouldnt get too excited if i were you. Refuse to read it again. Plus it made me mad about the 5th movie. But if your a Potter fan you really need to
finish it.
What i'm reading. Anythinga dn everything havent read a novel since Potter came out. So i'm reading Ben Elton's Dead Famous, Harry Potter and Philosophy, and Mitch Albiom 5 People You meet in Heaven. Plus just started a book about a woman who runs a cattle farm in The Kimberley's. When i read one have to read a few. Never one at a time. |
||
Elfrieda |
Current Reads | ||
|
Posts: 5 (12/10/07 3:29 AM) |
The Stories of English - David Crystal
|
||
Xenasgrrl |
|||
|
Posts: 131 (12/10/07 3:39 AM) |
mischief why do you refuse to read HP and the DH again? and why did it make you mad about the 5th movie???
|
||
mischiefgoddess |
|||
|
Posts: 97 (12/10/07 4:28 AM) |
Xenasgrrl wrote: Its just that the 7th book made some things vital that were forgotten about in the 5th movie. Things which become important for character development in the 7th movie were just omitted so it made me mad. I just didnt find the ending that satisfying. When i finish a series i want it to accomplish certain things and i expect that it will be even. I didnt particularly want Harry to live or to die. I didnt care whether dumbledore comes back or doesnt. I didnt care whether they defeat Voldamort or they didnt. I didnt want a particularly ending just an ending that is satisfying. I'm not sure i got that. The storyline wasnt even and i felt it took forever to get to the point and then a rushed ending. For me its more about how it was writtena dn not necessarily what was said. I dont like rushed endings. Plus it didnt answer enough questions for me. Finally i hated the final chapter. Not necessary and i think it was the last chapter that ruined the ending for me. In saying all this i still think people should read it. I guess i may appear overly critical but it made me mad. Still read it. You may have a different interpretation. You may go "Dont know what mischief was so angry about talk about an idiot". |
||
LadyKate63 |
|||
|
Posts: 330 (12/10/07 4:35 AM) |
Gaudy Night! I love that book.
Just finished re-reading His Dark Materials -- actually it's not that long since I first read it (August), but I had to because I was writing an essay about it. |
||
xwpweb |
|||
|
Posts: 363 (12/10/07 1:13 PM) |
the editorial eye --- it's a textbook. work with me on this.
|
||
Samantha Majka |
|||
|
Posts: 10 (12/10/07 4:17 PM) |
To Sarinou :
Thanks for your opinion.... I didn´t watch Harry Potter 5 neither at cinema or at home :-( I don´t have DVD with this film:-( My grandmather will be buy new book - Harry Potter 7 to me at the Christmas :-) I hope :-)
I´m looking forward to on thes book...very very :-) Can you speak portugese???
I have a question : May I establish off topic forum?? Forum without Xena´s subjects?? Like this forum :-) |
||
Daughter of Tiaran |
|||
|
Posts: 4 (12/10/07 6:00 PM) |
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty, by Bradley K. Martin. This book focuses more on the history of North
Korea and on the two Kims (Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il) than other books I've read, which have concentrated on either the great famine in the 1990s or on
daily life in the world's harshest police state. The author is apparently a journalist who has covered North Korea extensively for a very long period of
time (starting back in the seventies), and is able to bring that wealth of experience to his writing here. It's particularly interesting, now when North
Korea is so clearly a "basket-case" state, to read about how it looked historically, back when outside observers thought there was still some chance
that it was or could be a viable economy. At the same time, even as far back as the seventies the grotesque excesses of the Kims' cult of personality were
already becoming apparent, to the extent that the nation's leaders were rebuked by the then-Soviet Union and/or China for their extremes of worship.
(Martin makes the interesting suggestion that part of the reason why the state cult became as extreme as it did was because the potential heirs to the elder
Kim used increasingly extravagant and slavish displays of fealty to their father as a means of competing for his favor.) It's an excellent book about the
world's most bizarre society, fascinating, detailed, and readable all at the same time--no small feat.
|
||
xwpweb |
|||
|
Posts: 363 (12/10/07 8:22 PM) |
Samantha:
Perhaps communicating through email would be better. |
||
LadyKate63 |
|||
|
Posts: 330 (12/10/07 8:26 PM) |
I have a question : May I establish off topic forum?? Forum without Xena´s subjects?? Like this forum :-) Samantha, I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean start a new thread? Because a "thread" is a topic in which you post. A forum is a section of the board in which threads appear. Only XOC admins can start new forums. And we already have an on off-topic forum of course. If you're asking whether you can start a thread in this forum on a non-Xena subject, the answer is yes. |
||
Xenasgrrl |
|||
|
Posts: 131 (12/11/07 12:57 PM) |
warning: Harry Potter book 7 spoilers possible!!!!
mischief, thanks for replying. I was just curious- I was so satisfied with the Deathly Hallows. I've been a huge Harry Potter fan for years and have been waiting for this book for so long...I really loved it. I got my book on midnight the night it came out and was done by the next night. I was so happy with it I wanted to hug JK! I admit, the middle section of the book, seemed to drag on, and was pretty dismal, but the end- wow. It answered a lot for me and wrapped the series up pretty well, I felt. And I loved the "epilogue"- very satisfying for me, although I wanted even more- but I understand how some people might not have appreciated it. |
||