Currently Reading

[Smithy]

I ordered the girl with the dragon tattoo yesterday :amazed:

[swinearefine]

I just started "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman, and so far, three chapters in, it's been mostly about pissing and a guy getting sucked into a prostitute's vagina. Awesome book so far.

[Tom4784]

Just started The Girl Who Played With Fire.

[MTVN]

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Really good so far

[Bollo]

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But there really is not too much reading involved...mostly artwork

[Livia]

[QUOTE=Josy;4839893]Finished Martina Coles Faithless at the beginning of the week, I have read all her books but have been disapointed with the last 2 she's done :(
[QUOTE]


I read a great quote from Marina Cole. When some chinless, literary snob told her "You'll never win the Booker Prize", she replied, "Good. The prize money wouldn't keep me in fags".

[Kate!]

Just started Michael McIntyre's autobiography, reduced to a fiver in Smiths (hardback) :)

[GypsyGoth]

The Hunger Games :lovedup:

[Josy]

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[Lee.]

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Really good so far

Matt they are some of my favourite books! That's the first one right? they just get better and better! :amazed:

His "conquerer" series about Gangs Khan is fantastic too!

[MTVN]

Matt they are some of my favourite books! That's the first one right? they just get better and better! :amazed:

His "conquerer" series about Gangs Khan is fantastic too!

Yeah that's the first one, finished it a week or so ago and it was amazing, haven't got the second one yet but will do soon! And ohh right I'll check that out when I'm done with these, historical fiction :love:

[Livia]

'Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories' by Bram Stoker.

[joeysteele]

Books on the Princes in the tower,I find the event really intense, just trying to decide who I would hold in the main responsible for their deaths or at least the death of one of them.

[Princess]

Baby Be Mine by Paige Toon, need a bit of fluff at the moment. Just read James Corden's books as well which I loved.

[Tom4784]

I'm really struggling with The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, Dragon Tattoo was excellent but I feel that Girl who Played with Fire and Hornet's Nest is really one good book stretched badly over two.

There's a lot of padding so far in Hornet and I'm just getting really bored of it.

[MTVN]

I think I like the second and third books better actually, he goes a lot deeper into the story with them than with the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

[Tom4784]

I finally got round to finishing Hornet, I don't think it's as bad as I thought but I'd say it's the weakest book, the first 13 or so chapters are just so boring and the whole plot just lacks the intrigue of the first two books.

I'm gonna re-read The Hunger Games trilogy and then I'm gonna go read The Woman in Black.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

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[Kizzy]

The foundations of the walfare state. Sounds as exiting as it is...

[Roy Mars III]

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didn't know you were reading this book

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

:joker:

[Glenn.]

The Hunger Games.

:worship:

[King Gizzard]

CBT for Dummies..yay

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i asked somebody to watch the trailer for john dies at the end and feedback on how amazing it was coz i dont want to watch the trailer as i dont know how much of the book it gives away but nobody has watched it yet :nono:

[Callum]

I'm gonna go read The Woman in Black.

The film doesn't do the book justice. The film doesn't even feel like a proper adaptation of the book because it's so different/so much is left out.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

my9Pr-W92SM

i even posted the video somebody watch it plz

[Glenn.]

I didn't know the Woman in Black was a book?:suspect:


-orders-

[King Gizzard]

that's the dude from...from..

[Livia]

Finished Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. So different to all the films, completely different. I loved it.

[Jessica.]

:amazed: The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott, it is so good, I am addicted!

[Princess]

Just finished Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver, was brilliant. Wondering what to read next from my big to read pile.

[Kizzy]

Dark heart, the shocking truth about hidden britain....I especially recommend this to Marc :)

[GypsyGoth]

I've started To Ride a Rathorn by P. C. Hodgell.

http://i.imgur.com/iIq4K.jpg


I took a break from the series (this one is the fourth) to read some other books, and it feels great to be back reading it.

[Jessica.]

Just finished Sabriel by Garth Nix and am currently reading the second book of the same series called Lirael. :amazed: Great books!

[Niamh.]

Just started reading Scar Tissue - Anthony Kiedis' Autobiography

[MTVN]

New Grub Street, reading it for class but it's actually really good even though it sounds pretty crap

[Braden]

I'm reading The Shining atm, it's quite hard to get into right now, but i'll get there.

[Shaun]

Just finished The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

I'm so glad that it's over - not because it was an ordeal, but because it's such a complex and moving story that it deserved a sense of completion. The ending was thrilling and although a lot of the legal details and subversions were frustrating, it only made the end result more satisfying.

The bit where Modig and Figuerola were apprehending the two hitmen :lovedup: and so many other admirable characters... mostly women, which I understand has been taken to mean Larsson was a feminist... but I don't consider that to be a bad thing. The characters of Linder, Berger, Figuerola, Modig, Giannini are all intended to be portrayed as strong, moral characters and that's certainly inspiring, but he also presents handfuls of great male characters - Polmgren, Armansky, Bublanski, Blomkvist, Lisbeth's doctor (I forget his name) - and I think it's silly to dismiss the trilogy as a feminist story.

[Tom4784]

Yeah Hornet's good but it does take a bit too long to get going, the first ten chapters are painfully boring. The ending is fantastic though, Gianini DESTROYING Teleborian <3.

There are a few really good Male characters the only problem I had was that pretty much everyone else was a rapist/sadist.

It's a shame he died before he could write more books.

[Shaun]

I think there were some who showed signs of redemption though - Ekstrom realised he was wrong and even realised that she'd been a victim the whole time, and then there was the Section head (Wadensjoo) who confessed to everything and had issues with Clinton/etc.

But yeah there were too many bad male characters. I thought they could have resolved Niedermann much the same way they did Salander, as someone who'd been abused... but then I guess he killed too many people too violently for that to happen.

[Marc]

Catching Fire.

[Tom4784]

I restarted and finished The Woman In Black today. It was okay, it all felt a bit too quaint and rushed though and I didn't really care about the story and the characters that much. I'm starting to read Game of Thrones now, I'll read Clash of Kings after Season 2 is finished.

[Stu]

Finished Water For Elephants the other night. It was super duper. Reading The Virgin & The Gipsy now.

[Tom4784]

Finished Water For Elephants the other night. It was super duper. Reading The Virgin & The Gipsy now.

Water For Elephants? I couldn't picture you reading something like that.

[Kizzy]

just finished kiss kiss (again) and just ordered road to wigan pier.

[Stu]

Water For Elephants? I couldn't picture you reading something like that.
The other half gave it to me along with The Great Gatsby. We have a wonderful relationship. I gave her Girlfriend In A Coma by Douglas Coupland because it's by far my bestest book in the whole world now I think.

[GypsyGoth]

The Drowning City by Amanda Downum

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq1dwmvuwN1r1fn95o1_250.jpg

[Princess]

Single in the City by Michelle Gorman, it's not the best but I just needed to read during my exams.

[Shaun]

I finished reading The Catcher in the Rye this morning. I'm not sure what to make of it. I remember reading a lot of people hating on Holden Caulfield. I found him quite likeable. He complains a lot and hates a lot, but a lot of the things he criticises are valid: social conformity, vanity, meritocracy. I quite enjoyed it. It had some rewarding messages.

[Niamh.]

Almost finished Book 1 of Game of Thrones, it's really good, can't wait to start the TV series now

[Princess]

A Walk in the Park by Jill Mansell, tis good.

[Locke.]

Finally, after slightly over a year, I have arrived at the most current book

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[Munchkins]

Mhm i've finally got round to reading Salems lot :3

[Josy]

Finally, after slightly over a year, I have arrived at the most current book

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/A_Dance_With_Dragons_US.jpg

This

[MTVN]

In the same book club are you

[Shaun]

heard they bake shortbread to take to it together

~~

reading some book about Bill Hicks atm, Love All the People. Collection of routines, interviews, profiles, etc.

[Niamh.]

Just started the second Game of thrones book

[Kazanne]

Mhm i've finally got round to reading Salems lot :3

loved the first film of this

[Callum]

Just started The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

[Lee.]

I read "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" on holiday and have just started "The Girl who Played with Fire"

The first one took me a while to get into and I was thinking "christ! this really isnt holiday reading at all".... however, once I did actually start enjoying it, I could not put it down.

Anybody who starts it and think its a wee bit dull, keep going! Its so worth it! :)

[Princess]

The Boy Who Fell to Earth by Kathy Lette, not at all what I expected but it's very good and really funny.

[Niall]

I'm reading the Host at the moment, and its actually really good. I know most people would turn their noses up at it because it was written by Stephanie Meyer, but its really enjoyable in addition to being vastly different to Twilight.

[Joe.]

Reading Gone by Micheal Grant

[King Gizzard]

Just got this after being recommended

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[King Gizzard]

Just got this after being recommended

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[Princess]

Swimming Pool Sunday by Sophie Kinsella. I read a book and didn't realise it was part of a trilogy so I'm waiting for the second one to turn up and reading something fillery in the mean time.

[Shaun]

finished the Bill Hicks book (cemented my admiration for the man) and am now torn between Around the World in 80 Days and Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.

Jules Verne has the bigger number so I might go for that. After these two I'm out of new stuff, though. Recommendations pls (and not of the "THIS IS SO POPULAR RIGHT NOW" variety, more of the "Shaun likes Brave New World, Catcher in the Rye, Fahrenheit 451, Catch 22, 1984, Picture of Dorian Gray, general classic/cult classics variety)

[Angus]

Finally, after slightly over a year, I have arrived at the most current book

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I've just finished reading this and feel bereft. Probably going to have to wait years for The Winds of Winter - no release date in sight.

[GypsyGoth]

The Witches of Eileanan by Kate Forsyth
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Thief With No Shadow by Emily Gee
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[Niall]

I just finished the Host. It was an excellent book. It lagged a bit during the beginning, but the second half was wonderful, and far, far better than anything Twilight has to offer. :love: I hope there's gonna be a sequel.

I'm gonna start on the Uglies tomorrow. :spin2:

[Princess]

Just finished Before I Met You by Lisa Jewell which was brilliant and about to start Second Nature by Jacquelyn Mitchard which I'm dubious about.

[Ninastar]

50 shades of grey

[GypsyGoth]

:laugh2:

[Shaun]

Read 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' the other day, was pretty fun. I find it odd that the author is trying to distance himself from the whole Aspergers side of the narrative, though, since that was really what it seemed to describe.

Started reading 'Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea' now :spin2:

[Princess]

Rereading all 10 of The Princess Diaries series at the moment, just because I felt like it. Least they're still better than 50 Shades of Grey.

[Niamh.]

About a third of the way through Book 3 of Game of Thrones, I borrowed Book 3 and 4 to take on holiday with me Friday week but I reckon I'll have them both finished by then, need to get 5 and 6 I think!

[Lee.]

Are they really good Niamh? I've got the 2nd and 3rd but ill need to buy the first... my mum said its a lot of ****e though? :conf:

[Niamh.]

Are they really good Niamh? I've got the 2nd and 3rd but ill need to buy the first... my mum said its a lot of ****e though? :conf:

Well, I love them anyway. I really didn't think they'd be my sort of thing but I was really surprised at how much I've enjoyed them so far

[Lee.]

Hmm.. I might give them a go then. :)

[Niamh.]

I'd recommend them anyway, have you watched any of the series yet?

[Lee.]

Yeah, I watched about half of the first series but somehow lost track of it!

[Niamh.]

It's alot easier to follow the story if you read the book first, there's so many characters in it, it's hard to keep track of them and who they are and what their relationship to other characters is etc

[Locke.]

The books fill in a lot of background information, but the first season of the show did follow it pretty well. Quite a bit was changed in Season 2.

[Niamh.]

Oh really, I haven't started series 2 yet, is that annoying after reading the book or not?

[Locke.]

It was still good but they made a lot of changes to Daenerys/Jon/Robb/Jaime's stories.

[Niamh.]

Oh, I think that's really going to annoy me, actually it''ll probably annoy Gav more cos I'm going to keep pointing out the bits that were different in the book

[Niamh.]

Just started Book 5 of Game of Thrones.

Also read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on holiday, was very good.

[Lee.]

Just started Book 5 of Game of Thrones.

Also read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on holiday, was very good.

It's an amazing book Niamh isnt it? :)
The 2nd and 3rd are just as good!

[Niamh.]

It's an amazing book Niamh isnt it? :)
The 2nd and 3rd are just as good!

Yeah, it was brilliant, I have the other 2 books as well but I want to finish Game of Thrones first

[Locke.]

Are you on Feast for Crows or Dance With Dragons?

[Niamh.]

Dance with Dragons

[Locke.]

The second best after Storm of Swords

[Niamh.]

Good, A Feast for Crows was very hard to get into I found because :

Of all the new characters they were introducing. Plus I wasn't into the whole Iron Island people that much at all

[Locke.]

Yeah AFFC is definitely the worst, but towards the end I started getting into it.

[Niamh.]

I was glad that

Tyrion and Daenerys are back in Book 5, I have a suspicion about Tyrion actually

[Apple202]

The Hobbit, in prep for LOTR

[Roy Mars III]

Good, A Feast for Crows was very hard to get into I found because :

Of all the new characters they were introducing. Plus I wasn't into the whole Iron Island people that much at all

Littlefinger is the only good part of the book

[Niamh.]

Littlefinger is the only good part of the book

Yeah, him flinging Lysa out the moon door is amazing :joker: Sansa annoys me though

[Braden]

I'm reading The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, so I can say I read the book before I watched the film.

It's really good so far, I can relate to Patrick a lot. :laugh:

[Joelle.]

Just started reading A Game Of Thrones :love:

[BigBrotherfan4ever]

I'm currently reading Sister by Rosamund Lupton I'm really enjoying it.

[Lee.]

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The story if a couple who were kidnapped in the Philippines by a terrorist group and held for a year... I've got a feeling its not going to be a light hearted read!

[Niamh.]

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[Black Dagger]

Well not 'currently' but will be within the next week.

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[Niamh.]

Will :love:

[Kizzy]

The casual vacancy.

[Black Dagger]

Will :love:

I just have too much love for him <3

By far my favourite thing to come out of a talent show :love:

[MTVN]

http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1309286108l/28381.jpg

I'm fast regretting taking this Russian literature module

[Roy Mars III]

Don't be silly, there is nothing better than Russian literature

[Niamh.]

The casual vacancy.

Is it any good?

I just have too much love for him <3

By far my favourite thing to come out of a talent show :love:

Absolutely.

[Black Dagger]

Oh yes I was planning on getting that soon as well Kizzy, let me know if it is worth it when you finish <3.

[Vanessa]

50 Shades Darker. :evilgrin:

[Alf]

keith richards autobiography, life. it's basically the rock and roll bible.

[Lee.]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_p305OiLZRCU/SuXut5Ua3qI/AAAAAAAAHdk/HFpKEv9ugt4/s400/faked+abduction+2.jpg

Reading this with a very open mind :/

[Niamh.]

Oh that looks interesting Lee

I'm not reading anything atm but I'm waiting for this to arrive from amazon :

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[Lee.]

Hmm.. its banned apparently in Britain. I've never believed for a minute that Madeleine' parents had anything to do with her disappearance but seemingly this book will change my mind. I don't really want my mind changed, but I've agreed to read it and see what I think thereafter.

[Lee.]

Ooh... and what's that book you're waiting for Niamh? I've had my fill of utterly depressing books lately and am looking for a good read

[Niamh.]

It's horrible to think that they could have but I guess no one really knows, do they? I'd be interested to hear what you after you're done though Lee

[Niamh.]

Ooh... and what's that book you're waiting for Niamh? I've had my fill of utterly depressing books lately and am looking for a good read

Someone recommended it to me, here's the blurb :

INTRODUCTION: "The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.

As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.

A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s—1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet."

[Roy Mars III]

Oh that looks interesting Lee

I'm not reading anything atm but I'm waiting for this to arrive from amazon :

http://i.imgur.com/ZBIY5.jpg

never read that one, but Haruki Murakami :worship:

[Roy Mars III]

Currently reading The Scar by China Mieville

It's brilliant, China is the writer fantasy needs at the moment to break away from Tolkienism

[Niamh.]

never read that one, but Haruki Murakami :worship:

It's gotten really good reviews and the person who recommended it to me loved it

[Princess]

The Horse Dancer by JoJo Moyes, I've read a few of her books and loved them, never big on the horse theme though, but besides that it's good.

[MTVN]

Is Brian Johnson chuff me dizzy's pseudonym Lee?

[Niamh.]

Is Brian Johnson chuff me dizzy's pseudonym Lee?

:laugh:

[Roy Mars III]

It's gotten really good reviews and the person who recommended it to me loved it

I have read Kafka by the Shore and the Wind Up Bird Chroniclesby him. He's very surreal and unqiue writing

[Niamh.]

I have read Kafka by the Shore and the Wind Up Bird Chroniclesby him. He's very surreal and unqiue writing

This is the first book by him I'll be reading

[Ramsay]

I've started reading Fellowship of the Ring, never liked the movies but maybe i'll like the book

[Lee.]

I've started reading Fellowship of the Ring, never liked the movies but maybe i'll like the book
Let me know what you think.. I thought the film was pish too, in fact I slept most of the way through it in the cinema but I was considering giving the books a go.

[Marsh.]

I've got the first LOTR book sitting in the cupboard, not tried reading it yet. It's very intimidating.

The casual vacancy.

I almost picked this up in Asda, but changed my mind. Is it any good?

[Roy Mars III]

The books are great, though slow paced by today's standards and its in 3rd person omnipresent which is annoying, in my opinion. Still amazing though, the world is so vivid and laid out brillaintly.

[Niamh.]

I loved the LOTRs films :love:

[Lee.]

Yeah but Niamh, your film taste is a bit :crazy: ; you didn't like Titanic :bored:

[Niamh.]

Oh Dearie me Lee :idc:

[Roy Mars III]

probably because the Titanic was terrible

[Me. I Am Salman]

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for AS English, and it looks boring

[GypsyGoth]

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for AS English, and it looks boring


That's a really exciting book, it's about a half shark boy called Finn who is addicted to huckleberries and he goes on adventures through time :amazed:

[Niall]

I'm reading Delirium by Lauren Oliver and I'm really enjoying it so far. The book is set in a dystopian US where love is regarded as the deadliest illness known to man, and so at the age of 18, everyone undergoes a procedure to be 'cured' of amor deliria nervosa (the clinical name for love in the book).

I'm not that far into it at the moment but like I said, I'm really enjoying it thus far.

[GypsyGoth]

And the latest book I'm reading is Ash by Malinda Lo
http://i.imgur.com/Cr9gP.jpg

It's based on the Cinderella story, and it's very enjoyable :love:

[Me. I Am Salman]

That's a really exciting book, it's about a half shark boy called Finn who is addicted to huckleberries and he goes on adventures through time :amazed:

Bitch swerve.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Huckleberry is so crap it's unreal. I haven't read a chapter since last week.. I'm just not motivated to read it at all so I'm falling behind :bored:

[Roy Mars III]

don't be silly :nono:

[MTVN]

Anna Karenina. I take back what I said before about Russian fiction, this is a beautiful novel

[InOne]

Finished The Count Of Monte Cristo yesterday. Not really currently reading but still fresh in my mind

[Niall]

I finished Delirium earlier. I really enjoyed it. The book lulled a bit in parts but for the most part it was a good read. :love:

I've moved onto the sequel (Pandemonium) now. :D

[Raph]

Currently not reading anything but my goal of 2013 is to start reading more

[Locke.]

That's a really exciting book, it's about a half shark boy called Finn who is addicted to huckleberries and he goes on adventures through time :amazed:

Can you tell us more please

[Tom4784]

I've been reading a lot lately. These are all the books I've read since Christmas.

Game of Thrones - Really good.
The True Blood books (ALL ELEVEN OF THEM)- Don't judge me s0b. Easy to read and fun, I pretty much breezed through each one in one sitting.
Warm Bodies - I loved this book so much, I'd highly recommend it. It's just such an interesting plot and the execution of it is superb.
Son of the Witch - It's good so far although it's not really grabbed me as much as Wicked did.

[Joelle.]

One Shot by Lee Child. Film version has just came out with Tom Cruise (Jack Reacher) so thought I'd read it beforehand. Its very good so far. :)

After that I'll probably start the Game of Thrones books.

[GypsyGoth]

http://i.imgur.com/Ma41l.jpg

I'm reading Across The Face Of The World, and it's ok, I was expecting it to be really interesting, but it's just so-so. I'm almost finished, but I don't really care enough for the story to read the next part.

Can you tell us more please

:laugh:

[Black Dagger]

http://labib85.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/pi.jpg?w=217&h=326

Reading it before I start on the movie.

[Lee.]

Any good Lucas? I don't know whether to read the book or watch the movie first.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Ufgh can anyone give me a deep analysis of the theme of escape in the last chapter of Huckleberry Finn please

[Black Dagger]

Any good Lucas? I don't know whether to read the book or watch the movie first.

Sorry Lee, only just seen this, erm. It was a slow burner, took me a few nights to get into it, but I enjoyed it. I'd definitely book > film first in any scenario.

[Tom4784]

I'm reading Beautiful Creatures at the moment as a promise to my sister. It's enjoyable, typical young adult faire but readable nonetheless.

I like to read a bit of trash every once in a while.

[GypsyGoth]

The Etched City by KJ Bishop
http://i.imgur.com/rffV6V1.jpg?1

Just started it the other day, it's an intriguing start, it seems to be set in a post apocalyptic world.

[Munchkins]

Elizabeth - Alison Weir :love:

[Princess]

Every Last One by Anna Quindlen

[Niall]

I finished Pandemonium (which was pretty good actually), so I've now moved onto The Great Gatsby. I've been meaning to read it for ages, and it took me a while to get used to writing style but I'm really enjoying it now! I'm only a few chapters in but I really like it so far.

[Lee.]

-shudders @ The Great Gatsby-

I'm reading
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Didnt think I'd like it, but its actually good. Funny in a sort of Forrest Gump way

[InOne]

http://www.cinemaretro.com/uploads/hellraisers2.jpg

:amazed:

[Stu]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l63mcgndgy1qa8tuqo1_400.jpg

Breakfast Of Champions <3.

[Jack_]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RaMkKmlPL.jpg

Thought-provoking.

[Roy Mars III]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l63mcgndgy1qa8tuqo1_400.jpg

Breakfast Of Champions <3.

Tied with Cat's Cradle as my favourite Vonnegut

[Princess]

I finished Pandemonium (which was pretty good actually), so I've now moved onto The Great Gatsby. I've been meaning to read it for ages, and it took me a while to get used to writing style but I'm really enjoying it now! I'm only a few chapters in but I really like it so far.

The Lauren Oliver series? LOVE them, the third one is out in March.

[Niall]

The Lauren Oliver series? LOVE them, the third one is out in March.

Yeah! I really liked them both. I preferred Delirium I think though, because one tiny thing in Pandemonium annoyed me



Like the fact that Alex was coming back. It was building to it at the end but it was the most obvious thing ever. :laugh:

Other than that I really love it! And I didn't know Requiem (that's the name of the new one, right?) is coming out so soon!

They're turning them into a TV show too. I'm not sure how I feel about it all though. I've seen snippets of what the proposed changes are and I really don't like it. Lauren Oliver is helping out with the series, but I think it would've worked a lot better as a movie.

[Princess]

I never saw that coming at all! I was proper surprised, pleased too. Aye Requiem, that's it, couldn't remember, can't wait for it. I had no idea it was being made into a telly show! *goes to Google*

[Glenn.]

I've just started The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

[Niall]

I never saw that coming at all! I was proper surprised, pleased too. Aye Requiem, that's it, couldn't remember, can't wait for it. I had no idea it was being made into a telly show! *goes to Google*

I just thought it was only thing that cold happen given how much Lena thought about him all through the book. :laugh:

And yeah the TV show sounds weird though they're bringing in new characters and stuff and changing plot lines and I hate it. They're gonna do the first book as the first season I think but within it they'll be having Julian living in Portland with Lena. :crazy:

[Princess]

I just thought it was only thing that cold happen given how much Lena thought about him all through the book. :laugh:

And yeah the TV show sounds weird though they're bringing in new characters and stuff and changing plot lines and I hate it. They're gonna do the first book as the first season I think but within it they'll be having Julian living in Portland with Lena. :crazy:

What the :S No!

[GypsyGoth]

Sins & Shadows by Lyn Benedict, it's a supernatural detective book. I like the start and the main character.

http://i.imgur.com/z002a7t.jpg

[Tom4784]

A Lion Among Men.

It's not bad but I thought Wicked and Son of a Witch were better. Elphaba and Liir were more interesting characters then the Lion.

[InOne]

Down and out in Paris and London

[Princess]

How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran, You Had Me At Hello by Mhairi McFarlane and Night Waking by Sarah Moss, also just finished Requiem by Lauren Oliver which I loved. I don't ever read more than one book at once, I don't know how this happened.

[GypsyGoth]

http://i.imgur.com/ScffaGo.jpg

All the Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin

It's about a girl in a world where chocolate and caffeine are illegal, so it kinda had me at first page.

[GypsyGoth]

Priestess of the White by Trudi Canavan
http://i.imgur.com/mQZoiQU.jpg

It's a pretty great world she's created. It feels very unhurried, like a evil character didn't show up until about a hundred pages in, also I find the narrative jumps slightly too much from one person to the next, I think there are about five or six intertwining stories.

[MTVN]

http://blunden.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/penguins-stopped-play.jpg

Amazing book

[Smithy]

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSKqUnYIDYGPOhNe64gRAt31pTOY3O5y yNgRfPjFvvl8jCRqTbd

Thrilling

[Benjamin]

Eldest by Christopher Paolin.

[King Gizzard]

just bought this

http://i.imgur.com/UAy2Ac4.jpg

[Z]

I finished reading The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson the other day, it was a fun read.

[Ramsay]

Game of Thrones, think its about time i get into it..only on page 54 though..good so far

[Princess]

Rumours by Freya North, nowhere near as good as some of her other books.

[Livia]

I've recently started 'Wolf Hall' by Hilary Mantel. It's pulled me in from chapter one.

[BigSister]

Just finished Happily ever after by Harriet evans now debating which one to read next

[Shaun]

finished Breakfast at Tiffany's the other day, wrote more efforted thoughts on it on ammi's wall tbh

I've started reading Donna Tartt's The Secret History... it's fascinating :lovedup: am only a couple of chapters in, though.

[Shaun]

finished Breakfast at Tiffany's the other day, wrote more efforted thoughts on it on ammi's wall tbh

I've started reading Donna Tartt's The Secret History... it's fascinating :lovedup: am only a couple of chapters in, though.

[Princess]

Billy and Me by Giovanna Flecter because everyone was banging on about it. It's alright, but it's not amazing and it's no better than any other chick-lit book I've ever read.

[Ryan57]

Pep Guardiola: Another Way Of Winning. Need to get back to it really. It's has been several days since I last read any of it.

[Moviefan]

I reading two Book at the moment,

http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1179170908l/882839.jpg
I think 4 or 5 times reading this
(Second book in Final destination book series) Not connected to the movie series

A journalist discovers that a Victorian England relation of hers escaped from the clutches of Jack the Ripper, and ultimately, Death itself. Now Patti Fuller must learn how to cheat Death too, by finding out how her great-great-grandmother did it all those years agoo?=

and same for
http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1173499603l/298411.jpg

This is fifth book in The Final destination Book series

A beautiful young fashion model has her entire world torn apart when she foresees the sinking of a chartered yacht. Although she succeeds in saving herself and several fellow models from the disaster, it is at the cost of her highest prized asset: her physical beauty. Scarred and embittered, she agrees to help the Grim Reaper correct the imbalance in its grand design and win back her looks-by luring her former friends back into Death's clutches. Will her need to reclaim her former beauty prove stronger than her love for her friends? Or is evil-like beauty-more than skin deep?

I got all 5 books

Still waiting to get Death Of The Senses (6 book in series) I don't think made that many copies.

[Braden]

My copy of Trainspotting came in the post this morning.

I've read around fourty pages so far and I'm loving it. All the characters and themes are depicted more realistically in comparison to the film, which don't get me wrong, I adore.

Coming from a Scottish family has made it so much easier to read as well. I was quite frightened at the thought of not being able to understand it, but it's so well written.

[Shaun]

The Secret History was excellent :love: would really recommend it, it's probably one of my favourite books now.

I'm reading to Kill a Mockingbird now.

[Niamh.]

Just started Tiger Hills by Sarita Mandanna, too early to tell how good it is yet though

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sSaYd8tnL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_SX385_SY500_CR,0,0,385,500_SH20_OU02_.jpg

[Roy Mars III]

The Secret History was excellent :love: would really recommend it, it's probably one of my favourite books now.


Henry :worship:

[Shaun]

Henry :worship:

:worship:

-shipped Richard and Francis tbh-

I loved all of them tbh... well until Bunny became an arse... but yes, Henry was the best :love:

[Smithy]

100 pages into a storm of swords :D

[Kizzy]

A book on nutrition called 'Fat around the middle'
I really recommend it, it's not a diet book.
http://www.healthista.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Fat-around-the-middle-book-199x300.jpg

[Niamh.]

100 pages into a storm of swords :D

That's the best one :love:

[Z]

finished Breakfast at Tiffany's the other day, wrote more efforted thoughts on it on ammi's wall tbh

I've started reading Donna Tartt's The Secret History... it's fascinating :lovedup: am only a couple of chapters in, though.

Just reading about it online, I think I'll go get myself a copy of The Secret History!

[Roy Mars III]

That's the best one :love:

you are forgetting Feast for Crows and all the great Littlefinger scenes

[Smithy]

Dany isn't in that one at all is she? so i sincerely doubt it :idc:

[Roy Mars III]

thank god for that, don't need to read about her walking around the desert and making crap decisions

[Niamh.]

you are forgetting Feast for Crows and all the great Littlefinger scenes

Feast for Crows is the worst one :idc:

[Z]

I wish there were more books in the Mortal Engines series.

[Niamh.]

Just started Tiger Hills by Sarita Mandanna, too early to tell how good it is yet though

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sSaYd8tnL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_SX385_SY500_CR,0,0,385,500_SH20_OU02_.jpg

I'm 3/4 way through this now and it's really good, started out thinking it was going to be a boring love story but it took an unexpected twist

[Z]

Intriguing... I can't wait to finish uni next year and be able to read books for pleasure again; I'm forever reading academic publications! No room for leisure! :laugh:

[Niamh.]

Intriguing... I can't wait to finish uni next year and be able to read books for pleasure again; I'm forever reading academic publications! No room for leisure! :laugh:

awww, almost there Greg :love:

[Z]

I did buy that 100 Year Old Man Who Disappeared... book after reading the praise for it in this thread and managed to read that on a bus journey home which was pretty good!

[Smithy]

50 odd pages into a Feast for Crows :D

[bansheewails]

Just read 'Catcher in the Rye', it was on the 50 books to read before you die shelf in my local library, I wish I had left it there. I hated it and I hated that i stuck with it to the end in case something actually happened! :shrug:


I will just read my Chelsea Cains again, a good serial killer always cheers me up!

[Verbal]

Started to read lord of the rings, I detest the films they are beyond boring to me. Starting to wish I hadn't started the book. Its going to be a very long, slow slog.

[bansheewails]

Started to read lord of the rings, I detest the films they are beyond boring to me. Starting to wish I hadn't started the book. Its going to be a very long, slow slog.

Loved the first two parts of Lord of the Rings, but lost the will to live reading the third! I loved the Hobbit so much though.

[Verbal]

Loved the first two parts of Lord of the Rings, but lost the will to live reading the third! I loved the Hobbit so much though.

Something for me to look forward too then! :D Its actually not that bad, just not the easiest of reads.

[bansheewails]

Something for me to look forward too then! :D Its actually not that bad, just not the easiest of reads.

I just ignored all the Elf language and songs and bingo you get through it in no time! Its a great story just a little over done! :hugesmile:

[Shaun]

I ordered the Rules of Attraction off Amazon on a whim and I hope I don't regret this decision :suspect: I hated the gory aspects of American Psycho but I loved Easton Ellis' imagination, so it should be better suited to me :laugh: plus it's got a lot of sex, which helps.

[bansheewails]

I ordered the Rules of Attraction off Amazon on a whim and I hope I don't regret this decision :suspect: I hated the gory aspects of American Psycho but I loved Easton Ellis' imagination, so it should be better suited to me :laugh: plus it's got a lot of sex, which helps.

If you are looking for Sex, what about 50 shades of grey? I hear its a hoot! :dance:

[Shaun]

If you are looking for Sex, what about 50 shades of grey? I hear its a hoot! :dance:

:laugh: I think I'll survive without it... went into Smiths yesterday and saw hundreds of awful rip-offs of it :yuk:

[bansheewails]

:laugh: I think I'll survive without it... went into Smiths yesterday and saw hundreds of awful rip-offs of it :yuk:

I steer clear of the Mummy Porn! I prefer a good murder any day!

[Niall]

I finished Brave New World earlier in the week, and I loved it. Very well written and thought provoking book, it stands the test of time really. :lovedup:

I've started re-reading Animal Farm now and after than I'll re-read Nineteen-Eightyfour. :love:

[Niamh.]

Finished Tiger Hills, it was good but God, it was the most Depressing book I ever read

[DanaC]

God how I hated Lord of the Rings. Much preferred the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever (best fantasy epic I ever read).

These days I listen to audiobooks far more than I read. At the moment I am listening to The Long Earth, a collaboration between Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. It is really rather good. And wonderfully narrated too, which makes all the difference.

[BigSister]

Bought Jessica Ennis autobiography the other day along with Cecelia Aherns new one when I go to London so will prob read those 2 next

[Niamh.]

Wool - Hugh Howey, I'm almost finished the 1st book of this Trilogy, it's really good

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/covers/2013/1/4/1357322266639/Wool.jpg

[Shaun]

halfway through The Lovely Bones at the moment... it's quite nice I suppose, but not really gripping me. A bit wet.

[Chuck]

Mrs Dalloway :love:

[DanaC]

Wool - Hugh Howey, I'm almost finished the 1st book of this Trilogy, it's really good

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/covers/2013/1/4/1357322266639/Wool.jpg

I've been tempted a few times by that one. Good then?

[Ammi]

..I'm reading A Little Coffee Shop in Kabul atm....the characters/relationships are very interesting....

[Verbal]

I've today finished reading

http://ebookeclipse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/wpid-Just-One-Damned-Thing-After-Another-The-Chronicles-of-St-Marys.jpg


Which is a really good book. I fancied some non fiction for a change and I've just started this

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VaYGFQ3DL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA278_PIkin4,BottomRight,-66,22_AA300_SH20_OU02_.jpg

[Niamh.]

I've been tempted a few times by that one. Good then?

Yeah, I'm really enjoying it anyway

[DanaC]

I've just finished (well, a few days ago) listening to a brilliant audiobook: Shades of Grey

No, not that one ;p

This one is by Jasper Fforde. It's set in a distopian future Britain. Think Brave New World but with more laughs and also more giant swan attacks.

I might get hold of the kindle edition and read it for myself as well. Though the narrator did a stunning job and really added to the experience.

From Amazon:

Hundreds of years in the future, after the Something that Happened, the world is an alarmingly different place. Life is lived according to The Rulebook and social hierarchy is determined by your perception of colour.

Eddie Russett is an above average Red who dreams of moving up the ladder by marriage to Constance Oxblood. Until he is sent to the Outer Fringes where he meets Jane - a lowly Grey with an uncontrollable temper and a desire to see him killed.

For Eddie, it's love at first sight. But his infatuation will lead him to discover that all is not as it seems in a world where everything that looks black and white is really shades of grey . . .

If George Orwell had tripped over a paint pot or Douglas Adams favoured colour swatches instead of towels . . . neither of them would have come up with anything as eccentrically brilliant as Shades of Grey.

I was so impressed I went on a kindle shopping spree and bought some of his earlier books.

Currently I am reading The Eyre Affair, first in a series of novels concerning Thursday Next, a literary detective in a very strange version of 1980s Britain.

It's very good. Witty and occasionally laugh out loud funny. Helps to have some background understanding of the works of Dickens and Bronte, and also the various questions surrounding the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. But none of that is actually necessary to enjoyment. Just adds an extra little hit.

From Amazon:

There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages, dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is deeply disappointed by the ending of 'Jane Eyre'. In this world there are no jet-liners or computers, but there are policemen who can travel across time, a Welsh republic, a great interest in all things literary - and a woman called Thursday Next.

In this utterly original and wonderfully funny first novel, Fforde has created a fiesty, loveable heroine and a plot of such richness and ingenuity that it will take your breath away


What I like about Fforde's novels is that although they are quite light and witty, there's a sliver of darkness that's hard to ignore. In The Eyre Affair, the still ongoing Crimean War gives an opportunity to consider some very dark and contemporary questions about war. And Thursday's own experiences of that conflict give her character a real depth.

I really cannot recommend Fforde's novels enough.

[Smithy]

Gonna start Dan Browns new one later today :D

[Benjamin]

Rereading the Game of Thrones.

[Kizzy]

Ah my son asked me to get him that, the next book I get will be 'The New Few' by Ferdinand Mount.

[Verbal]

I've always got a book on the go. Been disappointed with the last couple i've read. The one i'm currently reading though is brilliant. A spy novel called The Folks at Fifty-Eight.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Folks-Fifty-Eight-Michael-Patrick-Clark-ebook/dp/B007X5KN5C

Which was free when I downloaded it

[Stu]

http://kimbofo.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451bcff69e20120a4d83dc4970b-pi

Awesome, awesome awesome. I love all of Ben Elton's stuff. You lot would like this, actually. Because it's just Big Brother.

One house, ten contestants, thirty cameras, and forty microphones. Everybody knows the rules—total strangers are forced to live together while the rest of the country watches them do it. However, on day 27, one of the housemates is killed on live TV. Who is the murderer? How did they manage to kill under the constant gaze of the television cameras? Why did they do it? And who will be next?

Amazon basket I just got for 150 quid :

The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature

A New Science Of Life

Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness

The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, Ufos, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess

The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the i Ching

Inner Paths To Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds Through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies

Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False

Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs and Human Evolution

Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind

DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences

The Science Delusion

Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals

It's going to be a hell of a perplexing Christmas.

[Livia]

I've read Dead Famous Stu, it's excellent isn't it. I loved the woman (Geraldine?) with the magnificent penchant for swearing.

[Princess]

I started 'Silver Bay' by JoJo Moyes a couple of weeks ago and only got a few chapters read before 'The Flavours of Love' by Dorothy Koomson came out and I started reading then but then I was all panicky and couldn't read a book about murder at 2am so I started rereading 'Remember Me?' by Sophie Kinsella, whoops.

[Smithy]

Gonna start Dan Browns new one later today :D

Not been reading much recently, but still on this, it's a bit of a struggle to get through tbh, not enjoying it as much as his past books

[Shaun]

halfway through The Lovely Bones at the moment... it's quite nice I suppose, but not really gripping me. A bit wet.

this was crap

I've moved onto The Rules of Attraction now. As usual, Easton Ellis is an uncompromising read, but I'm enjoying this one (found American Psycho far too gross and its descriptive style irritating)

[Chuck]

I'm reading a collection of Vladimir Nabokov's short stories. It's brilliant. :love:

[Novo]

I will be starting this tonight

http://lissa10279.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/41yr7njh7al.jpg

[Black Dagger]

Finally started Mockingjay after like 2 years, oops.

[Natalie.]

A game of thrones at the moment, loving it so far.

[Drew.]

I will be starting this tonight

http://lissa10279.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/41yr7njh7al.jpg

Not you bloody starting a book too

[Drew.]

40 pages in so far.. its great being able to vision and imagine it all after seeing the mini series of it.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RPZCAMMHL.jpg

[Princess]

Just finished 'The Rosie Project' by Graeme Simison which was lovely, just started the Divergent trilogy by Veronica Roth, enjoying it so far.

[Moviefan]

Just started The Dark tower series, half away in the first book

[Me. I Am Salman]

the crucible it's so good
also the great gatsby it's okay

[Lewis.]

Just finished The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne - totally amazing book, a bit dry in some parts where it's a little too detailed, but very unpredictable and the characters are great.

[Crimson Dynamo]

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Goodbye-Mog-By-Judith-Kerr-9780007149681-/00/s/NTUwWDQwMA==/z/SysAAMXQlgtS6M9v/$_12.JPG

so so sad but has a happy end