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What Book are you Reading?

Royal Gala
edited June 2008 in General
So what book do you have on your night table?
Are you actually reading it? Or have you had the bookmark at page three for the past six months?
Do you even use a bookmark?

At the moment I am reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. I know it has become fashionable to bash Atwood, but she is undeniably one of the best writers Canada has produced. She is tough, insightful, imaginative, and unafraid to tackle topics that other, more "sensitive" female writers never would. For example, this new novel is a stab at science fiction through the social commentary of a dystopia. So far I am enjoying it. Much better than her previous effort The Blind Assassin.

Anyway, what are you reading these days?

Comments

  • bubbles
    edited October 2006
    i started reading the da vinci code ....then i realised it was the MOST BORING book i have ever read ... ill try Atwood :smile:
  • Smartso
    edited October 2006
    I have not read any books lately other than text books for school but one of the most interesting novels I read while in high school was "The Giver" by Lois Lowry. An imagination is imperative to understand the context of this story as it takes place in the future when things are a lot different from how they are. Nonetheless, it provided me with a great deal of insight and knowledge about myself as well as our society.
  • ANBU
    edited October 2006
    Persuasion - Jane Austen.
    after watching the lake house, i'm like sure, why not. lol
  • JohnnyBoy
    edited October 2006
    October 2006 issue of Maxim... and damn does Vanessag Minillo look smokin'
  • siuying
    edited November 2006
    The Memoirs of Cleopatra.. got to the part where she just suceeded to be queen.. but curses to papers and exams.. i haven't touched that book for 3 week now.. =(
  • Malakaiii
    edited November 2006
    "Oryx and Crake" was awesome. I was reaaaally impressed with that book. I just finished reading "The Penelopiad" which was also pretty neat. I like Atwood.

    I just finished that this weekend, so I haven't picked up a new book yet. I'm trying to find a copy of "The Beach" by Alex Garland because I'm going to Thailand soon...
  • noname
    edited November 2006
    I am reading Discussion as a way of teaching. I am only reading it b/c I have to.
  • Bhambra
    edited November 2006
    i read the devil wears prada

    its funny and makes you feel better about your ass-of-a-life.
  • Malakaiii
    edited November 2006
    I got a copy of The Beach from the library and I've already started into it. It's pretty good so far, but I'll keep you updated if it takes a turn for the worse. ;)
  • affinity
    edited November 2006
    hey bubbles, how far into da vinci are you? i agree, it was SUPER boring in the begining but it really picks up at a certain point.

    i'm reading angels and demons...so good, so much better than da vinci code
  • imelting
    edited November 2006
    i wished i had more time to read : ( especially since i feel behind in all my class *sniff

    last cool book i read was freakonomics heh, good read : )
  • babygurl
    edited November 2006
    yea i definately gonna pick up a good book over christmas break... hey do y guys have any good recommendations?
  • Malakaiii
    edited November 2006
    Oh, check out this webpage to keep track of what you are reading and what you want to be reading. A friend of mine designed it, and I'm hooked...

    ChainReading

    You can also make recommendations to people if you know their email address or user name (they don't have to be signed up for you to recommend something to them)

    My username is Malakaiii on there too, by the way. Here's my profile.
  • Malakaiii
    edited November 2006
    I finished 'The Beach' by Alex Garland and it was frigging awesome. HIGHLY recommended! (Yep, it took me two days... I love this rainy weather!)
  • franky_ip
    edited November 2006
    "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawkins, and I'm actually reading it!
  • NukeChem
    edited November 2006
    The Robots of Dawn, by Isaac Asimov. Actually re-reading it, but that's just how much I like it. :-)
  • melissaw28
    edited November 2006
    The Quantum and the Lotus by Matthieu Richard and a Tibetan astrophysicist who I can't remember his name......Richard is a Western scientist who became a monk and the book is a discussion between these two different perspectives, it's pretty good
  • flo-ra
    edited December 2006
    I read Onyx and Crake too! It's great =) But that was for school, so I dunno if it counts. To be honest, I hardly EVER read for leisure unless it's like Vogue or something lol... the last book I read for fun was Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, which is a beautiful book, much better than the movie!

    And I just finished Bel Canto by Ann Patchett for class, which is mehh okay. If you're looking for a light read, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon is awesome. =D
  • Malakaiii
    edited December 2006
    Yes, I like 'The Curious Incident...' but I wasn't a fan of 'Memoirs'

    I still don't think that a white american man can accurately write about what it's like to be a japanese woman. Or a woman in general! He was way off base a lot of the time.
  • flo-ra
    edited December 2006
    Yeah... and apparently a lot of the stuff in there was made up and not an accurate portrayal of geisha life. BUT if you never knew that, and you never noticed it was a man who wrote it, you would've been convinced, no? But yeah I get where you're coming from.

    Another great book: Pride and Prejudice! (another school book :sad: )
  • hta
    edited December 2006
    I want to (finish) read Grapes of Wrath by J. Steinbeck

    anyone actually read this?
  • JayDub
    edited June 2008
    I am reading Catch-22 and have been for the last month, I am going to try and finish it this weekend.
  • Morro
    edited June 2008
    Catch-22 is awesome, but I had trouble getting through it. It's so schizophrenic that even with the moment-to-moment brilliance, there was little pulling me through. One of my favorite Catch-22 moments:
    Major Dunsby replied indulgently with a superior smile. "But, Yossarian, what if everyone felt that way?"
    Yossarian replied, "well then, I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?
  • JayDub
    edited June 2008
    hehe Major Major Major Major.
  • Iran1988
    edited June 2008
    NLP
  • Student0667
    edited June 2008
    Jarhead by Anthony Swofford

    Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab

    Ideals and Ideologies by Harry B. Ellis
  • Insatiable
    edited June 2008
    The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis

    Gimme a few days and I should be done :wink:
  • primexx
    edited June 2008
    I haven't read any book for a few months (busy with other stuff), with a lot of books bookmarked:

    The Origin of Species 1st ed. (Darwin) - p.154 of 490 - this is a pain to read because it's literally just "evolution requires variation, and we know that happens in nature, and here's 100 pages of evidence for that. It also requires selection, and we know that happens in nature, and here's 100 pages of evidence for it...etc etc..."
    A Brief History of Philosophy (Johnston) - p.82 of 204
    The End of Faith (Harris) - p.22 of 301
    God is not Great (Hitchens) - p.195 of 286
    Philisophically Useful Logic (Sider) - p.3 of 203 - I've been "reading" this for at least a year now...
    The Republic (Plato) has also been on my reading list for a few years now, haven't gotten around to it yet.
  • Insatiable
    edited June 2008
    primexx;32297 said:
    I haven't read any book for a few months (busy with other stuff), with a lot of books bookmarked:

    The Origin of Species 1st ed. (Darwin) - p.154 of 490 - this is a pain to read because it's literally just "evolution requires variation, and we know that happens in nature, and here's 100 pages of evidence for that. It also requires selection, and we know that happens in nature, and here's 100 pages of evidence for it...etc etc..."
    A Brief History of Philosophy (Johnston) - p.82 of 204
    The End of Faith (Harris) - p.22 of 301
    God is not Great (Hitchens) - p.195 of 286
    Philisophically Useful Logic (Sider) - p.3 of 203 - I've been "reading" this for at least a year now...
    The Republic (Plato) has also been on my reading list for a few years now, haven't gotten around to it yet.
    Definitely check out The Republic: it's meaningful and entertaining. It's been said that the entire Western philosophical tradition is based on a series of footnotes to Plato :wink:

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