What Book(s) Are You Currently Reading?

[ACfromtheD]

Dracula's awesome, why would you read the Odyssey if you weren't required?

[Fraserburn]

Dracula's awesome, why would you read the Odyssey if you weren't required?

History was my favourite class in school/college that wasn't Gym or Break

[ACfromtheD]

But the Odyssey isn't exactly history.

[Fraserburn]

But the Odyssey isn't exactly history.

No it isnt, but its still an 8th century BC work of mythical history

[auburntigerdude]

[phillyfan]

finished "the girl with the dragon tattoo". onto

In the middle of this

[Fraze]

About 100 or so pages into Black House.

I know its a callaboration(sp) but if it didn't say Stephen King on the cover, I never would've believed the first 80 pages or so had any input from him whatsoever.
I could hardly read it, and normally I'm the exact opposite with his books.

Thankfully, the last few chapters have felt more like him, and now the book is getting going.

[pGekko]

About 100 or so pages into Black House.

I know its a collaboration(sp) but if it didn't say Stephen King on the cover, I never would've believed the first 80 pages or so had any input from him whatsoever.
I could hardly read it, and normally I'm the exact opposite with his books.

Thankfully, the last few chapters have felt more like him, and now the book is getting going.

Not trying to be an ass here (this is like micmac help with quoting ~) but do some of you guys realize you can right click on a word to correct spelling? It's just like MS Word?

And I only bring this up because of the (sp) and I'm in the damn book thread.

[motorcityjoe611]

All three at once. I'm a slow, slow reader, too.
Palahniuk is unreal. The intro 7 pages are worth checking out if you would like any inkling into how this guy gets his ideas. All true stories. Very interesting stuff.


Really in depth book that I'll probably not get through before owing the library enough to go out and buy it. I like biographies thought this is more of an interview-style one.



Just unreal what the men before us went through. Unreal.

[mtdman]

About 100 or so pages into Black House.

I know its a callaboration(sp) but if it didn't say Stephen King on the cover, I never would've believed the first 80 pages or so had any input from him whatsoever.
I could hardly read it, and normally I'm the exact opposite with his books.

Thankfully, the last few chapters have felt more like him, and now the book is getting going.

Did you read the talisman as well?

When King and the other guy wrote that, they tried to write in each other's styles so that the readers couldn't guess who was writing what part.

The first part of that book is all set up and background stuff. Which isn't really unusual with King's works. Ever read insomnia? The first half of that book is basically slow, boring nonsense that doesn't have much to do with the actual action of the book.

[mtdman]

Dracula's awesome, why would you read the Odyssey if you weren't required?

And btw, if you like Dracula you should read Salem's Lot. King wrote it as a kind of "Dracula comes to rural Maine" book, and it follows a lot of the Dracula story line. IMO, Salem's Lot is one of the finest books written in the 2nd half of the 20th century.