castaways of the flying dutchman by my favorite author, brian jaques!
Eragon by Christopher Paolini.
Although the movie looks somewhat atrocious, the book seems really good so far, I can't beleive it was written by a 15 year old o.o
i read eragon and eldist the second book i cant wait till book 3 and i cant wait till harrypotter book 7! i'll have #7 done in a day or 2 when i get it!
I've been reading "Dragon's Lair" ^^
I just finished reading a particularly bad "Buck Rogers" adaptation. I was a fan of the TV series back when it was rerunning. I don't really recall Wilma spending *any* time weeping over Buck and certainly not to the extent she does in this excuse for a book. And why doesn't Twiki speak? Come on, people, that was the great Mel Blanc!
*shudders* Needless to say that's going back to a charity shop.
Other than that, I'm back on the Biggles books.
I'm also awaiting Harry Potter with bated breath. It had better be a weekend, because I will not be answering calls, on the internet or doing anything until I've finished. I suppose I could get up to make a cuppa, but that's about it...
DW
Currently reading The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson, after a recommendation from a friend.
It'd possibly be a little controversial over in the US, but it's really rich stuff. It gets into your head and makes you think a little.
Just completed Aristophanes's Lysistrata and am now moving on to Plato's Symposium. 
I also have the fortune of reading excerpts from the Book of Luke for one of my uni classes. Of course, it just so happens that my class is a Greek class, and the text is consequently in Koine Greek. 
Last: Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in: Brokenclaw - John Gardner
Current: Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in: Role of Honor - John Gardner
Next: ...Uh, actually, this is the last James Bond book the library has. So, I don't know? ^^;
It has come to my attention that I have never read American Gods before, so I grabbed the E-book from 4chan and I'm reading through it now.
I rather like it. Gaiman switches cultures fairly easily for someone who's never lost his identity as a Brit. 🙂
Someone list a few good authors in military-style fiction (That's a preferred genre, but I'll read other things, too. Mostly action style, I don't care for comedy or romance novels or scifi or horror or whatever)? I just finished all the Fleming and Gardner books the library has, adding them to a large list of authors I've finished...>> I need new names.
I'm currently reading Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzche. What he has to say fascinates me. 'tis a really good read.
Yes, I enjoyed Beyond Good and Evil as well. Makes a big change from a lot of other philosophers in terms of actually being able to write in an interesting and engaging fashion - the other works of his that I've read are also very good.
Currently re-reading "Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" by Susanna Clarke.
Personally, I find Nietzche a bit too much of a pretentious ass to get very far in his works :S
The Andromeda Strain - Micheal Crichton (Again)
I'm trying to get my hands on a copy of Dune... I think Dirk recommended it.
EDIT: my mommy picked my reserved copy up at the library... At 300+ pages, I think I'll wait till summer to start this.
I'm a third of the way through Death on the Nile by Agatha Chris
EDIT: my mommy picked my reserved copy up at the library... At 300+ pages, I think I'll wait till summer to start this.
Dude, I just slogged my way through an 830-page book in 10 days on full-time school and a full-time girlfriend. 300 pages should be nothing, college boy. Suck it up!
Before starting uni I would have agreed with Batty here.
But once you start collage or Uni, there is simply no time for reading between skiving from your studies and dossing off your work.
Seriously. Pre Uni/Col an 800 odd page book is a flinch, you start studying, well, it just dosn't work.
Example:
Before uni: It would on average take me a day to read a novel. That's a full novel, Jorden, Tolkien or Fiest size.
Now it takes me about 4 or five months.
I just started Ender's Game. It's just as awesome as before.
"El Oro del Rey", Arturo Perez-Reverte. One of the Alatriste series, only slightly marred by having Viggo Mortensen plastered all over the cover rather than the usual illustrations of swords and feathered hats.
It's swashbuckling stuff, set roughly the same time as the Three Musketeers - I say roughly; so far the Duke of Buckingham and Cardinal Richelieu have been mentioned, but so too has Mazarin and I don't know when he came to prominence in France & Europe.
It's about one Captain Alatriste, pretty much a mercenary for hire in Madrid and his protege. So far they've failed to assassinate the Prince of Wales & the Duke of Buckingham, the protege very nearly was burnt at the stake for heresy by the Inquisition and they've survived a war in Flanders - Spanish Catholics v English, French, Dutch & Belgian Protestants.
This has all happened in the last 3 books. Now they're back in Spain and look set to be working for the king this time, albeit clandestinely...
DW
The MoFo, duh.
Vec, someone already did that >>
Re-reading the Battle Royale manga.
Hiro, 300 pages is nothing. I have a book with 1358 pages, and I read that in an average of 10 days to two weeks.
I'm reading this topic's replies.
I'm also reading some other websites with cultural content. :p
I just read Alex Rider 4: Eagle Strike and AR 5: Scorpia. liek totally shocker endings for both
currently reading Dark tower 4 wizard and glass. it's good so far.
Currently on the second book of the Dresden Files. I saw the TV show which convinced me to pick up the books. They're vastly different, particularely where Bob is concerned, but I enjoy them both still.
I'm some way into the second book of the second trilogy written by my (recently descovered) favorite author of all time: Graham Edwards.
He's a fantasy author, and has written two trillogies, the Dragoncharm trillogy (Dragoncharm, Dragonstorm, Dragonflame) and the Stone trillogy (Stone and Sky, Stone and Sea, Stone and Sun). Both trillogies are set in the same general universe, but take place in different worlds.
Seriously, if anybody is a fan of Dragons or even anything Fantasy, these books are must-reads! They're a little hard to get hold of, but well worth all the effort...camp Amazon and EBay for them if all else fails! They really are a spectacular set of books!
The Dragoncharm series is set in a possible alternate history of our own world, long before Humans appear on the planet, and is unusual in that it's told exclusivley from the point of view of the race of Dragons it focuses on. The hero, Fortune, is born into a world where two different types of Dragon live, the Charmed, able to wield the element "charm", magic given physical liquid form, and the Natural, who have no magical abillities and rely purely on muscle and bone for their life. Tensions between the two sides are steadily growing, and many fear war will break out soon, eliminating both groups, so Fortune, as a Natural, is sent off on a quest with his Charmed friend Cumber to see the ancient leaders of the Dragon race in their citadel of Covamere, in the hopes of averting the catastrophic battle before it begins. What they don't know, however, is that their journey actually has a much deeper purpose, and their world is in much greater danger than the simple Dragon war. If they fail in their quest, it wouldn't simply mean the end of their race, but potentially the end of the entire world...
The Stone trillogy, on the other hand, deals with an Englishman, Jonah Lightfoot, who while on holiday to Indonesia is catapulted from his own world by the titanic erruption of Mt. Krakatoa in 1883 and into the strange world of Stone, a gigantic, near vertical wall of almost world proportions, with all sorts of strange constructions and creatures on it's face. With his companion, a young American woman called Annie West, he sets out to explore this world, trying to find out exactly what this new world is and if there is a way back home, but the results plunge him into far more danger and fear than he could ever imagine as an evil from an ancient time is awakened, intent on destroying him, Annie, and anybody else who would stand in it's way.
Both series are exceptional, and I'd recommend them both many times over.
Important notice: If anybody does read these books, don't make the mistake I did and accidentally read the Stone trillogy before the Dragoncharm trillogy. Even though they're in different worlds and have different characters, they are both intricately linked, and while they can be taken out of context to a degree, it helps very much to read them in order.
Just finished <i>A Tale of Two Cities</i> for school. Terrible. Some of the characters are cliched (Then again, Dickens was in the 19th century, so I'm not sure if I can use that as a complaint) and static, apart from few. Such as Carton. Out of all the chapters, I only enjoyed the last one.
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currently reading Dark tower 4 wizard and glass. it's good so far.
Haha, that's a good series up 'til the end. See, it... I'll let you see for yourself.
Enjoy your wasted time reading all the books is all I'll say.
Eye of the Needle - Ken Follet
Didn't like this one in particular, but WW2 spy fiction ftw.
After the Funeral - Agatha Christie
I've been on an Agatha Christie kick lately.
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Haha, that's a good series up 'til the end. See, it... I'll let you see for yourself.
yeah i know about the craptastic ending. dissapointing really.
Currently reading The Bourne Identity. Haven't seen the movie, but this is pretty good so far.
Watership Down by Richard Adams. Rabbits. Paranoia. Substories. All good stuff. It's a friend's favorite book that she recommended to me a few weeks ago.
Don Quixote, one of the greatest Spanish novels ever about delusion, idealism and a couple of wise asses waging battle against windmills. Good read if you can handle over a thousand pages (ouch!)
Currently reading The Plague Dogs, also by Richard Adams, for an English assignment. The book report is due May 2nd.
kurt vonnegut's recent death evoked in me an interest in his works, so i borrowed Deadeye Dick and Bluebeard from the library
i'm reading the first one right now
I tried picking up Don Quijote a while back - I had it in 2 volumes in Spanish - but it was dry as anything and I couldn't get into it.
I'm currently reading the last of my Alatriste books.
DW
I'm currently reading "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. (If you're a fan of the Discworld series, *read it.*)
That's a point, I really ought to re-read my copy at some point. I love Crowley, I mean there is a demon with style!
DW
I liked what I read of Don Quixiote- need to go pick it up at some point.
Anyways, I;ve just started the Surgeon of Crowthorne.
I'm just starting Oliver Twist.
I find it kind of sad that I tend to only read books if it's required for school. 
I got Mass Effect: Revelation.
The only thing to say about this book is if the game is any where near as good as the book than it will easily be game of the year.
Does manga count? I haven't touched a print novel since Harry Potter 6 (nothing's been out that piques my interest as of late)
In addition to D. Gray-Man and Negima!, I've been reading a manga called "Enchanter". It's a little risqu, but hilarious if you like gutter-minded humor, while actually maintaining a good, solid storyline (seriously, I haven't seen any plotholes thus far).
I checked "Dune" out from the library. I also want to read "Ghosts of Onyx", "Slaughterhouse 5" and "Catch 22" this summer.
A Child Called It
It's this story about a really creative mother and child abuse.
Interesting stuff. So much publicity concentrates on the differences between cultures, and this is a little more balanced.
