What are you reading...

[felizitation]

Originally posted by dstyle ive been so lazy with reading lately, anybody have any good books they can recommend.

Too lazy to read some of these posts ?

[dstyle]

ive been so lazy with reading lately, anybody have any good books they can recommend.

[Dan]

I try to finish it.... I do my best. but having ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), it's a little hard for me to do that. so unless i absolutely have to read it for class (being an English Literature major... ), sometimes i just stop reading the book, even if i'm halfway through or almost done. i did that with the Scarlet letter and then picked up the book a year later and continued from where i had left.

but if a book is boring till halfway through, chances are, it won't get any better.. lol.. which is the case with this book i'm reading.

[ckBejug]

Originally posted by Dan I'm reading..... Mrs. Dalloway now... Having seen the movie The Hours, I must say I am not surprised that the movie was so boring... the book is even worse.. i mean, come on... one book on one friggin day??!?! I hate Virginia Woolf's writings.

If you start a book and find it to be a terrible bore (in your opinion) do you go on reading it so you can finish and see if it gets any better, or do you just drop it and pick up another?

[Dan]

I'm reading..... Mrs. Dalloway now... Having seen the movie The Hours, I must say I am not surprised that the movie was so boring... the book is even worse.. i mean, come on... one book on one friggin day??!?! I hate Virginia Woolf's writings. But anileve will disagree and call me a misogynist.

[felizitation]

Loose:
"Life is elsewhere" (Kundera) was good. It's not his best novel. If you're fond of Kundera, go ahead. He's a master in making you feel as pitiful as the characters

Just finished "The art of being always right" (Shopenhauer). Very good, but discussion about dialectic were sometimes difficult. Very interesting and still funny.

Trying to read "the house of mirth" now. I have been two years i borrowed this book to a friend.

[ckBejug]

I recommend Terry Pratchett


The Light Fantastic --Terry Pratchett

"Persuasion is what keeps the whole universe together," said Belafon. "It's no good saying it's all done by magic."

He wanted to say all this and couldn't. For a man with an itch to see the whole of infinity, Twoflower never actually moved outside his own head. Telling him the truth would be like kicking a spaniel.


The Color of Magic (Book 1) --Terry Pratchett

Being Ymor's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces. (Pratchett is quite good with the metaphors)

It has been remarked before that those who are sensitive to the radations of the far octarine - the eighth color, the pigment of the Imagination - can see things that others cannot.

'You have the Power!'
'All I did was think of it.'
'That's what the Power is!'

Some pirates achieved immortality by geat deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by ammassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

'Every night I come out here and look down,' he finished, 'and I never jump. Courage is hard to come by here on the Edge.'

[surferarmo]

I am reading the "politics of congressional elections" and "Capital and Labor" by Marx and "Capitalism and Freedom" by Milton Friedman.

[loseyourname]

Originally posted by Aphrodit3 Did you go out and get your own copy? Because the last time I checked, we haven't exchanged books yet. I know this because I'm reading mine now.

Loser!

I didn't say I was reading them simultaneously. I told you I'd finish over the weekend.

[loseyourname]

Originally posted by sSsflamesSs I'm just curious...

I actually started reading the book not too long ago. How do you get past the Russian words?

I know Russian, yet it was even difficult for me at times to make out the Russian words in English letters.

He makes up an entirely new language in parts of the book and you're worried about Russian? I didn't say it was an easy read.