Originally Posted By alexbook Just started "Green Is the New Red" by Will Potter. It's by a left-wing journalist who claims the FBI and DHS are abusing anti-terrorism laws to silence environmental activists.
Originally Posted By MissCandice I am reading a free Kindle book called "Stealing Jake" by Pam Hillman. I keep getting sucked into not-very-good books that I have to finish once I start. I may stop downloading free newer content from Kindle to save myself from these books.
Originally Posted By alexbook You can get a lot of out-of-copyright titles for free on-line. The few I downloaded hadn't been digitized very well.
Originally Posted By dagobert Just started to read the third Harry Potter book. Hopefully it gets better, because the first two books weren't that great. Until now I really don't get the hype. The movies are not good and the first two books aren't that good either.
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon WDWdreamin...when I was somewhere around the ages of 8-10 I read the Five Little Peppers books too, and loved them. Brings back good memories. Currently reading Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah. Certainly strikes a chord in my memories of the 70's and 80's era. It's decent reading. I, too, find that I make myself finish a book. Sometimes I'm very glad I did.
Originally Posted By ecdc dagobert, Prisoner of Azkaban is my favorite. Very clever and well done, and that's the book that starts getting away from some of the more stereotypical kid-fantasy stuff (silly names, etc). If you like Prisoner of Azkaban, then keep going. If not, I honestly wouldn't finish the series, because it's just not for you. And part of it may be you've seen the movies. I personally can't imagine watching the movies then reading the books - all the great mystery is gone and you're just left with the fantasy-wizardry stuff. Fun, sure, but the best part of the books was that she structured them like a mystery and did it very well (Order of the Phoenix excepted).
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>dagobert, Prisoner of Azkaban is my favorite. Very clever and well done, and that's the book that starts getting away from some of the more stereotypical kid-fantasy stuff (silly names, etc). If you like Prisoner of Azkaban, then keep going. If not, I honestly wouldn't finish the series, because it's just not for you. And part of it may be you've seen the movies. I personally can't imagine watching the movies then reading the books - all the great mystery is gone and you're just left with the fantasy-wizardry stuff. Fun, sure, but the best part of the books was that she structured them like a mystery and did it very well (Order of the Phoenix excepted).<<< Usually I try to read the books before I watch a movie, but honestly I was never interested in Harry Potter. My girlfriend convinced me to watch the movies with her and unfortunately the movies are not very good, at least in my opinion. That's why I started to read the books.
Originally Posted By alexbook I'm reading Chuck Palahniuk's new novel, with a title that might be adminnable.
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin Still reading Dancing with Dragons, but also reading Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell.
Originally Posted By alexbook In case anybody's interested, I just signed up at Goodreads. I've "friended" a couple of LPers there already. Anybody else wanting to connect, check out goodreads.com/alexbook.
Originally Posted By MissCandice I recently read "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand. It was really good. I have a head cold right now so I am re-reading my book versions of comfort food, Dick Francis books.
Originally Posted By MissCandice I am re-reading Breaking Dawn in preparation for the movie on the 18th.
Originally Posted By jasmine7 I haven't had much time to read it but it's brilliant so far. Very well set up in the first chapter with little teases and foreshadowing.
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon Just finished The Woods by Harlan Coben. Very good, very suspenseful! Am currently reading I'll Cross the River by C. Hope Flinchbaugh.
Originally Posted By MissCandice I'm reading the latest Stephen King. I bought it for myself for my birthday. So far it is great.
