Originally Posted By DAR I'm now reading Zodiac. I just watched the movie and wanted to find out more about this case.
Originally Posted By alexbook Just picked up "Angels Essential" by Steven Travers. (That's the baseball Angels, not the otherworldly kind.)
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon Just finished My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. Was hard to put down. Another great one was The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Didn't think I would like it but it was great! I lean towards the historical romances or "bodice rippers" as we often refer to them. Just easy to read escapism. But every now and again you have to read something with substance. Like alexbook, Pride and Prejudice has been on my "To read" list for a long time and I think I will start it soon.
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon I guess I'm one of the few you hasn't read HP&tDH or any of the HP's for that matter. I should. Now that the series is done maybe I'll start it.
Originally Posted By alexbook ^-I like the HP books, but I think the hype can detract from the enjoyment. Actually, that's true of almost any popular book (or movie or record). I try to approach each book on its own, and not with expectations based on all the wonderful things I've heard about it. I don't always manage it, though. FWIW, I don't think you're the only non-HP reader here.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x I liked My Sisters Keeper. I never saw the movie. I'm STILL reading HP5...I think I'm going to put them all away for now, and pick up again in December after school gets out. Next up though is The Nanny Diaries. And I have to read Macbeth for English class.
Originally Posted By alexbook I've been sick, so I've been reading a lot and not posting much. Over the weekend, I read Don Lattin's "Jesus Freaks," about The Family, aka the Children of God. Not well written, but interesting and a bit frightening. Yesterday, I finished "Boomsday" by Christopher Buckley. Very funny novel about a young lobbyist who proposes that Congress offer tax breaks to Baby Boomers who kill themselves, in order to save Social Security. Self-consciously "Swiftian" (as in Jonathan Swift's "Modest Proposal" that the Irish sell their surplus children for meat). Just picked up an anthology of North Carolina-based mystery short stories, called "Tar Heel Dead."
Originally Posted By alexbook "The Garden of Evil," aka "The Lair of the White Worm," aka Bram Stoker's second-best-known novel (behind "Dracula"--far behind)
Originally Posted By MissCandice Is that good, Alex? Dracula is one of my favorite books. I am re-reading all the HP's still. I am in the middle of the 5th one, darn that Umbridge! I don't know what I will do after this. I have half an urge to re-read the Dark Tower series by Stephen King but with all this re-reading and so many books out there I haven't read I feel I should be reading something new.
Originally Posted By DAR I just finished Watchmen. I think after 3 reading I'm finally starting to understand it and even appreciate just how good it is. It is probably one of the most complex stories in any medium. Now I'm going to be reading Fables-Arabian Days and Nights trade paperback. Fables-Wolves trade paperback. Fables-Sons of Empire trade paperback. I've mentioned this before, but this is by far the best comic series going.
Originally Posted By alexbook "The Garden of Evil" was a big disappointment. It's creepy enough, but I found a lot of it confusing. Maybe it's just me, or maybe it's because Stoker was slowly going insane at the time he wrote it (at least according to one website I just read). Currently reading "Solve Your Money Troubles" from Nolo Press.
Originally Posted By alexbook Donna Andrews's latest Meg Langslow novel, "The Penguin Who Knew Too Much," arrived yesterday, so I had to drop everything and read it. I finished up about 2 o'clock this morning. Really good.
Originally Posted By DAR Two questions for you Alex. 1. How fast can you read? 2. What's a good scary novel I could read? Someone told me they just read the Ruins by Scott Smith but that sounds a little hokey. I've heard good things about Heart Shaped Box. Any other suggestions?
