Originally Posted By ecdc Almost done with the Lost Symbol. I'm enjoying it so far - Dan Brown sure doesn't stray from his formula. It's worked before so it's hard to blame him. Definitely a fun book though.
Originally Posted By DAR <<Dar i will have to get my hands on a copy of that Beatles book>> I got the book about ten years ago so you might have to search around for it.
Originally Posted By jasmine7 Loved Transmet, alex. Great stuff with a lot of timely thoughts. Rereading Shutter Island before our group records our podcast on it this week.
Originally Posted By jasmine7 Oh, sorry, Dar. Some friends and I do a podcast about Jackie Earle Haley, and in honor of the Shutter Island film NOT being released next week, we're reviewing the book in the podcast. Almost done rereading it, and then I'm going to get back to reading Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson.
Originally Posted By DAR You know I still haven't cracked open the Lost Symbol. I have to get moving on that. But since I'm a huge comic fan I'll mention a few things I've read. Now let me just say that nothing Marvel has put recently excited me or gave me that I've gotta read that feeling. Fantastic Four has been pretty good the last two issues. And Spider-Man has also been good, but they still give me that been there done that feeling. I love Captain America by Ed Brubaker but I'll always wait for the trades to come out with that. But I've been reading a lot of DC. For 12 weeks DC Comics published a series called Wednesday Comics. It was a throw back to the full color comics you got in your Sunday Paper. There were about 15 stories I think to varying degrees of quality. But it was a lot of fun overall. Give it a read if you can. Probably my favorite author in any medium right now is Geoff Johns. I've read his take on Green Lantern since he came on board that book. Now he's doing a story called the Blackest Night where the dead rise from the grave and fight the other Lantern Corps. It's a lot of fun. A superhero story crossed with a zombie film. So that's what I've been reading.
Originally Posted By Eisner Fan 4ever I am reading a book called Next by some dude named Michael Crichton.
Originally Posted By alexbook Agatha Christie's "The Labours of Hercules," as part of my ongoing project to read the whole Hercule Poirot canon. (The copy I'm reading has the UK spelling of "labours" on the cover, so I'm going with that.) >>Rereading Shutter Island before our group records our podcast on it this week.<< Read it a few years back. Just listened to the audio this week, and was surprised by how much I'd forgotten. Trippy book, and very good.
Originally Posted By alexbook Just started "Hidden Mickey," by Nancy Temple Rodrigue & David W. Smith. No, it's not a guide to Hidden Mickeys, and no, it's not by *that* Dave Smith (at least I don't think so). It's an adventure novel, of the Da Vinci Code/National Treasure ilk, with our heroes following clues to Walt Disney's hidden treasure. (I didn't know he had one!)
Originally Posted By jnemo Kingom Keepers by Ridley Pearson. Jennibarra wanted to see him at the Expo and I found both he and Dave Barry interesting so now I am reading the first book. Enjoying it so far.
Originally Posted By alexbook ^--I didn't realize they'd been at the Expo. That makes me a little sad that I missed them.
Originally Posted By jnemo Ridely Pearson was in person but Dave Barry was live on video. They were very funny and I really had a good time.
Originally Posted By alexbook I'm not surprised. I went to a concert by Dave Barry's band some years back. (Pearson plays bass.) A very, very good and silly time was had by all.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 I wish I could say I was reading the third book in the Kingdom Keepers series. But when I went to Barnes & Noble last week, I found the release date was switched to April 2010. Rats.
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin The Magic Ship series by Robin Hobb. I keep staying up too late reading. Only 600 pages more!
Originally Posted By DAR There must be something wrong with me because I STILL haven't cracked open the Lost Symbol. It could be I just haven't had the time.
Originally Posted By jasmine7 Got a pair of books going right now: Little Children by Tom Perrotta and A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes and Emperors by Michael Farquhar. I love the film that was based on Little Children (the book is great so far), and the second book is quite interesting so far, just a lot of little short histories on the subject.
Originally Posted By JenniBarra >>I'm reading the Looking Glass Wars right now. While I like the idea of transforming the Alice stories (I love the Alice stories), the writing is kinda choppy and not terribly sophisticated.<< I know what you mean. I am curious about the graphic novel version, though. >>Swimming without a net Mary Janice Davidson<< I'm bummed that she won't be writing any more Fred stories. : ( I also wish she would have continued on with the Alaska books as well.
