What are you currently reading?

Question

...or the last book you read.
What was it about? Any good?
thanks
Marissa x

Answer 1

The Wreck of the Titanic Foretold, Medieval Warfare, Homebird are the books I am reading now. Then I am going to read A Tale of Two Cities and Fahrenheit 451 for school.

Answer 2

I actually just finished an older book of Robert McCammon's called Swans Song. The book was about a nuclear war between the United States and Russia - that tells you it is a few years old! It was a good book. Robert McCammon is an excellent writer whose writing style is much like Stephen Kings. While I was reading Swan's Song - I also read Bridge Of San Luis Rey by Thorton Wilder - a wonderful tell that I would suggest to anyone - This book was a Pulitzer Prize winner. It is beautifully but simply written. The book deals with the death of 5 people from a bridge collapsing - their lives and why they were the ones to die (a man named Brother Juniper investigates the deaths). AT ANY RATE I TEND TO HAVE A COUPLE OF BOOKS GOING AT THE SAME TIME - IT IS KIND OF LIKE SWITCHING CHANNELS on THE TV(haha).

Answer 3

Last book I read was "Silence of the Lambs" by Thomas Harris, it's an awesome book, I can't tell you about it because it'll ruin everything. You know the movie and book Hannibal? Yeah, they're correlated.:) That's all I can tell you. I especially love how the author ended the boko with one last sentence. "...slept deep, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs." You'll understand that when you get into the middle of the book. I couldn't put the book down. Other than that, I read all the Dan Brown books, you should too, it's amazing, only if you're interested in science fiction, mystery, and suspense. By the way, you're beautiful. Oh yeah, I read your profile, now I must say, hello there fellow volleyball player:)

Answer 4

I'm currently reading some Sherlock Holmes stories, because I'm actually in between books.

I just finished "Wicked" by Gregory Maguire. Very interesting take about the life of the Wicked Witch of the West. Pretty cool.

Next up will be "Darcy's Story" by Janet Aylmer, I think. It's Pride & Prejudice, but from the point of view of Mr. Darcy. Don't know if it'll be any good, but I'm getting a free First Look copy, so I'll read it and see.

Answer 5

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.

It's easily the best book I've ever read - filled with beauty, love, and sadness. The style of writing is hard for some people to get into, but it's somewhat like a stream of consciousness, in which the details of what's happening aren't nearly as important as the emotions of the people it's happening to.

Answer 6

Frankenstein by Dean Koontz. The doctor and the monster are loose in New Orleans. So far it's really good, but because I get most of my books used I read the second book first before I bought the first one. Dean Koontz is a great suspense writer.

Answer 7

I'm currently reading (re-reading, only for the second time) Strangers, by Dean Koontz. It isn't his best, but it is definitely one of his better ones. It's a thriller; telling anything else would give away too much of the plot.

Last thing I read before that was Conspiracies, by F. Paul Wilson. It is also good, and also a thriller. It's one of Wilson's "Repairman Jack" novels; this one involves a missing person, and the protagonist has to attend a conspiracy-theorist convention to get clues as to what happened to her. So it's funny as well as interesting.

Answer 8

Two Trains Running by Andrew Vachss

A stark departure from his usual work (that of a lone avenger getting revenge for children who are abused and/or killed), this book dealt with a small Midwestern Town embedded in vice, run by a "Boss" Royal Beaumont in 1959. What made this book more than a mere crime book, it showed several groups in the town (KKK, FBI, Black Militant Group, Neo-Nazi, IRA, Italian Mob, Teen Gangs) as they headed towards an inevitable crash with a National Election (Nixon v. Kennedy) and the changing world (growth of Civil Rights Movement, decline of Teen Gangsterism, etc.) as a backdrop. A central piece of the puzzle is a crazed man for hire who is more than everyone (and the reader) expects.

There are comparisons with "Red Harvest", a classic noir story written by Dashielle Hammett. "Two Trains Running" is not quite as good as this classic, but a very fine book that stands on it own. If you are a fan of noir, you'll like this book.

Answer 9

Reading two books now :::
1... " The True Power of Water "
Healing And Discovering Ourselves
by: Masaru Emoto
Mainly about having positive attitudes
with respect to water and receiving back
positive vibrations from water because
we are mostly made up of water,
at human conception, a fertilized egg is
96 % water... At birth, 80% water then
we level off to about 70% water ...
Water is our essence ......

2... " In Search of the Miraculous "
The Teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff
Philosophy, Eastern thinking, etc.
by: P.D. Ouspensky

Both books are fascinating in there own way,
& besides, i like anything by P.D. Ouspensky

Answer 10

Tough Guys Don't Dance by Norman Mailer

A dark, brilliant novel of astonishing pitch, set in Provincetown, a “spit of shrub and dune” captured here in the rawness and melancholy of the off-season, Tough Guys Don’t Dance is the story of Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer addicted to bourbon, cigarettes, and blonde, careless women with money. On the twenty-fourth morning after the decampment of his wife, Patty Lareine, he awakens with a hangover, considerable sexual excitement, and, on his upper arm, a red tattoo bearing a name from the past. Of the night before, he remembers practically nothing. What he soon learns is that the front passenger seat of his Porsche is soaked with blood and that in a secluded corner of his marijuana stash in a nearby woods rests a blonde head, severed at the throat.