What is the current book you are reading?

Question

Would you recommend it?

I am currently reading flyboys. I would recommend it. I find it particularly interesting because it is about WWII, the Pacific arena fighting the Japanese. That is where my father faught. Since he very rarely spoke of his experiences it gives me some insight into some things he may have gone through. It is quite graphic and I have to read it slowly because of the of brutality that is described. I can't take too much at one time.
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Answer 1

"A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini...he previously wrote "The Kite Runner"

Answer 2

Just finished Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. Yes, it's a disturbing book about a sociopath, but fascinating. It does a good job of what a sociopath book should do, which is give some insight into the sociopath's mind, while painting a darkly surreal world of totems made from animal remains and habitual violence.

Currently, Crazy by Ben Lambert. Not so far, it is pretty mundane. Could just be the translation, though. Maybe if the plot ends up somewhere.

Also, Eric Flint's 1824, an alternate history book & a sequel. Not really, The book is typical Flint, in that it reads like a historical paper. I can only see myself recommending it to history buffs, as it isn't great writing.

Answer 3

"Seeing" by Jose 'Saramago is what I'm currently reading, and I love it and the writer; I'm going through all his books, but because of what's going on in this country, I will be re-reading, "Animal Farm," and "1984" by Orwell, and "Sirens of Titan," by Vonnegut--I'd re-read "Brave New World," by Aldous Huxley, but I know it too well to bother. Beware, it's happening!

One of the greatest books on war was written by Stephen Crane, and it still holds up brilliantly. I read it only a few years ago: "Red Badge of Courage." I think you'd like it.

Oh, I can't stop. War? You'd love "The Good Soldier," by Ford Maddox Ford, "Dead Souls," by Gogol, "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje, and "Where Angels Fear to Tread," by E.M. Forrester.

And as for WWars I and II, one cannot not read "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," by T.E.Lawrence or my favorite of them, "Slaughterhouse Five," by Vonnegut or how about Hemingways' "Farewell to Arms" or "The Sun Also Rises" or "The Three Soldiers" by Jon Dos Passos, and don't forget F. S. Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise," and not the greatest, but very popular, Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front."

So many books, and so little time.
Whew!

Answer 4

i'm reading a few books:
twilight by stephenie meyer. actually i am re-reading it and i am enjoying it the second time around
also i started a book called the golden compass by philip pullman that has been made into a movie starring nicole kidman. so far it is good but i am only a couple of chapters into it
and tonight i started reading a book called the truth about celia by kevin brockmeier about a girl who goes missing. it seems like it'll be sad.

i definitely suggest twilight and new moon by stephenie meyer, not sure about the others since i'm not very far into them.
also just read a book called the time travellers wife and it was grrrreat.

Answer 5

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Answer 6

The current book I'm reading is 'Ghost stories of Henry James' but I wouldn't recommend it. I would recommend the last book I read- 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriet Beecher Stone. Its a classic about the slavery in America.

Answer 7

Interview with a Vampire. A friend at work told me I should read Anne Rice, and I have to say that thus far (honestly, I am only 5 pages in) I am totally captured by the way that she writes. Totally impressive!!!

Answer 8

Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson

Answer 9

I just finished reading "Up in Honey's Room" by Elmore Leonard. It was quite good, basically a WWII detective novel with some pretty witty characters. I will read more by him soon. The book you are reading sounds good, will add it to my must-read list.

Answer 10

I'm finishing off Dragon Tears by Dean Koontz tonight.