What are you currently reading??

**Chilly Willy** · August 27th, 2007, 12:52 PM

^^ I was wondering about the pix of the family, too. Never found anything. And I remember I wanted to stop reading it, too, but then was grabbed by it suddenly. Glad that I never give up on a book.

*falls asleep again thinking of A Room With A View*

**silver024** · August 27th, 2007, 12:55 PM

Go look em up on wiki Chilly...they are some creepy lookin guys, I only found a pic of the Perry Smith guy on Wiki, Hickock I found just searching on yahoo. Hickock is really weird looking.

**NoDayButToday** · August 27th, 2007, 04:06 PM

I just picked up The Other Boleyn Girl. It's a movie I'll probably end up seeing when it comes out b/c I love both the lead actresses, but I really prefer to read books first. VERY mixed reviews on Amazon, so we'll have to see when I have time to start it (finishing up a real trash novel right now).

**Laurent** · August 27th, 2007, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by Chilly Willy

Room With A View by E.M. Forster. Puts me to sleep. Every.single.page.of.it.

*snores*

I just read that last week for the first time. I definately had to push through some of it.

It's one of those that has 3 novels in one book, so it has "Maurice" and "Howard's End" in there too. Going to read those two after I finish Great Gatsby, but I have no idea what either one is about.

**MarieAntoinette** · August 28th, 2007, 12:17 AM

started "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

I read that about half a year ago, and I too was at first a bit underwhelmed, the beginning was kind of slow, but then it got really good.

**buttmunch** · August 28th, 2007, 07:10 AM

Anything by Capote is well worth dipping into. Right now, I've just started the new book about Virginia Woolf and her servants. Liberal as she was, she certainly had some issues with the hired help.

**MarieAntoinette** · August 28th, 2007, 08:31 AM

^ That sounds interesting. While we are at it,which of Virginia Woolf's books can you recommend? So far I have only read "Mrs.Dalloway".

**cjl_04** · September 2nd, 2007, 03:53 PM

last thing i read was the graphic novel 30 days of night, and before that the road by cormac mccarthy

**Aella** · September 2nd, 2007, 07:14 PM

I'm rereading Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh. Damn, I forgot how hard phonetically-spelled accents are to read. I don't mind it so much in Welsh's work, it emphasizes the overall rough feel of his writing, but nevertheless, it's one style that I wish authors would drop.

**NiceDude** · September 3rd, 2007, 12:28 AM

Originally Posted by Aella

I'm rereading Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh. Damn, I forgot how hard phonetically-spelled accents are to read. I don't mind it so much in Welsh's work, it emphasizes the overall rough feel of his writing, but nevertheless, it's one style that I wish authors would drop.

Then don't read Morvern Callar (even if it is a great book). The dialogue is impossible to understand.

**TonjaLasagna** · September 3rd, 2007, 08:26 PM

I just finished 'Body of Lies' a good piece of fiction. Author David Ignatius is a Washington Post columnist.

**Laurent** · September 3rd, 2007, 08:36 PM

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D H Lawrence.

**Chalet** · September 3rd, 2007, 11:33 PM

Two friends of mine RAVED over this book. I don't have it yet, but I trust their taste. Anyone know it?

Amazon.com: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia: Books: Elizabeth Gilbert

And she's already got it.....
Roberts and Murphy to "Eat, Pray, Love"

Paramount Pictures has acquired the film rights to the Elizabeth Gilbert memoir "Eat, Pray, Love" and will develop it as a star vehicle for Julia Roberts, according to Variety. Ryan Murphy ("Nip/Tuck" and "Running with Scissors") is set to adapt the screenplay and direct. Plan B Entertainment's Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner will produce.

In "Eat, Pray, Love," Gilbert moved with her husband to the suburbs of New York and began trying to get pregnant, only to realize that this was not the life she wanted. After a painful divorce, she set off on a journey of self-discovery around the world with three main stops in Italy, India and Indonesia.

**yanna** · September 4th, 2007, 01:57 AM

Rage by Wilbur Smith. It's about post WWII South Africa. I don't know what to think of it, really, almost all of the characters are very unlikeable at times but they can be fascinating. It's pretty cruel too. I like that the writing doesn't force me to sympathise with either side but now I kind of think both sides suck and deserve to die and i'm not sure that's the point.

**pacific breeze** · September 4th, 2007, 02:08 AM

I read Eat, Pray, Love -- I was lukewarm on it, but maybe it's because she beat me to it! I'm back to reading a fair bit lately now that I am no longer restricted to only reading books for my thesis. Richistan was interesting (it's all about how the mega rich live), Writing from the Body (creative techniques for writing), Sailing the Wine Dark Sea, Why the Greeks Matter, The Brain that Changes Itself, plus a bunch of true crime and murder mysteries I can't remember off hand. I also read Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett, which I found fascinating, and View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro.

I wish I was reading In Cold Blood again for the first time -- it's one of my favourite books. I also re-read Stranger in a Strange Land this summer -- it holds up very well.