What are you reading right now?
Re: What are you reading right now?
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
-
Lucas
- Posts: 4134
- +1s received: 101
- Joined: 21 December 2012, 19:08
- Location: Massachusetts, USA
- Country:
Re: What are you reading right now?
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
"'You're critical of everyone,' observes Iris.
'Oh, not everyone,' says Clara in an offhand manner. 'Only everybody who's alive as well as most people who are dead. I feel quite neutral about anybody not yet born.'"
'Oh, not everyone,' says Clara in an offhand manner. 'Only everybody who's alive as well as most people who are dead. I feel quite neutral about anybody not yet born.'"
-
EleniDoSorto66 - Posts: 437
- +1s received: 93
- Joined: 30 October 2013, 00:03
- Country:
Re: What are you reading right now?
Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
Pretty damn good so far. Essentially it's like reads like an eighties-tinged road trip movie with bisexual vampires as the leads. Sort of like taking the movies The Hunger, River's Edge and Wild at Heart and making something of the three of them.
Pretty damn good so far. Essentially it's like reads like an eighties-tinged road trip movie with bisexual vampires as the leads. Sort of like taking the movies The Hunger, River's Edge and Wild at Heart and making something of the three of them.
"This is not a psychotic episode. This is a cleansing moment of clarity." - Howard Beale, Network
-
Agent47 - Posts: 127
- Joined: 9 December 2014, 06:00
- Location: Florida
- Country:
Re: What are you reading right now?
Agent47 wrote:Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
Pretty damn good so far. Essentially it's like reads like an eighties-tinged road trip movie with bisexual vampires as the leads. Sort of like taking the movies The Hunger, River's Edge and Wild at Heart and making something of the three of them.
Oh, really? That sounds so interesting!
"'You're critical of everyone,' observes Iris.
'Oh, not everyone,' says Clara in an offhand manner. 'Only everybody who's alive as well as most people who are dead. I feel quite neutral about anybody not yet born.'"
'Oh, not everyone,' says Clara in an offhand manner. 'Only everybody who's alive as well as most people who are dead. I feel quite neutral about anybody not yet born.'"
-
EleniDoSorto66 - Posts: 437
- +1s received: 93
- Joined: 30 October 2013, 00:03
- Country:
Re: What are you reading right now?
A Most Incomprehensible Thing by Peter Collier
and
A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
-
Brenden - Administrator
- Posts: 8469
- +1s received: 3085
- Joined: 20 December 2012, 20:12
- Location: Maryland, USA / Lanarkshire, Scotland
- Country:
-
Saul - Posts: 93
- +1s received: 1
- Joined: 2 August 2015, 07:56
- Country:
Re: What are you reading right now?
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
-
bubbling_over - Posts: 30
- +1s received: 32
- Joined: 12 June 2016, 20:12
- Country:
Re: What are you reading right now?
Brenden wrote:A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
I read this a while ago, it's quite good.
-
xyz72
- Posts: 3923
- +1s received: 34
- Joined: 20 December 2012, 20:50
- Country:
Re: What are you reading right now?
xyz72 wrote:Brenden wrote:A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
I read this a while ago, it's quite good.
It's entertaining and enjoyable. Although, I've spotted a few tidbits that are on this list, so I'm taking everything said with a grain of salt. I like how it highlights a lot of lesser-known scientists who had the limelight stolen by the big names.
-
Brenden - Administrator
- Posts: 8469
- +1s received: 3085
- Joined: 20 December 2012, 20:12
- Location: Maryland, USA / Lanarkshire, Scotland
- Country:
Re: What are you reading right now?
Brenden wrote:xyz72 wrote:Brenden wrote:A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
I read this a while ago, it's quite good.
It's entertaining and enjoyable. Although, I've spotted a few tidbits that are on this list, so I'm taking everything said with a grain of salt. I like how it highlights a lot of lesser-known scientists who had the limelight stolen by the big names.
I didn't realize Wikipedia had a list like that. Interesting. I'm surprised how much on there I was aware of already. It's interesting how many "medieval" items turned out to either be fakes or from a later period (iron maiden, chastity belt, that spikey ball staff thingy)
-
xyz72
- Posts: 3923
- +1s received: 34
- Joined: 20 December 2012, 20:50
- Country:
Books ATM
The subject says it all. What books are you reading right now? I have three I'm reading now.
1. Opium for the masses
2. Life Love Joy
3. Beginning programming with Python for dummies
Your turn, list what you're reading.
1. Opium for the masses
2. Life Love Joy
3. Beginning programming with Python for dummies
Your turn, list what you're reading.
Assholes finish first. I'm awesome though so I finish on the asshole's face.
-
The Bastard Bourbon - Posts: 248
- +1s received: 4
- Joined: 19 July 2016, 23:17
- Location: Land of milk, honey and socialism.
- Country:
Re: Books ATM
Gaiman! I've heard of him (of course) but hadn't ever read anything of his, so I picked up Neverwhere while ago and just didn't get into it in the first 20 pages. I was recently on vacation and saw American Gods at a bookstore and thought, hey, why not?
Loooooved it. Then I found out it's going to be a TV show. The cast list is looking exquisite!
I then finished Neverwhere. It was very different. As a main character, Richard Mayhew does not have the same sort of dirty gravitas that Shadow does.
Next on my list is Anansi Boys.
Loooooved it. Then I found out it's going to be a TV show. The cast list is looking exquisite!
I then finished Neverwhere. It was very different. As a main character, Richard Mayhew does not have the same sort of dirty gravitas that Shadow does.
Next on my list is Anansi Boys.
-
Sherri - Moderator
- Posts: 1302
- +1s received: 642
- Joined: 20 December 2012, 20:12
- Country:
Re: What are you reading right now?
Reading Dabiq 15 right now (the magazine of ISIS). The quality of the production is superb. That's very unsettling.
Blow: "Nowadays even Liam can release an album of his screechy vocals and it'll probably go #1..."
Ramzus: I can admit that I'm horny just about 24/7
homomorphism: I used to not think your name was deshay and that Erick was just being racist
Hunter: sometimes I think I was literally born to be a pornstar
Ramzus: I can admit that I'm horny just about 24/7
homomorphism: I used to not think your name was deshay and that Erick was just being racist
Hunter: sometimes I think I was literally born to be a pornstar
-
poolerboy0077 - Posts: 9404
- +1s received: 2518
- Joined: 20 December 2012, 21:20
- Country:
Re: What are you reading right now?
poolerboy0077 wrote:Reading Dabiq 15 right now (the magazine of ISIS). The quality of the production is superb. That's very unsettling.
I see the funding from the illicit sale of Syrian oil is being put to good use.
Assholes finish first. I'm awesome though so I finish on the asshole's face.
-
The Bastard Bourbon - Posts: 248
- +1s received: 4
- Joined: 19 July 2016, 23:17
- Location: Land of milk, honey and socialism.
- Country:
Re: What are you reading right now?
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
I've been spending far too long on this. Roughly 40% in after over a week. It's a fantastic exploration of the different ways the US dealt with Germany and Japan in WW2 though, simulatenously treating one of them as an inferior race and the other as a good people with a crazy leadership.
I've been spending far too long on this. Roughly 40% in after over a week. It's a fantastic exploration of the different ways the US dealt with Germany and Japan in WW2 though, simulatenously treating one of them as an inferior race and the other as a good people with a crazy leadership.
-
xyz72
- Posts: 3923
- +1s received: 34
- Joined: 20 December 2012, 20:50
- Country:
Re: What are you reading right now?
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was a thoroughly underwhelming read, though I could imagine a performance potentially being an enjoyable spectacle. It came across like a fanfic.
-
Brenden - Administrator
- Posts: 8469
- +1s received: 3085
- Joined: 20 December 2012, 20:12
- Location: Maryland, USA / Lanarkshire, Scotland
- Country:
What's the last book you read?
I just finished reading the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon, a courtier from the reign of Louis XIV & XV. What did you last read? What are you reading now?
-
_Isaac_ - Posts: 18
- +1s received: 2
- Joined: 7 December 2016, 23:19
- Country:
Re: What's the last book you read?
Hard Choices- Hillary Clinton 

-
TheDude01
- Posts: 17
- +1s received: 2
- Joined: 24 June 2016, 03:12
Re: What's the last book you read?
Just finished The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene, one of my favorite authors. I'm now reading Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Nice! I'd be especially interested in his insight into Louis XIV.
_Isaac_ wrote:I just finished reading the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon, a courtier from the reign of Louis XIV & XV. What did you last read? What are you reading now?
Nice! I'd be especially interested in his insight into Louis XIV.
-
Lucas
- Posts: 4134
- +1s received: 101
- Joined: 21 December 2012, 19:08
- Location: Massachusetts, USA
- Country:
Recently active
Users browsing this forum: Baidu [Spider], CommonCrawl [Bot], DotNetDotCom.org [Bot], kotek91, phadonhadanang, StoneMOX and 98 guests