What are you reading now?
Published 1 year, 8 months ago in Entertainment.I’m new to nook, and I have to say that the community looks very interesting and diverse. That being the reason for my question. 
My current reading list includes:
Flight of the Night Hawks by Raymond E. Feist
Deja dead by Kathy Reichs
Day of reckoning and Midnight runner by Jack Higgins
Tell me what you are reading. And what genres you like.
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Currently on the read-list…
The Beagle Handbook - studying up for my new puppy to be
Temple of the Grail - Adriana Koulas - great holy grail/knight templar inspired story
current read
the witches of chiswick - robert rankin - quirky sci-fiish
like most stuff ’specially if it’s a bit out there & amusing
don’t like syrupy sweet romancy stuff or excessively gruesome, violent stuff.
Shantaram — had a blank…. !! you’ll feel you’re living in an Indiam slum.
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre — the language…so free. so non-cliche. so bulls-eye.
Chopper #8 - Mark Brandon Read — not hard to imagine how this goes … a pacey, humurous, gritty look at Melbourne’s underworld. Almost makes you want to barrack for Collingwood.
The Journey of Socrates - Dan Millman — philosophical musings hidden like mum’s peas in a bolognaise sauce in a can’t-put-you-down tale.
I am currently reading Sarah Caudwell’s books. she wrote 4 books before she died and I borrowed them from the library a couple of years ago. a few weeks ago I decided I would like to read them again so I went out and bought all 4. they are: Thus Was Adonis Murdered, The Shortest Way to Hades, The Sirens Sang of Murder, The Sibyl in Her Grave. I am up to number 3 at the moment. just before I started reading them I read Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear. jess08 -I read Temple of the Grail when it first came out and I must say I was disappointed. it seemed to be trying to copy The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (there was a film made of it) but unfortunately Adriana Koulas just didn’t quite get it right. of course that is my opinion and when you finish it I would be interested to hear what you think.
Good luck with the studying
Always was a knight templar fan. Have to make a note of that one.
Thanks
I’ve just finished:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Mark Haddon (Young adult fiction/cross over).
Nooksters: Curious Incident has sold a kerzillion copies. Who’s read it? What did you think? I liked it. However, it wasn’t the change-my-life read I was expecting. Odd how the mystery drivng the book from the beginning - the curious incident - is solved just over half way (or so) through…
This. Why do you have to ask?
Anything I can lay my hands on - I eat books up. I also get desperate and read the kids books. Latest was Eragon and yes I did enjoy it, in a disposable sort of way. Pretty good effort for a 15 y.o. author. Waiting on Les Carlyon’s The Great War. I hope it’s thick, should be good for a couple of days.
lyni - yeahh I’m about 1/3 of the way through, it’s a bit hard to get into and stay interested in… but I’ll read it anyway!!
Favourite author is definately Matthew Reilly…anyone else read his stuff? Amazingly talented guy DEFINATELY worth checking out, the books he’s released are:
Contest
Ice Station
Temple
Hovercar Racer
Area 7
Scarecrow
Seven Ancient Wonders (my favourite one!)
I found a copy of Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice in the library at uni and got to page 14, but then next time I checked someone had borrowed it so I can’t read it anymore
I’ll have to check the local library for more books by Anne Rice, someone reputable recommended them to me…
Kodewulf my children and I read all of the Jack Higgins books up to the 1990’s. I don’t know how I could have read them, but there you are. I read the first two or three Kathy Reichs books but I found them so gruesome that I had to stop reading them. I really didn’t need to know all the details about decaying corpses and the autopsies carried out on them. tell us what you think of these books you are reading.
You might also enjoy The Mummy, also from Anne Rice.
Link: http://www.annerice.com/bs_b_TheMummy.htm
lyni: my first Jack Higgins book was The eagle has landed. I’ve even read all the books he wrote under his real name: Harry Patterson. I only bought the Kathy Reichs book because I LOVE the tv series Bones. I’m not a big fan of first person perspective stories, so it’s going a bit slow.
Have to say that I haven’t found anything gruesome yet, but I’ve only just started.
This week, I returned to reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson, after being distracted by a T S Eliot anthology for a couple of months there. It’s strange and beautifully written.
Thomas Harris, naturally. What better boost for one’s ego than to read about oneself.
I get so passionate about the good books i’ve read. But lately, I have read, Schapelle Corby’s book…….i could chat for hours on that one. And wow, Helen Garners - Joe Cinques consolation………is mind numbing , i’m involuntarily shaking my head at trying to find the words to explain the wonderful effort she has put into this book to make sure that Joe Cinques name is never forgotten, she has done his mother and father a great service by writing this book……mmmmmm, just do your best to get a copy of this and read it, and then we can discuss it on these posts !!!!
I also read Joe Cinque’s Consolation recently. I am very much into true crime, but this told the story from a completely different perspective which I found refreshing. It wasn’t just about times, dates, facts, figures and evidence. It explored the personal and emotional side of all those involved.
I can’t get enought of any book by the following writers:
James Patterson
David Baldacci
Michael Connelly
Last year, I picked up a John Marsden (Aust writer) book which was one of the ‘When the War Began’ series. This was brilliant. I need to get the whole series at some stage.
welcome mate im reading the lost treasures of australia i might become rich or not
I am reading Casino Royale by Ian Fleming. It is the first Fleming book I have read and I am hooked. Do yourself a favour!
Thud!
Although I’m not a big fan, I tend to pick up one of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels as some light reading each time I travel.
Previous journeys were: Monstrous Regiment, Reaper Man, The Last Continent (skip it, it’s a bit overly forced), The Colour of Magic, and The Truth. (The latter being my favorite in the series).