What are you reading now?

[Spleen]

Re: What book are you currently reading?

I tried to read "Invisible Monsters" when I lived in Brazil. Terrible book, the characters were too contrived. I hated that book almost as much as I hated John Steinbeck's "To a God Unknown." Which is saying a lot as I think of Steinbeck as one of my favorite authors and yet its one of the worst things I've ever read.

I thought Palahniuk was a genius after reading "Fight Club" but he may be a one hit wonder.

If he was a one hit wonder, it would be with Survivor, not Fight Club. It's a good book, but it's too short and the movie version is far superior.

I enjoyed Invisible Monsters, but it was very over the top. Survivor is one of the best books I've read by any author, you should definately check it out.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Re: What book are you currently reading?

After "Get Shorty" I'm going to re-read some of Joseph Wambaugh's novels. That guy writes about cops like no one else can.

 

[tunsty]

Re: What book are you currently reading?

'I know you got soul - Jeremy Clarkson'

Heavy stuff, I tell ya..

 

[holländer]

Re: What book are you currently reading?

John Cheever's Wapshot Chronicle!

 

[BlueBalls]

Re: What book are you currently reading?

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[eddyb]

Lee Child's Bad Luck & Trouble

 

[calpoon]

Re: What book are you currently reading?

Chuck Palahnuiks new book Pygmy. I think maybe he's trying too hard to be different now. It's all through the voice of a terrorist pretending to be a foreign exchange student, and it's all in broken English, which can be very funny at times but difficult to read.

I've been waiting for that one, it sounds interesting. I didn't read his last book, Snuff, because pseudo-rotica about gross porn just doesn't sound like a good read. I also really hate phonetic dialogue of bad English, so that's two for two. Oh well, there's always next year's Rant "sequel".

I tried to read "Invisible Monsters" when I lived in Brazil. Terrible book, the characters were too contrived. I hated that book almost as much as I hated John Steinbeck's "To a God Unknown." Which is saying a lot as I think of Steinbeck as one of my favorite authors and yet its one of the worst things I've ever read.

I thought Palahniuk was a genius after reading "Fight Club" but he may be a one hit wonder.

I guess there's three kinds of Palahniuk readers: those whose favorite is Invisible Monsters, those whose favorite is Fight Club, and those whose favorite is Choke.

I never read IV, and I thought Choke was his worst one.

 

[ChefChiTown]

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. You know, for being one of the so-called classics that is constantly regarded as one of the best books ever written, this book certainly sucks a lot of balls so far.

 

[calpoon]

I liked Fahrenheit 451. Maybe it was just overhyped. I don't know about being "one of the best books ever written" but Bradbury is a pretty good author.

 

[ThatRedWing]

American Indian Cultural Heroes and Teaching Tales, Evenings with Chasing Bear by Kurt Kaltreider, Ph. D.

 

[BlueBalls]

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. You know, for being one of the so-called classics that is constantly regarded as one of the best books ever written, this book certainly sucks a lot of balls so far.

I didn't like that one either. I didn't hate it, I just thought it wasn't very deserving of it's status along side other dystopian fiction classics, such as Brave New World etc It's a decent little book, but not very memorable.

Try to find the film version, it's unintentionally hilarious .

 

[Lonilover]

i read commics , also books.

 

[sproing99]

Battle Cry of Freedom by James M Mcpherson

An excellent 1 volume work on the U.S Civil War

 

[darkwarrior3007]

Bret Hart: Hitman - My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling

 

[turtle825]

Rebel Without a Crew

 

[yaheem]

World War Hulk

 

[BlueBalls]

God's War: A New History of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman

If On A Winter's Night A Traveller - Italo Calvino

 

[CunningStunts]

Re-reading "Common Sense, The Rights of Man..." by Thomas Paine. Should be required reading for all humans!

 

[Manalishi]

The Rebels: A Brotherhood of Outlaw Bikers by Daniel R. Wolf

Slow start but it published in 1991 :tongue:

 

[tdomaster]

bought from amazon
my new favorite

serdar somuncu (comedian) - der antituerke

http://www.rowohlt.de/buch/Serdar_Somuncu_Der_Antituerke.08082009.2731579.html