[Discussion] Tell me...

[an6elicinnocenc]

[Discussion] Tell me...

What are you reading currently? I'm curious to know.

What's the next book you plan on picking up?

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[bruised_candy]

For uni I'm currently reading In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje and Saturday Night, Sunday Morning by Alan Stilltoe.

For my own fun reading I've got a few books on the go: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, Violet & Claire by Francesca Lia Block and Deconstructing the hero : literary theory and children's literature by Margery Hourihan

[albino_hedgehog]

I've just finished Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, I'm halfway through Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller and er, The Batman Handbook by Scott Beatty :D, and next I'm planning to read either Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen or Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy, seeing as I started them but then forgot about them.

[zenni]

How did you like Fight Club? I love the movie (as does... probably the majority of the people who watch it >.>) but I've heard that Palahniuk's style is dry, and the book is vastly different.

[potthead]

Butting in to say I actually really loved the book. Idk if the fact that I read the book before watching the movie has anything to do with it, though!

[albino_hedgehog]

It's definitely different from the film, which was kind of distracting for me when I was reading it because some things worked better in the film than they did in the book. Although I've only read it through once, so re-reading it might make it clearer.
I'd suggest reading it, even if it's just to see how some bits of it were done differently and there's a tiny bit more of an explination of some things, like how Fight Club became Project Mayhem.
And to get that 'Ha, yeah, but I've read the book as well :D' feeling of superiority over other people :)

[utkari02]

I've started The Golden Compass and Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban. I just finished the first to books in the City of Ember series, City of Ember & People of Sparks, so I plan to continue that series next. :)

[agneson9]

I've only read City of Ember. After reading the summaries for the other books. I thought it'd be uber-depressing. So I stopped there.

[un_sedentary]

I'm reading Wicked. I also recently picked up a book at Costco because it was only $6... it's Marked, by two authors called Cast. It looks like pretty much your typical teen-girl-POV young adult, although I'm only on page 40. The heroine is a 16 year old who gets Marked and turned into a vampyre. So far, it reads a bit cheesy, but in a really good way (I like my literature and I like my trash - all according to mood!).

Better writing than Twilight, IMO, (no offense to anyone who is a fan - that series was just not my cup of tea), but Meg Cabot is still reigning queen of teen-girl-POV-YAs for me.

[waterfly89]

Laurie R. King - Justice Hall. :)

[lafemmedarla]

I love the Mary Russell books! A Letter of Mary is on my To Read Next list.

[waterfly89]

Yes! I was kinda skeptic about the whole Holmes thing at first, but they turned out to be awesome. :D