JD Book Club: What Are You Reading Now?

[Chris M]

I'm reading For Liberty and Glory.  It's about George Washington and Lafayette and the relationship between the two.  Pretty good read so far.

[Darth_Anton]

Took me a while, but I finished Frankenstein. Well worth the read, great story. Also read Harlin Elison's original take on City on the Edge of Forever and the first volume of Buffy season 8. I just started Dracula, much easier to read than Frankenstein and charming right from the start.

[Reid]

[Brian]

Not exactly "what I'm reading", but a quick book-related question.  Although I have heard of the books before, I'll admit the movie trailer got me noticing the Spiderwick Chronicles.  I was just wondering, are these "kids" books, or are they "kids" books the way that Harry Potter books are for kids - but for everyone?  Not that I'm planning on reading them right now, but I was just wondering for down the road if they were worthwhile, or for a much younger audience.

[Nathan]

Just finished these. The first was for class (though a surprisingly good read) and the other two for fun.







Almost half done with this one:

[Phrubruh]

I just reading the The Subtle Knife. (the sequal to the Golden Compass)

[Reid]

Received this from Amazon yesterday...

[Nathan]

School:

[Ryan]

It's an abosolutely terrific book. One of the best I've read in a really long time.

[bamaker]

Reading three books currently...

The first is World War Z.  Kind of an uneven book because it's presented in a very factual, serious style, but, I mean, c'mon, it's zombies!


The second is The White Cascade.  Very good book, one of those hard-to-put-down types of books, especially if you enjoy this period in history (early 1900s, trustbusting, robber barons, steam locomotives) which I do.


The third is The Mascot.  Still getting myself geared up for it; just poking around the edges of what I'm sure will be a tough, draining read.

[Morgbug]

If you like Lovecraft and like be scared outta your wits, you should pick up some early stuff by Michael Slade, a Canadian author.  The first 2-3 novels share some similarities.  They are based on the exploits of some RCMP special teams, but are pretty scary in their own right. 

[Diddly]

Just finished reading this for a US History class:



Insanely crazy stuff and it really shows you how bad it was in the country back then.

[Nathan]

^ In a similar vein (guys who wrote books later made into Daniel Day-Lewis movies ):



I'm a fan of the Scorsese film so in my copious downtime I've started the nonfic on which it was based.

Actually the copy in the college library is older than dirt and looks to be the original 1928 edition.

[Scott]

I've been reading through the list of books given in the Dangerous Book for Boys book...the list that every boy should read.  I was actually pretty surprised at how many I have read


Anyway, here's the list:

• The Twits, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, George's Marvelous Medicine, The BFG and James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
• The Winnie-the-Pooh books by A.A. Milne
• The "Adventure" series by Willard Price
• The "Famous Five" and "Secret Seven" series by Enid Blyton
• Fungus and the Bogeyman by Raymond Briggs
• Famous fairy tales, including Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen , and Greek and Roman legends
• "The Belgraiad" series by David Eddings
• Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
• The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
• Kim, Just So Stories, and The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
• Mr. Standfast and The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
• The "James Bond" series by Ian Fleming
• The "Harry Potter" series by J.K. Rowling
• The Outsiders, Tex, and Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The science fiction works of Isaac Asimov
• The "Discword" series by Terry Pratchett
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• The "Seafort Saga" series by David Feintuch
• The Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
• The fantasy works of David Gremmell, especially Waylander and the "Drenai" Series
• Magician by Raymond E. Fiest
• The Lords of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkein
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• The "Flashman" series by Geoge MacDonald Fraser
• Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
• The "Sherlock Holmes" series by Aurthur Conan Doyle
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
• The horror and fiction works of Stephen King, starting with The Bachman Books.

I am currently reading the Belgariad books.  They are decent Fantasy lore...definitely borrowing heavily from Rings (what fantasy book doesn't?)

[Mikey D]

Just plowed through these in the last two weeks.  They were so ******* good that I can't wait until June to get Sinestro Corps volume 2 so I'm in the process of tracking down parts 7 - 11 of that storyline in regular comic book form.  Almost there, just need one issue each of GL and GLC and the Superman Prime Special.









Of the non-illustrated variety, I'm now reading