What are you reading?

cara · 05-17-2010, 10:31 PM

I'm in the middle of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

Good book. Took a few chapters to get into it, but it's an easy book to pick up on my bus ride to/from work.

cane · 05-17-2010, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by cara

I'm in the middle of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

Good book. Took a few chapters to get into it, but it's an easy book to pick up on my bus ride to/from work.

It's an ok book...the film was ok too, Don't know if you have the film in the US, or if they are making a new version for you guys...

cane · 05-17-2010, 11:27 PM

BTW, I'm reading 'Pride and Prejudice' by the ever so awsome Jane Austen...simply love her, and love the language...

Kate09 · 05-18-2010, 12:27 AM

I have a habit of reading certain books over and over. I love the familiarity i find in them. I learn the stories so well...but i never fail to see a new angle.
some of those faves are..

While Oleander; Janet Fitch
"Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it.The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space...If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way"

She's come undone; Wally Lamb

Eat, Pray, Love; Elizabeth Gilbert

Memoirs of a Geisha; Arthur Golden

Wicked; Gregory Macguire

I am reading one of these books at all times, as well as whatever newbies I have in my little hands. I love books. They've never truly let me down.

Martina · 05-18-2010, 04:16 AM

Just finished Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson. About building schools in Pakistan. Amazing story. Both hopeful and sad.

torchiegirl · 05-18-2010, 06:02 AM

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Lincoln's Ladies by H. Donald Winkler and Frank J. Williams
The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel: A Novel by Maureen Lindley

Random · 05-19-2010, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by cane

It's an ok book...the film was ok too, Don't know if you have the film in the US, or if they are making a new version for you guys...

The film is/was on limited release and they are making an 'merican version..

Brad Pitt is rumored to play Blomkvist..

cane · 06-01-2010, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Random

The film is/was on limited release and they are making an 'merican version..

Brad Pitt is rumored to play Blomkvist..

Any rumors as who is to portrait Lisbeth Salander?

Always interesting to compare the swedish (or european) version of a film with the american. I wonder though does americans ever see the original versions of the remakes?

Semantics · 06-01-2010, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by cara

I'm in the middle of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

Good book. Took a few chapters to get into it, but it's an easy book to pick up on my bus ride to/from work.

I just read that one along with the other two in the trilogy. I wasn't really blown away until the last book when the whole thing comes together. In the end it's a pretty amazing story.

It's sad that Stieg Larsson died before the books were published and such a huge success. Supposedly there's a fourth book nearly completed on his computer (that his heirs are fighting over) and outlines for the sixth and seventh. He had planned ten in all. I selfishly feel disappointed that we won't find out what he intended for Salanger.

theoddz · 06-01-2010, 02:35 PM

I recently bought an Amazon Kindle electronic reader and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. One of the features I love the most about it is the fact that I can enlarge the print and not have to don my reading glasses.

Most recently, I am re-reading Frank McCourt's memoir of "Angela's Ashes" and it's just as good a read now as it was 10 years ago when it was on the best seller list.

~Theo~

....addicted to his Kindle.

Passionaria · 06-01-2010, 10:29 PM

I am reading The Emergent Self
An Existential-Gestalt Approach by: Peter Philippson
For a Gestalt Therapy reading group I am part of.

And Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas and Statagies by: Bensky

No light reading over here for awhile......

Pashi

2myladyblue · 06-01-2010, 10:38 PM

The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb

~LadyBlue

Enigma · 06-01-2010, 11:04 PM

D. H. Lawrence and the Body Mystical
by Frederick Carter

at this moment... this passage:

"...mysticism is the means through which man seeks within himself the secret springs of life that are common to all things alive, existing in the greatest as in the least. It seeks, too, the very extent of life, finding a kinship and the stirrings of a mutual state of being in unsuspected places. Contemplative, the mind withdraws from too close contact, the better to envisage the rushing stream of existence..."

Venus007 · 06-01-2010, 11:29 PM

The Children of Hurin
By JRR Tolkien as compiled and edited by Christopher Tolkien

Martina · 06-02-2010, 12:36 AM

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. i think she lives in Ann Arbor. Pretty engrossing. Vampires and research in old archives.

Sachita · 07-04-2010, 12:54 PM

Mahabharata by Krishna Dharma

leatherfaery · 07-04-2010, 01:40 PM

My Dark Places by James Ellroy

Random · 07-04-2010, 01:42 PM

Chapter House Dune

Get Thin from the inside Out

How to outwit a cat

Dummies guild to Mentalpos..

Miss Scarlett · 07-04-2010, 03:55 PM

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My Dark Places by James Ellroy

I haven't read this one but I have read his first novel "The Black Dahlia". These two works are somewhat related in that the murder of his mother led to his interest in the Elizabeth Short murder. Have you read "The Black Dahlia"? I'd be interested in your comments on the relationship between the two books/murders.

Abigail Crabby · 07-04-2010, 02:59 PM

Blockade Billy -

By Stephen King

06-01-2010, 02:35 PM	#10
theoddz Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Cranky Old Poop Preferred Pronoun?: Mr. Beast Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Central Texas Posts: 3,537 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,111 Thanked 9,928 Times in 2,508 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	I recently bought an Amazon Kindle electronic reader and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. One of the features I love the most about it is the fact that I can enlarge the print and not have to don my reading glasses. Most recently, I am re-reading Frank McCourt's memoir of "Angela's Ashes" and it's just as good a read now as it was 10 years ago when it was on the best seller list. *~Theo~* ....addicted to his Kindle. __________________ *"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."* -- J. R. R. Tolkien

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Passionaria Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Urban Bohemian : http://youtu.be/IM96Ch9Gx4A Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: She ran away with with the Gypsy's ✿ Posts: 2,519 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,316 Thanked 3,737 Times in 1,248 Posts Rep Power: 16689910	I am reading The Emergent Self An Existential-Gestalt Approach by: Peter Philippson For a Gestalt Therapy reading group I am part of. And Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas and Statagies by: Bensky No light reading over here for awhile...... Pashi __________________ *Moon cat madness*

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05-17-2010, 10:31 PM	#1
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cane Member How Do You Identify?: male identified butch Relationship Status: Married Join Date: May 2010 Location: Sweden Posts: 294 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 119 Thanked 357 Times in 122 Posts Rep Power: 1030324	BTW, I'm reading 'Pride and Prejudice' by the ever so awsome Jane Austen...simply love her, and love the language...

05-18-2010, 12:27 AM	#4
Kate09 Timed Out How Do You Identify?: femme Preferred Pronoun?: girly ones! Relationship Status: single Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 71 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 66 Thanked 97 Times in 31 Posts Rep Power: 0	I have a habit of reading certain books over and over. I love the familiarity i find in them. I learn the stories so well...but i never fail to see a new angle. some of those faves are.. While Oleander; Janet Fitch "Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it.The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space...If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way" She's come undone; Wally Lamb Eat, Pray, Love; Elizabeth Gilbert Memoirs of a Geisha; Arthur Golden Wicked; Gregory Macguire I am reading one of these books at all times, as well as whatever newbies I have in my little hands. I love books. They've never truly let me down.

05-18-2010, 04:16 AM	#5
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