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Currently Reading (Take 2)
#225re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 9/15/09 at 4:29pmspider's right! The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the first part of Stieg Larsson's trilogy, which become a HUGE sensation in Europe and has recently found its way to the US. I'd never heard of it until my partner showed up this summer and told me I had to read it. The second book, entitled The Girl Who Played With Fire, has just been released here though the entire trilogy as well as a feature film of the first book have long since been out in Europe. Unfortunately, there are no recent plans for distribution of the film in the US as I'm sure Hollywood wants to bastardize its own treatment, but I am dying to see it!
#226re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 9/15/09 at 4:31pmDoes the movie in Europe hold the same title, or is it called something else?
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#227re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 9/15/09 at 4:34pm
Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol"
(well, I'll start reading it tonight...)
Plum - I'm impressed!!
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#228re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 9/15/09 at 4:45pm
Finishing up Pynchon's INHERENT VICE, good rowdy fun.
Up next -- dunno.
#229re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 9/15/09 at 5:53pmAddy - I am on the list on my library to get it. Can't wait!
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#230re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 9/15/09 at 6:09pmOoooh, thanks you guys! I'm so going to look for that the next time I'm at the library.
#231re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 9/15/09 at 6:12pmspider - The Swedish title for the film is Män Som Hatar Kvinnor.
#232re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 9/15/09 at 6:15pm
Right now, I'm half way through Flowers for Algernon. I read the short story that it's expanded from back in 2005 and have wanted to read the novel for quite some time.
Next I want to read Waiter Rant, which I saw at Barnes and Noble and thought looked entertaining. But right now my friend is reading Kathy Griffin's new book and wants me to borrow it when she's finished. I'm not really a Griffin fan, but I told her I'd give it a try.
#233re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 9/16/09 at 8:57am
awww, I had to read Flowers for Algernon several times between grammar school and HS. I love that book. My favorite books read from required reading was that, A Seperate Peace, I am the Cheese, and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. I can re read any of them at any time.
Addy - I just picked up that book yesterday from Target. I have a very large love/hate relationship with Dan Brown, but figure I'd give good 'ol Langdon another go.
I finally finished The Time Travelers Wife and was very disappointed in the ending, but otherwise it was a good book.
Now I am reading The Ice Queen: A Novel by Alice Hoffman. Fictional story about a girl who is struck by lightning and the aftermath phsyically, etc. I think there is supposed to be a love story in there at some point.
BroadwayBoobs: I'll give all of you who weren't there a hint of who took the pictures ...it rhymes with shameless
SOMMS: I knew it was Tink!
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#235re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 12/13/09 at 5:59pmReading An Orchestra Beyond Borders: Voices of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra by Elena Cheah and I am LOVING it. Of course, I am very interested in Israeli-Palestinian relations after dating a Palestinian for 7 years.
#236re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 12/13/09 at 6:01pm
Salene
Broadway Star Joined: 3/26/07
#237re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 12/13/09 at 11:51pmThe Seven Dials Mystery - Agatha Christie.
#238re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 12/14/09 at 9:09amPaul Rudnick's I SHUDDER ..... where else could I learn about the only nun who gets to vote for the Oscars.....
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#239re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 12/14/09 at 10:51amI read GIRL WITH DRAGON TATTOO until I just lost interest, somehow. Some great stuff, though, including a particularly tasty bit of revenge.
#240re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/25/10 at 7:48am
Let's bump this!
#241re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/25/10 at 8:19am
I just read Webster's Duchess of Malfi which has some fantastic enough dialogue that I turned several page corners down so I could easily find it again later, and I usually treat my books well. D: My ongoing mission is to finish Stephen King's Under the Dome, although the sheer weight of it is genuinely what is preventing me from reading it faster, then I'm on to The Girl who Played with Fire. Oh, and I'm simultaneously reading Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, and Richard III, depending on what bag I have on me at the time. XD
#242re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/25/10 at 10:32am
Recently finished:
"Game Change" by John Heilemann & Mark Halperin
"Hot Seat" by Frank Rich
"Without You.." by Anthony Rapp
Currently reading:
"Mainly on Directing" by Arthur Laurents
"Harold Prince - A Director's Journey" by Carol Ilson
Catching up on theater reading. I am behind!
#243re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/25/10 at 10:41am
Just finished It's Kind of a Funny Story and it was really good.
Here is a trailer for the film version coming out
Movie trailer
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#244re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/25/10 at 10:46amI'm almost half way through FREE FOR ALL, the oral history autobiography/biography of Joe Papp. Fascinating stuff, and an amazing cast of characters get to remember Joe and the Public Theater experience.
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#245re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/25/10 at 11:02amI just finished reading the "Queen of Babble" series. Silly easy summer reading stuff. They were cute and funny though.
#246re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/25/10 at 11:09amwonkit, glad you posted that. I was in the library last week looking through books to see if there was something on Papp. I totally forgot about this book. I am heading to pick it up today!
Craww
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#247re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/25/10 at 11:12am
Just finished Bonk by Mary Roach. Currently reading The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell.
I'll likely finish today, so then I'll be starting Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. But I'm bringing the third book in the Dark Tower series (The Waste Lands, I think) in case I don't find Palahniuk to be palatable for reading at work.
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#248re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/25/10 at 11:19am
I am participating in a "Shakespeare in a Year" challenge (www.shakespeareinayear.com) so I am currently working on As You Like It.
I am also smack in the middle of A Tale of Two Cities.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#249re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/25/10 at 3:02pm
The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science, by Richard Holmes
My past few books:
Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell
Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow
The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran - Dirk Hayhurst
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#250re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/25/10 at 4:31pm
uncageg - let me know what you think about FREE FOR ALL. I can't seem to find anyone else who has read it.
I can't seem to get through any Scott Turow. Listened to Presumed Innocent on tape when it first came out. Kinda plods along.
Anyone else read the Lapham's Quarterly? I just got my first issue, and I am full of wonderment! And the subject is SPORTS AND GAMES, not one of my passions - yet.
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