What are you currently reading?
What are you currently reading?
#1What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 4:12pm
There used to be a thread, but couldn't find it. I like seeing what others are reading/think about it for ideas on what to buy next.
I just finished reading "Michael Tolliver Lives." Great to get back in touch with the folks formerly of Barbary Lane.
What are you reading/what did you just finish reading?
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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
#2re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 4:14pm
Recently finished - "State of Fear" by Michael Crighten (sp) and "Son of a Witch" by Gregory MaGuire.
Currently reading - Interview with a Vampire - Anne Rice
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#2re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 4:16pm
Tink... that's almost like you're reading a list of books recommended by me. 
Celebrate Life
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
#3re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 4:18pmhehe, well start recommending more because I'm almost through, hehe.
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!
peach
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/05
#4re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 4:18pm
Just posted in spidey's post!
I'm reading "From The Corner of His Eye" by Dean Koontz right now. It's very good - creepy and twisty, suspenseful, hard to put down.
Updated On: 7/2/07 at 04:18 PM
#5re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 4:18pmAlternating between Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl and Rant by Chuck Palahniuk.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#6re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 4:19pmFinally getting around to reading The Corrections by Franzen.
....but the world goes 'round
#7re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 4:19pm"This is Your Brain on Music" and "The Last Man Who Knew Everything"
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
#8re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 4:21pmI just started reading NAKED, a biography on Michael Lucas and I can not put the book down!!!
'There are three sides to every story. My side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently'
-Robert Evans-
#9re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 4:26pmpeach, seriously when you finish that post your reaction. I read that one and have a question, I don't want to say anything until you finish though.
....but the world goes 'round
#10re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 4:32pm
I finished Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen, which was funny and exciting.
Now I'm on The Order of the Phoenix in my pre Deathly Hallows Harry Potter reread.
peach
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/05
#11re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 4:46pmtaz - I've got about 300 pages to go (this book is pretty long). So far, interesting characters. I'm waiting to see how they all end up.
#12re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 4:47pmit is a bit on the long side peach, but I will say no more!
....but the world goes 'round
#13re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 4:52pm
I finished 'Blood Beast' by Darren Shan at lunch time, and I'll be finishing the fourth and final 'Travelling Pants' by Ann Brashares tomorrow lunchtime, and will probably go back to this Jerome Robbins biography I found kicking about. I should be reading 'Dune' by Frank Herbert, because I need to give it back to the guy I borrowed it from, but I might try rereading all the Harry Potters in the next three weeks. It's doable, I just don't know if I have the will. Oh, and I got a proof copy of the new Robert Rankin, 'The Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code'. It is, as you'd expect, a Rankin-esque take on 'The Da Vinci Code', and is bloody entertaining for it. ^_^
What, me? One book at a time? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Updated On: 7/2/07 at 04:52 PM
#14re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 4:59pm
ok i hope you don't mind textbooks being listed too.
Sol y Viento
From Slavery to Freedom
The Spiral Guide to Research Writing
Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation & What We Can Do About It
The 26-Hour Day: How to Gain At Least 2 Hours a Day with Time Control
plus a Tony Hillerman novel, One of the Cat Who mysteries, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy
In your choice is your talent. ~Adler
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Acting is the art of speaking in a loud clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture. ~Alfred Lunt
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mejusthavingfun
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
#15re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 5:22pm
I just finished "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini (Kite Runner Author)
Um.... I'm not sure I can express the love I have for that book. It's an incredible story about two women in Kabul. He is the Arab Victor Hugo.
Khaled is doing an AMAZING and super important thing by making his stories accessbile to Western audeinces. When you read this one you will know what I mean. George Bush spent 8 years demonizing Arabs and Muslims, this man's work brings the reality of war and Afghanistan right into your lap. Walk don’t run. This is the best book of the summer. I promise you.
Next up: Tobacco Road.
#16re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 5:23pmI read The Kite Runner. Loved it. Did you know they are making it into a movie to come out this fall?
....but the world goes 'round
mejusthavingfun
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
#17re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 5:26pm
Yes, I can't wait to see the trailer.
Taz, I wished you live closer I would hand deliver this new hardback. It is absolutely incredible.
I think this book would make an really great series on HBO.
#18re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 5:31pm
I'm reading Blood and Gold, by Anne Rice.
I just finished reading Generation S. L. U. T., by Marty Beckerman.
I can't remember what I read before that.
I think it was The Devil Wears Prada.
My avatar: South Park Evan Almighty. He's nutty.
#19re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 5:40pmI've almost finished Lisey's Story by Stephen King. Vaguely reminiscent of The Talisman and Rose Madder. It's a very interesting read.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#20re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 5:55pmRereading Dorian Gray.
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not."-Sunday in the Park with George
dramadude2
Broadway Star Joined: 6/29/07
#21re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 6:01pmJust finished my pre-Deathly Hollows Harry Potter reread as well as my first and second reread for when the third Maximum Ride book came out. And I just finished OUR TOWN which happened to be a very short read. Now I'm working on the CRUCIBLE.
No one wants to see a musical called Thoroughly Modern Mildred.
#22re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 6:35pm
"Something Borrowed" by Emily Griffin. Leave me alone, it's summer. 
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#23re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 6:41pmAlso preparing - I'm about half way through my Half-Blood Prince re-read.
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#24re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/07 at 6:42pmI need to brush up on my Harry Potter, as well.
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