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What books are you reading right now?

Discussion in 'Tilted Art, Photography, Music & Literature' started by sapiens, Aug 12, 2011.

  1. Daniel_

    Daniel_ The devil made me do it...

    Start Narnia with "The Magician's Nephew", please!

    Starting with the Lion etc, is like starting LoTR at Rivendel.
     
  2. greywolf

    greywolf Slightly Tilted

  3. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    I'm not "starting Narnia." I'm reading one book that happens to be the first book written in the series. I doubt I'll read any others. If I read any more Lewis, it will be the Space Trilogy.
     
  4. Levite

    Levite Levitical Yet Funky

    Location:
    The Windy City
    Yeah. This is his newest installment in the adventures of Richard and Kahlan. Not his best. But not bad.
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    Good for you. The Space Trilogy was his best work. I found the "Narnia" books to be uncompellingly written and highly offputting, as essentially kiddie evangelical tracts.
     
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  5. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    the vigilantes by w. e. b. griffin...
     
  6. Tophat665

    Tophat665 Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    NoVA
    Deadpool classic #1.
    / Need something colorful before the Boys from Brazil.
     
  7. snowy

    snowy so kawaii Staff Member

    Agreed.

    I am reading The Hunger Games. I borrowed the books from my uncle's girlfriend, which was convenient as it is nigh impossible to get them from the library (six month wait for my hold).
     
  8. honeywest New Member

    Location:
    gone.
    To Your Scattered Bodies Go
    Philip Jose Farmer
     
  9. Levite

    Levite Levitical Yet Funky

    Location:
    The Windy City
    Finished the Goodkind book...turned out to be slightly better than it promised at the beginning, but he has a real tendency to end abruptly, when he doesn't end on cliffhangers.

    Now on to the new "Mistborn" book from Brian Sanderson.
     
  10. I've read through all 14 pages of this... I'm taking notes on what to read!

    One of my "New Year's Resolutions" is to read at least one new book per month that I've never read before, so this is going to help a lot.

    On my to-read list includes finishing up a series that I've been reading since middle school (The Seventh Tower series by Garth Nix... yeah, I'm a kid at heart). I also want to read 1984, Catch-22, and all of the LoTR series, starting with The Hobbit. I also want to read *something* by Stephen King at some point, but I haven't quite decided what yet.
     
  11. Tophat665

    Tophat665 Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    NoVA
    Go with The Stand. I didn't read anything else by him for a Decade after that one because he will NEVER top it. And get the Unabridged version.
     
  12. CinnamonGirl

    CinnamonGirl The Cheat is GROUNDED!

    The Stand is definitely awesome. My favorite by him, though, is The Eyes of the Dragon, which is not a typical book for him at all. Oh, there's still horror, but it's more fantasy-themed. If you don't want to tackle one of his novels right off, check out his short stories. Some of those have stuck with me twenty years after reading them ("The Last Rung on the Ladder" and "The Jaunt," for examples.)

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    I recently finished the Hunger Games trilogy. I'm about halfway through The Help at the moment.
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    No. No, no, no, a million times NO. Wardrobe comes first, Nephew is sixth. You lose out on so much if you read them in "chronological" order.
     
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  13. thetemplar

    thetemplar Vertical

    Location:
    Texas
    I have to agree with CinnamonGirl...it is better to read them in the order they where intended
     
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  14. Daniel_

    Daniel_ The devil made me do it...

    The Stand is a great read. One of the ultimate post apocalyptic books, I think.

    Interesting point.

    Did Lewis ever suggest a reading order?

    The box set I had as a kid put them in narative chronological order, and it was YEARS before I realised that this was not publication order (probably when I read them to my daughter).

    I like the idea of reading them in the order that the world would have experienced them, but I get the idea of reading them as written.
     
  15. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    Lewis started writing The Magician's Nephew immediately after he finished the first book. The problem was that he got several pages into the manuscript before shelving it.

    It took him years to write it, which is why it didn't get published until after the others.
     
  16. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    port mortuary by patricia cornwell...
     
  17. wyopen

    wyopen Getting Tilted

    Location:
    Montana
    Catherine The Great by Robert K. Massey. A good read
     
  18. I failed to mention in my other post that I also really want to get into reading some Heinlein. My old roommate from college basically worships the guy, so I'll have to hit him up for suggestions.
     
  19. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    Whenever I think of Heinlein and those who "worship" him, I think of the essay "Starship Stormtroopers" by Michael Moorcock. It's pretty bombastic, but an entertaining read nonetheless. He doesn't even spare Tolkien, but he only really gets into him in his companion essay "Epic Pooh."
     
  20. Magpie

    Magpie Getting Tilted

    Location:
    Toronto Ontario
    Right now I'm reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I liked the movie so I thought the book would be equally good. I was wrong. It isn't that good of a book. However I'm almost done. I think I'm going to finish it some time today. Then I'm moving on to The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. It was recommended to me. I hope it will be better than my current book.