What are you currently reading??

Gemini Webster · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:51 am Post subject:

There are some fantastic, readable, entertaining popular science books around but I don't reckon that's one of them Blue. Though at one point all my nerd friends seemed to own a copy- I couldn't quite get through it myself.

I loved Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything though, have you ever tried that one?

blue meanie · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 4:34 pm Post subject:

yeah I was expecting something more interesting than just a run down of all the different theories about time that have come about.

Nope haven't tried that one. I've got a couple audible credits up my sleeve so I'll have a look.
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Sparkmel · Reaver Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 578

I've heard that one (Bryson) is really good. I need to put it on my list as well I reckon - find a friend with a copy!

taraswizard · Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:22 am Post subject: Barefoot Gen

Just finished a few days ago Barefoot Gen, volume 1 by Kenji Nakazawa, a narrative told in manga of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In August 1945 Nakazawa was schoolboy in Hiroshima and on a August morning his world was turned inside out and upside down through a singular event. Since becoming a professional mangaka in 1961 Nakazawa has written a few narratives based on his experiences, and his masterpiece is Barefoot Gen. A must read.
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taraswizard · Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:30 am Post subject: Persepolis and Persepolis 2

Earlier this summer I finished Persepolis and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Covering her life in and out of her native Iran from around 1979, the time of the Islamic Revolution, when she was ten or so, till the last time she left Iran for thes last time in the mid to late 1990s. Very good.
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mallory · Reaver Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 333 Location: Melbourne

I've been trying to get a copy of the film - the graphics look true to the originals. I stock the first volume ( in French ) in the shop I manage.

I've just finished the English Patient - a beautifully written book. I'm now reading Updike's Rabbit, Run.
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Marion · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:03 am Post subject:

Reading Wuthering Heights right now. The characters are all off their trees!
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blue meanie · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:05 am Post subject:

Marion · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:08 am Post subject:

It took me a while to get into but I'm up to Isabella's escape from Heathcliff and it's pretty good. I dont think I've ever read a book where so many of the main characters were so morally bankrupt though!
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Sparkmel · Reaver Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 578

Hmmm yea Wuthering Heights is an interesting one. The characters are not really good people and the way they treat each other!! I havent read it in ages tho, I studied it when I was in year 10 and got kind of sick of it. Maybe I could read it again tho.

I'm reading the 'Mist of Avalon' by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I read it when I was in high school and loved it so thought I would read it again cos I've forgotten everything that happens!! I highly recommend it tho smile

Gemini Webster · Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:18 pm Post subject:

Wuthering Heights' younger generation are the more sympathetic characters IMO, and the story does take a turn for the more pleasant and hopeful toward the end. But for the most part it's more horror than romance. I think people who only know the film versions have a bit of a skewed idea of it.

Ooh, I loved the Mists of Avalon. Haven't read it since high school though, so it seems a lot mistier than it used to... or something.

blue meanie · Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 12:40 am Post subject:

I'm reading the Lucifer comics - a spin off from Sandman but written by Mike Carey.

Also, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, which is pretty good. I like the way the story is being told, part is in news clippings about the family, part is a book that the narrator's sister wrote before she drove off a cliff in the 40s (that's not a spoiler, its the first line in the book) and part is the narrator telling the back story from her current perspective as an old woman.
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