What book are you currently reading?

tyrolean_skier · Post by **tyrolean_skier** » Mar 29th, '06, 22:16

Bump because we need to get away from all the negativity in this chatroom lately.

I still have not finished my latest book but I hope others have done more reading than me.

Killington_Lover · Post by **Killington_Lover** » Mar 29th, '06, 22:20

finished To Kill a Mockingbird, easy, intresting read!

BigKahuna13 · Post by **BigKahuna13** » Mar 29th, '06, 22:21

Just finished Jon Stewart's America. Hysterical.

Starting on Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (never read the book before and saw the play over the weekend) and "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich".

Still reading 1634.

2knees · Post by **2knees** » Mar 29th, '06, 22:25

I just reread American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips.

BigKahuna13 · Post by **BigKahuna13** » Mar 29th, '06, 22:26

Killington_Lover wrote:finished To Kill a Mockingbird, easy, intresting read!

Rent the movie. Saw it for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Classic.

snowsprite · Post by **snowsprite** » Mar 29th, '06, 22:27

I read Siddhartha and Steppenwolf in HS Kahuna. But the one I liked most was Demian.

I hope to do some actual reading (and I don't mean these interneck message boards) in the summer. Perhaps I will re-read one of the above.

I love re-reading books 20 years later anyway. Time changes all perception of everything.

And speaking of perception, it would also be neat to re-read some Aldous Huxley in my current elderly state.

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tyrolean_skier · Post by **tyrolean_skier** » Mar 29th, '06, 22:33

BigKahuna13 wrote:
Killington_Lover wrote:finished To Kill a Mockingbird, easy, intresting read!
Rent the movie. Saw it for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Classic.

That's a great book. I also read it when I was in high school. Movie is good as well. Gregory Peck I believe was in that one.

BigKahuna13 · Post by **BigKahuna13** » Mar 29th, '06, 22:35

snowsprite wrote:I read Siddhartha and Steppenwolf in HS Kahuna. But the one I liked most was Demian.

I hope to do some actual reading (and I don't mean these interneck message boards) in the summer. Perhaps I will re-read one of the above.

I love re-reading books 20 years later anyway. Time changes all perception of everything.

And speaking of perception, it would also be neat to re-read some Aldous Huxley in my current elderly state.

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Steppenwolf's also on the list. Don't know "Demian", but will add that to the list.

RJSVermont · Post by **RJSVermont** » Mar 29th, '06, 23:13

snowsprite wrote:I read Siddhartha and Steppenwolf in HS Kahuna. But the one I liked most was Demian.

Along with "Catcher in the Rye", they're both on my personal top ten list. Over 10 years later and I still have my copies of both, marked up with all my favorite lines along with some random high school notes which just make them that much more sacred to me.

snowsprite · Post by **snowsprite** » Mar 29th, '06, 23:33

I think I would have to include Cs Lewis' The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader and Vonnegut's The Sirens Of Titan on my top ten list. Possibly Ursula LeGuinn's Earthsea Triology too. I am such a dweeb.
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BigKahuna13 · Post by **BigKahuna13** » Mar 29th, '06, 23:39

snowsprite wrote:I think I would have to include Cs Lewis' The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader and Vonnegut's The Sirens Of Titan on my top ten list. Possibly Ursula LeGuinn's Earthsea Triology too. I am such a dweeb.
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I'm a big Le Guin fan too. She actually knows how to write, unlike most people who work in scifi.

Speaking of Vonnegut, I reread Slaugherhouse Five a couple of months ago (one of my kids was working on it in school). Great, great book.

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Mar 30th, '06, 06:35

Finished We the Living by Ayn Rand last week.
The most depressing of all the books I've read of hers.. by design, I guess.

Post by **Bubba** » Mar 30th, '06, 08:24

BigKahuna13 wrote:Just finished Jon Stewart's America. Hysterical.

Starting on Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (never read the book before and saw the play over the weekend) and "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich".

Still reading 1634.

I'm still on 1776. I do most of my book reading (as opposed to magazines) while flying and I've been home of late.

I read Hesse books in college but I really don't recall much about them. Lots of haze permeats my memory of those years.

I read Rise and Fall when I was 11 years old and home from school for a week with chicken pox. I finished it too.

snowsprite · Post by **snowsprite** » Mar 30th, '06, 08:41

This thread prompted me to think last night of books I would never re-read. Not because they weren't good but because they were so disturbing and upsetting.

So topping my list is "Bambi" by Felix Salten. I'd re-read any serial-killing slash and bash book 50 times alone in a dark house before I read that soul-crushing Bambi book again. I still bear the emotional scars.

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pcgrantham · Post by **pcgrantham** » Mar 30th, '06, 09:07

curious george