What books or literature are you reading currently? What have you enjoyed in the past that you would recommend?

I'm currently reading THIS book about probably one of the most essential media theorists at this time.

I recently finished off THIS trilogy. Very intelligent and well handled zombie narrative, set in Britain and veiwed from multiple perspectives.

If, like me, you're a zombie fanatic, then THIS new title from the writer of the Zombie Survival Guide, will truly rock your world. A very clever and intellectual comment on current global events told through a document containing interviews with survivors of the decade long zombie war.

And THIS book is just essential reading, full stop.

Cheers Shaman, I'll definately look those Zombie books up.

Currently I', reading Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown, a history of the American west from a Native point of view, great stuff, actually recommended to me by a member of the forum, sorry but I can't remember who, but they were right anyway.

And I've just bought The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck.

At the moment, I've got three on the go:

Main one is Women Who Kill Viciously, which looks at, predictably, some of the most infamous murderesses, and tries to figure out what makes them do it.

Lunch-break book for work is Made in America by Bill Bryson. I'm a huge Bryson fan, but this isn't one of his best books. It focuses on, of all things, American-English, and how it involved into the language it is today. First half is a bit boring, but the second half is actually beginning to pick up quite a bit.

And thirdly is my on-the-toilet book, Weird News Stories, which speaks for itself. Found it the other day buried in my room. It's from 1994, so it's not very up-to-date, but it's still entertaining.

just bought the bedroom secrets of the master chefs...which is the new book by irvine welsh of trainspotting fame

also am reading forensic science by jackson and jackson
molecular cell biology by lodish

both or uni...obviously

the last novels i read were lunar park by bret easton ellis (sequel[ish] to american psycho)

the drowned world by JG Ballard

TRAUMNOVELLE
1926 / ARTHUR SCHNITZLER

INTERVIEWS WITH FILM DIRECTORS
1969 / ANDREW SARRIS

I'm reading 'Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About It' because I'm a nerd.

I'm also reading 'AC/DC: The Definitive Songbook' if that can count as reading.

THE STALKERS BACK!!!!!! We thought you were dead again!!!! STAAAY!!!!

Reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Amazing stuff.

Just bought At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, the father of modern horror novels apparently, haven't read it yet.

In the middle of The Cellar by Richard Laymon, another horror novel, part of his Beast House Trilogy, pretty good.

I've noticed that loads of books come in trilogies. Not just famous ones like LotR and the Dark Materials trilogy, but loads of others too. Is there any particular reason for this, does anyone know?

I don't think Tolkien intended for LotR to be a trilogy, it's just so damn long that that was maybe the best way to have it.

As for other trilogies, like say Thomas Harris' Hannibal books, I think they just wrote a damn good novel and though "yeah, I can work on this, I can use this character again".

Right now I'm reading Son of a Witch. It's not anywhere near as good as Wicked, but I think it's picking up. I have The Memory Keeper's Daughter upstairs to read and I should start that. I want to get Jennifer Weiner's latest, but I'll probably just wait for the paperback.

Sophie Kinsella's new book comes out the end of this month. I'll get that immediately.

Im reading throught stephen kings dark tower series just now and im loving every page of it.

Im currently on the wizard and the glass.

Any fans of the stand should read the dark tower series, but you might not understand why untill the end of the 3 book.

I read the Dark Tower series in the '90s when it was new. I loved it then. I tried to start reading it again, because it was too long between the third and thr fourth books. I couldn't get into it as easily the second time around.

The Stand is one of the best books ever. The original version and the one where King put back the 500 or so pages the publisher made him take out.

ive allways wanted to read the longer version of the stand but Ivs never got round to it.


What really motavted me to read the dark towr series is that all 7 parts are out now. before they were all out i dint want to start reading a series of books that might never end.

the last book i read is "fact or fiction: trains" which is obviously part of the "fact or fiction" series through harper collins, this one obviously examining whether or not there really is such a thing as trains.

i'm only on chapter 3 but i think i can see which way they're going to go with it, though i won't ruin it for you. i'd recommend the series as a whole, although each book has a different author, they're all edited by the fabulous Louis Letarmack, and so you do get a consistent sense of style throughout. the last one i read was "fact or fiction: music" which i really can't recommend enough, and the conclusions they reach are very insightful and might just surprise you (don't read further if you don't want the book spoiled): basically, there IS such a thing as music.

i read the "dark tower" series you're all talking about. didn't think much of it. saw the ending coming. not impressed. not one bit.

I read this in hardback. I took the book with me everywhere because I couldn't put it down. It was huge! It was like carting around the dictionary.

How long is it?

I have read stephen kings IT and IT is 1116 pages long. I love theyway he gives you soo much detail alot of the stuff isnt needed but it gives you an better understanding of whats going on around the characters.

I would really like a hard back version of The stand but I have afeeling that they would be hard to come by and if i did find one it would be expensive.

I read IT in paperback. I finally found a harback copy in a used book store. I'd need to go upstairs to look at both books to see how long they are in hardback. They are both very large. If I remember correctly, The Stand is 1200+ pages.

I am currently reading JD Robb's Immortal In Death. I love Nora Roberts/JD Robb books. Once i start reading I cant put the book down.

I let Mom take Son of a Witch home with her. I was starting to get into it, but come on! I love to read so for me to be reading the same book since September and to be only on page 97 is embarrassing.

Sophie Kinsella's latest Shopaholic and Baby was released on February 27. I bought that immediately. I love those books! I'm loving it too. I still regret loaning (yeah right) my sister-in-law my Shopaholic books before we left for Texas. I'd like to read them all again and now I don't have them.

I'm not reading anything too significant right now, just a Tom Clancy book called The Bear and The Dragon. In my honest opinion, it's one of the better books that he has written. I highly reccomend it to almost anyone.

i've read quite a bit for my course this year (german) most of it in English translation. books i've enjoyed this year: homo faber - max frisch , the clown - heinrich boell, the piano teacher - elfriede jelinek. they're all films as well, only one worth watching's probably 'la pianiste' though, Haneke's adaptation.

Currently reading The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick.

The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks, it may save your life.

I haven't read this, but now I wanna. Maybe it'll help me on Dead Rising.

At the moment I'm re-ading Lord of the Rings and Love Hina.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavilier and Clay - Michael Chabon

great book

i'm about 30 pages in to "tits out teenage terror totty" by steven wells...and quite frankly this is the single greatest book ever written

this is the summary

a crazed UK populated by berserker Margaret Thatcher sex-dolls, mutant ferret-breeding anarchist witches, incredibly talented chimpanzee novelists and gibberingly insane teenage terrorist psychopaths.
With Princess Diana repeatedly resurrected and then ritually slaughtered to satisfy the angst-lust of the drug-addled British public, with the government kidnapped by revenge-crazed Yorkshire miners and with an increasingly insane God gearing up for Armageddon, the scene is set for Justine Justice and her top terrorist chums to persecute their insane jihad against the SAS, vegetarians, road protestors, serious novelists, rave music and the cabal of evil dog-molesting Tory vampires who secretly rule the world.

The result is a book that makes James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake read like Janet and John dumbed down for dyslexics. On crack. OFFICIAL!

YOU HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK

currently reading The Complete Guide To Low Budget Feature Film Making by Josh Becker, writer/director of such classics as Thou Shalt Not Kill.......Except & Lunatics; A Love Story.

Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics by William Donaldson. It's pretty old-fashioned, but that's where most of the humour comes from.

NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED

Delete This At Your Peril by Bob Servant & Neil Forsyth, very funny.

im onto the last few chapters of "boy A"...bought the book after stumbling across the film on channel 4 a few weeks ago....excellent book and excellent film

i think it partly based on the james bulger case...it centres around a boy who gets out of jail at 20 something after he and a friend committed a brutal murder of a young girl when they were kids themselves

his parole counselor watches over him as he tries to build a new life with a new identity all the while trying to keep a low profile so his new friends dont discover his former identity

That sounds a little like The Woodsman, but obviously dealing with a very different trigger to the events.

yeah it is a bit like that...that was a surprisingly good film...although boy A has a bleaker finale

The Woodsman was very good, much better than I expected also. I'll have to check out Boy A.

I saw Boy A about a month or so ago, what's your personal opinion on it? do you think he deserved a second chance? very good film.

i think he did deserve a 2nd chance seeing as it isn't shown to what extent he was guilty in either the film or the book

Don't want to turn this forum into a serious thing, just come here to talk about film and have a laugh, but that's what I feel on the subject, I find it hard to sympathise.

Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor, second time I've read it, great book.

Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid by Jan Harold Brunvand, a collection of scary Urban Legends, old and new.

World War Z by Max Brooks, loved his previous book The Zombie Survival Guide, only a few pages into it, but it looks promising.

just bought 2 modern classics

vatican blood bath by tommy udo

raiders of the low forehead by stanly manly

both from ATTACK!!! BOOKS

Last book i read was Gone with the wind, now, after some time i would like to read another romantic book. Any idea?????????????

I've been reading quite a bit recently, To Kill A Mockingbird, Of Mice & Men, Animal Farm, Heart Of Darkness and a hell of a lot of H.P Lovecraft. I don't know why, but I decided I should read some classic literature, and I'm damn well enjoying it so far. Any recommendations?

To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favourite books of all time - Atticus Finch may well be my favourite literary character of all time.

Am reading Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction at the moment. Well, re-reading it - Adrian Mole's immortal.