What Are You Reading 2

[Joolz]

Just finished the latest Stephanie Plum book by Janet Evonavich - fun read just like the others!

Love the Stephanie Plum books- Think No.15 was the last one I read

 

[Catch-up]

Just finished the latest Stephanie Plum book by Janet Evonavich - fun read just like the others!

Love the Stephanie Plum books- Think No.15 was the last one I read

This last one was #18. Lula is my favorite, hands down! I think a movie of the first book is coming out soon.

 

[pip]

I just started reading His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. I got them as a present a few years back but just got round to reading them last week (-:
Anyone else read them??

i quite liked them. a bit mad at stages but still very interesting

 

[stripy_tie]

I read "The Fault In Our Stars" by John Green today, as emotionally devastating as it is exquisitely written. Green's best work to date and his first novel "Looking For Alaska" was already at an exceptionally high level.

I literally could not recommend it enough, I'm just going to read some Sherlock Holmes and will probably have to burn through that and a couple of Wallander novels before i have the emotional energy to do a proper re-read.

 

[Quatermass]

Just finished reading Angels & Demons. Entertaining yarn, filled with a lot of BS, but Dan Brown can make you believe the BS.

 

[DaveC]

Just finished Marvel's Runaways, now reading Batman: Officer Down.

 

[pip]

Progressing on The Song of Ice and Fire. Now i'm on book 4 A Feast of Crows .
Also reading Peter Ackroyds History Of England Part one Foundation

 

[chris.ph]

i cant remember if i said but im having a break from the anita blake marathon and im reading the bride wore black leather by simon r green

 

[michelanCello]

Just finished reading Angels & Demons. Entertaining yarn, filled with a lot of BS, but Dan Brown can make you believe the BS.

Liked the book better than the Da Vinci-code, but the movie was horrible (good music, though! )

 

[WannabeAngua]

Just finished reading Angels & Demons. Entertaining yarn, filled with a lot of BS, but Dan Brown can make you believe the BS.

Liked the book better than the Da Vinci-code, but the movie was horrible (good music, though! )

I think A & D did better as a movie than the Da-vinci code.

 

[michelanCello]

Just finished reading Angels & Demons. Entertaining yarn, filled with a lot of BS, but Dan Brown can make you believe the BS.

Liked the book better than the Da Vinci-code, but the movie was horrible (good music, though! )

I think A & D did better as a movie than the Da-vinci code.

Well, as a movie, maybe, but as an adaptation of the book - no. It was almost a whole new plot!

 

[Sjoerd3000]

Because the book was a bit silly

 

[stripy_tie]

I'd like to know how Brown has gotten away with basically re-writing the same book three times over, i can't decide if he's just a poor writer who knows his readers really well or a literary evil genius.

 

[author3]

Last night I just started reading Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
It's very interesting

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I'd like to know how Brown has gotten away with basically re-writing the same book three times over, i can't decide if he's just a poor writer who knows his readers really well or a literary evil genius.

He hit a niche in the market, mixed a few true facts with fiction and made it all believable to his American readers then it went global, I have seen the two films which were Ok and was given the 3rd book as a pressie which I must get around to reading, but I would watch the 3rd film if it was ever made and what gave him a lot of publicity was the Vatican banning it and that made people curious and him rich.

 

[stripy_tie]

Just finished re-reading The Hobbit, as good as I remembered it being. I don't know if I'll ever bother with LOTR though, I tried once and Tolkien just goes on and on about hobbit ancestry.

 

[michelanCello]

Because the book was a bit silly

I was 11 when I read it and I was so terrified I couldn't sleep!

 

[Catch-up]

Just finished a collection of stories called, Stories. Had high hopes because one of the editors was Neil Gaiman. There were a few good ones, but overall it was disappointing.

 

[DaveC]

Just finished re-reading The Hobbit, as good as I remembered it being. I don't know if I'll ever bother with LOTR though, I tried once and Tolkien just goes on and on about hobbit ancestry.

I may reread them soon, although I am currently just having fun at the moment reading Mark Reads The Lord of the Rings, a blog by a guy who barely knows anything about LOTR, (although he's read The Hobbit... Mark Reads The Hobbit) and hasn't seen the films and reviews a chapter per day, he's currently in Lothlorien.

This is the same guy who's Buffy marathon I linked to at the start of the new Buffy thread in the TV section.

 

[Sjoerd3000]

A Very Long Engagement by Sébastien Japrisot :whistle: