What book are you reading?

[ComeToTX]

Just started Fat Kid Rules The World. Look forward to seeing the movie too.

[Nastasja]

The Ancestor's Tale - Richard Dawkins

[Enkidu]

Hell Comes to Hollywood: An Anthology of Short Horror Fiction Set in Tinseltown

http://www.amazon.com/Hell-Comes-Hollyw ... +hollywood

[stargirl69]

The first Shades of Gray book The trilogy forced on me by my friend as must reads.
The worst writing I have ever read,if I have to read that girl exclaiming 'Holy Crap' once more I will scream. All her virginal like inexperience sex talk started of as fun to read but half way through book one it is getting a wee bit boring ....

However .... the male character is voyeuristically fascinating and it is his character that is keeping me hooked to this trash that I can't put down

This is an at home read only though,not a book I'd want to leave lying around at work or on the bus.It would seem weird reading soft porn in public,no matter how badly written it is

[Byrnzie]

The first Shades of Gray book The trilogy forced on me by my friend as must reads.
The worst writing I have ever read,if I have to read that girl exclaiming 'Holy Crap' once more I will scream. All her virginal like inexperience sex talk started of as fun to read but half way through book one it is getting a wee bit boring ....

However .... the male character is voyeuristically fascinating and it is his character that is keeping me hooked to this trash that I can't put down

This is an at home read only though,not a book I'd want to leave lying around at work or on the bus.It would seem weird reading soft porn in public,no matter how badly written it is

I keep hearing about this book - which I will never read - and it reminds me of all the noise surrounding the Dan Brown books about six or seven years ago. I expect practically every commuter in London will be sitting on the tube reading this crap and gossiping about it at work.

I can just picture the bookshelves in the homes of these people: Dan Brown 'The Da Vinci Code'. Dan Brown 'Angels And Demons'. The Harry Potter books. And now 'Fifty shades of grey'.

I'm so glad I don't have to share a train with those morons anymore.

[LukinFan]

Out Of My Mind

http://www.amazon.com/Out-My-Mind-Sharo ... 0606256725

[twisted thoughts]

The first Shades of Gray book The trilogy forced on me by my friend as must reads.
The worst writing I have ever read,if I have to read that girl exclaiming 'Holy Crap' once more I will scream. All her virginal like inexperience sex talk started of as fun to read but half way through book one it is getting a wee bit boring ....

However .... the male character is voyeuristically fascinating and it is his character that is keeping me hooked to this trash that I can't put down

This is an at home read only though,not a book I'd want to leave lying around at work or on the bus.It would seem weird reading soft porn in public,no matter how badly written it is

I was at the beach yesterday. Saw 3 different women reading... all of them reading 50 shades

I just started The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A. N. Roquelaure (Ann Rice). The first book of three. Sounds like its going to be way more gruesome than 50 shades.

[stargirl69]

The first Shades of Gray book The trilogy forced on me by my friend as must reads.
The worst writing I have ever read,if I have to read that girl exclaiming 'Holy Crap' once more I will scream. All her virginal like inexperience sex talk started of as fun to read but half way through book one it is getting a wee bit boring ....

However .... the male character is voyeuristically fascinating and it is his character that is keeping me hooked to this trash that I can't put down

This is an at home read only though,not a book I'd want to leave lying around at work or on the bus.It would seem weird reading soft porn in public,no matter how badly written it is

I keep hearing about this book - which I will never read - and it reminds me of all the noise surrounding the Dan Brown books about six or seven years ago. I expect practically every commuter in London will be sitting on the tube reading this crap and gossiping about it at work.

I can just picture the bookshelves in the homes of these people: Dan Brown 'The Da Vinci Code'. Dan Brown 'Angels And Demons'. The Harry Potter books. And now 'Fifty shades of grey'.

I'm so glad I don't have to share a train with those morons anymore.

I absolutely hear and agree with the valid point you made.That is why I am so taken a back at how this book was like a parasite under my skin.
I never read any of the Dan Brown books and as I am not a child I had no reason to read Harry Potter,I always find it rather alarming when I see adults reading childrens book and not to children.A friend of mine kept telling me one of the Harry Potter books she was reading was so 'dark' I think not!

I was at the beach yesterday. Saw 3 different women reading... all of them reading 50 shades

I just started The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A. N. Roquelaure (Ann Rice). The first book of three. Sounds like its going to be way more gruesome than 50 shades.

The copy I am reading is remaining firmly in doors and will be hastily returned to said friend once read

[PearlJamaholic]

The Harry Potter series is great. I had the same issue with it being 'kids books' but it is my friends favorite books so i finally gave the first book a try and that started it all. It is well written, a great story, though some talk about plagiarism, still a worthy read. Anyone who likes to read should at least give Potter a chance. I can see blowing off Dan Brown and Twilight and its porn rip-off 50 shades, cause everything ive heard about any of these is that its mediocre story with sub-par writing, at best. Potter on the other hand, a good fun read that isnt insulting to your intelligence.

currently reading Ringworld by larry niven. Liking it so far.

[davidtrios]

someone recommended 'sex at dawn'

anyone read it?

[catefrances]

i am without a book to read atm. finished storm of swords: blood and gold yesterday and cant get ahold of a feast for crows til thursday.

[intodeep]

The first Shades of Gray book The trilogy forced on me by my friend as must reads.
The worst writing I have ever read,if I have to read that girl exclaiming 'Holy Crap' once more I will scream. All her virginal like inexperience sex talk started of as fun to read but half way through book one it is getting a wee bit boring ....

However .... the male character is voyeuristically fascinating and it is his character that is keeping me hooked to this trash that I can't put down

This is an at home read only though,not a book I'd want to leave lying around at work or on the bus.It would seem weird reading soft porn in public,no matter how badly written it is

This reminded me of an interview with Felicia Day. She likes to read a lot of urban fantasy/romance novels and she said how some of them were good but the book covers alone were entirely too embarressing to read in public.

This is why a few years ago her greatest investment was in a kindle No one knows what you are reading and there are no book covers to tell the tale

[catefrances]

This reminded me of an interview with Felicia Day. She likes to read a lot of urban fantasy/romance novels and she said how some of them were good but the book covers alone were entirely too embarressing to read in public.

This is why a few years ago her greatest investment was in a kindle No one knows what you are reading and there are no book covers to tell the tale

who cares who sees what you read?... especially strangers in the public arena.

its like when they gave the harry potter books adult covers(aside from that being a shameless money generator). either own what it is youre reading or dont read it. simple.

[stargirl69]

The first Shades of Gray book The trilogy forced on me by my friend as must reads.
The worst writing I have ever read,if I have to read that girl exclaiming 'Holy Crap' once more I will scream. All her virginal like inexperience sex talk started of as fun to read but half way through book one it is getting a wee bit boring ....

However .... the male character is voyeuristically fascinating and it is his character that is keeping me hooked to this trash that I can't put down

This is an at home read only though,not a book I'd want to leave lying around at work or on the bus.It would seem weird reading soft porn in public,no matter how badly written it is

This reminded me of an interview with Felicia Day. She likes to read a lot of urban fantasy/romance novels and she said how some of them were good but the book covers alone were entirely too embarressing to read in public.

This is why a few years ago her greatest investment was in a kindle No one knows what you are reading and there are no book covers to tell the tale

Oh I'm not at all embarrassed to be seen reading it in public,it's more incase there should be any ... eh ... reaction of a physical nature reading it

Anyway gave up half way through,it really was shittily written pap

[Byrnzie]

Trickster Makes This World: How the Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture - Lewis Hyde



'Picasso disrupted the World around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. That is the Trickster spirit: playful, mischievous, subversive, amoral. Tricksters are a great bother to have around, but paradoxically they are also indispensable heroes of culture, because our World - with it's complexity and ambiguity, it's beauty and it's dirt - is Tricksters creation, and the work is not yet finished.'

In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories—Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others—and then holds them up against the lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Twelve years after its first publication, Trickster Makes This World—authoritative in its scholarship, loose-limbed in its style—has taken its place among the great works of modern cultural criticism.