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What are you reading now? vers. "So I don't end up being a fucking waffle waitress"

I've never read Perfume but my close friend and old housemate told me the whole story when we were bushwalking and tripping once. I had to lay down in the sand I was laughing so hard.

I'm reading Tim Winton's The Turning. Christ what a fantastic author. It's brought tears to the back of my eyes a few times. Just brilliant and touching.

It's a bunch of semi-intertwined stories about middle class life in WA. I swear each Winton book I love more than the last. How can he capture life in all its beauty and horrors so eloquently in often brutal, uncompromising prose?

I will definitely have finished this book by the end of the day. Can't put it down. Oh well Uni essay, looks like I'll be doing you nights this week...
 
After watching and loving the TV show True Blood I am now guilty of reading all 9 books the show is based on (the books are by Charlaine Harris) and like the show, the books are aimed at an adult audience. Lets just say Sookie Stackhouse really should get a stake and kill both Eric and Bill for her own good. having said that, I can't wait for the next book to come out and find out just who she is really meant to end up with. Eric gets my vote.
 
Do you think the books are better than the show? The books don't have that hot guy that plays Erin though *insert drooling emoticon*
 
vanth said:
Do you think the books are better than the show? The books don't have that hot guy that plays Erin though *insert drooling emoticon*
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Don't you mean Eric??? Jessica isn't in the books. I actually liked the books better and Sookie is really descriptive. Wait until she sleeps with Eric.
 
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Heheh, oops yeah I mean Eric. Uh and could be careful with the spoilers please, I didn't know that Sookie was going to do Eric.
 
vanth said:
Heheh, oops yeah I mean Eric. Uh and could be careful with the spoilers please, I didn't know that Sookie was going to do Eric.
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Oops I'll shut up now!!!! But then, they have changed and added an awful lot in the show. But then.. :P
 
footscrazy said:
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
I don't care what people say, I love Richard Dawkins ;)
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Ooh yeah nice - just finished that one myself. I'm partial to Dawkins, but I don't think he will be converting many creationists with this book - he doesn't seem to have twigged that some people are data-proof :\ I really love the appendix of this book, where he lays out some survey results about how dumb people are :) This is where you start to suspect that homo sapiens is an evolutionary dead end....

I just started The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami. He is in danger of becoming one of my favourite authors - I read Kafka on the Shore last year and loved it - this one is starting off to be great too.
 
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ayjay said:
Ooh yeah nice - just finished that one myself. I'm partial to Dawkins, but I don't think he will be converting many creationists with this book - he doesn't seem to have twigged that some people are data-proof :\ I really love the appendix of this book, where he lays out some survey results about how dumb people are :) This is where you start to suspect that homo sapiens is an evolutionary dead end....

I just started The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami. He is in danger of becoming one of my favourite authors - I read Kafka on the Shore last year and loved it - this one is starting off to be great too.
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Haha, funny - the last book I read was 'Kafka on the Shore'! Definitely one of my fav authors.

I was actually reading that Dawkins book on the train the other day and some religious dude started questioning me about it. I was seriously getting confused on the tangents he was going off on, but in his defense, he did actually listen to what I had to say. But yeah, I do think Dawkins is generally preaching to the converted, unfortunately.
 
Reading Tim Flannery's Future Eaters right now.

Read a few books recently but of mention was Ray Bradbury's Now and Forever. First novella in it, Somewhere A Band Is Playing was poetically very beautiful. Seeing as it started as a poem that's not much surprise.

Bradbury is a fantastic author and it's a shame that his predominate writing of Horror and Sci Fi books alienates him from people that would absolutely love the prose.

Also I read A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K. Dick. There's a few passages in there of the protagonist musing that I'm entirely convinced Palahniuk picked up on as a great idea and inspired the novel Fight Club. Book was brilliant and the movie is one of those few that entirely does justice to it. Though the humour is more pronounced I think in the movie probably because of the choice of actors (Robert Downey and Woody Harrelson in particular). Having now read the book I appreciate the movie on a whole new level in terms of casting decisions. Not that I didn't absolutely love it before. Must read, must see.
 
lostpunk5545 said:
Also I read A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K. Dick. There's a few passages in there of the protagonist musing that I'm entirely convinced Palahniuk picked up on as a great idea and inspired the novel Fight Club. Book was brilliant and the movie is one of those few that entirely does justice to it. Though the humour is more pronounced I think in the movie probably because of the choice of actors (Robert Downey and Woody Harrelson in particular). Having now read the book I appreciate the movie on a whole new level in terms of casting decisions. Not that I didn't absolutely love it before. Must read, must see.
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Well said, couldn't agree more.
However, I read the book well before seeing the movie.

I'm very slowly reading factotum by bukowski at the moment, great so far. every time i try to read the last few nights has been just before i go to sleep, and being too tired im falling asleep and not getting anywhere.
 
There's this crappy selling cheap books on tables thing at my local shopping centre and although nearly every book is crap I did find the Bradbury one above and a Bukowski novel. I didn't buy the Bukowski one and I went back the next day to do so and it was gone. Sad. Pointless story.
 
lostpunk5545 said:
Reading Tim Flannery's Future Eaters
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I love that book and I love Tim Flannery too. I really like his writing style, he's definitely got a knack for making some quite scientific stuff really interesting and easy to read. Actually wrote my last ever uni essay with the help of that book, and enjoyed it so much I bought it. If you haven't read 'Weather Makers', I'd recommend it!
 
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