What are you currently reading?

[maplesyrupcookie]

Well, I had a busy summer in the book world.

I read:

Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Leap Year Gene by Shelley Wood
Sweeney Todd by Cant remember the guys name
A collection of Edgar Allan Poe stories
A collection of Lovecraft stories

Next, Im gonna read Flatland by Edwin Abbott.

[Uncovered]

About to start solitaire by Alice Oseman

[frehm92]

Just discovered that there's a new Dan Brown book. So just to go ahead and read...

[James]

Just started Ready Player Two, long overdue

[Jayden]

Currently reading the hunger games, really enjoying it right now. I'm not really a book type of guy but this book is really grabbing my attention.

[blank radar]

earth abides, an early post-apocalyptic novel. i'm only halfway through so it's hard to gauge what exactly it thinks about how the world ought to be, but although i may not agree with what i expect it is, it's still interesting
edit: it's at its best when it spends long passages on the idea of mythmaking. pretty poignant ending. other than that though, pretty unremarkable

[astaggs]

I just started reading The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

[James]

Source Code by Bill Gates

[TheLatvianNudist]

I am reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand now. I am on the 300 page now.

It is a very good and engaging read, the descriptions are very vivid, and the characters are impressively simple and complicated in their motivation at the same time. This is one of the only books I have felt like I understand the characters completely, and can intuit/understand their gestures and actions before even reading them described. I have always liked books where the author tries to convey a message, like 1984 and Brave New World, but, contrary to what I thought would be the case, Rand doesn't force the message/archetype of Great Men/the Randian hero down your throat. Instead, you are free to interpret the message, with only slight nudges towards the ideology of the author, so much that in many cases I find myself agreeing with the antagonist - Toohey.

It really is one of the best classics, because it explores the theme of individualism vs. conformism, witch is very important in today's society.

Has anyone else read it? What did you think about it?

[PBA]

I bought The Brothers Karamazov a few days ago. If you want to get unique and include visual novels, I finished chapter 1 of Higurashi 2 weeks ago.

[Jake15]

i recently started reading a new book for my free time in my english class. It is called The OverStory by Richard Powers.
I am only a couple dozen pages into the book now so i dont know what to fully expect yet. So far the book has been amazingly detailed in the way it is written and describes things. The main focus of the book is life and all aspects of it, the joy, the excitement, and the tragedy. The Overstory tells many stories of many different characters and their lives through a very fast paced view of time. You read as generations of family go by and see the way we as humans work with our human nature. As well as how we often forget to appreciate the little things in life.

That is really what this book is about in my opinion. Appreciating life for what it is, the good and the bad. To have life is the greatest gift of all.

[blank radar]

i recently started reading a new book for my free time in my english class. It is called The OverStory by Richard Powers.
I am only a couple dozen pages into the book now so i dont know what to fully expect yet. So far the book has been amazingly detailed in the way it is written and describes things. The main focus of the book is life and all aspects of it, the joy, the excitement, and the tragedy. The Overstory tells many stories of many different characters and their lives through a very fast paced view of time. You read as generations of family go by and see the way we as humans work with our human nature. As well as how we often forget to appreciate the little things in life.

That is really what this book is about in my opinion. Appreciating life for what it is, the good and the bad. To have life is the greatest gift of all.

i read this a long time ago, but it made a mark. i'll have to go back to it someday