Do you enjoy reading?

[Blue]

Do you have time to read? What do you enjoy reading?

I am currently reading Rainbow 6 by Tom Clancy.

[Andie]

I love reading..
And i collect..well..almost collect Tom Clancy's books..:D
And some Eddings..Can all be modern time sagas..;)

Only crap in my cup is the price for an english book is almost twice of a swedish one..:(

[usantic]

Originally posted by Blue
Do you have time to read? What do you enjoy reading?



No I don't actually.

The posts in this forum.

As for books:
The Professor and the Madman - Winchester
King of the Confessors - Hoving
The Crystal Cave - Stewart
Cadillac Jack - McMurtry

[love_tattoos]

I love to read! But I really don't have the time these days to get into a good book. My reading now mostly consists of childrens books and in the process of that have become a huge fan of the Harry Potter books. My problem with reading a good book is I can't put it down. I find myself schlepping things off around the house just to read - not so different than schlepping things off to sit in front of this computer really. :whome:

[Banger]

I know what you mean LT, when I'm at work, I find it hard to get anything done when im online. sometimes i have to close all my open windows just to get work done...

But to answer the questions...yes i love to read...next best thing to listening to music...(fell asleep listening to moonlight sonata last night) and the last few good books that i read were Complications- a great medical book about mistakes that happen in hospitals and with doctors. very good book. and i read Fast Food Nation- you'll really want to think twice about eating that McDonald burger after that book.

[Villager]

I love reading: unfortunately I read very very slowly and am usually too tired/energetic/busy to read as I might at my leisure.


Originally posted by Blue
Do you have time to read? What do you enjoy reading?

I am currently reading Rainbow 6 by Tom Clancy.

Rainbow 6 is an excellent novel, an perhaps the only one I've ever read twice; Clancy has a tendency to be a little bit too detailed in his description, but it's a minor detail in an otherwise excellent narrative.

[Assassin13]

I love to read.
Rainbow 6 was amazing I read it so fast. I have also Read Vonnegut, tolkein, Grisham, etc.

Currently I am reading 'Catch 22' and 'The 7 mysteries of life' by Guy Merchie

[Banger]

catch 22 is a really good book...i read it twice....catcher in the rye is also an excellent book...ive read it 7 times

[Sterling]

Just finished reading "Porno" by Irving Welsh, the latest of the sequels to the phenominal "Trainspotting". It's probably his best work since, actually.

[Blue]

I like listening to music, too.

LT, I have began the Potter series with my son. It is more interesting than I thought. I even found myself liking the first movie, and looking forward to the second.

[Assassin13]

Blue that tends to happen, I have read the 4 books that are out right now by Rowling and it gets better and more 'adult' as the series goes on. Book 4 "The Goblet of fire" is enourmous and directed more at the general populace not just children.

P.S. Harry Potter #2 comes out in a week for me. w00t

[love_tattoos]

Assassin - I've already got my tickets!!! My husband, me and our kids are going to see it for our 11 year anniversary. Can't wait!!!

[Assassin13]

*jealous*
can I come too???

[love_tattoos]

Can you be here by Saturday? :)

[kittyroze]

I try and read as much as I can...I'm working my way down the top 100 books to be read list...I'm also working through some Vonnegut...

If you're up for it I totally recommend the Poisonwood bible by Barbara Kingsolver, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Count Of Monte Cristo and Fifth Chinese Daughter, by Jade Snow Wong.

[Diva]

I just started reading The Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe. I know a lot of his stories, but it's been a while since I have read them.

[caliente]

no, i dont like reading.

[WhatIsOne]

I used to read 3 hours a day... now I often don't even read 3 hours a week. I suppose I need a good book to get me hooked. Maybe I should just stick to writing. I should do both. If only I had the time...

[JakeD]

I read practically all the time.

I've just finished Howard K. Bloom's The Lucifer Principle(good, interesting read) and am currently dicking around with a guide to the French language. That one will (presumably) take a while.

[Amaurote]

I'm three-quarters of the way through Duiker's biography of Ho Chi Minh - bit of a revelation to me, really, because all the first-person accounts (including those from OSS officers operating on behalf of the USA) describe him as being "gentle", "nice" and "a sweet old guy", which are really not the sort of qualities you expect to find in a militant, conspiratorial Stalinist.

I tend to steer well clear of contemporary fiction for reasons of pure prejudice, but I think I might give Robert Harris' Fatherland a try, based on the report I've just received about it from an inmate. The balance between vicarious and actual experience is a tricky one, and as usual I'm teetering, teetering, teetering...

[Diva]

Originally posted by Amaurote
I'm three-quarters of the way through Duiker's biography of Ho Chi Minh - bit of a revelation to me, really, because all the first-person accounts (including those from OSS officers operating on behalf of the USA) describe him as being "gentle", "nice" and "a sweet old guy", which are really not the sort of qualities you expect to find in a militant, conspiratorial Stalinist.

Has this changed or formed a definate opinion of Ho Chi Minh? What did you expect to read? Unfortunately, I don't remember anything about him.

[Princess]

I like reading but it depends on the book :)

[Crion]

I'm going through my Ludlum phase: Just finished the Matarese Countdown and the Road to Gandolfo, both read in a single sitting, and a half-year ago I finished the Bible.

I read a lot of King, Koontz, and Clancy, as well as those Star Wars books, the New Jedi Order. It's a refreshing change from the romantic theme that ruled the Star Wars series for so many years. Now, they kill off one main character a book! It's great.

Currently sitting near my beside, next to Milton's Paradise Lost, which I'm rather non-plussed with, and a collection of the works of Ambriose Bierce, with which I am also non-plussed, with the notable exception of the Devil's Dictionary, is another Ludlum novel, the Osterman Weekend. I expect to start and finish it tonight.

[Jake]

Moby Dick is what I am reading at the moment.