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I'm reading the inthe00s messageboard. (Ba-da-bing! ;D)
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I am reading Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian.  I have no choice; I have to read it for English 101.
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It's a good book! Have you seen the version they did for T.V?? Brilliant.

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What's everyone reading right now?

I am reading "The Firm" by John Grisham.  I have to take a test over it at school when I'm done with it.  Has anyone read it and seen the film?  Do you think I could get away with just watching the movie?  :D   ;)
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Yes, L15, I believe you could with The Firm.

If you tried it with Hannibal though, your teacher would know.....the ending is completely different...

FB

As for me, the latest thing I was reading was Commonwealth Superannuation Legislation..... ::)

(Only sadists can write truly good legislation - I'm convinced they get their jollies from making it as difficult to interpret as possible...)

Now you know I come on the board to stay in touch with the real world     :D

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i hate shakira so much cause she is just a fukin whore who is selling her records thru her body so hmm maybe i like to fuk her thats it but i dont care for her garbage fk shakira now and forever and the other sluts who is selling records for nothing and they are making the cheap music with their cheap way

and everyones can check her photos everywhere and u will find out that she is just like any other playboy model or a whore I JUST HATE HER

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Yes and that really has a lot to do with reading. Try to keep your opinions to yourself please - this board has a good atmosphere until people like you come along.

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I usually read this messageboard…  ;D  8)

I'm mainly into reference books and stuff, and the last book I bought was in the bargain bin at one of the mall bookstores and has to do with locomotives.  Having lived most of my life near train tracks, I'm obsessed with trains…
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Trains? Oh ho! You and Fussy need to get together! :D

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i hate shakira so much cause she is just a fukin whore who is selling her records thru her body so hmm maybe i like to fuk her thats it but i dont care for her garbage fk shakira now and forever and the other sluts who is selling records for nothing and they are making the cheap music with their cheap way

and everyones can check her photos everywhere and u will find out that she is just like any other playboy model or a whore I JUST HATE HER

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Can you say run on sentence I really hate sentences that people type and use no punctuation or capitalization whatsoever

So, anyway.. Read any good books lately?

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I am currently reading 'Hard Eight' by Janet Evanovich. All of the other books in the series are fantastic, the 6th being the funniest. To anyone who knows of these books you'll know what I mean when I say - I want Joe Morelli! :D
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You get Joe as long as I can have Ranger.  YUMMY!!!!!!!

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i hate shakira so much cause she is just a fukin whore who is selling her records thru her body so hmm maybe i like to fuk her thats it but i dont care for her garbage fk shakira now and forever and the other sluts who is selling records for nothing and they are making the cheap music with their cheap way

and everyones can check her photos everywhere and u will find out that she is just like any other playboy model or a whore I JUST HATE HER

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I hate YOU. Now go away and never come back. Go on back to AOL land, illiterate.


I'm reading 'Colonization' at the moment. The second volume of Harry Turtledove's "World War" series.

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I hate YOU. Now go away and never come back. Go on back to AOL land, illiterate.
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That was beautiful, Goreripper.  ;D

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I usually read this messageboard…  ;D  8)

I'm obsessed with trains…
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Me too, The only engines I get yo see around here are Norfolk Southern (the evil railroad company).

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It's a good book! Have you seen the version they did for T.V?? Brilliant.
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Our professor is going to make us watch it in class. he is really into the pre-Pearl Harbor WW2 era.  One of his friends survived the Bombing of Coventry, and he is going to come and share his expierience.

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You get Joe as long as I can have Ranger.  YUMMY!!!!!!!
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I'm so up for that! I'm gutted that Joe and Stephanie have broken up though - I want them back together! Then again. I'll gladly be the person in the way of their relationship if he wasn't fictitious! ;D

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I'm so up for that! I'm gutted that Joe and Stephanie have broken up though - I want them back together! Then again. I'll gladly be the person in the way of their relationship if he wasn't fictitious! ;D
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Hurry up and finish reading 8.  I think you will love it.  It is one of the best so far.

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Hurry up and finish reading 8.  I think you will love it.  It is one of the best so far.
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Thats good to hear. I'm being quite slow lately - as I read all of the other 7 during the Summer holidays and now I'm back at college I hardly find the time to read for leisure anymore. I'm only on chapter 2 at the moment! :)

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Thats good to hear. I'm being quite slow lately - as I read all of the other 7 during the Summer holidays and now I'm back at college I hardly find the time to read for leisure anymore. I'm only on chapter 2 at the moment! :)
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Well sometimes it is better to read the book slowly.  Then you don't have as much as a wait for the next one. ;D

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Well sometimes it is better to read the book slowly.  Then you don't have as much as a wait for the next one. ;D
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Very true! ;D

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Well sometimes it is better to read the book slowly.  Then you don't have as much as a wait for the next one. ;D
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Like Harry Potter, for instance...  ::)

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Like Harry Potter, for instance...  ::)
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I've just finished "Barry Trotter and the Blatant Parody" (or something like that) by Michael Gerber.  It's kind of fun.

Phil

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What am I reading right now?  
Why this post of course! ::)

Sorry, stupid wannabe joke.
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Now I am reading your post!  :D  and my friend's IM too

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I'm trying to polish off the complete works of Shakespeare...I've read a bunch of boring stuff so far, and I'm going to claw my way through Coriolanus before rewarding myself with some comedies :)
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RC -- Have you tried this trick with Shakespeare?  Whenever I've either wanted or had to read one of his plays, I'd go to the library and get a recording of the play. They're out there, and the last time I looked, easily available.  I've always had a hard time just reading them, but reading along with a recording made them come alive.

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RC -- Have you tried this trick with Shakespeare?  Whenever I've either wanted or had to read one of his plays, I'd go to the library and get a recording of the play. They're out there, and the last time I looked, easily available.  I've always had a hard time just reading them, but reading along with a recording made them come alive.
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I'm reading Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential".
It's a really cool book!
I also want that other book he has wrote,"A cook's tour".
I'm his big fan.
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Bourdain had a series on FoodTV based on a cook's tour.  Definitely a cool dude.  Looks a lot like Lou Reed, too.

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Thanks for the suggestion Steve...but books on tape really cheese me off.  

What I'd like to do is to actually see the play being performed, but that does get expensive...so instead I read the play act by act and then use sparknotes online to get stuff that I didnt' pick up on the first time.  The funny thing is that I'm doing this voluntarily (this isn't for a class or anything)...just to be familiar with a playwright who takes half a page to say "Could you tie my shoe?"   :o


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They weren't books on tapes, though, RC.  They were studio recordings of big league actors doing the plays.  Reading the play itself didn't work for me... the language is too different.  I couldn't track the action.  But hearing the actors recite the lines while I read along brought it alive to me.  

If you've got a decent sized library nearby, I'd bet you could get your hands on a bunch of video taped plays.  Good luck anyway you do it.  It's a noble undertaking.

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I am two thirds thru Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler.  I dont know why I took so long to discover him as he is great.  Real action packed author that has you picturing a hoped for movie as you read.

I have two more of his on the shelf to take on my flight to Sydney.  I like a good airplane book that keeps me engrosed.

Clive is quite similar to Aussie author Matthew Reilly.  Real action thrillers with believable characters.  Matthew likes to throw in the odd completely unfathomable impossible to describe alien or mutant cougar just to liven things up !!!!  he also has a fantastic website !
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I started reading CLive Cussler with Raise The Titanic, and just reading it you can visualize so much that you think, "Why didn't the movie producers just make that awful movie like the book?!!?"  He's a very good writer.

I'm currently reading "Star Wars: Episode II" right now.  Plus "Jaws" and "The Two Towers."   I typically have 3 or 4 books going at once, and pick up whichever one strikes me at the moment.

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The help wanted ads. ;D
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I tried doing that but I just gave up on help wanted ads  cause I asked my psychologist to help me with my resume and my friend proofread and he told me he did it wrong so he corrected it for me.I sent it out anyway and lo and behold,got absolutely no responses whatsoever.My friend made me up a new resume that was done correctly on his wordprocessor.-howard-

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I am reading....for the 5 kazillionth time....Sense and Sensibility. I am a repeat offender when it comes to Jane Austen.
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What is it with chicks and Jane Austen?  I mean, is it like Field & Stream is for guys?  You know, something that shoots outs phermones that one sex finds irresistible and the other finds toxic.

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Hurry up and finish reading 8.  I think you will love it.  It is one of the best so far.
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I've finally finished it! Granted, once I got going it only took me a few days (and cost me a bit less sleeping time ;)). I'm so happy that shes back with Morelli - even though Rangers night was a fantastic bit! :)

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What is it with chicks and Jane Austen?  I mean, is it like Field & Stream is for guys?  You know, something that shoots outs phermones that one sex finds irresistible and the other finds toxic.
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That is a good point, Steve. I don't know what it is about Jane Austen and the appeal to females...every woman that has read it that I know has loved this story. 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Pride and Prejudice' I just love 'em. Maybe these stories do stimulate some part of the brain for females that males don't use or don't need? But I can tell males that if they want to find out how to get inside the complex diverse and most of the time contrary female brain to win their attention as well as affections, they should at least make an acquaintance with  Elizabeth Bennet's story. (IMO) ;)

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I just finished Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker.  It was... interesting...
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I haven't read that one. But if you like Clive Barker I thought "The Great And Secret Show" and the second book in that series "Everville" were fantastic.

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Right now, I'm reading "The series of unfourtunate events" by the nut case, Lemoney Snicket. You can really feel bad for the kids- thier life sucks! :-/  
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I read that series.  Those books are weird.  The author seems very weird, too...



Right now I'm reading "The Summons" by John Grisham.

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Who else is waiting for the 5th Harry Potter book?  I'm not really into the books or movies, but I think they are fun to read.  But by the time the 5th book comes out, I'm going to forget everything that happened in the previous four, so I think I'm going to start reading the first four over again soon...
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Who else is waiting for the 5th Harry Potter book?  I'm not really into the books or movies, but I think they are fun to read.  But by the time the 5th book comes out, I'm going to forget everything that happened in the previous four, so I think I'm going to start reading the first four over again soon...
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I was beginning to think there would be no fifth, it has been so long. I really enjoy the HP series. Can't wait for Order of the Phoenix, if that is still what it is going to be called... ;)