LA, CA What are you reading?

This is a thread to discuss and recommend good books you have come across. Post whatever you are currently reading or what you have read in the past that you think people would enjoy.

No Harry Potter posts here, please. Use the HP thread for that.

I am reading Eldest by Christopher Paolini, right now. It's very LOTR/Star Wars/Convenitonal Fantasty but it's still pretty good. It's the second book in the Inheritance trilogy. The first was Eragon which was slow at first but got good towards the end. Too much travelling in that one.

I also enjoyed the Hitchhiker's Guide books.

My favorite "regular" author is John Irving. I've read nearly all of his books.

Oh, and if you don't mind that it's a kid's series, I like the Artemis Fowl books. They are really cleverly written. The author is Eoin Colfer, I think that's what his name is at least.

 

Thanks for starting this, DH!

I'm in a mystery book reading group, so I read a lot of mysteries! Just finished Kate White's book If Looks Could Kill. Very good first novel (she avoided the kitchen sink syndrome of many first-time writers), and it's also very humorous.

I also read all the Star Wars books, of course. Just finished The Unseen Queen. Quite the disappointing series.

I'm waiting for the latest Doris Kearns Goodwin book, her biography of Abraham Lincoln. Can't wait.

I'm in the midst of reading the Flix series by Alan Dean Foster. Really, really good. Flix is an interesting character -- he's a telepath, just discovering his powers. Plus his best friend is a poisonous mini-dragon .

I read the first Paolini book, DH, and didn't think much of it. He has the kitchen sink syndrome, and definitely could have used a better editor. So, haven't delved into the second one.

And I really want to read the Artemix Fowl books, just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Also just read the first Robert Jordan book in The Wheel of Time series. What a doorstop. Don't know that I'm up to reading the remaining 11 books <g>.

Finally, I absolutely adore the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. It is a wonderfully fantasy world, populated with warrior mice and evil vermin, military-style hares, otters, moles and a giant badger and, well, they are just terrific.

 

I am not reading anything "fun" right now because I have a lot of reading for my classes, but over the summer I read Little Dorrit and Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens, and Vanity Fair by William Thackeray. All very good books if you like that style of writing, which I do.

 

The Redwall series started to bore me. They were super predictable and spent way too much time on food. I have a bunch that I'm ready to give away if anyone (JN) wants them (paperbacks).

NP, you have to find time to read regular books on your off time. The only "classic" book I found very disturbing was "Lady Chatterly's Lover". I still get the willies from that one.

 

I finished Eldest. I didn't think it was as good as Eragon.

 

Hustler

 

I haven't read Lady Chatterly's Lover yet so I guess I'll stay away from that one.

I hope to read Les Miserables over Christmas break but that is probably far too ambitious. Maybe that'll be a summer project.

 

Well I have to read Beloved and Mansfield Park right now.
I'll have to start Moll Flanders soon as well. Besides the anthologiesed short stories and plays I need to read as well. Its been a while since I read a book for fun. I've never had so much to read in a semester that I can't read what I want.

Now a list of my favorite books will take some time so I'll post that at a later date.

 

I've tried to finish Les Miserables but can't. It's so boring. Speaking of boring books, the novelization of ROTS was so boring I could not finish it. Sorry. Don't throw me out.

 

I agree with you, DH. The ROTS novelization is very boring.

I am currently reading Tatooine Ghost and The Cinema of George Lucas.

 

ROTS was the last book I attempted to read. It's very boring. It felt like I read half the book, but they are still in the opening battle sequence. I stopped reading it.

 

I liked it!
i admit that I did skip some parts of the book, technical parts and such,but I liked it alot.

I'm waiting for the Vader one to come out.

 

I liked it too. Guess you have to be in college to like it.

 

I like the book better than the movie. Things are much more believable. But then, I am also used to reading the EU so maybe the "boring" stuff doesn't faze me as much.

 

Last year I read all of the Horatio Hornblower books (C.S. Forester). I enjoyed most of them but I thought the ending was a bit cheesy. I still liked them though.

Oh, and the "DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown was really good. I'm looking forward to that movie.

Oh, and the Chronicles of Narnia series is very good though I have mixed feelings about that ending also.

 

Wow, ES you're right. So far it's the FEMALE COLLEGE students that liked the novelization.

Weird.

 

'm reading this. It's not a book. But it's hilarious

Reasons to hate EP3

 

I'm reading a book on writing and a book on the history of infinity. <--- Yes, it's about math. I am a geek. I've had the latest SW book half open on the night-stand for a few weeks and haven't returned to it. Yawn. And I've just started a novel by my friend Steve Niles and I'm happy to see that it's good. A weird thing about me: I usually read three to four books concurrently. I think it's a habit left over from college.

 

Can I borrow the book about infinity? seriously, fellow math geek here.

 

I can tell you how that book ends. It doesn't it goes on and on and on.

 

Wasn't it written by the Energizer Bunny?

 

I'm reading the message boards now and I must say the story is going no where and the characters are all weak especially this Skyryder dude.

 

In an attempt to grow as a person, I decided to get a library card so that I could check out books and contribute to this thread.

I started with the LA County because there is a branch near work, but on my way home I'll also stop by the one in Sherman Oaks because it is a city one and looks a little better. At least they have a better web page.

 

SR, there is a lovely one in Studio City at the corner of Laurel Canyon and Moorpark. I know it's a lovely one because I was involved in the design and construction. Of course I haven't been back since then. It's kind of small but as I said, lovely. It was designed by an architect friend of mine.

 

Chronicles of Naria is an awesome series. I have read just about all of them and I think I should read them again before the movie comes out. Oh I also just finished the Last Command. I thought that that was a pretty good book. Get way to contiue with the Star Wars. But I don't know what book comes next.