Do You Read?

[Bonzosa]

AP-Ipsos Poll:
*one in four adults read no books at all.
*Women and "older people" read most.
*Religious and pop fiction are most popular
*Typical person reads 4 books a year
*taking the non-readers out of the equation, readers average 7 books a year.

Read it here (http://www.spokesmanreview.com/ap/story.asp?AP_ID=D8R5OQNG0)

[TeeDeeGee]

Read it here (http://www.spokesmanreview.com/ap/story.asp?AP_ID=D8R5OQNG0)

Sorry, I don't read.
:rimshot:

Srsly though, I do read. I would like to read more, cause I've been haflway through Choke for about a year now.

[SFS04]

I read a lot, read four books this past month alone.

[SoxFan76]

I read when I'm on the pooper.

Seriously, that's the only time I'll read a book. So it takes me a month to finish a 400 page book.

[TeeDeeGee]

I can't believe you're laboring through CP's best book.

I'm a disgrace. :gloomy:

I've got Rant sitting on my desk too, but I don't know about that one. The style makes it really hard to follow.

Have you read Diary? That was interesting...I liked the kinda "meta" deal at the end...

[Efilnikufesin]

Yep.. Mainly read Philosophy, History..

The only author that I read anything by fictionally. Clive Barker.

And recently the Bush Admin.. they make the best Fictional stories up.

[Unregistered]

I can't believe you're laboring through CP's best book.

When you're on SATC 6 hours a day and playing video games the rest of the time, that doesn't leave much time for reading. :shrug:

[weebs1818]

I have to be reading a book at all times, or something is just not right...

I was a proud member of the Pizza Hut Book It club in elementary school.

[TeeDeeGee]

When you're on SATC 6 hours a day and playing video games the rest of the time, that doesn't leave much time for reading. :shrug:
Exactly.
Some of us have lives, you know.
:ridiculous:

[SoxFan76]

I have to be reading a book at all times, or something is just not right...

I was a proud member of the Pizza Hut Book It club in elementary school.

Nerdlinger.

I was a member of Book It as well, but I barely read anything.

[TeeDeeGee]

I was in that club as well. I was not a proud member as Pizza Hut sucked. They tore it down and built a TCF Bank.

And now you work for a bank. :thinking:

[Bonzosa]

I always have like 5 books that are partially read laying around. Takes me a while to get through books unless I really like them.

Right now: People's History of the United States, The Brothers K, Truck, Tracks, and Northwest Exposure (geology book).

Some people, like me, enjoy reading the newspaper and magazines, I read more of those than anything...

No doubt I have been reading less since I found this freaking site.

[weebs1818]

Pizza Hut is not the greatest pizza in Chicago, but in NC it was like, gourmet.

[Bonzosa]

Pizza Hut is not the greatest pizza in Chicago, but in NC it was like, gourmet.
I get a kick out of people here in Portland who think Old Chicago is authentic Chicago pizza.
Deep dish is hard to find here, thin is king.

Nerdlinger.

I was a member of Book It as well, but I barely read anything.
Ditto

[SFS04]

I'm halfway through American Pharaoh ,about Mayor Daley the first and the history of Chicago, Sense and Sensibility which is girly Jane Austen stuff, a book of Chuck Klosterman articles courtesy of Zoso Brown, and Sex, Time, and Power: How Woman's Sexuality shaped Human Evolution.

[Bonzosa]

I'm a disgrace. :gloomy:

I've got Rant sitting on my desk too, but I don't know about that one. The style makes it really hard to follow.

Have you read Diary? That was interesting...I liked the kinda "meta" deal at the end...
Don't be so self deprecating.

[CaptainBallz]

Some people, like me, enjoy reading the newspaper and magazines, I read more of those than anything...



That's basically all I've been reading lately. Really the only time I have to read is late at night and that put me to sleep after about two pages.

Plus, the only books I find myself reading are really dense so that doesn't help my cause.

[buehrlebabe]

I have to be reading a book at all times, or something is just not right...

I was a proud member of the Pizza Hut Book It club in elementary school.

Me too!! My Pizza hut was on 99th and Western. I probably read 15-20 books a year. Right now I'm reading Ugly Americans and A Confederecy of Dunces.

SOF4- Have you read My Sister's Keeper? I just finished last week OMG amazing book.

[SFS04]

No, I haven't, what is it about?

[Bonzosa]

Chuck Klosterman- Never heard of him, but I am adding him to the list after wiki'ing his ass.
Does reading The Believer automatically make one emo?

[Bonzosa]

Vito & Nick's has good pizza.

So does Connie's.
The Oven Grinder :rock:

[SFS04]

One of my favorite fiction books I have read recently would be The House of Sand and Fog, about two people who are both claiming ownership of a house, and their different emotional reactions. I also really dug Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk.

[buehrlebabe]

Taken off the website . . .

Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate - a life and a role that she has never questioned… until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister - and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable… a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves. My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life… even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are, if that quest makes you like yourself less?

[SFS04]

I would read that. I need to make a stop at my local library soon, Daley branch Halsted and 33rd.

[Dan Mega]

Michael Crichton is usually the only fiction I read. I'm big on nonfiction, especially the study of past society and law.

[weebs1818]

Confederacy of Dunces is a good one. Right now I'm reading Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell. Karin- you let me borrow Partly Cloudy Patriot a couple years ago, now I'm following up.. thanks :)

[buehrlebabe]

One of my favorite fiction books I have read recently would be The House of Sand and Fog, about two people who are both claiming ownership of a house, and their different emotional reactions. I also really dug Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk.

Nice, I will check out. The Lovely Bones is another great fictional book. Oh and Poisonwood Bible is one of my top five

[maurice]

Vito & Nick's has good pizza.
So does Connie's.

Those would be my choices as well, plus Caponies on Harlem for traditional pizza from a wood-burning oven.

- V&N for Chicago-style thin-crust
- Connies for Chicago-style deep dish
- Caponies for Italian-style

[SFS04]

Poisonwood Bible, that stayed with me a long time after reading it.

Lovely bones, I just did not like the ending one bit. I don't even remember what happened!! I just remember being very disappointed in it.

Chips did you actually read my Catcher in the Rye I lent you?

[maurice]

Daley branch Halsted and 33rd.

I usually can't make it past the "new books" rack by the front desk without picking up 3 or 4 books.

[Bonzosa]

Sounds like Book Club SATCH style could be organized.
Although I have a feeling only women would join...

[Palehose13]

I read every night. Mostly fiction. I probably average 2 books/month, 3 if one of the books is really good.

[weebs1818]

You're still reading that? Dude, you were reading that as we headed down to Nashville.

I know, but then I was getting ready to move and didn't have as much time. I'm almost done, though.. what should I read next?

[Dan Mega]

About a year ago I read this book called "Blink". I forgot the author, but it was really good.

[TeeDeeGee]

There's a series of books that Stephen King wrote, I don't think I've ever mentioned them before, but I'm a huge fan.
:thinking:
:rock:

[SFS04]

Malcolm Gladwell, Dan?

Haven't read it but heard good things.

I would totally do a SATC book club. I am basically a dude with a vagina as my boyfriend so graciously pointed out.

[SFS04]

I prefer to just check books out of the library, they're free and one less thing to move.

[Dan Mega]

Malcolm Gladwell, Dan?

Haven't read it but heard good things.

I would totally do a SATC book club. I am basically a dude with a vagina as my boyfriend so graciously pointed out.

Yeah that sounds right. I borrowed it from someone about a year ago. I recommend it, I couldn't put it down.

[SFS04]

He also wrote The Tipping Point if I am not mistaken.

A lot of my musician friends swear by Blink.

[weebs1818]

Has anyone here read Written on the Body? I can never find anyone who has to talk about it with...

[CaptainBallz]

Rush Limbaugh wrote some good books.

No he didn't

[TeeDeeGee]

I'm currently reading Stephen Colbert's "I am America (and so can you!)".

It's almost as good as his last science-fiction work, "Lady Nocturne: Alpha Squad 7: A Tek Janson adventure"

[Bonzosa]

My dad buys me conservative books for Christmas each year.
He got me Culture Warrior (O'Reilly) and State of Fear (Chrichton)
My sister and I got him Obama's book.
We attempt to understand one another at least...

[Palehose13]

Poisonwood Bible, that stayed with me a long time after reading it.

Lovely bones, I just did not like the ending one bit. I don't even remember what happened!! I just remember being very disappointed in it.

Chips did you actually read my Catcher in the Rye I lent you?

I just finished the Poisonwood Bible a few weeks ago. I gave it to my foster daughter to read (because of some of her background with christian parents). Great Book. I read Animal Dreams by Kingsolver before that one. It's pretty good too.

I loved The Lovely Bones by Sebold. Have you read Lucky? I thoguht that was pretty moving.

How about The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett? It is one of my favorites.

[TeeDeeGee]

I'm currently reading Stephen Colbert's "I am America (and so can you!)".

Also, I didn't realize this was a real book.
I'm gonna have to go pick it up I think.
I can talk about your body all day. :shrug:
oooo, erotic.

[weebs1818]

I can talk about your body all day. :shrug:

should i be scared?

[SFS04]

I just finished the Poisonwood Bible a few weeks ago. I gave it to my foster daughter to read (because of some of her background with christian parents). Great Book. I read Animal Dreams by Kingsolver before that one. It's pretty good too.

I loved The Lovely Bones by Sebold. Have you read Lucky? I thoguht that was pretty moving.

How about The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett? It is one of my favorites.

I don't think I've read Lucky.....it was SO long ago that I read Lovely Bones, probably about 4 years now. Hell, I might read it now and love it!

I've heard Animal Dreams is good too. I have not heard of the Patron Saint of Liars.

[TeeDeeGee]

should i be scared?

He likes it when they're scared.

[Palehose13]

Has anyone here read Written on the Body? I can never find anyone who has to talk about it with...

That is my girlfriend's favorite Winterson book (and Winterson is one of her favorite authors). I have only read Oranges are not the only fruit and The Passion by Winterson.
Maybe I will pick up Written on the body next.

[Dan Mega]

Has anyone here read Written on the Body? I can never find anyone who has to talk about it with...

My ex told me about it a while back, something about an affair with the narrator. :shrug:

[Bonzosa]

Pizzeria Uno is wannabe crap and that's supposed to be a Chicago institution I think...or some people consider it to be maybe. Connie's is another famous Chicago chain that sucks. I'll take Pizza Hut over both of them because Pizza Hut is great at what it does, which is make cheap, greasy pizza with a lot of flavor, while the aforementioned are really bad at what they do, which is make authentic Chicago pizza.
I grew up on Connie's, so it's hard for me to pass up or knock.
I agree it's not the greatest.
Growing up, we ate Gino's West, Lou Malnati's, Connie's and Leonardo's (downtown Naperville). All of these places run circles around what deep dish you can find outside Chicagoland.

Pizza Hut is just that Zoso, cheap greasy pizza.
So gross.

[weebs1818]

That is my girlfriend's favorite Winterson book (and Winterson is one of her favorite authors). I have only read Oranges are not the only fruit and The Passion by Winterson.
Maybe I will pick up Written on the body next.

It's gorgeous. I don't know how else to describe it

[Palehose13]

I don't think I've read Lucky.....it was SO long ago that I read Lovely Bones, probably about 4 years now. Hell, I might read it now and love it!

I've heard Animal Dreams is good too. I have not heard of the Patron Saint of Liars.

The running joke with my girlfriend is that i am never satisfied with endings, so if I was disappointed at the end of Lovely Bones, it was the norm. I think I liked Lucky better though. Patron Saint of Liars though is very good. Bel Canto by Patchett is aight too.

[Palehose13]

It's gorgeous. I don't know how else to describe it


That's pretty mcuh what she says, but she is one of these artsy writer types so I usually figure that it is over my head. I'm more plot driven, she's all about the language.

[weebs1818]

That's pretty mcuh what she says, but she is one of these artsy writer types so I usually figure that it is over my head. I'm more plot driven, she's all about the language.

The narrator is gender-neutral so it's kind of mysterious. It's short, too, so if you aren't that into it, it's over quickly.

[Palehose13]

A girl told me that exact same thing the other night.

About yourself, right?

[weebs1818]

:laff:

[Bonzosa]

I don't think cheap, greasy pizza is inherently gross. A well done Pizza Hut is pretty damn good.
Just because I stalk you, it doesn't mean I can't disagree.
Cheap, greasy pizza is inherently gross, hence the reason I don't eat it. ie Domino's, Pizza Hut, etc.

[SFS04]

No lunch today Chopper I already ate, plus i had a slice of pizza last night and it made me feel sick, no pizza for me for a while.

[weebs1818]

Whatever. I was amazing at Clue. I was always Miss Scarlet.

[fquaye14ten]

i'm the most well-read poster in the history of teh internets

just ask wilkes

[maurice]

Harlem and what? It's not ringing a bell.

3350 N. Harlem.

Lots of dagos and dago accessories in that general vicinity.

Connie's is another famous Chicago chain that sucks.

I'm sure that the chain sucks, but what do I care? I can walk to the flagship store on Archer, which serves excellent deep dish (plus some other stuff that's pretty good). Plus, you can sit out on the patio and get bombed. They also have a huge delivery range.

[SFS04]

Me too, she looked like a whore, which is what I always aspired to be.

[weebs1818]

Me too, she looked like a whore, which is what I always aspired to be.

:cheers:

Cheers, sister.

[SoxFan76]

Pizzeria Uno is wannabe crap and that's supposed to be a Chicago institution I think...or some people consider it to be maybe. Connie's is another famous Chicago chain that sucks. I'll take Pizza Hut over both of them because Pizza Hut is great at what it does, which is make cheap, greasy pizza with a lot of flavor, while the aforementioned are really bad at what they do, which is make authentic Chicago pizza.

You are the man. I was going to say that Connie's does indeed suck when I finished reading the thread. What an overrated joint.

And Pizza Hut is good for the exact reason you just pointed out. Except it tears my insides apart a few hours after devouring it. Stuffed crust meat lovers! Of the "fake" pizza joints, Pizza Hut destroys the competition. (Dominos, Little Cesars--the only pizza I seriously honest to God will not eat, Papa Johns)

[the fluffer]

magazines and tech manuals... and usually the magazines are such as ColdFusion Developers Jounral, etc... and some design magazines.

I wish I had time for the fiction.

[SFS04]

Maurice, do they have drink specials there, or anything particularly cheap?

This "bombed on the patio" description intrigues me.

[SoxFan76]

I'd rather have a frozen Jack's than Little Cesars. I'll eat Papa Johns, but it just isn't very good. The pepperoncini is the best part.

[fquaye14ten]

butthole surfers

[weebs1818]

Art of Pizza... anyone? anyone?

[Dan Mega]

and whats the deal with airline food?

PS- Pompei Pizza >>> Connie's

[maurice]

Maurice, do they have drink specials there, or anything particularly cheap?

They have a full bar, but I don't remember any drink specials . . . but, hey, it's the SSide! How much could it be?

I used to take a group of NSiders to Evergreen in Chinatown on a semi-annual basis. They started drinking like college freshman, as soon as they realized that beer was $2 and mixed drinks were like $3.
:D

[SoxFan76]

and whats the deal with airline food?

PS- Pompei Pizza >>> Connie's

Ahh, I can't believe it took so long for the

"Insert thing a lot of people most likely may not have heard of" is better than "thing everybody knows about"

post.

[SFS04]

Zoso and I have the least amount of money of any yuppie couple you will ever see, I am suicidal in grad school, cheap is good.

[SoxFan76]

Don't tell me about broke. I wrote my cousin a 50 dollar check for his wedding and I'm all paranoid and watching my bank account hoping I don't go under 50 in my checking and bounce the check.

[SFS04]

15th and 30th of each month, best days there are.

[SoxFan76]

Every 2 weeks for me. August is a 3 paycheck month which is nice. And I'll be getting a few hundred added to my last paycheck to account for the week I worked unpaid since it was in the middle of a pay week. I'll probably just throw that into savings.

That unpaid week is when I first started, obviously.

[weebs1818]

U of C pays once a month.. I'm still not used to it..

[SFS04]

I used to get paid once a month, so weak.

I have 4 (four) months left to find a job!

[Spider_Pig]

:shrug:




I like reading.

[Beer Can Chicken]

BCC reads lots.
Currently reading "High Fidelity" for the 4th time and "Into the Wild".

I'm halfway through American Pharaoh ,about Mayor Daley the first and the history of Chicago, Sense and Sensibility which is girly Jane Austen stuff, a book of Chuck Klosterman articles courtesy of Zoso Brown, and Sex, Time, and Power: How Woman's Sexuality shaped Human Evolution.

Read this. Good stuff

Me too!! My Pizza hut was on 99th and Western. I probably read 15-20 books a year. Right now I'm reading Ugly Americans and A Confederecy of Dunces.

SOF4- Have you read My Sister's Keeper? I just finished last week OMG amazing book.


This was my Pizza Hut as well.

Confederacy of Dunces is hilarious.

About a year ago I read this book called "Blink". I forgot the author, but it was really good.

Another solid book. Tipping Point is good as well.

Art of Pizza... anyone? anyone?

Good deep dish and thin crust. We get AOP after Monday softball.

and whats the deal with airline food?

PS- Pompei Pizza >>> Connie's

Pompei is not pizza. It is bread with red sauce on it. It sucks.

[Prope]

Way to crap over a pretty interesting thread......

The last novel I read was, The Historian. I thought it was crap, odd as that may be.

I mainly read nonfiction. I'm on an economics kick, so I've been reading a lot of books centered around that topic.

[Beer Can Chicken]

Talking about the thread subject, what a novel concept!

[Prope]

Punny.

[SFS04]

BCC I like High Fidelity a lot too, one of my favorite fiction books.

This is teh second time I'm readnig American Pharaoh, it's so much info to take in at once.

[SoxEd]

Yep. I'm a 'reader'.
:D

I'm currently, after making what could be regarded as something of a drunken boast, trying to read Joyce's Monstrous Masterpiece Ulysses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_%28novel%29).
:eek:

I am thoroughly determined to read the bugger all the way through - if only because I am aware that it is one of the most Unfinished-by-its-readers Books in the World, Ever!

Wish me luck!

[SFS04]

God bless ya. I read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and I wanted to fucking kill myself and light the book on fire multiple times.

[SoxFan76]

I'm a biography kinda guy. Honest, the best one I've read is by Mick Foley about...Mick Foley. Most biographies are written by ghost writers: this is one of the few that isn't. And hopefully it has a few correct usages of the semi-colon, because I'm pretty sure I just used one myself.

He's got a great story.

[MeanFish]

I'm a biography kinda guy. Honest, the best one I've read is by Mick Foley about...Mick Foley. Most biographies are written by ghost writers: this is one of the few that isn't. And hopefully it has a few correct usages of the semi-colon, because I'm pretty sure I just used one myself.

He's got a great story.

My only complaint with your use of the semicolon is that you used a regular colon. Otherwise you were spot on. :cool:

[Bonzosa]

That was called a colon.
; = semicolon

[SoxFan76]

That's twice I've brain farted today. :( Go ahead Chips, I'll allow :classicloftus: right now.

What's scary is grammar has always been one of my strong points.

[getonbckthr]

I do not read, view it as a waste of time. If I wanted to read I would still be in school.

[Beer Can Chicken]

Yep. I'm a 'reader'.
:D

I'm currently, after making what could be regarded as something of a drunken boast, trying to read Joyce's Monstrous Masterpiece Ulysses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_%28novel%29).
:eek:

I am thoroughly determined to read the bugger all the way through - if only because I am aware that it is one of the most Unfinished-by-its-readers Books in the World, Ever!

Wish me luck!

Try reading Don Quioxte. Just as monsterous but much more accessible. I love that book, it's hilarious.

[Bonzosa]

Try reading Don Quioxte. Just as monsterous but much more accessible. I love that book, it's hilarious.
What, no more talking in the third person?

[Beer Can Chicken]

George is getting upset.

[Spider_Pig]

Spider_Pig types in third person. :nono:

[Palehose13]

I do not read, view it as a waste of time. If I wanted to read I would still be in school.

This explains a lot.

[Bonzosa]

George is getting upset.
I wrote that in my post and then deleted it.
:laff:

[SFS04]

:classicloftus!:

[getonbckthr]

This explains a lot.
Seriously if a book is worth it it will be made into a movie and I will have an extra 50 hours to do shit. Now if I see a book about history that interests me sure I'll read it.

[SFS04]

:frustrated:

[getonbckthr]

:frustrated:
what? Not that i'll ever watch the movies but lets say I had any interest in Harry Potter. I can A) spend 3 months (give or take) reading all the books or B) 20 hours and watch them all (when they are all finally movies). So 2160 hours or 20? Thats an extra 2140 hours I have to drink, coach, sleep, play softball, golf, work etc etc etc etc etc etc etc.

[Spider_Pig]

Just to make a point about Harry Potter, the books are so much better...

[SFS04]

There are a lot of books that are good that won't be made into movies. Likewise there's a lot of shitty books that are movies.

[getonbckthr]

Ehhh time is of the essence.

[BoysMom3]

I love to read. I'm reading a few different books right now. I don't usually like to do that, but I can when only one of them is fiction.

My parents only allowed us to watch a certain amount of t.v. when I was a kid, and once we came in from playing after it got dark, that's all there was to do, read. I remember the lovely smell of the library in Manhattan, IL - it was an old church, and the floors creaked, and it smelled old. My mom loves to read too, so we'd go there a lot. My kids all love to read too. Everyone hates it when I go to the library now though because if I come home with books, they know they're going to be pretty much ignored until I'm done reading. I am oblivious to others when I'm reading. Must get some discipline and stop reading to tend to the family.

[SFS04]

Boysmom what books do you like?

[Longshot7]

I read while working out. I like books.

[BoysMom3]

I like books about how to get a nice rack. Snort - kidding.

I like all kinds of books. I especially like books about true crime and forensics though.

I love how you can know nothing about a subject and then pick up some books and fall in love. When I couldn't find any more interesting looking books in our junior high library, my English teacher suggested the Marguerite Henry books - they're all about horses. I loved the horses in those books. I also read a book about Lou Gehrig because I liked baseball, and I fell in love with Lou and his Yankees team. Even though I'm a Sox fan I always have a special spot in my heart for the Yankees because of that book. What a great guy.

[SFS04]

My mom reads a lot of crime books too. I like pretty much any book, I like both fiction and non fiction. Sadly my reading time is gonna be way reduced soon, I start school on monday, :cry:

[JohnBasedowYoda]

After I'm done with American Psycho I'll either read:

-It
-start the Dark Tower series
-reread Fight Club
-start His Dark Materials series
-reread On the Road
-read Slaughter House V

[TeeDeeGee]

After I'm done with American Psycho I'll either read:

-It
-start the Dark Tower series
-reread Fight Club


Vote Basedow in 07.

:rock:

PS: Remember, read the first two DT books. Not just the first one.

[Spider_Pig]

I just got into reading some John Grisham books, he has some interesting stories pertaining to law and such. Currently reading The Last Juror. :shrug:

I really need to find a great series to read though. I'm really actually depressed now that Harry Potter is over...

[Dan Mega]

I wanna be a gunslinger.

[TeeDeeGee]

I really need to find a great series to read though. I'm really actually depressed now that Harry Potter is over...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/db/The_Gunslinger.jpg/200px-The_Gunslinger.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3a/The_Drawing_of_the_Three.jpg/200px-The_Drawing_of_the_Three.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/49/The_Waste_Lands.jpg/200px-The_Waste_Lands.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7f/Wizard_and_Glass.jpg/200px-Wizard_and_Glass.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/Wolvescalla.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/42/Song_of_Susannah.jpg/200px-Song_of_Susannah.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/54/Thedarktower7.jpg/200px-Thedarktower7.jpg

[Spider_Pig]

I've always thought about reading those, but have never got around to it. But I have plenty of time, so I must get 'em done.

[BoysMom3]

SpiderPig - I would recommend the Stephen King ones too. ThomeFan (my son) is your age, and I think he's read every SK book in our library. He wonders if they think he's weird, but obviously not, because he just got a job there. He loved the Potter books too.

I just finished a true story called 90 Minutes In Heaven by Don Piper. It was so good. It's about a guy who died in a car accident. Two different paramedics declared him dead. 90 minutes later...well, you'll have to read it to find out.

[TeeDeeGee]

I've always thought about reading those, but have never got around to it. But I have plenty of time, so I must get 'em done.

All things serve the beam, if ya ken it.
Like I've said many a time, read the first two.
Praise the man-jesus, thankee sai.


Where's IWC when I need him...:thinking:

[Palehose13]

I really need to find a great series to read though. I'm really actually depressed now that Harry Potter is over...

I heard that she is going to write a prequel perhaps focusing on Harry's dad and Snape.

[SABRSox]

I heard that she is going to write a prequel perhaps focusing on Harry's dad and Snape.
I've heard she's doing a crime novel now.

[TeeDeeGee]

I've heard she's doing a crime novel now.

I imagine it will be awful.
The only reason I stuck with the HP series is because I cared about the story and the characters, I wanted to see what happened.
Take that out, and you're left with her BS style of writing.

[Palehose13]

I've heard she's doing a crime novel now.

I could be wrong. It has happened before.

[TeeDeeGee]

I could be wrong. It has happened before.

I've also heard she's doing a crime novel.

By which I mean I think I saw it on the news thing on the comcast page a week or so ago...:thinking:

[JohnBasedowYoda]

I heard that she is going to write a prequel perhaps focusing on Harry's dad and Snape.

Part of me thinks that would be cool but we know what we need to know from that relationship.

I hope Rowling will leave the series alone and not try and add to it. Any more would come off as money grubbing to me. Plus, a book about Snape's teen years would seem like any other book or movie about a troubled teen who couldn't make the cool clique.

I imagine it will be awful.
The only reason I stuck with the HP series is because I cared about the story and the characters, I wanted to see what happened.
Take that out, and you're left with her BS style of writing.


What's BS about her style of writting?

[Palehose13]

I imagine it will be awful.
The only reason I stuck with the HP series is because I cared about the story and the characters, I wanted to see what happened.
Take that out, and you're left with her BS style of writing.

This from a fan of Stephen King? That mother fucker is more verbose than Wong.

[TeeDeeGee]

What's BS about her style of writting?
I bring this up all the time, but the way she's just laser focused on Harry drives me crazy. You're always just watching what harry does, you barely ever get insight into his mind or anything. I'd say it's almost some kinda crazy 2nd-person narration. :thinking:
It's always "Harry walked into the room and recognized the guy sitting there".
It's not "Harry walked into the room and Dumbledore was sitting there."
Know what I mean?

This from a fan of Stephen King? That mother fucker is more verbose than Wong.

What can I say? King weaves a good yarn. :D

So does Rowling, as I said. It's just the way she tells a story that I cannot stand.

[fquaye14ten]

oh my god I READ!

[Spider_Pig]

JK Rowling is not doing a crime novel, that was just a stupid joke that people made out of hand.