Books you're currently reading??? - Page 59

Yepa · 06-16-2007, 04:14 PM

I'm reading Book of Lost Things (don't remember the authors name at the moment, and can't be bothered to go downstairs and find out). So far I really like it. Always enjoy when people mix mythology and/or faerie-tales with our world. Very exciting!

06-17-2007, 12:57 AM

Read Darwin's Children, whooohoooo!!!!!!

Ibby · 06-17-2007, 02:56 AM

Darwin's Radio/Darwin's Children... great books.

Cloud · 06-22-2007, 12:28 PM

Has anyone read I Am Legend by Richard Mattheson? Apparently it's one of the top vampire horror stories of all time, and Will Smith is making a movie of it to be released in Dec.

Never heard of it.

wolf · 06-22-2007, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Cloud

Has anyone read I Am Legend by Richard Mattheson? Apparently it's one of the top vampire horror stories of all time, and Will Smith is making a movie of it to be released in Dec.

Never heard of it.

I am Legend goes in and out of print. I read it years ago (also read the novel that Invasion of the Body Snatchers was based on ... very much Cold War SF.)

Two prior movie versions ... Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price and the much better known Omega Man starring Charlton Heston.

07-13-2007, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

I am Legend goes in and out of print. I read it years ago (also read the novel that Invasion of the Body Snatchers was based on ... very much Cold War SF.)

Two prior movie versions ... Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price and the much better known Omega Man starring Charlton Heston.

Anyone have the Timmy Valentine book that Rice plagiarized? (yes, and I'm not making it up, I still like her vampire books, they are fun pulp, but she ripped the basic idea off)
Someone stole mine and I have been wanting to re-read it for years.
I am very trustworthy and will mail it back. Will not trust my wife, she lost a gift I was supposed to send a dweller here, the pooping reindeer, you know who you are. I am VERY sorry.

jinx · 06-22-2007, 12:34 PM

Mayflower - Nathanial Philbrick
Because he did such a great job with In the Heart of the Sea (Moby Dick).

Sundae · 06-22-2007, 04:16 PM

I read I am Legend in very grim circumstances
As grim as a sunny morning in a beautiful, huge, warehouse-style apartment can be anyway (booty call with ex, he got a call from another woman he "had" to take and was on phone for 90 mins - all I had was the book and my own furious seething). So for me it recalls sunlight, the smell of cooked breakfast and heartache.

Any WAY.
Interesting. But didn't live up to me ridiculously high expectations.
The film won;t address the tension and emotions, it will be a blind actioner. Ow.

Currently reading The Mermaid & The Drunks by Ben Richards (hence me sig). Lovely, lovely. Teaching me how you can miss out huge chunks of timw without losing your readers.

Griff · 06-22-2007, 07:12 PM

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip Dick

Ibby · 06-24-2007, 12:35 AM

Something Happened - Joseph Heller.

richlevy · 06-24-2007, 01:33 PM

Old Man's War by John Scalzi. This guy might be the next Heinlein.

06-27-2007, 02:23 PM

Just finished rereading the last 2 Potter books.
Just started John M. Barry's The Great Influenza.

skysidhe · 07-07-2007, 02:07 PM

We went north for my vacation and my son's grandmother gave me a book to read. It's called "Dark Woods" It's a big foot novel.

It's not anything like I would normally read inspite of my silly primate thread. I've very 'into it'

piercehawkeye45 · 07-13-2007, 05:23 PM

Slaughterhouse-5

A Man Without A Country

-Kurt Vonnegut

ravenranter · 07-13-2007, 05:35 PM

I just finished The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.

06-16-2007, 04:14 PM	#1
Yepa Listening Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Vikingland Posts: 15	I'm reading Book of Lost Things (don't remember the authors name at the moment, and can't be bothered to go downstairs and find out). So far I really like it. Always enjoy when people mix mythology and/or faerie-tales with our world. Very exciting! __________________ No more! The earth's a burrito! We're done!

06-17-2007, 02:56 AM	#3
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	Darwin's Radio/Darwin's Children... great books. __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

06-22-2007, 12:28 PM	#4
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	Has anyone read I Am Legend by Richard Mattheson? Apparently it's one of the top vampire horror stories of all time, and Will Smith is making a movie of it to be released in Dec. Never heard of it. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

06-22-2007, 12:34 PM	#7
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	Mayflower - Nathanial Philbrick Because he did such a great job with In the Heart of the Sea (Moby Dick). __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

06-22-2007, 04:16 PM	#8
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I read I am Legend in very grim circumstances As grim as a sunny morning in a beautiful, huge, warehouse-style apartment can be anyway (booty call with ex, he got a call from another woman he "had" to take and was on phone for 90 mins - all I had was the book and my own furious seething). So for me it recalls sunlight, the smell of cooked breakfast and heartache. Any WAY. Interesting. But didn't live up to me ridiculously high expectations. The film won;t address the tension and emotions, it will be a blind actioner. Ow. Currently reading The Mermaid & The Drunks by Ben Richards (hence me sig). Lovely, lovely. Teaching me how you can miss out huge chunks of timw without losing your readers. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

06-17-2007, 12:57 AM	#2
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	Read Darwin's Children, whooohoooo!!!!!!

06-22-2007, 07:12 PM	#9
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip Dick __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

06-24-2007, 12:35 AM	#10
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	Something Happened - Joseph Heller. __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

06-24-2007, 01:33 PM	#11
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Old Man's War by John Scalzi. This guy might be the next Heinlein. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

06-27-2007, 02:23 PM	#12
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	Just finished rereading the last 2 Potter books. Just started John M. Barry's The Great Influenza.

07-07-2007, 02:07 PM	#13
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	We went north for my vacation and my son's grandmother gave me a book to read. It's called "Dark Woods" It's a big foot novel. It's not anything like I would normally read inspite of my silly primate thread. I've very 'into it'

07-13-2007, 05:23 PM	#14
piercehawkeye45 Franklin Pierce Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,695	Slaughterhouse-5 A Man Without A Country -Kurt Vonnegut

07-13-2007, 05:35 PM	#15
ravenranter Mystical Miscreant Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: asteroid B-12 Posts: 46	I just finished The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. __________________ "One never ought to listen to the flowers..." - The Little Prince

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