What are you currently reading?

A Little F'd up by Julie Zeilinger

Lolita by Vladimir Nobakov

 

Getting Started With Latin

 

I just finished reading Grey by E.L. James. I loved the Fifty Shades of Grey series. Now I'm getting ready to read the Cellar. Not sure who it's by, a friend loaned me the book.

 

Prose Edda, The Silmarillion, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

 

I just started re-reading The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan. My favorite of his books.

 

LOTR - The Two Towers

 

Just got it a few hours ago on Kindle. I pre-ordered it a while back, and I've been waiting eagerly to read it. I just started reading it on breaks at work.

 

It.

I know I said this earlier in the thread, but I didn't get around to actually reading it until last night.

Only a couple of chapters in and I woke up in a panic last night because of clown nightmares.

 

I read a couple of chapters of It as well, last summer. Never finished it, because I was on a trip and left the book there.
And then I just moved on, lol.

Anyways, I don't remember the book (those few chapters) leaving me scared or anything.
But I do remember feeling very sad for the little boy who was killed...the storm, the drain....

 

I scare pretty easily. I don't even know why I'm reading this book, I know I'll be scared to be alone or in the dark for months after .

I think Stephen King does a great job of playing on childhood fears in the first chapter - the way he describes the dark, dank cellar and the way it smells and how the boy always felt something watching him, ready to seize him. I always felt like that as a child in dark rooms or in shadows. Still do, actually

It was really sad how he died, poor boy

 

I read It years ago and I still remember It. (see what I did there?)

This book really does get very very good...and becomes about more than just Pennywise; although the clown will always play a central role. King is one of my favorite writers because he can scare the piss out of you and make you laugh and want to cry all on the same page.

 

Good, I need to feel some other emotions besides terror while reading it lol
The only other Stephen King book I have read is The Shining, which I thought was pretty multi faceted as well..and very sad

 

I liked It OK, but I didn't like how it kept jumping from the past to the present; and there were so many main characters I actually had to take notes to remember who was who, .

I recommend The Stand; its my favorite of his books. Also 'Salem's Lot; I love a good vampire story.

 

I very recently finished The Iceman by Philip Carlos and absolutely loved it. Now I've just started Coping With Schizophrenia by Professor Kevin Gourney and Debbie Robson. Very interesting so far!

 

Continuing my run on 19th century novels, I'm reading 'The Old Curiosity Shop' by Charles Dickens.

One of the few of his works I've never either read or seen in a dramatization. Excellent.

 

I'm a few chapters in now and i agree, all the characters make it really confusing.

A few years ago when i had aspirations of becoming a great american novelist, i came up with a plot idea and told my then boyfriend. He started laughing and said, "oh, you mean The Stand?"

So ive never read it because i'm still mad at Stephen King for stealing my idea before I thought of it

 

some latin book

 

Latin american?

 

Oh you must read The Stand. It is absolutely fine literature. Get the uncut version. Its a little longer; but just that little bit extra makes it even better and fills in any/all questions. I read both versions. lol