What are you currently reading?

And neither are the Sharks in Sharknado

 

Oh god, don't tell me you've seen that terrible movie.

 

This thread.. 'Currently'

 

Seems like a convoluted and long winded read

 

Tommy..By Richard Holmes

 

Shadow of the Wind, first in a series of three books in the "Cemetery of Forgotten Books" series by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

 

For me it's not about his books being long or whatever. I have the patience.
They're just so....meh and bleh. If anything ever was so bland and mediocre, it's Stephen King's books.
I gave it a try, there was nothing there to grab me (my attention or emotions or got me thinking or whatevs).
So many books out there, I ain't gonna waste time on S.King anymore.

 

I recommend "The Nightland" as a really Good Book if you can get into The writing style !

 

You can get it Here Free
http://www.pdftitles.com/book/982/the-night-land

 

So I was reading the Lost Symbol by Dan Brown and it was just gearing up to get pretty good; I could tell! But.. my lending period at the library ran out and apparently for some reason they haven't ironed out how to extend the lending period for digital readers, so no renewing for this. I have to re-check it out once it has automatically gone back to the library's available resources. That might mean I lose my place in the book!

I love my kindle. Too bad there isn't better support for us who read them with library materials.

 

I've returned to an old Rune Magick book of which I have read before. It has enlightened me to purchase a few other books but I'm not sure in what language I would like them.

Firstly I believe, due to cultural relevance and significance that getting Rúnar books in Deutsch would be more beneficial for me but that also means my partner cannot read them if she so desires. Which she usually does. So I might have to get them in English.

I guess I just get a little unnerved at translations. What gets lost in translation, with the topic I'm reading, can really make a huge factor.

 

THIS is a CALL
The life and times of Dave Grohl
By Paul Brannigan

 

Not reading it yet because I'm waiting for it to come out in paperback.







Hotwater

 

Computer Languages


It's a part of some series of books on Computers that I randomly picked up a few of and was probably released in the early - mid 1980's, so it's fairly dated. However, it does have some interesting information about the history of the development of Computers and it's pretty interesting to see the gradual steps of a lot of disparate parts during the mid 20th century, that really shaped a lot of the cohesive aspects of Computer Programming today.

 

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962)




Hotwater

 

whoops! wrong thread! well, guess I'm reading this, although i haven't picked it up in over a week. ha!


"With My Eyes Wide Open: Miracles and Mistakes on My Way Back to KoRn by Brian "Head" Welch

 

I'm about half way through Binge, the autobiography of Tyler Oakley who was one of the first people to get "rich and famous" from their youtube vlogs.

I don't particularly follow him, or adamantly so any youtubers - much less vloggers - simply out of disinterst in the content overall. However, i used to watch him somewhat regularly and enjoyed the demeanor of how he presented his chosen topics. Much of the same humorous straight forward nature is prevalent to his Voice as an author as he walks us through his growth as a Millenial poverty stricken Michigan youth into the shiny beacon of human rights and showtunes 'we' the internet know him as.

 

About to start Beloved by Toni Morrison. I also have Jerusalem by Alan Moore on the go, but that fucker's so long and dense i'm finding I have to take novel-length breaks form it from time to time.

 

Stephen King - Dark Tower Vol. 2

Hey so I read the first one of these when I was coming back from America and it was called the Gunslinger. In the into was a brief introduction on how King set out to write the story and he said that he'd gotten the idea off The good The bad and the Ugly. So given that, and then name of the book I read it as a western. At the beginning the main character was walking through a desert of sand and tumbleweeds, stumbles upon an old village etc.

Last night I decided to read the opening of book #2. It described the events of the first book and went into some detail about "what we know" and claimed we know that the Tower world isn't too dissimilar to our own world. I laughed because I thought it was a western. But apparently I missed some key details that basically put the story in the time of modern age. Now I remember the young kid described a memory of today's age with the cars etc. and I assumed the books were about being in "Limbo". That everyone was dead and the Tower was probably salvation. But I'm not sure anymore because I was so off.

What's more amusing is that since I read it as a western, how will all the other books feel as I read them because now they will never have the same feeling and euphoria as the one I had already envisioned.

Maybe I need to read it all again.

 

Please, my dear, stick with that last sentence. Part of it is sort of in the modern world; but, most of that book is (imo) sort of "out of time"...parallel timeS take place in this series but for it to be good and make sense, you want to remember as much as you can from one to the other.

To read The Tower series and get the most out of it, go back and read that first one again...Roland does come from a time "long ago" (I think)...but it's more than just long ago, like a Western would be. Part of the background throughout the series, on and off, is desert like land...just like The Stand is.

If you want to read a dark book, with really funny (Hilarious) lines and such, read Stephen King's The Stand. But it isn't just a "dark" book -

ALL of King's work basically is different takes on the age-old war between good and evil.

He is one of the few authors that can make me want to stop and contemplate life, then laugh, and then cry within 2 pages.

yeah, I'm a fan. lol He had me with his 1st novel, Carrie.