Are you twelve? Artemis Fowl sucks.

It doesn't suck if you have dick-all to do at work and can get away with reading all day.
It's also, y'know, for twelve year olds, so I can read through it quick and make myself think I'm myself are smart.

Artemis Fowl rocks! And, from memory, the second is the best of the bunch.

I never made it past chapter two of the first one. I tried, but failed. It was a valiant effort.

Maybe the problem lies with the reader and not the book...

I was going to write 'Maybe the problem lies with the reader and not the read', which flows better, but I just knew someone would misunderstand the heteronym.

I read the first Artemis Fowl a few years back. I never bothered trying to find the second one for a while, and when I did I was no longer interested.

Do audio books count? I find it hard to concentrate when I read a book; my ADD kicks in.

Sure they do.

I'm reading the K-ON! Manga at the moment, but I keep getting distracted :(.

I'm getting an earful of filler and symbolism with an audio book of Moby Dick.

I'm reading the Death Note manga. It caught my eye why I was browsing at a book store, and having seen the anime, decided to give it a go... I'm engrossed.

Inb4strikewitch: Quiet, you!

Alcar...

The Death Note manga gets a little stretched out at the end, I mean the second half is already fucking bad enough.

MOAR MIKAMI ALREADY

I'm reading The Catcher in the Rye. It's a pretty good book so far, though I have to read more into it to really have a valid opinion.

really couldn't get into that book. someone lent it me and i didn't want to disappoint them, and was put on the spot, so i said i had read most of it but not yet finished it. i didn't get past chapter 4, i think.

EDIT: shit. i cant find it.

I'm tempted to get The Count of Monte Cristo. Is it any good?

It's not brilliant. Neither was the film.

That's very much so a subjective opinion...the works of Dumas are praised very highly in literary circles around the world.

Also I quite liked the movie.

Me too. In fact, it's one of my favorites.

I liked when Jesus gave that guy an unloaded pistol.

Tyahahaha, that was pure malice.

I have the Count of Monte Cristo.

Have you read it?

This thread isn't 'What do you own?', after all.

I finished it, but I didn't really understand what was going on or what it was supposed to represent.

Read it? Hell no.



I haven't been reading much lately. A bit of Eldest aloud to two of my brothers, but it sucks. I was reading At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie, it's very good. I'm going to finish that, I think.

what turned me off so early was the writing style. it was like he couldn't be arsed to describe what was going on, and if he did, he actually seemed to get moody about it, as if we, the readers, were bugging him by reading it.

that was a fucking stupid explanation. i'll just say the style wasn't to my taste.

Didn't seem stupid to me. I get what you mean.





/me doesn't mention his writing style AT ALL

Recently finished The Adventures of Huck Finn.

Fuck that Tom Sawyer kid.

Oh my god. By the end of that book I loathed Tom Sawyer with a passion. What an absolute douchebag!

I've just finished an interesting book about Anubis.

What is it called?
Who is it by?
What is it about?
What did you think of it?
Would you recomment it to others?


Do you see the things you could have discussed in your post to make it, you know, relevant?

Winds of War. It's pretty decent.

I have just read two of my Christmas books.

Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing. Decent, better than the last two of Douglas's books in the "trilogy". Definitely feels like H2G2, though reads differently, obviously. It completes the trend that began in an earlier book, by now seemingly every god exists apart from the Abrahamic one. They also seem to be very expensive.

Terry Pratchett's Unseen Academicals. This time charting the evolution and emergence of Association Football as we know it on the Discworld (and of fashion models), but as the book goes on you get the suspicion that there is an entirely separate story coming into play, far more important to the nature of the Discworld. Suspicions that were confirmed. Certainly we get a brief, fascinating and shocking glimpse into a period from its history that I had never heard of (though I admit I haven't read all of the older novels yet). We also get a good look at the non-academic staff of UU, and of the evolving relationship between wizarding universities in an age where wizards are a lot less careless about hurling fireballs than they once were. Pratchett on top form.

There's a new Discworld novel that isn't new anymore that I didn't know about?

HOLY FUCK where did I put that damn bookshop !?

To Kill a Mockingbird, it's for school.

Pretty decent book actually.

You'll be pleased to hear I just bought Unseen Academicals off eBay and will be reading it in a couple week's time.

I started A Game of Thrones because almost everyone I know told me to so I was like fine jeez.


edit:

LETO HAVE YOU FINISHED THAT BOOK WE HAVE THINGS TO DISCUSS ABOUT IT

IT MADE ME ANGRY

I liked that book.

I very very very liked that book, though I liked A Clash of Kings even more.

Finished reading The Immortals, the last book in The Edge Chronicles series I've been reading on and off for eight years now.

I really really enjoyed it, Paul Stewart is still as good as ever at world building and the return of the Gloamglozer made me very happy.

Nothing called Gloamglozer could ever make me happy.

You'll never understand unless you give the series a try, they have some of the most detailed and most awesome illustrations you will find in any book ever. I heavily recommend introducing Abbey to them when she gets a bit older. They also have Banderbears.
http://annova.files.wordpress.com/20...banderbear.jpg

The banderbear could possibly make me happy.

Also, Abbey and I are reading The Hobbit.