What are you reading?

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Out of sheer curiousity.I'm reading Mother Tongue - The English language, by Bill Bryson. Fascinating stuff.

Umm.. I dont really read for fun!! LoL I don't have time.. but i do read the latest cosmo and glamour every month. Gotta keep up with the latest fashion and such!

Memnoch the devil - Anne Rice

well, right now i'm readign two books:Fortunate Son- James Hatfield andDeception Point- Dan Brown

I read a million little pieces by james frye.. it was really good

I'm reading Martina Cole - Dangerous Lady yet again

I don't read for fun but I would if I had the time. But right now for school I'm reading Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah. It's surprisingly good. I'm towards the end now and it's really not very exciting or intense as it was earlier on in the book.

Question: to everyone who doesn't read for fun, my other half didn't read for fun for YEARS cos the books he read at school were boring/dire etc.........he thinks that if he had had a great read at school he would have continued to read for fun........so what do you think, is it poor reading material at school, just an age thing, or something completely different????

Well I found some of what I read at school very interesting, but that being said I'm a literary fanatic!I think its mostly just to do with being put off what you've been forced to do. For example I didnt get into poetry til after I left school and I detetsted the idea of learning a second langauge (french at my school) yet now I'm hoping to start learning Welsh soon.So basically I feel it just boils down to kids (and indeed adults) not liking authority and disliking something purely because you are being made to do it. Choosing to read and being made to read is like the difference between sex and rape.

"Touching My Fathers Soul"The first successful summit bid of Everest was by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzin Norgay.Tenzings son made that same journey 50 years later and documented the training and the climb and then the summit bid and the descent back to base camp and on to Kat ManduWhile I can not recall his sons name hes the one that wrote the book. It has great insights into the stuff his father told him about the climb an makes comparisons between the equipment his dad used an what he is using on this trip.I read alot of books, either true climbing and mountaineering or Horror. Did all the Anne Rice books long ago or at least the vampire ones and every Stephen King book more then once with my favorites there being the Dark Tower Series. I just finished 2 books on avalanche survival and rescue techniques.I like to read John Sandfords Prey books too, just fun to read and rather tense. I read alot, always have. Roger Zelzany, Micheal Moorecock, Peter Straub, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, it would take an epic post just to list the authors I love let alone to document the books I have read or bought intending to read, there is sack by the side of my bed full of untouched books, after I take one out and red it it goes onto a shelf or into a box and I pull another one out and start it.I'm a reader so is my mom I think I got it from her. Children of strong readers often become readers them selves. My kids lived with their mom until two years ago and since they have been with me they read more often but they did not read anything when they moved in.Angel, I found great things in school that I was forced to read:Where The Red Fern GrowsThe YearlingLord Of The FliesOf Mice And MenFlowers For AlgernonWatership DownThere is more but I was forced to read them for school and they still are some of my favorites. My 13 year old son never got into reading, he can he just did not do it for fun.He got into Harry Potter and the Lemony Snickets books and so long as I give him those he reads from cover to cover.a lot has to do with content, find something that the individual likes and they can breeze through it but give them something they find boring and they will be lucky to ever complete it.I have books in boxes and 4 book shelves full of more and each of them have at least 4 shelfs and one has 6 plus there is a chest in my closet full of paper backs, I have always been a reader.

Post Secret...it's the greatest.

I'm reading 2 books:

Until I Find You by John Irving
and
Irresistable Revolution by Shane Claiborne

plus various textbooks, articles, and whatnot

I'm a reader so is my mom I think I got it from her. Children of strong readers often become readers them selves. I agree, in my family thats true, tho my parents are not big readers (then again i think i was found under a bush I don't fit in with any of them!!!) My kids are always reading, or im reading to them. I have to say i didn't read anything note worthy at school at all.........but I read a LOT! I don't have a big enough house for all the books LOL

A few summers ago I decided to spend my time reading books that I should have read in high school but didn't, because they weren't required. I read 'A Separate Peace', 'Tom Sawyer', and a couple of others. IT was good reading.

If you are going to read Irving, suggest you read The Hotel New HampshireIv never found another of his that was as good and they did make a movie of it, skip the movie.

I have read that one. It's not on my top five list though. I've read all of his stuff and my faves are A Prayer for Owen Meany, The World According to Garp, and Son of a Circus.Yeah, most movies based on his books are inferior. The closest one that came to being great was Cider House Rules, and that's probably cause Irving wrote the screenplay.

I really ought to read the book i bought myself. I mean I have made it through part of the scientists. THe book is a bit daunting being 1270 pages long and is filled with mathematical equations.On The Shoulders of Giants edited and comments by Stephen Hawking. It goes over Einstein, Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, and Kepler...Very hard read, but if you are into physics and strophysics, the book to read.

Garp was very depressing, great, but very depressing.

Emma by Jane Austen, and I'm getting bored. That girl is a moron, and I don't like any of the other characters too much either.Who's read Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy? I just recently finished that series, and I could not say that I liked it in any way, shape, or form. Wow, I've been unhappy with my reading... Maybe it's because I'm grouchy about the Harry Potter series ending, lol... I want to know what happens, yet I'm sad it's going to be over.

HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY?!?!