What are you reading this week DU? Me, I'm just about to start "The Tell-Tale Brain"

[applegrove]

a neuroscientist's quest for what makes us human, by v. s. ramachandran. I'll let you know if it is good a little later in the week.

[JTG of the PRB]

1. I'll be finishing up the Harry Potter series over the next week.

Started reading the first book last Tuesday, and I'm currently a couple hundred pages into "The Order of the Phoenix" as of right now. I hadn't read any of the books in the series before this, and I'm having a hard time putting them down.

[applegrove]

2. I haven't read any Harry Potter either. Is it really that good because I don't

like magic that much but have been told the books are so addictive it doesn't matter.

[JTG of the PRB]

3. Very, very addictive. The fourth book, "The Goblet of Fire," is about 740 pages.

Took me about 12 hours to read it from cover to cover. The books are really, really hard to put down.

[applegrove]

4. I should start collecting them I guess.

[tigereye]

9. she is an excellent plotter with a great wit and some

surprising imbedded comments about class, politics, etc. Well worth the read.

[Lionel Mandrake]

16. I recommend the original (British) books,

not the dumbed-down American books.

[nolabear]

5. Blood Meridian. WHOOF.

I've been told many times that it's an astounding novel. It is. I have never read such horrific violence told in such remarkable language. I seldom have the experience of reading something that's so unpleasant I don't want to read it but is so magnificent I can't stop.

Afterward though I might have to read something about rainbows.

[cemaphonic]

7. I just started rereading this too.

I've read it a couple times before, but it's been awhile, and I got sucked back in due to a really good thread over on Something Awful's book forum.

His use of language is really remarkable - even when he's just describing the landscape (which he does a lot) he come up with gems like:
"the mountains on the sudden skyline stark and black and livid like a land of some other order out there whose true geology was not stone but fear"

And Judge Holden is one of the all-time-great villains. He gets compared to the devil a lot (including within the novel), but that almost seems too banal. While he does have many supernatural and mythical elements, he is also all too human.

One of these days, I need to read this with a Spanish dictionary and a guide to Tarot symbolism, but like you say, it's hard to pull away from the story.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest

and did she ever!

[siligut]

10. We went to see TGWKTHN at the theater

Got hooked through the first two, and couldn't wait for it to come to Netflix or DVD. Sometimes subtitles in the theater are more difficult to follow, not with this, not at all.


I am currently in three books. Neuromancer, Fahrenheit 451, due to new revelations and I read it so long ago and JFK And The Unspeakable.

[tigereye]

8. bio of Warren Zevon, bio of Keith Richards, Louise Penny's

Bury Your Dead and books about NW Indian art.

[applegrove]

18. I just finished Keith Richards' autobio. I liked it but would have gotten so much more out of it had

I been a musician.

[tigereye]

22. yeah, it's fun to read about his thoughts regarding this

I was in a band and play/played various instruments, but it's obviously not at the same level! I was impressed with how much he really, really loves and lives music, because it's been easy to think of him as simply a decadent, drug-taking machine...

[bikebloke]

11. Life by Keef Richards

A pretty good read.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. I just downloaded "The Autobiography of Mark Twain". I will probably

wait until the weekend to start reading.

[bigwillq]

13. Final Breath

By Kevin O'Brien.
Some paperback thriller. It's really good.

[lukasahero]

14. Just started "A Dog's Purpose"

on the recommendation of a friend. Also downloaded "You had me at woof", reading "the memory thief" and finally gave up on "the girl with the dragon tattoo" (just not what I'm into...)

Yours sounds a little heavy for winter reading... :)

[applegrove]

19. Yup. I'm going to be skipping chapters here and there. Only some parts of the brain interest me.

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. I'm finally getting around to reading a Christian Century from last September

:blush:

[stuntcat]

17. 'High Times, Hard Times' by Anita O'Day

I LOVE it, she speaks Jazz all the way through. I'm so crazy about her, I never knew who she was before September though. I wish I'd known of her before she died so I could send fan mail.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agp2on83hrA

[pokerfan]

20. The Accidental Billionaires

on the heels of The Facebook Effect. The movie piqued my interest even though I don't use Facebook. Next up is Brave New Universe (cosmology). Should be able to finish both of those before the weekend. Then Essentials of Game Theory by Leyton-Brown and Shoham or at least enough of it to see if they bring anything new to the table that I haven't already read. Then, if there's any time left, I hope to finally crack Mark Twain's Autobiography.

[mattvermont]

21. James Howard Kunsler

The Witch of Hebron
and
Ishmael Beah 'A long way gone'

I recommend them both