Read any good books lately???

jumboshrmp · Post by **jumboshrmp** » May Sun 14, 2006 8:01 am

Oh yeah, that's right. Other than Harry Potter, I also really liked Holes, The Hatchet (and the sequels), the Roald Dahl and Louis Sachar novels and short stories are chldrens classics, and I also love to look at books about roller coaster, full of pictures. That isn't really literature, but it's a lot of fun, because most of the photos are original due to copyright.

knedeau · Post by **knedeau** » May Mon 15, 2006 8:58 am

That's so Cool! Roald Dahl's daughter, Ophelia Dahl spoke at commencement yesterday at the college I work at! Small world!

Post by **spaulo** » May Mon 15, 2006 10:55 am

It's not fantasy or sci-fi... but I'm currently reading The Devil Wears Pinstripes by Jim Caple, and can highly recommend it to any baseball fan not afflicted with that horrible disease of rooting for the Yankees.

FlatlandMounty · Post by **FlatlandMounty** » May Mon 15, 2006 10:57 am

I'm a very visual person. I LOVE movies way too much. Books are so 1 dimensional. I need audio, I need visual, I need to feel the bass when things explode.

Not that my imagination doesn't work. And I'm not stupid (Purdue University graduate). I just enjoy it more when more of my senses are stimulated. (Ya know Disney is a world leader in the video experience over just plain video.)

I guess what I'm trying to say is...I'm 22 and I've read about 3 books from cover to cover in my entire life. And if I don't ever read another one...I'll be plenty happy.

Post by **spaulo** » May Mon 15, 2006 11:12 am

FlatlandMounty wrote:(Purdue University graduate)

BOOOOO! GO DAME!!

FlatlandMounty · Post by **FlatlandMounty** » May Mon 15, 2006 3:25 pm

I'll route for Notre Dame as soon as they join a conference...or the BCS stuff gives them equal treatment. They screw teams out of bowls every year who deserve it just because they're Notre Dame. And to fire Ty Willingham the year before his first recruiting class was seniors...he was still playing with Davie rejects.

Post by **spaulo** » May Mon 15, 2006 4:25 pm

Can't disagree with you on the Willingham firing... complete lack of class, made me ashamed for the school and the team.

But the BCS stuff (and, likewise, gripes about the NBC contract) are just jealousy... besides... how many years has Dame played in a BCS bowl? Two. Out of eight years the program has been around... so they aren't "screwing" anyone.

Anyway, enough off-topic... just had to take a shot at a Boilermaker

treebeliever · Post by **treebeliever** » May Wed 17, 2006 2:21 pm

Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons" is pretty cool!

I've heard good things about "Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

Cheshire Cat · Post by **Cheshire Cat** » May Wed 17, 2006 3:07 pm

I liked "Angels and Demons" better than "The Da Vinci Code" I can't wait for the final book to come out...

SpaceyMounty · Post by **SpaceyMounty** » May Wed 17, 2006 11:32 pm

Airframe by Michael Crichton is good and so is pretty much any other Michael Crichton.

I want to see The Da Vinci code since I cant read the book

James

Post by **subsonic** » May Thu 18, 2006 11:41 am

SpaceyMounty wrote:Airframe by Michael Crichton is good and so is pretty much any other Michael Crichton.

Is this a new book?

It's time for me to read some new hardcore Sci-Fi. It's been too long since I've read something like that.

SeasDiver · Post by **SeasDiver** » May Thu 18, 2006 4:15 pm

I like Michael Stackpole for Sci-Fi/Fantasy. He has quite a few novels in several series (primarily BattleTech and Star Wars), and also a number of novels set in his own worlds.

Regards,
Aaron

Post by **js3901** » May Thu 18, 2006 5:50 pm

Darren · Post by **Darren** » May Thu 18, 2006 10:27 pm

I haven't read anything in a while. I feel like I'm at the bottom of my reading cycle, so it'll probably be months, if not a year or more before I really get excited about reading again. I've been reading a little bit of Sherlock Holmes stories lately.

SpaceyMounty · Post by **SpaceyMounty** » May Sat 20, 2006 4:02 pm

I started to read State of Fear a little bit ago and I liked it but there is a program at my school where the books in the library are worth a certain amount of points and by reading and taking a 10 question test on the book, you get the points. Every quarter you get a goal that you have to reach by the end of it. State of Fear isnt in the library so I had to read something else.

James