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Do you guys read?

Cassie

Cassie

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I don't mean can you read.. but what do you read? I'm in a reading dead zone lately, haven't read anything in atleast 2 months. I'm thinking about starting the Dune series over again, which is my favorite, but I can't even get excited about it. Of course I've read them so many times the pages are falling out. Anyway.. what books do you guys read over and over?
 
I don't read much, never seem to get the time(I spend all my reading time on here instead). I've been half way through Yes Man by Danny Wallace for about a year. That makes the book sound bad, but it's actually quite funny, I just haven't had the time to finish it. Other than that I've been working my way through the BSG season companions and read a few Dan Brown books which were light reading, really. Some dreadful clichés interspersed with moments of genius. I feel embarrassed not to have read any of the great books that knowledgable people talk about at dinner parties, or starship captains quote from when they're having a fight with the shakespeare loving villain.
 
I know.. I don't remember the last time I read a "classic" must've been in school. I think I stopped reading when I started spamming. I have read a couple of Dan Brown's books, The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. They were ok, but not as exciting as I thought they were going to be. I am looking forward to the next book in A Song of Ice and Fire, just wish I hadn't given away the first few books in that series.. might have to buy them again.

I used to read constantly but I just can't be bovvered right now, lol.
 
Wacky, do you like George R.R. Martin? A Song of Ice and Fire has lots of rape and pillage in it.

Oh and have you read The Silmarillion? and is it any good?
 
Never read any George Martin.

I like the Silmarillion but it's very different in style from the LOTR (and the published version wasn't Tolkien's finished vision by any means.)
 
I recently read Tobias Wolff's Old School and picked up some classic Faulkner and Hemingway, but I haven't been in the mood to crack them yet.

I mostly read while commuting, which some days leaves me all of 15 minutes.
 
I'll have to read it.. I've had it sitting on my dresser for ages and just never picked it up.
 
I loved all of them except A Feast for Crows, that one took forever for me to get through. Probably because it was from all those different people's viewpoints, and it just wasn't as good. I'm hoping A Dance with Dragons will be back to the greatness of the previous books. I really really love Tyrion Lannister, he kicks some serious ass. I think my favorite parts of the books are the battles.
 
Just finished The Slayers of Seth by P.C. Doherty - murder in ancient Egypt!
I read at least three books a week. Can't help it. Hopelessly addicted to reading.
But don't care for e-books...too hard to read for a long time.
 
I've never gotten into the e-books either. There's just something about holding a book in your hands.

This morning I started The Silmarillion, and it's really beautiful.. but hard to read at the same time. I kinda feel like I'm drowning in the prose. Maybe once I get past all the strange words it'll be easier, but I think this is a book that is better understood the second or third time it's read.
 
The last thing I read was a writing by Caleb Carr based on the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Carr got pretty close to the style of the real thing, in my opinion, and it was a good two-night read.

It's called The Italian Secretary.

I'm currently working my way through the collected works of Edgar Allen Poe.
 
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