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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 9:25 pm
by Doc Sigma
I started reading A Comfort of Cats by Doreen Tovey today, and I was rather upset to find out that she'd died recently.
"Sadly, Doreen Tovey died in 2008, aged nearly ninety. She had thousands of fans of all nationalities and was surrounded by good friends and of course her two cats, Rama and Tiah, who were with her almost to the end. Over fifty years since her first book was published, she has delighted genberations of owners of Siamese cats."
Did you get that from Wikipedia? If so it MIGHT NOT BE TRUE!
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 9:43 pm
by nickspoon
Reading We by Yegevny Zamyatin - the original dystopian sci-fi novel. It was suppressed in Russia until 1988, sixty years after it was originally published in English in New York.
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 4:21 am
by cougartiger
Reading "Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens". It contains: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and Cricket On The Hearth.
I've gotten to Cricket and so far, I'm not getting it. Still, I'm only a little ways into it so I hope it gets better. Chimes didn't get interesting untill halfway through.
ACC is my all time favorite novel. I read it every year and collect all the film versions I can. Favorite film version is the 1970 musical Scrooge starring Albert Finney (who won a Golden Globe for best actor in a musical or comedy for this role).
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:05 pm
by C.Cat
Did you get that from Wikipedia? If so it MIGHT NOT BE TRUE!
No, it was written in the book itself.
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:39 am
by Fritz
Got Freakonomics and The Picture of Dorian Gray today.
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:43 pm
by nickspoon
The Picture of Dorian Gray
<3
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:56 pm
by RocketGirl
Sojourn, R.A. Salvatore
I used to be a big ol' Drizzt Do'Urden fan; started feeling nostalgic and picked up the Dark Elf Trilogy again... *pshrug*
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:31 am
by Hyperion
Now reading The Urth of the New Sun.
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:03 am
by Segovia
For my outside reading I decided to read Insomnia by Stephan King. It's thick as hell and I am bearly on the seventh page of the prolouge.
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:10 am
by Rooster
I don't really read books, but I've recently got the latest two editions in the Warhammer 40,000 series "Gaunt's Ghosts"
First time I've spent money at Games Workshop in almost 5 years.
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:24 am
by Æron
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture, Ruth Benedict
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:09 am
by Dr. Sticks
for pleasure - Gods in a Vortex by David Houston
for english - Of Mice and Men
for pol-sci - The Great Unraveling by Paul Krugman
and the book I've since put on hold due to my other readings - Remix by Lawrence Lessig
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:26 am
by Ibun
The Picture of Dorian Gray
<3
Shit is pants up yo.
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:49 am
by Segovia
for english - Of Mice and Men
We just finished Steinbeck's
The Pearl a few days ago. I got a 93 on the test! Yay!
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:15 pm
by nickspoon
Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange. It's a fantastic book, and also very strange in more than a few ways.