What Book Are You Reading? — Part III

“Anatomy for Fantasy Artists” by Glen Fabry

Great and inspiring book for aspiring artists. I recomend it.

Oooh, I didn’t know that Howl’s Moving Castle was a novel! I will have to track it down, I love that movie! Anybody seen Kiki’s Delivery Service? That one’s my favourite :content:

Hehehe, yah - we’re at about the same point. I reread Hitchhikers Guide around every one to two years. Note to lurkers - it’s MUCH better than the movie!!

My partner has read the original dune series. For some reason, because of that - I don’t feel like reading it - even though I’m a complete sci-fi buff :bored:

I think I’ve read Scanner Darlkly, either that or it’s on my current ‘to read list’. Dick Smith right? He’s got lots of great stuff, but some of it can be rather ponderous :tongue:

Sounds like we have a very similar taste Basilus :yes:

BTW Sorry about all the quotes :shy:

I’ve the poster in my bedroom. :tongue:

Concerning The Winners by Cortazar, it’s more interesting now. He’s a very good writer BTW, his point of view is something between Dostoievsky and Nabokov, I think, and as for this story, it looks like an Agatha Christie which would be haunted by Kafka’s ghost (i.e. an Agatha Christie without any murder and whose only enigma would be: what all those people do here? :wink: )

[Edit later: I just finished reading it. I didn’t like the story at all (though it’s very well written).]

Yes, I’ve seen everything that Miyazaki have directed, except the Sherlock Hounds episodes (but I have seen one episode that he did not direct) and the two Lupin 3th episodes.

“On”-topic: I still haven’t finished “Let the Right One In” nor “Battle Royal”

Yes, my sister and I used to watch that all the time when we were younger! Wow, I must have been about 6! I do like it :smile:

I just finished “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe, for school. It’s a great book, but a lot of times it seems that having to follow school guidelines and constantly answering questions lowers the experience…

A seperate peace.

A raisin in a sun.

Both of these books are for school

I’m reading Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke. Although it’s not the best book I’ve ever read, its still quite good (I haven’t been reading it for a while though), if dense.

finished Slaughterhouse V.

I read it and liked it, but i wasn’t really engrossed in it until the last chapter.

When it begin “Robert Kennedy was shot 2 nights ago, so it goes. And every day… his guns. They rust.” and it hit me and i was like “woah”

and it all made sense then.

Awesome book.

I just finished “jorden skal gråte” [the earth shall weep]

It is a brilliant book. It’s the story of USA seen from the native americans point of view. The book changed my view on american history. And on the US as nation.

A MUST to read. It might be a little bit heavy though.

Lucid Dreaming: A concise guide to awakening in your dreams and in your life, by sthphen laberge.

Before that it was I, Robot by Isaac Asimov.

I am re-reading “thief of time” by terry pratchett :content:

If you read my VG RP you may know why :grin:

I finished “The Catcher in the Rye” a couple of minutes ago.

I’m going out to get “At Swim Two Birds” sometime, hopefully soon.
I heard about it after reading “The Third Policeman” (one of my favorite books ) by the same author, because Desmond was reading it in Lost… :grin:

The war in 2020.

Dan Brown - Digital Fortress
Finished it yesterday. Full of cliffhangers and unexpected happenings :happy:

Yeah, its great :grin:

Finished Murder in Mesopotamia and The Mirror Crack’d by Agatha Christie. The former was good, but the latter… excellent story telling all around! I highly recommend The Mirror Crack’d to mystery lovers.

Currently reading:

Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung
Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries which is a collection of “impossible crimes”.

I’m not interested in stories, so I’ve read many books from Peter Kolosimo. I love this kind of stuff.

Sean — Arsène Lupin is awesome! Really good choice for a read. :yes: Hilarious!

I myself am reading Jorge Amado’s Capitães da Areia (my favourite book ever), Th Adorno’s Negative Dialectics, Wolfgang Kayser’s literary analysis manual, and a pile the height of a palm worth of assignment reads for both universities, which range from ethics and anthropology to Goethe’s poetry. :smile:

Petter: Yeah, he really knows how to trap the reader, or what? :grin:
Finished it in three days; I couldn’t stop reading!

Right now I’m reading Stephen LaBerge - Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. :smile:

So am I ;D
I finished Brave New World a while ago as well :content: