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 Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 5:46 pm
Recently Finished: Bloodsucking Feinds by Christopher Moore
Currently reading: You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
I swear it was sheer coincidence that I picked up these two books at the same time and that the one ended up being the sequal to the other xd
infact, I origonally was going to read You Suck first, but opted not to just because it happeded to be a hardcover...
I really liked Bloodsucking Feinds, I lvoe putting a humourous spin on vampires
the rest of the book was largely themed around the growing relationship between the girl vampire and her minon and the strains that a vampire/human couple would be bound to run into, all while trying to deal with the older vampire who turned her who was harassing them and trying to make things dificult just for his own amusement...
You Suck starts right after the first book with the girl turning her boyfreind into a vampire so they could be 'togeather forever'
I just love the first line in the book; "You b***h, you killed me! You suck!" lol
So, same premise, only know both of them are vampires and they have to hide from their old freinds and the cops because they promused to leave town at the end of the first book
one of the funnier parts of the book is the little journal entrees their new minon, a 16 year old goth girl, makes that completely over exagerates everything that goes on during that peirod of time while randomly talking about stuff that is completely illrelivent
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:23 am
Just finished: Skellig by David Almond
Just started: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Skellig was one of those books that I bought knowing it would be an easy read, yet an interesting story. And it certainly was... interesting! A bit simplistic, but still nice.
Twilight is turning out to be very good. It has everything a girl could possibly gush for: having the most handsome guy at school going out of his way for you, being pursued by several people at once, being literally swept off your feet by that special someone... To be honest, it almost made me want to gag at first just how girly this book is. But I'm hooked. rofl
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:10 pm
Recently Finished: You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
Currently reading: Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley
I really liked You Suck, it was one of those books you feel bad that it's over
it was weird reading about someone's body rejecting years of plastic surgery after becoming a vampire >_O
Thank You For Smoking I started reading just because I was bored and I happened to look over and see it on a shelf, it's funny because I start woking in a Cancer Center next week lol
It's intresting, I'be never been really agence smoking to beging with though I probually would never do it, but I also have alot of frends who smoke and a family full of very anti-smoke people so I hear both sides
the book makes for a great Devil's Advocate as everybody has heard what the anti-smokers have to say
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 1:26 pm
Gah, I haven't posted here in so long! I keep forgetting I'm in this guild. I've read a lot since I last posted though so this list will be kinda long. Recently read: A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass The Straight Road to Kylie by Nico Medina Gossip Girl by Cecily Von Zeigesar Gossip Girl: All I Want is Everything
Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me The It Girl by Cecily Von Zeigesar Notorious: an It Girl Novel
Reckless: an It Girl Novel
Unforgettable: an It Girl NovelCurrently reading: Exit Here by Jason Myers Empress of The World by Sara Ryan A Mango-Shaped Space was really interesting actually, it was about this girl with synesthesia and just about how it causes problems for her in school. The Straight Road to Kylie was actually kinda confusing. It was about a gay guy who somehow accidentaly has sex with this girl so the most popular girl in school comes to him and bribes him into being her boyfriend by telling him she'll take him to a Kylie Minogue concert in London and a whole bunch more stuff happens but I won't say anything so if anyone decides to read it they can be surprised. I'm hooked on the Gossip Girl and It Girl series though. Sometimes I'll read two in a week. I just thought I'd take a break from them, and also to help me wait for the next one to come out in the It Girl series because I already own the next two in the Gossip Girl series, by reading Exit Here and Empress of the World.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:01 pm
Recently Finished: Dante's Inferno, Part I of The Divine Comedy
Currently Reading: Purgatorio (Part II)
Planned Reading: Paradisio (Part III), Crime and Punishment, and possibly Sir Thomas More's Utopia
Comments on Inferno: Absolutely stunning piece of literature. Truly captivating and enjoyable. Mark Musa's translation of Inferno is truly stellar. Musa's work was nestled between being translated in far too colloquial (sp?) speach and dense, drab diction. I felt, when reading it, that it was not a book where I would need to re-read several lines many times over to understand the meaning without feeling like the book was being spoken down to me. Furthermore, his notes at the end of each canto illuminate the section incredibly well. If there is any question that comes to mind while reading it, an allusion or reference to something or someone, he answers it with his notes. The imagery, though, I imagine it would be all the more intense if read in it's original language, is absolutely beautiful. Perhaps beautiful isn't the right word, shocking, awe-inspiring, and horrific (mind you, I'm facilitating the usage of that word in the most positive sense imaginable), are better words. From the slothful submerged in muck while the wrathful gnaw and claw each other above to the frozen lake, Dante's Inferno, translated by Mark Musa, is truly a beautiful piece of work.
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:44 pm
Recently Finished:Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley and Foop! by Chris Genoa
Currently reading: Fluke by Christopher Moore
Thank You For Smoking had alot more intrigue then I expected, I though it was just going to be about happenstance working for the smoking industry. In any case it was a great book, my only big complante is just how completely 180% the three in the MOD Squad went (exept maybe the gun guy, he just went about 90%)
I mean, unless something else happened within the two years between the majority of the book and the end (most of which the main charicter was in jail) I find it alittle redicualous that the spokesman and woman for tobacco and alcohol would suddenly deside to go from defending their products to attacking them. Expesally sence thoughout the book all three of them seemed to genurally like their jobs...
Every so often I just buy a completely random book that catches my eye or someone might have mentioned, often these books become faverates that I keep up with while other times they end up quite badly. Foop! was one of the latter. (though with a name like that I should have seen that coming)
Foop! was a horrable book about time travel, tries way to hard to be funny and loses sight of the acual story, there's really not much else I could say about it other then don't read it unless you like crude non-linear humor that doesn't go anywhere
it was akin to someone trying to tell you about their day only to interupt themselves to tell you an illrelivent joke that wasn't very funny anyways sweatdrop
then there's Fluke; you wouldn't expect a book about whale researchers to be so entertaining, but then agein, it's Christopher Moore smile
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:53 am
I just read Lirael by Garth Nix and am now reading Orphan of the Sun. So far it's interesting, but I haven't gotten far enoguh to say what it's about except it's Egyptian.
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:47 pm
I'm about 250 pages from finishing Stephen King's Wolves of the Calla. It's one of those books where I've wanted to pull out my hair due to the babbling and lack of coherently written prose. I am convinced that half of this book could be cut out and there'd be a better story because of it. So why am I reading it? Because I like the Dark Tower saga and I want to know how it ends without a sypnosis. At least I'm finally getting to the wolves. Don't you hate a 700 page book where all the action happens in the last 200 pages? xd
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:57 am
Recently Read:
Exit Here by Jason Myers
Empress of the World by Sara Ryan
Currently Reading:
The Outlander by Diana Gabledon[not sure if I spelled that right.]
Fix by someone whose name excapes me at the moment
I guess it was just the writing style but the way Exit Here was written kinda annoyed me. The writer had it so the book was written in the first person and anything the main character said wasn't put in quotations. So conversations would look like this:
"Hey Scott, how are you?"
Pretty Good.
"That's cool."
Took me a while to figure out he wasn't thinking but he actually was talking.
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:59 pm
Recently Read:
Cirque du Freak: Tunnels of Blood- Darren Shan (for the fourth time)
Boogiepop And Others-Kohei Kadano
Fullmetal Alchemist: Land of Sand-Makoto Inoue (second time)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince-J.K. Rowling (third time)
Chick and the Dead-Casey Daniels
Vampire Kisses-Ellen Schreiber
Currently Reading:
Devil May Cry 2-Shinya Goikeda
Good Omens- Terry Pratchett/ Neil Gaiman
Thirteen-Numerous Short stories
As you can see, I read a lot of foreign novels. Mainly from Japan. None the less, these are all great books. You should check them out.
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:22 pm
I finally picked up the 5th Harry Potter book
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:43 am
One series that has captured my attention over the past few months is the "Ranger's Apprentice" series. So far there are three books out and I don't really know for sure if there will be more yet. sweatdrop
I'm reading the third book now as it just recently came out into bookstores but the series is great!
For any fantasy or adventure lovers it is a great find. The characters are easy to love and are all portrayed beautifully by the author (John Flanagan).
So far I haven't really been able to bring myself to look at other books by him or even find out if there are any because I'm so attached to the series right now. (Not to mention I have insane amounts of summer reading I'm supposed to be doing right now... ninja )
BUt I would definately recomend the series. mrgreen
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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:13 pm
Recently Finished: Fluke, Lust Lizard of Melancholy Covv, and Island of the Sequined Love Nun all by Christopher Moore
Currently reading: Lamb by Christopher Moore
From the top:
Fluke: Man Fluke ended up weird, it went from funny yet still normal talking about whale research to completely off the wall with whale-shaped ships and whale people and an underwater socity with Amelia Earhart and a sentient godlike goo that really likes whales and doesn't like the fact that humans are hunting them
Lust Lizard: to start out, the book was about two things mainly; First off, the local psychiatrist thought she was pushing people into medication the didn't need when one of her clients comits suicide, so she ends up swiching everyone in the town to placebos so a she could take a more hands on aproach with people
Secoundly, at the same time tha above happend, an anchent lizard creature apeared in the town
in the center of all of this is a hardly compitent but well meaning constable who's tring to quit his Marijuana habit and a washed up actress who's fighting agece her schizophrenia
eventually they end up uncovering yet another plot completly unreated to the first two as the corrupt sheriff is running a drug processing plant out of his ranch...
Sequined Love Nun: A pilot who loses his flying licence gets a mysterous job to fly an airplane for a doctor on a small island cut off from almost everything
what he finds is a cargo-cult culture that worships a bomber pilot from WWII as a god
after going though cannibals, talking fruit bats, and organ theives, it starts looking that the islander's religoin isn't as unlikel as he thought when he starts getting visits from their god Vincent
Lamb: Lamb surprized me, though it had alot of acclaim I just couldn't see a goofy book talking about Jesus's life (as told by his best freind Biff) to end well, expesally with Moore's rebutation of a reacuring theme of sex and Marijuana use in just about all his books. But it works, not only is it not delibratly making fun of Christianity, but it acually sorta goes along with it
not onl that, but even with it's religion theme (which I usuall don't like to so much as get near) the book is still really entertaining
as ou could probuall gues, the book takes place mainly during the twenty something ears of Jesus's life that the Bible doesn't cover, in which the book has him traveling the world seeking the Three Wise Men for advice.
Just as entertaining are little inserts of Biff in the modern world where he was braght back to life to write his story under the watchful eye of an inept angel
also thoughout the book are random 'origins' of thng from coffee to Judo (or 'Jew-do', as in 'the way of the Jew')
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:05 pm
I'm doing a double reading at the moment. Alexander Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo and Cornelia Funke's Inkheart. I'm almost done with Monte Cristo and Inkheart has captivated me.
Edmond Dantes is so awesome! He has literary crush potential.
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:41 pm
I recently finished: Catcher in the Rye (loved it)
Now I'm reading: Stone of Tears (book 2 in the Sword of Truth series)
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