What are you reading? (Page 4)

geauxtri - 2011-01-28 7:06 PM I finished reading the Rick Riordan Percy Jackson series last month... Can't wait for my son to read them, they were pretty entertaining and fast reads.

I saw several references to Into Thin Air on the first page of the thread.  May I suggest to all that have read this VERY popular account of the 1996 tragedy on Everest, to PLEASE also read The Climb.  It is the account of events as told by Anatoli Boukreev and the survivors that summited shortly before the storm hit.  Very interesting to hear the two different view points, one from a man who witnessed at a distance on the mtn, the other a man who was responsible for lives both lost and saved.  :/

graceful_dave - 2011-01-28 6:15 PM Also, David Breashears who directed the Everest Imax Movie wrote about the event. I've read all three accounts. I have actually read all three accounts multiple times. I still need to read Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest by Beck Weathers. He was one of the survivors.

ebshot - 2011-01-29 9:46 AM I got a Nook for Christmas and went on a reading binge.  Now that my Spring semester started up, I'm not plowing through the books as fast.

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler
Truly Madly by Heather Webber

I'm currently reading Witch and Wizard by James Patterson. 

bradword - 2011-01-29 10:54 AM Ahh The Hunger Games, the worst series of books I have ever had the misfortune of reading.

the bear - 2011-01-29 7:40 PM

You must have not read many series of books.

I read the series with my 8th grade sons recently and found them quite entertaining and hard to put down. Ms. Collins does a great job of developing characters and creating the future world in which the saga takes place. While remembering that this is "young adult fiction," a quick google search shows a high level of critical approval, including a couple of "book of the year" awards.

I'm currently reading Jose Saramago's Blindness. Took a while to get used to his style, with paragraphs that stretch on for pages, no line breaks within the dialogue, but it eventually hooked me.