Thread: What are You Reading?

Originally Posted by aa1192

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is also next on my to read list. Everyone says it's a great, addictive read.

Yeah, the whole trilogy was a very good read. I'm curious to hear how you guys find them!

Originally Posted by Birnando

Yeah, the whole trilogy was a very good read. I'm curious to hear how you guys find them!

I've read so much (too much i think sometimes) of the Scandinavian crime novels that Larsson trilogy didn't give me any big feelings. Definately not bad.

Of my favorites i've liked early Mankells and GW Persson from Sweden, Tuomainen, Kilpi and Harjunpää from Finland and Arnaldur from Iceland. Of course Nesbø from Norway and Mäki from Finland although they write bit different crime level than those mentioned (more action).

Larsson is surely worth reading. Very typical (i mean the positive way) Scandinavian crime writer he was with some personal extra.

Been lazy trying to find out who were the writers behind the TV serie Broen, but i surely liked to read few books from the same person. That was the best crime serier for years imho. Sorry off topic.

Edit: i would like to know as well who were the writers behind Solsidan (hilarious) and Hubots (scifi).
Both were so great. Solsidan is so incorrect in any possible way and it's always so great to laugh at Swedes (sorry Swedes!). Hubots was just very different and exciting. Sorry off topic #2.

I have a lot of books to get to. I am not someone who can read multiple books at once though. I have been on a big fantasy kick after A Song of Ice and Fire, even though I never was a big fan before. It is a series worth checking out especially if you enjoy the tv adaptation.

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

Finished First Blood, but didn't bring my copy of V for Vendetta with me on vacation. So I read Shovel Ready (got it on Overdrive from the library) because it popped up as similar to something or other that I read. It was light and quick and gritty. It was alright, I guess, but the lack of use of quotation marks for dialogue was irritating.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is next.

Lol if the lack of quotation marks bothered you stay away from Chuck Palahniuk. His first books were pretty good I thought, but I was younger and don't know if they would stand up to a re-read.

Biography of Doc Holiday,interesting Guy.

This off topic but are you guys reading hard copies or digital books? I'm a Kindle guy myself.

Both for me mate. I prefer the physical books to the Kindle, but the Kindle sure is a convenient bit of tech. And I have plenty of books on the device. I switch from one to the other, depending on what I feel like reading and which format I have the desired book in.


Mick

Originally Posted by aa1192

This off topic but are you guys reading hard copies or digital books? I'm a Kindle guy myself.

Both here.My 5 yr old Nook Finally died,served me well but will not get another as B&N is on shakey ground.
Am a retro type guy,I go to the library.

Another library/smelly old book guy here, Bill (though I would probably read much more if I had a Kindle-I certainly love my iPad!).

In fact, I made a big library trip yesterday. Picked up the following:
a couple of James Lee Burke novels (love his Dave Robicneaux detective novels!)
am rereading Scott Turow's Burden of Proof
The Stories of John Cheever
A huge science fiction anthology
A Renegade History of the United States
A couple of books on essential oils and perfumery as I get more into making homemade aftershaves
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
(Oh, and I've been reading Moby Dick for 2 years now!).
I'm also a big non-fiction/article hound. I probably read at least a dozen articles a day on every topic under the sun from my Zite feed.

And that's my summer reading list. Also, like some previous posters mentioned, I really loved all the Girl With the Dragon Tatoo books and movies!

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