Favorite books / What are you reading?

I'm reading "Je codenaam is Jonas", a Dutch translation of a children's CYOA book. It sucks, but it boosts nostalgia to unknown heights. :D
 
Can anyone recommend some interesting books?

I've just noticed that I have read only a few books until now.
I want some interesting books, and I'd like it either to be some well paced action kind of book or those hidden messages tucked in well written phases if anyone understands what I'm talking about.
No traditional shit or books about vampires.

Hit me with your best shots.
 
I've seen Fight Club, the movie.
It was good, I've heard the movie was better on some sites. But the book must be almost the same as the movie and it was good overall.

I started reading Hersenschimmen (originally name)
But it has another title because it's in romanian (my language).
The romanian translation would be "Imaginary Sightings" or something like that, I guess "Hallucinations" works too.

It's a story narrated by a Alzheimer diseased man, didn't read much of it, bought it between my last post and this one so...:).
Written by Bernlef (Hendrik Jan Marsman). Bernlef is a pseudonym.

I'll keep on posting with the progress.
 
A book called Chickenhawk by Robert Mason. It tells about Mason's time as a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam war. Seems good so far, helps if you're into helicopters.
 
still no time for proper reading, which in my case means being sprawled in bed with that huge old pillow i keep rescuing from the garbage bin or chill out on the balcony during the weekend morning just before the sun gets to me.
so i decided to give a try to audiobook's, to pass the time while commuting to work. so today i am borrowing one from my friend and see if its worth the trouble (converting to mp3, higher cost and unknown quality reading).
tbc...
 
alec said:
I'm reading "Je codenaam is Jonas", a Dutch translation of a children's CYOA book. It sucks, but it boosts nostalgia to unknown heights. :D
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I never particularly liked that one.

Give me Cave of Time, Third Planet from Altair, or Who Killed Harlowe Thromby? any day.
 
Nice, I enjoyed that book (Oryx and Crake). Definitely a grim view of the world. How do you like it so far?

I've been reading the Watchmen as I continue to expand my graphic novel/comic book reading... overall, impressed.
 
Terry Pratchett's Nation :ok:

Great read full of very Pratchettesque characters and situations. I think he's drawing on a lot of the stuff he explored in The Science of Discworld series - it's basically about the evolution of society, belief system, rules etc...
 
SimpleMinded said:
Nice, I enjoyed that book (Oryx and Crake). Definitely a grim view of the world. How do you like it so far?
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So far it is a much easier read than Handmaids Tale (by the same author)

Handmaids tale was a good book... but it became sort of tiring near the beginning. By the end of the the book, it was really interesting.

WPD
 
And now it's time to get some good ol' criticism.
I'm reading Air Gear, a manga about a team of roller-skaters. ;)
 
Reading Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. On page 10 and I can already tell it's gonna be shit.
:P
 
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