What are you currently reading?

**Hessah** · 08-29-2009, 10:20 AM

I rarely read... LOL But I happen to be reading a book called "Seven Seaons in Aurukun"

It's not actually a fiction book, this lady went to a remote community in Australia and lived there for almost 2 years, and she talks about what it was like to be living out there, and the culture difference that she sees, and a lot about what Aboriginal communities are actually like.. (through her eyes..)

it's a bit of a reality check to make us appreciate all that we've got in the cities, and learn about what those communities actually want / need, respect them... and not just us outsiders (or politicians) going in and doing watever and just "saying" that it's the best for them, when it's not actually what they want...

kaylaspot1996 · 08-29-2009, 12:31 PM

Well since i am a teen, i just finished the Twilight series!

and honestly Breaking Dawn is my favorite out of them all
but the book im reading right now is Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison

**Phantom Badger** · 08-29-2009, 04:27 PM

The last book I read was either the D.Gray-man Manga Or The latest Darren Shan book "Dark Calling" I think it's called.

**Ivramire** · 08-29-2009, 06:34 PM

Been away for a while...

Rereading Pullman's Dark Materials. Movie wasn't worth the electricity required to show it but the books take me back.

Checking out Anne Rice's non-vampire novels, post finding Christianity ''again.'' They are not good...

Browsing Steven Erikson's fantasy Malazan series, pretty well-done but seems to lose the thread at times.

Looking into more Gaiman and Pratchett/ browsing through forums trying to figure out how to unscrew my computer's technical catastrophe...

**A_Forever** · 08-29-2009, 08:58 PM

I'm reading Battle Royale. Yes, still. I get annoyed at myself when I read books too fast and then have nothing to read for a while.

I'm almost done with Battle Royale and will need to find another book to take to school with me since I'll be done with BR before school starts.

**Hraesvelg** · 08-29-2009, 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by Ivramire

Checking out Anne Rice's non-vampire novels, post finding Christianity ''again.'' They are not good...

That should have been obvious, LOL. She wrote one good book (Interview) and phoned it in for the next twenty years.

Pritcher · 09-05-2009, 12:59 AM

Really? I actually liked The Vampire Lestat more than Interview. It's been a decade or so since I've read them, but I think I might have liked Queen of the Damned more too. Louis was never as compelling a character as Lestat to me.

There was a decline after those though, I actually stopped reading after Memnoch the Devil; I started The Vampire Armand, but I never even finished that. I think I read Merrick out of order though. To each their own.

**Hraesvelg** · 09-05-2009, 01:09 AM

Eh, the whole Gabrielle thing from Lestat really didn't sit well. It was a little TOO Oedipal. The things that really made it a drag to read was the cookie-cutter descriptions. The stories in Lestat and Queen of the Damned were more interesting, but she did just rehash a LOT of stuff from book to book. I swear, I twitch every time I hear someone mention Botticelli.

**MikeyG** · 08-29-2009, 06:52 PM

OMG THERES A NEW BOOK IN THE DEMONATA SERIES BDEX?

Im currently reading The Messianic Legacy.

**Phantom Badger** · 09-06-2009, 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by MikeyG

OMG THERES A NEW BOOK IN THE DEMONATA SERIES BDEX?

Im currently reading The Messianic Legacy.

There is in England o: I think wolf Island is the latest one in the US. We have Dark Calling now.