What are you reading now? (Besides the forum )

As in a magazine or novel.

I have to read Chronicle of a Death Foretold for my English class. I don't really like it that much...probably because I am being forced to read it.

Me talk pretty one day~David Sedaris
Other than john waters, he is my favourite gay celebrity.

A play called miss julie, i have to read it and then alter it and perform it for my drama exam next year.

the new Spin magazine

Uhh I just finished a book called "Blood and Chocolate" by...I forget who. It was really good though. About this girl who's a werewolf.

Now I'm reading "Abarat" by Clive Barker.

ohh i read abarat a while back, its pretty good, a little out there, but good. i'm just starting the poisonwood bible by barbara kingsolver.

i dont read books or magazines. just the internet.

i used to read... i guess i grew out of it. i could read a book a night but that was before i had a computer

Hairstyles of the Damned by Joe Meno

chronicles- bob dylan

I just finished (about an hour ago) reading "To kill a Mocking Bird" (Stupid Mrs. Meier )

that book is ok

The most exciting part was the Rape trial... and Boo Radley, but the rest... well lets just say I actually fell asleep while reading it one night.

aw, I just finished David Sedaris. Now I am reading Cruddy by Lynda barry (again) and Amy Sedaris's Wigfield:the can do town that just may not.

I read some of Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales earlier, and didn't really enjoy them. I must read The Prelude by Wordsworth and The Wanderer by Frances Burney (often, I think, shortened to Fanny Burney. This might be immature, but pahahaha) over the holiday, but will probably end up reading a book of Alan Partridge scripts instead.

Also read this morning: The Observer, which had a 2004 TV quiz in which my friend and I did embarrassingly well.

I just finished an entire semester of reading approximately 500-800 pages worth of material a week, so that is a little blurry. However, the last thing I read for my sheer enjoyment was "Geek Love" by Katherine Dunn. If you guys ever want a quirky little story that reflects everyday life, you should read it.

I'm usually always reading a book
but I'm not right now

I just reread the harry potter series 2 weeks ago though

I've just been doing logic problems instead of reading lately

I have read and am reading again me Talk Pretty one Day by David Sedaris, he is so freaking funny.

EDIT: ok I really should reas other people's posts before i post. but still.

yes! I love you eat grapes! Have you read Dress Your Family in Corderoy and Denim?

not yet, Ive only read me talk pretty one day (about 1000000000times) but i am getting some more hopefully for christmas! yay amazon, the best book place ever.

ooh, I'm reading Holidays on Ice too! I want to find a copy of Naked and Barrel Fever.

yeah u should be able to get them on amazon

I'm now half reading the NME.

Don't hit me.

yeahyeah, ooh! now I want to read the number devil again!

the numberdevil?

ahh, isn't there a link to it in the superpost?

the readers poll 2004 in kerrang for like the 1000000th time

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas ~ Hunter S Thompson

i just got a question for all you people who do read.

who do you find out about these books...?

like some of you's are listing these obscure books no one has ever heard of.

of course we all know to kill a mockingbird and cather in the rye, etc but like its not like music where you can listen to a song and see if you dig it, so how would you know if this obscure book is any good even?

There's a thing called a library where you can read them for free. And on the back of the book there's a thing called a 'summary'

sometimes i got into a bookstore and if i thinki a book looks decent ill read it, if i like it ill tell people and then i guess they tell people and so on......

but you dont sit there and read for 40 hours straight....
plus i like to get intrested in books based by the cover art. if its cool i'll pick it up but it it has a shit cover it wont even interest me in the slightest.

thats my way of picking books.

what if you hate it after 3 or 4 pages?

do you return the book?

usually the first few pages give syou an understanding of what the book will be like. true?

"Don't judge a book by its cover."

I go into bookstores and libraries and sort through books for hours. It's quite fun.

No. You have to read the whole book to see if it is good or not. The first 4 pages tell you nothing basically. It's like if you hear the first 4 seconds of a song. Are you going to change the station if you don't like those first 4 seconds?

not always sometimes the beggining of the book can be shite, i usually give it a couple of chapters and if i cant get into then....it dissapears

its true about covers of books some covers can look great and the actual book itself is appaling whereas a not so gr8 looking cover could have the best story ever.

i go to the library also cuz i cant keep buying books especially if they are shite.

yes i do it all the time! lol.

well not anymore cos i havent listened to the radio in over a year. in my car i just listen to cds.

Damn I still have to get the December Spin, the Blender with Gwen Stefani on the cover, and the new Shonen Jump

Bret Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero
The english version. At first it was hard to understand but now it's okay.

Well right now i just started the harry potter series (i know im late) but im on the fourth one

Naked Lunch by Hunter S Thompson *winks to art chick* It only takes me about 45 minutes to read a 278 page book. So I read quite a lot. I read mostly contreversial books.

it takes me like 45mins to read a chapter!

*pats seb on the head* Poverino...

Ah, it's okay. I've been reading beyond college level for quite some time now. makes me seem nerdy....

ive read them all except the first one...well ive read half the first one.

Go all and read "When I was five I killed myself" by Howard Buten. Best thing i ever read next to harry potter (hehe, well...), Nick Hornby and Morton Rhue

im quite a slowreader aswell, i like to take it all in is why!
the more ive read the faster ive gotten i can read a book a night but im up half the night reading it

fucking better than i do! we get an hour of library class a fortnight in school, we pick a book and start to read it. we must have it read and usually have written an essay on it by the next class. i kept one book out for 2 months, didnt read it at home, so in that 4 hours i didnt even get to the 40 page mark. i ended up guessing wat the story would be like and got a b+

i cant read something im forced to. i have to find it interesting, and thats why i only read magazines and the internet.

and as for you asking were we get hints to get books from, washu recommended some books to me bout a week or 2 ago.
and i always judge a book by its cover, if they want me to pick their book up and buy it they should make it bright and colourful! and i NEVER go into libraries, only the one in school cause we're made to. the last time i was in the library in my town it was a couple of summers ago

I really like the number devil, the illistrations are fantabulous.

i read lots of books. Books used to be even more important to me, then i got into movies, then music. Anyway I'm really getting into reading more right now. I can never just read one book at a time...