What Are You Reading

[Fleur De Guerre]

I missed it as well, but it would need a really huge budget to be done right.

And the BBC is a prime example of things needing a bigger budget to be done right! Just look at the terrible special effects on things like Dr Who. I would refuse to pay the license fee if I could! (apologies to Dr Who fans)

Also, I need to read Sandman. My boyfriend has them all and I haven't actually read any of them.

 

[CanadaDoll]

Hannibal Rising: A great book , Thomas Harris is so eloquent you might find yourself rooting for Hannibal Lecter, and it is definitely making me look at the entire series differently. I ploughed through it in six hours, it's a very compelling read
I would definitely recommend the book if you can handle a bit of gore.

 

[Jay]

I'm on to "Hells Angels" by Hunter S. Thompson. It's a lot more informative than I thought it would be and it's the birth of gonzo journalism.

 

[mysterygal]

A very long engagement. So far so good (though I'm still just a couple chapters into it)

 

[carebear]

A very long engagement. So far so good (though I'm still just a couple chapters into it)

So you're a short way into a very long engagement?

 

[mysterygal]

So you're a short way into a very long engagement?

lol ....yeah, it's really a drag

 

[carebear]

lol ....yeah, it's really a drag

Soon, perhaps, you'll be at the end of the affair.

 

[JazzBaby]

Hannibal Rising: A great book , Thomas Harris is so eloquent you might find yourself rooting for Hannibal Lecter, and it is definitely making me look at the entire series differently. I ploughed through it in six hours, it's a very compelling read
I would definitely recommend the book if you can handle a bit of gore.

Lecter is a very charismatic character. I haven't read 'Rising' yet, but I've read 'Red Dragon' and 'Silence of the Lambs' and he is a very fascinating and complex character. Anthony Hopkins did a fantastic job portraying him.

I'm currently reading 'Among the Bohemians' by Virginia Bell (about the literati and artists in the early 20th century, mostly focusing on Britain and the Bloomsbury set) and re-reading 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' because I could never get tired of it...

 

[CanadaDoll]

Rising really throws you into a lot of moral dilemmas, you find yourself rooting for a serial killer if you're not careful....
I really want to see the movie now, and see how they did on it.

 

[JazzBaby]

Rising really throws you into a lot of moral dilemmas, you find yourself rooting for a serial killer if you're not careful....
I really want to see the movie now, and see how they did on it.

fftopic: From the ads I've seen it looks like they've turned him into some sort of cartoonish-Mike-Myers type of super villain. Which I'm not too pleased about...

 

[CanadaDoll]

They don't play enough in the ads for me to really tell, mostly it's one second clips of various scenes, so that it looks like a nightmare reel[huh]
I can't read how they've set the film up, which is probably one of the reasons it intrigues me so much.

 

[Jack Scorpion]

Somebody's Done For by David Goodis.

I read Silence of the Lambs once. Didn't like it at all. Didn't like the movie either. I don't remember why.

 

[CanadaDoll]

I haven't had the chance to read Silence of the Lambs, but I thought the film was decent, Rising really makes you look at the others and re-evaluate your opinins of dear Dr. Lecter though.

 

[Harp]

Revisiting Ralph Ellison's classic, Invisible Man.

 

[Lee Lynch]

American Gods is excellent, and Anansi Boys was good as well, but Neverwhere is my favourite of his books, possibly because of the familiar London settings.

So, so good to see other Gaiman fans here! Neverwhere was excellent as a book, but I agree with the others here who say the BBC unfortunately flubbed it badly. We rented the BBC adaptation and were excited about it, but turned it off after about 10 minutes. It was aweful.

American Gods is awesome!

 

[Polka Dot]

Little Children by Tom Perrotta

 

[Salv]

So, so good to see other Gaiman fans here! Neverwhere was excellent as a book, but I agree with the others here who say the BBC unfortunately flubbed it badly. We rented the BBC adaptation and were excited about it, but turned it off after about 10 minutes. It was aweful.

American Gods is awesome!

I've just started re-reading Neverwhere - the edition I have is the 2005 "Author's preferred text" version - and I'd forgotten that the BBC asked Gaiman to write a series for them, which became Neverwhere. He started writing the novel, on the day the BBC started shooting the series, because so many of his script ideas were cut or changed and because what was going to apepar on screen wasn't how he imagined it himself. I'd also forgottten just how sexy Hunter is...

 

[carebear]

Just finished Loren Estleman's "Retro" an Amos Walker mystery.

Amos is a hard-boiled PI in Detroit. The dialogue is great. This particular book ties in a murder from 1949 and he does a good job with some flash-backy stuff.

 

[RaasAlHayya]

The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett, for about the ninth time or so.

--Leslie

 

[Emmababy]

Cash by Johnny Cash