What are you reading?

[Drifting]

Reading anything good at the moment? I've just delved back into the tome of Lovecraft short stories I got for Christmas. I'm currently reading "At the Mountains of Madness," which may be my favorite Lovecraft story yet.

Basically, the protagonist and his scientific team are exploring Antarctica in the early 1930s looking for fossils when they discover a mysterious range of black mountains higher than the Himalayas. The team that makes the initial discovery also finds the extremely well-preserved remains of a new species that looks to be half-plant and half-animal. That night, the team is murdered and the specimens that have supposedly been dead for fifty million years disappear. Perplexed, the scientist and a young graduate student explore the mountain range further and discover the ruins of a city that far predates human existence. That's as far as I've gotten so far, but it's engrossing.

[InfectedSausage]

I'm reading Playboy 
Joking, I'm reading The Lost World. It's pretty good. I like the ape men    And the dinosaurs obviously.

[JTDrumman07]

Game of Thrones

[coit105]

Ovid's art of love. I just love the rhymes in it. I will soon be getting Rasputin: The last word as I started on it at a friends house with her copy of it. It was like really early in the morning and I'd had no sleep, but it still engrossed me. The man has one of the most notorious deaths and the story of his life is fucking amazing. From what I've read of it so far. Supposedly one of the reasons the czars in Russia got so many people against them.

[Godman]

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - a trilogy with five parts...

I'm most of the way through the forth book now. I didn't really read much before I started these books and I'm loving them! Douglas Adams' writing style is wonderful.

[Lord_Chanticleer]

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - a trilogy with five parts...

I'm most of the way through the forth book now. I didn't really read much before I started these books and I'm loving them! Douglas Adams' writing style is wonderful.

Well, what a coincidence! So am I! I sort of had to shelve it for a little while, as I had some work to do on my dissertations, but I'm finishing up the last one of those today, so I can pick up where I left as of tonight/tomorrow. I'm a big fan of his witty writing style as well.

[Tuppence870]

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - a trilogy with five parts...

I'm most of the way through the forth book now. I didn't really read much before I started these books and I'm loving them! Douglas Adams' writing style is wonderful.

Those books are amazing :wheee:

I'm not really reading anything at the moment, but I've got And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer to read next. Apparently, it was written as the 6th Hitchhiker's book.

[InfectedSausage]

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - a trilogy with five parts...

I'm most of the way through the forth book now. I didn't really read much before I started these books and I'm loving them! Douglas Adams' writing style is wonderful.

The film is horrible though!

[Drifting]

The film is okay, not great. The best thing about it is that it served as a gateway to the books for many people.

[coit105]

Books are just a better way to tell a story, because they include so much more like the exact things a character's thinking, which can only be demonstrated loosely in a film by showing particular shots at particular times, and branching off into their backstory's and such.

[Lord_Chanticleer]

The film is okay, not great. The best thing about it is that it served as a gateway to the books for many people.

That's how I found out about Douglas Adams. It's a shame really that books don't enjoy the same sort of advertisement that films do. Turn on your telly and you'll get bombarded with trailers but you have to know where to look if you want to check up on new book releases.

[Godman]

The film is horrible though!

The film is okay, not great. The best thing about it is that it served as a gateway to the books for many people.

I saw the original film quite a long time ago, it was quite good, but the books are better. I've seen bit of the later film, I was disappointed to see Deep Thought had it's booming voice removed to something much weaker. I also recall from that film seeing the original Marvin in a queue somewhere. :P

I would say that the film is the thing that introduced me to Douglas Adams, but the books had been sat on the shelves in my house since the Eighties.

[InfectedSausage]

I'm reading Twilight now
 :littlesmile: :littlesmile: :littlesmile:

[coit105]

I'm reading Twilight now
 :littlesmile: :littlesmile: :littlesmile:

Whipped?

[InfectedSausage]

Whipped?

Eh?
What do you mean?