What is currently on your Night Stand/ What are you reading?

Bernie · Post by **Bernie** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 11:03 pm

if you guys are reading a book and you don't like it and you're already halfway through do you...
a) continue reading '
b) stop reading it and get another book
c) stop reading it but keep it for later

please help me

i cant get into my book but i feel i have to read it

stetar · Post by **stetar** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 10:55 pm

Just finished Cold Mountain, not nearly as impressed as I thought I would be. It was just OK, nothing more... Not really sure why every review of it mention how much of a realistic depiction of the war it was, I my mind there is a very wide gap between the book and what life would have been like.

Just started Life of Pi, excellent read so far.

britz · Post by **britz** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:02 am

I would eat it,,,, but only if i didnt get it form the library... you never know where those books have been...

Bernie · Post by **Bernie** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:22 am

yes you would wouldnt you britz

you eat just about anything did that piece of wood actually taste nice to you i found it too bland for my liking...

no i mean seriously i want to read but then i dont want to read the book

britz · Post by **britz** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:52 am

I remember reading a book by Reymond E feist, i had to start it three or four times over because i coudn't see where it was heading and it didnt interest me..

I finally finished it though, after the fourth attempt, and im glad i did, i enjoyed the middle of it a little more than the beginning, but not much more, its a lot easier to read it if you read it as quickly as possible and get it over and done with. I'm really glad i'm no longer burdened with the fact that that book is sitting on my shelf at home and i havent read it.

the wood was alrite, i mean,, it didnt taste BAD or anything, it tasted rather like polystyrene.. a little too plain but easy on the gums, something to chew rather than to taste, i recommend refill if you want good taste...

cscottk · Post by **cscottk** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 7:56 am

Bernie wrote:if you guys are reading a book and you don't like it and you're already halfway through do you...
a) continue reading '
b) stop reading it and get another book
c) stop reading it but keep it for later

please help me i cant get into my book but i feel i have to read it

It all depends on how painful it is to read. Of late I have had three books that I didnt' like. Two I have finished and the third I put aside and will read again soon.

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 9:45 am

I tend to finish reading a bad book, but I'll start another one and just read the bad one a few chapters a week until I'm done.

I suppose I should just stop wasting my time if I don't enjoy it, but I guess I keep hoping it will get better.

mrdude · Post by **mrdude** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:45 pm

Bernie wrote:if you guys are reading a book and you don't like it and you're already halfway through do you...
a) continue reading '
b) stop reading it and get another book
c) stop reading it but keep it for later

please help me i cant get into my book but i feel i have to read it

Heh, I ussed to always try to read through the whole book but now I don't if I am not enjoying it. Usualy by 1/4 of the way through I can tell if I really want to continue. Sice I made that rule I have only stopped reading two nonfiction books before completion and only one of them was because I was not enjoying it. It's not fun to force yourself to get through a book you don't like, just pick up another one.

mrdude · Post by **mrdude** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:51 pm

I finally finished Mostly harmless by douglass adams. A really good book and I am glad to finish the series finally. Not that it wasn't good but I am ready for a new author. I'll hae to do some hunting at the library tommorow! Yippee!

Post by **wolfspirit** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 9:08 am

Bernie wrote:
if you guys are reading a book and you don't like it and you're already halfway through do you...
a) continue reading '
b) stop reading it and get another book
c) stop reading it but keep it for later

please help me i cant get into my book but i feel i have to read it

There are quite a few books that I have stopped reading because I disliked them*cough*Sara Douglass*cough*. It is no fun to read something if you don't like it.

If you are looking for a new book to read (esp. in fiction) then do what I do sometimes. I have a set of cards with the letter A-Z written on them, and I choose one, go to the library and pick a book by an author with that letter to start his last name.

magicfan241

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 1:52 pm

mrdude, do yourself a favor and check out Jack McDevitt, specifically Engines of God (not religious, relax).

mrdude · Post by **mrdude** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 6:25 pm

Sorry Midas, the library didn't have that book in but I put a hold on it. Anyhow I am now reading Eye of the World by Robert Jordan. I Hope it's a good one.

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 8:01 pm

Yes, excellent.

As the series carries on, there are split opinions on the quality, but the first 4-6 are leet for sure.

britz · Post by **britz** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 8:29 pm

Ive read the eye of the world... great book, Cant seem to find the second one in that series though.

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 11:05 pm

Any bookstore will have it...well, in America anyway.

Aunflin · Post by **Aunflin** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 11:31 pm

At the moment (actually, if I wasn't here

) I'm alternating between Tolstoy's, War and Peace and Joyce's, Ulysses. Two interesting and very stimulating books: one, an epic spread over several years with numerous characters, the other sprawled across just one day...

War and Peace is enjoyable so far, as is Ulysses, though Ulysses is rather tough to read...but the stream of consciousness style utterly fascinates me...And talk about not knowing words, Midas Knight--Ulysses has words in languages I don't even know, though I manage well enough...I'm able to bluff my way through the Latin, at least...

Bernie · Post by **Bernie** » Sun Feb 15, 2004 12:20 am

im always able to find the sequal to other book and they sound goo but i nevercan seem to find the first book it drives me insane

i tried a piece of refill today and it was also bland

is there a certain colour that has a nice taste to it

Post by **wolfspirit** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 3:18 pm

Stardoc by S.L. Viehl. Quite good so far, if you like the sci-fi/medical sort of books.

Ok, so I finished a hour ago, in the middle of history class, it was really good with about a hundred million plot twists that left me guessing. I had no clue about a number of the things that happened in the end until about 15 pages before it happened, and that was because I re-read the sections, trying to look for the clues.

magicfan241, thinking about writing a review for the book

britz · Post by **britz** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 3:28 am

tried a piece of refill today and it was also bland is there a certain colour that has a nice taste to it

tried pink once, delicious, but it was more like cardboard than anything else, certainly not refill, and red tastes horrible, you have to get the right brand of paper, its important.

Finally found the great hunt, will start reading it momentarily.

bob k. mando · Post by **bob k. mando** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 2:57 pm

[valley girl mode]

like, OMG. when did we go from reading books to eating them? like, gag me with a spoon girlfriend.

[/valley girl mode]

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 3:38 pm

Moon-Unit!!!

Aunflin · Post by **Aunflin** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 3:39 pm

MidasKnight wrote:Moon-Unit!!!

huh?

Superenigmatix · Post by **Superenigmatix** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:12 pm

Moon Unit Zappa - brother to Dweazil Zappa, daughter of Frank Zappa.

Valley Girl - love that song - it's like Oh My God so Totally Bitchen

sE

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 10:04 am

Sister to Dweezil Zappa

Superenigmatix · Post by **Superenigmatix** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 5:44 am

oh yeah my bad - bummer, like GRODY to the MAX