What Are You Currently Reading?

[Jazzy]

Lost Symbol - Dan Brown

 

[Rapunzel]

[quote name='Rapunzel']Have you read Angels and Demons? I LOVED that book! The film was good but there was such an amazing epiphany in the book which was completely bypassed in the film, that the whole meaning of the book was changed.

I did and I agree. Changing the brand was annoying too.[/quote]



Yes it was. Also, not having Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) go up in the helicopter with the Camerlengo before the anti-matter exploded, although that was a less important point.



It was an excellent film but the book is SO much deeper than the film.

 

[Rapunzel]

The children in our school have been given a library challenge. They have to read 26 books during the Autumn Term, each written by a different author. Every authors surname must begin with a different letter of the alphabet - Ahlberg, Barrie, Colfer, Daniels all the way to Zucker. You have a record sheet to record your books and all completed entries go into a prize draw.



I think it's a fantastic idea! They wanted some teachers to join in so that the children had someone to discuss the books with and to compete against. We, of course, will not be entered into the prize draw. XD



The first book I chose was Midnight is a Place by Joan Aiken. The reason I chose it was simply because I thought I'd start with an author beginning with A, and this was the fattest book in the A section.

(It's only 361 pages though, so it wont take long to read!)



One of the teachers is letting the children choose her books, so she is reading a wide range of fiction and non-fiction, some of which she has really enjoyed, some of which she has really struggled with as she had little interest in the subject matter. I'm afraid I am not so altruistic.



I think it's a great idea to promote though. Hopefully it will encourage more children to take part.

This book is not as easy to read as I thought. Set in the 1800s, it's about some foundlings who live with a cold, tight-fisted grandfather who owns a mill. They've visited the mill where the tiniest, fastest children clean glue off the rugs before the overhead press pounds down on them. At the first visit, a young 8 year old girl dies under the press. Her mother is crying as they carry her straight to the cemetery (to a paupers grave?) The overseer for the mill promises the mother twenty shillings and a brand new doormat as replacement for her dead child. The mother cries that she already has three doormats, meaning three of her children have already been killed at the mill.



The storyline is very dark. Were I a child, I don't think I would finish this.

 

[Cranos]

Stone Of Tears - Terry Goodkind

 

[Crusader]

Doctor Who: Nuclear Time

 

[Evil Eye]

Yes it was. Also, not having Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) go up in the helicopter with the Camerlengo before the anti-matter exploded, although that was a less important point.



It was an excellent film but the book is SO much deeper than the film.

Yeah and falling in the river after that destroying the paper...

 

[Rapunzel]

Yeah and falling in the river after that destroying the paper...

I loved both The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. I was brought up as a Catholic and these books made me really question my religion and the Bible and the Council of Nicea who put the Bible together and who decided what should or should not be included in it. So the Bible is not the Word of God but the decision of a group of men who decided how God should be viewed. I think it opened my mind to a lot of things that the church teach and expect you to accept without question.



Have you read any of Dan Browns other books?

 

[Evil Eye]

I loved both The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. I was brought up as a Catholic and these books made me really question my religion and the Bible and the Council of Nicea who put the Bible together and who decided what should or should not be included in it. So the Bible is not the Word of God but the decision of a group of men who decided how God should be viewed. I think it opened my mind to a lot of things that the church teach and expect you to accept without question.

Yeah, Christianity didn't really stick to the original too much, all the stuff about incorporating native religions... Still, Christmas is nice enough

Mr Brown doesn't always get his facts right though.

Have you read any of Dan Browns other books?

Don't think I have

Might read them at some point.

 

[Rapunzel]

Yeah, Christianity didn't really stick to the original too much, all the stuff about incorporating native religions... Still, Christmas is nice enough

Mr Brown doesn't always get his facts right though.

No, I agree, he doesn't.



He does make you think about things though and I think that was his main intent.



I like all Dan Brown's books but I think The Da Vinci code and Angels and Demons were outstanding. I believe I read that these were the first two in a series of 12 novels that he intends to write, starring Robert Langdon. I hope that's true. I like boojks which involve hidden codes, etc. That's why I love National Treasure too. There are supposed to be three more of those films being made too - one of which is allegedly set in Atlantis!

 

[JasonBegheFanGirl]

Doctor Who: The Eyeless

 

[Evil Eye]

I started reading The Fifth Elephant this morning.

He does make you think about things though and I think that was his main intent.

If it was he did quite well

 

[Andrew Darmac]

Macbeth. I know it's a play, but I guess it still counts...



Doesn't it?

 

[Evil Eye]

Doesn't it?

I read Faust so it counts.

 

[Darthmaul]

Most definitely reading Ranger's Apprentice Book 9

I was so happy when i got it and have been reading it just about nonstop, and it's turning out awesome so far!

 

[Dennis]

Dante's Inferno.

A book written by Dante Aligheri after his exile from Florence. It is about himself going through the 9 circles of hell that he had imagined himself.

 

[Darthmaul]

Dante's Inferno.

A book written by Dante Aligheri after his exile from Florence. It is about himself going through the 9 circles of hell that he had imagined himself.

Heard about this book. Is it all that scary as they say it is?

 

[Dennis]

No it's not scary, but it uses a lot of imagery.

He's a sick dude, lol

 

[Rapunzel]

I started reading The Fifth Elephant this morning.

They say that the fifth elephant came screaming and trumpeting through the atmosphere of the young world all those years ago and landed hard enough to split continents and raise mountains.



No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical question: when millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there is no one to hear it, does it--philosophically speaking--make a noise?



As for the dwarfs, whose legend it is, and who mine a lot deeper than other people, they say that there is a grain of truth in it.



I need something good to read. Any suggestions anyone? (Not werewolves or vamoires though)

Time travel, historical, funny, witty, thought-provoking, etc. are all good.

Or any suggestions at all really.

 

[Dennis]

Yeah, read Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

 

[MrMetroid]

The Shakugan No Shana light novel. Yeah I'm so big of a Shana fan that I actually bought the Light Novel