readers?

[Guest annemarie]

i was just wondering if there's any littles out there (or daddies too!!) that enjoy reading! like a lot. like you're always reading and own more books than you'll ever finish, but still manage to finish a book a week and buy more even though you have a giant stack by your bed a lot?? any takers??   

 

edit: OH! and if so what's your favorite series/book?? and what is your "to read" pile currently??   

Edited August 4, 2016 by annemarie

[Mrbeardman]

I lllooooovvvvee reading.  and have plans to turn a unused room in my house into a library.  current fav series is The Iron Druid Chronicles which I just started rereading

[Guest QueenJellybean]

I have a thread going like this right now! Check it out!

 

I'm reading In One Person - John Irving currently, and I'm excited to read In The Night Garden.

[newgurl]

I love reading! I constantly read. Everyone that knows me says I will melt my brain from reading so much but I just can't stop. I have lots of favorites and there is no way to choose between them because they each hold a piece of my heart.

[Guest annemarie]

I have a thread going like this right now! Check it out!

 

I'm reading In One Person - John Irving currently, and I'm excited to read In The Night Garden.

 

ooo really? where is it!!??

[Guest GrapeApe]

I used to read all the time when I was younger... Mostly sci-fi and fantasy.  Of course, many of my favorite books from my youth have been turned into movies, which I do not want to watch, or have been forced to watch.  Like Ender's Game, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Lord of the Rings, etc.

 

I also love anything by Kurt Vonnegut.  Isaac Asimov's Foundation series is a timeless classic.  And Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series was really good, up until about book 7.

[Guest annemarie]

I used to read all the time when I was younger... Mostly sci-fi and fantasy.  Of course, many of my favorite books from my youth have been turned into movies, which I do not want to watch, or have been forced to watch.  Like Ender's Game, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Lord of the Rings, etc.

 

I also love anything by Kurt Vonnegut.  Isaac Asimov's Foundation series is a timeless classic.  And Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series was really good, up until about book 7.

 

lucky for you the ender's game, hitcherhiker's guide to the galaxy, and lord of the rings movies are all amazing and stick to the book more than any other movies i've ever seen, so you should watch them. also if you like the wheel of time series, you should read mistborn by brandon sanderson. as well as more books by and about women.

[T-Daddy]

I'm a huge book lover, my favourite authors are Terry Pratchett (RIP) and Neil Gaiman. I'm currently reading something a bit different it's called the Rosie Project incredibly funny.

[Daisies&Donuts]

I actually felt like a lot of the more important points in Ender's Game were absent from the movie. Not to start an argument! I realize they had to cram it into 2 hours and all, but... the absence of Peter and Valentine's story eliminated a huge part of the overall story, and the much milder nature of Ender himself as well as the more open affection between the characters made the whole story seem much ... happier? Less militant and dystopian. Overall I felt the book was so much darker and really showed how serious and adult-like kids can be (Ender started at age 6 in the book). Also, a lot of the political corruption and military/personal manipulation were just not in the movie at all. As I recall the movie didn't even mention that the Buggers had no intention of fighting?... idk, just me maybe.

[Tasha-Pasha]

I actually felt like a lot of the more important points in Ender's Game were absent from the movie. Not to start an argument! I realize they had to cram it into 2 hours and all, but... the absence of Peter and Valentine's story eliminated a huge part of the overall story, and the much milder nature of Ender himself as well as the more open affection between the characters made the whole story seem much ... happier? Less militant and dystopian. Overall I felt the book was so much darker and really showed how serious and adult-like kids can be (Ender started at age 6 in the book). Also, a lot of the political corruption and military/personal manipulation were just not in the movie at all. As I recall the movie didn't even mention that the Buggers had no intention of fighting?... idk, just me maybe.

 

I really did not like that movie at all.  Just my opinion though.  But I am really hard on movie adaptations of books.  It is hard to get the same feeling you get from reading a book to translate onto the big screen.  I do think that the LotR trilogy was done beautifully and really captured the essence of the books.  

 

I did post in the what are you reading thread just recently but I thought I would post on here my "to be read" stack of books.  In no particular order they are:

The Fire Dwellers - Margaret Laurence

The Diviners - Margaret Laurence (amazing Canadian author)

The Chrysalids - John Wyndham (I absolutely LOVED the Day of the Triffids by him)

Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained - John Milton

A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf

The Shack - Wm. Paul Young

Poets of Contemporary Canada 1960 - 1970 - edited by Eli Mandel

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

The Road - Cormac McCarthy (I've seen the movie)

Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis

Miss Wyoming - Douglas Coupland

 

I get most of my books from used bookstores and will read them once and then return them for credit towards other books.  I cannot keep all the books that I read.  I devour books, I breathe them in like they are life-giving and I am drowning.  My ex used to get jealous of how much time I spent reading and would hide my books on me.  I have 2 full bookshelves of my favourite books, books that I just keep rereading over and over again.  They are like old friends. Dusty family members that I meet once a year and get reacquainted with. They are dog eared, and well loved. Just looking at my bookshelves brings me happiness. My relationship with some of these books are older than most of the friendships I hold most dear.  

 

Not sure which book out of this list I am going to start reading next but I am pretty sure I need to clear a couple off my "currently reading" list before I start any new ones.