What are you reading right now...

[President Camacho]

W wrote a book? Is it in Crayon???

[lindad_amato]

I doubt he's talented enough to even write with crayon.

[kaye]

I started reading right now the Wheel of Time and I am now on book 11. After reading the first book I was hooked. The range of characters, twists in the story and the overall plot combines to make a book of unbelievable quality,in my eyes. There are characters I love and love to hate... If a book can make you feel passionate about it, then it is well worth reading. RJ was a genius and I would recommend everybody read it!

[lindad_amato]

Kaye,
Welcome to BookTalk. I hope you enjoy the discussions and join in. I have friends in Manila who work in the Technology Center. I have visited and love your country.

Linda

[johnson1010]

Wheel of Time is a very good series. The replacement author is doing a fine job of telling the story and maintaining the overall feel of RJ's books.

[johnson1010]

DWILL,

since we took our sweet time getting to this book, you and i are out in the cold on the official book discussion.

i created this, where people can stop by and drop a line now and then.
http://www.booktalk.org/the-end-of-fait ... t9670.html

[VMLM]

Currently reading:

• Count of Montecristo - Alexandre Dumas, père
• A Study of History - Arnold Toynbee
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey

I want to get into The Road with the people on the board but all three books are extremely interesting, so I'm going to finish Montecristo before I get into that one.

Books on my waiting list:

• The Road - Cormac McCarthy
• La Caverna de las Ideas - José Carlos Somoza (I think this one's called The Athenian Murders in English)
• The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell

I also recently downloaded all 26 of Plato's dialogues (for free!! Wooh! xD) from Amazon's Kindle store, so I'll be making my way through that, during the next year probably. I already read he Apology, Symposium, Phaedrus, Phaedo, Crito and Republic. I seriously didn't expect Plato to be so interesting as I've found him to be. The amount of symbolism and metaphor that you find in each dialogue and the masterful use of characters as a representation of each point of view make for good reading. I'd actually recommend Phaedrus or Symposium to anyone who wants to get a slight taste for it, and I'd be psyched if anybody told me they'd read and were willing to discuss The Republic .

[President Camacho]

I would definitely read The Republic with you. I've also read Apology...Crito. I'll need a couple months, though.

Monte Cristo is great!!! I loved that book. I've never read a book so large that didn't drag. I can't remember being bored with any of it. Dumas is a superb writer. I haven't read Musketeers or 20 Years After but I've heard they're both good, too. Monte Cristo should be on everyone's to read list if they haven't read it already. The movie, although light-years apart from the book, was also awesome.

[Dexter]

Currently reading:

• Count of Montecristo - Alexandre Dumas, père
• A Study of History - Arnold Toynbee
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey

I happen to be reading The Count as well -- it'll take me a while, I'm reading other books at the same time. By the way, maybe this will catch on, I put a current/recent reading list in my signature. Make it easier to find people with common interests and maybe create some new discussions.

[DickZ]

I am reading The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins, which certainly holds my attention. I understand that this is considered as a precursor to detective stories such as those about Sherlock Holmes. I read another book by this same author a few months ago - The Woman in White, which I enjoyed quite a bit.