What are you reading right now ?

[kayacamilla]

I enjoy reading a lot, I'm addicted to it because I am learning a lot, I usually read manga on the net, books is usually about romance. When I was in highschool, the famous sweet valley high, and when I enter college, it was the nancy drew collections. Now, anything that has sense, anything that could make me smile, cry, laugh, sad, etc etc. Reading is one great way to increase your knowledge.

kayacamillacom

[jjm0019]

Hello,

I'm currently reading Executive Power by Vince Flynn. If you like military special forces, undercover operations, politics, CIA involvement and good versus bad, you'll love Flynn's books. Executive Power is actually Flynn's 4th book in a series of 9. I came across this author while looking for something to read on Amazon. I'm so pleased I found these books/author because they are so good. I've read the first four in the series just this month alone!

I'm also reading Hiroshima by John Hersey. The book is about 6 people that survived the nuclear explosion on their city. I have a keen interest on World War II history/politics. My buddy recommended this book to me and I'm finding it very interesting despite only being 10 pages into the book.

[bearcub]

I'm reading The Vampire Lestat. It's great so far...a very different voice from Interview. But I can't help thinking that it's going to be the same story from a different voice...?

[bearcub]

Hope you are enjoying Dracula ... I read it many years ago & found it way more frightening than Vincent Price could ever be - never mind more recent efforts at depicting vampires (Pathetic). If you do enjoy it you might like to follow it up with The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Another absolutely marvelluous book in my humble opinion.

I am enjoying it. It's freaky. I read the older tale, "The Vampyre", that preceded Stoker, and it wasn't good at all. Stoker definitely developed his material well. Freaky!

I've read the The Historian, but maybe I'm in for a re-read. I wasn't impressed by it. It seemed like Kostova was just copying a formula without adding much new. Every chapter ended like I should go "oh!" but I just went, "I think Big Love is on tonight."

Still, I agree that modern adaptions of vampires have gotten really tame, as in lame. I wasn't afraid of anyone in the Twilight series. Aro? Meh. Jasper? ...That name alone would prevent me from taking him seriously.

Dracula? OMG shut the windows!

I agree! The Twilight books were so badly written I blushed sometimes! And it is a real disappointment when vampires can't even bring themselves to be evil anymore! But do you think this has something to do with the fact that the monster has become humanised? We are after all one with the monster now, not something sent on a mission to simply destroy it. If we were afraid of the vampire, would we have to be afraid of our own nature?

[humble]

Michel Butor - La Modification

[frger]

The secret garden

[Woodland Nymph]

I'm reading The Vampire Lestat. It's great so far...a very different voice from Interview. But I can't help thinking that it's going to be the same story from a different voice...?

Oh, not at all; The Vampire Lestat's main focus is the early life of Lestat, who in my opinion, is infinitely more intriguing than Louis, the narrator of Interview with the Vampire. True, all the stories and characters in The Vampire Chronicles are linked together, like a spiderweb, but I can guarantee you that The Vampire Lestat will be its own unique, incredible story. Plus, when the events of IWTV do happen to come up in TVL, Lestat's perspective of how everything happened is much different from Louis'. So it is really up to the reader to choose which one they believe. I'm glad you're enjoying the book so far!

[tree0421]

i am currently reading Lolita. it's a good one. my first time reading, but i doubt it will be my last.

T

[bearcub]

I'm reading The Vampire Lestat. It's great so far...a very different voice from Interview. But I can't help thinking that it's going to be the same story from a different voice...?

Oh, not at all; The Vampire Lestat's main focus is the early life of Lestat, who in my opinion, is infinitely more intriguing than Louis, the narrator of Interview with the Vampire. True, all the stories and characters in The Vampire Chronicles are linked together, like a spiderweb, but I can guarantee you that The Vampire Lestat will be its own unique, incredible story. Plus, when the events of IWTV do happen to come up in TVL, Lestat's perspective of how everything happened is much different from Louis'. So it is really up to the reader to choose which one they believe. I'm glad you're enjoying the book so far!

Absolutely agree with you about the story, the narrative is fascinating, especially in the light of IWTV. But I started TVL thinking that Lestat sounded so different to Louis, but after 100 or so pages I find they both have the same tone - more like Anne Rice herself than Louis or Lestat. It's the narrative voice that worries me more than the narrative itself (which I think is brilliant!). I can understand that at the start of the book, in the '80s, Lestat may have a more upbeat tone to his narrative than when he looks back, but the more I read of his past life, the more he sounds like Louis telling a different story. Of course the narrative is the saving grace of the novel and that is why I'm reading it!!

[alimena]

I'm reading something from peruvian contemporary narrative , "Un siglo de Ausencia" from Gabriel Niezen Matos.

[Pinkpaper]

Im reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, havent read anything of hers apart from the tale of the handmaiden and im enjoying it so far but too early to tell.

I used the LOVE anne rice and have read most of her vampire ones but funnily enough I never read interview and jumped right to the vampire lestat

[atrixa]

Reading 1984 by George Orwell right now. It's taking me ages because it's hard to find the time to read.

[frger]

"Vegetarian child", by Elena Pridie

[Fran]

"The Lieutenant" by Kate Grenville

[ann]

Am attempting Remembrance of Things Past - or should I say In Search of Lost Time? When it's all too much I switch over to Sally Vicker's delightful Miss Garnet's Angel.