What Are You Reading Now?

[Person]

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury. I'm starting the fourth story, "The Highway."
I rank the first three:
1. "Kaleidoscope"- Just really great, very sad though, and not just because Hollis dies, but because he doesn't live until he dies. That's not really a spoiler is it? You know they're going to die from the beginning.
2. "The Veldt"- Creepy, almost Twilight Zone-y
3. "The Other Foot"- All right, but not as good as the other two.

EDIT: Yay, I'm a neophyte! After two years...but still!

[French Frog]

So you're into sad and creepy novels?

[Person]

Yes! I've read plenty of sad, but sadly, not much creepy. Does anybody have any recommendations on creepy novels?

[French Frog]

Afraid not. I'm not much into creepy novels…


Come to think of it, I liked the athmosphere of the Tartar Steppe, by Dino Buzzati. But isn't gore at all… I just remember being sort of weirded out after having read it. It's a great book. Briliantly written, and beautiful in its disturbingness.

[Person]

Thanks. Just looked it up and it sounds really interesting (and maybe a little bit sad too in the whole wasted life thing). I will have to read it.

[kuyan]

fragments of The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer, about donation to charity.

[tiger_lily]

Creepy...tried anything by Stephen King yet?

I'm just checked out these from the library today:

1. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
2. For the Win by Cory Doctorow
3. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
4. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
5. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

[Kirsty]

Not a fan of creepy books, prefer movies- books freak me out too much cos I can imagine what's happening much mroe than with movies where I am seeing; movies scare me to the point of fun, books scare me past that!

Currently reading Absurdistan by Eric Campbell. It's fascinating- an autobiography by an Australian foreign correspondant (limited to stories about his travels and adventures). I love it cos he's lived an incredibly interesting life and cos it gives you a very interesting insight to how news stories get to you.

[Person]

Still reading The Illustrated Man, but yesterday I started The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original Swedish title: Men Who Hate Women) by Steig Larsson. Not very far in, but it seems pretty interesting and it'll be the first novel I've ever read in this genre.

Tiger Lily, no I haven't read anything by Stephen King. From what I've heard, he might be too creepy for me, but I still intend to try something by him one day. (Now that I think about it, the kind of creepy I like might be better described as slightly eerie, like The Twilight Zone, not outright horror.)

[Airshow_lover]

Just finished reading the Annotated Flatland.

Crazy stuff.