Elina Hirvonen "Että Hän Muistaisi Saman" (finnish writer)
It's very fresh

Oh my. Well, I'll read Digital Fortress nevertheless. I hope it's not that bad ^^

Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding

Well, if you liked Firefly/Serenity, you'll love this. At least I did, it was fun and exciting and I LOVED the characters Plus the book has nice cover art Can't wait to get my hands on the sequel.

Deadline

Once Upon a Time

There was a mess of zombies, and now there are more

Philosophy: Beginner's Guide

Simple to understand...

2001: A Space Odyssey
And I wanted to know if someone else read it? If so, how much does it keep from the movie? Just 2-3 words...

Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey

It was fun

Bruno Apitz - Naked among Wolves

- Sammy Hagar: Red (interesting autobiography)

- Jürgen Zöller selbst: aus dem Leben des BAP Trommler's (biography of the drummer of my favorite German band - a great read)

- Leena Lehtolainen: Lounas en ollutkaan = I was not at lunch (I read it in German though. Good story)

I haven't read the book, but I think this might help.

George Orwell - Animal Farm

yep, that was pretty neat.

I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan

When the main character is the boss of hell himself, it'll sure be an interesting story..




I've read that one too, it was quite interesting.

A dance with dragons - George R. R. Martin

David Lodge - Home truths

I started reading Harry Potter, but I haven't read any page for the last few days :/

My friend's story which is AWESOME!

On The Road ~ Jack Kerouac (Ok, not quite finished but's so easy and it flows along.....really great reading!)

"They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn..."
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 1, Ch. 1

I relate.......and I have no idea what a dingledody is, and most likely it's made up, but I can imagine what they look like

@Snow: I don't know what it is with this book, but I found "On the Road" incredibly boring to read. Didn't work for me at all. I can appreciat the style of writing, but the story had nothing in it for me and I hugely disliked the characters. *shrugs*

Last book I read:

Robbie Williams - you know me. Yep, another biography of sorts or rather a clollection of pictures and Rob's thoughts about them. I enjoyed it.

I began reading The Earthsea Cycle.... It seems pretty epic...... I was inspired by the Studio Ghibli film so that's where this sudden interest rose...

VesQ: The books are very different and, in my opinion, a lot better than the movie. They're a whole lot slower, though.

I finished Jonathan Carroll's The Wooden Sea last week, and this week I read Alexandra Salmela's 27 eli kuolema tekee taiteilijan ("27, death makes an artist").

The Wooden Sea did make me want to read more of Carroll's work, even though his way of writing and choice of words seemed very strange (strange as in unfamiliar) at the beginning.

27 was... Well, it was interesting. The writer is a Czech who lives in Finland and who has studied the Finnish language at an university, so she wrote the book originally in Finnish. The book somehow had the same feeling as Kari Hotakainen and some other Finnish writers' work, where everything just goes from bad to worse as the main characters keep on becoming crazier. It was also interesting how there were four narrators, who all had an unique way of seeing things: The family car was completely objective, only reporting what people said and did, the cat looked down upon everybody, the pig-plushie saw everything in a positive light and the main character, a fledgling writer Angie, was most of all concerned about herself.
The depiction of Angie's drama queen ways and switching between self-loathing and overconfidence and the family's mother's attempts of being a perfect wife, mother and human being by stressing soft values, eco-friendliness and "living outside of the system" hit me quite hard. Reading the book made me stop and think quite often, especially since it made me remember how ridiculous I have been and am myself.
I don't know if it will ever be translated into English, but I'm quite sure that it will become a Finnish modern classic.

Whoa. A long rant.

What did you think of the ending? Glad you liked Carroll.

27 sounds interesting. Too bad I know so little Finnish.

I'm about 30 pages from finishing The Gunslinger by Stephen King. I'm not in love with it, but it's been entertaining enough.


Sounds interesting! I just checked if my local library has the book - and they do, and it's available! It seems like I have a reason to go out in the rain today

Yep, that was one of the motives as well because usually books are better (IMO)..... And if you watch the movie before the book you'll get the thrill twice.... But many times watching the movie after the book ends in disappointment, like "why did they leave so many parts unincluded?" etc.... And btw, I enjoy the slowness, it calms you down and makes you see the delicate details... To me, slow is epic and vice versa........

frank schätzing "the swarm"
reading in y psychology book from time to time

Alexander McCall Smith - "44 Scotland Street"
Alexander McCall Smith - "Espresso Tales"

Both books from the same serie. Nice, sometimes funny, something for cold evenings ^^

Dan Brown - "Angels And Demons"

Finally I had the time to take it in my hands.
Whoa, really great book. Keep in suspence, surprising twists. I loved how Brown wrote about emotions and feelings in various situations, I felt like I was right there. I think it was one of the best books I have ever read.
Much better than the movie as for me.

Includes spoilers about The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll.



@redbossfan: I thought the ending was original, to say the least. Like, "Sir, you have to endure plenties of hardships to save the world." After the hardships: "Sir, everything you've been through has been pointless. Our condolences." I wasn't too happy about the author bringing God into the plot, but what I did like was the fact that the main character of the book wasn't the main character of his world in the end.

Not every book is for everyone, of course

I like it cause it's simple, and the characters are some I have met in my past. They aren't all great, but all people have places in life, whether they be good or bad or not so great. Life balance I guess is what I understand from the story. Maybe that doesn't make sense to anyone but me.

Does Glamour mag count? Yeah, read the whole thing cover to cover last night

Just finished a five-part series from Justina Robson, called Quantum Gravity. It's a fantasy/scifi adventure with humor, exitement, magic, technology and some more serious themes about identity, family ties and self-doubt.

Characters include part human, part cyborg heroine, an elf rockstar, fairies, demons, ghosts and dead people. I highly recommend it for those who like that sort of stuff

I'm not a huge sci-fi fan, but this sounds intriguing. I shall look it up and probably even check it out. (You had me at elf rockstar )

Nick Hornby's High Fidelity

i've read better books than that one