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I just finished for the first time The Da Vinci Code, excellent book I must say. And also read Tuesday's With Morrie, which I think needs to be added to school curriculums, it was that good.

Now I'm reading Digital Fortress by Dan Brown and next will be Deception Point.

DDMAN26 wrote:I just finished for the first time The Da Vinci Code, excellent book I must say. And also read Tuesday's With Morrie, which I think needs to be added to school curriculums, it was that good.

Now I'm reading Digital Fortress by Dan Brown and next will be Deception Point.

Just finished Da vinci Code myself, along with Deception Point... Now reading Angels and Demons... this guy rocks!!

Also recently read Malcolm X, and Uncle Tom

It amazing how many details are packed in Dan Brown's books. I learned a lot of interesting things while reading his novels

Kram Nebuer wrote: I'm also reading bits and pieces of Birnbaum's Official Guide to Walt Disney World (2001 and 2004).

lol. I read The Unofficial Guide To Walt Disney World every year, cover to cover. In my opinion, it's much better than Birnbaum's.

Between planning for, taking, and unwinding from the big trip to Disney, I lost a lot of reading time. Finally, though, I finished reading Angels & Demons by Dan Brown. Great book.

Until I get a copy of Da Vinci Code, I'm re-reading The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis for the umpteenth time.

And, for my own records, my upcoming reading list: Da Vinci Code, Big Fish, Wicked, Anne of Green Gables, The Wizard Of Oz (reread), This Present Darkness (reread), Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix (reread).

-Aaron

I'm reading The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 2. Actually I've read the actual story already. It was nowhere near as good as the first volume, but the "Hyde dinner scene" was priceless. If only everyone could be so inventive with their writing.

I'm actually about to start of the text based travelogue, which I'm looking forward to more than the actual story.

jabroni and DDMan, I very much agree. My only problem is that fact and fiction may be a little too indistinguishable at times in the books. It worries me that many may take away entirely fictionlized tidbits that are scattered within the fact as truth.

Anyways, I finished TLTWATW (more on that in General Discussion) and the library just got my reserved copy of The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown in, so I'm about to start it.

So my upcoming reading list is now: Anne of Green Gables (partial reread), Big Fish, Wicked, The Wizard Of Oz (reread), This Present Darkness (reread), A Modest Proposal, Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix (reread).

-Aaron

awallaceunc wrote: So my upcoming reading list is now: Anne of Green Gables (partial reread), Big Fish, Wicked, The Wizard Of Oz (reread), This Present Darkness (reread), A Modest Proposal, Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix (reread).

-Aaron

Wow, a male reading Anne of Green Gables. Kudos to you!

Foundation and Empire, but Asimov is wearing a little thin at the moment (too much Asimov in a concentrated burst).

So I've picked up Our Band Could Be Your Life: : Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad. It proves there was more to the 80s music scene than bad hair and synth pop. It deals with bands like Black Flag, Sonic Youth, Minor Threat and The Replacements (the last being a brilliant band, that I happen to be a huge fan of). An essential read.

I just finished Deception Point, which was pretty good. In fact I liked all four of Dan Brown's novels if I were to rank them I'd say:
Angels and Demons
The Da Vinci Code
Deception Point
Digital Fortress

Currently I'm reading a few things:
Bringing Down the House-No not the novelization of the Steve Martin/Queen Latifah film, but a story on how a group of MIT students devised a way of card counting during blackjack games to make millions. Great read so far.
The Gunslinger by Stephen King. Confession this is the first thing by King I've read and I've only read the first few pages.

Eragon-The first two chapters.

Up next:
Brave New World-Aldous Huxley
The Minority Report and other Stories-Philip K Dick
His Dark Materials Trilogy-Philip Pullman
I recently bought the whole big Chronicles of Narnia and plan to read that too.

pinkrenata wrote:
Wow, a male reading Anne of Green Gables. Kudos to you!

I've read all of the Anne books, as well as the Emilys, and many others of L.M. Montgomery's.

Right now, I've just finished reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which is also a re-read for me, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and am starting Green Angel by Alice Hoffman.

I want to read The Lovely Bones and The Five People You Meet in Heaven, as well as Janet Kellough's Palace of the Moon.

The Emily series kicks butt! Much darker than Anne. I also remember liking The Blue Castle a lot. I should find that one and read it again.

lol, Renata. I've read half of it earlier this year, and had to stop to read some other, more pressing things. I will come back to it as soon as I finish Da Vinci Code, though. I really enjoyed what I did read, and will most likely go on to read the whole series. It really doesn't strike me as all that feminine- it's no Nicholas Sparks! lol. And besides, I love Road To Avonlea .

-Aaron

I'm reading Victor Hugo's Les Miserables and Shakespeare's Henry IV part. 1.
Shakespeare rocks!

I'm reading Michael Crichton's The Lost World now, after finishing its excellent predecessor Jurassic Park, but I still have to read 2 more novels after this one:

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Spider-Man 2

And after these two, I'm planning to buy The Da Vinci Code...

disneychris04 wrote:I'm reading Michael Crichton's The Lost World now,

Heh, I'm reading (okay more like I bought it and will soon read) The Great Train Robbery. He wrote that too, I think.

I just finished Bringing Down the House, it's a great book. Highly recommended.

Still working on Eragon
The Gungslinger

Kram Nebuer wrote:

disneychris04 wrote:I'm reading Michael Crichton's The Lost World now,

Heh, I'm reading (okay more like I bought it and will soon read) The Great Train Robbery. He wrote that too, I think.

Yeah, Crichton even directed a movie version of The Great Train Robbery himself, too.

Hmm let's see, recently I've read...

Eragon - A reread, and it was just as good the second time around.

Smallville: Strange Visitors - Great book, I need to get some more from the series.

Alias: Vanishing Act - I was a bit disappointed by this one. I didn't like how it took place before the pilot of the show. And it was far too predictable.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - Much better than I expected. A bit cheesy at parts, but not too much so.

All Around the Town - Wonderful book. As with the other Mary Higgins Clark books I've read, it grabbed me at the beginning and never let me go.

The Edge Chronicles: Beyond the Deepwoods - Only got halfway through this one before putting it down. It really bored me and felt very dull. Guess it's just not my kind of book.

Batman: Knightfall - Awesome. Batman's always been my favorite superhero and this book was well written, so it's no wonder I enjoyed it so much.

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room - It was fairly good, but felt very much like the first book as far as plot goes. If that doesn't change in the third book then I may stop reading the series.

And right now I'm just about to finish up King Arthur (movie novelization).

Satoshi wrote:Batman: Knightfall - Awesome. Batman's always been my favorite superhero and this book was well written, so it's no wonder I enjoyed it so much.

Great stuff, Satoshi. That was big story around the first time I started collecting comics (does 1993 sound about right?). I've always had a soft spot for a good Batman story, although I don't actually collect the titles.
Have you read Hush yet? Or any of the Frank Miller Batman titles (such as Year One, the Dark Knight Returns etc)? I also recommend Chuck Dixon's Batman: The Chalice.

If you get a chance (and have not done so already), check out some of the "Bat-Universe" titles like Birds of Prey. I seem to have been a DC fan for a while now, with the occasional dip into Marvel (Ultimate stuff and Daredevil at the moment).

Some of my favourite graphic novels/collections include: Green Arrow/Green Lantern: Hard Traveling Heroes; Green Arrow: Quiver; Birds of Prey 1 (collecting the first Oracle/Black Canary titles) Watchmen; League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; Green Arrow: Longbow Hunters (see a theme here?) and Frank Miller Daredevil (volume 2 in particular).

Awesome, Batman's my favorite superhero as well- by far. *Winces and waits for "Batman isn't a superhero, he doesn't even have any powers..."* lol

-Aaron