Which book are you currently reading? What is it about? Is it good?

Question

I'm posting it here because I'd like answers from the users who frequent this section... :)

Answer 1

I'm reading three books

The Boyfriend List

Avalon High

&

Harry Potter and the Sorceres Stone

Answer 2

I've just finished ' The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini - about life in Afghanistan - quite moving and definitely unforgettable - I highly recommend it. I read LOADS of books a month (think I'm play.com's best customer!) Now reading 'Chubby Brown's autobiography ... no one can say I don't like variety. Really aggressive man!!

A few weeks ago I read 'A diary of a demented Housewife' so funny!

Answer 3

i'm greek but i prefer to read english literature... i'm now reading agatha christie's best stories in english

Answer 4

I've started two books but unfortunately :( I could not concentrate and I will read them in October when I am not soooooooooooo busy.  The first one is Snow by Orhan Pamuk  and the other The Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield.   The only think I read and don't fall asleep these days is the answers here... ... ...but then again I am at work!

Answer 5

The Omnivore's Dilemma.  

Interesting once you get past the author's repetitiveness to explain basic points.  Other than that, has some pretty insightful info on the food we are all eating and the effects on our world and bodies.

Answer 6

The Picture of Dorian Gray was arch-aesthete Oscar Wilde’s only novel, although he wrote a number of poems and children’s stories before it was published in 1890 (in Lippincott’s Magazine) and became a very successful playwright in the 1890s themselves. Like much of his work and life, the Gothic melodrama Dorian Gray was controversial. In his preface to the book he famously wrote that, "There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all". The novel is a brilliant portrait of vanity and depravity tinged with sadness. The picture of the title is a splendid work painted by Basil Hallward of the orphaned boy Dorian Gray who is the heir to a great fortune. Lord Henry and Hallward discuss the boy and the remarkable painting. Dorian enters and declares that he would give his soul if he were always to be young and the painting instead would grow old. As the story pans out, Dorian leaves his fiancée - the actress Sibyl Vane - because through a single bad performance he claims that she has ‘killed’ his love. She kills herself with poison and Dorian is unaffected. So begins the tale of the boy’s descent into low society in London while still giving dinners and musicals for high society. He is inspired by two things: the book Lord Henry sends him that seems to predict his own life in dissecting every virtue and every sin from the past; and secondly the picture of himself which grows steadily older and more vicious looking compared to his own mirror image which remains young. Fanatical about the portrait, he is driven to murder and deception. As others are drawn into this web of evil Dorian himself longs to return to innocence but his method is horrific and tragic.

Answer 7

I`m reading Tristan and Isolda.We have to read it for school,and I totally love it.It`s about two young ppl,whowill fall in love becouse of a potion.similar as romeo and juliette.