Books you are reading right now

**KLD1019** · 04-17-2012, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by HK

I thought about this because I heard some good stuff about the trilogy, but I read an excerpt on amazon and couldn't get over how often she uses silly words instead of swearing. I can't remember what it was now, something like jeepers, or gosh.

Is the sex any good then? It didn't go as far as that

the sex is very good and very hot! very teasing! Chris has very much enjoyed me reading these books!

i could look over the things she says ("jeeze" is the one you're referring to) chapter 8 i think is when all the sex starts, but the chapters before that, Christian completely captures me!

im about to DL the 1st book in The Uglies series.

**Abcinthia** · 04-21-2012, 12:24 PM

Currently half way through The Report by Jessica Francis Kane

About to start One Day

HK · 04-23-2012, 04:45 AM

Currently starting Thief Of Time, another Terry Pratchett book. I'm on a real Pratchett kick at the moment.

Also downloaded 50 Shades of Grey to see if it was worth the hype. Skipped a lot of exposition to get to the sex. It's... interesting. Not awful, but I think I need to do some more skipping and see if it gets better. It's not bad fanfiction, I can see how it got so popular.

**Abcinthia** · 04-23-2012, 06:36 AM

I heard the sex scene is really badly written in 50 shades of grey

HK · 04-23-2012, 06:56 AM

Originally Posted by Abcinthia

I heard the sex scene is really badly written in 50 shades of grey

I'm trying to give it the benefit of the doubt

so far I've read the first one, where it turns out she's a virgin and he's a sex demon, so he takes her virginity. At length. It's not like, the worst thing I've ever read, but I'm hoping it gets more raunchy later on when she's less virginal and innocent.

Also, I wish she'd stop talking about her 'inner goddess' all the fucking time.

**KLD1019** · 04-23-2012, 08:59 AM

Originally Posted by Abcinthia

I heard the sex scene is really badly written in 50 shades of grey

scene!? add an S to that! theres LOADS of sex scenes LOL

Originally Posted by HK

I'm trying to give it the benefit of the doubt

so far I've read the first one, where it turns out she's a virgin and he's a sex demon, so he takes her virginity. At length. It's not like, the worst thing I've ever read, but I'm hoping it gets more raunchy later on when she's less virginal and innocent.

Also, I wish she'd stop talking about her 'inner goddess' all the fucking time.

i dont know about more raunchy. they're not hard core sex books. just exactly what they (critics) have described it, "mommy porn". it was enough to get me worked up LOL they dont go in depth of the "red room of pain". she changes him for the better.

and i like her inner goddess and inner conscience! the two make her 'innocent' personality better

**acctnt shan** · 04-23-2012, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by Leah Love

I found it easy to immerse myself in it. I missed reading about Jon, Dany, Bran, Arya and Tyrion. I had more issues with book 4, but that too had its appeal. I liked how Sansa, Jamie, Cersie were fleshed out.
I am dreading the time I will have book 5 finished too and have to wait for good ol' Mr. Martin to get another book out LoL

I loved how book 4 totally changed my perspective on Jamie.

And this weekend, book 5 FINALLY grabbed me... yayy Dany!

**Wyndex** · 04-23-2012, 01:07 PM

Really into the series on HBO so I decided to start the first book of A Song of Ice and Fire, A Game of Thrones.
Currently about 106 pages in

**Jezzebelle** · 04-23-2012, 01:12 PM

"Let's Pretend This Never Happened" Jenny Lawson

**boombala** · 04-24-2012, 01:33 PM

The Long Home by William Gay

There are so many characters, I'm not sure who's who but he includes a lot of sentences that crack me up. "It sounds like he's missin a face card or two....." "Everybody knows she's about half a bubble off a plumb..." Story takes place in Tennessee in the 1940s. Gay is a southern author and this is his first novel.

**Abcinthia** · 04-24-2012, 02:09 PM

I'm reading:

The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas (1/5 way through and hating it so far. Just seems to be overhyped and deliberately provocative for the sake of being provocative)
One Day - David Nicholls (2/3 finsihed and really enjoying it so far)
Eleanor of Aquitaine - Marion Meade (I've just read the preface so no real opinion either way).

**satinbutterfly** · 04-24-2012, 02:18 PM

Cast in Silence by Michelle Sagara (Book 5 of the Chronicles of Elantra)

**Wyndex** · 04-24-2012, 03:08 PM

Am I the only one who can read only one book at a time?
Id be really confused if I started reading a book part way through another

**satinbutterfly** · 04-24-2012, 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by Wyndex

Am I the only one who can read only one book at a time?
Id be really confused if I started reading a book part way through another

I prefer not to read more than one book at a time, and generally I do not. Occasionally I'll read an informational type book while reading a fiction book, but not very often.

**Abcinthia** · 04-24-2012, 03:55 PM

I usually read 2-3 books at the same time. Occassionally creeping into higher numbers but then I panic and get confused.

One will usually be non-fiction History so it's easy to distinguish it from the fiction. If I'm reading more than one fiction book it will be in a different genre and always by different authors. I won't start a new book until I'm a certain amount into the previous book (it varies depending on the book size).

It never confuses me because it's all different writing styles, plots and I'm in different places in each story.