What fiction are you currently reading?

[Soccermom]

That's amazing.

This line left me scratching my head:



Wouldn't this eliminate the OT, NT, and the BOM?

Yeah. It makes no sense. And I have learned not to try and point out the craziness of the standard either. I just get told by other members that there are thousands of good, wholesome books out there, why would we waste our time with anything questionable at all.

I have started my own book club.

[beelzebabette]

I have started my own book club.

Good call. Can I suggest "When the Emperor Was Divine" when you're looking for input? It's one of the few "book club books" I've read in the last couple of years that I was happy I read in that forum so I had someone to discuss it with.

[TripletDaddy]

I am currently reading any book my bishop wouldn't approve of for the enrichment book group. Yes, he has to approve each book and won't allow us to read a book if the main character has premarital sex

Wait, are you in BarbaraGordon's ward in Oklahoma?

[TripletDaddy]

Yeah. It makes no sense. And I have learned not to try and point out the craziness of the standard either. I just get told by other members that there are thousands of good, wholesome books out there, why would we waste our time with anything questionable at all.

I have started my own book club.

This reminds me of the exchange in Footloose...Ren McCormack has just arrived and overhears a conversation between the local adults about the horrible book being proposed as reading in high school..."Slaughterhouse Five." Ren says, "It's a classic." One of the adults tries to diffuse the situation by saying, "maybe in another town it's a classic..." but Ren won't hear of it. He defiantly says, "IN ANY TOWN!"

[BigPiney]

A great book, at least I think, for a book club is "What is the What". I finished reading it a few weeks ago and was blown away. What an amazing story of survival. It is a comtemporary historical fiction of a young man in Sudan. The guy is now only 25 and in the US going to college. Crazy stuff.

[beelzebabette]

A great book, at least I think, for a book club is "What is the What". I finished reading it a few weeks ago and was blown away. What an amazing story of survival. It is a comtemporary historical fiction of a young man in Sudan. The guy is now only 25 and in the US going to college. Crazy stuff.

I read his first book and liked his style so I just ordered this. I remember when some of the "Lost Boys of Sudan" started coming here; some friends and I got to know a few through a professor that was working with them. Anyway, we didn't realize it ahead of time, but they'd never been to a restaurant or seen a movie on a large screen. It was fascinating watching them go through a menu.

Anyway, this looks interesting. Thanks for the suggestion.

[BigPiney]

I remember when some of the "Lost Boys of Sudan" started coming here; some friends and I got to know a few through a professor that was working with them. Anyway, we didn't realize it ahead of time, but they'd never been to a restaurant or seen a movie on a large screen. It was fascinating watching them go through a menu.

That is really cool. Was that in the Salt Lake area?

In the book he talks of going to the grocery store in Kenya for the first time, while on a trip. Hard to even imagine the awe one would have at our lives after living in the bush.

[wuapinmon]

I'm reading:

1) War and Peace
2) The Buried Mirror, Carlos Fuentes

I just finished Saints at the River, Ron Rash. It was a good read.

[LA Ute]

I am reading Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby. It's good fun, one of Dickens' early novels and that shows.

On impulse, I picked up Steven King's After Sunset, a new collection of short stories he wrote because he missed that genre and feared he was losing the ability to work in it. This is a weird thing for me to do, because King's novels generally creep me out and leave me cold (I have never read one all the way through) but I loved the first story in this book. It was just a good piece of writing, no nihilistic violence, blood, sex, or anything of that nature. We'll see what the rest of the book holds.

[New Mexican Disaster]

Penthouse Letters....who the hell has time to read fiction?

[Brian]

Just finished "In Cold Blood" on Christmas evening. A nice ending to an holy day.
Dang, what a good book.
Started "Survivor: A Novel" by Palahniuk. 2/3 done (spent all of yesterday in airports....) My first book by Chuck and I love his writing. I want to read more of his stuff.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Just finished "In Cold Blood" on Christmas evening. A nice ending to an holy day.
Dang, what a good book.
Started "Survivor: A Novel" by Palahniuk. 2/3 done (spent all of yesterday in airports....) My first book by Chuck and I love his writing. I want to read more of his stuff.

Palahniuk is really hit and miss to me. Choke was great, Snuff was boring and slow. Survivor was great, Invisible Monsters sucked.

Based on this pattern I look forward to his next book.

[Brian]

Palahniuk is really hit and miss to me. Choke was great, Snuff was boring and slow. Survivor was great, Invisible Monsters sucked.

Based on this pattern I look forward to his next book.

have you read haunted? it sounds interesting....

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

have you read haunted? it sounds interesting....

No those are the only four I have read. I keep thinking I should read Fight Club, but I feel like it would be kind of a waste of time.

I bought Diary, but after finishing Snuff I have delayed reading it. Maybe I will start next week in Washington.

[woot]

The only Palahniuk I've read is Invisible Monsters. I didn't mind it, but it's just so smugly self aware that it really grated on me. I enjoy that style of writing, but you've gotta mix it into a compelling story rather than having that smugness be the whole point. Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions is a basically perfect example of what I'm talking about. I haven't seen anything better than that.