World Book Day - 23 April (Apr/23/2008 )

Today: World Book Day!

Perhaps the occasion to start a thread which book you're reading at the moment. Or if you read books at all .

Have a look : here or here

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The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. LeGuin

mmmm

for me, i like to read novels and stories (not scientific) and of course daily newspapers

"the incredible tide" by Alexander Key
(that book inspired Hayao Miyazaki's animation series titled "Future Boy Conan", which was my passion when I was a kid! )

Anyway, do you know that you can download, redistribute, use, quote etc. for free any book (including classics) with expired copyright?
Take a look to the iBiblio of Project Gutenberg!!!

A Book Thread?

Where's pernese...I've always wanted to ask about his bedside reading materials....have you already asked him dr hobbes?


Just finished Le Guin's "The Telling" not as good as the Left Hand... but not so bad either....
I'm revisiting Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf....just bec I saw a band in the lastfm station with the same name

Hm, next to tonns of publications I read "A place called Freedom" from Ken Follett, then the "Time" Magazine and "Ein Elefant im Mückenland (Suomalainen kärsäkirja or in english: an elephant in mosquitos country)" from Arto Paasilinna

just finished reading last week cinq semaines en ballon by jules verne, next in the list animal farm by george orwell

Interesting...most people are describing reading real literature. After working (and thinking) all day, I tend to read for relaxation, the equivalent of watching 'Friends' on TV. I favor historical fiction, with some sci-fi and fantasy thrown in. Right now I am reading Phases, a book of short stories (mostly sciience fiction, some fantasy) by Elizabeth Moon. Some are light reading, like the one about zero-G paramedics; others are a bit more thought-provoking.

El peregrino del tiempo, I think that the translation for it is The time pilgrim.

dearly devoted dexter... j. lindsay.

ah, i have a soft sport for witty serial killers with a code.

V