Books

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What have you been reading recently? Not the book we've assigned for this month, but anything else. Did you/are you enjoying it? Tell us about it!

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I read the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy for a laugh, but I found them creepy and depicting, in my opinion, an absuive relationship in a way that made me think the author was saying 'some of this stuff is ok'. When it's not.

I'm just about to start The Red House by Mark Haddon (author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time). I hope it's much better than the bullshit Fifty Shades crap I just read. I suspect it will be; I usually enjoy his writing.

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I've been hearing a lot about Fifty Shades of Grey. Apparently the ladies around here are calling it, "mommy porn" which I find hilarious. Is it really that dirty?

Oh, I haven't read The Red House, but I did read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time a few years ago. I wasn't overly thrilled by it, but the writing was decent. Let me know how The Red House is, I'm interested to hear.

[69love_songs]

I just wrote you a loooong comment but Lj ate it! There is a lot of sex in the books, but they're disappointingly unerotic. I find it hard to believe it was written by a woman; the main character basically orgasms ninety million times through PIV, no hint of clitoral stimulation suggested. I was quite sick of her 'losing herself in him' every single time she was anywhere near his penis by the end of the books. They're also depressingly repetitive

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Edited because I posted before I'd finished typing!

[east_midlands]

Reading "Under the Hawthorn Tree" -- it's about China and the cultural revolution. It's well written, curious, and so engaging. Beautiful imagery. I highly recommend it!

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I've never heard of it, but it sounds lovely. I'll add it to my list!

[tsumik]

Well I had just finished World War Z which I think someone had mentioned in the discussion about Warm Bodies. It was interesting cause it showed what I thought was a pretty accurate picture of what humanity would do if we were left with a zombie apocalypse type event.

In the meantime I let my girlfriend borrow The Night Circus which she read about half and then got all excited and jumped over to the Charlene Harris new book.

So I started Musashi which is suppose to be like James Clavell's Shogun. Shogun is written as one would expect a western to write about Japanese culture. Musashi on the other hand is more authentic in voice to Japanese culture. So far it's pretty good. :)

[marijuanakills]

I'm reading Brave New World Revisited and A Clockwork Orange.

I'm just getting into both, but so far so good. BNW Revisited has been already been very insightful.

I've tried A Clockwork Orange before but couldn't get into it because the fictional dialect annoyed and discouraged me. Now I'm in a different frame of mind and can appreciate the strange language. We'll see how I feel about it when I read more of it.

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I loved A Clockwork Orange. I hate the movie, but the book, oh, the book. I hope you enjoy it.

[theniwokesoftly]

I read Divergent and Insurgent by Veronica Roth and liked them, then I read The Strange Case of Finley Jayne, which is a prequel to The Girl in the Steel Corset, and I've just started that. I like Finley, so I'm enjoying this so far. I also read The Girl of Fire and Thorns recently- I've been on a huge YA kick.