The Friday Question - Reading

By Mike

June 6, 2008 in Comics, Questions

Reading is one of my favorite things to do. If I can find a book that sucks me in, I like nothing better than to curl up on the couch, sit outside, or read in my bed until the wee hours of the morning.

And lately I’ve expanded from not just “books” but to also graphic novels and comics.

My question for you guys today:

What the last book/comic/graphic novel you’ve read?

I like this question a lot because it’s fun to get ideas of what to snatch up on my next trip to Barnes & Noble.

For myself, I just finishd City of Ember and absolutely loved it. Review coming later today or Monday, but let’s just say it was a wonderful tale and so very unique.

What about you guys?

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Jason 4 months ago 1 point
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I just finished reading Angels & Demons and am currently reading Building Harlequin's Moon<img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=jasonaclarkco-20&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;"> by Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper.

I wasn't crazy about Angels & Demons. Building Harlequin's Moon started off slow, but is starting to get pretty good. I almost always like Larry Niven's stuff.</img>

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Mike 4 months ago 1 point
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I think I read Angels & Demons, but can't remember...I know I grabbed a few of Dan Brown's stuff, like Digital Fortress and 1 or 2 others.

What's Moon about?

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Jason 4 months ago 1 point
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It's a tale of a 60,000-year layover in space, in which physical challenges of world building are matched by social challenges of collaboration among disparate groups. After arriving in an inhospitable solar system, the Earth Born, colonists on an interstellar journey, need to refuel their ship, John Glenn, with antimatter. Since they lack laborers, the Earth Born construct a moon where they can build a particle collider and raise a work force, the Moon Born. Destined to be abandoned, the Moon Born struggle to gain as much knowledge and technology as they can before the Earth Born depart. Some of the technology includes artificial intelligences, whose unrestricted use caused the Earth Born to flee Earth in the first place.

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jina 4 months ago 1 point
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I'm reading the Friday Night Knitting Club. Okay... you can start the jokes... now...

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The Trousered Ape 4 months ago 1 point
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Last weekend I read Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng. Good autobiography about a woman (Cheng) who grew up in Shanghai during Mao Zedong's communist rule. She spent six and a half years in prison, falsely accused of being an "imperialist spy." Really good story, about 535 pages long, blew through it in a day and a half. :)

Currently I'm reading Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton. So far, so good, but definitely a much more difficult read than an autobiography.

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Mike 4 months ago 1 point
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Wow Jason, that sounds nerdy...and kind of cool.

Jina...your book is so completely opposite of Jason's, I don't know where to begin.

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The Trousered Ape 4 months ago 1 point
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That's "white and nerdy" to you mister!

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Richard 4 months ago 1 point
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Wow. I've really been slacking off. I don't think I even realized it until I tried to answer this question...

The last graphic novel was "WWH - Incredible Herc" which I grabbed last week. I've been wanting to pick up the Fred Van Lente run of "Incredible Hercules" - I'm a big fan of Lente from his "Action Philosophers" series - and figured I should start with this book which is the handoff from Pak. Really good, but, you know, just a lot of Hulk Smash! That's not a *book*.

About a month ago I read the first act of "Waiting for Godot" and then got distracted by something shiny...

And quite a while before that a P.G. Wodehouse, I think it was "Carry on, Jeeves".

I really haven't been reading much at all. :(

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Cap'n Schwartz 4 months ago 1 point
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@Mike Maybe Jina's graphic novel is about Nancy who is the master of needlepoint and throws out deadly knitting needlesin mid air leaps with such speed and accuracy it could penetrate a force field... or maybe thats the novel i want to be reading...

Jasons sounds interesting as well...

Ape you read way to fast bro... I need to hire you out to read some of my work documents so you can give me highlights of what it says =)

Richard...coolsies!! If you read through World War Hulk, you might have missed some side sotries that get integrated in other issues. Did you read the preface to WWH , Planet Hulk? thats actually the last graphic novel I've read, gives some great detail and lead up to World War Hulk...

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Jason 4 months ago 1 point
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I normally read two or three books at a time, but a little something called Pop Critics has me kind of tied up. I've been trying to read one at a time lately.

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Mike 4 months ago 1 point
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I just ordered a big shipment from Amazon with my $50 HD-DVD credit...the next 3 books in Y: The Last Man, Batman: Year One and Kingdom Come.

Looking forward to them!

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Kory 4 months ago 1 point
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Just finished The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx. Book was truly insane as it tracks his extreme cocaine/heroin addiction from Dec '86 through Dec '87. Amazingly enough he kept diaries during this time and used dialog from himself, band members and friends to fill in the gaps and tie the story together.

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Kory 4 months ago 1 point
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However, I am pretty sure The Heroin Diaries is not as enticing as the Friday Night Knitting Club!

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Richard 4 months ago 1 point
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@Cap'n, I didn't read "Planet Hulk". I'm kind of lukewarm on the Hulk in general, but I've heard nothing but great things about the Incredible Hercules run and wanted to try that out.

Though the hints about WWH I got out of this book make it sound pretty awesome. I might go back and catch up.

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The Trousered Ape 4 months ago 1 point
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Bad Mike - isn't that $50 supposed to be used on Blu? Your assimilation to the other side is not progressing as quickly as we would like. Looks like we will need to engage in another round of shock therapy...

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jina 4 months ago 1 point
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Cap'n - that's totally what the book is about. You've read it too, haven't you?

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Mike 4 months ago 1 point
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@ Ape- I think I'm blue about Blu

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Jason 4 months ago 1 point
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I never knew there was a book called The Friday Night Knitting Club. I'll have to bring it up tonight...in my knitting club.

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Princess Ana 4 months ago 1 point
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Jason wrote: I normally read two or three books at a time, but a little something called Pop Critics has me kind of tied up. I’ve been trying to read one at a time lately.

Ana writes:Plus there's a thing called FATHERHOOD! :)

I'm currently reading Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Yeah, it's an old one but I've been wanting to read it for a while...and it's taking me a while too. I like to be able to spend time in the book, but I get distracted by the one year old ruling our house. :)

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jina 4 months ago 1 point
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Jason, I'll send you some yarn.

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Princess Ana 4 months ago 1 point
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Whoo hoo! He'll be so excited! :)

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