Ok, not so much as a Harry Potter topic just in general.
People can just post what they are currently reading ..

Currently Reading

David Morrell - Burnt Sienna

Quite a 'simple' book, easy going, not too bad. It's about a painter (ex Soldier !, not a likely combination) who is payed to paint an Arms Dealers' wife. Is roped into it by a CIA buddy of his and it's up to him to 'save' her and find as much info on the Dealer while he's there.
Not too bad.

Also, re-reading OotP, really starting to grow on me .. more so with each reading.

Just Finished

Nelson Demille - Up Country

Amazing, about a Vietnam vetran who is now in the 'police' side of the military. Goes back to vietnam to solve a murder inquiry.

I've pretty much read all of Nelson Demille's books and i don't think that there has been any that i've not liked although i didn't enjoy the Talbott Oddessy as much as the others. Excellant author, reccomened. Has quite a bit of history in his books though .. i still like it even though i'm more of a geographer myself.

So, what is everyone else reading??

actually im reading OotP at the moment.....im about halfway through.....its my moment of rest between revising...... but when i revise for my english lit gcses i have to re-read of mice and men, educating rita and a bunch of war poems - should keep me going.....luckily im quite a fast reader

im reading HP PS/SS at night, and HP OotP during the day! well... im really translating it to spanish, keep me entretained im almost done im in page 490

before PS i read How to be a Canadian (dont remember the authors name), b4 that one FBAWTFT and QTTA, and b4 that i re-read Anne's Frank Diary (love that book), and b4 Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, great book, i loved it! Oh, and Macbeth for school!

way to go Melimush! I'd never be able to do that...

Reading Dune and POA alternating when I feel like it. I am also rereading all my Class civ plays for revision purposes.... honest!

I'm reading Stephen King's Dreamcatcher now. I bought the book a while ago, saw the movie and now started reading the book. It's a long one though and i'm only 1/4 of the way done. Good so far though!

i read one or two non-Harry Potter books a month.......... but when i am, i always make sure i get in at least an hour or two of HP a day........
Neways, i'm reading The Divide right now........... and i finished Coraline about 2 days ago...............

Just to let you guys know, i've started sleeping with my Ootp book.................wait that sounded sick............. WHY THE HECK AM I TELLING YOU THIS? SOMEBODY HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*an evil voice starts coming from the book*
I warned you, Loony...... Now you must pay........ MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!


(I had WAY too much caffine this morning........)

i am reading GOF on my little cycle! and also reading feeling sorry for celia, cant rememberr who its by.

Im reading OotP for the second time, and are reading some Harlequin-books between (humm...love-books. Sorry mods, I had to explain what they are!) also.

Reading OoTP (at school, I forgot to put it in the car with me!) this weekend I am reading PoA again since it is my only Harry Potter book here.

The most recent book I finished was The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland, this is a GREAT book, I even chose it to write a paper on. Other than that I am reading Catcher in the Rye for my American Lit class.

Haven't posted here in a while, but as good of a subject as any.

I have finished reading

Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code, which I found to be not nearly as good as the reviews have been. Not that big of a fan to be honest. But a really interesting concept none the less. Probably not a complete waste of my time.

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I also took a big step back, considering my age, and have read a few of the CS Lewis Narnia books

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

have been as far as I could get... after that the children's writing have made me loose all interest. (there are 4 more books I could read, if I wanted to, but wont)

I find it funny that Harry Potter is compared to CS Lewis, while Lewis's works are soooooo much more childish, both in language and plot. I see no resemblance what so ever. Anyone disagree?

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I have also read a few of the Hitchiker Trilogy books, and have found they get exponentially worse.


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Beyond that, I read a lot of Non-Fictional books on engineering. More or less what ever I can get my hands on. PLC's lately

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Off topic, but good enough to note, I have been checking out some really old or unknown movies... The Seven Samurai (1954), and Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

I was really surprised that I could like these older classic movies so much. Just incredible. awesome great wonderful, loved them. A++

The unknown movie I found a South Korean movie called spygirl (all in subtitles of course). But good luck trying to find that in blockbuster, because you wont. (It was more than decent)

So far this year I've read The Hobbit and the three Lord of the Ring books about three times, The 5 Harry Potters at least twice and have started yet again.......almost finished book 2. This time I'm reading very slowly and making notes of what could be clues and I can see things a lot clearer than in previous readings. I've also just read the complete Narnia series......Hadley you should finish it.....I'd like to know what you think of the finale.

last night i finished "Out of the silent planet" by c. lewis. a sc. fiction book.
in fact i read a lot, but it is too dificult to tell you, because i read in spanish, and i don't know the original english titles...
well, i read a stephen king's book, and now i am with an isaac asimov's one. i like sc. fiction very much. i also read argentinian books.

and, of course i read and re-read once and once again all the harry potter's books!

I just reach under my bed and take out the Harry potter book i lay my hands on, its usually POA, but i need to understand OOTP a bit more, lke the last couple of chapters, some of it is still slightly mind-boggling to me!

I am reading Grisham's The Summons. I just finished Angels and Demons, which Dan Brown wrote before DaVinci Code. I like them both, but like Angels and Demons better. Did all of you know that Harry Potter is mentioned in the DaVinci Code?
The best books other than HP I have read recentlyare The Girl with the Pearl Earring and The Secret Life of Bees.

The worst book I have read lately is Andrew Greeley's Bishop in the West Wing. I think the poor man has lost his touch altogether!

er... well the only books i have really been reading for the past year is Harry Potter i am currently reading OotP for the fifth time, and i am almost done!! speaking of which, I wonder where DisaH is?? well like i've said, me been reading nothing but HP, other than school books that is since i have to anyways. i read The Pushcart War on my own tho!! its not a very big book but i thought it was very funny... what is DaVinci about, Molly?? ooh where do they mention harry potter? also i tried to read macbeth but i got bored after page one and checked it back in... i am a library worker at my school so i can browse are the library whenever for like an hour i haven't read any LotR books but i have seen all the movies.. oh yeah and i tried to read Little Women also but it took me two months to get halfway through the book and i got tired of reading so i looked up what happens on the Internet.. i was so disappointed!! OOH I LOVE 'THE OUTSIDERS' THOUGH! I CAN'T WAIT TILL WE READ IT IN CLASS NEXT YEAR!

I am also halfway through, but leaving for the moment, Lord of the rings - the fellowship of the rings (I''m VERY slow, okay!), Moving Pictures, Lyra's Oxford, and a Brief History of Time (trying getting your head round THAT after a late night, my brain hurts!)

LYRAS OXFORD? Thats out!

I love the Dark Materials books by Philip Pullman, like the HP books they are pure genius! Its so well written!

My mum is right about something-

Since i read the HP books i rarely read anything else and this makes her upset!

i'm currently re-reading COS.
am in mudbloods and murmurs.

hey ur name srivathsan that's amusing . i am not insulting ur name . what is cos? ?

im not srivathsan, but i can tell u what cos is... CoS is Chamber of Secrets

PS: PHILOSOPHER STONE
CoS: CHAMBER OF SECRETS
PoA: PRISIONER OF AZKABAN
GoF: GOBLET OF FIRE
OotP: ORDER OF THE PHOENIX

Hmmm... lets see here. Currently I am re-reading OotP.

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The last book I read was Gallow's Hill by Louis Duncan I think. (The one who wrote I Know What You Did Last Summer.)

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Before that I read QTTA and FBAWTFT.

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I've also been reading other books. This year alone I've read Stephen King's The Eyes Of The Dragon (Great Book!), J.R.R. Tolkien's LotR- FotR, John Saul's Creature, Heather Graham's Haunted, and Hidden Passions which is the back story of that Soap Opera Passions. I also Read PoA, CoS, and SS before I got my OotP book back. I went to the store and bought some cheap "Fright Time" books and I don't know who writes those stories but they are okay.

~I think that is all. LOL.

Thats your name! Wow it rocks, sounds reall cool, better than mine! Very cool name!

No Personal information allowed on the boards!

thankyou!

er.... i just finished The Devide- It was awesome! Now I'm just reading Ootp and PoA....

finished OoTP (again) Is it bad that I finished it BEFORE I would even start Catcher in the Rye for my American Lit class???

I will be re-reading GOF and hope to finish it before I get home in two weeks...then I will go to the library and get something other than HP...(gotta save the HP's for Florida!)

Picked up LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring for the first time. From the prologue and the first two chapters alone, you can tell that JRR was off his rocket.

Wow, you dragged up a very old topic for your constructive analysis.

Because you disliked 'the whole first two chapters and the prologue' he was 'off his rocker'.

Please.

I personally think the LOTR books are legendary! I thought they were VERY well written, and the description and detail that JRR Tolkein put into the books was outstanding!

ahh you see thats what made me stop reading it i lost the story in the description i didjnt have a clue what was going on, i think my brain is too young.

oh yer i was meant to say this earlier but i forgot. you could either say he was off his rocker OR that he had an amazing imagination. i can imagine some peole think JKR's off her rocker, and im sure if any one said that you would dissagre intensely. lol not sure if that last bit made sense but i cant actually think of a diffent way to word it!

has anyone read The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown?
It is SO good!

I think it's time to start reminding people that not only should we be respectful of other people's opinions, but that sarcasm should be kept to a bare minimum on the Boards.

Each person has their view of things and no matter if we disagree or even if it is a topic of which we feel very strongly about, we should always try to make a logical argument for disagreeing. Not reside to sarcastic remarks. Look at Loonymort and I. I think it's only been one time since we both have joined the Boards that we have agreed on anything. And with every disagreement we have both presented our cases and managed to keep the sarcasm away. I suggest other people try and do the same.

This is directed at everybody. I have noticed the sarcasm coming back to the Boards and I do not want people being driven away because some people feel it necessary to make a smart-allick remark.

Well said WWW

Yes green, I read the DaVinci Code and I enjoyed it, but then I read "Angels and Demons" and liked it even better! It is the same character but takes place before DaVinci Code.

Right now I'm reading a weird book about Navy Seals and terrorism, but somehow it's like a romance/soap opera!

OK!!!
I've finished Nausicaä, a manga from Hayao Myazaki!!!! That's the greatest manga of all time!! The movie will be released in August in France!!!! I'm awaiting it!!

Then I'm reading The republic from Platon, that's pretty boring but exams are coming soon!!!! Philosophyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!

The only one he ever feared!!!

Ive already read Angels& Demons. Did u seriously like it better than The Da Vinci Code? I thought DVC was alot more exciting
Anyway, thers supposed to be a third novel in the series next year

Reading The Secret History... that's a weird one. gd but ... weird

"THE DAVINCI CODE" IS BEING WELL SOLD HERE IN ARGENTINA. A LOT OF PEOPLE READ IT. AND A FEW OF THEM NOW FEEL THAT THEY KNOW A LOT ABOUT THE BIBLE AND THINGS...
IS THAT BOOK ABOUT SECRETS OF THE BIBLE, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
AND WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT HARRY POTTER? (SOMEONE MENTIONED SOMETHING LIKE THAT)
IAREAJ

Iim reading now Brave New Wold, by Huxley (sorry can't remember his first name), and i hate it! im reading it also for school... its soooo complicated and boring, IMO

It has a lots of different plots intertwined into one story.
A lot of it is about Da Vinci's art, including stuff about Jesus and the Holy Grail.
They are all clues to a mystery including murder. Its really good, you should read it!
About it saying something related to HP, have no idea what you're talking about

One time in DaVinci Code, someone says something like
"it must be true because it is mentioned in the bestselling book of all time."

the other person says "it's mentioned in Harry Potter?"

then , "no, I meant the Bible."

Brave New World by Alduous Huxley or something like that. I was tortured by that in high school. About standardization of the humans if i recall, been a long time tho'.


green~ I guess the subject matter of DaVinci was troubling to me, where Angels and Demons was less controversial and really made me think. Both were good tho'!

I am reading PoA.

I am reading PoA too. No matter how many times you read the Potter books, you always come across something that hadn't sunk in before, don't you find?

Thanks for reminding me to start soon so I will be finished by June 4.

I'm reading Eragon