Of geeks & bookworms

I'm finding a lot in common with many of you geeks. I'm curious, are any of you bookworms? Have you ever belonged to a bookclub? I was a member of a bookclub but it became rather competitive. After a while the reading began to feel more like an assignment instead of getting together for the fun of it.

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Permalink Reply by LADYTECH on April 26, 2009 at 4:08pm: i never leave home without a book.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sean Moriarity on July 9, 2009 at 11:35am: impressive.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by lethal-lolita on April 26, 2009 at 4:47pm: never part of a bookclub, but i read quite a bit.

though ive had to set aside personal reading for awhile as this quarter for school we have to read a book a week (not bad as their only like 300-400pgs each and some are pretty interesting).; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Captain Freaking Magic on July 9, 2009 at 11:30am: I used to be a huge bookworm, and now I'm getting back on the horse. My girlfriend is showing me up and I just can't have that. :P; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sean Moriarity on July 9, 2009 at 11:34am: I haven't belonged to a book club in a long time. I still read; however I am addicted to the Kindle and get really good prices for books and I save a tree.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by moi2 on July 9, 2009 at 12:32pm: I've never tried Kindle. I'm afraid I won't get the tactile satisfaction I get from a book. There's something about turning the pages of a nice hefty hardcover book. I like to donate some of them to the library for resale.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tam AKA Froggie on July 14, 2009 at 11:34am: I've been a bookworm since I learned to read! The book club I was part of in Primary School stopped after a year because everybody stopped going besides two people (One of whom was me) and the teacher. It's a shame, but nobody else was interested.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mark Smith on October 12, 2009 at 4:58am: I have read a few thousand books in my time (I'm 39 at the moment) and I have posted a list of my favorites on my Geeks page. I prefer Science Fiction or Action Sleuth books "Running and Jumping" books are good but "Sitting and Thinking" books do play a part in my past reading history. Books with a bit of both in are the best of all though, as they twist and turn in unexpected ways as well as keeping you entertained. Best book ever by far is the Dune series by Frank Herbert. His son tried to take over when Frank Herbert died but I think he is too young to have the experience to write a story as well as his father though I have read about 6 of his as well. Unfortunately they have become more "Gross for the sake of it" although I would give them about 6 out of 10 for interest. I have now given up on them getting any better.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Luca Angelloni on October 12, 2009 at 5:02am: yeah.. there is a lot of books to read out there..
there is many kind of titles and also different kind of categories..
i would prefer science fiction, history, and fiction and some love story in it also can; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sword_of_Light on October 19, 2009 at 7:42am: I'm outdone by my wife, who, when given books, will read to the exception of everything else. I'm pretty bad, though - I'm currently working my way through the thousands of pages of the Neal Stephenson Baroque trilogy.

Recent winner - check out The Strain - I know, it sounds like a bad made-for-SciFi-Channel movie, but its written by Guiliermo Del Toro (Pan's Labrynth, Hellboy) and while its techincally a vampire novel, it reads like a zombie novel.

Old Favorite - The Flashman Papers - if you're a history geek like me, you'll love Flashy. Originally, he was a minor character in the dull Victorian morality novel Tom Brown's School Days who got kicked out of school for drunkeness, but a 20th century novelist and journalist, George MacDonald Fraiser, asked the question "what happened after that?"
Harry Flashman is the single most cowardly, bullying, letcherous, toadying scoundrel ever, and participates in every major military disaster of the Victorian age - the Charge of the Light Brigade, Custer's Last Stand, the Khyber Pass Massacre - and succeeds (or at least survives) because he's a self-servince coward.
Start with Flashman's Lady - he's more of a scoundrel and less of a thug than in the first book.

-Don; ▶ Reply to This