Books - What are you reading?

...as is Chocky

I just got finished reading The Girl With All The Gifts, super enjoyable, nice fresh take on a Zombie Apocalypse theme.

also, LOVE Wyndham, I've been re-reading a lot of his books recently.

Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake

I've recently picked this up after reading her book The Heart Goes Last which I really enjoyed.

Finally picked up a book for the first time in months. Currently reading Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations". Life feels like it could do with a bit of stability and focus, so I always turn to the stoics in such times.

Current commuter book is Hunger by Knut Hamsun.

Great so far!

Black Earth - The Holocaust as History and Warning - Timothy Snyder - a fascinating work that gave me a totally new understanding of the holocaust.

If This Is a Man and The Truce - Primo Levi - shamefully I had never read them - justly classics of world literature.

Mysteries is better.

I'd seek out the later BBC version of DotT - bleak and atmospheric. You can really tell Danny Boyle drew a lot of inspiration from it for 28 days later.

I'll check it out next!

The Eddie Izzard one? I thought that was poor.

Nah, this one:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081850/

Recently read Einstein and the art of mindful cycling - which I thoroughly enjoyed. Easy read, joyful and quite inspiring. Lots of interesting bits on the history of cycling/racing and anecdotes about Einstein and his work too in there. This book, and the flea on a tightrope episode of Stranger Things has inspired me to attempt Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time'. Feels like a bit of a step up!

Is it just me......I can't read a book if I'd already seen the film, or read a review of it. Even if the book has been made into a film which I hadn't seen but knew which actors played the main characters. I like the book to "describe" the characters.......

Reading Under the Skin will fix that.

Literally nothing like the film.

@Well_is_it is right, nothing like the film.

Also Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is good for being incredibly enjoyable after seeing Blade Runner. I found it was much more 'everyday' than the film, and things like the role of animals in the narrative have far more depth and meaning.

Stephen King's IT is also way more terrifying in book form.

That terrible will smith vehicle film of I am Legend probably has put a lot of people of reading what is a fantastic book. I love Richard matheson's cantankerous, broken lead characters. They totally missed the point with that film - completely and utterly.

Yep, I am Legend is horribly Hollywoodified in the moral of the story compared to the book.

I refuse to watch I Am Legend, I knew from the trailer it would be nothing at all like the book.

same goes for World War Z.

I did watch world war z - it bears very little resemblance to the book. I thought the book could have worked well as a serialised show maybe, in the same way there chapters work in the book, but with the meta narrative holding it all together.

Yeah, I thought it could have worked well as a documentary style film, or TV series.

i watched the movie first and only very recently read the book. actually thought the movie was ok, but the book is fantastic, read it all in one day.

apparently there is a world war z 2 on the cards..

apparently there is a world war z 2 on the cards..

Book or film?

film i think, with brad pitt again..i assume they would put him into the aftermath of the war, which would put it in the time of the book..?

Ugh. The film ends with a bit of what happened next though, right?