What are you reading?

**starbuck** · April 11th, 2010, 03:50 PM

I'm not not much of a reader so me reading a book is something that doesn't happen often. It isn't that have trouble reading but reading a book is much like work for me. I know people who can just skim pages and understand what they are reading. I have to read every word so if it takes someone 5 minutes to read a chapter it will take me 10 minutes. I know some "readers" can't understand that statement, I've dealt with it my whole life but most of the time reading isn't enjoyable for me. I've gotta to really concentrate on what I'm doing.
now that being said I've gotten the book FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS from the library this past week. I'm not a big fan of the movie, I think it is a great football movie but I think Remember The Titans is a better movie, if that makes sense to you. I just thought that FNL just didn't do anything to make me care about the characters in the movie. it wasn't till I listened to the dvd commentary that I found a new respect for the movie. reading the book is really worlds apart from the movie. you really get a more in-depth feel for the players, family and town. it wasn't till I heard in the commentary that I knew they take chartered jets to some away games but it is right there in the book. a lot of history too is presented in the book. so far I must say it is a really good read.

**Ironlung** · April 11th, 2010, 04:11 PM

When The Women Come Out To Dance, by Elmore Leonard. Not his best book ever but worth a read.

**Biggin** · April 11th, 2010, 05:57 PM

i love to read, i wish more young people were readers, it makes society less intelligent when people refuse to read.

im reading History's Greatest Conspiracies by H Paul Jeffers.

Lung, is that a good Leonard book? Ive never read it.

**Ironlung** · April 11th, 2010, 10:05 PM

It's ok. It's a bunch of short stories. It's got the story "Fire In The Hole" that the FX show Justified is based on.

If you want something good from Leonard, get Pagan Babies, or Tishmingo Blues, or Mr. Paradise, or Road Dogs, or basically anything he's done. The book I'm reading now has a lot of characters from the afore mentioned books. So, it's good to get some prequel reading even though I'd already read their stories to the finish. The library in BSG has a pretty good E.L. selection. I usually go there every couple weeks and get another one.

Christopher Moore is really good too. I read Coyote Blue a couple months ago and laughed my ass off. Both the Bruce Campbell books are awesome too. The Richard Gere v.s. Bruce Campbell fight in the second book had me crying.