A guy at work yesterday was reading "Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts.

I picked it up and started to flip through it, by the end of the day I had run up to the book store and bought my own copy....

I can't put it down.......

and what is on your bedside table????

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I think you will actually laugh... Other then the three most important books that any politician should have on their night table... I have
1) The Mythology of Crime and Criminal Justice (required reading for criminology... Thought I'd get it done before and see how good my 'close reading' skills are without having the benefit of a lecture)
2) The Law Enforcement Handbook.

Right now I'm hooked on a book called "Mind Hunter" which is a great book about the guy who pioneered profiling in the FBI. His name is John Douglas. It talks about all of his cases. Another great one is by him also called the "Anatomy of Motive". :)

I'm finishing The Fall of Atlantis by Marion Zimmer Bradley...and trying to sell it on Amazon at the same time! :P (Decided I wanted to have the two seperate books so I wasn't missing anything...)

And next up is Geisha of Gion by Mineko Iwasaki...VERY good book, slightly funny, hard to put down and SO much better than Memoirs of a Geisha! (Probably because the former is non-fiction and has pix to boot!)

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My Grey School textbooks are laying somewhat ignored under my nightstand, because the classes I'm taking a.t.m. don't use it. (I'm probably going to end up reading them on my own, since they're actually meant to be instructional books and not just textbooks.)

In my bedside table there are eleven books. I´m not reading all of them, but I want to and my memory isn´t good at all, so... They´re waiting :P

I´ve just finished "Eight Little Piggies" by Jay Gould and "The family of Pascual Duarte" by Camilo José Cela; now I´ve started "Memoirs of Hadrian" by Marguerite Yourcenar and "Les fleurs du mal" by Baudelaire, in French.

I'm reading 'the Hobbit' by Tolkien ;)

I'm reading two books;
A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick) and The Picture of Dorian Grey (Oscar Wilde).

At the moment i'm reading catcher in the rye for the second time :P I love that book and i always read it in english,but i'm from the netherlands:P
and the other books i'm currently reading are my studie books.. this week i've got 8 tests!! :blink:

A Dutch book called 'Moordscene' which means 'Murder Scene'.

It is about a guy who rents the movie DVD of Psycho. And when the famous murder scene comes on it changes to a real murder in the psycho style.

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If I am correct that is the book that Mark David Chapman, the assassin of John Lennon, was carrying when he was arrested. He said that the story was his motive. :)

A book by Phillip M. Margolin called 'The Undertaker's Widow'.

It's pretty good, and I'm on chapter 7, but at times it's hard to understand, for me anyway, because it flicks back and forth between the judge's story and the policeman's story.

ETA:

I have that on DVD, and it's really odd! I need to re-watch it, to try and understand it! :P

Also, I like how a lot of us are reading 'dark' books, or crime books or something! :lol:

I like to have a few books on the go at once....

The three on my bedside table right now are a Sociolgy Themes and Perspectives one, Air Babylon and A Guide to Forensic Psychology.

I'm now reading Darkly Dreaming Dexter about a serial killer who only kills people who killed. He's hot too, there is a tv-show!

Im reading The Black dahila..like the movie but im reading the book of it

The last thing I read was "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" I was hooked on this series from book 1. Before that it was "Bleachers" - John Grishom. I enjoy mysteries, fantasies, and biographies, but I do read the occasional romance :D

ive also read the harry potter books

I'm in the middle of three books-The Profile Of A Criminal Mind, my fun book; The English Legal System and Psychology AS for collage.

the profiler of a criminal mind..is it good?

Wow Jemma, you're keen! I didn't read my AS textbooks for ages...

I'm reading a book about American politics which is quite interesting actually :)

Im reading well rereading harry potter books

I'm reading 'Airport' :)

:) is that any good ?

Yeah, my book is good, it's really interesting, I didn't even know England had a BAU lol.

And yeah, I'm a bit of a nerd, lmao :lol: *shrug* lol

i wouldnt mind reading that

It is a very good book...and Jemma, there is nothing wrong with being a bit of a nerd :P ! As my very trendy, non book reading brothers tell me every day, I'm kinda one too :lol:

I am going book shopping tomorrow.......what should I buy?! There's so much to choose from :D

i love books...people someitme tell me im nerdy too

I read fast.


Your mind doesn't need to read the whole page just focus on the second and and the word before the last word in the line.

..Yea i read fast as well

I'm just curious what you guys are reading...

I just finished reading all writings by Dr Seuss and am currently re-reading Ideas and Opinions by Einstein...

I FINALLY finished The Lovely Bones yesterday (started a few months ago and then had to stop because of school stuff). This morning I started My Sister's Keeper. It's really good so far.

I've got "jump cut" and "american ganster...and other tales of new york" by the bed.....to tired to read when I get home, hopefully on my days off I can catch up.

although it is a bit different, I got "cook with jamie (oliver)" in my stocking....learning new things :rolleyes:

Well, I still have to read "Jump cut"... :lol:

It's quite a good book if you can get used to reading about the characters instead of watching them!

I'm reading Hannibal Rising.

CM Addict - I was just given both those books. They both look pretty good ;)

Well I also read fanfics - and I have a vivid imagination... B)

im reading a book called stone cold..its awesome book

I'm reading:
'Een Vlucht Regenwulpen' from the author Maarten 't Hart, its Dutch

No kidding. :lol: ;)

I'm still reading My Sister's Keeper. I don't get much time to read anymore, so it's taking more time than usual. But it's still really good, although the mom is getting on my nerves! :angry: :rolleyes:

"Veronika beschließt zu sterben" in English that would be "Veronika decides to die". It is written by Paulo Coelho and it is very good!

And (yep, two books at the same time, for this one is in English!)
"A spot of bother" by Mark Haddon. I like it!

I own the movie :P


I just read 'This book will save your life' by A. M. Homes


really good :)

I am currently reading Fleeced by Carol Higgins Clark... I am starting to like her books... I was reading Robin Cook and Harry Potter but I can only read them soo much.

There's a movie about it :unsure: learn new things everyday ;)