What are you reading?
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drummergurll
Police Officer
^ don't know...but they were big with my friends in 7th grade...i even was suckered in to reading a few...all about death....so depressing...i don't think i'll ever figure out why people read them....
MacsGirlMel
Mac's Personal Assistant
Killing Game and I still have to get around to Blood on the Sun yet. (LV and NY respectively)
Detective_Burn
Coroner
needmorecsi, I consider trying out Kathy Reichs, too. Please tell me something about her books.
ShuriyuCSI
Judge
I'm currently reading the CSI:NY novels by Stuart M. Kaminsky. Just finished "Dead of Winter" and now I'm moving onto "Blood on the Sun". ^_^ They're actually quite good.
ziggystarduzt
CSI Level Two
I just finished "Beloved" by Toni Morrison. It was fantastic, as is all Morrison. She uses ghosts and folklore to help in telling very real stories about the horrors of slavery. There's no wonder the woman has won the Nobel Prize for literature, she's absolutely brilliant and I highly recommend any of her books.
Now I'm onto Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes. I read half of it in one day, it's very interesting. It's a fictional novel about a young mentally handicapped man named Charlie who becomes the first human subject of an experimental neurological operation aimed at making him "smart". The story is told through Charlie's journals, and is underlined by frequent spelling and grammar mistakes in the early entries, along with obvious miscomprehension of the world around him.. as the book progresses and Charlie's intelligence grows, the journal entries very slowly become more and more intelligent with him, until you realise he's become a genius. Algernon, meanwhile, is the mouse the experiment was first tested on, and when he begins to deteriorate Charlie realises that the same will happen to him, and has to slowly watch his newfound brilliance slip away.
It's VERY sad and VERY good so far.
Now I'm onto Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes. I read half of it in one day, it's very interesting. It's a fictional novel about a young mentally handicapped man named Charlie who becomes the first human subject of an experimental neurological operation aimed at making him "smart". The story is told through Charlie's journals, and is underlined by frequent spelling and grammar mistakes in the early entries, along with obvious miscomprehension of the world around him.. as the book progresses and Charlie's intelligence grows, the journal entries very slowly become more and more intelligent with him, until you realise he's become a genius. Algernon, meanwhile, is the mouse the experiment was first tested on, and when he begins to deteriorate Charlie realises that the same will happen to him, and has to slowly watch his newfound brilliance slip away.
It's VERY sad and VERY good so far.
JayneEmilysRealm
Judge
I am reading the play "The King" by Padraic Pearse 
It's so fascinating to see how he used (blood and self) sacrifice to show Ireland that that is their only path to freedom!
It's so fascinating to see how he used (blood and self) sacrifice to show Ireland that that is their only path to freedom!kito_of_typhoon
Prime Suspect
I´m reading at the moment:
"The proposition of the parrot" by Denis Guedj in german; dunno if it´s the right english title, translated it from the german one
"The sign of four" by Arthur Conan Doyle in english; felt the urge to read some Sherlock Holmes story after watching "Who shot Sherlock" :lol:
"The official forensic files casebook" in german, borrowed it from a friend
"The proposition of the parrot" by Denis Guedj in german; dunno if it´s the right english title, translated it from the german one
"The sign of four" by Arthur Conan Doyle in english; felt the urge to read some Sherlock Holmes story after watching "Who shot Sherlock" :lol:
"The official forensic files casebook" in german, borrowed it from a friend
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