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lol Same here Guilleum. I'm on the fourth book of the Wheel of Time Series. Robert Jordan really had outdone himself.

This. I actually just finished the fourth book last night, and when school starts in again, I'll be borrowing the next three installments from a friend.

Ah! Another Wheel of Time fan! Tell me, what would you the best book is so far?

Started Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas a few days ago...

A Clockwork Orange. Fascinating stuff...very different from the movie. It's no wonder Anthony Burgess, the author,  lamblasted the film--the book makes far more commentary on the human animal than Kubrick's version.

I saw the movie first, for the record.

'My Family & Other Animals' by Gerald Durrell

it's a very funny book XD

The Planning of Center City Philadelphia: From William Penn to the Present. It's part of my ongoing project to get to know my new city a little better.

I just finished Lolita. Wow what a book. Maybe the best book in English. Who else has read it? I was thinking of making a separate thread about it because there's SO much to discuss.

I just finished Lolita. Wow what a book. Maybe the best book in English. Who else has read it? I was thinking of making a separate thread about it because there's SO much to discuss.

Oh man, I so wish I could discuss this with you, but alas I have not read it yet. It's been on my Books to Someday Get Around To shelf for like three years now. You're not the first person I've heard say that it's the best book in the English language, though. What's so good about it? NO SPOILERS

Currently reading: A History of Russia, by Nicholas Riasanovsky. It's pretty much the standard one-volume Russian history survey. I crapped out somewhere in the middle of it while I was in St. Petersburg, but I figure I'll give it another shot.

What's so good about it? NO SPOILERS

Nabokov said about Lolita that his point was not to affect hearts or even minds, but to produce in the reader a little sob at the base of the spine.
It's like the best music. It doesn't mean anything, it's...pure experience.

Wuthering Heights for the second time. I read it once about four years ago, but couldn't quite get the language. I'm finding out I didn't really read it, and that there are things that happened in the story that I missed completely. That's what you get when you read 18th century romance novels as an eighth grader. That was my first one, then I read Pride & Prejudice, and got about halfway through Sense & Sensibility. Then I discovered Twilight, and I zipped through all those books. I'm thinking of rereading Sense & Sensibility, and finishing it.

Wuthering Heights is an amazing book... it used to be one of my favorites, although I haven't read it in years so I'm not sure anymore. I was never able to get into Jane Austen, though.

But my friend did just get me Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!



So maybe that will change my mind about Jane Austen.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies...
 
My brother just got me that book. Epic read! It's even better if you read the real one first. Austin is interesting, but some think her books are all basically the same story. I've seen the Pride and Prejudice movie like... too many times. Around 40 times total. I had to read the book, because movies always skip the most incredible parts of the book.
I remember when I read The Thorn Birds it was like that. The movies were alright, but the book was spectacular.

Speaking of Jane Austin parodies...
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Austen-Create-Your-Adventure/dp/1594482586/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1250701312&sr=1-1

Lets see:
MAX by James Patterson
The Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver
Night Prey by John Sanford

[T F Stone Captain U.S.S. DEFIANTOne Photon Torpedo Can Ruin Your Whole Day THINK ABOUT IT]

I'm rearing, Star Trek, Ships of the Line...

 Kevin Richardson    -     Part of the Pride: My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa

An incredible book about an incredible person. 

But my friend did just get me Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!



So maybe that will change my mind about Jane Austen.

I forgot about this book! I heard about it a while ago and was really interested. Let me know if it's any good!

Right now I'm reading "John Dies at the End" it's my absolute favorite book, I think I've read it over 15 times by now, lol. I'm also re-reading Watership Down, I had lost my copy many years ago and only recently replaced it. <3

I was just reading a scientific american magazine.

City Planning in America: Between Promise and Despair, by Mary Hommann. I've got to be honest, it's not that good... it's more of a sustained rant than a well-researched and well-argued study. But I don't know, I'm in a weird mood lately, and it's really gotten me thinking deeply about my political beliefs.

I'm also about to start a giant book of stories by the Soviet author Isaac Babel.

I'm also re-reading Watership Down, I had lost my copy many years ago and only recently replaced it. <3

Now that is something I'm happy to hear. I've been through that book roughly 20 times... I used to keep track of exactly how many it was, but then I lost track.

I just finished Oathbreaker by Michelle Paver.

I'm itching to start reading Warrior Cats: The New Prophecy, but I only have books two and three. Aparently my local book store never has the first book in stock x.=.x

Also I haven't read Brisingr yet. The book is so thick that I don't want to start reading whilst I have work to do ^.=.^;

Does anyone else here have twice as many books as they have space? My bookcase is overflowing quite drastically >.>

I am re'reading' Katawa Shoujo: act 1 atm. It's like a drug O.o

Mosby's CNA,
Biology 3,
Mathmatics made easy,
The affected provincials companion,
The Poetic Edda (Norse Mythology),
Roverandom,
Random nonsense on the internet.

forums.

No one's posted here in a while.

I'm reading "The Government Inspector," a play by Gogol. Very funny.

I just finished A Drifting Life and Abandon the Old in Tokyo by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (thanks for the suggestion, Sskessa).  They were absolutely amazing. 

I'm reading Bone by Fae M. Ng and Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie.  I'd recommend both. 

I just finished A Drifting Life and Abandon the Old in Tokyo by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (thanks for the suggestion, Sskessa).  They were absolutely amazing. 

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