Call me sceptical, but I was rather amused at some of the 'highbrow' books people claim to be reading here. I'm genuinely impressed if they're all true, but I'm doubtfull.
Personally, I love reading (and re-reading) the Harry Potter books. They were published in Welsh as well, so I have both version of each book. I love Shakesperian plays, but don't seem to read enough of them. I will pretty much read anything given to me and I find it very easy to be sucked into a story.
I loved My Sister's Keeper. I don't really like many other Picoult books, but I adored that one.Originally Posted by Miriel
I love Augusten Burroughs as well. Huxley says he shines most in Dry, so consider trying that, because a lot of people are put off by Running with Scissors.
No - WWZ is great because it's exceptionally well written. It could be about the lives of sheep farmers in southern Wales but if it was by Max Brooks it'd be incredible.
Anyway yeah books. Because of college my leisure reading isn't high lately. Most of these are not in full, but just relevant parts for classes and papers;
Nations and Nationalism - Ernst Gellner
Why Globalization Works - Martin Wolf
Fences and Windows - Naomi Klein
In Defense of Globalization - Jagdish Bhagwati
A Century of Genocide - Eric Weitz
The Presidential Difference - Fred Greenstein
Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents - Richard Neustadt
The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader - Fred Greenstein
That's pretty much it since summer
I am an avid reader always have been since I was six. Oh man oh man I haven't read one of the Boxcar Children books in the longest. I think I had 8 of them, but i lost them. All the books that I read in recent years I think are...
The entire Harry Potter series
I Am Legend
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Lord of the Flies
Currently I'm reading
The Pact by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt
Double Sided by Raven Magwood you might have heard of her. She's a 15 year-old girl who almost got into the Olympics. I met her in church one time and she signed my book.
I am currently looking for psychological thrillers and anything involving mind control. Please inform me if you happen to know any great authors that work in those areas.
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I read a lot. The most recent book I've finished was "Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity" - which was smurfing awesome and everyone should read it.
Currently I'm about 1/3 of the way through Don Quixote.
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Like, with Cupid and Psyche and stuff? Excellent story, yo.
Anything by Dean Koontz is good by my book, the guys awesome.
I plan on reading all the books I own but haven't read (except the ones in a series where I lack a previous book) by fall 2009.
Right now I'm on Adams's <i>Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency</i>, but I did just start yesterday.
Me too! The first was so good. One of the best fantasy novels I read in a while. I mean, most the books I read are enjoyable however they are very rarely of the quality of The Name of the Wind.
I am also waiting for this summer for the release of the fifth book of the Nightrunners series by Lynn Flewelling. I forget its title at the moment.
I just finished Owlsight by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixion. Gonna buy the last of the Darian series, Owlknight, when I get back to Montreal. It is an alright book. Part of Lackey's famous Valdemar universe.
Also picked up where I left off in queersexlife by Terry Goldie. Good read but often alludes to other cultural, queer, literary, gender studies texts that are unfamiliar to me and often assumes the reader has read them. Thus his arguments are not as clear as I would like though mostly, I understand them for the most part. Just written more on a scholarly level than layman's which normally not a problem if I were a student of that field. However, if I can find it on a common bookstore's self, I would assume it'd be more accessible to the masses. Then again, if I had more of an interested in queer theory, I'd read up on those other sources. Anyways, hoping to finish it before I leave my parents' or on the train back to my place.
I use to adore reading when I was younger.
I owned every Goosebumps and Animorph book that was released at the time and I've read everyone at least once. Also read the entire Harry Potter series and those I had to read for class. Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, The Pearl, The Great Gatsby, Huckleberry Finn, among others.
When I moved in with my mother during the first year of high school or so, I kind of stopped reading. My mother and sister are fairly loud people and even while they're being quiet, they still walk around the house endlessly. Very distracting so I stopped reading. Read some of the books I mentioned above for school but outside of that, I read a book for leisure about once or twice a year.
Never picked the habit up again but I'm trying to.
In November, I picked up a book called "Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How it Changed the course of Civilization" by Ian Wilson. Finished it about three days later. I'm no stranger to the the Black Sea deluge theory (and I do believe it is the actual flood in Genesis) so I enjoyed it. The author does go a little to much in to speculation without hard (IE: Archeological) evidence to support his theories on how it changed Civilzation. That part of the book felt more like historical fiction than anything else.
After I finished that, I started reading "American Desert: A novel" by Percival Everett. Theodore Street is a man who thought life was dead and while on his way to commit suicide, dies in a car accident. Only to wake up at his funeral three days later. Dead. In death, Theodore finds value in life. It is a satire and one of the funniest novels I've ever read. I couldn't put it down.
This month, I picked up "Fight Club" which I previous read and enjoyed it just as much as before. I started reading "The Robe" by Douglas but the vocabulary makes it quite difficult for me to follow. I might just stop reading it. Out of 450 pages or so, I'm about 50 in.
I need to find something I can enjoy.
I enjoy reading but my law degree leaves me with little time to do so. I've just wrapped up reading The Great Gatsby though and am ready to plunge myself into The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Been doing a lot of H.P. Lovcraft lately.
He's awesome.
Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky me again! I hardly knew I should use me feet again!
What do you have to say for yourself?
I hadn't noticed :o
(Hello Cthulu is the funniest thing I've seen in a while)
The Pickwick Papers are incredibly boring, but I'm trucking on through them.
I love to read. My all-time favourites are Gone with the Wind, The Time Traveler's Wife, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harry Potter and a few Stephen Kings.I have tons of other books I love, though. I read at least a book a week, usually.
Allie recommended the Sabriel series, and I was hesitant just because I wasn't in a fantasy mood at the time, but I've really fallen in love with them since. I'm about halfway through Lirael right now. I normally read at a pathetic pace just for lack of time I invest (usually right before I go to bed, but some nights I'm just too exhausted or go to bed too late to allow myself extra time to read) but I got through a good chunk of it yesterday and hopefully will have it finished before I go back so I can finish up the series.
I highly recommend them, they really are pretty fantastic books.
Haha, oh my god. Sabriel was my favourite book in the world for years (I read it when I was in like, 6th grade, and reread it over this last summer). Awesome. =D
Anyways, I looooooove to read. I read a lot, and I still don't feel like I do it enough. I keep track of everything I read, and I've only read 25 books this year. =/ The books I recently read (as in read this month) were The Tea Rose, Midwives, and Little Children. I enjoyed them all immensely, even though The Tea Rose wasn't that fantastically written. Little Children, however, is one of the few satires that I've actually enjoyed.Quite good, and very funny.
Aaaaand I am currently reading Hart's Hope by Orson Scott Card. =)
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