what have you read recently?

[Aadon]

finished ender's shadow. now starting on Tesla: Man Out of Time a biography by Margaret Cheney

[Kid Buu]

Ive just read all 5 of the harry potter books in 3 days. They wernt that bad to.
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[LostAgain]

Just read The Great Gatsby again. I've read that book so many times, and yet it still gets to me. Its hard to find poetry like that in today's authors. But, I think its time to read some Tolstoy (not the meaningless Tolstoy, but the good Tolstoy)

[Toto]

Originally posted by ClimbTheNRG
nothing's wrong, it's just that at a point in the book everything he sees depresses him, and it becomes irritating, that's all

That book is incredibly sexy.
I've read Lords and Ladies and Carpe Jugulum and Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett recently, and I have also read a book on Stalin. Currently reading a senior high school textbook about the Russian Revolution, and Antigone by Sophocles.

[Isk]

Just finished Shogun by James Clavell, working on Tai-Pan. Chinese culture doesn't interest me as much as Japanese so it's slow going.

[MasterOfGravity]

Just starting on a book by the norwegian write Knut Hamsun
The book is called Mysterier

[Magus]

Originally posted by Isk
Just finished Shogun by James Clavell, working on Tai-Pan. Chinese culture doesn't interest me as much as Japanese so it's slow going.

Excellent novel. I recommend Gai-Jin after Tai-Pan. Gai-Jin chronicles an event during the Meiji restoration whereas Tai-Pan takes place near the end of the Edo era. I really want to read King Rat, Clavell's first novel, but I can't find a copy at any library. I will eventually buy it.

Also, I am near the end of "Who's Looking Out for You?" by Bill O'Reilly and I only have three hundred pages left of "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by one of my favorite historians, Mr. William L. Shirer.

[Zuljin]

Currently reading book 7 in Wheel of Time.
Had it for some weeks now, just haven't been in a mood to be able to do any reading :\

[ClimbTheNRG]

It sucks that the only books I have time to read are ones for school...

The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Oh my god, IMO, the worst book everrrrrrrrrrr. It seemed dull and boring to me the whole time. There's only so much "hidden meaning" your lit teacher can tell you about before you want to cut your own heart out with a spoon. Plus I think this could have been resolved in a matter of 6 chapters. And not really big "Prayer For Owen Meany"-esque chapters. It was sooooo drawn out. I suppose it was meant to be that way, but it put me to sleep. Really really deep sleep.

[COC_05]

well what i ve read recently its most likely v.c andrews its moslty what im always into i dont kno i am dieng to read that book to kill a mocking bird and lets c some encyclopedia brown books cuz ive beenr eading them since i was a child and i do wanna check out this book of stephen king cant remember the damn name tho !!!!!!! ahhh well and also some shakesphere i have nothing else to do and oh gotta finish that book POP GOES THE WEASOL BY:James patterson ..... started and havent finished stilll caought up in this book caled gates of paradise by V>C> andrews the casteel series shes crippled looses her parents and live wih her greatgrandfather and the dad she thought it was always ehr it wasnt her mom had an affair! and her greatgrandfether was actually her grandfather also because he raped the girls mother , mother so yeah its really complicated cuz then the girls mother had an affair with her uncle and then she found out and then he soppostly died but you c he actually ddint then he came back has an affair with her while she was justa newlywed with her childhood sweetheartand much more check out the whole series it kicks ass !!! yay....... lets c thats bout it!! bored...

[Drageuth]

Originally posted by COC_05
i am dieng to read that book to kill a mocking bird

Don't read it. It's a very boring novel, and was only considered a bestseller because a lot of schools bought it as an example of what a novel should look like and proper grammer/sentence structure. Beyond that, it was entirely boring and not worth a read.

[SniperWolf]

I currently read a book called "That was Thann this is Now"

and now I am reading "Cujo" by Stephen King which is an amazingly good book, and afterwards I wanna watch the movie.

[Solitude]

Originally posted by Kushiel
Don't read it. It's a very boring novel, and was only considered a bestseller because a lot of schools bought it as an example of what a novel should look like and proper grammer/sentence structure. Beyond that, it was entirely boring and not worth a read.

please tell me you're kidding.c'mon that book is amazing.ok,maybe not the superlative form of a fun read,but that book is GOOD!
oh yeah and about the novels:
alistair mcllean-h.m.s ulysses,you have to be very patient with this author sometimes the exciting parts start only in the end.not excactly adrenalin rushed,but pretty decent
charles dickens-pickwick papers,while reading this book i keep wondering why his sense of humour died out in his other novels.funny,but only for the heavy reader.

Originally posted by Isk
Just finished Shogun by James Clavell, working on Tai-Pan. Chinese culture doesn't interest me as much as Japanese so it's slow going.

dat was a cool book,but i really regret my impatience with the book.in the middle i got so bored that read the klast page....but i wasn't really suprised about toranaga's ambition,but the part about the anjin was,to say the least.i'm still in my early teens so i kinda got sickened by the beginning of gai-jin.

[Isk]

Went through Harry Potter books 1-5 this weekend. Still looking for The Demon Saga! Seems to be a dearth of Salvatore in this area.

[youthquake]

just finished Of Mice and Men...it was interesting. i am currently reading Smoke Screen by Vincent Patrick and then it will be Airframe by Micheal Crichton. i enjoy Crichton novels.