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What Are You Reading?; The bookworms shall inherit the earth!
Topic Started: Mar 5 2005, 07:18 PM (10,305 Views)
Sadhana
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And Sadhana said unto the forum, "This thread shall be revived!" *displays her powers of holy amazingness*

Okay, I read A LOT of books all at once. It's kind of a bad habit because it means that it takes me a looooooong time to finish any piece of literature. However, I recently made a system of a hierarchy of the books I'm reading. The book I am most interested in is the one that I shall read the most, second is the one I read the second most, and so on and so on. So here's my list.

1. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I've been reading this one for a long time now. NOT MY FAULT THOUGH. It's about 1,000 pages long and a nineteenth century Russian monster of a novel. I'm approximately 800 pages into it, so I don't have much left (if you could consider 200 something pages to be "not much").

2. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

3. Misery by Stephen King

4. 1984 by George Orwell

5. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I've read this book many, many times. It's just my favorite novel ever, so I read it a lot.

6. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Yeah, my school never made me read it, so I decided to do so on my own.

7. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

8. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser

9. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

10. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
As with Mockingbird, I've read this one before. I'm reading it again because I always find something new, and I love how much of a bible-like story it is.

11. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

12. Handbook for Writers By Leggett, Mead and Charvat
This book is actually purely a grammar book. Feel free to mock me for reading a grammar book during my spare time.

So that's pretty much my list of books that I'm currently reading. I left out all the books I'm reading for school (English/Psychology/Economics) because that's not really optional reading.

Just looking at how many books I'm reading (and I actually have a backup supply list of another dozen or so books that I will start reading as I finish these), I feel kind of bad for my mom. I have this thing with books... I can't borrow them. I can't borrow a book from the library. I can't read a book that has been used (my English teachers eventually hate me for constantly asking for a better copy when they hand out a new book). So, I buy every book I read. As you can guess, I have two HUGE bookcases filled with just my books. Even when I read a book in school, if I like it, I buy a copy of it. The reason I feel bad for my mother is that she tries to encourage my love of reading, but that often entails spending hundreds of dollars on me at Borders (favorite store EVER *is a loser*). I guess that's why three different family members bought me hundred dollar gift certificates to Borders on my last birthday. :whistle:
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Imaginary__girl
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Wow Sadhana! I wish I could multi-task like that...but I can only read one book at a time...I tend to lose track. :lol:

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5. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I've read this book many, many times. It's just my favorite novel ever, so I read it a lot.


Thats one of my favorite novels, too. We had to read that in sixth grade. I love it! Well, back then I didn't, but I've grown to appreciate it. XD

Anywho, the book I'm currently reading is The Black Dahlia. Yes, partly because of the movie ((which you all should go see by the way. Damn the critics, I enjoyed it.)) but also because I was interested to read more about Elizabeth Short's murder. ((Later discovering that this book/movie isn't all about her, but its enjoyable anyway))

And I'm about to get started on The Picture of Dorian Grey as soon as The Black Dahlia is finished with.

((And being recently inspired by Sadhana, To Kill A Mockingbird will be brought out again. XD))
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Kadaj
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I'm reading a book called 'Soul of the fire'. Its really good, and a book in the sword of truth series by terry goodkind. I reccomend reading them :)
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Miss Yukari
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At the moment I'm reading Great Expectations. I'm really enjoying it so far, I just wish that I had more time to spare reading it. Miss Havisham is such a haunting character.

Oh, I know the comments about Anne Rice are about a year old, but from what I've read on her website, she fired her editor after The Queen of the Damned. So if you're wondering why her writing's gone downhill, there's your answer. :whistle:

Anne Rice
 
After the publication of the The Queen of the Damned, I requested of my editor that she not give me anymore comments. I resolved to hand in the manuscripts when they were finished. And asked that she accept them as they were. She was very reluctant, feeling that her input had value, but she agreed to my wishes. I asked this due to my highly critical relationship with my work and my intense evolutionary work on every sentence in the work, my feeling for the rhythm of the phrase and the unfolding of the plot and the character development. I felt that I could not bring to perfection what I saw unless I did it alone. In othe words, what I had to offer had to be offered in isolation. So all novels published after The Queen of the Damned were written by me in this pure fashion, my editor thereafter functioning as my mentor and guardian.


The entire letter is here, for anyone who's interested.

I'm also trying to read Paradise Lost. I find it really tedious trying to actually follow it though, my brain refuses to register it as anything more than a really long run-on sentence so I end up forgetting what I've just read. :sweat:
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Nevaleigh
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So far I'm reading 'Son of a Wicth' which is the sequal to Wicked. It's really good but every now and then I need to look back on Wicked to refreshing my memory.
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Well i am currently reading 4 books! my friends find me weird, because they dont know how i can read one chapter of a book and then grab another book and then read that lol i am a slow reader. I tend to re-read chapters just for the jist of it.

Black Saturday by Michael Field
This book is a non-fiction book, very intense and deep.

The Graft by Martina Cole
I borrowed this book of my lecturer lol

And i am also re-reading: Death of an Ancient King by Laurent Gaudes

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.k Rowling
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Oh, I know the comments about Anne Rice are about a year old, but from what I've read on her website, she fired her editor after The Queen of the Damned. So if you're wondering why her writing's gone downhill, there's your answer.

Loved Interview, Vampire Lestat, and Queen of the Damned, but I couldn't finish the Tale of the Body Thief. Borrowed The Vampire Armand from a friend, but he took it back before I could get far into it. Then I skipped to the last book in the series, Blood Canticle, and I couldn't finish that either. I think it was a bit conceited of her to take editing upon herself. <_< No offense to Anne Rice fans(I am one myself)

The Giver by Lois Lowry has been haunting me ever since I read it about a month ago. It's about a society where everything is programmed to be "perfect", complete and total equality--no families, no race, no color... Then one day, the protagonist is chosen to inherit the last memories of what it's really like to be human, to be the Receiver of Memories and eventually, the Giver.
...sounds complicated? Nope, it's a children's book actually!

Just read A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeline L'Engle, about a boy who travels through time to stop a present-day terrorist attack. To do this, he has to be sent into the bodies of four people from the past, all who seem to be connected to the current terrorist. At first, I was confused as hell, but when it all came together in the climax, I was amazed!

Sadhana, I think I have your problem! I'm in college and my apartment is on the small side. But the town where my school is in has three amazing used-book stores, and whenever I walk into one of them, swearing that I'm just going to LOOK this time...I always come out with an armful of books :whistle: I've run out of shelves, run out of room for more shelves, and my apartment is a mess, but I don't care. :lol: Well I do care...but only when the book I'm currently reading gets lost in the clutter :P
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Hades' Daughter
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Books, one of my top obsessions... :P

I'm currently reading a series by J.V. Jones called The Sword of Shadows. Finished the first part, A Cavern of Black Ice, and I'm just about done with the second one, A Fortress of Gray Ice. I'd love to jump into the third one right away, but unfortunately, it's not even out yet. I've heard that A Sword from Red Ice isn't due out until December of 07! Why do I have to wait so long?! :cry:

BTW, I highly recommend this awesome series to people who love fantasy on a grand scale.

I was thinking about starting out on a series by George R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire. The first one is called A Game of Thrones. I've heard so much about it, but didn't pick it up from the bookstore until recently. If anyone's familiar with it, let me know how it is ^^

Meh, if I decide not to start on that, I might go back and reread The Second Sons Trilogy by Jennifer Fallon. Basically, the plot revolves around science and religion(it isn't full of scientific/religious facts, I promise you). It's unique because it's a little different from the usual fantasy stuff I read, but it's a really, really gripping and captivating series that has made me think twice about how easily religion can be used for political gain by those greedy. I would definitely recommend the trilogy:

The Lion of Senet
Eye of the Labyrinth
Lord of the Shadows
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Skelly
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All of the books mentioned sound interesting. :o Must go pick them up whenever I can! ::proudly wears book-nerd pin:: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser sounds interesting. XD

So far, I'm reading and rereading Sophie's World and Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale. After that... dunno... maybe Inkheart. ::loves children's books XD::
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So far, I'm reading and rereading Sophie's World and Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale. After that... dunno... maybe Inkheart. ::loves children's books XD::


I love em to! esp Two weeks with the queen by Morrizs Glietzman! love it i highly recommend it! very sad!

Oh i am currently reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown<<to me it's sounds alot like Da Vincis code?!?!
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Amaranth
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In English class at school, we are reading Of Mice and Men. It's ok so far, but sometimes the accent can be hard to understand ^^;. Also, Lenny is a pretty good character and can't help but feel that George picks on him too much. Not read much though so I dunno if that'll change.

For English again, I'm reading the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. I have all of the books in a set of 7. Each one has two books; books 1 and 2 are FotR, books 3 and 4 are the Two Towers, and 5 and 6 are RotK. The 7th book is appendices of the races and descriptions of locations. I'm reading Book 2 of the Fellowship.

Also, in my spare time, I'm rereading Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix. Too much love for Harry Potter for me to stay away!
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I'm reading Memoirs of a geisha, ^_^ I've read it 5 times already, but I haven't seen the movie yet, sadly. :cry:

In school were reading some stories about Africa, I can't remember the namess, but it's about this boy who is british and his name is P.K. and his mom dies and he has to go to boarding school and all the boy's make fun of him, cause this is back when the British and the Africaners hated each other in world war 2 and it's just really sad cause as h goes older everyone that he loves dies. :sad:
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I'm reading Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto again!
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Sadhana
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Sep 21 2006, 07:24 AM
The Giver by Lois Lowry has been haunting me ever since I read it about a month ago. It's about a society where everything is programmed to be "perfect", complete and total equality--no families, no race, no color... Then one day, the protagonist is chosen to inherit the last memories of what it's really like to be human, to be the Receiver of Memories and eventually, the Giver.
...sounds complicated? Nope, it's a children's book actually!

I looooove The Giver! I haven't read it since fifth grade, but I love it nonetheless. It reminds me a lot of that movie with Toby Maguire and Reese Witherspoon called Pleasantville.

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Sadhana, I think I have your problem! I'm in college and my apartment is on the small side. But the town where my school is in has three amazing used-book stores, and whenever I walk into one of them, swearing that I'm just going to LOOK this time...I always come out with an armful of books :whistle: I've run out of shelves, run out of room for more shelves, and my apartment is a mess, but I don't care. :lol: Well I do care...but only when the book I'm currently reading gets lost in the clutter :P


Oh yeah, I suffer from the same classic case of overspending at the book store. Sometimes, I'll go there strictly to get a study guide for school, but leave with the collected works of Edgar Allen Poe, The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin, and the latest novel by Laurie Halse Anderson. :lol:
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Sep 21 2006, 11:24 AM
The Giver by Lois Lowry has been haunting me ever since I read it about a month ago. It's about a society where everything is programmed to be "perfect", complete and total equality--no families, no race, no color... Then one day, the protagonist is chosen to inherit the last memories of what it's really like to be human, to be the Receiver of Memories and eventually, the Giver.
...sounds complicated? Nope, it's a children's book actually!

I remember reading that book in Year 4! I'm such a book-reading addict at that time, reading off my classroom's shelf, whether it's that book or Half-Life (I like Half-Life, the theme is interesting).

My book collection isn't as extensive, as I borrow some books from the library and others I bought so I can reread them again and again.

Right now I have...

Harry Potter 1-6 by J.K Rowling
Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini
Rowan of Rin: the Journey by Emily Rodda (All five books in one, W00T!)

Also got some Raven Hill Mystery books by Emily Rodda, how can I not love Tom Moysten of Teen Inc? I like how everything connect in the end, from coded messages to hidden plans.

I love Eragon, as it shows his relationship with Brom, how he, a dark-haired farmer boy, found a dragon egg and become a Dragon Rider when Saphira hatched. And let's not forget Murtagh. :wub:

Eldest is OK, but it doesn't have the appeal Eragon have. Few parts I enjoy is what happening back at Carvahall and Roran.

Can't wait for the third book of Inheritance trilogy. The third dragon is gonna be an emerald one!
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