I recently read The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough. Pretty kickass book, though a bit sad.
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I mostly enjoy reading suspense, psychological, or murder novels. Although the books I read aren't limited to these three genres.
Recently I've been told to read The Lovely Bones and Plato's Republic by my professors, which I can't say I'm exactly looking forward to :p. |
In the latst two years of school my grades have dropped significantly due to excessive reading.
I was the first person ever to be told "Stop reading, for gods sake." Twice. Speaking of animal farm, I read that enire book while hiding out in the bathroom during grade 8 religion. Truly a great comment on the power of well, POWER. Currently I am into the Neanderthal Parallax by Robert Sawyer, who is a brilliant writer. To Kill A Mockingbird....That book affected me. Really. Half of my class had never even read a book that was without pictures before, let alone finished one. (Two guys who sat behind me read Captian Underpants books for a report, no shit.) TKAMB (as it is stupidly abbreviated) was very powerful, and the ending was truly fantastic. I read Watership Down for the aforementioned Book Report. Why is it that animal books always have such a profound effect on us? |
-The Night's Dawn Trilogy, by Peter F. Hamilton: A thousand million pages of sheer epic greatness. Seriously though, those books are huge (physically and spiritually).
-The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. -Dracula. -Animal Farm. And, when I'm feeling poor and depressed, the Argos Catalogue: "...so many beautiful things...I cannot possess them all..." -Bill Bailey EDIT: Day of the Triffids, that book really got me thinking... ALSO EDIT: The War of the Worlds |
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Same with me, oddly enough.
Both teachers that told me to stop were english teachers. |