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skillya_glowi 08-27-2007 09:52 AM

I recently read The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough. Pretty kickass book, though a bit sad.

snuzi 08-30-2007 12:52 PM

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.

Mac Sirloin 08-30-2007 03:58 PM

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?

Crig the Slig 08-30-2007 04:09 PM

-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

Mac Sirloin 08-30-2007 04:32 PM

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-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...

Almost all of those books Ive also read.

snuzi 08-30-2007 06:16 PM

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In the latst two years of school my grades have dropped significantly due to excessive reading.

As did mine. Also, for some reason, certain teachers disapproved of me reading in the beginning and end of my classes. And the clincher was that one of them was my former English teacher.

Mac Sirloin 08-30-2007 07:44 PM

Same with me, oddly enough.

Both teachers that told me to stop were english teachers.