What are you reading? -

STM · #**811** 10-09-2010, 03:39 PM

In the navy...

I think John Milton's - Paradise Lost is on my list to read as well!

Wings of Fire · #**812** 10-10-2010, 08:46 AM

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In the navy...

I think John Milton's - Paradise Lost is on my list to read as well!

Good luck with that.

I gave up on that faster than I gave up on Ulysses.

Strike Witch · #**813** 10-11-2010, 05:59 AM

I finished a fantasy novel called The Dwarves. It was interesting, but the dialogue could be a bit retarded.

STM · #**814** 10-11-2010, 10:34 AM

I gave up of Ulysses and the Illiad but I read a bit of Paradise Lost and it intrigues me.

Wings of Fire · #**815** 10-12-2010, 03:30 AM

Wow, you totally don't know what I'm talking about.

enchilado · #**816** 10-12-2010, 03:41 AM

Abe's Ulysses was a good game.

Wings of Fire · #**817** 10-12-2010, 03:44 AM

I think the day I refer to Homer's Odyssey as The Ulysses is the day I stop wincing every time I hear of gods that sound like planets.

STM · #**818** 10-12-2010, 11:54 AM

My mistake.

***Alcar*** · #**819** 10-14-2010, 02:51 AM

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I think the day I refer to Homer's Odyssey as The Ulysses is the day I stop wincing every time I hear of gods that sound like planets.

That's so ineptune of you.

Alcar...

Wings of Fire · #**820** 10-14-2010, 02:58 AM

Turd.

Hazel-Rah · #**821** 10-26-2010, 08:41 PM

I'm reading the MASH novel, it's okay, I like the show better.

Phylum · #**822** 10-27-2010, 01:58 AM

I'm reading "The Giver"

I haven't enjoyed a book this much in a while.

***Nate*** · #**823** 10-27-2010, 03:10 AM

It's an excellent book.

I read on Wikipedia recently that she wrote two more books set in the same universe, but I don't want to read them in case they're not as good, and thus risk diluting my memories of The Giver.

Phylum · #**824** 10-27-2010, 03:38 AM

We had a relief teacher in English today and we devoted a whole lesson to individual reading. For the first time in ages I found myself completley absorbed to the point where it feels more like watching a scene that reading it. Everything else was silent and time just flew.

Laser · #**825** 10-27-2010, 01:37 PM

I've been reading Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. I'm only 5 chapters in, but it seems really interesting. I love the fact how utterly obliterated on drugs Hunter S. Thompson and the attorney are.

MeechMunchie · #**826** 10-28-2010, 05:44 AM

Finished Nineteen Eighty-Four. It fully lived up to its reputation. I wasn't expecting Act 3 to be as long as it was, but I'm glad it was because it was the explanation of The Party's motives that really made the book for me.

***Nate*** · #**827** 10-28-2010, 06:26 PM

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Finished Nineteen Eighty-Four. It fully lived up to its reputation. I wasn't expecting Act 3 to be as long as it was, but I'm glad it was because it was the explanation of The Party's motives that really made the book for me.

That section was the only part of the book that I enjoyed.

Leto · #**828** 10-28-2010, 10:00 PM

STM · #**829** 10-30-2010, 09:17 AM

All Roads - The bonus graphic novel in the New Vegas Special edition is good but it reads too much like a comic compared to what I expected it would be like.

Phylum · #**830** 11-01-2010, 03:53 AM

I finished "The Giver"

The colourless world was a neat idea. The end felt a little rushed. I feel that the flashback to his departure was simply to save space.

The very end was very open, although I assume that they died.

***Nate*** · #**831** 11-01-2010, 03:55 AM

I didn't like the ending. It just didn't really feel like his actions would have any positive effect on the society; it would just mean that they'd operate as before but without the Receiver to provide wisdom.

Also I didn't like being told that I wasn't special because I've got brown eyes.

ODDWORLDisTHEbest! · #**832** 01-12-2011, 08:38 AM

who likes the warrior cats books? i love them, im on ire and ice now.

Bullet Magnet · #**833** 01-13-2011, 06:43 PM

I absolutely devoured I Shall Wear Midnight. It was all I did for two days. Annoyed that I missed Pterry's last two Tiffany Aching books, but I'll get them soon enough.

Wings of Fire · #**834** 01-13-2011, 07:16 PM

Oh!

I read One Hundred Years of Solitude over the winter break. Best book ever.

***Nate*** · #**835** 01-13-2011, 10:04 PM

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I absolutely devoured I Shall Wear Midnight. It was all I did for two days. Annoyed that I missed Pterry's last two Tiffany Aching books, but I'll get them soon enough.

I really liked ISWM. It pretty much rescued the character of Tiffany from every single objection I'd had about her storylines in the past.

Warning: The previous two Tiffany books weren't as good as the first or the last. Wintersmith was pretty good though.

LDG519 · #**836** 01-13-2011, 11:06 PM

the only books Ive ever read were hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and resteraunt at the end of the universe, I'm hoping to get the rest of the series as soon as I can

Mac Sirloin · #**837** 01-14-2011, 01:30 AM

I just finished You Suck, by Christopher Moore. Definitely my least favorite of his books, everything just happens so darn abruptly, and the 'Abby Normal' chapters (written from the perspective of some 15 year old Vampire freak chick) are essentially literary knives to the eyes.

Chris Moore's great and all, but I hope he doesn't make any more of this Vampire crap.

metroixer · #**838** 01-14-2011, 09:16 AM

I picked up "Musicophilia" by Oliver Sacks

It's a neurological study on how music affects our emotions, society, healthiness, and productivity. A neat read that isn't full of complex terms to make the head hurt. The book has some cool stories on how people get Musical Hallucinations or addictions and how it's affected their lives as a whole. Hopefully it'll keep my interest!

MA · #**839** 01-14-2011, 10:40 AM

i'm reading some really old battered book that looks like the Bible. my grandmother gave it to me and it just has random ghost stories in it. the best thing about it is that the author is a huge sceptic when it comes to ghosts, and the whole book is about hauntings he's investigated and the stories he's heard about them. usually the story is better than the actual investigation he performs, seeing as most of the time nothing happens.

it was printed in 1965 and the cover has been ripped off. i don't know what its called or who the author is. i find an old book about ghost stories that has an unknown name and author more unnerving than what's actually on the pages.

MeechMunchie · #**840** 01-14-2011, 11:45 AM

It's like the start of a thriller movie. Soon you'll start noticing little hastily scribbled notes in the corners of the pages, and then you'll start seeing events of the stories coming true. Then you'll start getting weird phone calls from a librarian, and two weeks later you'll be dead.

Enjoy your last fortnight. No-one escapes... THE BOOK.

Coming soon to a theatre near you. Rated PG 15.