General Chat / The Official "What book are you reading?" Thread

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
By: Stephen Chbosky

probably one of the cutest books i've read in a while. i would definitely recommend it.

Edited by Nokia, 19 May 2010 - 03:15 PM.

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Just finished Moby Dick by Melville.

I would not recommend this book to anyone, and I hated just about every bit of it. Though if you like long, drawn-out descriptions about the ocean in a story with a bunch of people talking to themselves about a whole lot of nothing, in a narrative that really makes no sense from the point of view of the narrator telling it, then this book is for you! Honestly, I picked this to challenge myself, but the only challenge I ended up undertaking was just to finish the book, and this was just as challenging when I had 10 pages left as when I had 400. Don't read this shit...


Currently reading A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, and will be picking up some unknown fiction novel tomorrow.

Currently reading A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

same. thank you MA (i picked it up when you talked about it forever ago and it sounded really interesting)

same. thank you MA (i picked it up when you talked about it forever ago and it sounded really interesting)

Ha, no. Thank you. Always good to hear I'm influencing people [in beneficial ways]. And it's certainly always good to get people reading socialist literature. (Sorry Gee, the stability of the market isn't the only factor in the world.)

Re-reading the Ender's Game Saga over the summer... I love those books, but the end gets a little too political and scientific for me, Xenocide was like "lolwut?"

I'm currently re-reading "Scientific Progress Goes Boink!" A literary masterpiece by Watterson. Not sure yet if I'll follow it up with "Yukon HO!" or "Something Under The Bed Is Drooling".

Been reading The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner) every once in a while when I get bored.

I'm currently re-reading "Scientific Progress Goes Boink!" A literary masterpiece by Watterson. Not sure yet if I'll follow it up with "Yukon HO!" or "Something Under The Bed Is Drooling".

*checks bathroom* I'm also re-reading "Scientific Progress Goes Boink!", and "Revenge of the Baby-Sat"

I'm currently re-reading "Scientific Progress Goes Boink!" A literary masterpiece by Watterson. Not sure yet if I'll follow it up with "Yukon HO!" or "Something Under The Bed Is Drooling".

Yay for Calvin and Hobbes! I am reading "Calvin and Hobbes Sunday Pages: 1985 - 1995", in which Watterson talks quite a bit about what it was like to make Calvin and Hobbes.

As for which to read next, I would say "Something Under The Bed Is Drooling". Number two of the top 3 in my list(with the first book and "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat" in fist and third, respectively).

^I have the Calvin and Hobbes encyclopedia and I've read it through multiple times.

Kim.

Edited by Cocoa, 20 May 2010 - 08:42 AM.

Rhinocéros
Eugène Ionesco

Brave New World
Aldous Huxley

Lord of the Flies
William Golding

^^ I'm re-reading Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, and I just finished Yukon Ho!.

Just finished Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane.

Was reading The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell, now reading Copycat by Erica Spindler.

Also currently adapting Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins-Clark into a screenplay.

Examenbundel Natuurkunde VWO 2009-2010

Worst book I ever read...

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis.

I have almost all the C&H books, but I'm currently reading:

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss

War of The Worlds (The Original Book) by H.G. Wells

And I finished the last Lemony Snicket book a while ago...

The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum.

It made a surprisingly good movie for how complex the book was.

Go Ask Alice


sooooooooooooooooooooo good.