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Janette
The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho
tokyo-rose
Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.
ForgiveTheSinner
Macbeth -for school
Eye of the World - Robert Jordan

damn I've read that book like 4 times and it never gets old.
CZG
Harry Potter is awesome!

Currently reading Twilight.

But ALL time favorite: Where the Red Fern Grows.
emberfly

This book is OMFG insanely good! I'm reading it right now biggrin.gif
pandemonium
Breaking Dawn
NoSex
the odyssey
Koizora
Tick Tock by Dean Koontz.
smash
QUOTE(decaydancefbr @ Dec 5 2008, 06:58 PM) *
TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY by Jay Asher



QUOTE(Janette @ Dec 6 2008, 07:07 PM) *
The Tales of Beetle the Bard -- Jk Rowling

i want to read both of those.

i'm reading Wicked. after i'm done with that i'll probably read TToBtB or something by Scott Westerfeld.
Janette
^it was cute! i wish there were more stories, though.

The Incredible Ant-Man- Robert Kirkman
Amaranthus
The Ruins by Scott Smith.

I think it came out as a movie a year or two ago.
Janette
Blindness -Jose Saramago
angelrevelation
"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte, and "On Death and Dying" by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (required).
shanaynay
The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
xoxo_proud
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare
smash
adding The Shack to my going to read list.

prologue has me interested.
Joanne
QUOTE(Joannnnnne @ Aug 5 2008, 02:01 PM) *
I'm back to The Lucifer Effect.

I think this is my third time trying... I'm never going to finish this book.
smash
why is that?
Joanne
It's interesting and everything, but it feels like a textbook. Too many facts. And after hearing my social psychology talk about Philip Zimbardo, it seems really biased.
smash
oh okay.
twilightxsara
I am currently reading "City of Ashes" from the Mortal Instruments Series. Great book, looking forward to the 24th for the final book.
Stuckie
"I hope they serve beer in hell" Tucker Max
iDecay
I'm re-reading The Pigman by Paul Zindel. I actually enjoyed a book I was forced to read. Wow.
tokyo-rose
I'm reading White Noise by Don DeLillo for school, and The Kings Are Already Here by Garret Freymann-Weyr for myself.
Janette
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
hi-C
Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates. She makes American history so fun!
tokyo-rose
I'm going to start reading Adverbs by Daniel Handler.
dosomethin888
Geez, do normal people really read this much?

The only books I could get through were the Harry Potter, Twilight, and Narnia series.

alohacaligirl
Currently reading My Sister's Keeper. It's a great book compared to other Jodi Picoult books.
tokyo-rose
QUOTE(interpretation @ Mar 25 2009, 06:01 PM) *
I'm going to start reading Adverbs by Daniel Handler.

Scratch that, I'm putting that off till after I finish And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.

QUOTE(dosomethin888 @ Mar 25 2009, 08:56 PM) *
Geez, do normal people really read this much?

All the cool kids are bookworms. 8)
karmakiller
QUOTE(dosomethin888 @ Mar 25 2009, 07:56 PM) *
Geez, do normal people really read this much?
Yes. Step away from CB and read a book... travel anywhere you want through text!

On to seriousness:

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Janette
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
tokyo-rose
QUOTE(karmakiller @ Mar 26 2009, 10:50 PM) *
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

I hated reading the first half of that book; Hemingway's writing is so dry.
Gigi
QUOTE(dosomethin888 @ Mar 25 2009, 04:56 PM) *
Geez, do normal people really read this much?

Yes.

I finally finished Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. I think it's probably my favourite out of all of his books.
creole
I'm currently reading "The Chronicles Of Narnia" series.
Janette
QUOTE(Beenly @ Apr 4 2009, 06:09 PM) *
I'm currently reading "The Chronicles Of Narnia" series.
f*ck yeahhhhh <3
batman
Notes from the Underground, Dostoevsky

so interesting. we read crime & punishment last year and my contemporary civ professor happens to be a dostoevsky scholar, so we're reading this for fun.
karmakiller
QUOTE(interpretation @ Apr 4 2009, 07:48 PM) *
I hated reading the first half of that book; Hemingway's writing is so dry.
I agree. I'm not a big fan of him.

I know it's a kids book, but I read Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney (one of the girls I babysit was obsessed so I had to see what the fuss was about) and it's actually pretty good.
Fluid
Chronicles of Narnia.
Had the books years and never got round to reading them. =]
Janette
The Cave - Jose Saramago
Rams
I am currently reading Angels and Demons and so far I like it.
tokyo-rose
Finished Haruki Murakami's Kakfa on the Shore yesterday; it was so good. Now I'm reading Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
hi-C
^ I love Wilde, but Dorian Grey isn't very good. Maybe I should reread it.

Currently reading a biography of Boudica.
tokyo-rose
QUOTE(hi-C @ Apr 23 2009, 12:20 AM) *
^ I love Wilde, but Dorian Grey isn't very good. Maybe I should reread it.

Yeah, the introduction by Nancy Springer warns the reader of that, but I still want to read it. I really like the ideas that he's presented in the few pages of the book that I've gotten through so far.
Gigi
Still reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. Almost done though. BRILLIANT.

When I'm done I'm planning to read Stumbling Upon Happiness by Dan Gilbert, which I'm excited about because I bought the book before watching his TED talk on happiness (which was great), then realized he wrote the book.

After that I'm planning to pick up a few Briane Greene books, probably will start with The Fabric of the Cosmos or The Elegant Universe, depending on how much of my brain I want to use...

...I have no interest in reading fiction anymore. _unsure.gif Except maybe Harry Potter but since that's done with...I don't know when the next time I'll read a novel will be.

EDIT// Oh and I can't forget The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. I've seen it around for years but haven't really picked it up...but will read it this summer. dance.gif
Joanne
I just borrowed The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde from a friend, so I'll be reading that!



I haven't read a new book on my own in so long.
Joanne
^ Yeah, couldn't get past the 3rd page of Dr Jekll and Mr Hyde. Will try to read it again later.....

I just bought Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility yesterday, so I'm reading that now.
brooklyneast05
QUOTE(Gigi @ Apr 22 2009, 11:27 PM) *
...I have no interest in reading fiction anymore. _unsure.gif Except maybe Harry Potter but since that's done with...I don't know when the next time I'll read a novel will be.

EDIT// Oh and I can't forget The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. I've seen it around for years but haven't really picked it up...but will read it this summer. dance.gif


i have a problem with interest in fiction too. i like good fiction, i just don't really know how to find good fiction _unsure.gif i read The Devil Wears Prada, and it was nice to get away from non fiction but now i'm stuck again.

my problem with non fiction though is that i can't just pick it up and read it anytime. i have a ton and can always find a ton of non fiction books to read. they take me longer though because i usually don't want to sit down and read 100 pages at a time when i'm reading about "heavy" subjects.

the god delusion was pretty good. i have two other dawkins books waiting on my bookshelf for me still.
Janette
Ghost Rider -Aaron/Moore/McCaig
(graphic novel)
angelrevelation
I started "Lock and Key" by Sarah Dessen, but it's just not hooking me like her other ones... ermm.gif
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