any interesting books read lately, books Options

[xxinn0c3ntwunxx]

yup..the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky

[casssy]

lol, i read this one book about this girl who turned lesbian.. and she met this one girl.. and they started going out but then she left her for a guy but then they turnd out to be friends again when i got the book and started reading it i didnt know it was about lesbians lol

[xxinn0c3ntwunxx]

lol..ic..what was t called

[*CEP*]

Silent to the Bone by E.L Konigsburg.

I bought it in 5th grade, I just started reading it just recently. Very interesting.

- Chinkieeyedpnoi

[casssy]

empress of the world - sara ryan

the cover looked interesting so i got it i didnt bother to read the back of it lol

[peanutbutterbbb]

yup..the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky

i just finished reading that book last week!

i didn't get the point of the story at all, and thought it was rather boring..... but it's probably just me.

right now i'm reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. It's such a great story, it's takes place in 1930's Soviet Union during the stalinist purges. Satan and his talking black cat come and show up in a town where nearly everyone refuses to believe in God or the devil. Bulgakov intertwines multiple narratives into his novel.. even an intriguing interpretation of Jesus' crucifixion and the characters surrounding that historic event (Pilate, Judas, Matthew,etc.) Then everything goes into chaos once they find out Satan IS real, and is actually living in Russia. So far, it has been a novel of enduring interest, go and buy it!

let's see... books i've finished recently? lots. i read 1-2 books a week depending on how long and intriguing the plot is. here are my recently-read books:

01. The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night Time - Mark Haddon my rating: 9/10
02. Doctor Zhivago - Pasternak my rating - 8/10 (you might get really confuse by his confusing plot, but just finish the book and at the end you'll understand everything.)
03. The Brothers Karamazov - Doestovsky - my rating: 10/10
04. Inside the Vatican - the politics and organization of the catholic church - tom reese my rating: 7/10
05. Can You Keep a Secret? - sophie kinsella my rating - 10/10 (super fun read!)

[GinaDaQueen]

I'm re-reading A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky is pretty good, but long.

[iloveyou07]

Starting this week I have got to start reading To Kill a Mocking Bird so ya we will see how that goes.

[*krnxswat*]

moved to entertainment.

[hybrid]

lol, i read this one book about this girl who turned lesbian.. and she met this one girl.. and they started going out but then she left her for a guy but then they turnd out to be friends again when i got the book and started reading it i didnt know it was about lesbians lol

I LOVEEED THAT BOOK! One of my favorites... Yes... I love it. I didn't bother reading the back either.

[hrvymrqz]

South Beach Diet...haha...i read it and tried the diet...only lasted for 2 days...its hard when your in college

[jeppu]

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown [sensing a theme?]
haha .. all of his books-- once you start-- you just wont stop until the plot is finished.

Dude, wheres my country by Michael Moore
Stupid white men by Michael Moore
moore is hilarious and teaches while entertains =P -- which reminds me.. if ur 18.. please vote . lol =P see sig-

The Question of Hu -- author escapes my mind
The Barbarian Invasions by Katherine F. Drew
entertaining books i had to read for history;;

[alinamalina14]

wrinkle in time and the last of the really great whangdoodles, great books lolz im reading both

[jeung]

moved to interests -> books forum

[voguelove]

we started reading catcher in the rye in english, and ive gotta say..its really good.

[duplicatex0x0x0]

I finished Twilight during spring break. It was a good book.

have you ever had that feeling when you finished a book, and since it dosnt have a sequal you try to find another book you think you may like, but you focus too much on the book that you just read?

[*FreeStickers*]

yup..the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky

I need to read that.

Um. All the Pretty Horses <3

[*mona lisa*]

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. It's long, about 465 pages, but it goes by quickly with the mix of description and dialogue. It's very enjoyable and you go through a mixture of emotions. Very well written.

[illumineering]

The Probable Future - Alice Hoffman

The story of the Sparrow women who reconcile deep family rifts, solve a murder and develop claravoyant gifts is a must read!

[loopylandscapes4...]

Pastwatch: The Redempition of Christopher Columbus - Orson Scott Card

It's pretty interesting, going back in time and learning things from the past

[nothing_plus_thi...]

an unquiet mind : a memoir of moods and madness - kay redfield jamison : an autobiographical story of a woman's struggle with manic depressive/bipolar disorder. very...VERY good.

notes from the underground - fyodor dostoevsky : (the whole thing is online, at the link below. read it.) i can't even describe how i feel about this one. i've read it and reread parts several times. it's extrordinary and brilliant.
http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-ne...public&part=all

the virgin suicides - jeffrey eugenides : i made the mistake of seeing the movie several times before thinking to read the book. unfortunately, it is one of those cases where...the movie is nearly exactly like the book. and. i can't seem to get through reading what i already know by heart.

lysergically yours - frank duff : a "short" story, really. novella, if you want. (again, completely available online at the link below.) it's incredible. i read it quite a while back. but, i still flip through the printed pages every now and then when i can't get into reading anything else. i recommend it to everyone.
http://256k.org/fd/ly.html

[chant86]

books by meg cabot! hahaha

[xPartyGrlDx]

Say, Goodnight Gracie. It's a nice story. It may seem overused nowadays in movies,tv, etc., but I still liked it. It's pretty short so it won't take much of your time if you're a fast reader.

[*mona lisa*]

I just started Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. Man, I can never spell his name properly the first time. It's really suspenseful right now, but I've only read like the first chapter.

[yoshie]

these aren't really fiction/non-fiction books but are philosophy books. very good read.

The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant

myth of sisyphus is a book about existentialism and the life of the absurd. in which sisyphus, who was condemned to roll boulders up a hill is a model life for the absurd.

critique of pure reason is about empiricism and how we connect knowledge with experience to answer rational questions.

[kylovin06]

"The Pact" by Jodi Picoult. I loved that book and I like the way she writes.

[*Intoxique*]

Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt.
I read it for a reading project. It was a good book .
Here a summary from some site.

Dicey, James, Sammy and Maybeth Tillerman are abandoned by their mentally ill mother in the family car outside a mall. They walk from the eastern edges of Connecticut to Bridgeport where they have an address for Aunt Cilla, their nearest known relative. That trip is an urban survival story and the children sleep in parks and abandoned buildings, fishing and clamming when possible along the shore. Their resources are depleted, however, when two college students rescue them and drive them to Aunt Cilla's house, but Aunt Cilla has been dead for several months. Her daughter, Cousin Eunice accepts them as a duty but tries to split them up. To stay together they continue their journey to Chesapeake Bay where their mother's mother, a woman they know only as a name, lives. This leg of the trip is longer and equally arduous but, thanks to the help of some kids and a circus, they arrive at the home of Abigail Tillerman, their grandmother Gram first allows and then accepts and then loves them.
The novel is an odyssey and the main theme seems to be the importance of family ties. This is the first in a series of novels about the Tillerman family. Others include: Dicey's Song, A Solitary Blue, The Runner, Sons from Afar, and Seventeen Against the Dealer.

[aicilah999]

the hobbit--JRR tolkien

[emazing]

Oh, the Perks of Being A Wallflower's a nifty one. The last book I read for fun was the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2nd series).

[SarahxJoy]

Just bought Sarah Dessen's newest book: Just Listen, and as well as another book by Susane Colasanti entitled, When It Happens.

[emazing]

I loved loved loved Albom's book, The Five People You Meet in Heaven.
I'm currently reading a novel by Heneghan entitled Flood, and it does sound interesting so far.

[*Phoenixx*]

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. I refused to see the movie until I read the book (despite being a J. Depp fan) and both were really good!

[~Faith~]

I finished Twilight during spring break. It was a good book.

have you ever had that feeling when you finished a book, and since it dosnt have a sequal you try to find another book you think you may like, but you focus too much on the book that you just read?

I love twilight i hope were talking about the same one by Stephanie Meyer (sp) :P.. there a sequal coming out sometime in August or September called New moon.

[PrincessAda]

Roll of Thunder,Hear my Cry
I loved that book,I read it last year for school.

[deranged_allure]

Last book I read was Echo in the Darkness by Francine Rivers.
The book I'm currently read is called First light by Bodie and Brock Thoene.

[ghetosmurph]

Roll of Thunder,Hear my Cry
I loved that book,I read it last year for school.

Really? I hated it when I read it for school...... That and the Yearling.....*shudder*

I finished the Janson Directive by Roert Ludlum about a month ago, and I thought it was really good. I also really liked Deception Point by Dan Brown...... Currently I'm reading the a collection of tales and poems by Edgar Allen Poe for school....... which is just a little disturbing.....

[*Kathleen*]

..isn't this the main purpose of this forum? There are plenty of individual threads that suggest good books to read.

[pinacoolada]

Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles.
I loved it = ]

[aymmi]

Confessions of a Boyfriend Stealer [A Blog] by Robynn Clairday
I bought it because I thought it looked like a good book. Yeah its all blogs.
The Alison Rules by Catherine Clark
I liked the book a lot, it made me cry though.

[monxcheri]

i actually haven`t been reading books lately. i should start reading again..

[eternalyfe]

I finished Twilight during spring break. It was a good book.

have you ever had that feeling when you finished a book, and since it dosnt have a sequal you try to find another book you think you may like, but you focus too much on the book that you just read?

I feel exactly the same way about that book. After I first read it (which I did very quickly), I was so afraid to read another book for fear of it not being as good as Twilight. It's surprising that after almost a year of having read the book the first time, it stills remains my favorite book.
I also realized in writing a review of it one time, that Stephenie Meyer has a way or taking a book cliche' and changing it around so it's not so predictable.
So yeah, I'd recommend Twilight. Definitely.

[LOWinSKANK]

yup..the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky

That was good. Mhm. I might read it again.. it's been a while.

Starting this week I have got to start reading To Kill a Mocking Bird so ya we will see how that goes.

I read part of it in school last year. It could have been a good book until I got assignments & grades for it, now I dislike it. Hah. School ruins everything.

[KvnMtthwSlvng]

Define Normal by Julie Anne Peters.
The Life Of David Gale by Dewey Gram (the movie is good too!)
This Boy's Life by Toby Wolff (this movie is also awesome too!!!)

Yeah, just a few good books that I've read recently.