or what book have you just read?

I've just started Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, which I have been meaning to read for years.

I'm reading Grisham's new book The Innocent Man. Go get it, everyone.

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale for my bookclub

just started series of unfortunate events number 13, the end.

I'm reading "House of Spirits and Whispers"

i'm reading the bible for its comedy, drama, action, adventure, coming of age, mystery, and romance.

i already know i'm going to burn in he|| so no need to tell me.

I'm a little late, but Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom.

Doctor Zhivago and Sense and Sensibility. (for the zillionth time on that one)

I usually have two going at once, so long as one is a light read.

Catch 22.

The Great Shark Hunt

Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

so far it's good, i still like Sedaris better though.

The Bible and A Purpose Driven Life

Seriously though, I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird again now that I am older and can appreciate it more.

I read it, and I still don't know if it answered my questions, or made a whole h-ll of a lot of sense.

But I'm about 3/4 of the way done with IN COLD BLOOD by TRUMAN CAPOTE.

I love In Cold Blood. It is bone chilling but a great read.

Noble House by James Clavell... Eh... it's long but a good read.

Kurt Vonnegut...such a fantastic writer. You'll love it.

Ok, I actually own and have read both of them. That's about the only thing Angela and I have in common.

I just finished No Second Chance by Harlan Coben, and I can't decide what to read next - either Under The Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes or The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen.

This is a great thread - will give me ideas for what to read in the future.

ok, i have a TERRIBLE habit, i start a book, then don't finish it and start another one, and read several at one time. I currently have in progress

Bless Me, Ultima
Eldest
The Historian
The Spine of the World
The World of Karl Pilkington
The Zombie Survival Manual

I have to agree. I still have a lot more Kurt Vonnegut to read, but Slaughterhouse 5 was fabulous.

Ooh, The Apprentice was good. Read that next.

I'm reading a book named "Eye Contact", can't remember the author. It is about an autistic boy who witnesses a murder in the playground. Very good.

I'm reading Grapes of Wrath, although I'm not that far, I got a little distracted with that turtle in chaper three (I'm currently reading chapter 4)

awesome book!- I read it in 6th grade (I was a 6th grader with an 11th grade reading level-lol )- I should probably read it again- You should watch the movie too with Henry Fonda- its very close to the book- with a few things changed- one of my favorite movies

A Confederacy of Dunces.

Everyone who likes the Office would love this book - it won the Pulitzer Prize, and it's hands-down the funniest and most insightful book EVER WRITTEN.

I don't want to oversell it, but it's better than 10 Superbowls!!!!!!!!

Finished WINTERSMITH by Terry Pratchett (I'm a huge "Discworld" fan) and ANANSI BOYS by Neil Gaiman ( I was a huge "Sandman" fan). Excellent reads, both.

but you don't like to brag about it, right? lol

just finished a breif history of the dead. good book about a plague killing everyone on earth except for one woman who was a trek across antarctica. and about a dimension between life and death that is like a waiting room for the real death......

i like hearing what everyone is reading, i'll have to check some of them out.

Just finished
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks

thanks for this thread, I am looking for something new to start.

edit:
also reading Treasure Island to my son (I've never read it before)

"Little Dorrit," by Charles Dickens

Just finished Letter To A Christian Nation a couple of days ago. It's a patchwork quilt of different articles Sam Harris has written over the last year or so. If you know the author, then you kmow what to expect.

Now I'm about half-way through The Protector's War, which is the sequel to Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling. It's an alternate history series speculating what would happen to the human race if we were suddenly, inexplicably stripped of the use of modern technology. No cars, no gunpowder, no radio or television. Just fairly ordinary people who suddenly have to get tough in a world thrust back into the Dark Ages.

Not a terrorist, Running With Scissors is awesome. Have you read Dry yet?

I am re-reading Ender's Shadow right now.

Books, I mean, I've read books. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Love In the Time of Cholera. And I think I understood them. They're about girls, right?

All chuck palahniuk's books. the rum diary by thompson and cat's cradle i read a lot!

I'm intrigued -- could you elaborate on the book a bit?



woot fight club! =)

fight club the book is much better then the movie.. and choke is great invisible monsters is the best i think...

me??- oh no not that-lol

1776

Great book.

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale. For book club. I loved it so much I also read the Goose Girl by Shannon Hale. This one is a trilogy and very good.

I love love loved that book! And P.S. Bubblewrap; I was in 7th grade when I read it, but I was suppose to be in 6th grade.




Oh my godddd. Are you dying yet!? My cousin had to read it over the summer and she said it was unbearably boring and pointless (yet apparently its supposed to be one of the greatest books.. or whatever.. I have no idea.)




Well anyways,
I just finished reading Our Town, a short easy read based on an X-Files episode, and now I'm reading East of Eden because I love Steinbeck... But I should be getting The End soon.. so, I guess I'll be reading that too!

Oh good- glad Im not the only young one to read it-lol

The Bible

I just can't put this one down!

I'm reading Uglies by Scott Westerfeld for a local English Festival.

I am a fellow fan of this book. It has a goose-bump giving story behind it, as well.

From Amazon.com:

Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.

Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Darlene and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life. --Alix Wilber

It's all gold.

Everytime i try to read the bible, my hands catch on fire... Is that bad????

How dare you profane the greatest book ever written? Yossarian is coming for you.

/It's all gold.

Appaloosa, by Robert Parker. I'm a sucker for mysteries and Westerns.

Everytime I try to read the Bible, the walls bleed ... is that wrong?

Rereading Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. Love it.

Next in line: All Quiet on the Western Front.

Some of my all time favorites right there. All Ender books are great.

Where your team wins or loses?


Oh and when I was in sixth grade I was at a 12th grade+ (meaning they didn't know exactly how high because it only goes to the end of high school) see, being rasied on movies didn't cause any brain damage amage amage