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Post by Halicat on Jan 16, 2010 9:02:24 GMT -7
Here's a thread for those bookworms to talk about books they've read, would recommend, hate, love, or want to read. One rule though: NO SPOILERS! K? Good! Just finished reading To kill a mockingbird. I like how it was so simplistic and slow-paced. It really succeeded in telling the world through the eyes of a child. The characters are endearing and it really did cast a strong light on racial ignorance. I am currently reading 1984, from the first chapter, I already felt sick and angry, it's horrifying me, really, and I'm only on the second part! Can't wait to finish it. I also have The Drowned world, Animal farm, the Kite Runner, Life of Pi and Frankenstein to read! What books are you peeps enjoying or have enjoyed recently then?
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Post by msunicorn on Jan 17, 2010 18:17:58 GMT -7
I am suffering through The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. It's a complete piece of crap. D: It seems at some point after the DaVinci Code Dan Brown forgot how to write (then again he wasn't very good at writing to begin with.) My bus reading material lately is 2666 by Robert Bolano. I have just started it, ok so far. This writer was very long winded, he writes all of these long sentences that could easily be broken into two or three sentences. Halicat, if you think 1984 is creepy, Brave New World by Adouls Huxley is even worse. If 1984 is how the world could have turned out, Brave New World is how the world is now. And it's not pretty. 0_0
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Post by ditabee on Jan 18, 2010 4:00:13 GMT -7
Ah, Brave New World, how could you forget "soma holidays". I remember reading it for my senior year in High School in my Eng. & Lit. 4 class & it always stuck with me.
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Post by SarahLouise on Jan 18, 2010 5:08:11 GMT -7
I've been wanting to read '1984' for a whle, but I only buy books from charity shops and haven't come across it yet!
At the moment I am reading 'The Dome' by Stephen King. Not as good as I was hoping but its still a great read!
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Post by starrypawz on Jan 18, 2010 6:52:59 GMT -7
I've been reading through the synopsis for 'brave new world', dude it's messed up. XD
Yesterday I read through 'Truckers' by Terry Pratchett, it's a non Discworld, kids book but it's worth a read and only took me a few hours to get through.
Last 'big book' I was reading was 'A Darkling Plain' which is the final book from the Mortal Engines series by Phillip Reeve. The series is aimed at young teens I believe but it's pretty in depth and a good read especialy if your into Steampunk, post apolclyptic stuff, giant roaming cities, airships, 'Resurrected men' and all manner of stuff like that.
I've read the first book but don't have any of the books that cover the middle of the story and the last book is set some years after the first but I've quickly caught up on what I've missed from it.
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Post by ToffeeSockScissorBetch on Jan 24, 2010 5:15:46 GMT -7
I've just finished reading PS I Love You. Brilliant book. Also this month I've read The Time-Traveller's Wife, Birdsong, and the movie-novel version of Where the Wild Things Are.
I'll probably come back to this and write a novel in itself but PS I Love You and the Time-Traveller's Wife are so very, very good. :3
Wouldn't want to watch the movies though. Ick!
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Post by Enbarr on May 16, 2010 17:52:41 GMT -7
I'm currently reading 'Le Grand Meaulnes' by Alain-Fournier, it's been described as "The French 'Catcher in the Rye'..." before. It's a beautiful, really beautiful, tragic and magical book, always leaves me in tears...
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Post by MercurialMonster on May 22, 2010 9:57:34 GMT -7
I love books, but I have been having a hard time getting into anything as of late. Worse, right now I am back in Alaska in my old room, and staring at the book shelf full of books I haven't read yet, completely unsure of what to read! I just have too many, and am constantly wanting more. I am tempted to start reading The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series, by Michael Scott, since I just found the most recent book at Walmart... but then some other book on my shelf wants to be read instead. So frustrating. I only have a few more days to decide, since I will be going back to CA, and won't have access to my bookshelf after that (not till December, if at all).
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