What are you currently Reading? (8 Viewers)

[veloc1ty]

Ha. It was actually Orwell who said that simple was best.

I thought Orwell advocated simple (i.e. precise) language, not simple ideas.

 

[georgefren]

true.

but what he was saying was basically that a piece of writing should never FEEL complex, no matter how deep it is. It should always (like hemingway's) be able to be understood by a child yet still be able to astound an adult.

 

[Funky Monk]

i would think Animal Farm exemplifies that sentiment. Simple premise. Simple terms. But its depth and execution is astounding. Fuck i love that book.
I have never heard of year 9/10s being asked to read and understand Dostoyevsky. Contrasted to him, yeah, Orwell is simple.

 

[08er]

i'm reading orwell's 1984

 

[settle*precious]

The Rules of Attraction - Bret Easton Ellis.

Really want to read The Informers by him too.

Also reading:

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Dracula - Bram Stoker

 

[electrolysis]

omg Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin is an epic- if u havnt read it yet, then read it NOW!!!!! its so beautiful, makes u cry at points

 

[veloc1ty]

Now reading Murray Bail's Homesickness.

 

[johony]

i'm currently reading Barack Obama's 'Dreams from my father'.

i was reading 'Stupid White Men' by Michael Moore before, but i kinda gave up on it.

i'm reading Lolita next.

 

[Funky Monk]

Atomised - Michel Houellebecq
Some funny and rather poignant observations about how fucking retarded modern society can be.

 

[icecoffee]

I've just finished reading 'The Time Traveler's Wife' which I absolutely loved and now I'm reading 'The Pact' - Jodi Picoult.

 

[yoddle]

stray dog winter - by david francis

very very good.

 

[ishinova]

i'm currently reading Barack Obama's 'Dreams from my father'.

i was reading 'Stupid White Men' by Michael Moore before, but i kinda gave up on it.

i'm reading Lolita next.

Oh Lolita is my next book too. Seems interesting

Atm I am reading a few different books. At the moment I am reading

The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
Sylvia Plath Journals
and The Shark Net Robert Drewe

 

[Air Jordan]

I am currently reading the posts on bos

 

[Mkj]

the shipping news by annie proulx

to kill a mockingbird by harper lee

snow falling on cedars and
island

I hav to read all this for skool =(

 

[electrolysis]

I am currently reading the posts on bos

same

 

[Jessicaz2910]

st clares series - Enid Blyton

 

[Silver Persian]

st clares series - Enid Blyton

:x

 

[electrolysis]

actually im reading Gittinomics by Ross Gittins - provides me with leisure reading and also an insight into economics, im multi-studying english and economics

 

[Petite Choux]

The Time Traveller's Wife
The Power of Now
Conversations with God
Catch 22
Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather. This one is so boring, well it's a series of short stories, but the last one.. i can't get through it. It's just a whole lot of different seemingly random desciptions.
but Time Travellers wife is marvellous!

 

[greentsquare]

Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris (author of Chocolat)... have just started so I don't know what to make of it yet
I've just finished Priestess of the White, and The Magician's Guild before that by Trudi Canavan... apparently she lives in Melbourne. I'm slowly becoming a fan of her books. Really nice fantasy books