What are you currently Reading? (8 Viewers)

[PaleReflection]

So, what is everyone reading right now?

After all, this is the reading room. It needs a thread like this!

Please tell us its title, author, and what you think of it!

 

[Loz#1]

My notes on ethics for College and "Blood Canticle" by Anne Rice.

 

[Josie]

Schoolish: "The Anatomy of Satire", Gilbert Highet, Princeton, 1967. , and John Clarke, The Howard Miracles. God John Clarke is an absolute genius.

Non-schoolish: picked up a copy of Oliver Twist/Great Expectations/ A Christmas Carol from a nearby shelf for an idle read, so it appears to be Dickens time.

 

[clerisy]

Finished George Eliot's Middlemarch last night... left me sobbing. I hate the day/s after you finish a really powerful book, because I generally need to read before going to bed at night, and I don't like to start a fresh book when my mind's still turning over the previous one. So I'll spend the next few nights flicking through already read pages of Middlemarch and reminiscing before I can bring myself to start another book...

 

[Ashleet]

I'm reading Australin political institutions, absolutly thrilling.

Other than that the Theban trilogy by Sophocles and the Emperor series by Conn Iggulden (sp?)

 

[sukiyaki]

amy tan - the opposite of fate
so far its boring

 

[dark`secrets]

butterflies- susanne gerway

tempest- shakespeare himself

 

[bubz :D]

hmm i think there's already a thread like this in entertainment

umm currently, frankenstein for uni.

 

[sukiyaki]

Originally posted by dark`secrets
butterflies- susanne gerway

is that the one about the girl who has burns?

 

[PaleReflection]

Originally posted by bubz
hmm i think there's already a thread like this in entertainment

umm currently, frankenstein for uni.

I know, but like I said, this is the reading room! Plus the one in Entertainment is like 29 pages long....

Btw, I'm reading Frankenstein too. The introduction in my book takes upapprox. 1/3 of it and it's really boring me!
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I'm also reading LotR and Dragon of Autumn Twilight, the first book in Dragonlance Chronicles.

 

[dark`secrets]

Originally posted by sukiyaki
is that the one about the girl who has burns?

yeah thats the one, do you like it?
i cringe wen i read it, its like i can feel her burns

 

[jhakka]

Emma by Jane Austen.

 

[ameh]

For school: Patrick White - trying to find a book from his that ISNT boring
Non-School - English Patient (Michael Onda....something)
- The Penal Colony (Kafka)
- Nietschze - The Vicious Circle
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

zZzz...

 

[sukiyaki]

Originally posted by dark`secrets
yeah thats the one, do you like it?
i cringe wen i read it, its like i can feel her burns

yup i like it. Yeh the book is saddening

 

[jhakka]

Billy by Pamela Stephenson.

 

[saves.the.day]

Les Miseralbes by Victor Hugo

 

[JazzaT]

just finished reading "A child called 'it'" by Dave Pelzer, has anyone else read it?
Great book, a tear-jerker for the girlies, and a powerful memoir of one kid's survival for the guys...
Some of the stuff is truly horrible and sometimes quite graphic, don't read if u r queasy.
I'm about to start reading the sequel, "The Lost Boy".
These are nice, short books, easy to read, for if u like to read on the bus/train etc.

 

[beta-omega]

The Summon by John Grisham

 

[glitter burns]

Originally posted by JazzaT
just finished reading "A child called 'it'" by Dave Pelzer, has anyone else read it?
Great book, a tear-jerker for the girlies, and a powerful memoir of one kid's survival for the guys...
Some of the stuff is truly horrible and sometimes quite graphic, don't read if u r queasy.
I'm about to start reading the sequel, "The Lost Boy".
These are nice, short books, easy to read, for if u like to read on the bus/train etc.

I've read all of the Pelzer books (and I didn't cry - no stereotyping me thank you!)

I'm currently reading "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest", and also this book called "My Language is Me", a non-fiction written by the therapist of this teenager with schizophrenia recording six years of his treatment.

 

[Demandred]

October Horse - Colleen McCoullagh. Middlemarch :O! that book was like reading in a different language.