What are you currently reading?

I just finished reading Islands True Child, about growing up on the Maine island of Criehaven in the 1920's-1930's. It was a very, very good read. I am starting on my college course reading soon to get it out of the way but I suggest reading Tuesdays with Morrie to anyone who hasn't read it yet. You may cry- just a warning, but it is AMAZING!
 
Hey guys/ladies, just in case you dont feel your reading enough here is a free e-book link that has mostly older books






Aesop
Louisa May Alcott
James Matthew Barrie
L. Frank Baum
Anne Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Lewis Carroll
Willa Cather
Wilkie Collins
Stephen Crane
Charles Darwin
Honore de Balzac
Daniel Defoe
Rene Descartes
Charles Dickens
Arthur Conan Doyle
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alexandre Dumas
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans
Thomas Hobbes
Marietta Holley
Thomas Hughes
William Kemp
D. H. Lawrence
Jack London
John Milton
Lucy Maud Montgomery
E. Nesbit
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Edgar Allan Poe
Mary Shelley
Bram Stoker
Leo Tolstoy
Mark Twain
Jules Verne
Voltaire
 
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Kadie said:
I am starting on my college course reading soon to get it out of the way but I suggest reading Tuesdays with Morrie to anyone who hasn't read it yet
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that seemed overly sentimental to me - but the same author also wrote The Five People You Meet in Heaven... (the made for tv movie was awful) the book was wonderful and really made me think about who I'd possibly meet in heaven.. and who I'd be on the welcoming committee for...
 
Nemesis said:
where do you find the time? im currently reading digital fortress by dan brown

it's good.. but its no da vinci code
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Angels and Demons was far better than Da Vinci Code, he wrote it before he wrote DVC.. and it's a really good - -fast moving story.. where soe of the characters from DVC get introduced...
 
I found some little short story paperbacks in a box in my basement. I am going to read James Joyce's "The Dead" tonight. Sometimes I dig the classics...other times, not so much.
 
I'm reading "every second counts" by Lance Armstrong.... well I should say I'm rereading.... it's an inspiring book even if you aren't into biking or cancer has never touched your life.... In my case, I fit both the criteria....
 
I am with you Katie! Harry Potter books are the best!!!

A couple of months ago I found a really sweet read, called "Hypocrit in a pouffy white dress", the author was Susan Jane Gilman. This is a memoir of a girl that grows up in New York. It is so fricken funny. She is such a talented writer. I laughed out loud several times! I even brought it to school and read it to other teachers in the staff room. It was SO GOOD! Highly recommended for an enjoyable read!
 
I am currently reading "Under Cover" by John Bevere...

But I am sure that when school starts in a few weeks I will be forced to read far less interesting text books.

My favorite book/series is the Redemption Series by Karen Kingsbury, which branched off to the FirstBorn Series. Definately check these books out!
 
Some of them are goingto cause m e to regress back to junior high and see if I can actually get thru some of the books without resorting to cliffs notes because the book was so painfully boring.

PRIDE AND PREJIDUCE - Jane Austen
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
OF HUMAN BONDAGE by Somerset Maugham
ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
 
The World According to Garp is absolutely fantastic. I just read it this summer myself.

Compiling a reading list is something I am slacking off on, just a tad. I have read five books so far since the beginning of May. But honestly, when you read about twenty-two books a semester for college you like to take things slow, and goof off a bit. When I go to the library I rarely have a clear idea of what I wish to read in mind. I'll store suggestions in my mind and do some shelf browsing.

So far, I have read:

The World According to Garp by John Irving
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Candide by Voltaire
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

I'm currently reading Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill.
 
When I go to the library I rarely have a clear idea of what I wish to read in mind.
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that's kind of the best approach to take...

When I was travelling non stop - every friday night, i'd stop in the book store in the airport... and request that the clerk pick out a book for me.. I didn't care what it was... it just had to be long enough to last at least 3 hours - maybe more if there was a delay til i got home... I ended reading some good stuff, some horrid stuff, and some stuff I would never have picked out for myself

If you're looking for some suggestions:




Are some pretty good lists -though some of them I have to say what the hell were they thinking...
 
My desire to read fiction books is growing. It's still not large enough that I sit down and get into one. But I'm interested... which is a lot better than before.
 
Yea, but I love cracking open a book. LOVE it. I keep telling myself once I get through with the pile on my desk at home I'll do some 'fun reading.'

It just doesn't happen.
 
In the last two weeks I've read Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk and The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.

I have some pretty morbid tastes when it comes to books.

I'm thinking about getting into Lord of the Rings, but I'm not sure if I can bring myself to stay focused on one story for that long. Has anyone here read it? Is it worth investing the time into?
 
Oh, I just wanted to make a suggestion for anyone who has not yet read it, get yourself a copy of Life of Pi by Yann Martel. It's a really great story, one of the best books I have ever read.
 
I'm thinking about getting into Lord of the Rings, but I'm not sure if I can bring myself to stay focused on one story for that long. Has anyone here read it? Is it worth investing the time into?
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People either love them or hate them... I'm a hate them.. .it was too long - didn't move fast enough and fantasy just doesnt hold my attention.. I read it in high school I think -because I had to - and tried rereadng it again later... and didn't get any further...

I do like Chuck Palahniuk's books Fight Club and Choke were quite good... :D
 
JDhd said:
Oh, I just wanted to make a suggestion for anyone who has not yet read it, get yourself a copy of Life of Pi by Yann Martel. It's a really great story, one of the best books I have ever read.
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I really liked Life of Pi. It makes you want to talk to other people about it, but you can't say anything to anyone who hasn't. I like books like that.
 
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