Okay, okay so I finished reading The Subtle Knife (second in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman) and I likes. I likes alot *nods lots*. I was a bit disapointed by the first, but now it's all making so much sense. Am gonna start reading next one, The Amber Spyglass soon as I get of this thi... bootiful Mac

I got The Hellbound Heart yesterday. I'm about ten pages from finishing.

Finished 'The Bell Jar' yesterday morning, then started 'Mrs.Dalloway' and finished it tonight. Just picked up 'Lovely Bones' by Alice Seabol (sp?) - looks like it could be a good 'un!

Fal xXx

P.s. I'm supposed to be reading 'Turn of the Screw' for Uni... and yet...

I've just finished reading The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants, which was actuly a pretty good book.

Now, I'm reading A Girl Named Disaster, which is good so far...

Currently reading One Hit Wonderland by Tony Hawks (not the skateboarder), and like all his books, it is very funny. I would recommend them

Wow... I read that yesterday... I read the first one aaaages ago, then bought the next two... but I had so many things to get through that I didn't get round to them... so I started it the other day, read bits on and off and finished it at about 2 o'clock that night... I have The Amber Spyglass sitting in front of me, ready for tonight ^^



and I read A Girl Named Disaster a little while ago, too...
was quite sad... my Nan bought it for me

I got the World Book Day book - The Creature in the Case by Garth Nix. Its like a mini follow-on of his Abhorsen Trilogy. Written specially for WBD! Joy. It was only a pound too which is another shiny bonus!

Fal xXx

I'm re-reading The Hellbound Heart. It's that damn good.

Wassit about CM?


I finnished The Amber Spyglass (third in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman). It was alright, but I think of the three I prefered the middle one. I think the thing I liked most about the trilogy was that I could actually follow the fighting bits realy easily. Normally I have to re-read the passages to be clear what is happening, but that didn't happen with these books. Which was nice, coz I don't like having to re-read stuff.

Oh, and I read Lyra's Oxford too. It was a nice little read.

On with Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Tis a big book, and I may one day finnish it

Just starting The Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper.

The funniest thing that I've read in a long, long while. It's not just that this bloke has taken the time to think up the most ridiculous questions for companies - it's the written responses ranging from deadpan seriousness to complete sarcasm.

Beautiful.

Started Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire, and I kinda like it, although it doesn't have that usual "cannot-stop-reading" effect most books have on me.

I read Lost by the same author over Saturday and enjoyed it immensely, though Jack the Ripper doesn't factor in nearly as much as I'd hoped it would. I also had a very pleasant encounter with a book salesman in the Border's I bought both from and as a result am sad I don't live in the VAS bookstore.

I've been trudging through Anna Karenina, checked out of my school library and renewed twice. It's not a bad book, per se, just incredibly dense. My copy is also deceptively small and pocket-sized, with demoralizing tiny print and thin pages.

Hehe, that sounds like a good laugh

Is it Dazed & Confused that sometimes prints simular letters next to the contents page?

Unfortunately, I've had to put Crime and Punishment on hold for a while, because I don't like it.

I'm sure once I've properly got into it, I'll enjoy it, but at the moment I find it really slow going. I just read the life story of a man the main character is talking to in a bar. I know that this is there to give me background to the time and place the book is set, but three pages without so much as a paragraph break is tough going for anyone. And once I get through that, and I'm thinking 'If I can read that, I can read anything' what do I get? A letter from Raskolnikov's mother: Another three page paragraph.

So I'm taking a break and reading Iain M. Banks' The Player of Games which I'm enjoying much more.

Anthem by Ayn Rand. It's awesome.

Hold on to that. Those books become quite valuable after a while. They're fairly limited editions and don't get further releases after WBD.

I'm not sure it counts, but I've been listening to The Handmaiden's Tale by Margaret Atwood on tape. I know it's an audio book, but at the moment I rarely get time to read, so audio books let me indulge in fiction while I'm cooking sausages

Mmmm... Sausages....

It took me a long time. And there were certainly breaks for other books. Oh yes.

It does get better though. Have you gotten past the first 100 pages? Those are probably the hardest.

Currently, I am savoring selected Emily Dickinson poems.

I'm having to read Make Way for Sam Housten for my social studies class.

Beacause everyone knows just how exciting Sam Housten is....

Currently I'm reading The Vanished Man by Jeffery Deaver.

Lately I have been trying to find the religious/spiritual/philosophical side of me to justify my present life and what I should do in the future (i am freaking out because i don't know what I'm going to do after my senior year in high school.) I am about to finish 1984 by George Orwell, which is probably the best book I have ever read. Also, the Five People you Meet in Heaven was also particulary good.

The Law by Frederic Bastiat. The man was a genius.

Currently I'm picking through a book of quotes, called 'He Said What???'

Just finished "Everything is Illuminated" which I enjoyed without fully understanding. And that was fine.

Well, I finished A Tale of Two Cities that we were reading in English, and I have to admit it wasn't that horrible.

However, you could tell Dickens was paid by the word in some places where hideous detail got a little sickening.

The Illiad - Homer. I'm still not sure why I'm reading it... but it's actually mildly alright. Only because I'm not reading it for class. Also reading "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" by... erm, some neurologist. I read lots of books about psychology, psychiatry, and the like...

Errr... Plato - The Rebublic, Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics, Public and Private in Social Life, Ludwig Wittgenstein The Duty Of Genius, and Greg Palast - The Best Democracy Mony Can Buy.

Sometimes being a student is hard work.

re-reading sophie's world cos it didn't make sence when I was 9 but as I remember had some ideas in it.

I was thinking about reading Jeffery Archers Prison Diaries but I wasn't too sure on whether it would still be good after so long. I mean, how much can happen in prison? Does anyone know?

I have a deep love for Sophie's World. Weighs a freaking ton, though.

I'm still struggling through Anna Karenina, but I've gotten in a bit of a groove with it. Now, to renew it for the third time....

The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov.
Before that I was reading Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein.

I'm doing the Ethics for my philosophy A-level, I feel your pain.

I'm reading Virginia Woolf - A Haunted House

It's a collection of her short stories.

Also reading 'The Feminist Aesthetics of Virgina Woolf' by Jane Goldman (she is one of my lecturers at uni) - I'm not reading it to suck up, I'm reading it because it is good.

Notice a Woolf pattern forming...


Fal xXx

Just started reading Eoin Colfer's latest sci-fi/magic thing, The Supernaturalists. Good stuff so far, and I recommend Artemis Fowl, his first such book.

Ariel, Sylvia Plath

I have just finished Dry by Augusten Borroughs (bought from the sexy bloke at the bookshop on Tuesday) and mostly read in various stages of inebriation the book was about alcoholism

The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde

So far nicely surreal and excellently weird

Hell Bent for Leather by Seb Hunter. If you love RAWK music in it's many forms you'll love this funny and silly biography of some guy I'd never even heard of Seriously though, I bought it for £2.97 for a bit of light reading and everytime I picked it up I find it hard to put it down again

In the last few weeks I have read
Cry of the Icemark- Stuart Hill (YA fiction)
Fray- Joss Whedon (thanks for the birthday pressies Smiler!)
Lady Cottingdons fairy Album-Brain Froud (a picture book I know but the ending is so sad!!!!)
Orcs- Stan Nicholls (again thanks Smiler)
All are fabby and cool. I must put a special mention in for orcs as it did take me three days to read it. A book of this length would normally take me around 5/6 hours so to keep me reading for three DAYS is a bit special

I have recently finished reading Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein. Totally awesome book. I love it, not sure whether I should post about it here or in religion stuff. Anyone else read it?

I tried reading Heinlein's other books, but I found them all superficial and boring. Anyone have any suggestions as to other books that are like Stranger?

I got given that book for Chirstmas, and I really liked the pictures. Lots of fairy bums.


I seem to have mislaid Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, of course I've no idea how seeing as it's such a tomb to lug about , so now I am reading Sex, Lies & Politics by Larry Flint. So far so good. Oh yeah, it's about 'The naked truth about Bush, Democracy and the War on Terror'.

His Dark Materials Trilogy by: Phillip Pullman
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass

Just finished Pattern Recognition (William Gibson) while I was in the midst of the Homer's Iliad (and then that movie Troy came out, do you know they sacked the city of Troy in three days?). Was reading Paradise lost but I lost interest...a good few vivid/powerful descriptions/metaphors/analogies but to politically correct, writing for the church must have been hell, besides christian mythology wrapped around meter destroys some of the vividness of some of the christian mythology.

A tale fo Genji sounded interesting, the oldest book in the world?

Oh, those must be some of my favourite books ever. How are you finding them?

Wasn't it Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass?

And even if it was the thing on the cover that was an Alethiometer

The title of the fist book in the His Dark Materials was changed to The Golden Compass for the US market.

'Tis true. And I think that it works better that way. That way you get three weird objects as titles, not two and then a natural phenomenon, which is painfully asymmetrical.

Ah, I see.

Just read The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Currently reading feed by M. T. Anderson

In French, we're reading "Le Petit Prince" and listening to an English audio for comprehension. It's actually very good.

Oh! I get to reread the Hitchhiker's Guide for my Brit. Lit class... research project! Yay!

Oh! I love that book. The opera made from the book was on PBS last night, and (like a dork) I stayed up watching it. We're set to study it next year.

At the moment, to distract myself from Mr. Tolstoy I'm biting into the ultra-cheese "Blow Fly" by Patricia Cornwell. Lots of maggots.

I've been reading nothing but coursework texts... Damn exams!

Currently I'm reading:

Collected Sylvia Plath Poems - Sylvia Plath
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
A Room of Ones Own - Virginia Woolf

Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes
The Plato Reader - Dr. Tim Chappell (Ed.)


The joy of it all... I wish I could find some time to read *non* course related stuff...

Gah

Fal xXx