For summer reading, I should be on about page 100 of "The Brothers Karamazov", but I read about the first page and decided a few things. First I decided that I was going to have a very difficult time with the names, and second, that it was a book assigned by school and that I would fight it tooth and nail. I've been trying to find anything to do other than read that book. To my horror, I realized I haven't read "Macbeth" yet, and that I've been wanting to, so that shuold stall me for about another week.
Does anyone have anything good to say about "The Brothers Karamazov" to change my mind?

I am in the process of reading Robert Rankin's "The Witches of Chiswick", and it is taking me weeks!

Having said that, whilst reading that, I have also read:

• Adrian Mole: From Minor to Majorby Sue Townsend
• (containing the books:)
  • The Secret Diary of...
  • The Growing Pains of...
  • True Confessions of...
  • some extra bits
• Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
• Adrian Mole: The Cappucino Years
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Microserfs by Douglas Coupland

I have read the A.Mole books a million times before, and Microserfs twice before. "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" I bought for about £3.50 at a cash and carry, having heard a little about it. I had read it all by the following day. It was superb. Read it.

I am now re-reading "Doom: Knee Deep in the Dead", followed by "Doom: Hell on Earth", as I have now, finally after about 5 years, managed to get hold of the third and fourth books in the series ("Infernal Sky" and "Endgame"), so I want to read the first two again before starting the third. In case you are wondering... yes, they are books based on the ID Software game, Doom.

Whether I will then go back to reading the Robert Rankin book, I don't know - I bought tons of books in the summer last year, so I have plenty of choices.

O.o I don't actually know what I'm reading. *Runs upstairs to find her pile of half finished books* Okay! In order of me starting the book (vaguely):
The Matrix and Philosophy edited by William Irwin
The Philosopher's Toolkit by Julian Baggini and Peter S. Fosl
-I was given these ages ago, I've started them, and I'll finish them at some point.
No-Talk Therapy for Children and Adolescents by Martha B. Straus
-Again, I will finish this at some point.
The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes
Strait and Crooked Thinking by Robert H. Thouless
The Truth About Dogs by Stephen Budiansky
-I read about the history, society and psychology of dogs. I'm sad like that.
The Philosophy Gym by Stephen Law
-Stephen Law is really good at writing philosophy books. They're easy to understand and interesting and you should definitely read all his books. Or face my wrath. Yes. o.o </shamelesspremotion>
Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
-Around this time I was getting bored of non-fiction, so I decided to re-read the entire discworld series. I've just reached Moving Pictures.
The Dark Horse by Marcus Sedgwick
-I was in the mood for some more-serious-than-discworld fiction, so I'm re-reading this too.
Dude, Where's my Country? by Michael Moore
-My dad bought this for me today, I'll probably have started reading it by this evening.

Blah. I have a lot of reading to do. I always start too many books at once

Generation Slut, don't remember who it's by though.
Branded, Alicia Quart
and Them. Which is a book on extremists, by Jon Ronson, I think. Not bad...

Ooooh, I just finished that and my brain hurts. It was really good, though. I need to read some of his other books.

I'm currently reading Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue. I think it's brilliant, but maybe that's just because I fall in love with any well-written novel set in the eighteenth century...

Haven't been reading much lately, because of school. It's nice to have some time to myself again, finally, just to sit and read. I'd forgotten how much fun that was.

I think I got bad grades in school last year because I made reading the priority /..\.
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That was my problem for a long time... then grade twelve English showed up and destroyed my attention span. I couldn't concentrate enough to read anything for the last few weeks of school. It was awful.

Reading right now...

"To Kill A Mockingbird"

Huh. I could have sworn I was reading more books.

I haven't heard anything bad about Hemingway yet...

I read half of The Brothers Karamazov! It was about three things: women, God, and money. I think I quit at a time when women were replacing God as a factor. I was always quite fond of the one who became a monk, but I thought he made an awful life choice to do that. My father read it in Russian in college. I checked out Crime and Punishment to read; the author (can't spell it) is supposedly very good. I'll tell you how it is.

Currently - Death is a Lonely Business, Ray Bradbury.

I'm reading (does a quick check):
Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K Hamilton
every single Lauren Henderson book I own
The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin (very weird, yet oddly compelling)
The Hobbit by Tolkein (a lot more reader-friendly than the Lord of the Rings)
The Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty
AND
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King (I used to be a huge SK fan, but now I'm a little over him. TGWLTG is not supernatural and totally bizarre, it's quite sad really).

Bookworm and proud of it

Has anyone else read The Bitch Rules by Elizabeth Wurtzle, and if so do you apply any of the 'rules'?

David Ignatius - A Firing Offense

douglas adams: the salmon of doubt.
eric schlosser: fast food nation
the pythons autobiography by the pythons.
jodi picoult: my sisters keeper
and trying to get through book 6 of the wheel of time. its just got so boring right now.

I just finished The House of the Scorpion. I have started Crime and Punishment.

...now stop looking at me like that.

Re-reading The Solitaire Mystery, by Jostein Gaarder. It's written with children in mind, but it's a good yarn for older readers too. One criticism I would make is that it's a complete cock-tease of a book. There are two inter-twining stories, and it feeds you little tidbits of each one at once, which is incredibly infuriating. It ensures that you read on, but quite often you want to skip one storyline for the other.

Hart's Hope by Orson Scott Card. Not one of his more famous books -- it took me forever to track down a copy -- but it's a good one. Something really strikes me about the way he uses description in the first few chapters, but that's died out some and it's gotten a little more conventional as the book has progressed. A fun read, nonetheless.

A French touch.

I would like to talk at you a French look. This autor is Balzac and this title is the colonel Chabert. A story about the egoism

Nineteenth century. It is the story of colonel Chabert that everyone believed death. Her wife was married with a politician. But his husband alive, she married no more with the politician. The colonel Chabert asks these laws (her fortune or/and her wife), but her wife wanted to divorce and preserve the heritage and he has nothing and he finished her live in the poverty.

Ooh! Ooh! Pick me! Pick me!
Candide by Voltaire is really good, but Zagreb is much better.
LotR is boring, but everyone should read it anyway.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is one of my new favs
Dan Brown is good
Ooh, and has anyone read Dean Koontz's (Runs upstairs to personal bookshelf) The Taking?
Anne Rice is good (Read teh Vampire Chronicles or Lives of the Mayfair Witches instead of the single novels; then you can get attached to the characters)
And Wicked by Gregory Maguire is so amazingly awesome I have to use an adverb and and adjective to describe it.

I am rereading the LOTR trilogy again, and then I am reading the Silmarillion. Then I'm gonna read 'The Notebook' and then 'The Wedding.' And then I am gonna do my summer reading. <- which I have yet decided on which book I am supposed to pick out.

The Foundation Trilogy by YOU SHOULD BE SHOT IF YOU DON'T KNOW!

Running With Scissors, only the first few chapters so far, but seems quite good.

by Agustene Bouroughs, and it is now one of my favorite books. its about a boy who's parents are having marital problems. The parent start to see a shrink, but still end up divorcing eachother. Then the boy moves in with the shrinks family.

a very entertaining book.

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33 Snowfish, a small book which I found huddled in the young adult's section...I read it in the same day I started reading it. My favorite part was that the plot was anything but contrived, and you could tell.

i just read a set called the sevenwaters trilogy, celtic myth type stuff, all good.
reading noughts and crosses, malorie blackman. the suspense...is killing me

A huge book of 100 Ray Bradbury Stories

The head of my secondary school was called Ray Bradbury. He has... peculiar views.

I'm currently going through the works of Robert Rankin as an when I pinch them from some evil person. Sometimes you just need a silly book or twelvety.

I have been looking for a good book at Barnes & Noble for the past month, but I have not had any luck. Most of the books I want, I don't want to spend as much money because I need that money for college and I like to save. I whish I could find a book. I'm getting bored waiting for school to start, so I can finally be alone!!!

Hobbes, di you enjoy? -have you read any of his other books?


Frog

I'm reading Amistead Maupin "Tales of the City"! Very 70's and very cool

My friend leant it to me as I keep saying how much I love SF and want to move there. This book has done nothing to change my perspective

I'm also ready Geisha of Gion (can't remember the author's name) and that's also very good. If you liked Memoirs of a Geisha you'll like this.

Plus the latest Lenore comic...which took all of 5 minutes!

Kurt Vonnegut - Player Piano

Jonathan Lynn reminds me faintly of Dubya.

There was a tv mini series of this it was bloody fantastic.

I just finished Stephen King's It and The Gunslinger. Now all I can think of is how freaky clowns are...

I never liked them much, anyway.

< that's where I got the quote from

What did you think of The Gunslinger?

It was good. But i don't have the rest of the series so I feel very disappointed. And Gothymothy kept telling me I should be reading Eyes of the Dragon first, but i didn't have it, so that was just a too-bad thing.

Dostoevsky's The Brother's Karamazov.
I just finished re-reading Tom Robbin's 'Another Roadside Attraction', and before that, 'Stranger in a strange land' by Robert Heinlein.
(i don't think i spelled Dostoevsky right...Ah, well.)

He's been writing that series for a very long time, so it shows through the series that his writing skills have been polished as he went along. The most recent one only came out last year. Keep with them as the idea behind it, to say nothing of the characteriisation, has fleshed out very well.

If you're an evil person I've heard tell that they can all be found for download.

If you like Heinlein you might want to look out for Frederik Pohl. He's been writing for donkey's years now, so there are a lot to hunt down.

Just brought Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (will edit when I get around to reading it)

Has anyone here read 'Mostly Harmless'? I've read the rest of the 'Trilogy of Four', but it was mentioned somewhere (by Adams I think) that it wasn't very good. Anyone?

Well, you see, none of the other books are as good as the hitchhiker's guide. ( by the way, the BBC has a HHGTTG site here). I have the book with all of them together, and no it's not particularly magical. Worth reading (if you're bored), though.

Meh, i'll probably get it. I just seem to recall that Adams wanted to write another one, which was slightly hindered by his death, and some of the scraps of which were included in the Salmon Of Doubt.

On other books though, His Dark Materials, by Phillip Pullman is good. Nice and thick too.

Hehehehehehehehe.
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Kushiels Dart - J Carey is ok, but a little X-rated in places, unless you get off on S&M it can be a bit OOT in places.

I'm loving Jasper Fforde's 'Thursday Next' novels at the moment, got the latest one in hardback and signed!
He's a really nice guy:)

bel.

Honestly, Razz. you should have read Eyes of the Dragon first. It has some cool ties to the Gunslinger. But ya know. . . you didn't. . . so too bad for me I guess, right?
I just finished the latest book in the Dark Tower series and read some books by R.A Salvator. Plus I'm rereading the whole Manga series Preist. (If you haven't read Priest, I would reccomend it. I'ts quite inspiring, both for drawings and the storyline)
kay I'm done.

True Story - Bill Maher

Michael Crichton - The Andromeda Strain (again )

I love Michael Crichton.

Actaully - I found it better to read the Dark Tower series first and then the other related books (which include Insomnia, Hearts in Atlantis, The Regulators, Desperation, Salems Lot, Rose Madder and The Stand). It matters little either way, as long as you read ALL of Kings books, you realise that they are interwined in the glorious world he's created.

I'm currently re - reading the Ender series by Orson Scott Card (for about the fifth time!). If you haven't read I urge you all to do so.

To Kill a Mockingbird. Have to read it for English.

I'm reading Discovery Of Heaven by Harry Mulisch, as well as some books on religeon/magic.

Just finished "Amish Society" and "Cat's Cradle", along with "The Little Prince", the plays "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe", "The Importance of Being Earnest", "The Miser", "Mandragola", and "The Glass Menagerie".

Intend to Start on "The Fountainhead" and/or "Brave New World".