I just bought that Heaven knows how many books I have stacked up that I need to read though...

I'm reading this bok I borrowed frm a friend called the dark hills divide. It's...interresting so far.

I'm reading On the Oceans of Eternity, the conclusion to the great series about modern-day Nantucket dropped into 1250 B.C. Read the whole set if you're feeling bored or disillusioned with time-travel books.

I really liked A Clockwork Orange, although you will want to print out a word glossory from the internet if one's not included in your book.

Besides 2 Sandman books and Gaiman's Last Temptation, I just finished The First Verse by Barry McCrea, which was intriguing and absorbing but not brilliant (still, a good read).

I also read Son of a Witch, the (very, very good) sequel to Wicked. I miss the characters. They were my friends. Then the book went and ended and they abandoned me. I mourn.

Now I'm reading A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. It is so very long, but I promised my teacher I'd read it. And I have Anansi Boys waiting on my floor for me. Bog dammit.

Ooh, I just finished that, though I'm still early in my stages of grief. Stupid book--why did it have to end? Why would the stupid author just dump me like that? Idiot.

(I seethe)

I've also gotten through Maureen Dowd's latest, which is snippy and clever (Are Men Necessary?) but a little difficult to read in public, given my current reputation as a scary lesbian feminist from outer space.

Also reading: On the Road by Mr. Jack Keroauc. I'm filled with wanderlust.

Seems like half this thread is reading Anansi Boys. More power to Neil Gaiman. I had Son of a Witch checked out a few weeks ago, but then I got several new projects crop up and all my free time went away. I'll have to find it again when some of the schoolwork clears up.

I just finished reading Wuthering Heights and The Double Helix. Now, I'm reading The Fabric of the Cosmos and Pride and Prejudice.

I have just re-read The Outsider (L'Etranger) by Albert Camus for an essay I have been writing, and yet again the ending made me cry. I would highly reccomend reading it! In a sense, it reminds me of Orwell's 1984.

I managed to secure a copy of Wizards at War, the eighth book in Diane Duane's Young Wizards set, and read it last night and today when I was supposed to be working. Everything's all nice and turned in, but I've put off some homework to finish it. It was worth every lovely page. That set was targeted at preteens and teens, but the books have been getting deeper, longer, and more interesting with each addition.

I sped through A Clockwork Orange in about three days (not that long of a book) and I liked it... I was okay with the glossary, too. Maybe a bit disorienting in the beginning, but not so bad. And now... okay... a friend lent me romance novels... it's not my fault, really!

I am on page 25.
I'm ok without a glossary (I think I have a skill for reading a piece of text and getting the jist of it- probably from learning languages).
What did shock me rather, was the unecessary violence that came from a gang of 15 year olds! I have disturbed myself slightly as I wasn't so shocked by the violence, but by the lack of motives. Why does Alex and his crew go out and beat all these people up?! I want to finish it so I can discuss it fully. I am amazed and quite glad that I have found a book which provokes so much emmotion in me!

Whoops, typo. I meant I was okay without the glossary. x_x I think I googled for one, and the first few links weren't helpful, so... And yeah, that would surprise me too, if I weren't such a cynic when it came to things like that, especially with dystopian novels.

Kim - Rudyard Kipling

The Circle of Magic quartet, The Circle Opens quartet and The Will Of The Empress. All Tamora Pierce's.

WOW! Just wow. I honestly thought her tales couldn't get better but will of the empress had me gripped the entire way through. Am now thinking about starting Sabriel, as I bought the trilogy with xmas money. Hope it will live up to expectations.

Reading poems by my friends ^w^

Sinner, by Sara Douglass, as I need to reread it to understand Pilgrim. It's not as good as her first trilogy in the set (she lost of sight of the main character,) but it's worth a read. If you're going to read her stuff, I would recommend starting with The Wayfarer Redemption.

Sabriel - Garth Nix (finally started it)

I think I may have read the Circle of Magic ages ago. Is it a little book, about A6 but amazingly fat and tiny font and on the front it has some children sitting in grass holding hands? *sigh* Childhood memories...

Still reading Kim.

My one is about an A5, and they all have different pictures one them.

I read A Clockwork Orange when I was at school with Jonman, many years ago. I thought it was a good book at the time, but now don't really remember much about it outside of what happened in the film. It was spot on though, I suspect there are people doing random acts of violence out of boredom these days (or should that just be 'more these days'?).

I'm reading a Terry Pratchett book at the moment... You know, I can't remember what it's called. I got loads for Christmas, and this is one of them... I think it's Carpe Juggularum but I might be wrong. I'm enjoying it a bit too much: it's taking time away from me getting on with work!

Carpe Jugulum, I believe. I won't spoil any of it for you, but it's one of my favorites. It's nice to see a parody of the usual ridiculous vampires, especially in Lancre.
I've just started Shogun. Whether I'll actually finish it is debatable, but it's interesting so far.

11th Seris of unfortuneate evnts finally they had it in the library woot!

I was interested in the book primarily because it was so provocative. It really stays with you. The reason I found the real translations interesting was because often the guesses I made from the context were off (such as "psitsa," the word he uses for "girl," actually literally means "little bird."). I cheated, though: I just harrassed my buddy Iurii. Maybe I'm just an etemology dork.

Speaking of which, I picked up the 100 Words Every Word Lover Should Know from the Met today. Brilliant.

And just in case that's not nerdy enough, I've topped it off with some leisure reading of Seneca's On the Shortness of Life. It's inspiring, although now I'm afraid to sleep.

It turns out that it's The Fifth Elephant. It's very enjoyable. I've managed to resist reading too much of it today and so far I have been quite productive!

A lot of it is Cockney slang translated literally into Russian or other Slavic languages. "Bird" is a common term for "girl" in parts of the UK.

Productivity is good, but I have to admit that I don't feel all that guilty when new Terry Pratchett books tend to reduce me to one math problem an hour until I'm finished. That's another one of my favorites (though it's hard to pick.) I have a soft spot for books with Vimes.

I am reading a book called The Black Violin by Maxence Fermine. It has been translated into English and the translations are very good. It's perhaps one of the saddest books I've read in a long time (I guess listening to sad music didn't help either). The chapters are so short. The first chapter is just a couple of very spaced out lines and the rest are only about 5 pages. It was the presentation that attracted me to the book first though. It's got such a beautiful smooth black cover with just the tuning bit of the violin on a little white square.

Finally got around to finishing Wind In the Willows and Now I'm reading aimee by Mary Beth Miller. I just started today but it's pretty good so far.

I finish Sabriel last night (WOW) and have now started Lirael. I love Sabriel and Touchstone, they make the cutest couple.

I finished A Clockwork... and I must say I thought it was fantastic, although the ending was a little dissappointing. Alex just grow up... I have found myself thinking in words from it though- a little disturbing perhaps, but then again I think in a jumble of a few languages anyway.

Next book- "5 Elizabethan Comedies"- 1932. It's of 5 Elizabethan plays that I'm quite looking forward to reading, all quite short.

Does your book have 20 chapters or 21?

At the moment, I'm reading the Da Vinci Code at a rather fast pace. Then, someone lent me Fight Club, so I'll probably start that.

I won't read the Da Vinci code. They sell it in Shop Rite. I am morally opposed to any book sold in Shop Rite. I mean, really...right next to the Coco Puffs. I can't intellectually enjoy a book I picked up on the same trip as Coco Puffs.

Just finished Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child. There's a book to make your head spin.

I bought Moby Dick at a Food Emporium. It was next to a stack of vitamin bars.

Right now I've just finished Haunted and Survivor by Chuck P., both of which were fast reads and decent. I liked Haunted a little more, mostly because the last short story there (about suicide packs being sold at WalMart) nestled closely with a short story by Vonnegut called "Welcome To the Monkey House", which I also just finished reading. It's part of a large anthology that goes by the same title, and it's Vonnegut at his best: in short, clever satires.

I'm gonna get lent these very soon

Hooray! Chuck Pahluniak will make you very depressed but also very excited.

mangas mangas and more mangas....

The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen

It's quite good, but it's not good that in a book that isn't supposed to be hard, by chapter 2 it's on to the Fine Structure Constant. (The Fine Structure Constant is the square of the charge of an electron, divided by 2 times Planck's constant times the speed of light times the permittivity of the vacuum for all you who wanted to know)

Oh, that Fine Structure Constant. I thought you meant the other one. *nods knowingly* I see. Yes. *runs*

I'm currently reading The Brightonomicon by Robert Rankin. It's very silly, as are all of his books.

I have just read Snow by Maxence Fermine because I enjoyed the style of the Black Violin. I must admit, the style is fun the first time but is getting slightly too 'wishy-washy'. I shall read Beekeeper next I think.

It has 21- three parts of 7 chapters each.
I am currently reading The Art Of Happiness, and my general mood has become lighter and more uplifted. I think it is a coincidence, but you never can be sure.

12TH UNFORTUNATE EVENTS BOOK! YAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!

Still slogging through Shogun, but I have less than three hundred pages to go, so I'll probably be done with it by Friday. I have some fluffy mental popcorn vampire books waiting for me.

I've just gotten through another Mieville (because I am teetering on the brink of becoming Dora from QC) and I must say that King Rat is a new favorite, though troublingly similar to Neverwhere. Oh, and no I won't look at the two copyright dates to find out who copied who because la la la I'm not listening.

Also read this week: Howl's Moving Castle, which is enjoyable but a year or two too late, and Ellen Witzinger (?)'s Hard Love, which is decent and angsty. I'm halfway through The Age of Spiritual Machines on audiotape (the author is Ray K-something) and finding it very interesting. Call it Computer Philosophy that happens to share a border with Panic Mongering.

You wouldn't believe how much I love that book!
I picked up an extremely battered and worn copy at a jumble sale when I was about 11, and have read it over and over and over again. I love how it is quite a children't fantasy book at the same time as having clever references to places (Wales) and how sinister the scarecrow is. I now hate scarecrows

[quote]It has 21- three parts of 7 chapters each.[/quote

Yeah, I guess you do live in England don't you? I forget about these things... a lot of the american editions didn't have the last chapter, they were printed that way, and now they're getting around to reprinting.

Angels and Demons for now, mostly.

I've finally finished the epic tome of Shogun. It was a great book, but it seemed to take an eternity to read. Now I'm on Unexpected Magic, a collection of short stories by Diana Wynne Jones (creator of Howl's Moving Castle. ) I loved that one too, but I can't find a copy that doesn't have stupid cover art.

2nd on the run seris book (The thing with the falconers I mentioned eariler)

I've been on a lovely existential kick.

If you happen to notice a whimpering sound coming from the corner, that will just be me under a pile of T.S. Eliot's collected poems, No Exit (Sarte), The Fall (Camus), and Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead (Stoppard).

Started and will probably finish Waiting for Godot today... odd little play.

I'm now immersed in The Course of Empire, a brilliant sic-fi book by Eric Flint and some woman I've never heard of. Flint writes excellent cultural perceptions from different perspectives, so his aliens seem truly different.